• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.119-126
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• 2019

The partial inverse optimization problem is an interesting variant of the inverse optimization problem in which the given instance of an optimization problem need to be modified so that a prescribed partial solution can constitute a part of an optimal solution in the modified instance. In this paper, we consider the traveling salesman problem defined on the line (TSP on the line) which has many applications such as item delivery systems, the collection of objects from storage shelves, and so on. It is worth studying the partial inverse TSP on the line, defined as follows. We are given n requests on the line, and a sequence of k requests that need to be served consecutively. Each request has a specific position on the real line and should be served by the server traveling on the line. The task is to modify as little as possible the position vector associated with n requests so that the prescribed sequence can constitute a part of the optimal solution (minimum Hamiltonian cycle) of TSP on the line. In this paper, we show that the partial inverse TSP on the line and its variant can be solved in polynomial time when the sever is equiped with a specific internal algorithm Forward Trip or with a general optimal algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.75-79
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• 1998

It is well known that traveling salesman problem (for short, TSP) is one of mot important problems for optimization, and almost all optimization problems result in TSP. This paper describes on an effective solution of TSP using genetic algorithm. The features of our method are summarized as follows : (1) By using division and unification method, a large problem is replaced with some small ones. (2) Smoothing method proposed in this paper enables us to obtain a fine approximate solution globally. Accordingly, demerits caused by division and unification method are decreased. (3) Parallel operation is available because all divided problems are independent of each other.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.22 no.51
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• pp.21-28
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• 1999

The TSP(Traveling Salesman Problem) is one of the most widely studied problems in combinatorial optimization. The most common interpretation of TSP is finding a shortest Hamiltonian tour of all cities. The objective of this paper proposes a new heuristic algorithm MCH(Multi-Convex hulls Heuristic). MCH is a algorithm for finding good approximate solutions to practical TSP. The MCH algorithm is using the characteristics of the optimal tour. The performance results of MCH algorithm are superior to others algorithms (NNH, CCA) in CPU time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.652-656
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 각 수요지간의 시간이 확률적으로 주어지는 경우의 TSP(Traveling Salesman Problem)를 다루고자 한다. 현실적으로, 도심의 교통 체증 등으로 인해서 각 지점간의 걸리는 시간은 시간대별로 요일별로 심한 변화를 일으키기 마련이다. 그러나, 현재까지의 연구 결과는 수요지간의 경과시간이 확정적으로 주어지는 경우가 대부분으로, 도심물류 등에서 나타나는 현실적인 문제를 해결하는데는 많은 한계가 있다 본 연구에서는 문제의 해법으로 강화학습기법의 하나인 Q학습(Q-Learning)과 Neural Network를 활용한 효율적인 알고리즘을 제시한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.18 no.33
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• pp.111-118
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• 1995

This paper suggests a hybrid genetic algorithm for asymmetric traveling salesman problem(TSP). The TSP was proved to be NP-complete, so it is difficult to find optimal solution in reasonable time. Therefore it is important to develope an algorithm satisfying robustness. The algorithm applies dynamic programming to find initial solution. The genetic operator is uniform order crossover and scramble sublist mutation. And experiment of parameterization has been performed.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.17-26
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• 2008

The traveling salesman problem is to find tours through all cities at minimum cost ; simply visiting the cities only once that a salesman wants to visit. As such, the traveling salesman problem is a NP-complete problem ; an heuristic algorithm is preferred to an exact algorithm. In this paper, we suggest an effective cost relaxation using a candidate arc set which is obtained from a regression function for the traveling salesman problem. The proposed method sufficiently consider the characteristics of cost of arcs compared to existing methods that randomly choose the arcs for relaxation. For test beds, we used 31 instances over 100 cities existing from TSPLIB and randomly generated 100 instances from well-known instance generators. For almost every instances, the proposed method has found efficiently better solutions than the existing method.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.75-82
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• 2013

This paper proposes a $O(n^2)$ polynomial time algorithm to obtain optimal solution for Traveling Salesman problem that is a NP-complete because polynomial time algorithm has been not known yet. The biggest problem in a large-scale Traveling Salesman problem is the fact that the amount of data to be processed is $n{\times}n$, and thus as n increases, the data increases by multifold. Therefore, this paper proposes a methodology by which the data amount is first reduced to approximately n/2. Then, it seeks a bi-directional route at a random point. The proposed algorithm has proved to be successful in obtaining the optimal solutions with $O(n^2)$ time complexity when applied to TSP-1 with 26 European cities and TSP-2 with 46 cities of the USA. It could therefore be applied as a generalized algorithm for TSP.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.33-40
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• 2021

The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is one of the well-known and extensively studied NPC problems in combinatorial optimization. To solve it effectively and efficiently, various optimization algorithms have been developed by scientists and researchers. However, most optimization algorithms are designed based on the concept of improving route in the iterative improvement process so that the optimal solution can be finally found. In contrast, there have been relatively few algorithms to find the optimal solution using route construction mechanism. In this paper, we propose a route construction optimization algorithm to solve the symmetric TSP with the help of ratio value. The proposed algorithm starts with a set of sub-routes consisting of three cities, and then each good sub-route is enhanced step by step on both ends until feasible routes are formed. Before each subsequent expansion, a ratio value is adopted such that the good routes are retained. The experiments are conducted on a collection of benchmark symmetric TSP datasets to evaluate the algorithm. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm produces the best-known optimal results in some cases, and performs better than some other route construction optimization algorithms in many symmetric TSP datasets.

• 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 Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.1-7
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• 2019

It is one of the known methods to obtain the optimal solution using the Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), which is a combination optimization problem. In this paper, we solve the TSP problem by proposing an improved new ant colony optimization algorithm that combines genetic algorithm mutations in existing ant colony optimization algorithms to solve TSP problems in many cities. The new ant colony optimization algorithm provides the opportunity to move easily fall on the issue of developing local optimum values of the existing ant colony optimization algorithm to global optimum value through a new path through mutation. The new path will update the pheromone through an ant colony optimization algorithm. The renewed new pheromone serves to derive the global optimal value from what could have fallen to the local optimal value. Experimental results show that the existing algorithms and the new algorithms are superior to those of existing algorithms in the search for optimum values of newly improved algorithms.