• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.30-47
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• 2004

This research considers a Network Diversion Problem (NDP) in the directed graph, which is to identify a minimum cost set of links to cut so that any communication paths from a designated source node to a destination node must include at least one link from a specified set of arcs which is called the diversion arcs. We identify a redundant constraint from an earlier formulation. The problem is known to be NP-hard, however a detailed proof has not been given. We provide the proof of the NP-hardness of this problem. We develop a tabu search algorithm that includes a preprocessing procedure with two steps for removing diversion arcs as well as reducing the problem size. Computational results of the algorithm on instances of general graphs and grid graphs are reported.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.284-287
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• 2006

We consider the transportation problem of optimizing the use of trailers and tractors. Several variants with fixed loading and unloading time are discussed. We show that the variant requiring on-time delivery can be solved in polynomial time, whereas the other variant requiring time-window delivery is NP-hard. We also discuss that if the number of loading and unloading operations assigned to each trailer or tractor is limited, even the variant requiring on-time delivery becomes NP-hard.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.63-76
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• 2007

To realize the mass customization entails the optimized supply chain design for efficiently producing and delivering the various products. In this study, we considered the problem obtaining the optimized production policy under the situation wherein the multiple products are apportioned into multiple parallel production facilities. More specifically, the production set-up costs incurs according to whether the production facilities are utilized or not. The facility-dependent set-up costs increase the problem complexity in solving the production apportioning problem for multiple products. This problem can be formulated as concave minimization problem, which is known as NP-hard problem. In this paper, a heuristic algorithm is proposed to solve two conjoint problems : one is to select the cost-effective facilities from alternative multiple production facilities and the other is to apportion the production lot to those selected facilities.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.4
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• pp.341-346
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• 2008

Minimum Weight Triangulation (MWT) problem is an optimization problem searching for the triangulation of a given graph with minimum weight. Like many other graph problems this problem is also known to be NP-hard for general graphs. Several heuristic algorithms have been proposed for this problem including simulated annealing and genetic algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new genetic algorithm called GA-FF and show that the performance of the proposed genetic algorithm outperforms the previous one.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2015

We consider an m-machine flow shop scheduling problem to minimize the latest completion time, where processing times are uncertain. Processing time uncertainty is described through a finite set of processing time vectors. The objective is to minimize maximum deviation from optimality for all scenarios. Since this problem is known to be NP-hard, we consider it with an ordered property. We discuss optimality properties and develop a pseudo-polynomial time approach for the problem with a fixed number of machines and scenarios. Furthermore, we find two special structures for processing time uncertainty that keep the problem NP-hard, even for two machines and two scenarios. Finally, we investigate a special structure for uncertain processing times that makes the problem polynomially solvable.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.6
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• pp.609-612
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• 2008

Let G = (V, E) be a simple undirected graph. The Minimum Vertex Cover (MVC) problem is to find a minimum subset C of V such that for every edge, at least one of its endpoints should be included in C. Like many other graph theoretic problems this problem is also known to be NP-hard. In this paper, we propose a genetic algorithm called LeafGA for MVC problem and show the performance of the proposed algorithm by applying it to several published benchmark graphs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.178-180
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• 2003

최소 걸침 나무는 널리 알려진 순회 판매원 문제와 같이 전통적인 최적화 문제 중에 하나이다. 특히나 최소 걸침 나무와는 달리 차수 제약 최소 걸침 나무의 경우는 일반적으로 NP-hard 문제로 알려져 있다. 이러한 NP-hard 문제를 해결하기 위한 다양한 접근법들이 소개되었는데 유전 알고리즘은 효율적인 방법 중에 하나로 알려져 있다. 유전 알고리즘과 같이 진화에 기반을 둔 알고리즘을 어떤 문제에 적응하기 위해서 가장 우선적으로 고려되어야 하는 것은 해를 어떻게 표현할 것인가 인데 본 논문에서는 차수 제약 최소 걸침 나무를 해결하기 위한 새로운 트리 표현법을 제안한다.