• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.43-52
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• 2017

We consider the order consolidation problem that arises in production systems where customer orders are processed in batches. The problem involves maximizing the number of batches while satisfying the following conditions: (i) the total quantity processed in each batch must be above a prescribed level; (ii) the quantity in an order can be split and processed in more than one batches; (iii) each batch can include up to two different orders but can do so only when the two orders are compatible pair. This problem is known to be NP-hard and max-SNP hard. In this study, we develop an approximation algorithm with factor 1/3.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.19-24
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• 2012

Purpose - This paper discusses the heterogeneous fixed fleet vehicle routing problem with pick-up and delivery (HFFVRPPD), for vehicles with different capacities, fixed costs, and travel costs. Research Design, data, methodology - This paper made nine assumptions for establishing a mathematical model to describe HFFVRPPD. It established a practical mathematical model, and because of the non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard), improved the traditional simulated annealing algorithm and tested a new algorithm using a certain scale model. Result - We calculated the minimum cost of the heterogeneous fixed fleet vehicle routing problem (HFFVRP) with a single task and, on comparing the results with the actual HFFVRP for the single task alone, observed that the total cost of HFFVRPPD reduced significantly by 46.7%. The results showed that the new algorithm provides better solutions and stability. Conclusions - This paper, by comparing the HFFVRP and HFFVRPPD results, highlights certain advantages of using HFFVRPPD in physical distribution enterprises, such as saving distribution vehicles, reducing logistics cost, and raising economic benefits.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.9 no.2 s.33
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• pp.206-211
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• 2006

This thesis presents railroad crew restoring problem, which is to determine the railroad plan allocation. This problem is constructed that determine the sequence of duties that railroad crews have to perform. We analyze characteristic of this problem and railroad industry. It's hard to consider many constraint conditions. We propose Integer Programming model and easy methodology to be considered all given operation rules. This problem is known to be NP-hard. We develop a genetic algorithm, which is proved to be powerful in solving optimization problems. We proposed the effective mathematical model and algorithm about making crew restoring in real industry.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.408-413
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• 2008

We consider the batch processing of orders where either whole or part of a single order or a specific pair of different orders may be grouped in a batch within a fixed capacity. Our objective is to maximize the total number of batches filled up to the batch size. In this paper, we study the Level-2 problem where at most 2 kinds of orders can be grouped in a batch. This problem is known to be NP-hard and Max SNP-hard. So we develop heuristic algorithm and evaluate the performance of the algorithm.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.1468-1474
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• 2015

Efficient spectrum sharing is an important issue in Device-to-Device (D2D) communications underlaying cellular networks as it can mitigate the interference to cellular users and improve the performance of the systems. In this paper, we formulate the radio resource allocation in D2D communications as a mixed nonlinear integer programing. We show the formulated problem is NP-hard and thus a polynomial time algorithm to solve is not possible. Since such a problem is very hard to obtain the optimal solution within a short running time, we instead propose a fast heuristic suboptimal algorithm to mitigate the interference caused to cellular users and improve the performance of the systems. Simulation results are provided to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.25-34
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• 2005

Determination of component mounting sequence on printed circuit board assembly process is a typical NP-hard problem. It is a kind of traveling salesman problems, but it has one more hard to meet constraint of matching component type per mounting position as well as searching the shortest path. An efficient method is developed by separation of crowed area and allowing up to two slots per component type. A simulation model is constructed using Visual C++ for evaluation of the suggested heuristic.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.427-436
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• 2010

This paper deals with a task assignment problem of multiple UAVs performing multiple tasks on multiple targets. The task assignment problem of multiple UAVs is a kind of combinatorial optimization problems such as traveling salesman problem or vehicle routing problem, and it has NP-hard computational complexity. Therefore, computation time increases as the size of considered problem increases. To solve the problem efficiently, approximation methods or heuristic methods are widely used. In this study, the problem is formulated as a mixed integer linear program, and is solved by a mixed integer linear programming and a genetic algorithm, respectively. Numerical simulations for the environment of the multiple targets, multiple tasks, and obstacles were performed to analyze the optimality and efficiency of each method.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.9
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• pp.2235-2246
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• 1997

This paper presents an effective heuristic task scheduling algorithm for multiprocessor systems. To execute task scheduling effectively which is defined as an allocation of m's tasks onto n's processors(m > n), several problems almost at NP-hard should be cleaned up. The purpose of the task scheduling obtains the minimum execution time by mapping the tasks on a system topology or reduces the total execution time to give a minimum system topology. In order to solve this problem, in this paper, the task scheduling is done by redefining a task graph to a reconstructed task graph (RTG). An RTG is obtained by merging or copying nodes to equal the number of nodes on each level of the task graph to the number of processors of the system topology and then directly scheduled to the system topology. This method obtains a fast scheduling time and a simple scheduling method, and near-optimal execution time without executing steps such as the refinement step and the duplication step after the task scheduling.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.247-257
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• 2005

Generally, the network topology design problem is characterized as a kind of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, which is difficult to solve with the classical method because it has exponentially increasing complexity with the augmented network size. In this paper, we propose the efficient approach with two phase that is comprised of evolutionary computation approach based on Prufer number(PN), which can efficiently represent the spanning tree, and a heuristic method considering 2-connectivity, to solve the highly reliable network topology design problem minimizing the construction cost subject to network reliability: firstly, to find the spanning tree, genetic algorithm that is the most widely known type of evolutionary computation approach, is used; secondly, a heuristic method is employed, in order to search the optimal network topology based on the spanning tree obtained in the first Phase, considering 2-connectivity. Lastly, the performance of our approach is provided from the results of numerical examples.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.1353-1362
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• 1999

그래프 드로잉이란 추상적인 그래프를 시각적으로 구성하여 2차원 평면상에 그려주는 작업으로 대칭성은 그래프 드로잉시 고려해야 하는 미적 기준들 중에서 그래프의 구조 및 특성을 표현해주는 가장 중요한 기준이다. 그러나 일반 그래프에서 대칭성을 찾아 그려 주는 문제는 NP-hard로 증명이 되어 있기 때문에 현재까지는 트리, 외부평면 그래프, 직병렬 유향 그래프나 평면 그래프 등으로 대상을 한정시켜 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 병렬 컴퓨터나 컴퓨터 네트워크 구조를 가시화 시키기 위하여 많이 사용되는 그래프인 상호연결망(interconnection network)의 대칭성을 분석하고 분석된 대칭성을 최대로 보여주는 대칭 드로잉 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 그리고 이를 기반으로 하여 상호연결망의 기존 드로잉 방법들과 본 논문에서 제안한 대칭 드로잉 등 다양한 드로잉을 지원하는 WWW 기반의 상호연결망 드로잉 시스템을 구현하였다.Abstract Graph drawing is constructing a visually-informative drawing of an abstract graph. Symmetry is one of the most important aesthetic criteria that clearly reveals the structures and the properties of graphs. However, the problem of finding geometric symmetry in general graphs is NP-hard. So the previous work has focused on the subclasses of general graphs such as trees, outerplanar graphs, series-parallel digraphs and planar graphs.In this paper, we analyze the geometric symmetry on the various interconnection networks which have many applications in the design of computer networks, parallel computer architectures and other fields of computer science. Based on these analysis, we develope algorithms for constructing the drawings of interconnection networks which show the maximal symmetries.We also design and implement Interconnection Network Drawing System (INDS) on WWW which supports the various drawings including the conventional drawings and our suggested symmetric drawings.