• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.07a
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• pp.705-707
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 기존 차량 경로 문제(Vehicle Routing Problem)의 범위를 확장시켜 일반화된 차량 경로문제(Generalized Vehicle Routing Problem)를 제시하고, 이 문제를 해결하기 위한 강화학습 모델을 제안한다. 기존의 차량 경로 문제는 depot에서 각 node(또는 각 node에서 depot)의 단방향만 존재해 제한된 문제만을 해결할 수 있었다. 이 한계점을 극복하기 위해 depot을 제외한 모든 node가 서로 연결된 형태의 일반화된 차량 경로 문제를 정의하고 이를 해결하고자 한다. 차량 경로 문제는 NP-hard 문제로 최근에는 강화학습을 이용해 이를 해결하고자 하는 모델이 연구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 새로 정의한 일반화된 차량 경로 문제를 해결하기 위한 강화학습 모델을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.97-109
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• 2000

This work proposes a neural network approach to solve vehicle routing problems which have diverse application areas such as vehicle routing and robot programming. In solving these problems, classical mathematical approaches have many difficulties. In particular, it is almost impossible to implement a real-time vehicle routing with multiple vehicles. Recently, many researchers proposed methods to overcome the limitation by adopting heuristic algorithms, genetic algorithms, neural network techniques and others. The most basic model for path planning is the Travelling Salesman Problem(TSP) for a minimum distance path. We extend this for a problem with dynamic upcoming of new positions with multiple vehicles. In this paper, we propose an algorithm based on SOM(Self-Organization Map) to obtain a sub-optimal solution for a real-time vehicle routing problem. We develope a model of a generalized multiple TSP and suggest and efficient solving procedure.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.161-170
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• 2013

Deployment of green transportation in reverse logistics is a key issue for low carbon technologies. To cope with such logistic innovation, this paper proposes a hybrid approach to solve practical vehicle routing problem (VRP) of pickup type that is common when considering the reverse logistics. Noticing that transportation cost depends not only on distance traveled but also on weight loaded, we propose a hierarchical procedure that can design an economically efficient reverse logistics network even when the scale of the problem becomes very large. Since environmental concerns are of growing importance in the reverse logistics field, we need to reveal some prospects that can reduce $CO_2$ emissions from the economically optimized VRP in the same framework. In order to cope with manifold circumstances, the above idea has been deployed by extending the Weber model to the generalized Weber model and to the case with an intermediate destination. Numerical experiments are carried out to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach and to explore the prospects for future green reverse logistics.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.78-86
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• 2010

The traveling purchaser problem(TPP) is a generalization of the well-known traveling salesman problem(TSP), which has many real-world applications such as purchasing the required raw materials for the manufacturing factories and the scheduling of a set of jobs over some machines, and many others. TPP also could be extended to the vehicle routing problem(VRP) by incorporating additional constraints such as multi-purchaser, capacity, distance and time restrictions. In the last decade, TPP has received some attention of the researchers in the operational research area. However it has not received the equivalent interest as much as TSP and VRP. Therefore, there does not exist a review of the TPP. The purpose of this paper is to review the TPP and to describe solution procedures proposed for this problem. We also introduce the ILP formulation for the multiple TPP(mTPP) which is generalized type of TPP. We compare the system performance according to change from TPP to mTPP.