• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.87-96
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• 2006

Most conventional database systems support specific queries that are concerned only with data that match a query qualification precisely. A cooperative query answering supports query analysis, query relaxation and provides approximate answers as well as exact answers. The key problem in the cooperative answering is how to provide an approximate functionality for alphanumeric as well as categorical queries. In this paper, we propose a metricized knowledge abstraction hierarchy that supports multi-level data abstraction hierarchy and distance metric among data values. In order to facilitate the query relaxation, a knowledge representation framework has been adopted, which accommodates semantic relationships or distance metrics to represent similarities among data values. The numeric domains also compatibly incorporated in the knowledge abstraction hierarchy by calculating the distance between target record and neighbor records.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.453-456
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• 2003

Spatial database systems achieve filtering steps with MBR(Minimum founding Rectangle) for efficient query processing, and then carry out refinement steps for candidate objects. While most operations require fast execution of filtering, it is necessary to increase the filtering rates and reduce the number of refinement steps in the low computing powered devices. The compact representation method is also needed in the mobile devices with low storage capacity. The paper proposes various approximation methods for efficient spatial operations in the multiplatform environments. This paper also designs a compression technique for MBR, which occupies almost 80% of index data in the two dimensional case. We also analyze the advantages and drawbacks of each method in terms of space utilization, filtering efficiency and speed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.941-944
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• 2001

최근 하드웨어와 압축기술의 발달 및 보편화로 인해 사용자들의 비디오 데이터에 대한 요구가 증가하였다. 비디오 데이터는 비정형, 대용량의 특징을 가지고 있으므로 사용자의 다양한 요구를 만족시키기 위해서는 단순한 텍스트 형식의 데이터가 아닌 비디오 데이터에 대한 다양한 검색기법이 요구된다. 효율적인 비디오의 검색을 위해서는 사용자의 불완전한 질의에도 근사한 질의결과의 제시가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 비디오데이터에 대한 효율적인 의미검색을 위해 주석기반과 특징기반을 혼합한 내용기반 검색을 지원하며 특히 사용자의 불완전한 질의에도 근접한 질의결과를 제시할 수 있는 지능적인 비디오 검색 시스템을 제안한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.13D no.4 s.107
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• pp.455-462
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• 2006

Recently, the filtering approach using vector approximation such as VA-file[1] or LPC-file[2] have been proposed to support similarity search in high dimensional data space. This approach filters out many irrelevant vectors by calculating the approximate distance from a query vector using the compact approximations of vectors in database. Accordingly, the total elapsed time for similarity search is reduced because the disk I/O time is eliminated by reading the compact approximations instead of original vectors. However, the search time of the VA-file or LPC-file is not much lessened compared to the brute-force search because it requires a lot of computations for calculating the approximate distance. This paper proposes a new bitmap index structure in order to minimize the calculating time. To improve the calculating speed, a specific value of an object is saved in a bit pattern that shows a spatial position of the feature vector on a data space, and the calculation for a distance between objects is performed by the XOR bit calculation that is much faster than the real vector calculation. According to the experiment, the method that this paper suggests has shortened the total searching time to the extent of about one fourth of the sequential searching time, and to the utmost two times of the existing methods by shortening the great deal of calculating time, although this method has a longer data reading time compared to the existing vector approximation based approach. Consequently, it can be confirmed that we can improve even more the searching performance by shortening the calculating time for filtering of the existing vector approximation methods when the database speed is fast enough.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.10D no.3
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• pp.427-438
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• 2003

In a data warehouse, users typically search for trends, patterns, or unusual data behaviors by issuing queries interactively. The OLAP range-sum query is widely used in finding trends and in discovering relationships among attributes in the data warehouse. In a recent environment of enterprises, data elements in a data cube are frequently changed. The problem is that the cost of updating a prefix sum cube is very high. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm which reduces the update cost significantly by an index structure called the Δ-tree. Also, we propose a hybrid method to provide either approximate or precise results to reduce the overall cost of queries. It is highly beneficial for various applications that need quick approximate answers rather than time consuming accurate ones, such as decision support systems. An extensive experiment shows that our method performs very efficiently on diverse dimensionalities, compared to other methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.125-128
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• 2004

최근 이동 통신 기술의 급속한 발달로 인해 휴대폰, PDA 등과 같은 휴대용 단말기의 사용이 보편화 되고 있다. 따라서 이동 객체의 시간에 따른 공간적인 위치정보를 활용하여 다양한 서비스를 제공하는 위치 기반 서비스(Location-Based Service)에 관한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 위치 기반 서비스의 효율적 제공을 위하여 시간에 따라 지속적으로 변하는 이동 객체의 대용량 시공간 정보를 신속하게 저장, 관리, 검색할 수 있는 인덱싱 및 질의 처리 기술이 수반되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 대용량 이동 객체 데이터베이스를 대상으로 한 효율적인 인덱스 구축을 위한 데이터 압축 표현 방식에 대하여 논한다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 기존의 주요 연구에서 2 차원 공간 좌표 (X, Y)로 표현되던 이동 객체의 공간 정보를 계층적 구조를 갖는 행정구역에 기반하여 1 차원의 공간 정보로 압축 표현하는 방식을 제안한다. 이를 이용하여 대용량의 공간정보를 저장하고 있는 이동 객체 데이터베이스의 인덱스 크기의 감소 및 질의 처리 시간의 향상 효과를 얻을 수 있다. 또한, 제안된 방식은 2 차원 공간 좌표를 1 차원의 행정구역 기반의 위치정보로 표현하기 때문에 이로 인한 데이터 손실이 발생할 수 있으나, 일정 공간 내의 객체분포를 필요로 하는 교통 상황 파악, 근사적(approximate) 공간 정보를 필요로 하는 사람${\cdot}$차량 위치 추적 서비스와 같은 위치 기반 서비스를 신속하게 처리하는데 유용하게 사용될 수 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.43-54
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• 2000

Character-based trademarks constitute 90% of registered trademarks at the Korean Patent Office. This paper proposes a method to improve the precision rate when for similar trademarks in such systems. The proposed method first calculates the similarity measure by an image processing. The method has been implemented and merged with the existing device-mark retrieval system to improve precision rate by 16.2% compared to other approximate matching methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.492-504
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• 2004

Recently, as growing of interest for LBS(location-based services) techniques, lots of works on moving objects that continuously change their information over time, have been performed briskly. Also, researches for NN(nearest neighbor) query which has often been used in LBS, are progressed variously However, the results of conventional NN Query processing techniques may be invalidated as the query and data objects move. Therefore, they are usually meaningless in moving object management system such as LBS. To solve these problems, in this paper we propose a new nearest neighbor query processing technique, called CTNN, which is possible to meet accurate and continuous query processing for moving objects. Our techniques include an Approximate CTNN(ACTNN) technique, which has quick response time, and an Exact CTNN(ECTNN) technique, which makes it possible to search nearest neighbor objects accurately. In order to evaluate the proposed techniques, we experimented with various datasets. Experimental results showed that the ECTNN technique has high accuracy, but has a little low performance for response time. Also the ACTNN technique has low accuracy comparing with the ECTNN, but has quick response time The proposed techniques can be applied to navigation system, traffic control system, distribution information system, etc., and specially are most suitable when both data and query are moving objects and when we already know their trajectory.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.1
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• pp.23-30
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• 2004

In order to approximate the spatial query result size we partition the input rectangles into subsets and estimate the query result size based on the partitioned spatial area. In this paper we examine query result size estimation in skewed data. We examine the existing spatial partitioning techniques such as equi-area and equi-count partitioning, which are analogous to the equi-width and equi-height histograms used in relational databases, and examine the other partitioning techniques based on spatial indexing. In this paper we propose a new spatial partitioning technique based on the Hilbert space filling curve. We present a detailed experimental evaluation comparing the proposed technique and the existing techniques using synthetic as well as real-life datasets. The experiments showed that the proposed partitioning technique based on the Hilbert space filling curve achieves better query result size estimation than the existing techniques for space query size, bucket numbers, skewed data, and spatial data size.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.214-223
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• 2006

Recently there is a need to store and process enormous spatial data in spatio-temporal databases. For effective query processing in spatio-temporal databases, selectivity estimation in query optimization techniques, which approximate query results when the precise answer is not necessary or early feedback is helpful, has been studied. There have been selectivity estimation techniques such as sampling-based techniques, histogram-based techniques, and wavelet-based techniques. However, existing techniques in spatio-temporal databases focused on selectivity estimation for future extent of moving objects. In this paper, we construct a new histogram, named T-Minskew, for query optimization of past spatio-temporal data. We also propose an effective selectivity estimation method using T-Minskew histogram and effective histogram maintenance technique to prevent frequent histogram reconstruction using threshold.