• International Journal of Oral Biology
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.1-3
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• 2018

Blockchain is at the center of attention recently and it is expected to have a huge impact on healthcare industry including dentistry as well. Blockchain is a fundamental technology behind Bitcoin and itis all about decentralization, security, reliability, and transparency. These characteristics of the technology empower it to disrupt the current healthcare industry in innumerable practices such as supply chain management in pharmaceuticals to prevent the counterfeited medicine, clinical trials to guarantee transparency, healthcare information exchanges or personal health record systems to ensure data integrity and interoperability, etc. It will surely revolutionize the way the current healthcare system works; from provider-oriented to patient-centered. Hence, it is time to seriously consider how we could be a part of this blockchain revolution in dentistry.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2019년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.473-474
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• 2019

Recently, data security and convenience are critical requirements to the interaction and collaboration of tourism service systems for the tourism industry. However, there are still many challenges for current tourism service systems to fulfill these requirements since they have inconsistent structures with different access control models and security policies. Blockchain has the potential to evolve the conventional tourism industry benefiting by its unique features such as data privacy and transparency. This paper mainly aims the interworking mechanism of heterogenous blockchain platforms for secure tourism service. We propose interworking scheme to connect multi-blockchain platforms for enhancing data integrity in the tourism industry. A proof of concept design and implement based on Hyperledger Fabric and Winding Tree.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.741-754
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• 2022

Openstack is widely used as a representative open-source infrastructure of the service (IaaS) platform. The Openstack Identity Service is a centralized approach component based on the token including the Memcached for cache, which is the in-memory key-value store. Token validation requests are concentrated on the centralized server as the number of differently encrypted tokens increases. This paper proposes the practical Byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT) blockchain-based Openstack Identity Service, which can improve the performance efficiency and reduce security vulnerabilities through a PBFT blockchain framework-based decentralized approach. The experiment conducted by using the Apache JMeter demonstrated that latency was improved by more than 33.99% and 72.57% in the PBFT blockchain-based Openstack Identity Service, compared to the Openstack Identity Service, for 500 and 1,000 differently encrypted tokens, respectively.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권11호
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• pp.110-116
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• 2023

Data confidentiality refers to the characteristic that information kept undisclosed or hidden from unauthorized parties. It considered a key security requirement in current supply chain management (SCM) systems. Currently, academia and industry tend to adopt blockchain and IoT technologies in order to develop efficient and secure SCM systems. However, providing confidential data sharing among these technologies is quite challenging due to the limitations associated with blockchain and IoT devices. This review paper illustrates the importance of preserving data confidentiality in SCM systems by highlighting the state of the art on confidentiality-preserving methodologies in the context of blockchain based IoT-SCM systems and the challenges associated with it.

• 한국BIM학회 논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.30-38
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• 2024

This study aims to propose a smart city governance logic model that can accommodate more diverse information service systems by mixing hub-and-spoke and blockchain technologies as a data management model. Specifically, the research focuses on deriving the logic of an operating system that can work across smart city planning based on the two data governance technologies. The first step of the logic is the generation and collection of information, which is first divided into information that requires information protection and information that can be shared with the public, and the information that requires privacy is blockchainized, and the shared information is integrated and aggregated in a data hub. The next step is the processing and use of the information, which can actively use the blockchain technology, but for the information that can be shared other than the protected information, the governance logic is built in parallel with the hub-and-spoke type. Next is the logic of the distribution stage, where the key is to establish a service contact point between service providers and beneficiaries. Also, This study proposes the establishment of a one-to-one data exchange relationship between information providers, information consumers, and information processors. Finally, in order to expand and promote citizen participation opportunities through a reasonable compensation system in the operation of smart cities, we developed virtual currency as a local currency and designed an open operation logic of local virtual currency that can operate in the compensation dimension of information.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.159-168
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• 2021

BIM (Building Information Modeling) 데이터는 전 세계 표준에 맞춰 설계 도면을 디지털화시킨 데이터이며, BIM 데이터의 안전한 공유 및 거래를 위해서 블록체인을 활용하기 위한 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 하지만, BIM 데이터의 용량 크기와 블록체인의 기술적 한계로 인해 BIM 데이터를 블록체인에 직접적으로 저장할 방법이 없다. 본 논문에서는 해당 문제점을 해결하기 위해 분산 파일 시스템과 블록체인을 융합하여 BIM 데이터를 저장하는 방안에 대해서 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 BIM 데이터 저장을 위해 두 개의 네트워크 오버레이를 구축하는 방안과 BIM 데이터의 효율적인 검증을 위해서 LOD (Level of Detail)기반의 머클 트리를 생성하는 방안을 제안하였다. 제안된 방식을 블록체인 클라이언트인 베수와 IPFS 클라이언트에 동기화 모듈과 함께 적용하여 BIM 데이터가 정상적으로 저장되는 것을 확인하였으며, 제안된 방식을 통해서 파일 용량이 증가할 때도 처리 속도가 안정적으로 증가한다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.47-60
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• 2023

본 연구는 국가 R&D 관리의 효율성을 개선하여 행정 부담을 최소화하고, 연구자·서비스 중심으로의 투명한 연구환경을 조성하기 위하여, 국가연구개발사업 연구지원시스템에 컨소시엄 블록체인을 데이터베이스로 활용하는 방안을 제시하였다. 구체적으로 데이터를 특성에 따라 분류하여, 첫째, 무결성과 투명성이 요구되는 데이터는 블록체인에 저장하는 방안, 둘째, 기밀성과 수정 및 삭제가 요구되는 데이터는 데이터베이스에 저장하는 방안, 셋째, 기밀성·무결성·투명성이 동시에 요구되는 데이터는 원본은 데이터베이스에 저장하고, 해당 데이터의 해시값은 블록체인에 별도로 저장하는 방안을 제안하였다. 블록체인 연구지원시스템을 활용하면 시스템의 안정적인 운영과 연구관리 전문기관 간 신속한 정보 공유가 가능하여, 행정 업무 부담 완화, 프로세스의 투명성 제고, 정보의 비대칭성 해소, 데이터 무결성·가용성·기밀성 확보 등의 효과를 창출할 수 있다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.197-202
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• 2021

Bitcoin and blockchain are often making headlines not only on TV or media but also among the public in today's society. These technologies have been developed after the risk of the centralized financial system came to the fore during the 2007 global financial crisis. Since then, an anonymous inventor called Satoshi Nakamoto penned the bitcoin white paper where a blockchain-based reference implementation was introduced. Bitcoin was able to achieve unprecedented growth by positioning itself as one of the top global currencies in terms of market capitalization after five years since its development. The pace of Vietnam's economic development is notably fast among Asian nations, while the nation was expected to be a Southeast Asian blockchain hub but they have banned virtual currency trading recently. However, they've also designated the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) as a responsible agency for the research of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies, the construction of a service ecosystem, and their test operations. The fast-growing economy, increasing number of smartphone users, and the Vietnam government's support policies for startups substantiate these efforts. Therefore, this paper attempts to study the current status of Vietnam's blockchain technology that has been considered to be the center of blockchain systems right behind Singapore, and its implications for Korean companies.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.151-162
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• 2018

Blockchain can be highly secured by design and efficient for huge data so that many researchers and practitioners have been interested in blockchain in nature. The principles and applications of blockchain have been investigated by numerous studies and projects, however little is coincident regarding estimating about security investors' additional willingness to pay (WTP) and analyzing relationship with socio-economic characteristics of the investor for blockchain in the securities industry. This study surveyed on 1,000 heads of the household or homemakers that represents population well and estimated additional WTP using one-and-one-half-bounded (OOHB) dichotomous choice (DC) contingent valuation (CV) method. About 63% of respondents had additional WTP for blockchain. The mean WTP was KRW 48,206.92 and the median WTP was KRW 30,967.76. In addition to, the people who are high-income, highly-educated and having more financial asset were more likely to pay extra for their utility from using blockchain. The aggregated additional WTP was about 13% of the 2017 fiscal net income of the security industry. Consequently using blockchain, the strategic developing of securities targeting high-income, highly educated investors having more financial assets can increase commission income, which in turn can increase the company's revenues.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.45-61
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• 2019

Blockchain technology, which enables transparent transactions among individuals without central control, opens up diverse business possibilities. It is also expected that blockchain will have a ripple effect on the entire area of society including finance, manufacturing, distribution, and the public sector. Previous studies related to the blockchain also deals with its functional features and application to industrial and public fields. In the new technology such as blockchain, it is necessary to know what social perception is in order to create technological development environment, but there is a lack of research on it. Therefore, this study aims to find out the implications for industrial and policy direction by analyzing issues related to the blockchain in South Korea and the US through text mining. From these two countries, we collected text data related to blockchain in online communities and internet articles. Then, we did co-occurrence analysis and topic modeling on them respectively. As a result of this study, we have found common points and differences in keywords and topics extracted from social media in the two countries. Based on them, we can offer helpful suggestions for building a sound blockchain ecosystem, and directions for future research.