Ship's position data obtaining method is one of the very important factor in navigation. Nowadays, GPS(Global Positioning System) using the earth orbiting satellites are equipped and operated for the position finding. Because it provides more precise position information than other equipments and is very convenient for navigator. In this study, it is designed to develop the GPS simulator for everybody being able to practise the GPS operating skill like as navigation planning, navigation calculating etc. And also, it can be operated with personal computer without real GPS receiver. This simulation system is based on the real GPS receiver and built by the visual basic 5.0 program. And it displays the ship's position and navigating information and plots the ship's moving track on the screen in real time according as initial setup data-main engine's rpm, rudder angle, departure position and waypoint.

In general, neural networks are widely used for the category classification of multispectral images. Since the input multispectral images into neural networks we, however, low contrast images, neural networks converge very slowly and are of bad performance. To overcome this problem, we propose a new image enhancement method which consists of smoothing process, finding the main valley and enhancement process. In addition the enhanced images by the proposed method are used as the input of neural networks for the category classification. When the new category classification method is applied to multispectral LANDSAT TM images, we verified that the neural networks converge very lastly and that the overall category classification performance is improved.

인공 지능 분야에서 특히 퍼지와 같은 기술은 전반적인 산업 자동화에 많이 사용되어 왔다. 퍼지 제어는 인간의 추론 과정을 모델링한 기술로서 인간에 유사한 결정 능력과 복잡하고 다양한 환경에 매우 효과적이다. 본 논문은 이러한 퍼지 제어의 장점을 연근해의 선박 자동 항해에 적용시켜 보았다. 심해에서는 공간상의 제약이 없기 때문에 선박의 자동항해는 원하는 목표지점까지 안전하게 운항할 수 있지만, 연근해안에는 심해와 달리 각종 장애물들(작고 큰 섬들과 해안, 연근해에 작업중인 선박들)이 있으며 이것들로 인한 충돌사고가 종종 발생하고 있는 실정이다. 그러므로 연근해안에서 보다 안전하고 자율적인 항해를 위해 인공 지능 기술인 퍼지 기술을 선박에 적용시켰다. 본 논문에서 제안된 다변수 퍼지 시스템을 2개의 서로 다른 동적 환경을 가지는 지형에 적용시켜 보았고, 그에 따른 실험들을 수행했을 때, 만족할만한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 따라서, 본 논문에서 제안된 다변수 퍼지 제어시스템을 이용한 선박이 동적인 환경에서도 스스로 장애물을 인식하고 회피함으로 안전하게 연근해를 운항할 수 있음을 보였다.

Grouping ports in certain region by their characteristics could be used as the principal informations to establish national policy for port development or investment and also to analyze the competitiveness among ports. Currently Korean ports are divided into two groups such as the local port and the designated Port containing foreign trade port and coastal port under the Korean Port Act. This classification seems to be used for port administration as the matter of convenience but some qualitative grouping is needed for research of port-related matters. The aim of this paper is to cluster 28 foreign trade ports as per the similar characteristics by Hard C-Means and to analyze the results of this clustering.

This paper aims to compare tax systems related to shipping companies among German, Norway, the Netherlands, UK and Korea and to identify which country has the most competitive edge in terms of tax burdens. The previous studies of international comparison of shipping competitiveness have been simply concerned with the international comparison of nominal tax rates of some foreign countries with Korea. One of their shortcomings have not fully considered tax systems inherent in the shipping industry, which may produce different conclusions. Having home it in mind, this study has tried to calculate effective tax rates among countries concerned, taking fully into account tax systems of the countries.

Service is the source of firm's competitive advantage in recent years. The importance of service quality in any service industry doesn't need to be disputed. Customers have expected the improvement of the quality of service they receive ,so providers are struggling to meet these expectations. This study aims at finding factors of service quality in passenger transportation. An empirical investigation and the measurement on the perceived Service Quality by customers in the passenger transportation system was carried out. The purpose of this study is to clarify the factors of service quality on the basis of service marketing concept. In order to fulfill the objectives, this paper combines research tools that include both empirical study and documentary research. Data was gathered from 239 passengers by the use of questionnaire. In this study, the established hypotheses were generated on the basis of the service quality evaluation (SERVQUAL) model. Research findings through empirical test are as follows. First, five service quality dimensions in passenger transportation are identical to SERVQUAL dimensions defined by Parasuraman, Zeithaml, and Berry in 1988. Second, demographic segments such as gender and age don't have significant different dimension of service quality. Third, there is no significant difference between groups by experiences such as price level, abroad tour and vehicle type in determinants of transportation service quality.

The purpose of this study is to shed some light on how market orientation, mediators such as employee satisfaction, service quality and commitment, and business performance are related and to offer important managerial implication for managements or marketing practioners in the International logistics service industry.

Because shore(ship) to ship(shore) communication service via INMARSAT pay expensive cost, satellite service typically use two stage service that land users dial up LES(Land Earth Station) for sending or receiving message. In order to send and receive message, land users must maintain online state with LES on dedicated line. Also, two stage INMARSAT communication service must consume long time that processes step by step. In case of large company, they have own communication system, but small companys communicate simple messages with only telex. This paper describes the design and implementation of an integrated communication services via INMARSAT-C. This system uses inexpensive INMARSAT-C for transmission between ship and land. Because this system provides web and E-Mail interface, users send and receive messages easily and quickly. This system provides most users with inexpensive and easy communication facilities between ship and land.

한자는 복잡한 상형문자로서 표음문자와 비교하여 볼 때, 문자의 처리, 프로그램의 작성 및 전송에 있어서 많은 차이점이 있다. 지금까지 NAVTEX 프로그램중 한자 전송의 핵심적인 기술을 해결하지 못하고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 NAVTEX 프로그램중 한자처리 방법을 모색을 하고자 하였으며, 이러한 프로그램을 이용하면 NAVTEX단말기에서 바로 한자를 인쇄할 수 있게 될 것으로 기대된다.