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Title A Parallel Meta-Heuristic Approach to Reduce Vehicle Travel Time in Smart Cities
ID_Doc 44659
Authors Rico-Garcia, H; Sanchez-Romero, JL; Jimeno-Morenilla, A; Migallon-Gomis, H
Title A Parallel Meta-Heuristic Approach to Reduce Vehicle Travel Time in Smart Cities
Year 2021
Published Applied Sciences-Basel, 11, 2
DOI 10.3390/app11020818
Abstract The development of the smart city concept and inhabitants' need to reduce travel time, in addition to society's awareness of the importance of reducing fuel consumption and respecting the environment, have led to a new approach to the classic travelling salesman problem (TSP) applied to urban environments. This problem can be formulated as "Given a list of geographic points and the distances between each pair of points, what is the shortest possible route that visits each point and returns to the departure point?". At present, with the development of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and increased capabilities of sensors, a large amount of data and measurements are available, allowing researchers to model accurately the routes to choose. In this work, the aim is to provide a solution to the TSP in smart city environments using a modified version of the metaheuristic optimization algorithm Teacher Learner Based Optimization (TLBO). In addition, to improve performance, the solution is implemented by means of a parallel graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture, specifically a Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) implementation.
Author Keywords smart cities; meta-heuristics; travelling salesman problem; TLBO; parallelism; GPU
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:000610952300001
WoS Category Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Engineering, Multidisciplinary; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary; Physics, Applied
Research Area Chemistry; Engineering; Materials Science; Physics
PDF https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/2/818/pdf?version=1611103273
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