• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.517-523
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• 2004

The container load planning is one of key factors for efficient operations of handling equipments at container ports. When the number of containers are large, finding a good solution using the conventional genetic algorithm is very time consuming. To obtain a good solution with considerably small effort, in this paper a pseudo-parallel genetic algorithm(PPGA) based on both the migration model and the ring topology is developed The performance of the PPGA is demonstrated through a test problem of determining the optimal loading sequence of the containers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.314-320
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• 2005

In this paper, a methodology for estimating the parameters of a discrete-time system and designing a digital PID controller based on the estimated model and a genetic algorithm is presented. To deal with optimization problems occurring regarding parameter estimation and controller design, a pseudo parallel genetic algorithm (PPGA) is used. The parameters of a discrete-time system are estimated using both the model technique and a PPGA. The digital PID controller is described by the pulse transfer function and its parameters are tuned based on both the model reference technique and another PPGA. A set of experimental works on two processes are carried out to illustrate the performance of the proposed method.