Bio-Inspired Distributed Computing Research Group

People

Computer Science Department

Razvan Andonie, Ph.D.

James Schwing, Ph.D.

Abdul-Wahid, Christopher B.

Alumni

Joseph Lemnley (graduated 2006)

Sarah Abdul-Wahid, M.S. (graduated 2006)

Jonathan Widger (graduated 2006)

Berk Erkul (graduated 2007)

Sorin (Alex) Bucse (graduated 2008)

Lukas Magill (graduated 2008)

Michael Wilson (graduated 2008)

Ben Woodard (graduated 2008)

Department of Biological Sciences

Lixing Sun, Ph. D.

Central Washington University Campus

Swarms of mobile software agents, imitating the behavior of insects, can solve complex tasks. Such agents individually have simple behavior. However, as a collective unit, constructive behavior emerges, as it does in insect colonies. We intend to investigate distributed computing in a heterogeneous network using bio-inspired techniques. The system should be adaptive and completely distributed. It should perform dynamic, event-driven load balancing. Every node of the network should be capable of producing new events and introducing them into the network for computation. The architecture should be used as a general support for clustering and task allocation applications.

Publications

	Abdul-Wahid, S., Andonie, R., Lemley, J., Schwing, J., Widger, J. Adaptive Distributed Database Replication Through Colonies of Pogo Ants, Proceedings of  the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007) , Long Beach, California, March 26-30, 2007, ISBN 1-4244-0909-8.
	Abdul-Wahid, S., Andonie, R., Lemley, J., Schwing, J., Widger, J. Event-Driven Load Balancing of Partially Replicated Objects through a Swarm of Mobile Agents, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2006), B. Kovalerchuk (ed.), San Francisco, November 20-22, 2006, ACTA Press, ISBN 0-88986-603-1, 110-115.

Presentations

	Old Dominium - Invited Presentation, November 10, 2006.
	Joseph Lemley, Jonathan Widger, Virgil Mednick, Sarah Abdul-Wahid, James Schwing*, Razvan Andonie*, Biologically inspired solution for load balancing distributed data, Symposium on University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE 2006), Ellensburg, May 18, 2006.