• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.33-42
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• 2016

Spacer grids play an important role in maintaining the proper form of the fuel assembly structure and ensuring the safety of reactor core design. This study applies the Monte Carlo method to the analysis of the neutronics effects of spacer grids in a typical pressurized water reactor (PWR). The core problem used to analyze the neutronics effects of spacer grids is a modified version of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology benchmark problem 1B, based on an Advanced Power Reactor 1400 (APR1400) core model. The spacer grids are modeled and added to this test problem in various ways. Then, by running MCNP5 for all cases of spacer grid modeling, some important numerical results, such as the effective multiplication factor, the spatial distributions of neutron flux, and its energy spectrum are obtained. The numerical results of each case of spacer grid modeling are analyzed and compared to assess which type has more advantages in accuracy of numerical results and effectiveness in terms of geometry building. The conclusion is that the most realistic modeling for Monte Carlo calculation is the "volume-preserving" streamlined heterogeneous spacer grids, but the "banded" dissolution spacer grids modeling is a more practical yet accurate model for routine (deterministic) analysis.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.675-691
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• 2017

Jets in cross flow are of fundamental industrial importance and play an important role in validating turbulence models. Two jet configurations related to thermal fatigue phenomena are investigated: ${\bullet}$ T-junction of circular tubes where a heated jet discharges into a cold main flow and ${\bullet}$ Rectangular jet marked by a scalar discharging into a main flow in a rectangular channel. The T-junction configuration is a classical test case for thermal fatigue phenomena. The Vattenfall T-junction experiment was already subject of an OECD/NEA benchmark. A LES modelling and calculation strategy is developed and validated on this data. The rectangular-jet configuration is important for basic physical understanding and modelling and has been analyzed experimentally at CEA. The experimental work was focused on turbulent mixing between a slightly heated rectangular jet which is injected perpendicularly into the cold main flow of a rectangular channel. These experiments are analyzed for the first time with LES. The overall results show a good agreement between the experimental data and the CFD calculation. Mean values of velocity and temperature are well captured by both RANS calculation and LES. The range of critical frequencies and their amplitudes, however, are only captured by LES.

• 재무관리연구
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.181-201
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• 2009

This study is on the forecasting performance analysis of range volatility estimators(Parkinson, Garman and Klass, and Rogers and Satchell) relative to historical one using two-scale realized volatility estimator as a benchmark. American sub-prime mortgage loan shock to Korean stock markets happened in sample period(January 2, 2006~March 10, 2008), so the structural change somewhere within this period can make a huge influence on the results. Therefore sample was divided into two sub-samples by May 30, 2007 according to Zivot and Andrews unit root test results. As expected, the second sub-sample was much more volatile than the first sub-sample. As a result of forecasting performance analysis, Rogers and Satchell volatility estimator showed the best forecasting performance in the full sample and relatively better forecasting performance than other estimators in sub-samples. Range volatility estimators showed better forecasting performance than historical volatility estimator during the period before the outbreak of structural change(the first sub-sample). On the contrary, the forecasting performance of range volatility estimators couldn't beat that of historical volatility estimator during the period after this event(the second sub-sample). The main culprit of this result seems to be the increment of range volatility caused by that of intraday volatility after structural change.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.1305-1317
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• 2019

공공기관 및 기업의 빅데이터 플랫폼 환경에서 데이터 보호를 위한 암호화는 필수적인 요소이나 실제 빅데이터 워크로드를 고려한 암호화 알고리즘에 대한 성능 검증 연구는 많이 진행되지 않았다. 본 논문에서는 몽고 DB(MongoDB) 환경에서 데이터와 노드를 추가하여 빅데이터의 6가지 워크로드별로 AES, ARIA, 3DES별로 성능 변화 추이를 분석하였다. 이를 통해 빅데이터 플랫폼 환경에서 각 워크로드 별 최적의 블록기반 암호 알고리즘이 무엇인지 확인하고, NoSQL 데이터베이스 벤치마크(YCSB)를 사용하여 데이터와 노드 구성환경에서 다양한 워크로드별로 테스트를 통해 MongoDB의 성능을 고려한 최적화된 아키텍처를 제안한다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.574-580
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• 2008

이 논문에서는 최근에 개발한 무충돌 전환 구현 알고리즘을 사용하여 전비행영역 제어를 위한 제어기 교체법을 제시한다. 이 교체법은 비행기의 속도와 고도에 따라 제어기를 교체하는 일반적인 방법과 제어기 교체 기준으로 충돌 현상에 관계된 가격함수를 사용하는 최적화 방법을 적절한 규칙에 의해 결합한 것이다. 제안된 제어기 교체법의 성능을 확인하기 위해 시험표준 문제로 고성능 비행체에 적용하여 넓은 비행영역에서 모의실험을 수행하고 제어성능이 향상됨을 예시한다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.423-432
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• 2014

Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) is applied for solving Combined Economic Emission Dispatch (CEED) problem with valve-point loading of thermal generators. This CEED problem with valve-point loading is a nonlinear, constrained multi-objective optimization problem, with power balance and generator capacity constraints. The valve-point loading introduce ripples in the input-output characteristics of generating units and make the CEED problem as a nonsmooth optimization problem. To validate its effectiveness of NSGA-II, two benchmark test systems, IEEE 30-bus and IEEE 118-bus systems are considered. To compare the Pareto-front obtained using NSGA-II, reference Pareto-front is generated using multiple runs of Real Coded Genetic Algorithm (RCGA) with weighted sum of objectives. Comparison with other optimization techniques showed the superiority of the NSGA-II approach and confirmed its potential for solving the CEED problem. Numerical results show that NSGA-II algorithm can provide Pareto-front in a single run with good diversity and convergence. An approach based on Technique for Ordering Preferences by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is applied on non-dominated solutions obtained to determine Best Compromise Solution (BCS).

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.94-101
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• 2005

This paper presents the first known application of a meta-heuristic algorithm, variable neighbourhood descent (VND), to the redundancy allocation problem (RAP). The RAP, a well-known NP-hard problem, has been the subject of much prior work, generally in a restricted form where each subsystem must consist of identical components. The newer meta-heuristic methods overcome this limitation and offer a practical way to solve large instances of the relaxed RAP where different components can be used in parallel. The variable neighbourhood descent method has not yet been used in reliability design, yet it is a method that fits perfectly in those combinatorial problems with potential neighbourhood structures, as in the case of the RAP. A variable neighbourhood descent algorithm for the RAP is developed and tested on a set of well-known benchmark problems from the literature. Results on 33 test problems ranging from less to severely constrained conditions show that the variable neighbourhood descent method provides comparable solution quality at a very moderate computational cost in comparison with the best-known heuristics. Results also indicate that the VND method performs with little variability over random number seeds.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.834-851
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• 2017

The amount of sources of information available on the web using ontologies as support continues to increase and is often heterogeneous and distributed. Ontology alignment is the solution to ensure semantic interoperability. In this paper, we describe a new ontology alignment approach, which consists of combining structure-based and reasoning-based approaches in order to discover new semantic correspondences between entities of different ontologies. We used the biblio test of the benchmark series and anatomy series of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) 2012 evaluation campaign to evaluate the performance of our approach. We compared our approach successively with LogMap and YAM++ systems. We also analyzed the contribution of our method compared to structural and semantic methods. The results obtained show that our performance provides good performance. Indeed, these results are better than those of the LogMap system in terms of precision, recall, and F-measure. Our approach has also been proven to be more relevant than YAM++ for certain types of ontologies and significantly improves the structure-based and reasoningbased methods.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.668-678
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• 2007

유 무선 통신 기술의 발전은 다양한 정보에 쉽게 접근할 수 있도록 한다. 정보 접근의 용이성은 의도하지 않은 정보 유출이라는 문제점을 발생시킨다. 소프트웨어의 주요 알고리즘과 정보, 자원을 가지고 있는 실행파일은 보안에 매우 취약하다. 임베디드 시스템이나 가상기계의 실행파일은 알고리즘과 정보, 자원을 모두 가지고 있기 때문에, 정보 유출 문제는 더욱 심각하다. 본 논문에서는 정보 유출 문제를 해결하기 위해 암호화를 통한 실행파일 내용 보호 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 실험적으로 임베디드를 위한 가상기계인 EVM(Embedded Virtual Machine)에 적용하고 검증하였다. 또한, 실험을 통해 성능 오버헤드가 감내할 수 있는 수준이라는 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2019

This study examines whether auditors restrain the analysts' opportunistic behavior as reviewing the companies' interim reports. Analysts' forecasts show a walkdown pattern in which their optimism has decreased as the earnings announcement date has approached. At the beginning of the year, there is a lack of high-quality benchmark information that enables information users to judge the accuracy of analyst's earnings forecasts. Thus, early in the year, analysts are highly inspired to disseminate optimistic forecasts in order to gain manager's favor. In this study, we examine adequate benchmarks prevent analysts from disclosing optimistically biased forecasts. We conjecture that auditors' efforts might mitigate analysts' walkdown pattern. To test this hypothesis, we use data from Korea, where it is mandatory to disclose auditor's review hours. We find that the analyst forecast's walkdown decreases with the ratio as well as the number of audit hours. It implies that an auditor's effort in reviewing interim financial information has a monitoring function that reduces analysts' opportunistic optimism at the beginning of the year. We conjecture that the tendency will be more pronounced when BIG4 auditors review the interim reports. Consistent with the prediction, BIG4 auditors' interim review effort is more effective in suppressing the analysts' walkdown.