Everything about Execution (computing)

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Execution (computing)A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Comprehensive Review of Computing Paradigms, Enabling Computation Offloading and Task Execution in Vehicular NetworksInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Financial auditThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Computing Maximum Task Execution Times — A Graph-Based ApproachCited 168 times
5. Go sideways: Runtime systemA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Binary Modular Dataflow MachineA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Computing Maximum Task Execution Times — A Graph-Based Approach

  Peter P. Puschner, Anton V. Schedl · 1997 · Real-Time Systems · 168 citations

• Cooperative Application Execution in Mobile Cloud Computing: A Stackelberg Game Approach

  Xiumin Wang, Xiaoming Chen, Weiwei Wu · 2016 · IEEE Communications Letters · 54 citations

• Execution Analysis of Load Balancing Algorithms in Cloud Computing Environment

  Soumya Ray · 2012 · International Journal on Cloud Computing: Services and Architecture · 34 citations

• Accelerating smart eHealth services execution at the fog computing infrastructure

  Marisol García-Valls, Christian Calva-Urrego, Ana García-Fornes · 2020 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 31 citations

• A mobile edge computing-based applications execution framework for Internet of Vehicles

  Libing Wu, Rui Zhang, Qingan Li · 2022 · Frontiers of Computer Science · 29 citations

• EneX: An Energy-Aware Execution Scheduler for Serverless Computing

  Seyed Hamed Rastegar, Hossein Shafiei, Ahmad Khonsari · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 27 citations

• Advanced Architectures and Execution Models to Support Green Computing

  Richard Murphy, Thomas Sterling, Chirag Dekate · 2010 · Computing in Science & Engineering · 27 citations

• Process state synchronization-based application execution management for mobile edge/cloud computing

  Ejaz Ahmed, Anjum Naveed, Abdullah Gani · 2019 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 27 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Comprehensive Review of Computing Paradigms, Enabling Computation Offloading and Task Execution in Vehicular Networks

  Abdul Waheed, Munam Ali Shah, Syed Muhammad Mohsin · 2022 · IEEE Access · 81 citations

• Qubernetes: Towards a unified cloud-native execution platform for hybrid classic-quantum computing

  Vlad Stirbu, Otso Kinanen, Majid Haghparast · 2024 · Information and Software Technology · 32 citations

• AI-Empowered Fast Task Execution Decision for Delay-Sensitive IoT Applications in Edge Computing Networks

  Beste Atan, Mehmet Basaran, Nurullah Calik · 2023 · IEEE Access · 23 citations

• A hybrid genetic-based task scheduling algorithm for cost-efficient workflow execution in heterogeneous cloud computing environment

  Mohsen Khademi Dehnavi, Ali Broumandnia, Mirsaeid Hosseini Shirvani · 2024 · Cluster Computing · 22 citations

• Dynamic fog computing for enhanced LLM execution in medical applications

  Philipp Zagar, Vishnu Ravi, Lauren Aalami · 2025 · Smart Health · 21 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Financial auditUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1943
• Steve JobsWalter Isaacson · 2011
• Hit RefreshSatya Nadella · 2017
• Tim CookLeander Kahney · 2019
• Parallel Programming with Co-ArraysRobert W. Numrich, John Ker Reid · 2012
• I, SteveSteven Jobs, Steve Jobs · 2011
• The Difference Between God and Larry EllisonMike Wilson · 1997
• To Pixar and BeyondLawrence Levy · 2016

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