An efficient GPU implementation of Ant Colony Optimization for the Traveling Salesman Problem

Proceedings of the 2012 3rd International Conference on Networking and Computing, ICNC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 94-102

  Uchida, Akihiro ^a   Ito, Yasuaki ^a   Nakano, Koji ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ant Colony Optimization; CUDA; GPU; Parallel processing; Traveling Salesman Problem

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CUDA; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; GENERAL PURPOSE; GPU; GPU IMPLEMENTATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH PROBABILITY; OFF-CHIP; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PROCESSING UNITS; RANDOM SELECTION; SHARED MEMORIES; SPECIALIZED MICROPROCESSOR; SPEED-UP FACTORS;

ALGORITHMS; ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84874236718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNC.2012.22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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