Purpose This paper aims to present a concise review on the variant state-of-the-art dynamic task allocation strategies. It presents a thorough discussion about the existing dynamic task allocation strategies mainly with respect to the problem application, constraints, objective functions and...

Scientific workflows are very complex, large-scale applications and require more computational power for data transmission and execution. In this article, the authors address the problem of scheduling scientific workflow on a number of virtual machines (VM) with the objective of reducing the...