PPT-Parallel Genetic Algorithms

By Larry Hale and Trevor McCasland Introduction to Genetic Algorithms Genetic algorithms are search algorithms that use the principles of natural selection to find more optimal solutions to modeling simulation and optimization . Hazem Ali, Borislav Nikoli. ć,. Kostiantyn Berezovskyi, Ricardo Garibay Martinez, Muhammad Ali Awan. Outline. Introduction. Non-Population Metaheuristics. Population Metaheuristics. Genetic Algorithims (GA). Chapter 4. Local search algorithms. Hill-climbing search. Simulated annealing search. Local beam search. Genetic algorithms. Outline. In many optimization problems, the . path. to the goal is irrelevant; the goal state itself is the . George Caragea, and Uzi Vishkin. University of Maryland. 1. Speaker. James Edwards. It has proven to be quite . difficult. to obtain significant performance improvements using current parallel computing platforms.. Time for Hardware Upgrade. Uzi Vishkin. . . The pompous version. After 40 years of “wandering in the desert”, general-purpose parallelism is very close to capturing the “promised land” of mainstream computing. Clint Jeffery. University of Idaho. Outline. Preliminary thoughts. AIGPW Chapters. EvoGames. Papers. Conclusions. Preliminary Thoughts. ANN and related technologies are rare in commercial games. Behavior of ANN-based agents often perceived as bizarre or unrealistic. Dr Susan Cartwright. Dept of Physics and Astronomy. University of Sheffield. Parallel Universes. Are you unique?. Could there be another “you” differing only in what you had for breakfast this morning?. Dr. Yingwu Zhu. Chapter 27. Motivation. We have discussed . serial algorithms. that are suitable for running on a . uniprocessor. computer. We will now extend our model to . parallel algorithms. that can run on a . Problem - a well defined task.. Sort a list of numbers.. Find a particular item in a list.. Find a winning chess move.. Algorithms. A series of precise steps, known to stop eventually, that solve a problem.. . Kartik . Nayak. With Xiao . Shaun . Wang, . Stratis. Ioannidis, Udi . Weinsberg. , Nina Taft, Elaine Shi. 1. 2. Users. Data. Data. Privacy concern!. Data Mining Engine. Data Model. Data Mining on User Data. . Kartik . Nayak. With Xiao . Shaun . Wang, . Stratis. Ioannidis, Udi . Weinsberg. , Nina Taft, Elaine Shi. 1. 2. Users. Data. Data. Privacy concern!. Data Mining Engine. Data Model. Data Mining on User Data. Mohammadhossein . Behgam. Agenda. Need for parallelism. Challenges. Image processing algorithms. Data handling & Load Balancing. Communication cost & performance. What is the problem?. Image Processing applications can be very computationally demanding due to:. appeared in the 1950s and 1960s. used to find approximations in search problems. use principles of natural selection to find an optimized solution. part of evolutionary algorithms. What is it?. subset of evolutionary computation. MapReduce. Fei. . Teng. Doga Tuncay. Outline. Goal. Genetic Algorithm. Why . MapReduce. . Hadoop. /Twister. Performance Issues. References. Goal. Implement a genetic algorithm on Twister to prove that Twister is an ideal . Deepak Das (170010012). Anshul Sharma (170010028). Let’s start with the famous quote by Charles Darwin:. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent , but the one most responsive to change.