Optimal Disk Scheduling Based on Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm

Disk scheduling problem has theoretical interest and practical importance since, the processor speed and memory capacity have been progressing several times faster than disk speed. More efficient disk usage methods have been needed because of the slow evolution in disk speed technology. Although disk and memory capacity increment is much higher versus disk speed improvement, little studies have been made to develop disk usage algorithms in more efficient manner. In this work, a new approach based on ant colony algorithm is proposed for disk scheduling problem and its performance is evaluated