• 대한건축학회논문집:구조계
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• 제33권12호
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• pp.53-62
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• 2017

Many gradient-based mathematical methods have been developed and are in use for structural size optimization problems, in which the cross-sectional areas or sizing variables are usually assumed to be continuous. In most practical structural engineering design problems, however, the design variables are discrete. The main objective of this paper is to propose an efficient optimization method for structures with discrete-sized variables based on the harmony search (HS) meta-heuristic algorithm that is derived using penalty function. The recently developed HS algorithm was conceptualized using the musical process of searching for a perfect state of harmony. It uses a stochastic random search instead of a gradient search so that derivative information is unnecessary. In this paper, a discrete search strategy using the HS algorithm with a static penalty function is presented in detail and its applicability using several standard truss examples is discussed. The numerical results reveal that the HS algorithm with the static penalty function proposed in this study is a powerful search and design optimization technique for structures with discrete-sized members.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.239-246
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• 2009

This paper deals with the makespan minimization problem of job shops. The problem is known as one of hard problems to optimize, and therefore, many heuristic methods have been proposed by many researchers. The aim of this study is also to propose a heuristic scheduling method for the problem. However, the difference between the proposed method and many other heuristics is that the proposed method is based on depth-first branch and bound, and thus it is possible to find an optimal solution at least in principle. To accelerate the search, when a node is judged hopeless in the search tree, the proposed flexible branch and bound method can indicate a higher backtracking node. The unexplored nodes are stored and may be explored later to realize the strict optimization. Two methods are proposed to generate the backtracking point based on the critical path of the current best feasible schedule, and the minimum lower bound for the makespan in the unexplored sub-problems. Schedules are generated based on Giffler and Thompson's active schedule generation algorithm. Acceleration of the search by the flexible branch and bound is confirmed by numerical experiment.

• 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.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2005년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.206-209
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• 2005

계속적인 교통 흐름을 감안한 최적 경로 탐색 시스템은 목적지로 가기 위한 비용을 줄이기 위해 필요하다. 그러나 낮은 계산 능력을 가진 클라이언트에서 최적 경로를 탐색하는 것은 많은 비용을 요구한다. 따라서 적은 비용과 적절한 최적 경로를 탐색이 가능한 방법이 요구된다. 이 논문에서는 연산시간을 줄이기 위해 가변적인 휴리스틱을 이용하는 경로 탐색 기법을 새롭게 제안한다. 이들 휴리스틱은 하나의 사각형 영역인 그리드 내에 존재하는 자동차들의 평균속도의 변화에 의해 결정된다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.98-109
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• 2012

Recently, the optimisation of end-of-life (EOL) product remanufacturing processes has been highlighted. In particular, computer remanufacturing becomes important as the amount of disposed of computers is rapidly increasing. At the computer remanufacturing, depending on the selections of used computer parts, the value of remanufactured computers will be different. Hence, it is important to select appropriate computer parts at the reassembly. To this end, this study deals with a decision making problem to select the best combination of computer parts for minimising the total remanufacturing computer cost. This problem is formulated with an integer nonlinear programming model and heuristic search algorithms are proposed to resolve it.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제60권6호
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• pp.1093-1117
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• 2016

Global sensitivity analysis (GSA) has been widely used to investigate the sensitivity of the model output with respect to its input parameters. In this paper a new single-solution search optimization algorithm is developed based on the GSA, and applied to the size optimization of truss structures. In this method the search space of the optimization is determined using the sensitivity indicator of variables. Unlike the common meta-heuristic algorithms, where all the variables are simultaneously changed in the optimization process, in this approach the sensitive variables of solution are iteratively changed more rapidly than the less sensitive ones in the search space. Comparisons of the present results with those of some previous population-based meta-heuristic algorithms demonstrate its capability, especially for decreasing the number of fitness functions evaluations, in solving the presented benchmark problems.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.145-153
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• 2008

The vehicle routing problem determines each vehicle routes to find the transportation costs, subject to meeting the customer demands of all delivery points in geography. Vehicle routing problem is known to be NP-hard, and it needs a lot of computing time to get the optimal solution, so that heuristics are more frequently developed than optimal algorithms. This study aims to develop a heuristic method which combines guided local search with a tabu search in order to minimize the transportation costs for the vehicle routing assignment and uses ILOG programming library to solve. The computational tests were performed using the benchmark problems. And computational experiments on these instances show that the proposed heuristic yields better results than the simple tabu search does.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.12-22
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• 2024

The travelling salesman problem is very famous and very difficult combinatorial optimization problem that has several applications in operations research, computer science and industrial engineering. As the problem is difficult, finding its optimal solution is computationally very difficult. Thus, several researchers have developed heuristic/metaheuristic algorithms for finding heuristic solutions to the problem instances. In this present study, a new hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA) is suggested to find heuristic solution to the problem. In our HGA we used comprehensive sequential constructive crossover, adaptive mutation, 2-opt search and a new local search algorithm along with a replacement method, then executed our HGA on some standard TSPLIB problem instances, and finally, we compared our HGA with simple genetic algorithm and an existing state-of-the-art method. The experimental studies show the effectiveness of our proposed HGA for the problem.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.237-242
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• 2009

The classical vehicle routing problem (VRP) can be extended by including customers who want to send goods to the depot. This type of VRP is called the vehicle routing problem with pickups and deliveries (VRPPD). This study proposes a novel way to solve VRPPD by introducing a two-phase heuristic routing algorithm which consists of a clustering phase and uses the geometrical center of a cluster and route establishment phase by applying a two-way search of each route after applying the TSP algorithm on each route. Experimental results show that the suggested algorithm can generate better initial solutions for more computer-intensive meta-heuristics than other existing methods such as the giant-tour-based partitioning method or the insertion-based method.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제65권4호
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• pp.292-297
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• 2016

The first-order plus dead time(FOPDT) and second-order plus dead time(SOPDT), which describes a linear monotonic process quite well in most chemical and industrial processes and is often sufficient for PID and IMC controller tuning. This paper presents an application of heuristic harmony search(HS) optimization algorithm to the identification of linear continuous time-delay systems from step response. This recently developed HS algorithm is conceptualized using the musical process of searching for a perfect state of harmony. It uses a stochastic random search instead of a gradient search so that derivative information is unnecessary. The effectiveness of the proposed identification method has been demonstrated through a number of simulation examples.