• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.7B
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• pp.1220-1228
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• 1999

In this paper, we deal with an important network design problem in providing multimedia telecommunication services. The problem is to find an optimal gateway location and fiber routing, while minimizing the total cost. The cost elements are the installation cost of add-drop multiplexer and fiber cables. We have developed effective heuristic procedures for the problem. The performance of the developed heuristic shows promising computational results.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.205-215
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• 2008

convergence networks (BcN). The problem seeks to minimize the total cost of switch and cable while satisfying the requirement of demand and quality of service (QoS). We develop mixed integer programming models to obtain the optimal switch location of the access network. We develop a Tabu Search (TS) heuristic algorithm for finding a good feasible solution within a reasonable time limit. We propose real networks with up to 25 nodes and 180 demands. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, we generate lower bounds from nonlinear QoS relaxation problem. Computational results show that the proposed heuristic algorithm provides upper bounds within 5% optimality gap in 10 seconds.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.125-139
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• 2004

Generally, parallel redundancy is used to improve reliability in many systems. However, redundancy increases system cost, weight, volume, power, etc. Due to limited availability of these resources, the system designer has to maximize reliability subject to various constraints or minimize resources while satisfying the minimum requirement of system reliability. This paper presents GAs (Genetic Algorithms) to solve redundancy allocation in series-parallel systems. To apply the GAs to this problem, we propose a genetic representation, the method for initial population construction, evaluation and genetic operators. Especially, to improve the performance of GAs, we develop heuristic operators (heuristic crossover, heuristic mutation) using the reliability-resource information of the chromosome. Experiments are carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm. The performance comparison between the proposed algorithm and a pervious method shows that our approach is more efficient.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.13-19
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• 2013

Purpose - This study aims to predict the audit reports of listed companies on the Tehran Stock Exchange by using meta-heuristic algorithms. Research design, data, methodology - This applied research aims to predict auditors reports' using meta-heuristic methods (i.e., neural networks, the ANFIS, and a genetic algorithm). The sample includes all firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. The research covers the seven years between 2005 and 2011. Results - The results show that the ANFIS model using fuzzy clustering and a least-squares back propagation algorithm has the best performance among the tested models, with an error rate of 4% for incorrect predictions and 96% for correct predictions. Conclusion - A decision tree was used with ten independent variables and one dependent variable the less important variables were removed, leaving only those variables with the greatest effect on auditor opinion (i.e., net-profit-to-sales ratio, current ratio, quick ratio, inventory turnover, collection period, and debt coverage ratio).

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1996.10b
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• pp.812-815
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• 1996

In this paper, we consider the optimal control problem based on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems(DEDS) in the Temporal Logic framework(TLF) which have studied for a convenient modeling technique. The TLF is enhanced with objective functions(event cost indices) and a measurement space is also defined. Our research goal is the design of the optimal controller for DEDSs. This procedure could be guided by the heuristic search methods. For the heuristic search, we suggested the Stochastic Ruler algorithm, instead of the A algorithm with difficulties as following; the uniqueness of solutions, the computational complexity and how to select a heuristic function. This SR algorithm is used for solving the optimal problem. An example is shown to illustrate our results.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.25-33
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• 1997

A DEDS is a system whose states change in response to the occurence of events from a predefined event set. In this paper, we consider the optimal control and reasoning problem for Discrete Event Systems(DES) in the Temporal Logic Framework(TEL) which have been recnetly defined. The TLE is enhanced with objective functions(event cost indices) and a measurement space is alos deined. A sequence of event which drive the system form a give initial state to a given final state is generated by minimizing a cost functioin index. Our research goal is the reasoning of optimal trajectory and the design of the optimal controller for DESs. This procedure could be guided by the heuristic search methods. For the heuristic search, we suggested the Stochastic Ruler algorithm, instead of the A algorithm with difficulties as following ; the uniqueness of solutions, the computational complexity and how to select a heuristic function. This SR algorithm is used for solving the optimal problem. An example is shown to illustrate our results.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.89-95
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• 2002

Global routing is to assign each net to routing regions to accomplish the required interconnections. The most popular algorithms for global routing inlcude maze routing algorithm, line-probe algorithm, shortest path based algorithm, and Steiner tree based algorithm. In this paper we propose weighted network heuristic(WNH) as a minimal Steiner tree search method in a routing graph and a genetic algorithm based on WNH for the global routing. We compare the genetic algorithm(GA) with simulated annealing(SA) by analyzing the results of each implementation.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.51-61
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• 1991

This paper presents a heuristic method for the Assembly Line Balancing(ALB) of the large-sized product. In the ALB problem of the large-sized product such as bus and truck, the assignments of the Related Task Groups(RTG), the same side tasks, and team tasks should be considered. In this paper, a new concept of the RTG and two kinds of assignment rules are proposed to resolve the above considerations. The first assignment rule allots the RTG with the constraint of the same side tasks to the station while the second allots the RTG to the station, relaxing the above constraint to increase the applicability of the method. An assignment rule for team tasks is also presented. The benefits of the method are to improve work methods, to give more job satisfaction to workers, and to allow greater flexibility in the design of assembly lines.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.93-103
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• 1997

This paper develops a new heuristic, the Excursion Algorithm(EA), for constructing optimal designs for the experiments related with marine environment. The proposed EA consists of three parts: 1) construction of an initial feasible solution, 2) excursions over a bounded region, and 3) stopping rules. It is the second part that distinguishes the EA from the other existing heuristic methods. It turns out that excursions over a bounded feasible and/or infeasible region is effective in alleviating the risks of being trapped at a local optimum. Since this problem is formulated for the first time thesis, other heuristic algorithms do not exist. Therefore, global optimal solutions are obtained by complete enumeration for some cases, and the performance of the EA is evaluated in terms of solution quality. Computational results show that the proposed EA is effective in finding good(or, in many cases, global) solutions to the constrained optimal experimental design problems.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.24 no.64
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• pp.1-20
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• 2001

In distributed databases, file replication and workload allocation are important design issues. This paper solves these two issues simultaneously, The primary objective is to minimize the system response time that consists of local processing and communication overhead on a local area network. Workload (query transactions) is assigned among any sites in proportion to the remaining file request service rate of the each server The problem is presented in the form of a nonlinear integer programming model. The problem is proved to be NP-complete and thus an efficient heuristic is developed by employing its special structure. To illustrate its effectiveness, it is shown that the proposed heuristic is based on the heuristic of a non-redundant allocation that was provided to be effective. The model and heuristics are likely to provide more effective distributed database designs.