Revision as of 10:12, 9 January 2006

Plan (future work)

Acquire practical experience in parallelization on ACO algorithms (both process-level and thread-level)

Description	Start date	Deadline	Time required	status
Process-level parallelization of ACOTSP using OpenMPI	Nov 14, 2005	Jan 8, 2006	~9 weeks	In progress
Single-colony multi-LS (3-opt or Iterated Helsgaun)	Nov 14, 2005	Dec 5, 2005	~26 days	In progress
Multi-colony	Dec 10, 2005	Dec 22, 2005	~13 days	In progress
Experiments on large TSP instances	Dec 23, 2005	Jan 8, 2006	~2 weeks

Study OpenMP	Dec 23, 2005	Jan 8, 2006	~2 weeks	In progress
Thread-level parallelization of ACOTSP using OpenMP	Jan 9, 2006	Feb 19, 2006	~6 weeks
Single-colony multi-LS (3-opt or Iterated Helsgaun)	Jan 9, 2006	Jan 29, 2005	~21 days
Multi colony	Jan 30, 2005	Feb 5, 2006	~12 days
Experiments on large TSP instances	Feb 5, 2006	Feb 19, 2006	~2 weeks

Title	Author	Location	Dates

Title	Journal/Conference targeted	Start date	Submission deadline
A Survey of Parallel ACO algorithms	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.
Process-level parallelization of ACOTSP	Ants 2006 international workshop	N.A.	Mar 12, 2006
Thread-level parallelization of ACOTSP	Ants 2006 international workshop	N.A.	Mar 12, 2006

Journal	# papers	paper received on	review to submit before
AI Communications	1	Dec 2, 2005	Jan 8, 2006
Elsevier Science	1	Dec 21, 2005	Jan 31, 2006

Conference	# papers	paper received on	review to submit before
GECCO 2006	5-6 (estimation)	Jan/Feb 2006

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 = Plan (future work) =
 * Investigate the effect of parallelization on Ant Colony Optimization algorithms