• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.1D
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• pp.63-72
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• 2009

This study aims at establishing the decision-making support system for the highway assets, long-term performance presumption and evaluation of asset value, which are appropriate for Korea, and proposing the methods of the optimal engineering method and the timing decision for the preventive maintenance through the project evaluation, the optimization method and life-cycle analysis related to the highways. In order to supplement the current problem of the near-sighted budget management system, which chooses the maintenance place of the highway, depending on the level of the budget with fixed amount, the long-term required budget prediction system and the economy principle were introduced, so that the pavement agency can predict the level of the required budget, and it was aimed to develop the pavement asset evaluation system to maintain the performance of the highway with the minimum of the cost. In the use of the highway pavement asset evaluation system, to maintain the appropriate level of the pavement evaluation index, when the budget was efficiently established in the reference of the required maintenance budget for the chosen section of the highway in the year concerned, it was possible to analyze the most rational pavement maintenance budget. With this result, it is estimated to prevent the unnecessary waste of budget in advance, and through the development of the decision-making system for the long-term performance presumption and the asset value estimation of the pavement, it is expected to able to analyze the previous evaluation of the project related to the highway and the feasibility of introduction.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.113-119
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• 2014

Recently, the demand on the practical application of life-cycle cost effectiveness for design and rehabilitation of structure is rapidly growing unprecedently in engineering practice. Accordingly, in the 21st century, it is almost obvious that life-cycle cost together with value engineering will become a new paradigm for all engineering decision problems in practice. However, in spite of impressive progress in the researches on the LCC, the most researches have only focused on the Deterministic or Probabilistic LCC analysis approach (Level-1 LCC Model) at design stage. Thus, the goal of this study is to develop a practical and realistic methodology for the Lifetime risk based Life-Cycle Cost (LCC)-effective optimum decision-making at design stage.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.181-190
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• 2012

Cost of capital is one of the key factors of accounting regulation policy for telecommunication market. This paper aims at investigating efficient policy improvements concerning accounting regulation for telecommunication market focused on cost of capital calculation methods and its application. At First, cost of capital estimating method should be improved. In estimating the cost of equity capital, it is necessary to use benchmark method for Equity risk premium. It will reduce analytical errors caused by a rapid economic change and inflation. It is also more desirable to use debt premium adding method for the cost of debt capital. Optimal capital structure method may be considered a better way to estimates capital structure. Secondly, cost of capital estimating process also has to be reformed. Telecommunication industry changes rapidly so it does not reflect fast environmental changes. Therefore, cost of capital should be calculated every year. Cost of capital should be calculated by individual companies. There is information asymmetry between regulators and regulatees. Because of that cost of capital calculating process takes long time and cost a lot. To solve this problem, regulator should legislate on cost of capital calculation and then regulating companies report the calculating result. Lastly, major telecommunication companies are all listed now and it is possible to calculating it separately. We must continuously improve the estimating method and application of cost of capital and due to the fast growing of telecommunication industry. The process of determining the calculating method must be discussed and best method chosen.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.85-105
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• 2012

So far, the importance of informatization, as well as investment into it, has been growing steadily. Due to the uncertainties and risks in adopting information technologies, systematic decision-making is definitely needed in investing in a large scale information system. Based on the existing theories about the economic life span of information systems and in consideration of the actual cost involved in the adoption and operation of the systems by the financial institutions in Korea, this study presents the optimal economic life span for all types of information systems in terms of the economic cost and generalizes the optimal life span. The ultimate purpose of this study is to develop a model that could be used in anticipating the timing of economic replacement of the information system of the same type and making decisions on IT investment.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.9
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• pp.1325-1330
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• 2010

The breakdown of any critical component of a turbine results in the outage of power plants. Unexpected failure decreases equipment utilization and causes enormous economic losses. Currently, we conduct conservative preventive maintenance for a maintenance period that is proposed by a vendor. In the rapidly changing business environment, reliability-based maintenance is required in order to remain competitive and reduce maintenance costs while maintaining the reliability of equipment. In order to determine an appropriate maintenance period for guaranteeing reliability, we must determine the failure probability by carefully analyzing the failure history of the equipment. In this study, we created a database of failure history for power-plant turbines, predicted the best repair time using the Weibull function, and investigated how the appropriate maintenance cycle can be determined.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.986-988
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• 2012

최적의 식물 생장을 위해서는 적절한 수분의 유지가 필수적이며 넓은 지역, 다양한 종류, 고가의 식물의 경우일수록 적절한 수분의 관리를 위한 시스템의 도움이 필요하다. 이를 위해 저가의 센서노드 시스템이 적절한 해결책이 될 수 있으나 일반적인 배터리 기반의 센서노드 시스템을 적용시 배터리 용량 확인 및 교체 등의 유지보수 문제가 대두된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 유지보수의 문제를 해결하고 식물재배에 도움을 줄 수 있는 자기유지 지원 방식의 정전용량 센싱기반의 수분 모니터링 센서노드를 설계하였다. UHF 기반의 무선 전력 전송의 자기유지 지원 시스템 및 PCB 패턴기반의 정전용량센싱 수분센서와 초저전력 센서노드 시스템으로 구성된다. 센서노드는 한번 송신시 약 0.24 mJ을 소모하며 에너지획득모듈은 에너지 획득 주기마다 약 4 mJ의 에너지를 공급하도록 설계하여 센서동작을 위한 충분한 에너지 마진을 주도록 설계하였다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.57 no.10
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• pp.711-723
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• 2024

Water distribution systems are important large-scale social infrastructure facilities for maintaining human society. Large-scale social infrastructure facilities are increasing due to urbanization and industrialization. However, one of the problems caused by the progress of urbanization and industrialization is carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. In this study, a Life Cycle Carbon Emission Analysis (LCCEA) model was proposed to analyze the amount of CO₂ generated during the life cycle of water distribution systems, such as installation, maintenance, and repair. Based on the proposed LCCEA model, low-carbon optimal design was performed and compared with cost-optimal design. As a result of applying the LCCEA model to domestic and international water distribution systems, the low-carbon optimal design showed a decrease in total and annual CO₂ emissions compared to the cost-optimal design. In addition, when CO₂ emissions were converted to costs and compared, the low-carbon optimal design showed better results in terms of cost. The LCCEA model can be applied to various water distribution systems as well as domestic and international water supply networks used in this study, and it will show good results in the design and operation of water distribution systems.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1350-1358
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• 2008

Recently the study related to life cycle cost analysis of railway structure consisted of a complex is proceeded covering several range, which is considering the methodology of efficiency and rationalization for maintenance and analysing long-time behavior of the structure of looking at standpoint from asset management and safety. But LCCA(life cycle cost analysis) of railway structure was almost impossible as there were not anything datum for maintenance plan, such as maintenance periods related to each of components(painting and corrosion of steel, and cracking of elements, etc)and maintenance proportion, despite of its 100-year history. According, for collecting data related to railway truss bridge, bridge record cards and testing safety papers, and researching question, etc are surveyed and classified for LCC Analysis. Especially, LCC assessment on the side of assets-maintenance considering about initial cost, maintenance cost, and indirect cost is constructed. Maintenance period and complementary measure rate are very important in maintenance. To decide maintenance period, Baysian updating method is applied.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.500-500
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• 2008

최근들어, 도시철도 전력설비에는 온라인 상태진단이 가능한 센서를 설치하여 각 기기의 상태를 상시 감시하는 시스템이 도입되고 있다. 이러한 기술이 적용됨으로써 전력설비의 교체 주기를 판단하고, 사고를 미연에 방지 하는 등의 최적의 관리를 할 수 있게 되었다. 그러나 운영기관에 따라 다양한 방법의 진단설비가 설치되어 있어 유지보수가 어려워, 도시철도에 적합한 진단시스템의 개발이 요구되어 지고 있다. 도시철도 주요 전기설비로는 변압기, 단로기, 차단기, 정류기 등이 있다. 현재 이를 진단하기 위한 방법으로는 각 장치에 따라 부분방전시험, 유전정접시험, 절연유분석시험, 차단기동작시험 등이 있다. 본 연구에서는 현재 국내 외에서 제시되고 있는 전기설비의 온라인 상태진단 기술을 조사하고, 상용화된 온라인 상태진단 시스템을 분석하여 도시철도 전기설비에 적용 가능한 상태진단 항목과 상태진단 기법을 조사, 분석하였다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.45-59
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• 1998

다양한 산업영역에서 수행되는 스케줄링 문제를 해결하기 위하여 AI분야에서는 지식을 기반으로한 방법이 적용되어 왔다. 그러나 최근 CSP(Constraints Satisfaction Problem) 개념이 소개되어 그 효율성이 입증되고 있으며 스케줄링 응용 문제들이 CSP로 정형화되면서부터 지식 기반 기법과 제약만족 기법의 적용이 공존하고 있다. 지식을 기반으로 한 방법은 도메인 전문가(domain expert)의 지식을 습득하여 시스템에 반영하는데 이러한 지식은 문제해결에 중심적 역할을 수행하게 된다. 제약조건을 기반으로 한 방법은 문제를 CSP로 정형화 한 후 제약조건에 따른 일관성 유지 및 휴리스틱 탐색 방법을 적용하여 문제의 해를 효율적으로 구하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 스케줄링 문제를 해결하기 위한 지식기반 기법과 제약만족 기법을 주기장 할당 문제에 적용하여 실제 항공사의 운항 데이터를 바탕으로 실험하고 분석 및 비교를 통해 제약 만족 기법이 시스템의 유지 및 보수 측면에서 효율적이며 근사해가 아닌 최적해를 통한 문제 해결이 가능함을 보였다.