• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.2414-2421
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• 1999

This paper proposes two kinds of heuristic algorithms for Rural Postman Problems(RPPs). One is a Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm for RPPs. In SA, we propose a new cooling schedule which affects the performance of SA. The other is a Genetic Algorithm(GA) for RPPs. In GA, we propose a chromosome structure for RPPs which are edge-oriented problems. In simulations, we compared the proposed methods with the existing methods and the results show that the proposed methods produced better results than the existing methods.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.31-40
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• 1998

Active Contour Model(ACM) is an efficient method for segmenting an object. The main shortcoming of ACM is that its result is very dependent on the shape and location of an initial contour. To overcome this shortcoming, a new segmentation algorithm is proposed in this paper. The proposed algorithm uses B-splines to describe the active contour and applies Simulated Annealing (SA) and Genetic Algorithm(GA) as energy minimization techniques. We tried to overcome the initialization problem of traditional ACM and compared the result of ACM using GA and that using SA with 2D synthetic binary images. CT and MR images.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.389-406
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• 2014

Optimal sensor placement techniques play a significant role in enhancing the quality of modal data during the vibration based health monitoring of civil structures, where many degrees of freedom are available despite a limited number of sensors. The literature has shown a shift in the trends for solving such problems, from expansion or elimination approach to the employment of heuristic algorithms. Although these heuristic algorithms are capable of providing a global optimal solution, their greatest drawback is the requirement of high computational effort. Because a highly efficient optimisation method is crucial for better accuracy and wider use, this paper presents an improved simulated annealing (SA) algorithm to solve the sensor placement problem. The algorithm is developed based on the sensor locations' coordinate system to allow for the searching in additional dimensions and to increase SA's random search performance while minimising the computation efforts. The proposed method is tested on a numerical slab model that consists of two hundred sensor location candidates using three types of objective functions; the determinant of the Fisher information matrix (FIM), modal assurance criterion (MAC), and mean square error (MSE) of mode shapes. Detailed study on the effects of the sensor numbers and cooling factors on the performance of the algorithm are also investigated. The results indicate that the proposed method outperforms conventional SA and Genetic Algorithm (GA) in the search for optimal sensor placement.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.843-859
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• 2024

The university course scheduling problem (UCSP) aims at optimally arranging courses to corresponding rooms, faculties, students, and timeslots with constraints. Previously, the university staff solved this thorny problem by hand, which is very time-consuming and makes it easy to fall into chaos. Even some meta-heuristic algorithms are proposed to solve UCSP automatically, while most only utilize one single algorithm, so the scheduling results still need improvement. Besides, they lack an in-depth analysis of the inner algorithms. Therefore, this paper presents a novel and practical approach based on Tabu search and simulated annealing algorithms for solving USCP. Firstly, the initial solution of the UCSP instance is generated by one construction heuristic algorithm, the first fit algorithm. Secondly, we defined one union move selector to control the moves and provide diverse solutions from initial solutions, consisting of two changing move selectors. Thirdly, Tabu search and simulated annealing (SA) are combined to filter out unacceptable moves in a parallel mode. Then, the acceptable moves are selected by one adaptive decision algorithm, which is used as the next step to construct the final solving path. Benefits from the excellent design of the union move selector, parallel tabu search and SA, and adaptive decision algorithm, the proposed method could effectively solve UCSP since it fully uses Tabu and SA. We designed and tested the proposed algorithm in one real-world (PKNU-UCSP) and ten random UCSP instances. The experimental results confirmed its effectiveness. Besides, the in-depth analysis confirmed each component's effectiveness for solving UCSP.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.22-28
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• 2009

We consider facility layout problems, where mn facility units are assigned into mn cells. These cells are arranged into a rectangular pattern with m rows and n columns. In order to solve this cell type facility layout problem, many approximation algorithms with improved local search methods were studied because it was quite difficult to find exact optimum of such problem in case of large size problem. In this paper, new algorithms based on Simulated Annealing (SA) method with two neighborhood generation methods are proposed. The new neighborhood generation method adopts the exchanging operation of facility units in accordance with adjacent preference. For evaluating the performance of the neighborhood generation method, three algorithms, previous SA algorithm with random 2-opt neighborhood generation method, the SA-based algorithm with the new neighborhood generation method (SA1) and the SA-based algorithm with probabilistic selection of random 2-opt and the new neighborhood generation method (SA2), are developed and compared by experiment of solving same example problem. In case of numeric examples with problem type 1 (the optimum layout is given), SA1 algorithm could find excellent layout than other algorithms. However, in case of problem type 2 (random-prepared and optimum-unknown problem), SA2 was excellent more than other algorithms.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.27-36
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• 2001

This paper proposes new design algorithms based on stochastic relaxation (SR) for an on-line vector quantizer (VQ) design. These proposed SR methods solve the local entrapment problems of the conventional Kohonen learning algorithm (KLA). These SR methods cover two different types depending upon the use of simulated annealing (SA) : the one that uses SA is called the OLVQ SA and the other the OLVQ SR. These methods arc combined with the KLA and therefore preserve the its convergence properties. Experimental results for Gauss Markov sources, real speech and image demonstrate that the proposed algorithms can consistently provide better codebooks than the KLA.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.99-106
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• 2005

The task scheduling in multiprocessor system Is one of the key elements in the effective utilization of multiprocessor systems. The optimal assignment of tasks to multiprocessor is, in almost all practical cases, an NP hard problem. Consequently various modern heuristics based algorithms have been proposed for practical reason. Recently, several approaches using Genetic Algorithm (GA) are proposed. However, these algorithms have only one objective such as minimizing cost and makespan. This paper proposes a new task scheduling algorithm using Genetic Algorithm combined simulated annealing (GA+SA) on multiprocessor environment. In solution algorithms, the Genetic Algorithm (GA) and the simulated annealing (SA) are cooperatively used. In this method. the convergence of GA is improved by introducing the probability of SA as the criterion for acceptance of new trial solution. The objective of proposed scheduling algorithm is to minimize makespan and total number of processors used. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is shown through simulation studies. In simulation studies, the results of proposed algorithm show better than that of other algorithms.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.153-159
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• 1998

Clustering or classification is a very fundamental task that may occur almost everywhere for the purpose of grouping. Optimal clustering is an example of very complicated combinatorial optimization problem and it is hard to develop a generally applicable optimal algorithm. In this paper we propose a general-purpose algorithm for the optimal clustering based on SA(simulated annealing). Among various iterative global optimization techniques imitating natural phenomena that have been proposed and utilized successfully for various combinatorial optimization problem, simulated annealing has its superiority because of its convergence property and simplicity. We first present a version of accelerated simulated annealing(ASA) and then we apply ASA to develop an efficient clustering algorithm. Application examples are also given.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.49 no.12
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• pp.589-594
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• 2000

The fuzzy controllers have been applied to the power system stabilizer due to its excellent properties on the nonlinear systems. But the design process of fuzzy controller requires empirical and heuristic knowledge of human experts as well as many trial-and-errors in general. This process is time consuming task. This paper presents an parameters tuning method of the fuzzy power system stabilizer using the genetic algorithm and simulated annealing(SA). The proposed method searches the local minimum point using the simulated annealing algorithm. The proposed method is applied to the one-machine infinite-bus of a power system. Through the comparative simulation with conventional stabilizer and fuzzy stabilizer tuned by genetic algorithm under various operating conditions and system parameters, the robustness of fuzzy stabilizer tuned by proposed method with respect to the nonlinear power system is verified.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.87-92
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• 2002

Placement is an important step in the physical design of VLSI circuits. It is the problem of placing a set of circuit modules on a chip to optimize the circuit performance. The most popular algorithms for placement include the cluster growth, simulated annealing and integer linear programming. In this paper we propose a stochastic evolution algorithm searching solution space for the placement problem, and then compare it with simulated annealing by analyzing the results of each implementation.