Aloise, Dario JoséSilva, Thales Lima2014-12-172010-04-272014-12-172008-12-23SILVA, Thales Lima. Estratégias de aplicações sequenciais e paralelas da metaheurística otimização por enxame de partículas ao problema do caixeiro viajante. 2008. 55 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estratégia; Qualidade; Gestão Ambiental; Gestão da Produção e Operações) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2008.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/14933Particle Swarm Optimization is a metaheuristic that arose in order to simulate the behavior of a number of birds in flight, with its random movement locally, but globally determined. This technique has been widely used to address non-liner continuous problems and yet little explored in discrete problems. This paper presents the operation of this metaheuristic, and propose strategies for implementation of optimization discret problems as form of execution parallel as sequential. The computational experiments were performed to instances of the TSP, selected in the library TSPLIB contenct to 3038 nodes, showing the improvement of performance of parallel methods for their sequential versions, in executation time and resultsapplication/pdfAcesso AbertoEnxame de PartículasProblema do Caixeiro ViajanteMetaheurísticaParalelismoParticle swarmTraveling salesman problemMetaheuristicParallelmasterThesisCNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA DE PRODUCAO