• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.185-191
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• 2023

To the exact cover problem that remains NP-complete to which no polynomial time algorithm is made available, this paper proposes a linear time algorithm that yields an optimal solution. The proposed algorithm makes use of the set cover problem's major feature which states that "no identical element shall be included in more than one covering set". To satisfy this criterion, the proposed algorithm initially selects a subset with the minimum cardinality and deletes those that contain the cardinality identical to that of the selected subset. This process is repeatedly performed on remaining subsets until the final solution is obtained. Provided that the solution is unattainable, it selects subsets with the maximum cardinality and repeats the same process. The proposed algorithm has not only obtained the optimal solution with ease but also proved its wide applicability on N-queens problems, hence disproving the NP-completeness of the exact cover problem.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.263-269
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• 2014

In this paper, I disprove Hadwiger conjecture of the vertex coloring problem, which asserts that "All $K_k$-minor free graphs can be colored with k-1 number of colors, i.e., ${\chi}(G)=k$ given $K_k$-minor." Pursuant to Hadwiger conjecture, one shall obtain an NP-complete k-minor to determine ${\chi}(G)=k$, and solve another NP-complete vertex coloring problem as a means to color vertices. In order to disprove Hadwiger conjecture in this paper, I propose an algorithm of linear time complexity O(V) that yields the exact solution to the vertex coloring problem. The proposed algorithm assigns vertex with the minimum degree to the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) and repeats this process on a simplified graph derived by deleting adjacent edges to the MIS vertex so as to finally obtain an MIS with a single color. Next, it repeats the process on a simplified graph derived by deleting edges of the MIS vertex to obtain an MIS whose number of vertex color corresponds to ${\chi}(G)=k$. Also presented in this paper using the proposed algorithm is an additional algorithm that searches solution of ${\chi}^{{\prime}{\prime}}(G)$, the total chromatic number, which also remains NP-complete. When applied to a $K_4$-minor graph, the proposed algorithm has obtained ${\chi}(G)=3$ instead of ${\chi}(G)=4$, proving that the Hadwiger conjecture is not universally applicable to all the graphs. The proposed algorithm, however, is a simple algorithm that directly obtains an independent set minor of ${\chi}(G)=k$ to assign an equal color to the vertices of each independent set without having to determine minors in the first place.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.2865-2870
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• 2015

Recently, due to the hardware computing enhancement such as quantum computers, the amount of information that can be processed in a short period of time is growing exponentially. The cryptography system proposed by Koblitz and Fellows has a problem that it can not be guaranteed that the problem finding perfect dominating set is NP-complete in specific 3-regular graphs because the number of invariant polynomial can not be generated enough. In this paper, we propose an enhanced method to improve the vulnerability in 3-regular graph by generating plenty of invariant polynomials.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.2 no.10
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• pp.1349-1354
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• 2001

In the Traveling Salesman Problem(TSP), a set of N cities is given and the problem is to find the shortest route connecting them all, with no city visited twice and return to the city at which it started. Since TSP is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem and belongs to the class of NP-complete problems, various techniques are required for finding optimum or near optimum solution to the TSP. Especially DNA computing, which uses real bio-molecules to perform computations supported by molecular biology, has been studied by many researchers to solve NP-complete problem using massive parallelism of DNA computing. Though very promising, DNA computing technology of today is inefficiency because the effective computing models and operations reflected the characteristics of bio-molecules have not been developed yet. In this paper, I design new Polymerase Chain Reaction(PCR) operations of DNA computing to solve TSP.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.169-173
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• 2014

Nobody has yet been able to determine the optimal solution conclusively whether NP-complete problems are in fact solvable in polynomial time. Gu$\acute{e}$ret et al. tries to obtain the optimal solution using linear programming with $O(m^4)$ time complexity for barge loading problem a kind of bin packing problem that is classified as nondeterministic polynomial time (NP)-complete problem. On the other hand, this paper suggests the loading rule of profit priority rank algorithm with O(m log m) time complexity. This paper decides the profit priority rank firstly. Then, we obtain the initial loading result using the rule of loading the good has profit priority order. Finally, we balance the loading and capability of barge swap the goods of unloading in previously loading in case of under loading. As a result of experiments, this algorithm reduces the $O(m^4)$ of linear programming to O(m log m) time complexity for NP-complete barge loading problem.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.159-165
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• 2013

This paper proposes a O(E) polynomial-time algorithm that has been devised to simultaneously solve edge-coloring problem and graph classification problem both of which remain NP-complete. The proposed algorithm selects an edge connecting maximum and minimum degree vertices so as to determine the number of edge coloring ${\chi}^{\prime}(G)$. Determined ${\chi}^{\prime}(G)$ is in turn either ${\Delta}(G)$ or ${\Delta}(G)+1$. Eventually, the result could be classified as class 1 if ${\chi}^{\prime}(G)={\Delta}(G)$ and as category 2 if ${\chi}^{\prime}(G)={\Delta}(G)+1$. This paper also proves Vizing's planar graph conjecture, which states that 'all simple, planar graphs with maximum degree six or seven are of class one, closing the remaining possible case', which has known to be NP-complete.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.54 no.3
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• pp.286-288
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• 2018

Moraxella osloensis NP7 was isolated from human skin of a collage male and showed resistance to ${\beta}-lactam$ and aminoglycoside antibiotics. Herein, we report the complete whole-genome sequence and gene annotations of M. osloensis NP7. It possesses single circular chromosome and seven plasmids. Chromosome is 2,389,582 bp in length with the G + C content of 43.9% and encodes 2,065 protein-coding genes. The combined seven plasmids are 654,202 bp in size with the average G + C content of 40.5% and code for a total of 667 protein-coding genes. The chromosome of NP7 strain contains four ribosomal RNA operon copies, one transfer-messenger RNA gene, forty-seven tRNA genes, three riboswitch genes and three CRISPR arrays. Additional CRISPR array is found in the plasmid pNP7-1. The genes conferring resistance to ${\beta}-lactam$ and aminoglycoside antibiotics were predicted to reside in the plasmid pNP7-1.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.135-139
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• 2009

The problems to compute the distances or similarities of multiple strings have been vigorously studied in such diverse fields as pattern matching, web searching, bioinformatics, computer security, etc. One well-known method to compare multiple strings in the given set is finding a consensus string which is a representative of the given set. There are two objective functions that are frequently used to find a consensus string, one is the radius and the other is the consensus error. The radius of a string x with respect to a set S of strings is the smallest number r such that the distance between the string x and each string in S is at most r. A consensus string based on radius is a string that minimizes the radius with respect to a given set. The consensus error of a string with respect to a given set S is the sum of the distances between x and all the strings in S. A consensus string of S based on consensus error is a string that minimizes the consensus error with respect to S. In this paper, we show that the problem of finding a consensus string based on radius is NP-complete when the distance function is a metric.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.1151-1154
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• 2001

외판원 문제(Traveling Salesman Problem)는 주어진 n개의 도시들과 그 도시들간의 거리비용이 주어졌을 때, 모든 도시들을 정확히 한번씩만 방문하면서 걸린 비용이 최소가 드는 경로를 찾는 문제로 최적해(optimal)을 구하는 것은 전형적인 NP-완전 문제중의 하나이다. 따라서 외판원 문제를 해결하는 다양한 알고리즘들이 개발되고 있다. 특히 요즈음은 실제 생체 분자(bio-molecule)를 계산의 도구로 사용하는 새로운 계산 방법인 DNA 컴퓨팅은 DNA 분자가 잠재적으로 가지고 있는 막대한 병렬성을 이용해서 NP-완전 문제들을 해결하고자 하는 연구들이 땀이 진행되고 있다. 그러나 아직 실제 생체 분자의 특성을 잘 반영하는 계산 모델이나 분자 생물학에서 사용하는 연산들이 많이 개발되지 알아 계산 효율이 비교적 좋지 않다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 외판원 문제를 해결하기 위한 DAN컴퓨팅의 새로운 중합 효소 연쇄 반응(Polymerase Chain Reaction, PCR) 연산을 개발하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.668-670
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• 2000

공개키 암호 알고리즘의 암호화 함수는 한 방향으로의 계산은 매우 쉬우나, 역 계산은 매우 어렵다는 일방향성과 특별한 정보를 가지면 역 계산이 가능하다는 트랩도어(trapdoor)성질이 있어야 하기 때문에 NP 문제나 계산상 풀기 어려운 수학 문제에 기반하여 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 정수 계획법이라는 NP-완전 문제를 이용한 새로운 공개키 암호 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이 알고리즘의 키 생성 방식은 기존의 배낭꾸리기 암호 TTMXPA의 방식과 유사히지만 기존 시스템의 공격 대상이었던 비밀키가 가지는 취약성을 보완하였다.