Applications in heterogeneous parallel and distributed environment

摘要

ICNC-FSKD is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state-ofthe- art of data mining and intelligent methods inspired from nature, particularly biological, linguistic, and physical systems, with applications to computers, circuits, systems, control, communications, and more. ICNC-FSKD 2015 totally received 738 manuscripts from over 40 countries. More than 500 people from universities, institutes, and companies attended this conference. Through two round peer to peer reviews, 9 papers are selected after patiently extending and revising manuscripts to meet the comments/suggestions of the referees and responding to meet all the requirements of the journal. The topics covered in this special issue include Cloud Computing [1,2], Parallel and Distributed Processing [3–5], Scheduling of Resources [6,7], and other applications in High-Performance Computing for Natural Computation and Knowledge Discovery [8,9], It is hoped that this CCPE issue will make a good reference material and be of great use for readers in Computer Science, System Engineering, Mathematics, and Artificial Intelligence, etc.