Plan Max Manfrin

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History (past work)

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/History_Max_Manfrin


Plan (future work)

  • Investigate the effect of parallelization on Ant Colony Optimization algorithms


Goals

  • Acquire practical experience in parallelization on ACO algorithms (both explicit and implicit parallelism)
  • Submit paper to ANTS 2006 (on explicit parallelism - MPI)


Things to do

Description Start date Deadline Time required status Real deadline
Study MPI Nov 14, 2005 ongoing process In progress
Process-level parallelization of ACOTSP using OpenMPI Nov 14, 2005 Jan 8, 2006 ~9 weeks Finished Jan 24, 2006
Single-colony multi-LS (3-opt or Iterated Helsgaun) Nov 14, 2005 Dec 5, 2005 ~26 days Finished
Multi-colony Dec 10, 2005 Dec 22, 2005 ~13 days Finished
Experiments on large TSP instances Dec 23, 2005 Jan 8, 2006 ~2 weeks To Do


Description Start date Deadline Time required status
Study OpenMP Jan 9, 2005 ongoing process In progress
Thread-level parallelization of ACOTSP using OpenMP - - - Need a compiler
Single-colony multi-LS (3-opt or Iterated Helsgaun) - - -
Multi colony - - -
Experiments on large TSP instances - - -

Seminars participation

Title Author Location Dates


Events participation

Event Location Dates
Matinée Jeunes Chercheurs Building U - Solbosch Campus Feb 17, 2006 - from 10:00 to 14:00
prepare poster on ACO before Feb 10, 2006
prepare demo for ACOTSP before Feb 15, 2006

Papers to write

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


Referee activities

International journals

Journal # papers paper received on review to submit before
European Journal of Operational Research 1 Dec 21, 2005 Jan 31, 2006


International conferences

Conference # papers paper received on review to submit before
GECCO 2006 5-6 (estimation) Feb 2006 20 Mar 2006
WSC11 3-4 (estimation) May/June 2006 30 Jun 2006