cloud computing is the latest technology that involves distributed computation over the internet. it meets the needs of users through sharing resources and using virtual technology. the workflow user applications refer to a set of tasks to be processed within the cloud environment. scheduling algorithms have a lot to do with the efficiency of cloud computing environments through selection of su...

this paper investigates the problem of selecting and scheduling a set of projects among available projects. each project consists of several tasks and to perform each one some resource is required. the objective is to maximize total benefit. the paper constructs a mathematical formulation in form of mixed integer linear programming model. three effective metaheuristics in form of the imperialis...

The university course timetabling is known to be a highly constrained optimization problem, more complex than examination timetabling. Many different approaches, including evolutionary algorithms, tabu search, simulated annealing, and their hybrids, are developed for solving the problem. The negative selection algorithm, an algorithm inspired by the immune system, has successfully been applied ...

This paper investigates the role of negative selection in an artificial immune system (AIS) for network intrusion detection. The work focuses on the use of negative selection as a network traffic anomaly detector. The results of the negative selection algorithm experiments show a severe scaling problem for handling real network traffic data. The paper concludes by suggesting that the most appro...

vendor selection decisions are complicated by the fact that various conflicting multi-objective factors must be considered in the decision making process. the problem of vendor selection becomes still more compli-cated with the inclusion of incremental discount pricing schedule. such hard combinatorial problems when solved using meta heuristics produce near optimal solutions. this paper propose...

Weibo is an extensively used social network tool in China and has become a popular platform for disaster information management. This popular microblogging service offers massive firsthand information regarding the state and emotions of victims in a disaster situation. Identifying negative sentiment messages from the large-scale and noisy Weibo stream is a fundamental and challenging undertakin...

in this paper, tender problems in an automobile company for procuring needed items from potential suppliers have been resolved by the learning algorithm q. in this case the purchaser with respect to proposals received from potential providers, including price and delivery time is proposed; order the needed parts to suppliers assigns. the buyer’s objective is minimizing the procurement costs thr...