• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.415-428
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• 2010

Converging technologies have become a major issue in science policy. This paper describes the current state of scientific collaboration for convergent technologies among researchers in South Korea, by conducting Social Network Analysis (SNA) with the data set of 1,095 researchers who have involved in the development of the convergent technologies. It is found that the researchers in convergent technology are more productive than the researchers in other technology domains. However, the researchers in convergent technologies have small number of collaborators, compared with their productivity. Only a few researchers have a role of the hub in the collaboration networks, meaning that the structure network is closer to than the core than the peripheral. The scientific collaboration network of the convergent technology researchers shows that the members of the network are close to each other, but there is small number of cliques.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.199-209
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• 2017

This study was carried out to confirm a convergent research pattern and researchers' role in stem cell sector by social network analysis. Articles were extracted from 1996 to 2012 in PubMed, 515 authors of 270 embryonic stem cell and induced pluripotent stem cell articles and 1,515 authors of 580 adult stem cell and mesenchymal stem cell articles. Degree(D) and betweenness(B) centrality was measured and co-author network was generated for researcher's role. As a result, Core researcher and Intermediary researcher was identified in co-author network. Core researcher had high D. centrality, otherwise high B. centrality or not. Intermediary researcher for convergent research had high B. centrality and low D. centrality. Conclusively, co-author network will be used as objective data not only to find core researchers in subject area for improving achievement but also to select experts for research project evaluation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.619-631
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• 2019

Researchers are persons who are destined to produce improved knowledge, with duty, responsibility and desire for overcoming limits of the existing knowledge in continuously changing natural and social environments. In addition, both drawing research outcomes 'contributing to the society' by tapping on 'researches convergent with other disciplines', to 'deducing meaningful research outcomes' and 'operating laboratories for fostering convergence talents', for the consistency of incessant researches are the momentum for convergence researchers to continue convergence researches. However, an irony fact is that 53.1% of convergence researchers respond that they began convergence researches from happenstantial momentum (a happenstantial talk with other majors)'. This study examined what was the momentum from which convergence researches began and what was the motive with which they have been consistently conducted and suggested how to continue convergence researches.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.667-678
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate empirically the factors affecting the research results of humanities and social sciences based convergence research. For this purpose, personal characteristics, research environment factor, researcher factor, research team factor, and support agency factor were set as influence factors of convergence research. Survey was conducted for researchers who are conducting research on humanities and social sciences based convergence research. As a result, it was found that factors influencing research on humanities and social sciences based convergence were researcher factor, supporting agency factor, research environment factor(major), and the influence of these factors on convergence research result was 51.6%. The implications of the research results are as follows: First, when performing the convergence research based on humanities and social science, individual factor of the researcher is more important than the factor of the research team in the performance of convergence research. Second, the support organization can improve the convergence research result through continuous management of convergence research results. Third, the research field (major) of the researcher also influences the performance of the convergence research. Therefore, the research field (major) should be considered important in the formation of the convergence research team.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.607-610
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• 2008

국내외 연구자들은 각자의 분야에서 다양하고 중요한 연구를 수행하면서 그 연구결과물을 생산하고 있다. 연구결과물의 형태는 학회지 및 학술대회 논문, 연구보고서, 특허, 연구노트, 세미나 발표자료, 학교교재, 신문 및 잡지의 기사 등 매우 다양하다. 이런 다양한 연구결과물을 같은 학문 분야, 같은 주제의 연구자들끼리 서로 공유하고 교환하기 위해서는 정보의 자유로운 이용에 근거한 커뮤니티 환경이 필요하다. 이에, 국가 과학기술정보 유통기관인 한국과학기술정보연구원(KISTI)에서 보유하고 있는 문헌 콘텐트와 사실 콘텐트를 주제별로 분류하고 재가공하여 특정 주제분야 전문 연구자들을 위한 오픈 아카이빙, 오픈 액세스 개념을 적용한 커뮤니티 모델을 개발하여 제공하고자 한다. 본 커뮤니티 모델은 요즘들어 가장 많은 연구가 진행되고 있는 생명과학 분야의 연구결과물을 중심으로 개발하였다. 커뮤니티 모델을 개발하기 위하여 1) KISTI가 보유하고 있는 콘텐트 현황을 조사하고, 2) 그 중에서 생명과학분야 콘텐트의 형태와 특성을 분석하고, 3) 연구자들이 연구결과물을 자유롭게 업로드/다운로드할 수 있는 웹 환경의 플랫폼을 설계하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.267-281
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• 2017

Despite the recent importance of interdisciplinary convergence research, little has been studied on the detailed experience while conducting convergence research in Korea. To deeper understand challenges and overcoming in convergence research and to suggest an administrative system for it, by analyzing researchers experience and cognition while conducting their actual convergence research, in-depth interviews with 16 full-time faculty members with expertise in convergence research and research administration in a university and analyzed the interviews by using the paradigm model of grounded theory. The results show that the core phenomenon researchers experienced is that "convergence research is not being effectively conducted," and they experience growth in research through pursuing efforts and improving research atmosphere in various aspects. Based on these findings, we made several suggestions for promoting convergence research.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.153-163
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• 2019

The importance and necessity of convergence research to solve complexity and diversity of research problems is more increasing. For successful convergence research, connectivity beyond the boundary and distance between disciplines is a key factor. To understand the current status and characteristics of connectivity among researchers, we investigated the interdisciplinary relationships among 487 researchers' disciplines in a university by using network anaylsis. The results showed that (1) connectivity between similar disciplines were higher than different disciplines, (2) the density and cohesion level of connectivity within the same campuses were higher, and (3) network centrality was concentrated in engineering and medicine. Based on these results, the necessity of overcoming boundaries and distances as obstacles to convergence research and the necessity of diversification of centrality were proposed. While previous studies mainly analyzed the research outcomes, this study is meaningful because it analyzed researchers' connectivity and collaborative structures in the actual convergence research procedures.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.653-685
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• 2017

'기술융합'은 기존기술 간 결합 또는 전혀 새로운 기술개발을 통한 신산업 창출과 사회적 난제 해결을 가능하게 하는 혁신의 최근 트렌드이다. 과학기술을 통한 한국 경제성장 전략의 첨병이었던 국가 출연(연)구소에 대해서도 융합연구 조직으로의 역할 변화를 둘러싼 정책적 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 연구는 출연(연) 융합연구의 성공 핵심요소를 '협력'으로 보고 다음의 연구 목적을 설정하였다. 첫째, 기술개발 목적과 문제해결 과정 관점에서 융합연구 개념과 범위를 정의하고, 그 특성을 반영하는 분석 프레임워크를 제안한다. 둘째, 융합연구에서의 협력활동과 그 성과를 유형화하고 새로운 분석지표를 제안한다. 셋째, 융합연구에서의 협력활동 특성과 그 정도가 성과에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 이를 위하여, 국가연구개발사업 및 NST 융합연구사업을 통한 융합연구 과제 수행 경험이 있는 각 출연(연) 104명의 연구책임자들에게 협력의 방식 및 정성적 성과에 대한 설문조사를 수행하였다. 이후, 조사결과를 바탕으로 협력활동 특성과 성과 간 상관관계를 규명하는 회귀분석을 수행하였다. 분석결과, 첫째, 지식 창출활동에서는 협력 파트너 다변화가 중요한 변수였다. 둘째, 유사분야 연구자들 간 집체형 협력활동은 특허 기술이전과 같이 목적이 명확한 성과에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 연구자들에게 독립성과 자율성을 부여하고, 지식 노하우 등 기술역량의 상호공유가 이루어질수록 창출지식의 다양성 및 관계의 지속성이 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 연구 결과는 융합연구를 위한 협력과 성과 분석방법의 정책방향을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.335-337
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• 2014

최근에 디지털융합에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되면서 디지털융합의 한 분야인 전자문화지도는 연구자들의 학문연구방법으로도 활용되고 있다. 전자문화지도는 특정지역의 문화를 나타내기 위해 지도를 인터페이스로 활용하여 점, 선, 면 등 다양한 방법으로 지도위에 정보화된 데이터를 나타낸다. 본 논문에서는 지도의 특성을 효율적으로 활용할 수 있도록 특정지역연구를 위한 연구방법으로 활용할 수 있는 지식지도시스템을 설계한다. 세부적으로 해외지역 가운데 지중해지역을 중심으로 시스템을 설계하며 지중해지역과 관련된 연구결과물에 대한 요약정보를 주제, 지역, 시간값의 매핑을 통해 제공한다. 본 시스템은 학문동향에 관한 정보를 효율적으로 제공함으로써 인문 지역학 연구자들의 연구방법으로 활용하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.61-67
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• 2018

Emulab software was developed by the team of University of Utah and it has been replicated at dozens of other sites in the world. Although KREONET Emulab, which established by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, has only a modest number of compute nodes it has been provided an ideal playground to conduct various research for network protocols, cyber security and convergence research. A testbed is a critical enabler of experimental research and researchers only carry out the experiments that are supported by the testbed. This paper outlines the Utah Emulab's status and use types among the last 10 years of operation results and compares them with the ones with the KREONET Emulab. In addition, Testbed-as-a-Service(TaaS) is discussed to upgrade the testbed for the convergence research community services.