Title
Combinatorial Optimization Using Electro-Optical Vector by Matrix Multiplication Architecture
Abstract
A new state space representation of a class of combinatorial optimization problems is introduced. The representation enables efficient implementation of exhaustive search for an optimal solution in bounded NP complete problems such as the traveling salesman problem (TSP) with a relatively small number of cities. Furthermore, it facilitates effective heuristic search for sub optimal solutions for problems with large number of cities. This paper surveys structures for representing solutions to the TSP and the use of these structures in iterative hill climbing (ITHC) and genetic algorithms (GA). The mapping of these structures along with respective operators to a newly proposed electro-optical vector by matrix multiplication (VMM) architecture is detailed. In addition, time space tradeoffs related to using a record keeping mechanism for storing intermediate solutions are presented and the effect of record keeping on the performance of these heuristics in the new architecture is evaluated. Results of running these algorithms on sequential architecture as well as a simulation-based estimation of the speedup obtained are supplied. The results show that the VMM architecture can speedup various variants of the TSP algorithm by a factor of 30x to 50x.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-10442-8_17
OSC
Keywords
Field
DocType
sequential architecture,new state space representation,combinatorial optimization,small number,effective heuristic search,exhaustive search,optimal solution,tsp algorithm,vmm architecture,new architecture,electro-optical vector,matrix multiplication architecture,large number,heuristic search,matrix multiplication,traveling salesman problem,genetic algorithm,genetics,the traveling salesman problem,hill climbing,genetic algorithms,state space representation,np complete problem,parallel processing,optical computing
Hill climbing,Heuristic,Brute-force search,Algorithm,Combinatorial optimization,Travelling salesman problem,Matrix multiplication,Genetic algorithm,Mathematics,Speedup
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5882
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dan E. Tamir17913.26
Natan T. Shaked261.87
Wilhelmus J. Geerts351.50
Shlomi Dolev42962260.61