Multiprocessor modeling of parallel Particle Swarm Optimization applied to nuclear engineering problems

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 680-688

  Waintraub, Marcel ^a,b   Schirru, Roberto ^a   Pereira, Cláudio M N A ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA NUCLEAR   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Metaheuristic; Nuclear reactor; Optimization and parallel computing; Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION MODELS; COMMUNICATION STRATEGY; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; MASTER-SLAVE; METAHEURISTIC; MULTI PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE; NEIGHBORHOOD TOPOLOGY; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PARALLEL PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REACTOR SHUTDOWNS;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 67649429369     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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