Enhancing data parallelism for ant colony optimization on GPUs

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 42-51

  Cecilia, José M ^a   García, José M ^a   Nisbet, Andy ^b   Amos, Martyn ^b   Ujaldón, Manuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ant Colony Optimization; GPU programming; Metaheuristics; Performance analysis; TSP

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); GPU PROGRAMMING; META HEURISTICS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; TSP;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84869488080     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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