In this study we consider a U-shaped assembly line balancing problem where each task uses a specified set of equipments and each type of equipment has a specified cost. Our problem is to assign the tasks together with...
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In this study we consider a U-shaped assembly line balancing problem where each task uses a specified set of equipments and each type of equipment has a specified cost. Our problem is to assign the tasks together with their equipments to the workstations so as to minimize the total equipment cost. We formulate the problem as a mixed integer linear programming model that is capable of solving small sized instances. We propose a branch and bound algorithm that uses efficient precedence relations and lower bounds. We find that the algorithm is able to solve moderate sized problem instances in reasonable times. (C) 2015 The Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
In this paper we consider two branch and bound algorithms for the maximum clique problem which demonstrate the best performance on DIMACS instances among the existing methods. These algorithms are MCS algorithm by Tom...
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In this paper we consider two branch and bound algorithms for the maximum clique problem which demonstrate the best performance on DIMACS instances among the existing methods. These algorithms are MCS algorithm by Tomita et al. (2010) and MAXSAT algorithm by Li and Quan (2010a, b). We suggest a general approach which allows us to speed up considerably these branch and bound algorithms on hard instances. The idea is to apply a powerful heuristic for obtaining an initial solution of high quality. This solution is then used to prune branches in the main branch and bound algorithm. For this purpose we apply ILS heuristic by Andrade et al. (J Heuristics 18(4):525-547, 2012). The best results are obtained for p_hat1000-3 instance and gen instances with up to 11,000 times speedup.
The branch and bound algorithm is an optimal feature selection method that is well-known for its computational efficiency. However, when the dimensionality of the original feature space is large, the computational tim...
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The branch and bound algorithm is an optimal feature selection method that is well-known for its computational efficiency. However, when the dimensionality of the original feature space is large, the computational time of the branch and bound algorithm becomes very excessive. If the optimality of the solution is allowed to be compromised, one can further improve the search speed of the branch and bound algorithm;the look-ahead search strategy can be employed to eliminate many solutions deemed to be suboptimal early in the search. In this paper, a comparative study of the look-ahead scheme in terms of the computational cost and the solution quality on four major branch and bound algorithms is carried out on real data sets. We also explore the use of suboptimal branch and bound algorithms on a high-dimensional data set and compare its performance with other well-known suboptimal feature selection algorithms. (C) 2014 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
Graphical symbol spotting and retrieval in document images is an important sub-field in document analysis. This paper presents a branch and bound algorithm for spotting a queried graphical symbol in documents. The tec...
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(纸本)9781424479948
Graphical symbol spotting and retrieval in document images is an important sub-field in document analysis. This paper presents a branch and bound algorithm for spotting a queried graphical symbol in documents. The technique utilizes geometric primitives as feature points. The preprocessing of the input images involves applying some ordinary morphological operations and then sampling to get points or segments. As for the search;a branch and bound geometric matching algorithm is used to locate the required symbol(s) in the documents. The presented method has been tested on documents that contain electronic circuits and it achieved high accuracy.
The branch and bound algorithm is widely known as an efficient approach for selecting optimal feature subsets. If the optimality of the solution is allowed to be compromised, it is possible to further improve the sear...
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The branch and bound algorithm is widely known as an efficient approach for selecting optimal feature subsets. If the optimality of the solution is allowed to be compromised, it is possible to further improve the search speed of the branch and bound algorithm. This paper studies the look-ahead search strategy which can eliminate many solutions deemed to be suboptimal early in the branch and bound search. We propose ways to incorporate the look-ahead search scheme into four major branch and bound algorithms, namely the basic branch and bound algorithm, the ordered branch and bound algorithm, the fast branch and bound algorithm, and the adaptive branch and bound algorithm. A comparative study of the look-ahead scheme in terms of the computational cost and the solution quality on these suboptimal branch and bound algorithms is carried out on real data sets. Furthermore, we test the feasible use of suboptimal branch and bound algorithms on a high-dimensional data set and compare its performance with other well-known suboptimal feature selection algorithms. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Congestion in the traffic is the most basic problem that most of the cities facing now a days. This problem is mainly evolved due to increase in travel demand and limited scope of increasing the infrastructure needed ...
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(纸本)9781479981632
Congestion in the traffic is the most basic problem that most of the cities facing now a days. This problem is mainly evolved due to increase in travel demand and limited scope of increasing the infrastructure needed to hold that traffic. So from there comes the concept of vehicle routing problem and thus the problem of School Bus Routing Problem (SBRP). In the past Hungarian algorithm was used. Evolution of technology and day by day advancements in wireless communication and algorithms has lead us to use of branch and bound approach to solve this problem. In this paper, we explore efficient routing algorithm for SBRP. In, this paper, branch and bound Routing algorithm is proposed for SBRP. The branch and bound algorithm provide optimal solution for the smaller problems. For a group of schools it will provide an optimal solution that will help those schools to optimize the bus routes, number of buses used and thus optimizing cost. This will also help in reducing pollution as the distance travelled by buses is optimized.
This paper considers the problem of determinizing probabilistic data to enable such data to be stored in legacy systems that accept only deterministic input. Probabilistic data may be generated by automated data analy...
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This paper considers the problem of determinizing probabilistic data to enable such data to be stored in legacy systems that accept only deterministic input. Probabilistic data may be generated by automated data analysis/enrichment techniques such as entity resolution, information extraction, and speech processing. The legacy system may correspond to pre-existing web applications such as Flickr, Picasa, etc. The goal is to generate a deterministic representation of probabilistic data that optimizes the quality of the end-application built on deterministic data. We explore such a determinization problem in the context of two different data processing tasks-triggers and selection queries. We show that approaches such as thresholding or top-1 selection traditionally used for determinization lead to suboptimal performance for such applications. Instead, we develop a query-aware strategy and show its advantages over existing solutions through a comprehensive empirical evaluation over real and synthetic datasets.
Life expectancy is going up and the demand of long term care facilities is increasing in most countries. This study deals with designing problem of facility networks for long-term care services in a city consisting of...
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Life expectancy is going up and the demand of long term care facilities is increasing in most countries. This study deals with designing problem of facility networks for long-term care services in a city consisting of a number of regions. Assuming that in each region a candidate site for long-term care facility exists, we seek to identify regions where opening of a long-term care facility is desirable and also determine the type of new facility. For the problem, an integer programming model is formulated with the objective of minimizing the total construction cost. The closest assignment rule is adopted to reflect the preference of patient in choosing long term care facility by assigning patient to an open facility closest from his home. To solve the model, we develop a branch and bound algorithm for exact solution and a genetic algorithm to solve large sized problem. The validity of the mathematical model and the proposed algorithms are illustrated through a number of problem instances. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Due to high delivery costs, manufacturers are usually required to dispatch their jobs as batches. However, this approach causes several crucial problems in scheduling-related objective functions such as minimizing the...
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Due to high delivery costs, manufacturers are usually required to dispatch their jobs as batches. However, this approach causes several crucial problems in scheduling-related objective functions such as minimizing the maximum tardiness. In this study, we address the scheduling of a set of jobs with specific release times, which need to be processed by a single machine and dispatched to a customer or another machine in a batch delivery condition. Each batch has a particular delivery cost. The aim is to minimize the costs of maximum tardiness plus delivery. First, a mixed integer programming (MIP) model is developed and solved by the CPLEX solver within the GAMS modeling environment. Next, a branch and bound algorithm is developed based on the LP relaxation of the MIP model. Using heuristics, appropriate values for the upper and lower bounds are predicted. The heuristics and pruning rules can obtain the solutions of large problems in logical run times. The problem can be deduced as being NP-hard, so the MIP model is not expected to be solved for extremely large sizes within a reasonable (i.e., polynomially-bounded) CPU time. Hence, by exploiting the features of the problem, two metaheuristic algorithms are developed, i.e., a fast discrete particle swarm optimization and a genetic algorithm. Finally, we present computational results to analyze and verify the solutions obtained. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
This paper introduces a new methodology for pipeline synthesis with applications to data flow high-level system design. The pipeline synthesis is applied to dataflow programs whose operators are translated into graphs...
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This paper introduces a new methodology for pipeline synthesis with applications to data flow high-level system design. The pipeline synthesis is applied to dataflow programs whose operators are translated into graphs and dependencies relations that are then processed for the pipeline architecture optimization. For each pipeline-stage time, a minimal number of pipeline stages are first determined and then an optimal assignment of operators to stages is generated with the objective of minimizing the total pipeline register size. The obtained "optimal" pipeline schedule is automatically transformed back into a dataflow program that can be synthesized to efficient hardware implementations. Two new pipeline scheduling: "least cost search branch and bound" and a heuristic technique have been developed. The first algorithm yields global optimum solutions for middle size designs, whereas the second one generates close-to-optimal solutions for large designs. Experimental results on FPGA designs show that the total pipeline register size gain in a range up to 4.68x can be achieved. The new algorithms overcome the known downward and upward direction dataflow graph traversal algorithms concerning the amount of pipeline register size by up to 100% on average.
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