Metaheuristics for Scheduling in Distributed Computing Environments 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Xhafa, Fatos (Editor), Abraham, Ajith (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540692606 ISBN-13: 9783540692607 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Applied - Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics - Technology & Engineering | Industrial Engineering |
Dewey: 004.360 |
Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.50 lbs) 364 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 environment. This volume presents meta-heuristics approaches for Grid scheduling problems. Due to the complex nature of the problem, meta-heuristics are primary techniques for the design and implementation of efficient Grid schedulers. The volume brings new ideas, analysis, implementations and evaluation of meta-heuristic techniques for Grid scheduling, which make this volume novel in several aspects. The 14 chapters of this volume have identified several important formulations of the problem, which we believe will serve as a reference for the researchers in the Grid computing community. Important features include the detailed overview of the various novel metaheuristic scheduling approaches, excellent coverage of timely, advanced scheduling topics, state-of-the-art theoretical research and application developments and chapters authored by pioneers in the field. Academics, scientists as well as engineers engaged in research, development and scheduling will find the comprehensive coverage of this book invaluable. |