• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.55-61
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• 2020

Genetic Algorithm(GA) is applied to a problem that could not figure out its solution in a straightway. It is called as NP-hard problem. GA requires a high-performance system to be run on since the high-cost operations are needed such as crossover, selection, and mutation. Moreover, the scale of the problem domain is normally huge. That is why the straightway cannot be applied. To reduce the drawback of high-cost requirements, we try to answer if all the operations including mutation are necessary for all cases. In the experiment, we set up two cases of with/without mutation operations and gather the number of generations and the fitness of a solution. The subject in the experiment is Travelling Salesman Problem(TSP), which is one of the popular problems solved by GA. As a result, the cases with mutation operation are not faster and the solution is fitter than the case with mutation operation. From the result, the conclusion is that mutation operation does not always need for a better solution in a faster way.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.24-33
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• 2011

In this paper, we consider the Location-Routing Problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery (LRPSPD) which is a general case of the location-routing problem. The LRPSPD is defined as finding locations of the depots and designing vehicle routes in such a way that pickup and delivery demands of each customer must be performed with same vehicle and the overall cost is minimized. Since the LRPSPD is an NP-hard problem, we propose a hybrid heuristic approach based on genetic algorithms (GA) and simulated annealing (SA) to solve the problem. To evaluate the performance of the proposed approach, we conduct an experimental study and compare its results with those obtained by a branch-and-cut algorithm on a set of instances derived from the literature. Computational results indicate that the proposed hybrid algorithm is able to find optimal or very good quality solutions in a reasonable computation time.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.413-419
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• 2007

The optimal power flow (OPF) problem was introduced by Carpentier in 1962 as a network constrained economic dispatch problem. Since then, it has been intensively studied and widely used in power system operation and planning. In the past few decades, many stochastic optimization methods such as Genetic Algorithm (GA), Evolutionary Programming (EP), and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) have been applied to solve the OPF problem. In particular, PSO is a newly proposed population based stochastic optimization algorithm. The main idea behind it is based on the food-searching behavior of birds and fish. Compared with other stochastic optimization methods, PSO has comparable or even superior search performance for some hard optimization problems in real power systems. Nowadays, some modifications such as breeding and selection operators are considered to make the PSO superior and robust. In this paper, we propose the Modified PSO (MPSO), in which the mutation operator of GA is incorporated into the conventional PSO to improve the search performance. To verify the optimal solution searching ability, the proposed approach has been evaluated on an IEEE 3D-bus test system. The results showed that performance of the proposed approach is better than that of the standard PSO.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.203-208
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• 2011

Job shop scheduling is well-known as one of the hardest combinatorial optimization problems and has been demonstrated to be NP-hard problem. In the past decades, several researchers have devoted their effort to develop evolutionary algorithms such as Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for job shop scheduling problem. Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm is a more recent evolutionary algorithm which has been widely applied and shown its strength in many application areas. However, the applications of DE on scheduling problems are still limited. This paper proposes a one-stage differential evolution algorithm (1ST-DE) for job shop scheduling problem. The proposed algorithm employs random key representation and permutation of m-job repetition to generate active schedules. The performance of proposed method is evaluated on a set of benchmark problems and compared with results from an existing PSO algorithm. The numerical results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm is able to provide good solutions especially for the large size problems with relatively fast computing time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.539-542
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• 2004

배낭 문제는 조합 최적화 문제로서, 다항 시간(polynomial time)에 풀리지 않는 NP-hard 문제이다 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 기존에는 DNA 컴퓨팅 기법과 GA 등을 사용하여 해결하였다. 하지만 기존의 방법들은 DNA의 정확한 특성을 고려하지 않아, 실제 실험과의 결과 차이가 발생하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 DNA 컴퓨팅 실험 과정에서 발생하는 DNA 조작 오류를 최소화하고, 보다 정확한 예측을 위해 함수 언어인 Haskell을 이용한 코드 최적화 DNA-Haskell을 제안한다. 코드 최적화 DNA-Haskell은 배낭 문제 중 (0,1)-배낭 문제에 적용하였고, 그 결과 기존의 DNA 컴퓨팅 방법보다 실험적 오류를 최소화하였으며, 또한 적합한 해를 빠른 시간 내에 찾을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.429-432
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• 2010

그래프 분할 문제는 각각의 가중치가 주어진 에지와 노드를 정해진 목적에 맞게 몇 개의 그룹으로 분할하는 문제이다. 이 문제는 휴리스틱 방법으로 해결되어져 왔으나, NP-hard 문제로 인한 지역 최적해에 빠지기 쉬운 단점을 갖는다. 유전자 알고리즘이 해결 방법으로 제시되고 있는 가운데 단순 유전자 알고리즘에서 초기의 모집단 메모리(population memory)를 이용하여 적은 크기의 모집단을 생성하고 외부메모리에 최적해들을 저장하고 있어 GA의 효율성을 높이며, 다수의 지역 최적해에 빠지지 않게 하며 수렴 속도를 향상시키는 마이크로 유전자 알고리즘을 적용한다. ${\mu}$-GA를 통해 본 논문에서는 클러스터들의 가중치를 비교적 동일하게 하는 GPP를 해결하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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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.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.427-436
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• 2010

This paper deals with a task assignment problem of multiple UAVs performing multiple tasks on multiple targets. The task assignment problem of multiple UAVs is a kind of combinatorial optimization problems such as traveling salesman problem or vehicle routing problem, and it has NP-hard computational complexity. Therefore, computation time increases as the size of considered problem increases. To solve the problem efficiently, approximation methods or heuristic methods are widely used. In this study, the problem is formulated as a mixed integer linear program, and is solved by a mixed integer linear programming and a genetic algorithm, respectively. Numerical simulations for the environment of the multiple targets, multiple tasks, and obstacles were performed to analyze the optimality and efficiency of each method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.871-875
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• 2008

This paper deals with the feature selection for multiple k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) classifiers using Genetic Algorithm with Varying reputation Size (GAVaPS). Because we use multiple k-NN classifiers, the feature selection problem for them is vary hard and has large search region. To solve this problem, we employ the GAVaPS which outperforms comparison with simple genetic algorithm (SGA). Further, we propose the efficient combining method for multiple k-NN classifiers using GAVaPS. Experiments are performed to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.6
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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.