Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:52:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AnaCGS.pdf: 4192359 bytes, checksum: 28eb36354363672f88a28074f9df8b42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-23 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Telecommunications play a key role in contemporary society. However, as new technologies are put into the market, it also grows the demanding for new products and services that depend on the offered infrastructure, making the problems of planning telecommunications networks, despite the advances in technology, increasingly larger and complex. However, many of these problems can be formulated as models of combinatorial optimization, and the use of heuristic algorithms can help solving these issues in the planning phase. In this project it was developed two pure metaheuristic implementations Genetic algorithm (GA) and Memetic Algorithm (MA) plus a third hybrid implementation Memetic Algorithm with Vocabulary Building (MA+VB) for a problem in telecommunications that is known in the literature as Problem SONET Ring Assignment Problem or SRAP. The SRAP arises during the planning stage of the physical network and it consists in the selection of connections between a number of locations (customers) in order to meet a series of restrictions on the lowest possible cost. This problem is NP-hard, so efficient exact algorithms (in polynomial complexity ) are not known and may, indeed, even exist / As telecomunica??es desempenham um papel fundamental na sociedade contempor?nea. Mas ? medida que novas tecnologias s?o introduzidas ao mercado, cresce tamb?m a demanda por novos produtos e servi?os que dependem da infra-estrutura oferecida, tornando os problemas de planejamento de redes de telecomunica??es, apesar da evolu??o tecnol?gica, cada vez maiores e complexos. No entanto, muitos desses problemas podem ser formulados como modelos de otimiza??o combinat?ria, e o uso de algoritmos heur?sticos podem ajudar a solucionar essas quest?es da fase de planejamento. Neste trabalho, foram desenvolvidas duas implementa??es metaheur?sticas puras Algoritmo Gen?tico (AG) e Algoritmo Mem?tico (AM) al?m de uma terceira implementa??o h?brida Algoritmo Mem?tico com Vocabulary Building (AM+VB) para um problema de telecomunica??es que ? conhecido na literatura por Problema de Atribui??o de Localidades a An?is SONET ou SRAP (do ingl?s, SONET Ring Assignment Problem). O SRAP surge durante a etapa do planejamento f?sico da rede e consiste na determina??o das conex?es entre um conjunto de localidades (clientes), de modo a satisfazer uma s?rie de restri??es ao menor custo poss?vel. Esse problema ? NP-dif?cil e portanto algoritmos exatos eficientes (de complexidade polinomial) n?o s?o conhecidos, podendo, inclusive, nem existir