Towards automatic load balancing for programming parallel fuzzy expert systems in heterogeneous clusters

Journal of Internet Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 179-186

  Wu, Chao Chin ^a   Lai, Lien Fu ^a   Chang, Yu Shuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cluster system; Expert system; FuzzyCLIPS; Load balancing; Self scheduling

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER SYSTEM; CLUSTER SYSTEMS; FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS CLUSTERS; LOAD-BALANCING; LOAD-BALANCING SCHEMES; MASTER PROCESS; PARALLEL EXECUTIONS; PARALLEL PROGRAM; RULE-BASED LANGUAGE; SELF-SCHEDULING;

ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; LINGUISTICS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77949713037     PISSN: 16079264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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