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GPU-based Parallel Ant Colony System for Traveling Salesman Problem

  • Rhee, Yunseok
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, we design and implement a GPU-based parallel algorithm to effectively solve the traveling salesman problem through an ant color system. The repetition process of generating hundreds or thousands of tours simultaneously in TSP utilizes GPU's task-level parallelism, and the update process of pheromone trails data actively exploits data parallelism by 32x32 thread blocks. In particular, through simultaneous memory access of multiple threads, the coalesced accesses on continuous memory addresses and concurrent accesses on shared memory are supported. This experiment used 127 to 1002 city data provided by TSPLIB, and compared the performance of sequential and parallel algorithms by using Intel Core i9-9900K CPU and Nvidia Titan RTX system. Performance improvement by GPU parallelization shows speedup of about 10.13 to 11.37 times.

Ant Colony System Considering the Iteration Search Frequency that the Global Optimal Path does not Improved (전역 최적 경로가 향상되지 않는 반복 탐색 횟수를 고려한 개미 집단 시스템)

  • Lee, Seung-Gwan;Lee, Dae-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2009
  • Ant Colony System is new meta heuristic for hard combinatorial optimization problem. The original ant colony system accomplishes a pheromone updating about only the global optimal path using global updating rule. But, If the global optimal path is not searched until the end condition is satisfied, only pheromone evaporation happens to no matter how a lot of iteration accomplishment. In this paper, the length of the global optimal path does not improved within the limited iterations, we evaluates this state that fall into the local optimum and selects the next node using changed parameters in the state transition rule. This method has effectiveness of the search for a path through diversifications is enhanced by decreasing the value of parameter of the state transition rules for the select of next node, and escape from the local optima is possible. Finally, the performance of Best and Average_Best of proposed algorithm outperforms original ACS.

Solution of SMP Problem by Adapting ACS Algorithm (ACS알고리즘을 이용한 안정된 결혼 문제 해결에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyun;Chung, Tae-Choong
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.47 no.6
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    • pp.68-74
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    • 2010
  • This paper suggest a new ACS algorithm to solve SMP which was solved by Gale-Shapley algorithm. The stable marriage problem is an extensively-studied combinatorial problem with many practical applications. The classical Gale-Shapley algorithm produces a marriage that greatly favors the men at the expense of the women, or vice versa. In this paper we apply ACS algorithm to SMP to find 4 kinds of solutions such as stable matching with man-optimal, woman-optimal, egalitarian stable matching, sex-fair stable matching. So this ACS is a novel method to solve Stable Marriage Problem. Our simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed ACS.

Intelligent Clustering in Vehicular ad hoc Networks

  • Aadil, Farhan;Khan, Salabat;Bajwa, Khalid Bashir;Khan, Muhammad Fahad;Ali, Asad
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.8
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    • pp.3512-3528
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    • 2016
  • A network with high mobility nodes or vehicles is vehicular ad hoc Network (VANET). For improvement in communication efficiency of VANET, many techniques have been proposed; one of these techniques is vehicular node clustering. Cluster nodes (CNs) and Cluster Heads (CHs) are elected or selected in the process of clustering. The longer the lifetime of clusters and the lesser the number of CHs attributes to efficient networking in VANETs. In this paper, a novel Clustering algorithm is proposed based on Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) for VANET named ACONET. This algorithm forms optimized clusters to offer robust communication for VANETs. For optimized clustering, parameters of transmission range, direction, speed of the nodes and load balance factor (LBF) are considered. The ACONET is compared empirically with state of the art methods, including Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO) and Comprehensive Learning Particle Swarm Optimization (CLPSO) based clustering techniques. An extensive set of experiments is performed by varying the grid size of the network, the transmission range of nodes, and total number of nodes in network to evaluate the effectiveness of the algorithms in comparison. The results indicate that the ACONET has significantly outperformed the competitors.

Hybridized dragonfly, whale and ant lion algorithms in enlarged pile's behavior

  • Ye, Xinyu;Lyu, Zongjie;Foong, Loke Kok
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.765-778
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    • 2020
  • The present study intends to find a proper solution for the estimation of the physical behaviors of enlarged piles through a combination of small-scale laboratory tests and a hybrid computational predictive intelligence process. In the first step, experimental program is completed considering various critical influential factors. The results of the best multilayer perceptron (MLP)-based predictive network was implemented through three mathematical-based solutions of dragonfly algorithm (DA), whale optimization algorithm (WOA), and ant lion optimization (ALO). Three proposed models, after convergence analysis, suggested excellent performance. These analyses varied based on neurons number (e.g., in the basis MLP hidden layer) and of course, the level of its complexity. The training R2 results of the best hybrid structure of DA-MLP, WOA-MLP, and ALO-MLP were 0.996, 0.996, and 0.998 where the testing R2 was 0.995, 0.985, and 0.998, respectively. Similarly, the training RMSE of 0.046, 0.051, and 0.034 were obtained for the training and testing datasets of DA-MLP, WOA-MLP, and ALO-MLP techniques, while the testing RMSE of 0.088, 0.053, and 0.053, respectively. This obtained result demonstrates the excellent prediction from the optimized structure of the proposed models if only population sensitivity analysis performs. Indeed, the ALO-MLP was slightly better than WOA-MLP and DA-MLP methods.

An Excel-Based Scheduling System for a Small and Medium Sized Manufacturing Factory (중소 제조기업을 위한 엑셀기반 스케쥴링 시스템)

  • Lee, Chang-Su;Choe, Kyung-Il;Song, Young-Hyo
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.28-35
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    • 2008
  • This study deals with an Excel-based scheduling system for a small and medium sized manufacturing factory without sufficient capability for managing full-scale information systems. The factory has the bottleneck with identical machines and unique batching characteristics. The scheduling problem is formulated as a variation of the parallel-machine scheduling system. It can be solved by a two-phase method: the first phase with an ant colony optimization (ACO) heuristic for order grouping and the second phase with a mixed integer programming (MIP) algorithm for scheduling groups on machines.

Truss Design Optimization using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm (개미군락최적화 알고리즘을 이용한 트러스 구조물의 설계최적화)

  • Lee, Sang-Jin;Han, Yu-Dong
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2010.04a
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    • pp.709-712
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    • 2010
  • 본 논문은 개미군락최적화 알고리즘을 이용한 트러스 구조물의 설계최적화에 대한 이론적 배경과 수치해석 결과를 기술하였다. 트러스의 설계최적화를 수행하기 위하여 구조물의 중량을 최소화하는 것을 목적 함수로 하고 구조물에서 발생하는 응력과 변위의 허용치를 초과하지 않는 것을 구속조건으로 이용하였다. 본 연구에서는 개미군락알고리즘을 구조물의 최적화에 적용하기 위하여 외판원문제(travelling salesman problem: TSP)를 재 정의하는 방법을 사용하였으며 최대-최소개미시스템(max-min ant system)을 도입하여 트러스 구조물의 최적설계를 수행하였다. 이때 이산화 된 설계변수를 사용하였으며 구속조건을 처리하기 위해서 벌점함수를 사용하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 개미군락최적화 알고리즘은 구조최적화에 그 적용 가능성이 높았으며 전통적인 최적검색 기법의 새로운 대안으로 이용될 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

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Truss Size Optimization with Frequency Constraints using ACO Algorithm (개미군락 최적화 알고리즘을 이용한 진동수 구속조건을 가진 트러스구조물의 크기최적화)

  • Lee, Sang-Jin;Bae, Jungeun
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Structure & Construction
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    • v.35 no.10
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    • pp.135-142
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    • 2019
  • Ant colony optimization(ACO) technique is utilized in truss size optimization with frequency constraints. Total weight of truss to be minimized is considered as the objective function and multiple natural frequencies are adopted as constraints. The modified traveling salesman problem(TSP) is adopted and total length of the TSP tour is interpreted as the weight of the structure. The present ACO-based design optimization procedure uses discrete design variables and the penalty function is introduced to enforce design constraints during optimization process. Three numerical examples are carried out to verify the capability of ACO in truss optimization with frequency constraints. From numerical results, the present ACO is a very effective way of finding optimum design of truss structures in free vibration. Finally, we provide the present numerical results as future reference solutions.

A Hybrid Routing Protocol Based on Bio-Inspired Methods in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network

  • Alattas, Khalid A
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.207-213
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    • 2021
  • Networks in Mobile ad hoc contain distribution and do not have a predefined structure which practically means that network modes can play the role of being clients or servers. The routing protocols used in mobile Ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are characterized by limited bandwidth, mobility, limited power supply, and routing protocols. Hybrid routing protocols solve the delay problem of reactive routing protocols and the routing overhead of proactive routing protocols. The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is used to solve other real-life problems such as the travelling salesman problem, capacity planning, and the vehicle routing challenge. Bio-inspired methods have probed lethal in helping to solve the problem domains in these networks. Hybrid routing protocols combine the distance vector routing protocol (DVRP) and the link-state routing protocol (LSRP) to solve the routing problem.

AN EFFICIENT DENSITY BASED ANT COLONY APPROACH ON WEB DOCUMENT CLUSTERING

  • M. REKA
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.41 no.6
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    • pp.1327-1339
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    • 2023
  • World Wide Web (WWW) use has been increasing recently due to users needing more information. Lately, there has been a growing trend in the document information available to end users through the internet. The web's document search process is essential to find relevant documents for user queries.As the number of general web pages increases, it becomes increasingly challenging for users to find records that are appropriate to their interests. However, using existing Document Information Retrieval (DIR) approaches is time-consuming for large document collections. To alleviate the problem, this novel presents Spatial Clustering Ranking Pattern (SCRP) based Density Ant Colony Information Retrieval (DACIR) for user queries based DIR. The proposed first stage is the Term Frequency Weight (TFW) technique to identify the query weightage-based frequency. Based on the weight score, they are grouped and ranked using the proposed Spatial Clustering Ranking Pattern (SCRP) technique. Finally, based on ranking, select the most relevant information retrieves the document using DACIR algorithm.The proposed method outperforms traditional information retrieval methods regarding the quality of returned objects while performing significantly better in run time.