• 품질경영학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.28-35
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• 2008

This study deals with an Excel-based scheduling system for a small and medium sized manufacturing factory without sufficient capability for managing full-scale information systems. The factory has the bottleneck with identical machines and unique batching characteristics. The scheduling problem is formulated as a variation of the parallel-machine scheduling system. It can be solved by a two-phase method: the first phase with an ant colony optimization (ACO) heuristic for order grouping and the second phase with a mixed integer programming (MIP) algorithm for scheduling groups on machines.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.413-428
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• 2013

In this study, Ant Colony Algorithm(ACO) was used for optimal model. ACO which are metaheuristic algorithm for combinatorial optimization problem are inspired by the fact that ants are able to find the shortest route between their nest and food source. For applying the model to water distribution systems, pipes, tanks(reservoirs), pump construction and pump operation cost were considered as object function and pressure at each node and reservoir level were considered as constraints. Modified model from Ostfeld and Tubaltzev(2008) was verified by applying 2-Looped, Hanoi and Ostfeld's networks. And sensitivity analysis about ant number, number of ants in a best group and pheromone decrease rate was accomplished. After the verification, it was applied to real water network from S water treatment plant. As a result of the analysis, in the Two-looped network, the best design cost was found to $419,000 and in the Hanoi network, the best design cost was calculated to $6,164,384, and in the Ostfeld's network, the best design cost was found to $3,525,096. These are almost equal or better result compared with previous researches. Last, the cost of optimal design for real network, was found for 66 billion dollar that is 8.8 % lower than before. In addition, optimal diameter for aged pipes was found in this study and the 5 of 8 aged pipes were changed the diameter. Through this result, pipe construction cost reduction was found to 11 percent lower than before. And to conclusion, The least cost design model on water distribution system was developed and verified successfully in this study and it will be very useful not only optimal pipe change plan but optimization plan for whole water distribution system.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.282-284
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• 2001

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for the loss minimization in distribution systems. Ant colony algorithm is suitable for combinatorial optimization problem as network reconfiguration because it use the long term memory, called pheromone, and heuristic information with the property of the problem. The proposed methodology with some adoptions have been applied to improve the computation time and convergence property. Numerical examples demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed methodology using 32-bus system.

• 경영과학
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.31-42
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• 2013

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) can be described as a problem to find the optimum traveling routes from one or several depot (s) to number of geographically scattered customers. This study executes a revised Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing Problem (HVRP) to minimize the cost that needs to conduct efficiently the snow removal operations of Air Wing under available resources and limited operations time. For this HVRP, we model the algorithm of an hybrid Ant Colony System (ACS). In the initial step for finding a solution, the modeled algorithm applies various alterations of a parameter that presents an amount of pheromone coming out from ants. This improvement of the initial solution illustrates to affect to derive better result ultimately. The purpose of this study proves that the algorithm using Hybrid heuristic incorporated in tabu and ACS develops the early studies to search best solution.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제30권9호
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• pp.862-866
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• 2003

조합 최적화 문제인 순회 판매원 문제(Traveling Salesman Problem, TSP)를 유전자 알고리즘(Genetic Algorithm)과 Local Search Heuristic인 Lin-Kernighan(LK) Heuristic［1］을 이용하여 접근하는 것은 최적 해를 구하기 위해 널리 알려진 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 TSP 문제를 해결하기 위한 또 다른 접근법으로 ACS(Ant Colony system) 알고리즘을 소개하고 새로운 페로몬 갱신 방법을 제시하고자 한다. ACS 알고리즘은 다수의 개미들이 경로를 만들어 가는 과정에서 각 에지상의 페로몬 정보를 이용하며, 이러한 반복적인 경로 생성 과정을 통해 최적 해를 발견하는 방법이다. ACS 기법의 전역 갱신 단계에서는 생성된 모든 경로들 중 전역 최적 경로에 속한 에지들에 대하여 페로몬을 갱신한다. 그러나 본 논문에서는 전역 갱신 규칙이 적용되기 전에 생성된 모든 에지에 대하여 페로몬을 한번 더 갱신한다. 이 때 페로몬 갱신을 위해 각 에지들의 발생 빈도수를 이용한다. 개미들이 생성한 전체 에지들의 발생 빈도수를 페로몬 정보에 대한 가중치(weight)로 부여함으로써 각 에지들에 대하여 통계적 수치를 페로몬 정보로 제공할 수 있었다. 또한 기존의 ACS 알고리즘보다 더 빠른 속도로 최적 해를 찾아내며 더 많은 에지들이 다음 번 탐색에 활용될 수 있게 함으로써 지역 최적화에 빠지는 것을 방지할 수 있다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.203-210
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• 2011

개미 집단 시스템은 조합 최적화 문제를 해결하기 위한 메타 휴리스틱 탐색 방법으로, 그리디 탐색뿐만 아니라 긍정적 피드백을 사용한 모집단에 근거한 접근법으로 순회 판매원 문제를 풀기 위해 처음으로 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 이전 전역 최적 경로와 현재 전역 최적 경로의 중복 간선을 고려한 탐색 방법을 제안하였다. 이 방법은 이전전역 최적 경로와 현재 전역 최적 경로에서의 중복 간선은 최적 경로로 구성될 가능성이 높다고 판단하고, 해당 중복 간선에 대해 페로몬을 강화시켜 최적 경로를 구성할 확률을 높이게 하였다. 그리고, 실험을 통해 ACS-3-opt 알고리즘, ACS-Subpath 알고리즘, ACS-Iter 알고리즘에 비해 최적 경로 탐색 및 평균 최적 경로 탐색의 성능이 우수함을 보여 주었다.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회/대한산업공학회 2003년도 춘계공동학술대회
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• pp.1065-1070
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• 2003

Facility Layout Planning is concerned with how to arrange facilities necessary for production in a given space. Its objective is often to minimize the total sum of all material flows multiplied by the distance among facilities. FLP belongs to NP complete problem; i.e., the number of possible layout solutions increases with the increase of the number of facilities. Thus, meta heuristics such as Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Simulated Annealing have been investigated to solve the FLP problems. However, one of the biggest problems which lie in the existing meta heuristics including GA is hard to find an appropriate combinations of parameters which result in optimal solutions for the specific problem. The Ant System algorithm with elitist and ranking strategies is used to solve the FLP problem as an another good alternative. Experimental results show that the AS algorithm is able to produce the same level of solution quality with less sensitive parameters selection comparing to the ones obtained by applying other existing meta heuristic algorithms.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.81-91
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• 2005

외판원 문제(TSP; Traveling Salesman Problem)는 경로탐색 최적화문제로 '풀리지 않는 문제'(NP-complete; None-deterministic Polynomial-time complete)에 속하므로 경유지 수가 많아짐에 따라 급격히 계산시간이 증가한다. 때문에 적용시 정확한 최적해보다는 최적 근사해에 대한 발견적 (heuristic) 알고리즘들을 이용한다. 본 연구는 TSP에 적용되는 발견적 알고리즘으로 개미 시스템알고리즘(ASA; Ant System Algorithm)을 검토하고. 국내 택배시스템에 ASA의 적용가능성을 검토하였다. ASA는 NP-complete 문제를 위한 발견적 알고리즘으로, 1990년대 초 M. Dorigo 등에 의해 연구되어졌다. ASA는 개미들이 이동간에 페로몬이라는 일종의 화학물질을 분비할 때, 이동경로 상에 분비된 페로몬 누적에 따라 확률적 방법으로 경로를 결정하게 된다. 이러한 ASA는 NP-complete문제에서 계산시간이나 최단경로탐색에서 우수한 결과를 얻는 것으로 발표되고 있으며, 교통분야에서 차량경로탐색뿐만 아니라 네트워크 관리 및 도로선형계획 등 그 적용범위가 점차 확대되어지고 있다. 현재 국내 택배시스템에서 차량배차시 명확한 기준이 없으며 주로 담당 운전자의 경험과 판단에 의해 결정된다. 본 연구에서는 국내택배시스템에 ASA의 적용가능성을 검토하였다. 담당 운전자의 경로결정이 가로 10.0km, 세로 10.0km의 범위에서 인접이웃알고리즘(NNA: Nearest Neighbor Algorithm)을 따른다고 가정했을 때와 랜덤한 20개의 경유지를 가질 때, 그리고 경유지 수를 10개씩 증가하여 200개까지 증가할 때를 비교 분석한 결과, ASA이 NNA 보다 우수하였다. ASA을 국내택배시스템에 적용시 운송비용 절감 등의 운영개선을 기대할 수 있으며, 특히 영세한 택배업체에서 보다 저렴하고 우수한 택배시스템을 구축할 수 있을 것으로 보인다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1111-1130
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• 2016

Cooperative communications can significantly improve the wireless transmission performance with the help of relay nodes. In cooperative communication networks, relay selection and power allocation are two key issues. In this paper, we propose a relay selection and power allocation scheme RS-PA-PSACO (Relay Selection-Power Allocation-Particle Swarm Ant Colony Optimization) based on PSACO (Particle Swarm Ant Colony Optimization) algorithm. This scheme can effectively reduce the computational complexity and select the optimal relay nodes. As one of the swarm intelligence algorithms, PSACO which combined both PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) and ACO (Ant Colony Optimization) algorithms is effective to solve non-linear optimization problems through a fast global search at a low cost. The proposed RS-PA-PSACO algorithm can simultaneously obtain the optimal solutions of relay selection and power allocation to minimize the SER (Symbol Error Rate) with a fixed total power constraint both in AF (Amplify and Forward) and DF (Decode and Forward) modes. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme improves the system performance significantly both in reliability and power efficiency at a low complexity.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.342-352
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• 2021

Multicast Routings is a big challenge due to limitations such as node power and bandwidth Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET). The path to be chosen from the source to the destination node requires protocols. Multicast protocols support group-oriented operations in a bandwidth-efficient way. While several protocols for multi-cast MANETs have been evolved, security remains a challenging problem. Consequently, MANET is required for high quality of service measures (QoS) such infrastructure and application to be identified. The goal of a MANETs QoS-aware protocol is to discover more optimal pathways between the network source/destination nodes and hence the QoS demands. It works by employing the optimization method to pick the route path with the emphasis on several QoS metrics. In this paper safe routing is guaranteed using the Secured Multicast Routing offered in MANET by utilizing the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) technique to integrate the QOS-conscious route setup into the route selection. This implies that only the data transmission may select the way to meet the QoS limitations from source to destination. Furthermore, the track reliability is considered when selecting the best path between the source and destination nodes. For the optimization of the best path and its performance, the optimized algorithm called the micro artificial bee colony approach is chosen about the probabilistic ant routing technique.