Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractLocation-Aware Energy-Efficient Workload Allocation in Geo Distributed Cloud EnvironmentSoha Rawas, Ahmed ZekriThe proliferation of cloud computing relied on the virtualization of the compute and storage resources and provisioning them dynamically according to users’ needs on a pay-per-use model. Massive cloud providers have geo-distributed cloud data centers to ensure service reliability, availability and satisfy user’s need. Therefore, cloud management systems are necessary to increase the profit of cloud providers and to improve … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 14, Issue 3 · 13 Mar 2018 · 8,034 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Stochastic Approach to Blood Supply, Demand and Screening in Central Blood Banks - A ReviewShaul K. Bar-LevOne of the major issues in securing blood supply to patients worldwide is to provide blood of the best achievable quality, in the needed quantities. Central Blood Services (CBS’s) worldwide are daily faced with the problem how to satisfy demands for blood from various hospitals. These hospitals, in their turn, are faced with the problem how to satisfy demands for … …Current Research in Biostatistics, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 26 Oct 2017 · 8,072 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Conceptual Model for Risk Allocation in the Construction IndustryChipozya Kosta Tembo-Silungwe, Nthatisi KhatleliAppropriate risk allocation influences positive project delivery on construction projects while inappropriate allocation results in disputes, quality shortfalls, time and cost overruns. The existing body of knowledge provides guides on how risks should be allocated between the contracting parties. Nevertheless, the full appreciation of risks allocation is rarely given as risk allocation is more than just which party should bear … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 7 · 26 Jun 2017 · 8,945 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractReducing Network Bandwidth Cost on End User Resources Consumption in Cloud EnvironmentBuchanagandi Enock Nyamajeje, Huiqun YuCloud computing has been envisioned as the next generation and attributed to the increasing growth of mobile devices. Rapid increment, increase demands and bandwidth cost of access cloud resources became essential user perceive incur higher cost for utilizing cloud services. Since researchers have proposed new methods, service provider need to collaborate to ensure reasonable level of QoS. In various methods, … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 11, Issue 9 · 25 Nov 2015 · 7,105 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDynamic Scheduling for Cloud Reliability using Transportation ProblemS. K. Senthil Kumar, P. BalasubramanieProblem statement: Cloud is purely a dynamic environment and the existing task scheduling algorithms are mostly static and considered various parameters like time, cost, make span, speed, scalability, throughput, resource utilization, scheduling success rate and so on. Available scheduling algorithms are mostly heuristic in nature and more complex, time consuming and does not consider reliability and availability of the cloud … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 10 · 23 Aug 2012 · 8,332 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOR/MS Applications in Mt. Merapi Disaster ManagementAmril Aman, Toni Bakhtiar, Farida Hanum, Prapto Tri SupriyoProblem statement: Much of researches on the management of disaster deal with their social aspects such as sociological and psychological effects on communities. Recently there had been a growing credit of the demand for application of the operational research and management science matters in disaster management. This approach commonly utilizes decision theory, dynamical system and optimization technique to minimize the … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 19 Jun 2012 · 7,035 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractExplicit Allocation Strategy with Deadline and Budget Constraint Algorithm in Bag of Tasks GridM. Suresh Kumar, T. PurusothamanProblem statement: This study is for effective scheduling of grid jobs based on economy for space shared resources in Bag of tasks grid. Grid Computing aims in combining the power of heterogeneous, geographically distributed, multi-domain computational resources to provide high performance or high throughput. Approach: Space shared resources are parallel supercomputers and clusters of workstations that provides a great amount … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 7 · 7 Jun 2012 · 6,229 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractIntegrated Resource and Cost Management Scheme for Computational GridsV. K. Manavalasundaram, K. DuraiswamyProblem statement: Autonomous decision making and resource scheduling are the main objectives of market-life computational grid. Resource providers and consumers make the scheduling decisions with cost and incentive factors. The two objectives are to maximize the success rate of job execution and to minimize fairness deviation among resources. The challenge is to develop a grid-scheduling scheme that enables individual participants … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 4 · 7 Feb 2012 · 6,565 accessesView PDFCite