@article {67,
	title = {Sensitivity analysis of server placement on enterprise network topology through soft computing},
	journal = {Journal of Digital Information Management},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2007},
	note = {Export Date: 10 July 2014},
	month = {2007},
	pages = {1 - 7},
	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 edge-server placement has demonstrated the effectiveness of our methodology in finding good solutions with a static workload in less than five minutes.},
	keywords = {Analysis, Clustering, Edge-server placement, Network topology, Optimization, Soft computing, Web structure analysis},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33947320448\&partnerID=40\&md5=62ced3281abb66c04e4ac8f00c808c7b},
	author = {Safar, M. and Habib, S.}
}
