A methodological approach to parallel simulated annealing on an SMP system

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1548-1570

  Bevilacqua, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Combinatorial optimization; Distributed computing; Multithreading; Parallel computing; Parallel simulated annealing; Shared memory; SMP system; Traveling salesman problem; TSP

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036800002     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0743-7315(02)91863-0     Document Type: Article

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