Plan Max Manfrin
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Plan (future work)
- Investigate the effect of parallelization on Ant Colony Optimization algorithms
Goals
- Acquire practical experience in parallelization on ACO algorithms (both process-level and thread-level)
Things to do
| 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 | |
| Experiments on large TSP instances | Dec 23, 2005 | Jan 8, 2006 | ~2 weeks | |
| Study OpenMP | Dec 23, 2005 | Jan 8, 2006 | ~2 weeks | |
| 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 |
Seminars participation
| Title | Author | Location | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Communications | 1 | Dec 2, 2005 | Jan 8, 2005 |
International conferences
| Conference | # papers | paper received on | review to submit before |
|---|---|---|---|
| GECCO 2006 | 5-6 (estimation) | Jan/Feb 2006 |
