NDLI: An ACO-based approach for scheduling task graphs with communication costs

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Author	Bank, M. Honig, U. Schiffmann, W.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Fern Univ., Hagen, Germany (Bank, M.; Honig, U.; Schiffmann, W.)
Abstract	In this paper we introduce a new algorithm for computing near optimal schedules for task graph scheduling problems. In contrast to conventional approaches for solving those scheduling problems, our algorithm is based on the same principles that ants use to find shortest paths between their nest and food sources. Like their natural counterparts, artificial ants cooperate by means of pheromone trails where information about the quality of the possible solution's building blocks is stored. Based on this common communication structure, new solutions emerge by means of cooperative interaction between the ants. In the paper we demonstrate how this basic principle can be adapted to solve scheduling problems. We also evaluated the performance of the proposed ANTLS-algorithm (ant list scheduler) by means of a comprehensive test bench with more than 30,000 test cases. Compared to two conventional and two other nature-inspired approaches it performed very well.
Sponsorship	Int. Assoc. for Comput. and Commun. (IACC) Simula Res. Lab. The Res. Council of Norway The Univ. of Oslo
Starting Page	623
Ending Page	629
File Size	166698
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769523803
ISSN	01903918
DOI	10.1109/ICPP.2005.18
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-06-14
Publisher Place	Norway
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Optimal scheduling Processor scheduling Distributed computing Concurrent computing Scheduling algorithm Computer networks Grid computing Cost function Testing Parallel algorithms
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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