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A Study on Web based Integration of Design Resources with a Knowledge Based Engineering Technique (KBE 기법이 적용된 설계 자원 웹 기반 통합에 관한 연구)

  • Kim J.G.;Lee S.H.;Chun H.J.
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents an embodiment of design integration framework corresponding to changes in the latest manufacturing environment. The embodied system is named by 'WEB-KBE System' because it supports a product design with a KBE technique based on web environment. The final purpose of the work is to implement a web-based integration design environment with a KBE technique to support non-skillful designers. The framework of the system Is designed to support necessary items in user-centric design environment. Two case studies were applied to the WEB-KBE system to evaluate the efficiency, flexibility, extensibility, and reusability of the system. The examples are [1] CART integration design environment construction and (2) Exhaust Duct Saddle Support integration design environment construction. In the former case, it took a period of 8 months for modeling and implementation of the WEB-KBE prototype system. However, with the high extensibility and reusability of WEB-KBE system, the second case required only a period of one month for modeling and implementation of the system. We conclude that the presented WEB-KBE system can bring fair effects on implementing a knowledge based design environment in aspect of time and expense.

A Development of Intelligent Simulation Tools based on Multi-agent (멀티 에이전트 기반의 지능형 시뮬레이션 도구의 개발)

  • Woo, Chong-Woo;Kim, Dae-Ryung
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.21-30
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    • 2007
  • Simulation means modeling structures or behaviors of the various objects, and experimenting them on the computer system. And the major approaches are DEVS(Discrete Event Systems Specification). Petri-net or Automata and so on. But, the simulation problems are getting more complex or complicated these days, so that an intelligent agent-based is being studied. In this paper, we are describing an intelligent agent-based simulation tool, which can supports the simulation experiment more efficiently. The significances of our system can be described as follows. First, the system can provide some AI algorithms through the system libraries. Second, the system supports simple method of designing the simulation model, since it's been built under the Finite State Machine (FSM) structure. And finally, the system acts as a simulation framework by supporting user not only the simulation engine, but also user-friendly tools, such as modeler scriptor and simulator. The system mainly consists of main simulation engine, utility tools, and some other assist tools, and it is tested and showed some efficient results in the three different problems.

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A Study on UML-Based Ontology Modeling for Agent Oriented Software Engineering (에이전트 지향 소프트웨어 공학을 위한 UML 기반 온톨로지 모델링에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Gui-Jung
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.353-356
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    • 2005
  • 온톨로지는 에이전트가 지식 레벨 메시지 교환을 위해 사용하는 용어를 정의하는데 중요한 역할을 수행한다. 객체지향 모델링 중 특히 UML은 소프트웨어 공학 분야에서 많은 발전이 이루어져 왔으며, 대부분의 상업용 도구들에 의해 지원될 수 있다. 따라서, 에이전트 시스템에서 온톨로지 표현을 위해 UML을 사용한다면 에이전트 기반 시스템 개념의 이해를 돕는데 매우 효과적일 것이다. 본 연구는 온톨로지 모델링을 위해 UML 사용의 가능성을 제시하고자 한다.

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A Study on the Determinants of Overseas Purchases via Agents :Analyzing Chinese Consumers' Purchases of Korean Cosmetics (해외 현지인 연계 대리구매 결정요인 분석 - 중국 소비자와 한국 화장품 산업을 중심으로 -)

  • Zhou, Xiao-Feng;Cho, Hyuk-Soo
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.129-150
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    • 2017
  • The Hallyu, or Korean Wave, has recently been proliferating around the world focusing on Asia. With the development of China's economy and the improvement of their people's living standards, Chinese consumption has been growing quickly. In cosmetic industry, Chinese consumers tend to prefer international brands including Korean cosmetics. There are various ways for Chinese consumers to purchase international brand cosmetics. One of them is overseas purchase via buying agent. This study is designed to exam various determinants of the overseas purchase. Based on empirical findings, product price and functionality can play an important role in terms of the overseas purchase. Also, moderating effects of an external factor(importing country's favorability) was empirically investigated. The results of SEM(Structural Equation Modeling) show that the relationship between consumer openness and overseas purchase via buying agent can be positively moderated by the favorability.

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Association-Based Conceptual Modeling for Smart Database Design (스마트 데이터베이스 설계를 위한 연관성 기반 개념적 모형화)

  • Lee, Sang-Won
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.169-185
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    • 2011
  • Data redundancy is problematic in that it not only induces heavy storage management cost but also could bring critical degradation of information systems. Unfortunately, to our knowledge, only few enterprises willingly afford time and efforts for the faithful conceptual design to prevent the degree of inappropriate data as much as they could, while most of enterprises pay rare attention to the notion of that sort of data quality. Wondering if there would be any other way to design the enterprise.wide data design without prior knowledge about business works is our major motivation for this study. In this paper, we present our data modeling methodology in which associations among objects in each sentences of a business job descriptions are treated as the focal point in database design. A proposed agent for automated design tool simply takes a business job description written in natural language as an input, and then designs an entity relationship diagram with some smart rules. We introduce the scope of the proposed agent and its detailed logics with several examples. And then, we verify the appropriateness of the resulted associations among objects. Lastly, we perform case studies to evaluate the devised agent's applicability to a business field.

A Design of the Semantic Web for Collaborative Agents in Supply Chain Formation (공급사슬구성에서 협력적 에이전트를 위한 시맨틱 웹 설계)

  • Kim, Hyun-Soo;Cho, Jae-Hyung;Choi, Hyung-Rim;Hong, Soon-Goo
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.135-153
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    • 2004
  • The formation of a supply chain should be approached with distributive viewpoint considering the dynamic nature of ordering environments. The purpose of this paper is to design a semantic web to support agent negotiation forming supply chains. With the view of a supply chain as composed of competitive agents which represent each member of supply chains with a local goal, a supply chain is formed through negotiation of price, due date choosing partners to contract. In the development of a negotiation method, we employ ontology and rules which are the basic techniques of the semantic web for supporting automated negotiations. Especially, a framework for a negotiation process is suggested and domain, processes and rules ontology are designed interrelatedly. With this modeling, a possibility of the semantic web based agent negotiation is suggested.

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Target Object Search Algorithm for Behavior-based Robot Using Direction Refinement (방향 보정올 통한 행동기반 로봇의 목표 탐색)

  • Min, Byeong-Jun;Sung, Joong-Gon;Won, Il-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2016.10a
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    • pp.439-442
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    • 2016
  • 제한된 환경에서 로봇이 동적 장애물들에 대해 능동적으로 대처하며 목표한 지점까지 도달하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 로봇은 행동기반 시스템으로 만들어져 주변 장애물들을 자율적으로 회피한다. ex-agent는 공중에서 주변 환경들을 modeling 한 뒤 cell-map을 만들어 $A^*$알고리즘을 통해 이동 경로를 설정한다. 이동 경로와 로봇의 진행방향을 비교하여 회전 방향을 조언해준다. 로봇은 ex-agent 로부터 받은 조언과 센서값들을 조율하여 장애물들을 능동적으로 회피하며 목표 위치를 찾아갈 수 있다. 실험은 시뮬레이터를 통해 이루어졌으며 장애물들에 대해 원반한 회피율을 보였다.

Mobility Representation of Mobile Agents using Extended UML Interaction Diagrams (확장된 UML 상호작용 다이어그램을 이용한 이동 에이전트의 이동성 표현)

  • Yoo, Moon Sung
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.11-18
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    • 2011
  • A mobile agent system is the most common software paradigm for distributed applications. A software development model to develop efficiently for these systems is needed. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a widely used software development model to develop a system for Visualizing, Specifying, Constructing, Documenting. However, UML can not describe in explicit way the necessary mobility of the mobile agent-based software systems. In this paper, the interaction diagrams of UML (sequence diagrams and communication diagrams) are extended and used to express the mobility of the mobile agents in three ways. For a case study, we applied the extended diagrams to a distributed file searching using mobile agents, and showed these diagrams can describe the mobility very well.

Modeling & Simulation Environment for Solving Waste Problems of the Local Community using Discrete Event System Formalism (지역사회 내 쓰레기 문제 해결을 위한 이산사건시스템 형식론 기반 모델링 및 시뮬레이션 환경)

  • Choi, Changbeom;Jung, Jinho;Lyoo, Changhyun;Kim, Eun-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.71-79
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    • 2020
  • As the urbanization trend in modern society continues, the concentration of the population induces the urban problems in the residential area. One of the well-known issues among various urban problems is the garbage problem, which causes deterioration of the residential environment of citizens and directly affects the satisfaction of municipal administration. Such garbage problem cannot be accurately predicted by analyzing the amount of waste emitted from residential areas, but it is necessary to analyze the lifestyle and characteristics of residents living in residential areas. In this study, we propose an agent-based residential modeling and simulation environment using discrete event system formalism to analyze the garbage problem and satisfaction level according to the distribution of residents in the residential area. To model the behavior of the residents, we utilized the Atomic Model to capture the temporal behavior. Also, we used the Coupled Model to model the multi-family and the building to enhance the reusability of the simulation model. Also, this study carried out simulation modeling and simulation for a multi-family residential area. The simulation results of the multi-family housing area show that considering the characteristics of the residents gives better results compared to the simulation results without considering the characteristics.

Multi-Agent based Operation System Modeling for Automated Container Terminals (자동화 컨테이너 터미널을 위한 멀티에이전트 기반의 운영시스템 모델링)

  • Kang K W.;Yu S. Y.;Mo S. J.;Yim J. H.
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.29 no.6 s.102
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    • pp.567-572
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    • 2005
  • Trade between nations has been globalized since establishing the WTO(World Trade Organization). By lowering trading barriers under the WTO's system, trade in goods has been gradually increased It requires global logistic system that transports goods in between nations. To save cost of product, cargo of product is containerized and container ships to carry container cargo is going to be bigger: In the market, there are many vendors to provide artificial intelligent modules to operate container terminal. In order to integrate automated container terminal system easily and successfully, this thesis proposes high-level XML/ JMS( eXtensive Markup Language/Java Message Service) communication model and multi-agent based system architecture to share knowledges, solve problems, and active objectives by cooperating between autonomous and intelligent agents that are developed by 3rd party companies in the market. This thesis analyzed current situation of advanced automated container terminal with case studies on implemented systems and difficulties to develop automated container terminal system, reviewed technologies of intelligent agent, communication and automation that unmaned automated container terminal is required.