• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.26-38
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• 2020

Mixture design of self-compacting concrete is a typical multi-criteria decision making problem and conventional mixture designs are based on the low level engineering method like trials and errors through iteration method to satisfy the various requirements. This study concerns with performing the straightforward multiobjective design optimization of economic SCC mixture considering relative importances of the various requirements and cost-effectives of SCC. Total five requirements of 28day compressive strength, filling ability, segregation stability, material cost and mass were taken into consideration to prepare the objective function to be formulated in form of the weighted-multiobjective mixture design optimization problem. Economic SCC mixture computational design can be given in a rational way which considering material costs and the relative importances of the requiremets and from the result of this study it is expected that the development of SCC mixtue computational design and the consequent univeral concrete material design optimization methodology can be advanced.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.114-114
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• 2018

과거 수십년간 댐의 운영방법은 과거 관측 유입량 자료를 바탕으로 결정되었지만, 미래 기후변화의 불확실성을 고려하면 기존 운영방법이 더 이상 유효하지 않을 수 있다. 따라서, 이에 대응하여 수자원을 적절히 운용하기 위해서는 기후변화의 불확실성을 고려한 댐의 운영방법에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 본 연구는 예측 유입량의 불확실성을 고려하기 위하여 로버스트(Robust) 의사결정 방법을 댐 운영 최적화에 접목한 다목적 로버스트 최적화(Multi-Objective Robust Optimization) 방법을 제안한다. 이는 기존의 다목적 로버스트 의사결정이론(MORDM, Multi Objective Robust Decision Making)과 로버스트 최적화이론(Robust Optimization)을 결합한 의사결정 방법이다. 로버스트 최적화의 목적함수는 로버스트 항(Robust Term)을 신뢰도, 심각도, 그리고 회복도 등의 여러 관점으로 구성할 수 있으며, 이는 다목적 최적화의 일종으로 볼 수 있다. 본 연구는 신뢰도와 심각도 관점으로 로버스트 항을 적절히 구성하고 그 가중치들을 조절하며, 그에 따라 기후변화의 상황에서 댐 운영의 수행결과가 어떻게 변하는지 의사결정자들이 파악할 수 있도록 가시화한다. 그리고 동시에, 목표하는 댐 운영의 안정성이 다양한 미래 기후변화 시나리오 상에서 유지되도록 하는 로버스트 항과 각 항의 가중치들을 결정하는 방법을 제시한다. 이를 통해 의사결정자는 여러 측면에서 안정적인 다목적 로버스트 최적화의 해를 찾아갈 수 있다. 댐 운영을 위한 로버스트 최적화를 진행하기 위해서 본 연구는 Robust-SDP(Stochastic Dynammic Programming)을 수행하였으며, 대상유역인 보령댐이 이수기동안 인근지역의 수요량만큼 물을 충분히 공급함을 목적으로 로버스트 최적화를 진행하였다. 아울러, 저수지 용량이 로버스트 최적화에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위해서 남강댐에 동일한 최적화 방법을 적용하고 이를 비교하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.1898-1909
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• 1993

In this paper, a convenient scheme for solving multi-objective optimization problems including fuzzy information in both objective functions and constraints is presented. At first, a multi-objective problem is converted into single objective problem based on the norm method, and a merbership function is constructed by selecting its type and providing the parameters defined by the norm method. Finally, this fuzzy programming problem is converted into an ordinary optimization problem which can be solved by usual nonlinear programming techniques. With this scheme, a designer can conveniently obtain pareto optimal solutions of a fuzzy system only by providing some parameters corresponding to the importance of the objectiv functions. Proposed scheme is simple and efficient in treating multi-objective fuzzy systems compared with and method by with membership function value is provided interactively. To show the validity of the scheme, a simple 3-bar truss example and optimal cutting problem are solved, and the results show that the scheme is very useful and easy to treat multi-objective fuzzy systems.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.6-15
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• 1997

This paper presents the multi-objective optimal design of thermopile sensor having beam or membrane structure. The thermopile sensor is composed of $Si_{3}N_{4}/SiO_{2}$ dielectric membrane, Al-polysilicon thermocouples and $RuO_{2}$ thin film for black body. The sensing method is based on the Seebeck effect which is originated from the temperature difference of the two positions, black body and silicon rim. The objective functions of the presented design are sensitivity, detectivity and thermal time constant. The modelling of the sensor is proposed including the package. The multi-objective optimization technique is applied to the design of the sensor not only inspecting the modelling equation but also simulating mathematical programming method. Especially, fuzzy optimization technique is adapted to get the optimal solution which enables the designer to reach the more practical solution. The design constraint of the voltage output originated from the change of the environmental temperature is included for practical use.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.1-13
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• 2010

This paper proposes an optimal design method for the nonlinear seismic isolated bridge. The probabilities of failure at the pier and the seismic isolator are considered as objective functions for optimal design, and a multi-objective optimization technique is employed to efficiently explore a set of multiple solutions optimizing mutually-conflicting objective functions at the same time. In addition, a stochastic linearization method is incorporated into the multi-objective optimization framework in order to effectively estimate the stochastic responses of the bridge without performing numerous nonlinear time history analyses during the optimization process. As a numerical example to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method, the Nam-Han river bridge is taken into account, and the proposed method and the existing life-cycle-cost based design method are both applied for the purpose of comparing their seismic performances. The comparative results demonstrate that the proposed method not only shows better seismic performance but also is more economical than the existing cost-based design method. The proposed method is also proven to guarantee improved performance under variations in seismic intensity, in bandwidth and in the predominant frequency of the seismic event.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.10
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• pp.11-17
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• 2012

The VLC system undertakes both missions of illumination and wireless communication. It is difficult to design a VLC system with optimal performance due to the trade-offs between power consumption and channel quality. In this paper, the VLC system design problem is solved by using multi-objective optimization method. For optimization, the multi-objective function is formulated with respect to power consumption, received power, and SNR under the constraints on the system variables. Through the multi-objective optimization, it is possible to obtain the solutions that satisfies both minimum power consumption and maximum channel quality.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.51 no.9
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• pp.803-812
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to develop Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) automatic calibration algorithm with multi-objective functions by Python, and to evaluate the applicability by applying the algorithm to the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) watershed modeling. The study area is the upstream watershed of Gongdo observation station of Anseongcheon watershed ($364.8km^2$) and the daily observed streamflow data from 2000 to 2015 were used. The PSO automatic algorithm calibrated SWAT streamflow by coefficient of determination ($R^2$), root mean square error (RMSE), Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency ($NSE_Q$), and especially including $NSE_{INQ}$ (Inverse Q) for lateral, base flow calibration. The results between automatic and manual calibration showed $R^2$ of 0.64 and 0.55, RMSE of 0.59 and 0.58, $NSE_Q$ of 0.78 and 0.75, and $NSE_{INQ}$ of 0.45 and 0.09, respectively. The PSO automatic calibration algorithm showed an improvement especially the streamflow recession phase and remedied the limitation of manual calibration by including new parameter (RCHRG_DP) and considering parameters range.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.495-504
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• 2013

Evolutionary algorithms have been applied to multi-objective optimization problems by approximation methods using computational intelligence. Those methods have been improved gradually in order to generate more exactly many approximate Pareto optimal solutions. The paper introduces a new method using support vector machine to find an approximate Pareto frontier in multi-objective optimization problems. Moreover, this paper applies an evolutionary algorithm to the proposed method in order to generate more exactly approximate Pareto frontiers. Then a decision making with two or three objective functions can be easily performed on the basis of visualized Pareto frontiers by the proposed method. Finally, a few examples will be demonstrated for the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.41 no.9
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• pp.984-993
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• 1992

Fuzzy L.P. with Multi-criteria function is adopted in this VAR planning algorithm to accomplish the optimization of comflicting objectives, such as the amount of the VAR installed and power system loss, while keeping the bus voltage profile within an admissible range. Fuzzy L.P. with Multi-criteria function, a powerful tool dealing with the fuzziness of satisfaction levels of the constraints and the goal of objective functions, enables us to search for the solutions which may contribute in VAR planning. This advantage is not provided by traditional standardized L.P. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm has been verified by the test on the IEEE-30 bus system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.145-152
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• 2004

This paper proposes a representation for the embodiment design of mechanical structures and a genetic algorithm suited for the representation. In order to represent early stages and latter stages of the embodiment design, the designs are modeled as simultaneous multi-objective optimization problems of parametric designs for parts and of layout generation for structures. The study, thus, involves genotypes that are adequate to represent phenotypes of the models for the genetic algorithm to solve the given problems. We demonstrate the implementation of the genetic algorithm with the result applied to the gear equipment design.