Swarm intelligence heuristics for component deployment

Abstract

We address the problem of efficient deployment of software services into a networked environment. Services are considered that are provided by collaborating components. The problem of obtaining efficient mappings for components to host in a network is challenged by multiple dimensions of quality of service requirements. In this paper we consider execution costs for components and communication costs for the collaborations between them. Our proposed solution to the deployment problem is a nature inspired distributed heuristic algorithm that we apply from the service provider's perspective. We present simulation results for different example scenarios and present an integer linear program to validate the results obtained by simulation of our algorithm. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.