• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.201-217
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• 2007

Two combinatorial optimization algorithms, tabu search and simulated annealing, are presented for the minimum-weight design of geometrically non-linear steel plane frames. The design algorithms obtain minimum weight frames by selecting suitable sections from a standard set of steel sections such as American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) wide-flange (W) shapes. Stress constraints of AISC Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) specification, maximum and interstorey drift constraints and size constraints for columns were imposed on frames. The stress constraints of AISC Allowable Stress Design (ASD) were also mounted in the two algorithms. The comparisons between AISC-LRFD and AISC-ASD specifications were also made while tabu search and simulated annealing were used separately. The algorithms were applied to the optimum design of three frame structures. The designs obtained using tabu search were compared to those where simulated annealing was considered. The comparisons showed that the tabu search algorithm yielded better designs with AISC-LRFD code specification.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.41-53
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• 2016

Static repositioning is a well-known and commonly used strategy to maximize customer satisfaction in public bike-sharing systems. Repositioning is performed by trucks at night when no customers are in the system. In models that represent the static repositioning problem, the decision variables are truck routes and the number of bikes to pick up and deliver at each rental station. To simplify the problem, the decision on the number of bikes to pick up and deliver is implicitly included in the truck routes. Two relocation-based local search algorithms (1-relocate and 2-relocate) with the best-accept strategy are incorporated into a variable neighborhood search (VNS) to obtain high-quality solutions for the problem. The performances of the VNS algorithm with the effect of local search algorithms and shaking strength are evaluated with data on Tashu public bike-sharing system operating in Daejeon, Korea. Experiments show that VNS based on the sequential execution of two local search algorithms generates good, reliable solutions.

• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.55-58
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• 2009

A ligand-receptor docking program is an indispensible tool in modern pharmaceutical design. An accurate prediction of small molecular docking pose to a receptor is essential in drug design as well as molecular recognition. An effective docking program requires the ability to locate a correct binding pose in a surprisingly complex conformational space. However, there is an inherent difficulty to predict correct binding pose. The odds are more demanding than finding a needle in a haystack. This mainly comes from the flexibility of both ligand and receptor. Because the searching space to consider is so vast, receptor rigidity has been often applied in docking programs. Even nowadays the receptor may not be considered to be fully flexible although there have been some progress in search algorithm. Improving the efficiency of searching algorithm is still in great demand to explore other applications areas with inherently flexible ligand and/or receptor. In addition to classical search algorithms such as molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, genetic algorithm and simulated annealing, rather recent algorithms such as tabu search, stochastic tunneling, particle swarm optimizations were also found to be effective. A good search algorithm would require a good balance between exploration and exploitation. It would be a good strategy to combine algorithms already developed. This composite algorithms can be more effective than an individual search algorithms.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.6-12
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• 2001

Evolutionary algorithms(EAs) have been successfully applied to many combinatorial optimization problems of various engineering fields. Recently, some comparative studies of EAs with other stochastic search algorithms have, however, shown that they are similar to, or even are not comparable to other heuristic search. In this paper, a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm utilizing a new local heuristic search, for combinatorial optimization problems, is presented. The new intelligent local heuristic search is described, and the behavior of the hybrid search algorithm is investigated on two well-known problems: traveling salesman problems (TSPs), and quadratic assignment problems(QAPs). The results indicate that the proposed hybrid is able to produce solutions of high quality compared with some of evolutionary and simulated annealing.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2003년도 ISIS 2003
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• pp.183-186
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• 2003

Hybrid genetic algorithms (HGAs) have been studied as various ways. These HGAs usually use both the global search property of genetic algorithm (GA) and the local search one of local search techniques. One of the general types, when constructing HGAs, is to incorporate a local search technique into GA loop, and then the local search technique is repeated as many iteration number as the loop. This paper proposes a new HGA with a conditional local search technique (c-HGA) that does not be repeated as many iteration number as GA loop. For effectiveness of the proposed c-HGA, a conventional HGA and GA are also suggested, and then these algorithms are compared with each other in numerical examples,

• ETRI Journal
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.782-793
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• 2017

This paper considers the use of the Partial Transmit Sequence (PTS) technique to reduce the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal in wireless communication systems. Search complexity is very high in the traditional PTS scheme because it involves an extensive random search over all combinations of allowed phase vectors, and it increases exponentially with the number of phase vectors. In this paper, a suboptimal metaheuristic algorithm for phase optimization based on an improved harmony search (IHS) is applied to explore the optimal combination of phase vectors that provides improved performance compared with existing evolutionary algorithms such as the harmony search algorithm and firefly algorithm. IHS enhances the accuracy and convergence rate of the conventional algorithms with very few parameters to adjust. Simulation results show that an improved harmony search-based PTS algorithm can achieve a significant reduction in PAPR using a simple network structure compared with conventional algorithms.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.295-298
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• 2002

This paper presents a fast block-matching algorithm to improve the conventional Three-Step Search (TSS) based method. The proposed Comparison Fast Block Matching Algorithm (CFBMA) begins with DAB for adaptive search range to choose searching method, and searches a part of search window that has high possibility of motion vector like other partial search algorithms. The CFBMA also considers the opposite direction to reduce local minimum, which is ignored in almost conventional based partial search algorithms. CFBMA uses the summation half-stop technique to reduce the computational load. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm achieves the high computational complexity compression effect and very close or better image quality compared with TSS, SES, NTSS based partial search algorithms.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.42-47
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• 2010

마이크로 마우스를 이용한 다수의 미로 경진대회가 개최되어 미로 탐색 알고리즘의 성능이 비교되고 있으며, 미로 탐색 알고리즘은 좌(우)수법, 구심법, 언덕오르기 등을 기본으로 하여 다양한 형태로 적용되어 사용되고 있다. 하지만 미로 탐색알고리즘을 적용하여 테스트하기 위한 소프트웨어 플랫폼이 없어서 프로그램을 직접 개발하거나 하드웨어를 통해 알고리즘의 성능을 테스트해야 하는 불편함을 겪는다. 본 연구에서는 하드웨어로 구현이 어려운 다양한 형태의 미로 제작과 알고리즘의 손쉬운 적용이 가능하고, 스텝, 연산 횟수, 탐색 시간의 평가가 가능한 미로 탐색 알고리즘을 위한 플랫폼을 개발하였다. 플랫폼은 메인 레이어, 인터페이스 레이어, 사용자 레이어의 분리 구조로 되어 알고리즘을 쉽게 교체적용 할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 플랫폼의 실험을 통하여 미로 탐색 알고리즘들의 성능을 평가하고 분석하여 알고리즘의 개발 및 실험에도 적용할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권1C호
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• pp.19-33
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 기존의 고속 움직임 추정 방법과 새롭게 제안하는 고속 움직임 추정 방법들을 적응적으로 사용하는 기법을 제공한다. 이 알고리듬의 이름은 AUDC이며, 새롭게 제안하는 고속 움직임 추정 방법은 다이아몬드 탐색와 3단계 탐색 기법을 기초로 한다. 비록 많은 고속 움직임 추정 방법들이 각각 많은 장점을 가지고 있지만 단점도 가지고 있다. 그러므로 한가지의 고속 움직임 추정 방법을 사용하는 것보다는 적응적으로 고속 움직임 추정 기법을 선택하여 사용하는 것이 더욱 효율적이라 할 수 있다. 그래서 제안하는 움직임 추정 기법은 현재 블록에 이웃하는 블록의 Motion Vector의 길이, 탐색점의 수, SAD를 이용하여 다이아몬드 탐색 기법, 십자 3단계 탐색 기법 그리고 개량된 십자 다이아몬드 기법을 적응적으로 사용한다. 실험결과 AUDC는 많이 알려진 다른 고속 움직임 추정 방법보다 화질을 향상시킬 뿐만 아니라 탐색점의 수 또한 향상됨을 알 수 있다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2005

This paper proposes a new method for accelerating the search speed of genetic algorithms by taking derivative evaluation and conditional random selection into account in their evolution process. Derivative evaluation makes genetic algorithms focus on the individuals whose fitness is rapidly increased. This accelerates the search speed of genetic algorithms by enhancing exploitation like steepest descent methods but also increases the possibility of a premature convergence that means most individuals after a few generations approach to local optima. On the other hand, derivative evaluation under a premature convergence helps genetic algorithms escape the local optima by enhancing exploration. If GAs fall into a premature convergence, random selection is used in order to help escaping local optimum, but its effects are not large. We experimented our method with one combinatorial problem and five complex function optimization problems. Experimental results showed that our method was superior to the simple genetic algorithm especially when the search space is large.