• 경영과학
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.113-130
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• 2014

Cooperative coevolutionary algorithm (CCEA) has proven to be a very powerful means of solving optimization problems through problem decomposition. CCEA implies the use of several populations, each population having the aim of finding a partial solution for a component of the considered problem. Populations evolve separately and they interact only when individuals are evaluated. Interactions are made to obtain complete solutions by combining partial solutions, or collaborators, from each of the populations. In this respect, we can think of various interaction modes. The goal of this research is to develop a CCEA for a supply chain network design (SCND) problem and identify which interaction mode gives the best performance for this problem. We present general design principle of CCEA for the SCND problem, which require several co-evolving populations. We classify these populations into two groups and classify the collaborator selection scheme into two types, the random-based one and the best fitness-based one. By combining both two groups of population and two types of collaborator selection schemes, we consider four possible interaction modes. We also consider two modes of updating populations, the sequential mode and the parallel mode. Therefore, by combining both four possible interaction modes and two modes of updating populations, we investigate seven possible solution algorithms. Experiments for each of these solution algorithms are conducted on a few test problems. The results show that the mode of the best fitness-based collaborator applied to both groups of populations combined with the sequential update mode outperforms the other modes for all the test problems.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.443-450
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• 2009

본 논문은 재정돈 계획의 최적화를 위해 협력적 공진화 알고리즘을 이용하는 방법을 제안한다. 재정돈이란 컨테이너 터미널에서 적하 작업시 발생하는 지연을 줄이기 위해 선박에 적하될 컨테이너의 위치를 변경하는 작업이다. 재정돈 계획 수립을 위해서는 적하 시 작업 효율이 최대가 되고 재정돈 시간이 최소가 되도록 컨테이너가 재정돈 후 배치될 장치형태와 재정돈 시 컨테이너를 옮길 순서를 결정해야한다. 협력적 공진화 알고리즘은 주어진 문제가 세부 문제들로 분할 가능할 때 분할된 세부 문제들을 동시에 탐색하여 문제를 효율적으로 해결하는 방법이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 재정돈 계획 문제를 장치형태 결정 문제와 이동 우선순위 결정 문제로 분할하고 협력적 공진화 알고리즘을 적용하여 재정돈 계획을 최적화하였다. 실험결과 문제를 분할한 협력적 공진화 알고리즘이 문제를 분할하지 않는 접근 방법에 비해 더욱 효과적으로 재정돈하는 계획을 수립함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.67-80
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• 2000

Symbiotic evolutionary algorithms, also called cooperative coevolutionary algorithms, are stochastic search algorithms that imitate the biological coevolution process through symbiotic interactions. In the algorithms, the fitness evaluation of an individual required first selecting symbiotic partners of the individual. Several partner selection strategies are provided. The goal of this study is to analyze how much partnering strategies can influence the performance of the algorithms. With two types of test-bed problems: the NKC model and the binary string covering problem, extensive experiments are carried out to compare the performance of partnering strategies, using the analysis of variance. The experimental results indicate that there does not exist statistically significant difference in their performance.