Implementation of Parallel Simplified Swarm Optimization in CUDA

As the acquisition cost of the graphics processing unit (GPU) has decreased, personal computers (PC) can handle optimization problems nowadays. In optimization computing, intelligent swarm algorithms (SIAs) method is suitable for parallelization. However, a GPU-based Simplified Swarm Optimization Algorithm has never been proposed. Accordingly, this paper proposed Parallel Simplified Swarm Optimization (PSSO) based on the CUDA platform considering computational ability and versatility. In PSSO, the theoretical value of time complexity of fitness function is O (tNm). There are t iterations and N fitness functions, each of which required pair comparisons m times. pBests and gBest have the resource preemption when updating in previous studies. As the experiment results showed, the time complexity has successfully reduced by an order of magnitude of N, and the problem of resource preemption was avoided entirely.

A Novel Simplified Swarm Optimization for Generalized Reliability Redundancy Allocation Problem

Network systems are commonly used in various fields, such as power grid, Internet of Things (IoT), and gas networks. Reliability redundancy allocation problem (RRAP) is a well-known reliability design tool, which needs to be developed when the system is extended from the series-parallel structure to a more general network structure. Therefore, this study proposes a novel RRAP called General RRAP (GRRAP) to be applied to network systems. The Binary Addition Tree Algorithm (BAT) is used to solve the network reliability. Since GRRAP is an NP-hard problem, a new algorithm called Binary-addition simplified swarm optimization (BSSO) is also proposed in this study. BSSO combines the accuracy of the BAT with the efficiency of SSO, which can effectively reduce the solution space and speed up the time to find high-quality solutions. The experimental results show that BSSO outperforms three well-known algorithms, Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), and Swarm Optimization (SSO), on six network benchmarks.