A parallel bi-objective hybrid metaheuristic for energy-aware scheduling for cloud computing systems

In this paper, we investigate the problem of scheduling precedence-constrained parallel applications on heterogeneous computing systems (HCSs) like cloud computing infrastructures. This kind of application was studied and used in many research works. Most of these works propose algorithms to minimize the completion time (makespan) without paying much attention to energy consumption.We propose a new parallel bi-objective hybrid genetic algorithm that takes into account, not only makespan, but also energy consumption. We particularly focus on the island parallel model and the multi-start parallel model. Our new method is based on dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) to minimize energy consumption.In terms of energy consumption, the obtained results show that our approach outperforms previous scheduling methods by a significant margin. In terms of completion time, the obtained schedules are also shorter than those of other algorithms. Furthermore, our study demonstrates the potential of DVS.     

Bi-objective scheduling for reentrant hybrid flow shop using Pareto genetic algorithm

This paper deals with a scheduling problem for reentrant hybrid flowshop with serial stages where each stage consists of identical parallel machines. In a reentrant flowshop, a job may revisit any stage several times. Local-search based Pareto genetic algorithms with Minkowski distance-based crossover operator is proposed to approximate the Pareto optimal solutions for the minimization of makespan and total tardiness in a reentrant hybrid flowshop. The Pareto genetic algorithms are compared with existing multi-objective genetic algorithm, NSGA-II in terms of the convergence to optimal solution, the diversity of solution and the dominance of solution. Experimental results show that the proposed crossover operator and local search are effective and the proposed algorithm outperforms NSGA-II by statistical analysis.     

A green energy-efficient scheduling algorithm using the DVFS technique for cloud datacenters

Information and communication technology (ICT) has a profound impact on environment because of its large amount of CO₂ emissions. In the past years, the research field of “green” and low power consumption networking infrastructures is of great importance for both service/network providers and equipment manufacturers. An emerging technology called Cloud computing can increase the utilization and efficiency of hardware equipment. The job scheduler is needed by a cloud datacenter to arrange resources for executing jobs. In this paper, we propose a scheduling algorithm for the cloud datacenter with a dynamic voltage frequency scaling technique. Our scheduling algorithm can efficiently increase resource utilization; hence, it can decrease the energy consumption for executing jobs. Experimental results show that our scheme can reduce more energy consumption than other schemes do. The performance of executing jobs is not sacrificed in our scheme. We provide a green energy-efficient scheduling algorithm using the DVFS technique for Cloud computing datacenters.     

Pareto process optimization of product development project using bi-objective hybrid genetic algorithm

Overlapping and iteration between development activities are the main reasons to cause complexity in product development (PD) process. Overlapping may not only reduce duration of a project but also create rework risk, while iteration increases the project duration and cost. In order to balance the duration and cost, this article presents four types of time models from the angle of time overlapping and activities dependent relationships based on Collaboration Degree Design Structure Matrix (CD-DSM) and builds the cost model considering the negation cost. On basis of the formulated model, a hybridization of the Pareto genetic algorithm (PGA) and variable neighborhood search (VNS) algorithm is proposed to solve the bi-objective process optimization problem of PD project for reducing the project duration and cost. The VNS strategy is implemented after the genetic operation of crossover and mutation to improve the exploitation ability of the algorithm. And then, an industrial example, a LED module PD project in an optoelectronic enterprise, is provided to illustrate the utility of the proposed approach. The optimization model minimizes the project duration and cost associated with overlapping and iteration and yields a Pareto optimal solution of project activity sequence for project managers to make decision following different business purposes. The simulation results of two different problems show that the proposed approach has a good convergence and robustness.     

Resource scheduling algorithm with load balancing for cloud service provisioning

Cloud computing uses scheduling and load balancing for virtualized file sharing in cloud infrastructure. These two have to be performed in an optimized manner in cloud computing environment to achieve optimal file sharing. Recently, Scalable traffic management has been developed in cloud data centers for traffic load balancing and quality of service provisioning. However, latency reducing during multidimensional resource allocation still remains a challenge. Hence, there necessitates efficient resource scheduling for ensuring load optimization in cloud. The objective of this work is to introduce an integrated resource scheduling and load balancing algorithm for efficient cloud service provisioning. The method constructs a Fuzzy-based Multidimensional Resource Scheduling model to obtain resource scheduling efficiency in cloud infrastructure. Increasing utilization of Virtual Machines through effective and fair load balancing is then achieved by dynamically selecting a request from a class using Multidimensional Queuing Load Optimization algorithm. A load balancing algorithm is then implemented to avoid underutilization and overutilization of resources, improving latency time for each class of request. Simulations were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness using Cloudsim simulator in cloud data centers and results shows that the proposed method achieves better performance in terms of average success rate, resource scheduling efficiency and response time. Simulation analysis shows that the method improves the resource scheduling efficiency by 7% and also reduces the response time by 35.5 % when compared to the state-of-the-art works.     

云计算环境下基于遗传蚁群算法的任务调度研究

对云计算中任务调度进行了研究,针对云计算的编程模型框架,提出一种融合遗传算法与蚁群算法的混合调度算法。在该求解方法中,遗传算法采用任务-资源的间接编码方式,每条染色体代表一种具体调度方案;选取任务平均完成时间作为适应度函数,再利用遗传算法生成的优化解,初始化蚁群信息素分布。既克服了蚁群算法初期信息素缺乏,导致求解速度慢的问题,又充分利用遗传算法的快速随机全局搜索能力和蚁群算法能模拟资源负载情况的优势。通过仿真实验将该算法和遗传算法进行比较,实验结果表明,该算法是一种云计算环境下有效的任务调度算法。     

A hybrid genetic algorithm for the job shop scheduling problems

The Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is one of the most general and difficult of all traditional scheduling problems. The goal of this research is to develop an efficient scheduling method based on genetic algorithm to address JSSP. We design a scheduling method based on Single Genetic Algorithm (SGA) and Parallel Genetic Algorithm (PGA). In the scheduling method, the representation, which encodes the job number, is made to be always feasible, the initial population is generated through integrating representation and G&T algorithm, the new genetic operators and selection method are designed to better transmit the temporal relationships in the chromosome, and island model PGA are proposed. The scheduling methods based on genetic algorithm are tested on five standard benchmark JSSP. The results are compared with other proposed approaches. Compared to traditional genetic algorithm, the proposed approach yields significant improvement in solution quality. The superior results indicate the successful incorporation of a method to generate initial population into the genetic operators.     

基于帕累托最优的云资源调度研究

针对在云环境中,服务资源在各用户间难以实现最优动态分配的问题,利用帕累托最优理论与粒子群优化算法相互结合应用于云计算模型中,对各种服务资源的效用进行最优化配置,最终使资源利用率达到一个最优的状态。通过CloudSim对云服务资源调度进行仿真实验,结果表明,采用帕累托最优算法优化后的云计算模型具有更好的系统性能,使得资源的调度和配置达到最优。     

基于精英选择和个体迁移的多目标遗传算法

提出基于遗传算法求解多目标优化问题的方法,将多目标问题分解成多个单目标优化问题,用遗传算法分别在每个单目标种群中并行搜索.在进化过程中的每一代,采用精英选择和个体迁移策略加快多个目标的并行搜索,提出了控制Pareto最优解数量并保持个体多样性的有限精度法,同时还提出了多目标遗传算法的终止条件.数值实验说明所提出的算法能较快地找到一组分布广泛且均匀的Pareto最优解.     

A new hybrid genetic algorithm for job shop scheduling problem

Job shop scheduling problem is a typical NP-hard problem. To solve the job shop scheduling problem more effectively, some genetic operators were designed in this paper. In order to increase the diversity of the population, a mixed selection operator based on the fitness value and the concentration value was given. To make full use of the characteristics of the problem itself, new crossover operator based on the machine and mutation operator based on the critical path were specifically designed. To find the critical path, a new algorithm to find the critical path from schedule was presented. Furthermore, a local search operator was designed, which can improve the local search ability of GA greatly. Based on all these, a hybrid genetic algorithm was proposed and its convergence was proved. The computer simulations were made on a set of benchmark problems and the results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.     

基于云计算的数字图书馆服务平台架构设计

在分析数字图书馆功能需求的基础上,提出了一种基于云计算的数字图书馆服务平台架构的设计方法,该平台采用六层架构,既能提供存储服务以实现资源共享,也能为计算量巨大的工作(如基因序列测定)提供计算服务。文中同时介绍了架构的实现技术,利用这些实现技术,能够快速构建云服务平台。     

云计算环境下基于改进遗传算法的任务调度算法

在云计算中面对的用户群是庞大的,要处理的任务量与数据量也是十分巨大的。如何对任务进行高效的调度成为云计算中所要解决的重要问题。针对云计算的编程模型框架,提出了一种具有双适应度的遗传算法（DFGA）,通过此算法不但能找到总任务完成时间较短的调度结果,而且此调度结果的任务平均完成时间也较短。通过仿真实验将此算法与自适应遗传算法（AGA）进行比较,实验结果表明,此算法优于自适应遗传算法,是一种云计算环境下有效的任务调度算法。     

云计算环境下融合遗传算法和蚁群算法QoS约束任务调度

针对已有云计算任务调度算法为实现最短时间跨度而不能兼顾负载均衡和服务质量的问题,提出基于遗传算法和蚁群算法融合的QoS约束任务调度策略CAAC。CAAC利用任务的预测完成时间和成本耗费定义适应度函数;通过遗传算子全局搜索最优解,融合蚁群算子提高解的精确度;当任务数量大于50时,该算法收敛速度和资源利用率比蚁群算法平均提高4.7'和30.8'。仿真结果表明,该算法在保证服务质量和资源负载均衡方面具有优越性。     

A novel hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm for solving multi objective flexible job shop scheduling

Finding feasible scheduling that optimize all objective functions for flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) is considered by many researchers. In this paper, the novel hybrid genetic algorithm and simulated annealing (NHGASA) is introduced to solve FJSP. The NHGASA is a combination of genetic algorithm and simulated annealing to propose the algorithm that is more efficient than others. The three objective functions in this paper are: minimize the maximum completion time of all the operations (makespan), minimize the workload of the most loaded machine and minimize the total workload of all machines. Pareto optimal solution approach is used in NHGASA for solving FJSP. Contrary to the other methods that assign weights to all objective functions to reduce them to one objective function, in the NHGASA and during all steps, problems are solved by three objectives. Experimental results prove that the NHGASA that uses Pareto optimal solutions for solving multi-objective FJSP overcome previous methods for solving the same benchmarks in the shorter computational time and higher quality.     

Robust Design using Pareto type optimization: A genetic algorithm with arithmetic crossover

In dual response systems (DRSs) optimization restrictions on the secondary response may rule out better conditions, since an acceptable value for the secondary response is usually unknown. In fact, process conditions that result in a smaller standard deviation are often preferable. Recently, several authors stated that the standard deviation of any performance property could be treated as a new property in its own right as far as Pareto optimizer was concerned. By doing this, there will be many alternative solutions (i.e., the trade-offs between the mean and standard deviation responses) of the DRS problem and Pareto optimization can explore them all. Such analysis is useful, and that is required in order to achieve an improved understanding of the problem before searching for a final optimal solution. In this paper, we again follow this new philosophy and solve the DRS problem by using a genetic algorithm with arithmetic crossover. The genetic algorithm is applied to the printing process problem for improving the quality of a printing process. Genetic algorithms, in contrast to the one-solution-at-a-time approach of most optimization algorithms, maintain a population of hundreds, or thousands, of solutions in speedy manner.     

一种云环境下基于混合型BBO的任务调度算法

任务调度在云计算中占有重要地位,是影响云计算性能的关键因素,被证明是NP问题。启发式算法是解决该问题的最有效方法之一,针对近年来出现的一种新型启发式算法--BBO算法展开研究,由于BBO算法在求解过程中收敛速度较慢,因此结合粒子群算法提出了一种新型算法的任务调度算法--HMBBO,并结合Cloudsim云仿真平台,进行了以Makespan为目标函数的比对实验。实验结果表明,与几种经典的启发式算法相比,HMBBO算法具有寻优能力强、收敛速度快、求解质量高的特点,为解决云计算环境中任务调度问题提供了一种新思路。     

A hybrid genetic and linear programming algorithm for two-agent order acceptance and scheduling problem

In this paper, the simultaneous order acceptance and scheduling problem is developed by considering the variety of customers’ requests. To that end, two agents with different scheduling criteria including the total weighted lateness for the first and the weighted number of tardy orders for the second agent are considered. The objective is to maximize the sum of the total profit of the first and the total revenue of the second agents’ orders when the weighted number of tardy orders of the second agent is bounded by an upper bound value. In this study, it is shown that this problem is NP-hard in the strong sense, and then to optimally solve it, an integer linear programming model is proposed based on the properties of optimal solution. This model is capable of solving problem instances up to 60 orders in size. Also, the LP-relaxation of this model was used to propose a hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm which was developed by employing genetic algorithm and linear programming. Computational results reveal that the proposed meta-heuristic can achieve near optimal solutions so efficiently that for the instances up to 60 orders in size, the average deviation of the model from the optimal solution is lower than 0.2% and for the instances up to 150 orders in size, the average deviation from the problem upper bound is lower than 1.5%.     

ACOCS:一种云环境下资源调度混合算法

蚁群算法在优化组合问题中有着重要的意义,传统的蚁群调度算法搜索速度慢、容易陷入局部最优。针对这种情况,结合布谷鸟搜索算法,提出一种基于蚁群算法与布谷鸟搜索算法的混合算法(ACOCS),用于云环境下的资源调度。该方法有效保留了蚁群算法求解精度高和鲁棒性的特性,并融入了布谷鸟搜索具有快速全局搜索能力的优势。仿真实验结果表明,提出的ACOCS调度算法有效减少了调度所需的响应时间,也在一定程度上提高了系统资源利用率。     

A semantic interoperability framework for software as a service systems in cloud computing environments

In cloud computing environments in software as a service (SaaS) level, interoperability refers to the ability of SaaS systems on one cloud provider to communicate with SaaS systems on another cloud provider. One of the most important barriers to the adoption of SaaS systems in cloud computing environments is interoperability. A common tactic for enabling interoperability is the use of an interoperability framework or model. During the past few years, in cloud SaaS level, various interoperability frameworks and models have been developed to provide interoperability between systems. The syntactic interoperability of SaaS systems have already been intensively researched. However, not enough consideration has been given to semantic interoperability issues. Achieving semantic interoperability is a challenge within the world of SaaS in cloud computing environments. Therefore, a semantic interoperability framework for SaaS systems in cloud computing environments is needed. We develop a semantic interoperability framework for cloud SaaS systems. The capabilities and value of service oriented architecture for semantic interoperability within cloud SaaS systems have been studied and demonstrated. This paper is accomplished through a number of steps (research methodology). It begins with a study on related works in the literature. Then, problem statement and research objectives are explained. In the next step, semantic interoperability requirements for SaaS systems in cloud computing environments that are needed to support are analyzed. The details of the proposed semantic interoperability framework for SaaS systems in cloud computing environments are presented. It includes the design of the proposed semantic interoperability framework. Finally, the evaluation methods of the semantic interoperability framework are elaborated. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed semantic interoperability framework for SaaS systems in cloud computing environments, extensive experimentation and statistical analysis have been performed. The experiments and statistical analysis specify that the proposed semantic interoperability framework for cloud SaaS systems is able to establish semantic interoperability between cloud SaaS systems in a more efficient way. It is concluded that using the proposed framework, there is a significant improvement in the effectiveness of semantic interoperability of SaaS systems in cloud computing environments.