• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.28 no.1_2
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• pp.283-293
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• 2010

In this paper, inverse constrained minimum spanning tree problem under Hamming distance. Such an inverse problem is to modify the weights with bound constrains so that a given feasible solution becomes an optimal solution, and the deviation of the weights, measured by the weighted Hamming distance, is minimum. We present a strongly polynomial time algorithm to solve the inverse constrained minimum spanning tree problem under Hamming distance.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.10-19
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• 2005

The minimum spanning tree (MST) problem is one of the traditional optimization problems. Unlike the MST, the degree constrained minimum spanning tree (DCMST) of a graph cannot, in general, be found using a polynomial time algorithm. So, finding the DCMST of a graph is a well-known NP-hard problem of importance in communications network design, road network design and other network-related problems. So, it seems to be natural to use evolutionary algorithms for solving DCMST. Especially, when applying an evolutionary algorithm to spanning tree problems, a representation and search operators should be considered simultaneously. This paper introduces a new tree representation scheme and a genetic operator for solving combinatorial tree problem using evolutionary algorithms. We performed empirical comparisons with other tree representations on several test instances and could confirm that the proposed method is superior to other tree representations. Even it is superior to edge set representation which is known as the best algorithm.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.10C no.3
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• pp.367-376
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• 2003

This study deals with the DCMST (Delay constrained Capacitated Minimum Spanning Tree) problem applied in the topological design of local networks or finding several communication paths from root node. While the traditional CMST problem has only the traffic capacity constraint served by a port of root node, the DCMST problem has the additional mean delay constraint of network. The DCMST problem consists of finding a set of spanning trees to link end-nodes to the root node satisfying the traffic requirements at end-nodes and the required mean delay of network. The objective function of problem is to minimize the total link cost. This paper presents two-phased heuristic algorithm, which consists of node exchange, and node shift algorithm based on the trade-off criterions, and mean delay algorithm. Actual computational experience and performance analysis show that the proposed algorithm can produce better solution than the existing algorithm for the CMST problem to consider the mean delay constraint in terms of cost.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.191-198
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• 2003

The generalized knapsack problem or gknap is the combinatorial optimization problem of optimizing a nonnegative linear function over the integral hull of the intersection of a polynomially separable 0-1 polytope and a knapsack constraint. The knapsack, the restricted shortest path, and the constrained spanning tree problem are a partial list of gknap. More interesting1y, all the problem that are known to have a fully polynomial approximation scheme, or FPTAS are gknap. We establish some necessary and sufficient conditions for a gknap to admit an FPTAS. To do so, we recapture the standard scaling and approximate binary search techniques in the framework of gknap. This also enables us to find a weaker sufficient condition than the strong NP-hardness that a gknap does not have an FPTAS. Finally, we apply the conditions to explore the fully polynomial approximability of the constrained spanning problem whose fully polynomial approximability is still open.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.31-39
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• 2015

The degree-constrained minimum spanning tree (d-MST) problem is considered NP-complete for no exact solution-yielding polynomial algorithm has been proposed to. One thus has to resort to an heuristic approximate algorithm to obtain an optimal solution to this problem. This paper therefore presents a polynomial time algorithm which obtains an intial solution to the d-MST with the help of Kruskal's algorithm and performs k-opt on the initial solution obtained so as to derive the final optimal solution. When tested on 4 graphs, the algorithm has successfully obtained the optimal solutions.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.268-276
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• 2005

This paper deals with optimum communication spanning tree(OCST) problem. Generally, OCST problem is known as NP-hard problem and recently, it is reveled as MAX SNP hard by Papadimitriou and Yannakakis. Nevertheless, many researchers have used polynomial approximation algorithm for solving this problem. This paper uses evolutionary algorithm. Especially, when an evolutionary algorithm is applied to tree network problem such as the OCST problem, representation and genetic operator should be considered simultaneously because they affect greatly the performance of algorithm. So, we introduce a new representation method to improve the weakness of previous representation which is proposed for solving the degree constrained minimum spanning tree problem. And we also propose a new decoding method to generate a reliable tree using the proposed representation. And then, for finding a suitable genetic operator which works well on the proposed representation, we tested three kinds of genetic operators using the information of network or the genetic information of parents. Consequently, we could confirm that the proposed method gives better results than the previous methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.23-30
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• 2002

본 연구는 추가제약이 있는 최소 신장나무 문제(Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree : CMST문제)에 대한 유사다항시간 알고리듬 및 근사 해법 개발에 관한 것이다. CMST문제는 NP-hard문제임이 이미 증명되었으며, 이후 이 문제에 대해서는 근사해법 개발이 주된 관심이 되어왔다 [Ravi and Goemans 96]는 다항시간 근사 해법(PTAS)을 이미 개발하였고, [Marathe et at 98]은 가능해(feasible solution)는 아니지만, 앞으로 서술할 $(1+1/\varepsilon,\;+\epsilon)$사해를 구하는 완전다항시간 근사해법 (FPTAS)을 제시하였다. 이와는 달리 [Papa. and Yan, 00]는 파레토 근사 최적해를 구하는 FPTAS를 제시하였는데, 본 연구는 이들의 연구에서 주로 의존하고 있는 행렬-나무 정리(Tree-Matrix Theorem)를 보다 일반화하여, CMST문제에 대한 유사다항시간 알고리듬과 $(1+\varepsilon,\;1+\epsilon)$근사해를 구하는 FPTAS를 제시할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.195-204
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• 2003

Network optimization is being increasingly important and fundamental issue in the fields such as engineering, computer science, operations research, transportation, telecommunication, decision support systems, manufacturing, and airline scheduling. Networks provide a useful way to modeling real world problems and are extensively used in practice. Many real world applications impose on more complex issues, such as, complex structure, complex constraints, and multiple objects to be handled simultaneously and make the problem intractable to the traditional approaches. Recent advances in evolutionary computation have made it possible to solve such practical network optimization problems. The invited talk introduces a thorough treatment of evolutionary approaches, i.e., hybrid genetic algorithms approach to network optimization problems, such as, fixed charge transportation problem, minimum cost and maximum flow problem, minimum spanning tree problem, multiple project scheduling problems, scheduling problem in FMS.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.275-277
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• 1998

최근 Ravi와 Goemanns는 즉 전체 길이의 합이 일정한 값을 넘지 않는 최소비용신장나무(minimum spanning tree problem)를 구하는 문제의 (1+$\varepsilon$,1)-근사해를 구할 수 있는 알고리듬을 제시하였다. 즉 비용은 최적을 보장하지만 전체길이 제약조건은 근사적으로 만족하는 해를 생성한다. 그러나 이러한 알고리듬은 문제의 비가능해를 생성 할 수 있으며 1/$\varepsilon$에 대하여 지수함수의 수행시간을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 Ravi와 Geomanns의 알고리듬을 실용적으로 변형하여 전체 길이 제약조건을 정확히 만족하며, 그 비용은 최적비용과의 차이가 호의 비용 중 최대값을 넘지 않도록 보장하는 강성다항식 알고리듬을 제사한다.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.109-121
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• 2007

This paper focuses on algorithms based on the evolution, which is applied to various optimization problems. Especially, among these algorithms based on the evolution, we investigate the simple genetic algorithm based on Darwin's evolution, the Lamarckian algorithm based on Lamark's evolution and the Baldwin algorithm based on the Baldwin effect and also Investigate the difference among them in the biological and engineering aspects. Finally, through this comparison, we suggest a new algorithm to find more various solutions changing the genotype or phenotype search space and show the performance of the proposed method. Conclusively, the proposed method showed superior performance to the previous method which was applied to the constrained minimum spanning tree problem and known as the best algorithm.