Local Search Based Ant Colony Optimization for Scheduling in Cloud Computing

Over the past few years, cloud computing has evolved as most promising field in computing environment. It has advanced a lot and due to its attractive features, more and more organizations are adopting it day by day. But, still a lot needs to be done to provide seamless service to the cloud clients. In this paper, modified approach based on ant colony optimization algorithm has been proposed for better optimization of allocation process of virtual machines to their respective physical counterparts. This can greatly increase the efficient usage of current physical resources.