• Steel and Composite Structures
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.535-555
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• 2009

The harmony search method based optimum design algorithm is presented for geometrically non-linear semi-rigid steel frames. Harmony search method is recently developed metaheuristic algorithm which simulates the process of producing a musical performance. The optimum design algorithm aims at obtaining minimum weight steel frames by selecting from standard set of steel sections such as European wide flange beams (HE sections). Strength constraints of Turkish Building Code for Steel Structures (TS648) specification and displacement constraints were used in the optimum design formulation. The optimum design algorithm takes into account both the geometric non-linearity of the frame members and the semi-rigid behaviour of the beam-to-column connections. The Frye-Morris polynomial model is used to calculate the moment-rotation relation of beam-to-column connections. The robustness of harmony search algorithm, in comparison with genetic algorithms, is verified with two benchmark examples. The comparisons revealed that the harmony search algorithm yielded not only minimum weight steel frames but also required less computational effort for the presented examples.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.639-647
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• 2020

In the vibration target localization algorithms based on time difference of arrival (TDOA), Fang algorithm is often used in practice because of its simple calculation. However, when the delay estimation error is large, the localization equation of Fang algorithm has no solution. In order to solve this problem, one dimensional search location algorithm based on TDOA is proposed in this paper. The concept of search is introduced in the algorithm. The distance d1 between any single sensor and the vibration target is considered as a search variable. The vibration target location is searched by changing the value of d1 in the two-dimensional plane. The experiment results show that the proposed algorithm is superior to traditional methods in localization accuracy.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.4 no.12
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• pp.1075-1082
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose an Efficient Center-Biased Hybrid Seearch (ECBHS) for motion estimation based on Center-Biased Hybrid Search(CBHS). This proposed algorithm employ hybrid of a compact plus shaped search, X shaped search, and diamond search to reduce the search point for motion vectors which distributed within 3pels radius of center of search window. ECBHS reduces the computations for motion estimation of CBHS with similar accuracy The efficiency of the proposed algorithm was verified by experimental results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.238-240
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• 2004

정보 통신 기술의 발달로 엄청난 양의 정보가 World Wide Web을 통해 저장되고 공유된다. 특히, 사용자가 WWW을 이용하여 필요한 정보를 얻고자할 때, 가장 많이 사용되는 것이 Web search engine이다. 그러나 Web search engine의 algorithm 자체의 부정확성과 악의적으로 작성된 Web page로 인해 search engine 결과가 사용자의 요구와 일치하지 못하는 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 여러 Web search algorithm 중에서 Web structure management 기법을 중심으로 문제점을 분석하고 이를 해결할 수 있는 수정된 algorithm을 제시한다. 마지막으로 제시된 algorithm이 spamming page를 filtering하는 과정을 예시하여 논증한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.745-752
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• 2002

A* algorithm is widely used in optimal car route search which is a kind of informed search, since the locations of starting and ending points are known a priori. Unidirectional A* algorithm requires considerable search time but guarantees a optimal path, bidirectional A* algorithm does not guarantee a optimal path and takes even longer search time than unidirectional search to guarantee a optimal path. In this paper, a new bidirectional A* algorithm which requites less search time and guarantees a optimal path is proposed. To evaluate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, several experiments are conducted in real road map and the results show that the algorithm is very effective in terms of finding a optimal path and search time.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.441-446
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• 2010

Each robot decides and behaviors themselves surrounding circumstances in the swarm robot system. Robots have to conduct tasks allowed through cooperation with other robots. Therefore each robot should have the ability to learn and evolve in order to adapt to a changing environment. In this paper, we proposed learning based on Q-learning algorithm and evolutionary using Harmony Search algorithm and are trying to improve the accuracy using Harmony Search Algorithm, not the Genetic Algorithm. We verify that swarm robot has improved the ability to perform the task.

• Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Structure & Construction
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• v.33 no.12
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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.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.75-77
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• 2008

Nowadays, as the indices of the major search engines grow to a tremendous proportion, vertical search services can help customers to find what they need. Search Engine is one of the reasons for Internet shopping success in today's world. The import one part of search engine is clustering data. The objective of this paper is to explore a k-means++ algorithm to calculate the clustering data which in the Internet shopping environment. The experiment results shows that the k-means++ algorithm is a faster algorithm to achieved a good clustering.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.4 no.12
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• pp.953-964
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• 2003

In the block matching algorithm, search patterns of different shapes or sizes and the distribution of motion vectors have a large impact on both the searching speed and the image quality. In this paper, we propose a new fast block matching algorithm using the cross pattern and the flat-hexagon search pattern. Our algorithm first finds the motion vectors that are close to the center of search window using the cross pattern, and then lastly finds the other motion vectors that are not close to the center of search window using the flat-hexagon search pattern. Through experiments, compared with the hexagon-based search algorithm(HEXBS), the proposed cross pattern and flat-hexagonal pattern search algorithm(CFHPS ) improves about 0.2-6.2% in terms of average number of search point per motion vector estimation and improves about 0.02-0.31dB in terms of PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio).

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.811-812
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• 2008

In this paper, a modified cross search algorithm for fast block matching motion estimation is proposed. Various Motion Estimation (ME) algorithms have been proposed since ME requires large computational complexity. The proposed algorithm employs Modified Cross Search Pattern (MCSP) to search the motion vector. Efficient compression can be achieved since Modified Cross Search Algorithm (MCSA) simplifies the search pattern to reduce the computational complexity. The experimental results show that proposed algorithm reduces the search points up to 29% compared to conventional methods.