• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.439-442
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• 2003

In order to solve the difficulties of parameter settings in SA algorithm, an improved practical SA algorithm is proposed by employing the threading techniques, appropriate software structures, and dynamic adjustments of temperature parameters. Threads provide a mechanism to realize a parallel processing under a disperse environment by controlling the flux of internal information of an application. Thread services divide a process by multiple processes leading to parallel processing of information to access common data. Therefore, efficient search is achieved by multiple search processes, different initial conditions, and automatic temperature adjustments. The proposed are methods are evaluated, for three types of Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) (random-tour, fractal-tour, and TSPLIB test data)are used for the performance evaluation. The experimental results show that the computational time is 5％ decreased comparing to conventional SA algorithm, furthermore there is no need for manual parameter settings. These results also demonstrate that the proposed method is applicable to real-world vehicle routing problems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.768-772
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• 2005

TSP(Traveling Salesman Problem) has been a nagging NP-complete problem to test almost every algorithmic idea in combinatorial optimization in vain. The main bottleneck is how to get the integer results {0,1} and to avoid sub-tours. We suggest simple and practical method in two steps. Firstly for every node, an initial Hamiltonian cycle us produced on the nearest neighbour concept. The node with nearest distance is to be inserted to form a increased feasible cycle. Secondly we improve the initial solution by exchanging 2 cuts of the grand tours. We got practical results within 1 from the optimum in 30 minutes for up to 200 nodes problems. TSP of real world type might be tackled practically in our formulation.

• 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.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.3 s.106
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• pp.315-322
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• 2006

Ant Colony System(ACS) is easily applicable to the traveling salesman problem(TSP) and it has demonstrated good performance on TSP. Recently, ACS has been emerged as the useful tool for the pattern recognition, feature extraction, and edge detection. The edge detection is wifely utilized in the area of document analysis, character recognition, and face recognition. However, the conventional operator-based edge detection approaches require additional postprocessing steps for the application. In the present study, in order to overcome this shortcoming, we have proposed the new ACS-based edge detection algorithm. The experimental results indicate that this proposed algorithm has the excellent performance in terms of robustness and flexibility.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.79-84
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• 2016

In this paper we consider the problem of finding the triplet (S,${\pi}$,f), where $S{\subseteq}V$, ${\pi}$ is a sequence of nodes in S and $f:V{\backslash}S{\rightarrow}S$ for a given complete graph G=(V,E). In particular, there exist two costs, $c^V_{uv}$ and $c^D_{uv}$ for $(u,v){\in}E$, and the cost of triplet (S,${\pi}$,f) is defined as $\sum_{i=1}^{{\mid}S{\mid}}c^V_{{\pi}(i){\pi}(i+1)}+2$ ${\sum_{u{\in}V{\backslash}S}c^D_{uf(u)}$. This problem is motivated by the integrated routing of the vehicle and drone for urban delivery services. Since a well-known NP-complete TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem) is a special case of our problem, we cannot expect to have any polynomial-time algorithm unless P=NP. Furthermore, for practical purposes, we may not rely on time-exhaustive enumeration method such as branch-and-bound and branch-and-cut. This paper suggests the simple heuristic which is motivated by the MST (minimum spanning tree)-based approximation algorithm and neighborhood search heuristic for TSP.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.3
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• pp.237-242
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• 2003

Ant Colony System (ACS) Algorithm is new meta heuristic for hard combinatorial optimization problem. It is a population based approach that uses exploitation of positive feedback as well as greedy search. It was first proposed for tackling the well known Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). In this paper, we introduce ACS of new method that adds reinforcement value for each edge that visit to Local/Global updating rule. and the performance results under various conditions are conducted, and the comparision between the original ACS and the proposed method is shown. It turns out that our proposed method can compete with tile original ACS in terms of solution quality and computation speed to these problem.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.80-87
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• 2010

As express courier market expands rapidly, companies are exposed to fierce competition. To cope with struggle for their survival, they are continuously making efforts to improve their service system. Even if most of service centers are directly linked to a consolidation terminal in courier service network, some of them with regional disadvantages are operated in milk run type from/to the consolidation terminal, which is a traditional PDP (Pick-up and Delivery Problem). This study suggests an approach to solve the PDP with the objective of maximizing the incremental profit, which belongs to PTP (Profitable Tour Problem) class. After the PTP is converted to TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem) with the same objective, a heuristic algorithm based on GA (Genetic Algorithm) is developed and examined through an example problem in practice of a courier service company in Korea.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.371-374
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• 2019

PDA나 휴대폰 단말로 여러 속성의 데이터를 이용하여 사용자에게 필요한 정보를 제공하는 위치기반 서비스는 물류/운송 정보 서비스, 버스/지하철 노선 안내 서비스 등에 사용된다. 여기에서 제공하는 데이터들을 최적 경로를 구하는 외판원 순회문제 (Traveling Salesman Problem)에 사용한다면 더 정확한 경로 서비스 제공이 가능하다. 하지만 데이터의 수가 많아질수록 비교 횟수가 기하급수적으로 늘어나는 외판원 순회 알고리즘의 특성상 일반 단말기에서 활용하기에는 배터리의 제약이 따른다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 단점을 해결하기 위해서 최적 경로의 후보군을 줄일 수 있는 스카이라인 질의를 이용하여 n차원 속성에 대한 최적 경로 알고리즘을 제안한다. 실험에서 정확도와 오차율을 통해 제안한 방식의 유용성을 보였으며 기존방식과 연산시간 차이를 비교하여 다차원방식의 효율성을 나타내었다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.19 no.39
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• pp.9-18
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• 1996

Many algorithms have been developed for optimizing the asymmectric traveling salesman problem known as a representative NP-Complete problem. The most efficient ones of them are branch and bound algorithms based on the subtour elimination approach. To increase efficiency of the branch and bound algorithm. number of decision nodes should be decreased. For this the minimum bound that is more close at the optimal solution should be found or an effective bounding strategy should be used. If the optimal solution has been known, we may apply it usefully to branching. Because a good feasible solution should be found as soon as possible and have similar features of the optimal solution. By the way, the upper bound solution in branch and bound algorithm is most close at the optimal solution. Therefore, the upper bound solution can be used instead of the optimal solution and information of which can be applied to new branching criteria. As mentioned above, this paper will propose an effective branching rule using the information of the upper bound solution in the branch and bound algorithm. And superiority of the new branching rule will be shown by comparing with Bellmore-Malone's one and carpaneto-Toth's one that were already proposed.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.352-358
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• 2022

In this paper, we study the relationship between infection rates of covid 19 and the precautionary measures and strict protocols taken by Saudi Arabia to combat the spread of the coronavirus disease and minimize the number of infected people. Based on the infection rates and the timetable of precautionary measures, the best framework of precautionary measures was identified by applying the traveling salesman problem (TSP) that relies on ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms. The proposed algorithm was applied to daily infected cases data in Saudi Arabia during three periods of precautionary measures: partial curfew, whole curfew, and gatherings penalties. The results showed the partial curfew and the whole curfew for some cities have the minimum total cases over other precautionary measures. The gatherings penalties had no real effect in reducing infected cases as the other two precautionary measures. Therefore, in future similar circumstances, we recommend first applying the partial curfew and the whole curfew for some cities, and not considering the gatherings penalties as an effective precautionary measure. We also recommend re-study the application of the grouping penalty, to identify the reasons behind the lack of its effectiveness in reducing the number of infected cases.