Solving the k-influence region problem with the GPU
| Autor: | Joan Antoni Sellarès, Marta Fort |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Espanya) |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Mathematical optimization
Information Systems and Management Computer science Computation Infografia Partition (database) Facility location problem Field (computer science) Computer Science Applications Theoretical Computer Science Domain (software engineering) Information display systems Computer graphics Sistemes d'ajuda a la decisió Artificial Intelligence Control and Systems Engineering Euclidean domain Visualització (Informàtica) Algorithm Software Decision support system |
| Zdroj: | © Information Sciences, 2014, vol. 269, p. 255-269 Articles publicats (D-IMA) DUGiDocs – Universitat de Girona instname |
| Popis: | In this paper we study a problem that arises in the competitive facility location field. Facilities and customers are represented by points of a planar Euclidean domain. We associate a weighted distance to each facility to reflect that customers select facilities depending on distance and importance. We define, by considering weighted distances, the k-influence region of a facility as the set of points of the domain that has the given facility among their k-nearest/farthest neighbors. On the other hand, we partition the domain into subregions so that each subregion has a non-negative weight associated to it which measures a characteristic related to the area of the subregion. Given a weighted partition of the domain, the k-influence region problem finds the points of the domain where are new facility should be opened. This is done considering the known weight associated to the new facility and ensuring a minimum weighted area of its k-influence region. We present a GPU parallel approach, designed under CUDA architecture, for approximately solving the k-influence region problem. In addition, we describe how to visualize the solutions, which improves the understanding of the problem and reveals complicated structures that would be hard to capture otherwise. Integration of computation and visualization facilitates decision makers with an iterative what-if analysis process, to acquire more information to obtain an approximate optimal location. Finally, we provide and discuss experimental results showing the efficiency and scalability of our approach Work partially supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad under Grant TIN2010-20590-C02-02 |
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