Special Issue: Computational Intelligence in Scheduling and Simulation
Guest Editors: Fatos Xhafa and Yehui Chen

 CONTENTS

A Novel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Short-Term Scheduling of Batch Plants with Parallel Units

Jin Zhu, Xingsheng Gu, Bin Jiao

A Task Scheduling Algorithm Based on PSO for Grid Computing

Lei Zhang, Yuehui Chen, Runyuan Sun, Shan Jing and Bo Yang

Permutation-based Particle Swarm Algorithm for Tasks Scheduling in Heterogeneous systems with Communication Delays

Xiaohong Kong, Jun Sun and Wenbo Xu 

The Design and Dev elopment of a Multi-agent Agile Scheduling System

Zhanjie Wang, Xian Li and Xin Qi

Forming and managing agent teams acting as resource brokers in the Grid — preliminary considerations

Wojciech Kuranowski, Maria Ganzha, Maciej Gawinecki, Marcin Paprzycki*, Ivan Lirkov, Svetozar Margenov 

A Starvation Free IMLFQ Scheduling Algorithm Based on Neural Network

Mohammad Reza Effat Parva, Mehdi Effat Parvar and Saeed Safari

A Survey of the State of the Art in Performance Modeling and Prediction of Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems

Sabri Pllana, Ivona Brandic and Siegfried Benkner

Obtaining Performance Measures through Microbenchmarking in a Peer-to-Peer Overlay Computer

Paolo Bertasi, Mauro Biancoy, Andrea Pietracaprina, and Geppino Pucci