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Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 1 Abbreviations and their descriptions

From: Multi-objective workflow optimization strategy (MOWOS) for cloud computing

Abbreviations

Description

Wt

Workflow task

n

Number of tasks

k

Number of VM types

ECT

Expected completion time

Dl

Deadline

Dlqueue

Deadline queue

wtqueue

Workflow tasks queue

MinVM

Minimum virtual machine

MaxVM

Maximum virtual machine

EL

Execution length

ET

Execution time

ECT

Expected completing time

loadVMj

The workflows on virtual machine j

pre(wti)

Predecessor workflow task i

succ(wtj)

Successor workflow task j

wtentry)

Entry workflow tasks

wtexit

Exit workflow tasks

MIPS

Million instructions per second

getMips

Get million instructions per second of Vm

getVmSize

Get the size of each VM (MIPS)

vmAllocation.keyset

Stores VM ID and Allocations

TL

Tasks length

MIPSVMk

Million instruction per seconds of virtual machine K