Parallel ant colony optimization on graphics processing units

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 52-61

  Delévacq, Audrey ^a   Delisle, Pierre ^a   Gravel, Marc ^b   Krajecki, Michaël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; CUDA; GPU; MMAS; Multiple colonies; Parallel ants; Parallel metaheuristics

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); CUDA; GPU; MMAS; MULTIPLE COLONIES; PARALLEL ANTS; PARALLEL METAHEURISTICS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84869495318     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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