In the past few years, more and more business-to-consumer and enterprise applications run in the heterogeneous clouds. Such cloud bag-of-tasks applications are usually budget constrained, and their scheduling is an essential problem for cloud provider. The problem is even more complex and challenging when the accurate knowledge about task execution time is unknown in advance. Focusing on these challenges, we first build a cloud resource management architecture and stochastic task model, which divides cloud task into two execution parts. Then, w...
