Solving Quadratic Assignment Problems by Genetic Algorithms with GPU Computation: A Case Study

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2009

Volumn 2009-January, Issue , 2009, Pages 2523-2530

  Tsutsui, Shigeyoshi ^a   Fujimoto, Noriyuki ^b  

^a HANNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed genetic algorithm; Genetic algorithm; GPU computation; Parallel computation; Quadratic assignment problem

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CASE-STUDIES; COARSE-GRAINED; DISTRIBUTED GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GPU COMPUTATION; MULTIPLE POPULATIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PARALLEL GA; PARALLEL METHOD; QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 85132898589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1570256.1570355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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