Metaheuristics for Scheduling in Distributed Computing Environments

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Xhafa, Fatos (Editor), Abraham, Ajith (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 146
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Manufacturing industries.; Machines.; Tools.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Grid computing has emerged as one of the most promising computing paradigms of the new millennium! Achieving high performance Grid computing requires techniques to efficiently and adaptively allocate jobs and applications to available resources in a large scale, highly heterogenous and dynamic envir...