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  <title>Sensitivity Analysis of Server Placement on Enterprise Network Topology Through Soft Computing</title>
  <journal>Journal of Digital Information Management</journal>
  <author>Maytham Safar, Sami Habib</author>
  <volume>5</volume>
  <issue>1</issue>
  <year>2007</year>
  <doi></doi>
  <url>http://www.dirf.org/jdim/v5n1a1.asp</url>
  <abstract>We analyze the consequences when both the server placement problem and network topology problem are solved concurrently through soft computing. Both problems are formulated as a combined optimization problem, subject to a set of design and performance constraints while minimizing the enterprise network cost. We have coded the combined optimization problem within a soft computing methodology, which is based on a probabilistic genetic program for automatically searching the design space for good network topologies. The experimental results for synthesizing and optimizing 3- level enterprise network (65 user nodes) for an edgeserver placement has demonstrated the effectiveness of our methodology in finding good solutions with a static workload in less than five minutes.</abstract>
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