Introduction In the contemporary business environment, fashion companies ought to cope with fundamental changes marketing communication has conventionally been performed. In response to shifting socio-demographic, environmental and market-related conditions, gradually new forms of fashion promotion have evolved (Fill, 2006). Nowadays, the global fashion industry experiences a reduced dependence on mass media advertising and an enlarged reliance on dialogic, relationship-oriented and digitally grounded communication methods (Chitty, Barker, Valos & Shimp, 2012). Against this backdrop, it is irrefutable that social media technologies have been remarkably transforming the ways in which modern-day fashion communication is practiced (Brennan & Schafer, 2010; Funk et al., 2016; Dillon, 2012; Saarinen, Tinnilä & Tseng, 2006). The competitive and widely saturated apparel market is facing an era of intensive proliferation of brands, an epoche of awe bombardment of advertisements, which makes a well-though-out communicational strategy ever more imperative, particularly in a cross-cultural context (Dillon, 2012). Yet, studies that analyze the importance of social media in relation to traditional means of fashion communication are scarce. Even though, empirical introductions start being made to this explicit issue, considerable research deficiency subsists in the realm of cross-cultural fashion communication and social media optimization. Therefore, the rationale of this paper at hand is to contribute to balance out this research gap by providing evidence from four countries.

Airline schedules are highly dependent on various factors of uncertainties such as unfavorable weather conditions, mechanical problems, natural disaster, airport congestion, and strikes. If the schedules are not properly managed to cope with such disturbances, the operational cost and performance are severely affected by the delays, cancelations, and so forth. This is described as a disruption. When the disruption occurs, the airline requires the feasible recovery plan returning to the normal operations in a timely manner so as to minimize the cost and impact of disruptions. In this research, an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm with re-timing strategy is developed to solve the recovery problem for both aircraft and passenger. The problem consists of creating new aircraft routes and passenger itineraries to produce a feasible schedule during a recovery period. The suggested algorithm is based on an existing ACO algorithm that aims to reflect all the downstream effects by considering the passenger recovery cost as a part of the objective function value. This algorithm is complemented by re-timing strategy to effectively manage the disrupted passengers by allowing delays even on some of undisrupted flights. The delays no more than 15 minutes are accepted, which does not influence on the on-time performance of the airlines. The suggested method is tested on the real data sets from 2009 ROADEF Challenge, and the computational results are compared with the existing ones on the same data sets. The method generates the solution for most of problem set in 10 minutes, and the result generated by re-timing strategy is discussed for its impact.

변위 근거 유한요소해석을 사용하는 대부분의 위상 최적화 기법은 요소의 안정성 부족으로 인하여 체스판 무늬가 주기적 형태로 반복하여 설계영역 내부에 나타난다. 본 연구에서는 선형요소를 이용하면서 최적화 알고리즘의 안정성에 영향을 주지 않고 간단하게 모든 최적화 알고리즘에 이용 가능한 체스판무늬 형성 방지책을 개발하였다. 본 연구의 체스판무늬 형성 방치책에서는 먼저 각 선형요소를 구성하는 절점들의 부치분율을 설계변수로 선정하고, 요소내부의 부피분율을 설계변수로 표현하기 위한 선형 보간함수로 선형요소들의 형상함수를 선정하였다. 그리고, 설계변수와 등가 재료상수와의 상관 관계식은 평균장 근사이론을 이용하여 균질화된 재료에 벌칙인자가 도입된 관계식을 이용하였다. 또한, 본 연구에서는 순차이차계획법인 PLBA 알고리즘을 이용하여 위상 최적화문제를 해석하였다.

게임과 같은 실시간이며 복잡한 다중 에이전트 환경에서는 시스템의 효율성을 극대화하기 위해 반복적으로 작업 할당이 수행된다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 다중 에이전트 구조에 적합하며 최적화된 작업 할당이 가능한 방안으로 A* 알고리즘을 적용한 조정 에이전트를 제안한다. 제안하는 조정 에이전트는 수행 가능한 에이전트와 할당 가능한 작업으로 정제된 모든 에이전트와 작업의 조합으로 상태 그래프를 생성하고, A* 알고리즘을 이용한 평가함수를 적용하여 최적화된 작업 할당을 수행한다. 또한 실시간 재 할당에 따른 지연을 방지하기 위해 그리디 방식을 선택적으로 사용함으로써 재할당 요구에 대한 빠른 처리가 가능하다. 마지막으로 모의실험을 통해 조정 에이전트를 통한 최적화된 작업 할당 결과가 그리디 방식의 작업 할당보다 성능이 25%향상되었음을 입증한다.