• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.304-310
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• 2011

The express courier business in Korea has been recognized as one of promising business sectors with the annual growth rate of over 10 percent since 2001. As such many domestic and foreign companies have been established and are fiercely competing to extend their own market share. The severe competition has forced them to focus on achieving cost competitiveness and high level of customer service. Small and medium-sized enterprises( SMEs) with relatively poor network infrastructure in particular are facing tougher challenges to cost reduction and efficiency improvement in their logistics networks. Strategic alliances among SMEs may be an effective way to cope with these challenges. Therefore this study proposes an integer programming model for compromised network design and its solution procedure based on maxmin and maxsum criteria for strategic alliances. The applicability and efficiency of the proposed model are demonstrated through an illustrative numerical example.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.331-341
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• 2011

This paper considers an inbound lot-sizing and outbound dispatching problem for a single product in a thirdparty logistics (3PL) distribution center. Demands are dynamic and finite over the discrete time horizon, and moreover, each demand has a delivery time window which is the time interval with the dates between the earliest and the latest delivery dates All the product amounts must be delivered to the customer in the time window. Ordered products are shipped by multiple vehicle types and the freight cost is proportional to the vehicle-types and the number of vehicles used. First, we formulate a mixed integer programming model. Since it is difficult to solve the model as the size of real problem being very large, we design a conventional genetic algorithm with a local search heuristic (HGA) and an improved genetic algorithm called adaptive genetic algorithm (AGA). AGA spontaneously adjusts crossover and mutation rate depending upon the status of current population. Finally, we conduct some computational experiments to evaluate the performance of AGA with HGA.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.190-197
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• 2013

People are living longer than ever before. As a result, life expectancy is going up and the demand of long-term care facilities is increasing in most countries. The facilities provide rehabilitative, restorative, and skilled nursing care to patients or residents in need of assistance with activities of daily living. This study deals with the capacitated location and allocation problem of long-term care facilities in a city that consists of a finite number of regions. Assuming that in each region candidate locations for three types of facilities are already given, two integer programming models are developed under the closest assignment rule reflecting the demand characteristics of the facilities. Both the location and type of the facilities to be built become decision variables. To show the validity of the models, numerical problems are solved with commercial software, CPLEX. Also, sensitivity studies were conducted to identify relationships between the system parameters.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.265-272
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• 2007

The purpose of Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is to design the least costly (distance, time) routes for a fleet of identically capacitated vehicles to serve geographically scattered customers. There may be some restrictions such as the maximal capacity for each vehicle, maximal distance for each vehicle, time window to visit the specific customers, and so forth. This paper is concerned with VRP to minimize the sum of elapsed time from departure, where the elapsed time is defined as the time taken in a moving vehicle from the depot to each customer. It is important to control the time taken from departure in the delivery of perishable products or foods, whose freshness may deteriorate during the delivery time. An integer linear programming formulation is suggested and a heuristic for practical use is constructed. The heuristic is based on the set partitioning problem whose performances are compared with those of ILOG dispatcher. It is shown that the suggested heuristic gave good solutions within a short computation time by computational experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.1416-1427
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• 2012

This paper proposes a design technique of a survivable ship backbone network, which describes a near optimal configuration scheme of physical and logical topologies of which the survivable ship backbone network consists. We first analyze and present an efficient architecture of a survivable ship backbone network consisting of redundant links and ship devices with dual communication interfaces. Then, we present an integer linear programming-based configuration scheme of a physical topology with regard to the proposed ship backbone network architecture. Finally, we present a metaheuristic-based configuration scheme of a logical topology, underlying the physical topology.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.79-88
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose efficient peer assignment algorithms for low-latency transmission of scalable coded images in peer-to-peer networks, in which peers may dynamically join and leave the networks. The objective of our algorithm is to minimize the transmission time of a requested image that is scalable coded. When an image is scalable coded in different bit rates, the bit stream encoded in a lower bit rate is a prefix subset of the one encoded in a higher bit rate. Therefore, a peer with the same requested image coded in any bit rate, even when it is different from the requested rate, may work as a supplying peer. As a result, when a scalable coded image is requested, more supplying peers can be found in peer-to-peer networks to help with the transfer. However, the set of supplying peers is not static during transmission, as the peers in this set may leave the network or finish their transmission at different times. The proposed peer assignment algorithms have taken into account the above constraints. In this paper, we first prove the existence of an optimal peer assignment solution for a simple identity permutation function, and then formulate peer assignment with this identity permutation as a mixed-integer programming problem. Next, we discuss how to address the problem of dynamic peer departures during image transmission. Finally, we carry out experiments to evaluate the performance of proposed peer assignment algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.319-321
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 다양한 캐리 전달 방식(carry propagation scheme)이 단일 가산기 설계를 위하여 복합적으로 사용되는 가산기 구조물 제안하며. 이를 통하여 보다 향상된 delay-area trade-off 점들을 갖는 설계공간을 생성한다. 제안된 구조의 가산기는 각기 다른 캐리전달 방식의 하부 가산기 블록들을 캐리 입/출력 신호를 선형으로 연결한 구조이며, 기존의 단일 캐리전달 방식의 가산기와 달리, 다양한 delay-area trade-off 특성을 갖는 여러 종류의 캐리전달 방식을 비트 수준에서 조합하여 사용함으로써 보다 섬세한 delay-area 설계공간을 생성해낼 수 있다. 그러나, 제안된 가산기 구조의 설계공간은 다양한 캐리전달 방식이 비트 수준에서 할당되므로, 할당가능한 설계 조합은 설계하고자 하는 가산기의 비트 폭과 고려하는 캐리전달 방식의 수에 비례하여 폭발적으로 증가하게 된다. 따라서, 제안된 가산기의 효율적이며, 자동화된 설계공간 탐색 방범이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위하여 정수 선형 프로그래밍 (Integer Linear Programming, ILP) 방법을 이용하여 제안한 가산기의 최적화 문제를 형식화함으로써 효과적인 설계공간의 탐색 방법을 제안하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.63-82
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• 2008

The explosively growing attractiveness of the Web is commencing significant demands for a structuring analysis on various web objects. The larger the substantial number of web objects are available, the more difficult for the clients(i.e. common web users and web robots) and the servers(i.e. Web search engine) to retrieve what they really want. We have in mind focusing on the structure of web objects by introducing optimization models for more convenient and effective information retrieval. For this purpose, we represent web objects and hyperlinks as a directed graph from which the optimal structures are derived in terms of rooted directed spanning trees and Top-k trees. Computational experiments are executed for synthetic data as well as for real web sites' domains so that the Lagrangian Relaxation approaches have exploited the Top-k trees and Hop constraint resolutions. In the experiments, our methods outperformed the conventional approaches so that the complex web graph can successfully be converted into optimal-structured ones within a reasonable amount of computation time.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.19-29
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• 2013

Refuse collection network design, one of major decision problems in reverse logistics, is the problem of locating collection points and allocating refuses at demand points to the opened collection points. As an extension of the previous models, we consider capacity and maximum allowable distance constraints at each collection point. In particular, the maximum allowable distance constraint is additionally considered to avoid the impractical solutions in which collection points are located too closely. Also, the additional distance constraint represents the physical distance limit between collection and demand points. The objective is to minimize the sum of fixed costs to open collection points and variable costs to transport refuses from demand to collection points. After formulating the problem as an integer programming model, we suggest an optimal branch and bound algorithm that generates all feasible solutions by a simultaneous location and allocation method and curtails the dominated ones using the lower bounds developed using the relaxation technique. Also, due to the limited applications of the optimal algorithm, we suggest two heuristics. To test the performances of the algorithms, computational experiments were done on a number of test instances, and the results are reported.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.12A
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• pp.1899-1909
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• 1999

Considering survivability in fiber-optic transmission networks using B-DCS(Broadband Digital Cross-connect System), a network design problem consists of WCAP(Working Channel Assignment Problem) and SCAP(Spare Channel Assignment Problem). WCAP has not been studied intensively as a part of a network design problem to minimize total network cost while SCAP has been studied in the several papers as an independent problem. In this study, we developed a WSCAP(Working and Spare Channel Assignment Problem) algorithm which is to minimize the total number of spare channels and working channels. After problem description, an IP(Integer Programming) model is formulated and several heuristic algorithms are presented. Finally, the result of a case study is described.