• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.6-16
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• 2006

The goal of this study was to develop new indices for effectively evaluating the dose coverage and homogeneity based on the target-volume dose-volume histogram (TV-DVH) of intensity-modulated radio-therapy treatment plans. A new coverage Index and a new homogeneity index were developed by integrating a modified TV-DVH and by fitting a TV-DVH with a modified step function, respectively. The coverage index, named the l-index, indicates whether the dose coverage for the target volume is adequate based on user-defined criteria. A lower l-index indicates higher dose coverage of the tumor volume. The index for assessing dose homogeneity in a target volume, named the n-index, is more accurate than the conventional method in evaluating the dose homogeneity in a tumor volume. The baseline treatment plan for a target volume coverage and homogeneity is discussed. The proposed simple indices have been demonstrated to be effective in evaluating the dose coverage and homogeneity for TV-DVHs.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.165-171
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• 2005

In this paper, the centralized dynamic load-balancing was processed effectively by using the network based parallel genetic algorithm. Unlike the existing method using genetic algorithm, the performance of central scheduler was improved by distributing the process for the searching of the optimal task assignment to clients. A roulette wheel selection and an elite preservation strategy were used as selection operation to improve the convergence speed of optimal solution. A chromosome was encoded by using sliding window method. And a cyclic crossover was used as crossover operation. By the result of simulation for the performance estimation of central scheduler according to the change of flexibility of load-balancing method, it was verified that the performance is improved in the proposed method.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.10A no.1
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• pp.49-58
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• 2003

In a sender-initiated load balancing algorithm, a sender (overloaded processor) continues to send unnecessary request messages for load transfer until a receiver (underloaded processor) is found while the system load is heavy. Therefore, it yields many problems such as low cpu utilization and system throughput because of inefficient inter-processor communications until the sender receives an accept message from the receiver in this environment. This paper presents an approach based on genetic algorithm (GA) for dynamic load balancing in heterogeneous distributed systems. In this scheme the processors to which the requests are sent off are determined by the proposed GA to decrease unnecessary request messages.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.8
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• pp.1259-1268
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• 2002

One of the major goals suggested in distributed system is to improve the performance of the system through the load balancing of whole system. Load balancing among systems improves the rate of processor utilization and reduces the turnaround time of system. In this paper, we design the rule of decision-making and information interchange based on knowledge based mechanism which makes optimal load balancing by sharing the future load state information inferred from past and present information of each nodes. The result of performance evaluation shows that utilization of processors is balanced, the processing time is improved and reliability and availability of systems are enhanced. The proposed mechanism in this paper can be utilized in the design of load balancing algorithm in distributed operating systems.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.65-75
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• 2009

Most of universities have carried out course evaluation to improve students's satisfaction for the established lecture and apply the performance appraisal for professor. But, course evaluation depends on many variables such as class size, type of lecture, evaluator's grade and so on. As the results, such variables lead to serious bias which makes lecturers distrust the course evaluation results. In this paper, we compare some equating methods for the course evaluation and the efficiencies for some equating methods. And we will recommend one of them which has best efficiency. Also we give the example to which the method is applied.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.491-498
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• 2002

In medical visualization fields, anisotropic volume data are more common than isotropic ones. In this paper, we propose an efficient rendering method for anisotropic volume data, which directly computes the intensity of intermediate samples by interpolating the intensity of two corresponding voxels on consecutive slices. Unlike conventional rendering method, it does not require a preprocessing step for generating intermediate slices or additional memory for storing them. In order to evaluate the validity and performance of our method, we applied the method to shear-warp rendering algorithm. Experimental results show that this method improves rendering speed without significantly sacrificing the image quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.59-63
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• 2006

이동 애드 혹 네트워크(Mobile Ad Hoc Network; MANET)는 인프라 없이 빠른 구성이 가능한 네트워크이다. 하지만, 긴급 상황과 같은 특수한 경우가 아닌 일상생활에서 사용 가능한 네트워크로 발전하기 위해서는 MANET과 인터넷의 연결이 꼭 필요하다. 인터넷 노드와 MANET 노드 간의 통신을 가능하게 만드는 것은 인터넷과 MANET을 중계하는 인터넷 게이트웨이를 통해서 이다. 고장 감내(fault tolerance)를 지원하고 대역폭을 늘리기 위해 다중 인터넷 게이트웨이들을 MANET에 배치하여 사용할 수 있다. 다중 게이트웨이들 간의 부하를 잘 분배한다면 네트워크 성능 향상을 얻을 수 있으므로, MANET 내에 여러 개의 인터넷 게이트웨이가 존재할 경우 이들 간의 부하 균등화는 중요한 이슈이다. 본 연구에서는 노드들의 이동이 빈번하고 인터넷 게이트웨이들이 고정되어 있는 MANET 환경에서의 부하 균등화 인터넷 게이트웨이 발견 기법들을 제안한다. 기존에 제안된 부하 균등화 기법들로 Shortest Path (SP), Minimum Load Index(MLI), Running Variance Metric (RVM) 기법들을 소개하고 각 기법들에 대한 시뮬레이션 결과를 제공한다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 이들 기법을 분석하여 문제점을 찾아내고 이를 수정 및 보완하여 새로운 기법들을 제안하며, 새로운 기법들의 성능이 기존 기법들에 비하여 향상되었음을 보인다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.2A
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• pp.130-136
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• 2002

It is required to control the picture quality among video sources when the multiple video sources are together transmitted through the channel of fried bandwidth such as satellite and terrestrial broadcasting. This paper presents a control method to keep the uniform picture quality among the video sources. We first find a model of distortion and titrate far the multiplexing system of multiple sources. Then we allocate the bitrate to each source for uniformly divided picture quality among the sources by using the distortion-bitrate relationship for the real-time implementation without time delay. It is shown by simulation that the proposed quality control method can keep almost uniform picture quality among the sources in comparison to the conventional control method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.67-70
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 고성능 컴퓨팅 시스템의 성능 향상을 위한 효율적인 동적 작업부하 균등화 정책을 제안한다. 이 정책은 시스템 자원인 CPU와 메모리를 효율적으로 사용하여 고성능 컴퓨팅 시스템의 처리량을 최대화하고, 각 작업의 수행시간을 최소화한다. 또한 이 정책은 수행중인 작업의 메모리 요구량과 각 노드의 부하 상태를 파악하여 작업을 동적으로 할당한다. 이때 작업을 할당 받은 노드가 과부하 상태가 되면 다른 노드로 작업을 이주시켜 각 노드의 작업부하를 균등하게 유지함으로써 작업의 대기시간을 줄이고, 각 작업의 수행시간을 단축한다. 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제안하는 동적 작업부하 균등화 정책이 기존의 메모리 기반의 작업부하 균등화 정책에 비해 고성능 컴퓨팅 시스템의 성능 향상 면에서 우수함을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.568-571
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• 2011

센서네트워크에서 가장 기본적이고 중요한 기능 중 하나는 주변정보를 수집하고 수집한 정보를 취합하는 것이다. 하지만 정보 취합 과정에서 특정 경로를 자주 이용하게 되면, 해당 경로상의 노드들에게 에너지 소비가 집중되어 네트워크가 일찍 단절 될 수 있다. 따라서 다양한 라우팅 경로를 갖고, 모든 노드의 부하를 균등하게 분산하여 네트워크 라이프타임을 늘리는 것이 중요하다. 그간, 여러 논문에서 리니어프로그래밍을 통해 각 노드의 부하를 균등하게 분산하기 위한 연구들이 활발히 이루어 졌다. 하지만 기존 연구들에서는 무선환경에서의 충돌, 감쇄 등으로 인한 전송 실패와 재전송에 드는 에너지측면을 제대로 반영하지 못하였다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 무선 네트워크 환경에서, 노드 간 링크퀄리티를 반영하여 재전송에 드는 비용까지 고려된, 정교한 부하 균등 분산 기법을 소개한다. 링크퀄리티를 고려하였을 때, 그렇지 않았을 때에 비해 에너지 측면과 전송 지연 측면에서 최대 100%를 상회하는 성능향상 결과를 보인다.