Game theory and Evolutionary-optimization methods applied to resource allocation problems in emerging computing environments: A survey

Today's intelligent computing environments, including Internet of Things, cloud computing and fog computing, allow many organizations around the world to optimize their resource allocation regarding time and energy consumption. Due to the sensitive conditions of utilizing resources by users and the real-time nature of the data, a comprehensive and integrated computing environment has not yet been able to provide a robust and reliable capability for proper resource allocation. Although, traditional methods of resource allocation in a low-capacity hardware resource system are efficient for small-scale resource providers, for a complex system in the conditions of dynamic computing resources and fierce competition in obtaining resources, they do not have the ability to develop and adaptively manage the conditions optimally. To solve this problem, computing intelligence techniques try to optimize resource allocation with minimal time delay and energy consumption. Therefore, the objective of this research is a comprehensive and systematic survey on resource allocation problems using computational intelligence methods under Game Theory and Evolutionary-optimization in emerging computing environments, including cloud, fog and Internet of Things according to the latest scientific-research achievements.