• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.1 s.39
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• pp.129-138
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• 2006

Various techniques have been applied to solve the maximal covering problem. Tabu search is also one of them. But, existing researches were lacking of the synthetic analysis and the effort for performance improvement about neighborhood search techniques such as hill-climbing search and simulated annealing including tabu search. In this paper, I introduce the way to improve performance of neighborhood search techniques through various experiments and analyses. Basically, all neighborhood search algorithms use the k-exchange neighborhood generation method. And I analyzed how the performance of each algorithm changes according to various parameter settings. Experimental results have shown that simple hill-climbing search and simulated annealing can produce better results than any other techniques. And I confirmed that simple hill-climbing search can produce similar results as simulated annealing unlike general case.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.164-172
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• 2004

For a local search algorithm to find a bettor quality solution it is required to generate and evaluate a sufficiently large number of candidate solutions as neighbors at each iteration, demanding quite an amount of CPU time. This paper presents a method of selectively generating only good-looking candidate neighbors, so that the number of neighbors can be kept low to improve the efficiency of search. In our method, a newly generated candidate solution is probabilistically selected to become a neighbor based on the quality estimation determined heuristically by a very simple evaluation of the generated candidate. Experimental results on the problem of load balancing for production scheduling have shown that our candidate selection method outperforms other random or greedy selection methods in terms of solution quality given the same amount of CPU time.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.429-434
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• 2003

본 논문은 작업일정계획에서 부하평준화 문제를 효율적으로 해결하기 위하여 tabu 탐색을 적용함에 있어서 확률적 선별에 기반하여 이웃해를 생성하는 방법을 제시한다. 이웃해 생성은 부하평준화를 위해 일정을 조정할 대상 작업을 선택하는 단계와 선택된 작업에 대해 일정 조정의 방향을 결정하는 단계로 구분된다. 확률적 선별에 기반한 이웃해 생성은 우선 무작위로 추출된 작업에 대해서 탐색의 질을 개선시킬 수 있는 가능성에 대한 추정치에 따라 확률을 부여하고, 이 확률에 기반하여 선택여부를 결정함으로써 이웃해를 선별하는 방법이다. 실제 현장의 부하평준화 문제를 대상으로 이웃해 생성 방법으로 무작위 방법, 그리디(greedy) 방법과의 비교 실험을 통해 확률적 선별에 기반한 이웃해 생성 방법의 성능을 검증하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.246-254
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• 2007

Local search algorithms start from a certain candidate solution and probe its neighborhood to find ones with improved quality. This paper proposes a method of probabilistically filtering out bad-looking neighbors based on a simple low-cost preliminary evaluation heuristics. The probabilistic filtering enables us to save time wasted on fully evaluating those solutions that will eventually be trashed, and thus improves the search efficiency by allowing us to spend more time on examining better looking solutions. Experiments with two large-scaled real-world problems, which are a traffic signal control problem in traffic network and a load balancing problem in production scheduling, have shown that the proposed method finds better quality solutions, given the same amount of CPU time.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2008

With growing interest in location-based service (LBS), there is increasing necessity for nearest neighbor (NN) search through query while the user is moving. NN search in such a dynamic environment has been performed through the repeated applicaton of the NN method to the search segment, but this increases search cost because of unnecessary redundant calculation. We propose slabbed continuous nearest neighbor (Slabbed_CNN) search, which is a new method that searches CNN in the search segment while moving, Slabbed_CNN reduces calculation costs and provides faster services than existing CNN by reducing the search area and calculation cost of the existing CNN method through reducing the search segment using slabs.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.27-35
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• 2021

Local search has been used to solve various combinatorial optimization problems. One of the most important factors in local search is the method of generating a neighbor solution. In this paper, we propose neighbor generation strategies of local search for permutation-based combinatorial optimization, and compare the performance of each strategies targeting the traveling salesman problem. In this paper, we propose a total of 10 neighbor generation strategies. Basically, we propose 4 new strategies such as Rotation in addition to the 4 strategies such as Swap which have been widely used in the past. In addition, there are Combined1 and Combined2, which are made by combining basic neighbor generation strategies. The experiment was performed by applying the basic local search, but changing only the neighbor generation strategy. As a result of the experiment, it was confirmed that the performance difference is large according to the neighbor generation strategy, and also confirmed that the performance of Combined2 is the best. In addition, it was confirmed that Combined2 shows better performance than the existing local search methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.829-839
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• 2004

Methods based on integer programming have been shown to be very effective in solving various crew pairing optimization problems. However, their applicability is limited to problems with linear constraints and objective functions. Also, those methods often require an unacceptable amount of time and/or memory resources given problems of larger scale. Heuristic methods such as neighborhood search, on the other hand, can handle large-scaled problems without too much difficulty and can be applied to problems having any form of objective functions and constraints. However, neighborhood search often gets stuck at local optima when faced with complex search spaces. This paper presents ,i hybrid algorithm of neighborhood search and integer programming, which nicely combines the advantages of both methods. The hybrid algorithm has been successfully tested on a large-scaled crew pairing optimization problem for a real subway line.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.27-35
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• 2009

Integer programming is a very effective technique for searching optimal solution of combinatorial optimization problems. However, its applicability is limited to linear models. In this paper, I propose an effective method for solving a nonlinear optimization problem by integrating the powerful search performance of integer programming and the flexibility of neighborhood search algorithms. In the first phase, integer programming is executed with subproblem which can be represented as a linear form from the given problem. In the second phase, a neighborhood search algorithm is executed with the whole problem by taking the result of the first phase as the initial solution. Through the experimental results using a nonlinear maximal covering problem, I confirmed that such a simple integration method can produce far better solutions than a neighborhood search algorithm alone. It is estimated that the success is primarily due to the powerful performance of integer programming.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.789-792
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• 2003

타부 탐색은 타부 전략 기법과 최급 강하 알고리즘이 결합된 알고리즘이다. 이는 한번 방문한 해는 다시 방문하지 않음으로써 지역 최적해에 수렴하지 않고 새로운 방향으로 움직이게 하여 공간 탐색 능력 효율을 높인다. 그러나 기존의 타부 탐색에서 이웃 해를 생성하는 방법에 따라 성능이 많이 좌우된다. 좋지 않은 이웃 해를 생성하는 탐색에서는 얻고자 하는 최적해에 수렴하는 시간이 많이 걸린다. 따라서 이웃 해를 생성할 때 해밍 거리를 고려하여 균형 있는 이웃 해론 생성하고, 해 공간은 탐색함으로써 우수한 최적해를 얻게 됨을 본 논문에서는 보여주고 있다. 이는 다양성도 보장되므로 최적해에 수렴해 가는 속도 또한 빠른 것을 보여주고 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.9
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• pp.69-76
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• 2022

The traveling salesman problem(TSP) is one of the most famous combinatorial optimization problem. So far, many metaheuristic search algorithms have been proposed to solve the problem, and one of them is local search. One of the very important factors in local search is neighbor generation method, and random-based neighbor generation methods such as inversion have been mainly used. This paper proposes 4 new greedy-based neighbor generation methods. Three of them are based on greedy insertion heuristic which insert selected cities one by one into the current best position. The other one is based on greedy rotation. The proposed methods are applied to first-choice hill-climbing search and simulated annealing which are representative local search algorithms. Through the experiment, we confirmed that the proposed greedy-based methods outperform the existing random-based methods. In addition, we confirmed that some greedy-based methods are superior to the existing local search methods.