• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.170-177
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• 2014

Genetic Algorithms are robust search and optimization techniques but have some problems such as premature convergence and convergence to local extremum. As population diversity converges to low value, the search ability decreases and converges to local extremum but population diversity converges to high value, then the search ability increases and converges to global optimum or genetic algorithm may diverge. To guarantee that genetic algorithms converge to the global optima, the genetic operators should be chosen properly. In this paper, we propose the genetic operators with the hybrid function of the average Hamming distance and the fitness value to maintain the diversity of the GA's population for escaping from the premature convergence. Results of simulation studies verified the effects of the mutation operator for maintaining diversity and the other operators for improving convergence properties as well as the feasibility of using proposed genetic operators on convergence properties to avoid premature convergence and convergence to local extremum.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.527-531
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• 2012

In this paper, a novel DPSO-QI (Distributed PSO with quantum-infusion mechanism) algorithm improving one of the fatal defect, the so-called premature convergence, that degrades the performance of the conventional PSO algorithms is proposed. The proposed scheme has the following two distinguished features. First, a concept of neighborhood of each particle is introduced, which divides the whole swarm into several small groups with an appropriate size. Such a strategy restricts the information exchange between particles to be done only in each small group. It thus results in the improvement of particles' diversity and further minimization of a probability of occurring the premature convergence phenomena. Second, a quantum-infusion (QI) mechanism based on the quantum mechanics is introduced to generate a meaningful offspring in each small group. This offspring in our PSO mechanism improves the ability to explore a wider area precisely compared to the conventional one, so that the degree of precision of the algorithm is improved. Finally, some numerical results are compared with those of the conventional researches, which clearly demonstrates the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed DPSO-QI algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.502-509
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• 2002

Maximal Covering 문제(MCP)란 행렬 상에서 n개의 열(column) 중 p개를 선택하여 m개의 행(row)중 최대한 많은 행을 cover하는 문제로 정의된다. 본 논문에서는 MCP를 유전 알고리즘(Genetic Algorithm)으로 해결하기 위해 문제에 적합하게 설계된 교차 연산자(crossover operator)와 비발현 유전인잔(unexpressed gene)를 가진 새로운 염색체 구조를 제시한다. 해결하고자 하는 대상 MCP의 규모가 매우 큰 경우 전통적인 임의교차(random crossover) 방법으로는 좋은 결과를 얻기가 힘들다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 그리디 교차(greedy crossover) 방법을 제시하여 문제를 해결한다. 그러나 이러한 그리디 교차를 사용하더라도 조기 수렴 등의 문제로 인해 타부 탐색 등의 이웃해 탐색 방법에 비해 그리 좋은 결과를 얻기가 힘들다. 본 논문은 이러한 조기 수렴 문제를 해결하고 다른 이웃에 탐색 방법보다 더 좋은 결과를 얻기 위해 비발현 유전인자(unexpressed gene)를 가진 염색체를 도입하여 해결함을 특징으로 한다. 비발현 유전인자는 교차 과정에서 자식 염색체의 유전인자로 전달되지 않은 정보 중 나중에라도 유용할 가능성이 보이는 정보를 보존하는 역할을 하여 조기 수렴 문제를 해결하는데 도움을 주어 보다 나은 결과를 얻을 수 있게 해준다. 대규모 MCP를 해결하는 실험에서 새로운 비발현 유전인자를 적용한 유전 알고리즘이 기존의 유전 알고리즘뿐만 아니라 다른 탐색 기법에 비해 더욱 좋은 성능을 보여줌을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.59-65
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• 1989

In this study, improvement of accuracy in a plain slope analysis is a main object using the bundle adjustment with changing the convergent angles and the configurations of control points when we can't take convergent case because of poor environment around establishment and cultural assets. From converged photographing using the angle of deviation, it was possible to improve accuracy in a plain slope analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.1728-1731
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 부모 개체의 해밍 거리에 기반하여 선택적 변이연산을 적용한 유전알고리즘을 제안한다. 유전자 형이 매우 유사한 개체들 간의 유전연산은 알고리즘의 탐색성능을 저하시키고 조기 수렴의 가능성을 증가시킨다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 현상을 극복하기 위하여, 교차연산 시 선택된 두 부모 개체간의 해밍 거리에 따라 그 값이 낮으면 교차연산 후 생성된 두 자식 개체 중 한쪽에게 높은 변이확률을 적용하고 다른 한쪽 자식은 부모와 비슷한 유전자 형으로 탐색을 계속하게 하여 조기 수렴을 방지하면서 해집단의 다양성 유지 기능을 향상 시켰다. 제안한 유전 알고리즘을 다차원 배낭 문제에 적용한 결과, 같은 조건에서 단순 유전 알고리즘(SGA) 보다 향상된 탐색 성능을 보여주었다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.305-313
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• 2002

The genetic algorithm(GA), an optimization technique based on the theory of natural selection, has proven to be relatively robust means to search for global optimum. It is converged near to the global optimum point without auxiliary information such as differentiation of function. When studying some optimization problems with continuous variables, it was found that premature saturation was reached that is no further improvement in the object function could be found over a set of iterations. Also, the general GA oscillates in the region of the new global optimum point so that the speed of convergence is decreased. This paper is to propose the concept of restarting and elitist preserving strategy as a measure to overcome this difficulty. Some benchmark examples are studied involving 3-bar truss and cantilever beam with plane stress elements. The modifications to GA improve the speed of convergence.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.207-210
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• 2012

Genetic algorithms(GA) are well known and very popular stochastic optimization algorithm. Although, GA is very powerful method to find the global optimum, it has some drawbacks, for example, premature convergence to local optima, slow convergence speed to global optimum. To enhance the performance of GA, this paper proposes an adaptive partitioning-based genetic algorithm. The partitioning method, which enables GA to find a solution very effectively, adaptively divides the search space into promising sub-spaces to reduce the complexity of optimization. This partitioning method is more effective as the complexity of the search space is increasing. The validity of the proposed method is confirmed by applying it to several bench mark test function examples and the optimization of fuzzy controller for the control of an inverted pendulum.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.39-47
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• 2011

Ergezinger's method, one of the layer-by-layer algorithms used for multilyer perceptrons, consists of an output node and can make premature saturations in the output's weight because of using linear least squared method in the output layer. These saturations are obstacles to learning time and covergence. Therefore, this paper expands Ergezinger's method to be able to use an output vector instead of an output node and introduces a learning rate to improve learning time and convergence. The learning rate is a variable rate that reflects the correlation coefficient between new weight and previous weight while updating hidden's weight. To compare the proposed method with Ergezinger's method, we tested iris recognition and nonlinear approximation. It was found that the proposed method showed better results than Ergezinger's method in learning convergence. In the CPU time considering correlation coefficient computation, the proposed method saved about 35% time than the previous method.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.6276-6281
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• 2014

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are efficient methods for search and optimization problems. On the other hand, there are some problems associated with the premature convergence to local optima of the multimodal function, which has multi peaks. The problem is related to the lack of genetic diversity of the population to cover the search spaces sufficiently. A sharing and crowding method were introduced. This paper proposed strategies to improve the convergence speed and the convergence to the global optimum for solving the multimodal optimization function. These strategies included the random generated sub-population that were well-distributed and spread widely through search spaces. The results of the simulation verified the effects of the proposed method.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.412-419
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• 2008

Genetic algorithms are efficient techniques for searching optimum solution but have the premature convergence problem getting stuck in the local optimum according to the evolutionary operator. In this paper we analyzed the reason for converging to the local optimum and proposed the method which able transit to the global optimum from the local optimum. In these methods we used the variable evolutionary operator with the average hamming distance, to maintain the genetic diversity of the population for getting out of the local optimum. The theoretical results are proved by the simulation experiments.