Event-driven load balancing of partially replicated objects through a swarm of mobile agents

Swarms of mobile software agents, imitating the behav-ior of insects, can solve complex tasks. Such agents in-dividually have simple behavior. However, as a collec-tive unit, constructive behavior emerges, as it does in in-sect colonies. The problem we address is optimizing the distribution of objects with partial replication over a com-puter network. We present a new approach, implemented as a prototype, based on swarm intelligence. The system performs dynamic, event-driven, distributed load balanc-ing. Every node of the network is capable of producing new events and introducing them into the network for com-putation. The architecture is general and can be used as a support for clustering and task allocation applications. KEY WORDS Swarm intelligence, mobile intelligent agents, distributed dynamic load balancing.