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A New Heuristic for the Generalized Assignment Problem

  • Joo, Jaehun
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.31-52
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    • 1997
  • The Generalized Assignment Problem(GAP) determines the minimum assignment of n tasks to m workstations such that each task is assigned to exactly one workstation, subject to the capacity of a workstation. In this paper, we presented a new heuristic search algorithm for GAPs. then we tested it on 4 different benchmark sample sets of random problems generated according to uniform distribution on a microcomputer.

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A New Heuristic for the Generalized Assignment Problem

  • 주재훈
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.31-31
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    • 1989
  • The Generalized Assignment Problem(GAP) determines the minimum assignment of n tasks to m workstations such that each task is assigned to exactly one workstation, subject to the capacity of a workstation. In this paper, we presented a new heuristic search algorithm for GAPs. Then we tested it on 4 different benchmark sample sets of random problems generated according to uniform distribution on a microcomputer.

An assignment method for part-machine cell formation problem in the presence of multiple process routes

  • Won, You-Kyung;Kim, Sehun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 1994.04a
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    • pp.236-243
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    • 1994
  • In this paper we consider the part-machine cell formation decision of the generalized Group Technology(GT) problem in which multiple process routes can be generated for each part. The existing p-median model and similarity coefficient algorithm can solve only small-sized or well-structured cases. We suggest an assignment method for the cell formation problem. This method uses an assignment model which is a simple linear programming. Numerical examples show that our assignment method provides good separable cells formation even for large-sized and ill-structured problems.

An Efficient Heuristic for the Generalized Assignment Problem

  • Kim, Tai-Yun
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.41-51
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    • 1988
  • In this paper an efficient heuristic for the generalized assignment problem(GAP) is presented. A new lower bound that is slightly improved by adding the feasibility constraint is used to measure the quality of solutions obtained by the heuristic. The heuristic was tested on a number of large-scale random problems and a large sample of small problems. The heuristic appears to be better than the best previously existing heuristic for GAP. Its effectiveness in comparison of running times and closenesses to lower bound is discussed.

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A new heuristics for the generalized assignment problem

  • Joo, Jaehun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 1995.04a
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    • pp.47-53
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    • 1995
  • The Generalized Assignment (GAP) determines the minimum assignment of n tasks to m workstations such that each task is assigned to exactly one workstation, subject to the capacity of a workstation. In this paper, we presented a new heuristic search algorithm for GAPs. Then we tested it on 4 different benchmark sample sets of random problems generated according to uniform distribution on a microcomputer.

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The Workload Assignment Problem in consideration of the Worker Pairing and the Workload Balancing (작업조 구성과 작업량 평준화를 고려한 작업할당문제에 관한 연구)

  • Shim, Dong-Hyun;Lee, Young-Hoon
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.263-277
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    • 2009
  • This research deals with a task assignment problem to worker group which consists of one master and one assistant. Each task must be assigned to only one worker group and it is possible to make a pair of each master and each assistant to organize a worker group. A worker group may have more than one task assigned to it, but the workloads of each worker group must be balanced within the allowable range. This problem can be formulated mathematically using the Mixed Integer Programming(MIP), where the objective function is to minimize the total assignment cost. A two phase heuristic algorithm is suggested in order to find approximate solutions. The first phase is to obtain an initial solution, where the initial assignment is performed to follow the workload adjustment. In the second phase, the solution is improved through the repeated process of the exchange and the assignment adjustment. Numerical experiments have been performed to evaluate the performance of the heuristic algorithm.

Unified Parametric Approaches for Observer Design in Matrix Second-order Linear Systems

  • Wu Yun-Li;Duan Guang-Ren
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.159-165
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    • 2005
  • This paper designs observers for matrix second-order linear systems on the basis of generalized eigenstructure assignment via unified parametric approach. It is shown that the problem is closely related with a type of so-called generalized matrix second-order Sylvester matrix equations. Through establishing two general parametric solutions to this type of matrix equations, two unified complete parametric methods for the proposed observer design problem are presented. Both methods give simple complete parametric expressions for the observer gain matrices. The first one mainly depends on a series of singular value decompositions, and is thus numerically simple and reliable; the second one utilizes the right factorization of the system, and allows eigenvalues of the error system to be set undetermined and sought via certain optimization procedures. A spring-mass system is utilized to show the effect of the proposed approaches.

Channel Assignment, Link Scheduling, Routing, and Rate Control for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks with Directional Antennas

  • Roh, Hee-Tae;Lee, Jang-Won
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.884-891
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    • 2016
  • The wireless mesh network (WMN) has attracted significant interests as a broadband wireless network to provide ubiquitous wireless access for broadband services. Especially with incorporating multiple orthogonal channels and multiple directional antennas into the WMN, each node can communicate with its neighbor nodes simultaneously without interference between them. However, as we allow more freedom, we need a more sophisticated algorithm to fully utilize it and developing such an algorithm is not easy in general. In this paper, we study a joint channel assignment, link scheduling, routing, and rate control problem for the WMN with multiple orthogonal channels and multiple directional antennas. This problem is inherently hard to solve, since the problem is formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear problem (MINLP). However, despite of its inherent difficulty, we develop an algorithm to solve the problem by using the generalized Benders decomposition approach [2]. The simulation results show the proposed algorithm provides the optimal solution to maximize the network utility, which is defined as the sum of utilities of all sessions.

Robust Controller Design for System with Uncertain Parameter (불확실한 파라메터를 갖고있는 시스템의 제어기 설계)

  • Park, Yong-Sik;Yeom, Jai-Myeong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1997.07b
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    • pp.636-638
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    • 1997
  • This paper deals with the problem of finding robust controller based upon a pole assignment method for a plant with parameter perturbations. This case is not a problem of Interval polynomial family but a problem of poly topic polynomial family. As a method of stability test, we used GKT(Generalized Kharitonov Theorem) having computational advantage.

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Optimization Algorithm for k-opt Swap of Generalized Assignment Problem (일반화된 배정 문제의 k-opt 교환 최적화 알고리즘)

  • Sang-Un Lee
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.151-158
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    • 2023
  • The researchers entirely focused on meta-heuristic method for generalized assignment problem(GAP) that is known as NP-hard problem because of the optimal solution within polynomial time algorithm is unknown yet. On the other hand, this paper proposes a heuristic greedy algorithm with rules for finding solutions. Firstly, this paper reduces the weight matrix of original data to wij ≤ bi/l in order to n jobs(items) pack m machines(bins) with l = n/m. The maximum profit of each job was assigned to the machine for the reduced data. Secondly, the allocation was adjusted so that the sum of the weights assigned to each machine did not exceed the machine capacity. Finally, the k-opt swap optimization was performed to maximize the profit. The proposed algorithm is applied to 50 benchmarking data, and the best known solution for about 1/3 data is to solve the problem. The remaining 2/3 data showed comparable results to metaheuristic techniques. Therefore, the proposed algorithm shows the possibility that rules for finding solutions in polynomial time exist for GAP. Experiments demonstrate that it can be a P-problem from an NP-hard.