• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.238-247
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• 2023

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is an attractive fuel for ships considering its current technology and economic viability. However, safety guidelines for LPG-fueled ships are still under development, and there have been no cases of applying LPG propulsion systems to small and medium-sized ships in Korea. The purpose of this study was to perform an objective risk assessment for the first marine LPG engine system and propose safe operational standards. First, hazard and operability (HAZOP) analysis was used to divide the engine system into five nodes, and 58 hazards were identified. To compensate for the subjectivity of qualitative evaluation using HAZOP analysis, fuzzy set theory was used, and additional risk factors, such as detectability and sensitivity, were included to compare the relative weights of the risk factors using a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process. As a result, among the five risk factors, those with a major impact on risk were determined to be the frequency and severity. Finally, the fuzzy technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) was applied to select the risk rank more precisely by considering the weights of the risk factors. The risk level was divided into 47 groups, and the major hazard during the operation of the engine system was found through the analysis to be gas leakage during maintenance of the LPG supply line. The technique proposed can be applied to various facilities, such as LPG supply systems, and can be utilized as a standard procedure for risk assessment in developing safety standards for LPG-powered ships.

• Journal of Korean Port Research
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.79-86
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• 1999

This paper deals with the evaluation problem of complex systems by introducing a fuzzy approach. The authors are functionally supposing a hierarchical structure model of a complex system and give light on the following problems. First for the purpose of clarifying the characteristics of measures the property and differences between two method such as linear and fuzzy viewpoint are discussed through two level-down evaluation process. Second the integrated evaluation process which keeps reversibility between hierarchical levels is discussed and obtained some necessary conditions for reversibility of fuzzy evaluation. From these results it is expected that the fuzzy approach overcomes partly the limitation of reductionism at the hierarchical evaluation of complex systems.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.308-309
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 계층적 공정 경쟁 기반 병렬 유전자 알고리즘 (Hierarchical Fair Competition Genetic Algorithm: HFCGA)을 이용하여 Ball & Beam 시스템에 최적의 Fuzzy Cascade 제어기를 설계하고자 한다. Ball & Beam 시스템은 비선형적이며 Beam의 마찰계수와 Ball의 중력 가속도를 고려하여 Ball의 위치를 조정하는 시스템이다. 이러한 Ball & Beam 시스템에 대해 Fuzzy Cascade 제어기를 설계하고, 조기 수렴에 문제가 있는 기존의 유전자 알고리즘을 개선한 HFCGA를 이용하여 제어기의 파라미터를 최적화 한다. 마지막으로 실제 플랜트에 적용하여 설계된 제어기의 성능을 평가하고, PD Cascade 제어기와 Fuzzy Cascade 제어기의 성능을 비교한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.347-353
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• 2019

Recent recommendation systems are developing toward the utilization of high-dimensional data. However, high-dimensional data can increase algorithm complexity by expanding dimensions and be lower the accuracy of recommended items. In addition, it can cause the problem of data sparsity and make it difficult to provide users with proper recommended items. This study proposed an algorithm that classify users' subjective data with objective criteria with fuzzy-AHP and make use of rules with repetitive patterns through fuzzy association rules. Trying to check how problems with high-dimensional data would be mitigated by the algorithm, we performed 5-fold cross validation according to the changing number of users. The results show that the algorithm-applied system recorded accuracy that was 12.5% higher than that of the fuzzy-AHP-applied system and mitigated the problem of data sparsity.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.2201-2206
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• 2010

The shortage of fossil fuel drives researchers to find a new way to increases energy efficiency. In this paper, we propose a method to control the direction and speed of an air conditioner using a thermal image and fuzzy controlling method, which results in the increase of energy efficiency. The thermal image is first converted into a color temperature image which represents the temperature range from $24.0^{\circ}C$ to $27.0^{\circ}C$. The temperature image is divided into 5 columns and the distribution of them is used to analyze room temperature and control an air conditioner. The proposed method was applied to 300 by 400 thermal images. When the performance of the proposed method was compared to existing systems in energy efficiency, the proposed method was better than existing methods, which is clear from experimental results.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.180-185
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• 2003

This paper proposes an intelligent navigation algorithm for multiple mobile robots under unknown dynamic environment. The proposed algorithm consists of three basic parts as follows. The first part based on the fuzzy rule generates the turning angle and moving distance of the robot for goal approach without obstacles. In the second part, using both fuzzy and neural network, the angle and distance of the robot to avoid collision with dynamic and static obstacles are obtained. The final adjustment of the weighting factor based on fuzzy rule for moving and avoiding distance of the robots is provided in the third stage. The experiments which demonstrate the performance of the proposed intelligent controller is described.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.72-74
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• 1998

정보검색 시스템에서 시소러스는 정보항목에 대한 용어들간의 관계를 계층적 구조로 나타낸다. 따라서 정보검색 시스템에서 시소러스의 사용은 이용자의 질의에 있는 탐색어와 관련된 정보항목들을 검색할 수 있기 때문에 정보검색 시스템의 검색효율을 크게 증가시킬 수 있다. 그러나 기존의 시소러스 모델들은 용어들간의 관련 정도를 무시하거나 정량적인 수치값으로 부여하기 때문에 인간의 주관성과 부정확성을 다루는데 적합하지 않다. 용어들간 의미의 밀접한 정도(Degree of Closeness)는 모호하고 부정확한 판단에 근거하는 인간의 정성적인 측정 단위이다. 그러므로 관련정도를 정량적으로 표현하는 것은 정성적 개념을 정확한 숫자 값으로 변환하는 것이기 때문에 인간의 정성적 측정 단위를 정확하고 용이하게 정량적으로 측도하여 반영한다는 것은 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 용어들간의 관련도를 정성적으로 부여한 시소러스 모델을 제안한다. 이 시소러스 모델에서는 색인어간의 관련도를 정성적으로 표현하기 위해 퍼지 집합 이론에 근거한 언어적 설명자들을 정의한다. 언어적 설명자들은 존재론적 문제가 고려되고 다분히 인식론적인 표현에 근거한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.425-432
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• 2017

The current recommendation systems have problems including the difficulty of figuring out whether they recommend items that actual users have preference for or have simple interest in, the scarcity of data to recommend proper items due to the extremely small number of users, and the cold-start issue of the dropping system performance to recommend items that can satisfy users according to the influx of new users. In an effort to solve these problems, this study implemented a movie recommendation system to ensure user satisfaction by using the Fuzzy-Analytic Hierarchy Process, which can reflect uncertain situations and problems, and the data partition algorithm to group similar items among the given ones. The data of a survey on movie preference with 61 users was applied to the system, and the results show that it solved the data scarcity problem based on the Fuzzy-AHP and recommended items fit for a user with the data partition algorithm even with the influx of new users. It is thought that research on the density-based clustering will be needed to filter out future noise data or outlier data.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.461-468
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• 2017

The current available recommendation systems for mobile games have a couple of problems. First, there is no knowing whether they make a pattern recommendation for games that actual users prefer or for games that they are simply interested in. It is also impossible to know the subjective preference of users in a direct manner. An AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process)-based recommendation system for mobile games was thus developed to reflect the subjective preference of users directly, but it had its own problem since the degree of preference could vary among users in spite of the same scale for their preferable items. In an effort to solve those problems, this study implemented a recommendation system for mobile games by applying triangular fuzzy numbers of the Fuzzy-AHP technique and the independence of evaluation items in the Bayesian Network. The findings show that the proposed recommendation system recorded the highest accuracy of recommendation results and the highest level of user satisfaction.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.218-227
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• 2000

In this paper, we present a new fuzzy information retrieval method based on thesaurus. In the proposed method th thesaurus is represented by a fuzzy linguistic matrix, where the elements in fuzzy linguistic matrix represent a qualitative linguistic values between terms. In the fuzzy linguistic matrix, there are three kinds of fuzzy relationships between terms, i.e., similar relation, hierarchical relation, and associative relation. The implicit fuzzy relationships between terms are inferred by the transitive closure of the fuzzy linguistic matrix based on fuzzy theory. And the proposed method has the capability to deal with a qualitative linguistic weights in a query and in indexing of information items to reflect qualitative measure of human based on vague and uncertain decisions rather than a quantitiative measure. Therefore the proposed method is more flexible than the ones presented in papers[1-3]. Moreover our method is more effectual of time than the ones presented in papers[1-3] because we use a fuzzy linguistic matrix and AON (Associate Ordinary Number) values in query evaluation process. As a result, the proposed method allows the users to perform fuzzy queries in a more flexible and more intelligent manner.