A Toolkit for Modeling and Simulation of workflow scheduling in Internet of Things, Edge and Fog Computing Environments

• Developer organization:

1. School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
2. CCIS laboratory, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China

• Developer member: Xiao Liu, Xuejun Li, Lingmin Fan, Lina Gong, Jia Xu.

Access from https://github.com/CCIS-AHU/FogWorkflowSim/tree/master/usertutorial

Please check the improv branch for latest changes. Master branch has been left intact until complete testing.

• Create a Java project in Eclipse.
• Inside the project directory, initialize an empty Git repository with the following command

git init

• Add the Git repository of FogWorkflowSim as the origin remote.

git remote add origin https://github.com/CCIS_AHU/FogWorkflowSim

• Pull the contents of the repository to your machine.

git pull origin master

• Run the example files (e.g. MainUI.java) to get started.

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