Constraint Programming for Hierarchical Resource Allocation

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  • Alexander Schiendorfer
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Resource allocation in a feasible or even cost-effective manner is a prominent task appearing in various domains such as energy management, grid computing, distributed heat management or the like. The mere size of future systems calls for mechanisms and algorithms that are able to address uncertainty and scalability – two issues that Organic Computing traditionally focuses on. In particular, self-organizing, adaptive systems are designed to reconfigure their internal structure and improve their operating state at runtime. On the other hand, constraint programming and mathematical programming are successful paradigms designed to model a variety of satisfaction and optimization problems and solve them with generic algorithms. Integration of both worlds promises interesting application and research areas with one major driving factor being the necessity to transform optimization models automatically due to the dynamic restructuring. We give an overview of existing techniques to use constraint programming in collective systems solving resource allocation problems and consider future extensions.

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تاریخ انتشار 2014