InterBALANCE: Cooperative load-balancing system

Abstract

The authors propose a cooperative system architecture for systemization of scheduling work, taking account of the desirable relationship between an expert and a computer. The architecture emphasizes the significance of a system structure in which decision-making and trial operation can be easily performed by the expert and the system can simulate the expert's intentions. Since an expert expresses his intentions mainly be mouse operations, using only a narrow bandwidth of communication from a human to a computer, the authors propose that domain knowledge should be used to grasp the expert's intentions. The load-balancing problem is analyzed and an example is given that shows such a problem is cooperatively solved by the InterBALANCE system.