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Parallel Framework for Ant-Like Algorithms
Cork, Ireland July 05-July 07
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISPDC.2004.37Third International Symposium on Para ...
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Mitică Craus, Technical University "Gh.Asachi"
Laurenţiu Rudeanu, Technical University "Gh.Asachi"

This paper describes the work of an objectual framework designed to be used in the parallelization of a set of related algorithms.

As a concrete application a parallel Ant Colony Optimization algorithm (ACO) for the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is presented.

The idea behind the system we are describing is to have a re-usable framework for running several sequential algorithms in a parallel environment.

The algorithms that the framework can be used with have several things in common: they have to run in cycles and the work should be possible to be split between several "processing units".

The parallel framework uses the message-passing communication paradigm and is organized as a master-slave system.

The ACO for TSP implemented by means of the parallel framework proves to have good performances: approximatively linear speedup and low communication cost.

Citation:
Mitică Craus, Laurenţiu Rudeanu, "Parallel Framework for Ant-Like Algorithms," ispdc, pp.36-41, Third International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing/Third International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks (ISPDC/HeteroPar'04), 2004
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