• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제22권52호
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• pp.97-107
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• 1999

The asymmetric traveling salesman problem is a representative NP-Complete problem. Polynomial algorithm for this problem has not been yet found. So, many heuristic methods have been researched in this problem. We need heuristic methods that produce good answers for some larger problems in reasonable times. 3-opt is well known for the effective local-search heuristic method. It has been used in many applications of the asymmetric traveling salesman problem. This paper discusses 3-opt's properties and ineffective aspects and presents a highly effective heuristic method. 3-opt does not consider good arcs(shorter distance or little cost). This paper presents a fast heuritic algorithm compared with 3-opt by inserting good arcs and deleting related arcs later.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.86-98
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• 2007

This paper presents a heuristic algorithm for the traveling salesman problem with time windows (TSPTW). Aniterative insertion algorithm as a constructive search heuristic and a hybrid meta heuristic combining simulatedannealing and tabu search with the randomized selection of 2-interchange and a simple move operator as animproving search heuristic are proposed, Computational tests performed on 400 benchmark problem instancesshow that the proposed algorithm generates optimal or near-optimal solutions in most cases. New best knownheuristic values for many benchmark problem sets were obtained using the proposed approach.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제18B권2호
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• pp.73-82
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• 2011

메타 휴리스틱 알고리즘을 이용해 TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem) 문제를 풀고자 하는 많은 시도가 이루어지고 있다. TSP 문제는 대표적인 NP_Hard 문제로 탐색 알고리즘이나 최적화 알고리즘을 실험하는데 많이 사용되고 있으며, 복잡한 사회의 많은 문제들의 표준 모델로 제시되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 2009년 제안된 MINE 알고리즘을 TSP 에 적용시켜 메타 휴리스틱 알고리즘으로서의 탐색성능을 알아보고자 하였다. 이에 S-MINE (Search - MINE) 알고리즘을 제안하였으며, TSP 에 적용하여 그 결과를 고찰하였다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.129-138
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• 2003

The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is an NP-hard problem. As the number of nodes increases, it takes a lot of time to find an optimal solution. Instead of considering all arcs, if we select and consider only some arcs more likely to be included in an optimal solution, we can find efficiently an optimal solution. Arc candidate set is a group of some good arcs. For the Lack of study in the asymmetric TSP. it needs to research arc candidate set for the asymmetric TSP systematically. In this paper, we suggest a regression function determining arc candidate set for the asymmetric TSP. We established the function based on 2100 experiments, and we proved the goodness of fit for the model through various 787problems. The result showed that the optimal solutions obtained from our arc candidate set are equal to the ones of original problems. We expect that this function would be very useful to reduce the complexity of TSP.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.157-167
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• 2005

This paper presents a new perturbation technique for developing efficient iterated local search procedures for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem(ATSP). This perturbation technique uses global information on ATSP instances to speed-up computation and to improve the quality of the tours found by heuristic method. The main idea is to escape from a local optima by introducing perturbations on the out-of-kilter arcs in the problem instance. For a local search heuristic, we use the Kwon which finds optimum or near-optimum solutions by applying the out-of-kilter algorithm to the ATSP. The performance of our algorithm has been tested and compared with known method perturbing on randomly chosen arcs. A number of experiments has been executed both on the well-known TSPLIB instances for which the optimal tour length is known, and on randomly generated Instances. for 27 TSPLIB instances, the presented algorithm has found optimal tours on all instances. And it has effectively found tours near AP lower bound on randomly generated instances.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제23권61호
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• pp.127-135
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• 2000

This paper provides a new method of initializing neurons used in self-organizing neural networks and sequencing input nodes for applying to Euclidean traveling salesman problem. We use a general property that in any optimal solution for Euclidean traveling salesman problem, vertices located on the convex hull are visited in the order in which they appear on the convex hull boundary. We composite input nodes as number of convex hulls and initialize neurons as shape of the external convex hull. And then adapt input nodes as the convex hull unit and all convex hulls are adapted as same pattern, clockwise or counterclockwise. As a result of our experiments, we obtain l∼3 % improved solutions and these solutions can be used for initial solutions of any global search algorithms.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 추계종합학술대회 B
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• pp.783-786
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• 2008

외판원문제(Traveling Salesman problem: TSP)는 전형적인 조합최적화 문제로 위치하는 n개의 모든 지점을 오직 한번씩만 방문하는 순회경로를 결정하는 과정에서 순회비용 또는 순회거리를 최소화한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 종래의 NP-hard문제로 널리 알려진 TSP를 해결하기 위해서 메타 휴리스틱기법 중에서 가장 널리 이용되고 있는 유전 알고리즘(Genetic Algorithm: GA)을 이용한다. 마지막으로, 유전 알고리즘을 이용해 외판원문제에 적합한 성능을 보이는 유전 연산자를 찾아내기 위해 수치 실험을 통해 그 성능에 대한 평가를 한다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2020

외판원 순회문제(Traveling Salesman Problem)는 세일즈맨이 한 도시(node)를 출발하여 모든 도시를 한 번씩 방문한 후 다시 출발점으로 되돌아오는 최적 경로를 반환한다. 이 기법은 도시의 수가 늘어날수록 연산횟수가 기하급수적으로 늘어나는 단점으로 인해 실생활에서 여러 노드(node)를 방문해야 하는 놀이동산이나 택배에 적용하기에는 탐색 성능에 한계가 있다. 또한, 최적 경로 탐색은 각 노드 사이의 거리를 1차원 속성으로 사용하기 때문에 이동시간, 관심도, 대기시간 등의 다차원속성을 고려하는 사용자의 요구를 만족하기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 단점을 해결하기 위하여 Top-n 스카이라인 질의(Skyline query)를 이용한 다차원 외판원 순회문제(TS-MDT, Top-n Skyline-Multi Dimensional TSP) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안기법은 스카이라인의 지배원칙에 따라 다중 속성의 노드들을 제거함으로써 연산횟수의 감소를 통한 신속한 연산과 최적 경로를 반환한다. 실험에서는 1차원 속성의 데이터를 사용한 기존의 동적 계획법과 다차원속성을 처리하는 제안기법의 연산시간을 비교한 결과, 같은 데이터 개수일 때 다차원속성을 처리하는 제안기법이 더 빠른 것으로 나타났다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.193-201
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• 2023

In this paper, we consider the maximum scatter traveling salesman problem (MSTSP), a travelling salesman problem (TSP) variant. The problem aims to maximize the minimum length edge in a salesman's tour that travels each city only once in a network. It is a very complicated NP-hard problem, and hence, exact solutions can be found for small sized problems only. For large-sized problems, heuristic algorithms must be applied, and genetic algorithms (GAs) are found to be very successfully to deal with such problems. So, this paper develops a hybrid GA (HGA) for solving the problem. Our proposed HGA uses sequential sampling algorithm along with 2-opt search for initial population generation, sequential constructive crossover, adaptive mutation, randomly selected one of three local search approaches, and the partially mapped crossover along with swap mutation for perturbation procedure to find better quality solution to the MSTSP. Finally, the suggested HGA is compared with a state-of-art algorithm by solving some TSPLIB symmetric instances of many sizes. Our computational experience reveals that the suggested HGA is better. Further, we provide solutions to some asymmetric TSPLIB instances of many sizes.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한산업공학회/한국경영과학회 1993년도 춘계공동학술대회 발표논문 및 초록집; 계명대학교, 대구; 30 Apr.-1 May 1993
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• pp.354-366
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• 1993

In this paper, new algorithms for solving the multiple traveling salesman problem with time windows are presented. These algorithms are based on the flow based algorithms for solving the vehicle scheduling problem. Computational results on problems up to 750 customers indicate that these algorithms produce superior results to existing heuristic algorithms for solving the vehicle routing problems when the time windows are 'tight enough' where 'tight enough' is based on a metric proposed by desrosiers et al.(1987).