• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.41-45
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• 2016

Purpose - Finding an optimal path is an essential component for the design and operation of smart transportation or logistics network. Many applications in navigation system assume that travel time of each link is fixed and same. However, in practice, the travel time of each link changes over time. In this paper, we introduce a new transportation problem to find a latest departing time and delivery path between the two nodes, while not violating the appointed time at the destination node. Research design, data, and methodology - To solve the problem, we suggest a mathematical model based on network optimization theory and a backward search method to find an optimal solution. Results - First, we introduce a dynamic transportation problem which is different with traditional shortest path or minimum cost path. Second, we propose an algorithm solution based on backward search to solve the problem in a large-sized network. Conclusions - We proposed a new transportation problem which is different with traditional shortest path or minimum cost path. We analyzed the problem under the conditions that travel time is changing, and proposed an algorithm to solve them. Extending our models for visiting two or more destinations is one of the further research topics.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.273-282
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• 2016

There has been growing social interest recently in the movement rights of people with reduced mobility. However, it simply eliminates the temporary inconvenience of walking of people with reduced mobility because it focuses only on supply of institutional facilities. Therefore, we look forward to improving movement welfare by proposing an optimized path finding algorithm for people with reduced mobility that takes into consideration physical elements affecting their movement, such as slope, steps etc. We selected Walking barrier factor by analyzing previous studies and calculated the relative importance of Walking barrier factors using an Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP). Next, through the fuzzy system, the Walking disturbance level of link, which integrates the weights of Walking barrier factors and the attributes of each link, is derived. Then, Walking path cost that takes into consideration the ‘length’ factors is calculated and an optimized path for people with reduced mobility is searched using Dijkstra’s Algorithm. Nineteen different paths were searched and we confirmed that the derived paths are meaningful in terms of improving the mobility of people with reduced mobility by conducting a field test. We look forward to improving movement welfare by providing a navigation service using the path finding algorithm proposed in this study.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.2606-2615
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• 1994

Sorting time is one of the most important issues for auto IC test handling systems. In actual system, because of too much path, reducing the computing time for finding a sorting path is the key way to enhancing the system performance. The exhaustive path search technique can not be used for real systems. This paper proposes heuristic sorting algorithm to find the minimal sorting time. The suggested algorithm is basically based on the best-first search technique and multi-level search technique. The results are close to the optimal solutions and computing time is greately reduced also. Therefore the proposed algorthm can be effectively used for real-time sorting process in auto IC test handling systems.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.633-640
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• 1999

Reinforcement learning performs learning through interacting with trial-and-error in dynamic environment. Therefore, in dynamic environment, reinforcement learning method like Q-learning and TD(Temporal Difference)-learning are faster in learning than the conventional stochastic learning method. However, because many of the proposed reinforcement learning algorithms are given the reinforcement value only when the learning agent has reached its goal state, most of the reinforcement algorithms converge to the optimal solution too slowly. In this paper, we present COMREL(COMpressed REinforcement Learning) algorithm for finding the shortest path fast in a maze environment, select the candidate states that can guide the shortest path in compressed maze environment, and learn only the candidate states to find the shortest path. After comparing COMREL algorithm with the already existing Q-learning and Priortized Sweeping algorithm, we could see that the learning time shortened very much.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07g
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• pp.2342-2344
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• 1998

In this paper, the path planner is presented for a robot to achieve an efficient path forward the given goal position in two dimensional environment which is involved with partially unknown obstacles. The path planner consists of three major components: off-line path planning, on-line path planning, and modification of planned path. Off-line path planning is based on known environment and creates the shortest path. On-line path planning is for finding unknown obstacles. The modification can be accomplished, by genetic algorithm, to be smooth path for preventing slippage and excessive centrifugal force.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.245-248
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• 2009

Recently, Many studies have been progressing to path-finding with dynamic information on the Terminal Based Navigation System(TBNS). However, the most of existing algorithms are based on $A{\ast}$ algorithm. Path-finding algorithms which use heuristic function may occur a problem of the increase of exploring cost in case of that there is no way determined by heuristic function or there are 2 way more which have almost same cost. In this paper, two abstract graph(AG) that are different method of construction, Homogeneous Node merging($AG^H$) and Connected Node Merging($AG^C$), are implemented. The abstract graph is a simple graph of real road network. The method of using the abstract graph is proposed for reducing dependency of heuristic and exploring cost. In result of evaluation of performance, $AG^C$ has better performance than $AG^H$ at construction cost but $AG^C$ has worse performance than $AG^H$ exploring cost.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.63-70
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• 2009

This paper proposes a novel path finding approach of a mobile robot using RF strength in sensor network. In the experiments based on the proposed method, a mobile robot attempts to find its location, heading direction and the shortest path in the indoor environment. The experimental system consisting of mesh network shares node data and send them to base station. The triangulation and the proposed Grid method calculate the location and heading angle of the robot. In addition, the robot finds the shortest path by using the base station attached on it to receive data of environment around each node. Kalman filter reduces the straight line error when the robot estimates the strength of received signal. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.47-58
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to present methods for determining the k most vital arcs (k-MVAs) in shortest path problem (SPP) using evolutionary algorithms. The problem of finding the k-MVAs in SPP is to find a set of k arcs whose simultaneous removal from the network causes the greatest increase in the shortest distance between two specified nodes. Generally, the problem of determining the k-MVAs in SPP has been known as NP-hard. Therefore, to deal with problems of the real world, heuristic algorithms are needed. In this study we present three kinds of evolutionary algorithms for finding the k-MVAs in SPP, and then to evaluate the performance of proposed algorithms.

• IE interfaces
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

In this paper we study the Minimum Edge Addition Problem(MEAP) to decrease the diameter of a graph. MEAP can be used for improving the serviceability of telecommunication networks with a minimum investment. MEAP is an NP-hard optimization problem. We present two mathematical programming models : One is a multi-commodity flow formulation and the other is a path partition formulation. We propose a branch-and-price algorithm to solve the path partition formulation to the optimality. We develop a polynomial time column generation sub-routine conserving the mathematical structure of a sub problem for the path partition formulation. Computational experiments show that the path partition formulation is better than the multi-commodity flow formulation. The branch-and-price algorithm can find the optimal solutions for the immediate size graphs within reasonable time.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.487-500
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• 1997

In this paper, we introduce the shortest flow-generating path problem in the generalized network. As the simplest generalized network model, this problem captures many of the most salient core ingredients of the generalized network flows and so it provides both a benchmark and a point of departure for studying more complex generalized network models. We show that the generalized label-correcting algorithm for the shortest flow-generating path problem has O(mn) time complexity if it starts with a good point and also propose an O($n^3m^2$) algorithm for finding a good starting point. Hence, the shortest flow-generating path problem is solved in O($n^3m^2$) time.