Parallel Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Finding the Shortest Path for Mountain Climbing

The problem of finding the shortest path between two nodes is a common problem that requires a solution in many applications like games, robotics, and real-life problems. Since its deals with a large number of possibilities. Therefore, parallel algorithms are suitable to solve this optimization prob...

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Published in:IEEE access Vol. 11; pp. 6185 - 6196
Main Authors: Alhenawi, Esra'a, Khurma, Ruba Abu, Sharieh, Ahmad A., Al-Adwan, Omar, Shorman, Areej Al, Shannaq, Fatima
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Piscataway IEEE 2023
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Algorithms
ant colony
Ant colony optimization
Apache spark
Cluster computing
Costs
Heuristic algorithms
Mountain climbing
Mountains
Optimization
parallel algorithm
Parallel algorithms
Path planning
path-finding problem
Program processors
Robotics
Run time (computers)
Search problems
Shortest-path problems
Sparks
ISSN:2169-3536, 2169-3536
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Summary:The problem of finding the shortest path between two nodes is a common problem that requires a solution in many applications like games, robotics, and real-life problems. Since its deals with a large number of possibilities. Therefore, parallel algorithms are suitable to solve this optimization problem that has attracted a lot of researchers from both industry and academia to find the optimal path in terms of runtime, speedup, efficiency, and cost compared to sequential algorithms. In mountain climbing, finding the shortest path from the start node under the mountain to reach the destination node is a fundamental operator, and there are some interesting issues to be studied in mountain climbing that cannot be found in a traditional two-dimensional space search. We present a parallel Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) to find the shortest path in the mountain climbing problem using Apache Spark. The proposed algorithm guarantees the security of the selected path by applying some constraints that take into account the secure slope angle for the path. A generated dataset with variable sizes is used to evaluate the proposed algorithm in terms of runtime, speedup, efficiency, and cost. The experimental results show that the parallel ACO algorithm significantly <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">(p < 0.05) </tex-math></inline-formula> outperformed the best sequential ACO. On the other hand, the parallel ACO algorithm is compared with one of the most recent research from the literature for finding the best path for mountain climbing problems using the parallel A* algorithm with Apache Spark. The parallel ACO algorithm with Spark significantly outperformed the parallel A* algorithm.
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ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3233786