The cloud is generally assumed to be homogeneous in most of the research efforts related to cloud resource management and the performance of cloud resource can be determined as it is predictable. However, a plethora of complexities are associated with cloud resources in the real world: dynamicity, heterogeneity and uncertainty. For heterogeneous cloud resources experiencing vast dynamic changes...

in management accounting information systems, managers use accounting information systems to be able to predict or have the data structured by the use of decision support systems and business intelligence. so, the use of management accounting information systems is necessary in management decision-making process based on decision support and business intelligence. this paper reviews the liter...

Process feedback is an essential ingredient in process change planning and software project management. In this paper, we discuss on-going work with an industrial partner to integrate feedback from the software development process with a discrete event simulation model to improve process performance predictions. A flexible metrics repository provides feedback that is used to generate updated si...

Fuzzy project scheduling has interested several researchers in the past two decades; about 20 articles have been written on this issue. Contrary to stochastic project-scheduling approaches that are used by many project schedulers, and even if the axiomatic associated to the theory of probabilities is not always compatible with decision-making situations, fuzzy project-scheduling approaches that...

The task of scheduling, especially when it affects the performance of people, is a very complex endeavor. Satisfying a variety of needs and requirements while maintaining standards for efficiency and effectiveness is difficult due to political pressures exerted by those who are scheduled. The assignment of courses to professors, timeblocks, and classrooms impacts strategic planning issues such ...

project scheduling inevitably involves uncertainty. The basic inputs (i.e., time, cost, and resources for each activity) are not deterministic and are affected by various sources of uncertainty. Moreover, there is a causal relationship between these uncertainty sources and project parameters; this causality is not modeled in current state-of-the-art project planning techniques {such as simulati...

The Internet has revolutionized the culture of computing and telecommunications. The emergence of newly designed real-time multimedia applications is creating a pressing need to redesign and revamp the Internet architectures, algorithms and protocols. Scheduling algorithms are an integral component in determining the performance of packet-switched networks. Extensive research have been performe...

Resource scheduling is a critical step in the management of complex logistic networks. The paper proposes an integrated scheduling and simulation approach for dynamic resource allocation in complex transportation logistics. An example application, specific to the maritime logistics of the chemical supply chain, is discussed in the paper, along with preliminary testing of the system by industria...

The aim of a multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MRCPSP) is to assign resource(s) with the restricted capacity to an execution mode of activities by considering relationship constraints, to achieve pre-determined objective(s). These goals vary with managers or decision makers of any organization who should determine suitable objective(s) considering organization strategi...