TY - JOUR
T1 - A Tabu Search Algorithm for application placement in computer clustering
AU - van der Gaast, Jelmer
AU - Rietveld, Cornelieus A.
AU - Gabor, Adriana
AU - Zhang, Yingqian
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This paper presents and analyzes a model for the problem of placing applications on computer clusters (APP). In this problem, organizations requesting a set of software applications have to be assigned to computer clusters such that the costs of opening clusters and installing the necessary applications are minimized. This problem is related to known OR problems such as the multiproduct facility location problem and the generalized bin packing problem. We show that APP is NP-hard, and then propose a simple Tabu Search heuristic to solve it. The performance of the Tabu Search heuristic is assessed via extensive computational experiments, which indicate the promise of the proposed Tabu Search.
AB - This paper presents and analyzes a model for the problem of placing applications on computer clusters (APP). In this problem, organizations requesting a set of software applications have to be assigned to computer clusters such that the costs of opening clusters and installing the necessary applications are minimized. This problem is related to known OR problems such as the multiproduct facility location problem and the generalized bin packing problem. We show that APP is NP-hard, and then propose a simple Tabu Search heuristic to solve it. The performance of the Tabu Search heuristic is assessed via extensive computational experiments, which indicate the promise of the proposed Tabu Search.
U2 - 10.1016/j.cor.2014.03.025
DO - 10.1016/j.cor.2014.03.025
M3 - Article
VL - 50
SP - 38
EP - 46
JO - Computers & Operations Research
JF - Computers & Operations Research
SN - 0305-0548
ER -