• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.91-99
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• 2018

Discrete event simulation environments often need to be modified because additional questions to systems may become apparent while observing the simulation results repeatedly. It leads to increasing development budget and depreciating the effectiveness of the environment. To avoid the modifications and to generate the altered results, this paper applies an Event Control Model (ECM) with control functions that modulate, delete and generate the events at the simulation time. In addition, this paper suggests an easier approach for domain-users, who do not want to program at source code level, by using ECM templates. The simulators with the ECMs can have better extensibility because it becomes more adaptable to possibly unanticipated changes. It prevents increasing development costs due to modifications or development of new models by M&S experts, and it provides a new alternative step to domain users. To support the effectiveness of this approach, this paper describes a relevant example, which is composed of an initial simulation model based on our empirical studies. It will show that there exist the uncountable benefits because the existing simulator is reused by domain users without new projects.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.87-96
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• 2011

DEVS(Discrete Event Systems Specification) is a set theoretic formalism developed for specifying discrete event system. For execution of DEVS, we need an execution environment, which consists of simulation engine and models interpreted by the simulation engine. Common existing environments use hierarchical scheduling algorithm for DEVS execution. This hierarchical scheduling is a proper algorithm for DEVS execution because of hierarchical and modular characteristics. But this algorithm has overheads owing to message passing and time management. To overcome these overheads, we apply event-oriented simulation to DEVS execution and we remove hierarchical overheads. In eventoriented simulation, the scheduling of model execution is performed by events and event list. We propose three event-oriented execution environments for DEVS and experiment about the performance of our proposed environments in comparison with the existing execution environment using the hierarchical scheduling. The experimental results show our environments works better than existing environment using the hierarchical scheduling.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.29-37
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• 2009

This paper deals with the priority queues exploited for the management of future event list in discrete event simulation. Among several implementations of priority queues, MList which consists of 3 tiers has been known to reveal the good performance. To improve the performance of MList, Dynamic-Shift MList (DSMList) is proposed in this paper. Whenever the number of events in tier 3 exceeds a critical number, DSMList creates new calendar queue in tier 2, then moves events from Tier 3 to the calendar queue. Instead of one calendar queue, therefore, a number of calendar queues are dynamically created in tier 2. Throughout experiments for the performance evaluation of DSMList, it shows that at least 20% improvement is obtained compared with MList.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.21-29
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• 2022

Productivity estimation of construction operations is crucial to successful project delivery. Especially in the preconstruction phase, the adequacy and effectiveness of plans directly affect the actual performance of operations. Currently, productivity estimation is conducted by referring to existing references such as the Construction Standard Production Rate. However, it is difficult to promptly apply changing conditions of operations when using such references. Moreover, it is difficult to deduce the optimal combination of construction machinery for the given condition. This paper presents a simple simulation model that can be used to generate productivity data that considers site conditions and construction equipment combination. The suggested method is expected to be used as a decision making assisting tool for practitioners who rely on estimations using the Construction Standard Production Rate when establishing construction plans using heavy machinery such as backhoes, loaders and dumptrucks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06b
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• pp.513-518
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• 2007

시뮬레이션 방법론에 있어서 모델기반 시뮬레이션과 프로세스기반 시뮬레이션으로 나눌 수 있는데, 재사용성, 확장성, 시뮬레이터 기술 용이성 등의 장점으로 모델기반 시뮬레이션이 많이 사용되고 있다. 이러한 이유로 근래에는 컴퓨터 시스템, 항공, 자동차 등에서 모델 기반 시뮬레이션 방법이 사용되고 있다. 모델기반 시뮬레이션 방법으로 수학적 이론을 기반으로 모델을 정의하는 DEVS(Discrete Event System Specification) 형식론은 계층적이고 모듈화 된 형태로 이산사건 시스템을 기술한다. 대규모의 복잡한 시뮬레이션 모델을 검증 할 목적으로 분산 시뮬레이션 방법론이 있는데, 이들은 크게 동기적인 방법과 비동기적인 방법이 있다. 동기적 방식보다 빠른 수행을 위해 비동기적 방법은 전체 Time-order 순이 아닌 로컬 Time-order를 가진다. 그러나 비동기적 방식에는 분산된 시뮬레이터들 간의 전체 Time-order를 유지하기 위해 전 처리된 시뮬레이터 결과들을 저장하는데, Time-order 상으로 현재의 시뮬레이션 시간보다 과거의 사건이 왔을 때 그 이벤트를 처리해주어야 되기 때문이다. 이러한 비동기적 분산 시뮬레이션 방법론에서는 전체 Time-order를 유지하기 위해 과거의 Time-order를 가지는 이벤트가 왔을 때 rollback operation을 수행한다. 그러나 rollback operation은 분산 시뮬레이션 방법론에서 성능 장애요소 중 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 rollback operation을 최소할 할 수 있는 DEVS 모델 분배 방법을 제안한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.10A no.2
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• pp.111-122
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• 2003

Military wargame simulation models must support the HLA in order to facilitate interoperability with other simulations, and using parallel simulation engines offer efficiency in reducing system overhead generated by propelling interoperability. However, legacy military simulation model engines process events using sequential event-driven method. This is due to problems generated by parallel processing such as synchronous reference to global data domains. Additionally. using legacy simulation platforms result in insufficient utilization of multiple CPUs even if a multiple CPU system is under use. Therefore, in this paper, we propose conversing the simulation engine to an object model-based parallel simulation engine to ensure military wargame model's improved system processing capability, synchronous reference to global data domains, external simulation time processing, and the sequence of parallel-processed events during a crash recovery. The converted parallel simulation engine is designed and implemented to enable parallel execution on a multiple CPU system (SMP).

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.3319-3325
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• 2012

This paper describes the development of the TrackSim, which is a discrete event simulation tool for photolithography equipment of semiconductor industry. The TrackSim is focused on the accurate simulation model of the photolithography equipment and easy-to-use user interfaces. TrackSim provides 3D simulation environment for evaluating, validating, and scheduling the photolithography process. One of the major characteristics of TrackSim is in that it is developed based on Applied Materials' AutoMod, a discrete event simulation software broadly used in semiconductor industry. Accordingly, the photolithography model of TrackSim can be used to perform simulation connected with other simulation models built with AutoMod.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.13A no.5 s.102
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• pp.445-454
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• 2006

We introduce a family of simulators for I/O-intensive distributed or parallel applications, and a methodology that permits selecting the most efficient simulator meeting a given user-defined accuracy requirement. This methodology consists of a series of tests to choose an appropriate simulation based on the attributes of the application. In addition, each simulator provides two estimates of application execution time: the minimum expected time and the maximum. We present the results of applying our methodology to existing applications, and show that we can accurately simulate applications tens to hundreds of tunes faster than the application execution times.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.337-339
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• 2005

하이브리드 시스템이란 연속적인 변화와 이산적인 변화가 함께 존재하는 시스템으로 많은 임베디드 시스템이 하이브리드 시스템으로 모델링 된다. 이러한 하이브리드 시스템을 모델링하고 타당성을 검사(validation) 할 수 있는 도구의 제안은 시스템 개발자들에게 하이브리드 시스템의 복잡한 변화로 인한 시스템의 복잡성을 간소화 시킬 수 있는 방법을 제공하고, 고품질의 제어 소프트웨어를 개발할 수 있도록 해준다. 본 논문에서 소개하는 ASADAL/OBJ Hybrid는 고신뢰성 하이브리드 시스템 모델링을 위한 도구로써 객체지향 모델링에 따라 여러 하이브리드 시스템을 객체로 모델링하며, 이들 간의 통신은 이벤트와 데이터 전송으로 이루어지도록 한다. 환경 객체의 경우 3D 형태 정보를 가지고 있어서 3D 시뮬레이션을 통해 시스템의 변화 양상을 개발자에게 직관적으로 제공하도록 하고 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.889-899
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• 2021

This paper proposes a reliable data sharing scheme on the internet of vehicles (IoV) by utilizing blockchain technology for constructing a decentralized system approach. In our model, to maintain the credibility of the information messages sent by the vehicles to the system, we propose a reputation rating mechanism, in which neighboring vehicles validate every received information message. Furthermore, we incorporate an incentive mechanism based on smart contracts, so that vehicles will get certain rewards from the system when they share correct traffic information messages. We simulated the IoV network using a discrete event simulator to analyze network performance, whereas the incentive model is designed by leveraging the smart contract available in the Ethereum platform.