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Issue title: Special Section: Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems: Techniques and Applications
Guest editors: Sabu M. Thampi, El-Sayed M. El-Alfy, Sushmita Mitra and Ljiljana Trajkovic
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Ahmed, Khalifaa | El-Alfy, El-Sayed M.b; * | Awad, Wasan S.a
Affiliations: [a] College of Information Technology, Ahlia University, Manama, Bahrain | [b] Department of Information and Computer Science, College of Computer Sciences and Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. El-Sayed M. El-Alfy, Department of Information and Computer Science, College of Computer Sciences and Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia. E-mail: alfy@kfupm.edu.sa.
Abstract: Parallel processing is crucial for accelerating computation in many high-performance applications and modern technologies including computational modeling, optimization and simulation, Web and DNS servers, peer-to-peer systems, grid computing and cloud computing. Due to the heterogeneity nature of various processing nodes and the differences of workloads of various tasks, some processors can be idle while others are overloaded. In this paper, we present a simple, yet efficient, solution inspired by the intelligence of ant colonies to adequately mitigate the load imbalance and communication overhead problems in multiprocessor environments. The proposed approach is based on defining and maintaining data structures to dynamically track the load of each processor. We implemented the proposed algorithm and evaluated its performance under different scenarios against the baseline round-robin algorithm. The results showed that the proposed algorithm has more effective properties than the round-robin algorithm.
Keywords: Parallel processing, cloud computing, grid computing, load balancing, artificial ant colony, optimization
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-169440
Journal: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 1443-1451, 2018
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