In a heterogeneous distributed system composed of various types computing platforms such as supercomputers, grids, and clouds, two-level scheduling approach can be used to effectively distribute resources the users in first-level, map tasks nodes for each platform second-level executing many-task applications. When resources, service providers should consider fairness among multiple well effici...

Business operations, including sales, marketing, manufacturing, and design, can no longer be done in isolation, but must be done in a global context, i.e., as part of an enterprise. A characteristic of such enterprises is that their information systems are large and complex, and the information is in a variety of forms, locations, and computers. The information systems can be large in several s...

Distributed computing is an enabling technology for many current and future application areas and is increasingly pervasive. Distributed systems consisting of interconnected sets of dissimilar hardware or software systems are commonly referred to as heterogeneous distributed systems. As a consequence of large scale, heterogeneity is often inevitable in distributed systems. Furthermore, often he...