• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2017

This paper presents a variant of the Harmony Search Algorithm (HS) and its application to discrete optimization. The main proposed modifications regarding original HS are related to stopping criterion and reinitialization of population, called Harmony Memory. In order to investigate the efficiency of the algorithm, it was applied for obtaining optimal sections of reinforced concrete columns subjected to uniaxial flexural compression. To minimize the cost of the section, the amount and diameters of the reinforcement bars and the dimensions of the columns cross sections were considered as design variables. The obtained results were compared to those generated by other optimization methods. Since, to the examples, Harmony Search reached the same results achieved by Simulated Annealing, some additional analysis are presented in order to compare these methods regarding success rate and number of iterations to reach the optimum.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2009년도 제40회 하계학술대회
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• pp.151_152
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• 2009

The capacity constraints of tie-lines in production cost analysis are very important issues in the operation and planning of MicroGrid power systems. This paper presents the Harmony Search(HS) algorithm to solve the Economic Dispatch (ED) problem with tie-line capacity limits in MicroGrid system. The applied HS algorithm has achieved efficient and accurate solutions for three-area MicroGrid systems with renewable power units.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2020

In this paper, a procedure for automated optimized design of reinforced concrete frames has been presented. The procedure consists of formulation and solution of the design problem in the form of an optimization problem. The minimization of total cost of R/C frame has been taken as the objective of optimization problem. In this research, consistent approximation method is applied to explicitly formulate constraints and objective function in terms of the design variables. In the presented method, the primary optimization problem is replaced with a sequence of explicit sub-problems. Each sub-problem is efficiently solved using the Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) method. The proposed method is demonstrated through a four-story frame and an eight-story frame, and the optimum results are compared with those in the available literature. It is shown that the proposed method can be easily applied to obtain rational, reliable, economical and practical designs for Reinforced Concrete Moment Resisting Frames (RCMRFs) while it is converged after a few analyses.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2002년도 학술발표회 논문집(II)
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• pp.829-836
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• 2002

The paper presents a multi-objective genetic algorithm approach to the design of a water distribution network. The objectives considered are minimization of network cost and maximization of a reliability measure. In this study, a new reliability measure, called network resilience, is introduced. This measure mimics a designer's desire of providing excess power at nodes and designing reliable loops with practicable pipe diameters. The proposed method produces a set of Pareto-optimal solutions in the search space of cost and network resilience. Genetic algorithms are observed to be poor in handling constraints. To handle constraints in a better way, a constraint handling technique that does not require a penalty coefficient and applicable to water distribution systems is presented. The present model is applied to two example problems, which were widely reported. Pipe failure analysis carried out on some of the solutions obtained revealed that the network resilience based approach gave better results in terms of network reliability.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.189-196
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• 2004

This paper describes what an operational change detection tool requires and the software which was designed and developed according to the requirements. The top requirement for the application of the software to operational change detection was identified: minimization of false detections, missing detections and operational cost. In order to meet such a requirement, the software was designed with the concept that the ultimate decision and isolation of changes must be performed manually by visual interpretation and all automatic algorithms and/or visualization techniques must be defined as support functions. In addition, the modular structure of the proposed software enables the addition of a new support function with the minimum development cost and minimum change of the operational environment.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.56-61
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• 1996

In this study a method for a robust design of mechanisms is proposed. The method used in the experimental analysis and quality engineering is applied for mechanisms design. A mathematical model for a mechanism is estimated by the response surface analysis and the estimated model is used in minimization of the variance. Using this result, robust design can be carried out. The method can be applied for general mechansims. Furthermore because the method can be used in the design stage using the computer model, improved quality and lower cost of the product is achieved even in the design stage.

• 전산구조공학
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.113-124
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• 1992

토목구조물 설계에 있어서 가장 보편적으로 사용되고 있는 도로교에 대한 하중계수에 기초한 최적신뢰성해석모델을 제안하고, 또 총기대비용 최소화원칙에 기인한 최적하중-저항계수 및 최적 공칭안전율에 대한 이론적 근거를 제시하는 것이 본 연구의 주요내용이다. MFOSM과 AFOSM을 포함하는 주요 2차 모멘트신뢰성 이론을 비교분석함으로써 AFOSM의 근사식과 대수정규포근사식을 본 연구에서 제안하는 최적신뢰성 및 설계규준의 유도에 사용함이 적절하다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.5712-5728
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• 2017

Recently, there are many studies, that considering green wireless cellular networks, have taken the energy consumption of the base station (BS) into consideration. In this work, we first introduce an energy consumption model of multi-mode sharing BS powered by multiple energy sources including renewable energy, local storage and power grid. Then communication load requests of the BS are transformed to energy demand queues, and battery energy level and worst-case delay constraints are considered into the virtual queue to ensure the network QoS when our objective is to minimize the long term electricity cost of BSs. Lyapunov optimization method is applied to work out the optimization objective without knowing the future information of the communication load, real-time electricity market price and renewable energy availability. Finally, linear programming is used, and the corresponding energy efficient scheduling policy is obtained. The performance analysis of our proposed online algorithm based on real-world traces demonstrates that it can greatly reduce one day's electricity cost of individual BS.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.123-132
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• 2005

이동망의 위치관리에서 위치갱신 비용 최소화를 위한 많은 연구 결과들이 있다. 위치갱신 비용의 최소화를 위해서는 각 사용자들의 이동 패턴을 고려해야만 한다. 본 논문은 과거의 사용자 이동에 대한 이력으로부터 각 사용자에 대한 위치영역 리스트 생성과 이를 위한 3 단계 페이징 방안을 제안한다. 사용자의 이동은 공간적으로 뿐만 아니라 시간적으로도 규칙적인 패턴이 존재한다. 따라서 제안된 위치영역 리스트 생성방안은 이상의 2가지 측면에서 사용자의 방문빈도를 이용하여 규칙성을 발견하고, 이에 대한 위치영역리스트를 생성한다. 제안된 방안의 성능분석 위해서 제안된 방안에 대하여 사용자 이동 패턴을 고려한 모의실험을 수행하였다. 모의실험 결과 제안된 방안이 위치관리 비용 측면에서 장점이 있음이 확인되었다.

• 전산구조공학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.125-132
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• 1996

본 연구는 총기대비용최소화기법에 의한 실용적이고 현실적인 해석모형을 제시하는데에 그 목적이 있으며, 주요목적중에 하나로서 철근콘크리트교량의 현장시험과 조사결과에 의해 도출된 저항계수(RF)라는 평가항목에 의해 현재 철근콘크리트부재들에 안전한 평가와 내하력을 결정하는데에 있다. 총기대비용최소화기법은 가정된 모델들의 신뢰성해석에 사용되며, 가정한 신뢰성모델과 신뢰성해석방법은 철근콘크리트부재들의 안전한 평가와 시스템계수에 적용되어진다.