Aria Technology Group - Project Persian Gulf

Project Persian Gulf (initial statement)

Description:
The Persian Gulf project is a short-term and not-for-profit project which aims to develop a few open source instances of the coordinated brute force method. This method was originally introduced in Globe Optimizer paper in our Appetizer series. We think at the end of this project, there are enough samples to help both the academia and the business sector to develop new record breaking applications in the field of combinatorial optimization. We apply some well-known test sets to the developed codes for benchmarking them and post the results on this page.

Duration:
The project was announce on December 31, 2004. The estimated duration of the project total phases should not exceed 3 months.

Timeline:
February 2005: Applying the space tape method to some well-known test sets for the traveling salesman, the uncapacitated facility location, and the Hamiltonian path problems and posting the results on this page.

March 2005: Release of the source codes of the developed globe optimizer and accepting on demand test sets from third parties for the above mentioned problems.

April 2005: The project is officially terminated.

Amendment (March 30, 2005):
Instead of publishing the test results and source codes separately, they will be published jointly inside a separate fact-sheet for each of the mentioned problems by the mid of April 2005.