LOAD BALANCING WITH A FUZZY-DECISION ALGORITHM

The University of Dortmund is a member of the LYDIA project and deals within the project with the possible use of decision algorithms for lo ad balancing. In a simple case, one can grasp each kind of distributio n as a decision problem, at which it must be decided which job should be distributed to which node in the system. This idea will be shortly discussed in this article, but we will concentrate on a further develo ped approach. Within this approach, there is a situation-specific sele ction of load balancing algorithms. The main idea of the approach is o utlined in this article and a suitable decision algorithm will be pres ented. In addition to that, some results of simulations will be shown and there will be also an outlook to further activities. (C) Elsevier Science Inc. 1997