Metaheuristics for Scheduling in Distributed Computing Environments

by Ajith Abraham

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642088759
• ISBN13: 9783642088759
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"