Evolutionary Based Solutions for Green Computing

Today’s highly parameterized large-scale distributed computing systems may be composed  of a large number of various components (computers, databases, etc) and must provide a wide range of services. The users of such systems, located at different (ge

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Samee Ullah Khan, Joanna Kołodziej, Juan Li, and Albert Y. Zomaya (Eds.)

Evolutionary Based Solutions for Green Computing

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Editors Samee Ullah Khan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering North Dakota State University Fargo USA

Juan Li Department of Computer Science North Dakota State University Fargo USA

Joanna Kołodziej Institute of Computer Science Cracow University of Technology Cracow Poland

Albert Y. Zomaya High Performance Computing and Networking Center School of Information Technologies University of Sydney Sydney Australia

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Preface

Over the last decade we have witnessed a growing interest of computing service providers in designing intelligent models and methodologies and upgrading the existing infrastructures to high-performance computing systems that can meet the increasing demands of powerful newer applications. In parallel, a