A dynamic VM provisioning and de-provisioning based cost-efficient deadline-aware scheduling algorithm for Big Data workflow applications in a cloud environment. - Wakar Ahmad; Bashir Alam; Sanchit Ahuja; Sahil Malik (Clust. Comput., 2021)

An efficient list scheduling algorithm with task duplication for scientific big data workflow in heterogeneous computing environments. - Wakar Ahmad; Bashir Alam (Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp., 2021)

An energy-efficient big data workflow scheduling algorithm under budget constraints for heterogeneous cloud environment. - Wakar Ahmad; Bashir Alam; Aman Atman (J. Supercomput., 2021)