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Συγγραφείς: Alefragis P., Gkoumopoulos C., Housos E., Sanders P., Takkula T., Wedelin D.
Τίτλος: Parallel Crew Scheduling in PAROS
Συνέδριο: 4th International Euro-Par Conference
Editors: D.J. Pritchard and J. Reeve
Ed: Όχι
Eds: Όχι
Σελίδες: 1104-1113
Να εμφανιστεί: Όχι
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Έτος: 1998
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Εκδότης: Springer
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Όνομα αρχείου: [C6] Parallel Crew Scheduling in PAROS.pdf##^^&&795087519.pdf
Περίληψη: We give an overview of the parallelization work done in PAROS. The specific parallelization objective has been to improve the speed of airline crew scheduling, on a network of workstations. The work is based on the Carmen System, which is used by most European airlines for this task. We give a brief background to the problem. The two most time critical parts of this system are the pairing generator and the optimizer. We present a pairing generator which distributes the enumeration of pairings over the processors. This works efficiently on a large number of loosely coupled workstations. The optimizer can be described as an iterative Lagrangian heuristic, and allows only for rather fine-grained parallelization. On low-latency machines, parallelizing the two innermost loops at once works well. A new "active-set" strategy makes more coarse- grained communication possible and even improves the sequential algorithm.