Special issue published: "Applied Soft Computing for Optimisation and Parallel Applications"

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing 10(5) 2019

• An enhanced Jaya algorithm for solving nurse scheduling problem
• An adaptive technique for cost reduction in cloud data centre environment
• Novel mobile palmprint databases for biometric authentication
• IoT-based intensive care secure framework for patient monitoring and tracking
• Facial expression recognition using geometric features and modified hidden Markov model
• An autonomic mechanism based on ant colony pattern for detecting the source of incidents in complex enterprise systems
• Evaluation prediction techniques to achievement an optimal biomedical analysis
• An intelligent water drops-based approach for workflow scheduling with balanced resource utilisation in cloud computing
• The energy consumption laxity-based algorithm to perform computation processes in virtual machine environments
• A new bi-matrix game model with fuzzy payoffs in credibility space
• An efficient content sharing scheme using file splitting and differences between versions in hybrid peer-to-peer networks
• Fog computing with original data reference function