Yang, Haijun; Zheng, Qinghua; Li, Minqiang; Sun, Yuzhong - In: International Journal of Information Technology & … 14 (2015) 02, pp. 287-315
Large distributed systems, such as grid computing and cloud computing, promise to supply users with high performance. Consequently, scheduling is currently becoming a crucial problem. Herd behavior is a common phenomenon which causes severe performance decrease in the systems caused by bad...