A Federated Architecture for Autonomous Optimization Centers

摘要

This paper presents a distributed environment to support cooperation among institutions researching in the field of Operations Research, more specifically Optimization Algorithms. The proposed architecture for this environment respects the autonomy and heterogeneity of the cooperating institutions, promoting the organized reuse and publication of solutions and enabling the workload to be shared by the cooperating institutions. The five functional blocks that build the structure of the architecture have their interfaces discussed. An implementation in Java/RMl is described. This implementation is currently being tested in a scenario involving two universities, which are able to cooperatively work with optimization algorithms implementing classical heuristics.