Research Article

Action-Based Load Balancing Technique in Cloud Network Using Actor-Critic-Swarm Optimization

Table 2

Terms and meaning.

TermMeaningTermMeaning

AgentState-value function
Initial statePolicy function
Next stateActor learning rate
& Episode & iterationCritic learning rate
Actor parameterTD error
Critic parameterAdvantage function
Eligibility tracePolicy gradient
Trace decay rateγDiscount factor
RewardFitness value
Personal bestGlobal best