Iterative Configuration Method: An Effective and Efficient Heuristic for Service Oriented Infrastructure Resource Allocation
M. Brent Reynolds, Kenneth Mark Hopkinson, Mark E. Oxley, Barry E. Mullins · 2010
This work defines a heuristic to determine the most optimal configuration for a service oriented infrastructure by effectively and efficiently matching network nodes' resource provisions to services' resource demands. The heuristic is a numerical method that attempts to find the global minima of a configuration quality metric. The efficiency and effectiveness of the heuristic is compared to simulated annealing in a large scale simulation. In the large scale, the heuristic is an order of magnitude better in both effectiveness and efficiency.