An Awareness-Based Simulated Annealing Method to Cover Dynamic Load-Balancing in Collaborative Distributed Environments

For achieving proper cooperation in Collaborative Distributed Environments (CDEs) the implementation of appropriate collaborative mechanisms in these dynamic distributed environments is essential. On one hand, awareness is a useful concept that allows users to be aware of others’ activities at every moment. On the other hand, properly covering the dynamic load-balancing problem is essential to proper cooperation among users in distributed environments. In this matter, Simulated Annealing (SA) is a well-known technique used to deal with load-balancing. This paper focuses on associating the concept of awareness with SA algorithm by presenting a new high-performance method named CAwaSA. Preliminary results show that CAwaSA is able, not only of finding a good solution for the problem (effectiveness) but also to do it in a reasonable amount of time (efficiency)