Joseph, C.T.Chandrasekaran, K.Cyriac, R.2020-03-302020-03-302014Proceedings - 5th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology, ICCCT 2014, 2014, Vol., , pp.111-116https://idr.nitk.ac.in/handle/123456789/8277Virtual machine (VM) allocation is the process of allocating virtual machines to suitable hosts. This problem is an NP-Hard problem. It can be considered as a variation of the bin-packing problem. Among various solutions that attempt to solve this problem, several approaches that apply Genetic Algorithm have been proposed. This paper proposes a method to improve the efficiency of such approaches. Implementation of the proposed approach shows significant improvements in the runtime, memory used, energy efficiency and SLA violations. � 2014 IEEE.Book chapter