• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.11
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• pp.1188-1200
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• 2016

Recommendation systems play a significant role in providing personalized information to users, with enhanced satisfaction and reduced information overload. Since the mid-1990s, many studies have been conducted on recommendation systems, but few have examined the recommendations of information from people in the online social networking environment. In this paper, we present a hybrid recommendation method that combines both the traditional system of content-based techniques to improve specialization, and the recently developed system of social network-based techniques to best overcome a few limitations of the traditional techniques, such as the cold-start problem. By suggesting a state-of-the-art method, this research will help users in online social networks view more personalized information with less effort than before.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.974-983
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• 2017

In this paper, we have discussed the search function that can be embedded and used on Android-based applications. We used BM25 to suppress insignificant and too frequent words such as postpositions, Pivoted Length Normalization technique used to resolve the search priority problem related to each item's length, and Rocchio's method to pull items inferred to be related to the query closer to the query vector on Vector Space Model to support implicit feedback function. The index operation is divided into two methods; simple index to support offline operation and complex index for online operation. The implementation uses query inference function to guess user's future input by collating given present input with indexed data and with it the function is able to handle and correct user's error. Thus the implementation could be easily adopted into smartphone applications to improve their search functions.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.117-135
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• 2003

This study is to propose a procedure solving scale problem of traditional collaborative filtering (CF) approach. The CF approach generally uses some similarity measures like correlation coefficient. So, as the user of the Website increases, the complexity of computation increases exponentially. To solve the scale problem, this study suggests a clustering model-based approach using Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and RFM (Recency, Frequency, Momentary) method. SOM clusters users into some user groups. The preference score of each item in a group is computed using RFM method. The items are sorted and stored in their preference score order. If an active user logins in the system, SOM determines a user group according to the user's characteristics. And the system recommends items to the user using the stored information for the group. If the user evaluates the recommended items, the system determines whether it will be updated or not. Experimental results applied to MovieLens dataset show that the proposed method outperforms than the traditional CF method comparatively in the recommendation performance and the computation complexity.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.289-334
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• 2018

Even though information in many languages other than English is quickly increasing, English is still playing the role of the lingua franca and being accounted for the largest proportion on the web. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the key features and differences between "information searching behavior using mother tongue as a search language" and "information searching behavior using English as a search language" of users who are non-mother tongue speakers of English to acquire more diverse and abundant information. This study conducted the experiment on the web searching which is applied in concurrent think-aloud method to examine the information searching behavior and the cognitive process in Korean search and English search through the twenty-four undergraduate students at a private university in South Korea. Based on the qualitative data, this study applied the frequency analysis to web search pattern under search language. As a result, it is active, aggressive and independent information searching behavior in Korean search, while information searching behavior in English search is passive, submissive and dependent. In Korean search, the main features are the query formulation by extract and combine the terms from various sources such as users, tasks and system, the search range adjustment in diverse level, the smooth filtering of the item selection in search engine results pages, the exploration and comparison of many items and the browsing of the overall contents of web pages. Whereas, in English search, the main features are the query formulation by the terms principally extracted from task, the search range adjustment in limitative level, the item selection by rely on the relevance between the items such as categories or links, the repetitive exploring on same item, the browsing of partial contents of web pages and the frequent use of language support tools like dictionaries or translators.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.61-68
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• 2012

Recommender Systems have gained much popularity among researchers and is applied in a number of applications. The exponential growth of users and products poses some key challenges for recommender systems. Recommender Systems mostly suffer from scalability and accuracy. The accuracy of Recommender system is somehow inversely proportional to its scalability. In this paper we proposed a Context Aware Hybrid Recommender System using matrix reduction for Hybrid model and clustering technique for predication of item features. In our approach we used user item-feature rating, User Demographic information and context information i.e. specific time and day to improve scalability and accuracy. Our Algorithm produce better results because we reduce the dimension of items features matrix by using different reduction techniques and use user demographic information, construct context aware hybrid user model, cluster the similar user offline, find the nearest neighbors, predict the item features and recommend the Top N- items.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.877-885
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• 2011

A collaborative filtering(CF) is the most widely used technique in recommender system. However, CF has sparsity and scalability problems. These problems reduce the accuracy of recommendation and extensive studies have been made to solve these problems, In this paper, we proposed a method that uses a weight so as to solve these problems. After creating a user-item matrix, the proposed method analyzes information about users who prefer the item only by using data with a rating over 4 for enhancing the accuracy in the recommendation. The proposed method uses information about the genre of the item as well as analyzed user information as a weight during the calculation of similarity, and it calculates prediction by using only data for which the similarity is over a threshold and uses the data as the rating value of unrated data. It is possible simultaneously to reduce sparsity and to improve accuracy by calculating prediction through an analysis of the characteristics of an item. Also, it is possible to conduct a quick classification based on the analyzed information once a new item and a user are registered. The experiment result indicated that the proposed method has been more enhanced the accuracy, compared to item based, genre based methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.9
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• pp.659-668
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• 2010

Collaborative filtering systems grasp behaviors for a new user and need new information for the user in order to recommend interesting items to the user. For the purpose of acquiring the information the collaborative filtering systems learn behaviors for users based on the previous data and can obtain new information from the results. In this paper, we propose an inductive inference method to obtain new information for users and rank items by using the new information in the proposed method. The proposed method clusters users into groups by learning users through NMF among inductive machine learning methods and selects the group features from the groups by using chi-square. Then, the method classifies a new user into a group by using the bayesian probability model as one of inductive inference methods based on the rating values for the new user and the features of groups. Finally, the method decides the ranks of items by applying the Rocchio algorithm to items with the missing values.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.101-115
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• 2008

Combining collaborative filtering with some other technique is most common in hybrid recommender systems. As many recommended items from collaborative filtering seem to be similar with respect to content, the collaborative-content hybrid system suffers in terms of quality recommendation and recommending new items as well. To alleviate such problem, we have developed a novel method that uses a diversity metric to select the dissimilar items among the recommended items from collaborative filtering, which together with the input when fed into content space let us improve and include new items in the recommendation. We present experimental results on movielens dataset that shows how our approach performs better than simple content-based system and naive hybrid system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11c
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• pp.2133-2136
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• 2002

인터넷 특성상 방대한 양의 정보와 상품 등으로 사용자들이 원하는 정보를 찾기 위해서 많은 시간을 낭비하고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 사용자의 시간 소모를 중이기 위해서 추천 시스템이 개발되었다. 현재 인터넷 상의 추천 기술 중에서 가장 많이 사용하는 기법으로는 협력적 여과(Collaborative filtering) 방법이다. 그러나, 협력적 추천 방법으로 추천 받기 위해서는 특정수 이상의 아이템에 대한 평가가 필요하며, 또한 비슷한 성향을 가지는 일부 사용자 정보에 근거하여 추천함으로써 나머지 사용자 정보를 무시하는 경향이 있다. 이러한 문제점이 발생되므로 최근에는 데이터 마이닝(Data Mining) 기법 중 연관 규칙(Association Rule)을 이용한 추천 시스템이 개발되고 있다[1,10]. 그러나, 연관 규칙 기법은 개인별 사용자의 성향을 반영하지 못하는 단점이 있다[4]. 연관 규칙은 단지 대용량 데이터 베이스에서 아이템간의 지지도(Support)와 신뢰도(Confidence)에 근거하여 규칙을 발견하는 특징을 가지고 있기 때문이다. 즉 개인성향을 무시하고 아이템간의 연관성만을 근거로 하여 아이템을 추천하기 때문이다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 연관 규칙을 이용한 개인화 추천 시스템을 구현하기 위해서 연관 규칙과 여과 방법을 통합한 시스템을 제안한다. 본 시스템에 대하여 성능 비교 실험을 수행함으로써 제안한 방법의 타당성을 제시한다.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.157-159
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• 2016

이 연구의 목적은 소자본 외식업소 창업시 사전 준비단계 요인들의 필요성과 그 효용성을 알아보는 데 연구목적을 세우고, 서울 및 경기지역에 소재하고 있는 외식업체 창업자들을 대상으로 전문조사원이 설문조사를 실시하여 수집된 자료를 spss(통계 패키지 프로그램)를 활용하여 분석하였다. 창업전 준비단계별 중요성 평가와 경영성과 간의 관계를 규명함으로써 새로 소자본 외식업소 창업을 하고자 하는 예비 창업자들에게 좀 더 효율적인 정보를 제공하고자 한다. 연구 결과, 창업준비성 요인인 창업교육, 창업동기, 업종경험, 자금조달 능력,사업자 역량, 가족의 동의, 창업자의 건강이 타 요인 대비 더 많이 강조되었으며, 창업준비성 요인에 대한 경영성과 우수집단의 중요성 평가가 저조집단 대비 통계 적으로 유의미하게 높았다. 업종(아이템) 선정 요인인 아이템과 창업자, 창업자금, 입지와의 적합성, 수명주기, 향후 발전성, 유행성, 노동력 공급의 용이성이 타 요인 대비 더 많이 강조되었으며, 아이템 선정 요인에 대한 경영성과 우수집단의 중요성 평가가 저조집단 대비 통계적으로 유의미하게 높았다. 상권내 입지분석 요인인 경쟁점포, 유동인구, 교통 편리성, 주목성, 가시성이 타 요인 대비 더 많이 강조 되었으며, 상권내 입지분석 요인에 대한 경영성과 우수집단의 중요성 평가가 저조집단 대비 통계적으로 유의미하게 높았다. 이 같은 결과는 여러 준비단계 중 특히 창업준비성 요인과 아이템선정 요인, 상권내 입지분석 요인이 중요하며, 이는 장기적으로 안정된 경영을 뒷받침해주는 요인임을 시사한 것으로 볼 수 있다.