摘要
Task assignment is a crucial step in distributed computing system, the target of the task assignment problem in distributed computing system is to assign program tasks to processors so as to minimize overall costs made of execution and communication costs and satisfy with various limited resources constraints simultaneously within a system. The task assignment problem with more than three processors is NP-hard. In this paper, we propose an algorithm based on Simplified Swarm Optimization (SSO) as an alternative method to solve the problem. The results of the proposed method ate demonstrated by comparing with well-known methods. The experimental results show that the proposed SSO produces good quality solutions and consumes moderate time in solving task assignment problem in distributed computing system. © 2017 IEEE.