• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.59-86
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• 2009

Data modeling can be regarded as a series of processes to abstract real-world business concerns. The conceptual modeling phase is often regarded as the most difficult stage in the entire modeling process, because quite different conceptual models may be produced even for similar business domains based on users' varying requirements and the data modelers' diverse perceptions of the requirements. This implies that an object considered as an entity in one domain may be considered as an attribute in another, and vice versa. However, many traditional knowledge-based automated database design systems unfortunately fail to construct appropriate Entity-Relationship Diagrams(ERDs) for a given set of requirements due to the rigid assumption that an object should be classified as an entity if it has been classified as an entity in previous applications. In this paper, we propose an alternative automation system which can generate ERDs from business descriptions using association rule mining technique. Our system can be differentiated from the traditional ones in that our system can perform data modeling only based on business description written by domain workers, rather than relying on any kind of knowledge base. Since the proposed system can produce various versions of ERDs from the same business descriptions simultaneously, users can have the opportunity to choose one of the ERDs as being the most appropriate, based on their business environment and requirements. We performed a case study for personnel management in a university to evaluate the practicability of the proposed system This paper summarizes the result of it in the experiment section.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.139-142
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• 2004

Business Activities usually comprises various types of business processes. However, most companies don't standardize the constituent processes and accumulate them in formal models, so that they have their limitations for efficient process management and continuous process improvement. Recently, in order to overcome the obstacles, the companies increasingly tend to introduce a BPM (Business Process Management) system. The BPM system functions as modeling dispersed processes over the companies definitely, running the processes and improving them. In addition, the BPM plays a role as a platform in which diverse business applications can be developed. Generally, it is prerequisite to define business processes clearly to run them in the BPM. Unfortunately, companies don't arrange the processes systematically, so that they have difficulty in the introduction and implementation of the system. In this paper, we introduce a new type of a business application to support the clarification of business structure and processes in the companies and facilitate the introduction of the BPM system. The new system is a 'job manual system' developed on the BPM platform. A process model modeled in the job manual system can be transported directly to the BPM system in which the model becomes an executable status. The new system's properties including this feature enable to manage business processes efficiently and help users of the both system perform relevant tasks conveniently.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.467-470
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• 2009

U-City is the key element of the future knowledge-based society where every citizen will be benefited from the most advanced information technology. The following research reengineers the old process to define the rational and efficient process of the U-City construction project(BPR: Business Process Reengineering). In order to achieve the goal, identify and diagnose problem points, outline the improved plan, and readjust the managing system and process to propose better process. And Lastly, redefine the best efficient process by simple modeling using the UML(Unified Modeling Language). The goal of the systematic proposal is to make contributions to a base of the green growth to be the development of the Sustainable U-City.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.191-203
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• 2010

Recently applications of RFID technologies in production and logistics systems are expanding. In this research, we deal with workflow modeling methods for handling RFID-tagged parts. We verified that the material flow processes in a RFID system can be designed and assessed using workflow modeling notations, and suggested available process patterns using BPMN. In addition, we proposed an algorithm to monitor the exact status of flows and determine whether some of the events are ghost reads or not by referring predefined workflow definitions. The major contribution of this research is that it has demonstrated how well-established workflow modeling methods can be applied to RFID-based systems.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.1702-1721
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• 2019

A workflow process (or business process) management system helps to define, execute, monitor and manage workflow models deployed on a workflow-supported enterprise, and the system is compartmentalized into a modeling subsystem and an enacting subsystem, in general. The modeling subsystem's functionality is to discover and analyze workflow models via a theoretical modeling methodology like ICN, to graphically define them via a graphical representation notation like BPMN, and to systematically deploy those graphically defined models onto the enacting subsystem by transforming into their textual models represented by a standardized workflow process definition language like XPDL. Before deploying those defined workflow models, it is very important to inspect its syntactical correctness as well as its structural properness to minimize the loss of effectiveness and the depreciation of efficiency in managing the corresponding workflow models. In this paper, we are particularly interested in verifying very large-scale and massively parallel workflow models, and so we need a sophisticated analyzer to automatically analyze those specialized and complex styles of workflow models. One of the sophisticated analyzers devised in this paper is able to analyze not only the structural complexity but also the data-sequence complexity, especially. The structural complexity is based upon combinational usages of those control-structure constructs such as subprocesses, exclusive-OR, parallel-AND and iterative-LOOP primitives with preserving matched pairing and proper nesting properties, whereas the data-sequence complexity is based upon combinational usages of those relevant data repositories such as data definition sequences and data use sequences. Through the devised and implemented analyzer in this paper, we are able eventually to achieve the systematic verifications of the syntactical correctness as well as the effective validation of the structural properness on those complicate and large-scale styles of workflow models. As an experimental study, we apply the implemented analyzer to an exemplary large-scale and massively parallel workflow process model, the Large Bank Transaction Workflow Process Model, and show the structural complexity analysis results via a series of operational screens captured from the implemented analyzer.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.11-14
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• 2001

A systematic construction and re-use of technology related to the product development and production has been the most important for the semiconductor industry dependent on process and equipment. Therefore, numerous outputs in the form of paper has been produced in the process of information management ranging from the creation to recycling and disposal of technologies. In this research, the technology and documents necessary for the business management in the field of semiconductor manufacturing were classified in an effort to solve problems while the modeling of document management architecture at the enterprise level was performed by properly setting up the security system to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of the product development technology to the third parties. Especially, the product and process specification are designed in such a way as to ensure a real-time response in interface with the production system in order to shorten the development lead-time and improve the productivity. This paper is to discuss the modeling approach, the strategy to construct the system and its results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.17-17
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.226-234
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• 2006

기업 활동의 근간을 이루는 비즈니스 프로세스들을 투명하게 관리하고 통제하기 위해 국내외 많은 기업들이 비즈니스 프로세스 관리(BPM: Business Process Management) 시스템을 도입하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 프로세스 모델링 및 표기법 측면에서 BPMN(Business Process Modeling and Notation), 프로세스 실행과 운영 측면에서 BPEL(Business Process Execution Language), 모니터링과 통제 측면에서 BPQL(Business Process Query Language)을 표준의 개요와 표준화 현황을 제시하였다. 또한, BPM 솔루션 공급업체들의 유형을 분류해 보고, 각 공급업체 유형별 장단점 분석을 기초로 BPM 표준을 자사 솔루션 개발에 적용하고자 하는 기업들에게 유용한 표준 도입 전략을 제시하였다.

• TTA Journal
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• s.88
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• pp.105-120
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• 2003

본 논문은 워크플로우 기술의 표준화 및 기술 동향을 소개하는 세 번의 연재* 중 그 세 번째인 마지막 내용으로 지난 호에서 소개한 비즈니스 프로세스 관리(Business Process Management: BPM) 기술과 이의 기반기술인 워크플로우 관리기술과 연관된 국내외 표준화 기구와 그들의 활동 내용에 관하여 기술한다. 특히, 비즈니스 프로세스 관리 기술의 국제표준화 기구인 BPMI(Business Process Management Initiative)와 워크플로우 관리 기술의 국제표준화 기구인 WfMC(Workflow Management Coalition)는 최근에 웹서비스나 B2B 기술 등의 비즈니스 프로세스 관련 단일화된 표준안을 개발하고자 여러 번에 걸친 합동회의를 개최해오고 있어 이 합동회의에서 진행되고 있는 표준안 개발 활동 내용을 소개한다. 특히, 워크플로우 모델링 표준 언어인 XPDL(XML Process Definition Language)과 비즈니스 프로세스 모델링 언어인 BPMN(Business Process Modeling Notation) 그리고 대표적인 워크플로우 모델로서 연구분야에서 많이 이용되고 있는 ICN(Information Control Net)을 확장한 Kyonggi-ICN의 상호 매핑관계를 요약정리한다. 끝으로, 현재 국내의 워크플로우 기술관련 표준화기구인 한국정보통신기술협회 산하 표준화위원회인 워크플로우기술연구반의 표준화 활동과 이번에 새로이 정보통신부 표준화전략포럼중의 하나로 창립된 워크플로우 및 비즈니스 응용기술포럼(약칭 WABA 포럼: Workflow and Business Applications Technology Forum)을 소개한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.23 no.55
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• pp.107-116
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• 2000

Electronic Commerce is purchasing or sales a products and services to customers using computer network. It is different to traditional commerce. Also, It divide into business to business commerce and business to customer commerce. Cyber Shopping Mall is a representative type of business to customer commerce. The interest and demand of national business to customer commerce is explosively increasing with industry. It expect to reach 61 billion won in the 2000. Thus Structure of Cyber Shopping Mall is the more complex and the more vary types. It is the problem that change of established Cyber Shopping Mall structure is very difficult. The purpose of this study Is designed to Cyber Shopping Mall Purchase Process that deal with quickly changable internet environment and meet the needs of customers immediately using UML(Unified Modeling Language) in design phase determinant of Cyber Shopping Mal1 structure. Cyber Shopping Mall Purchase Process is designed to have objective-oriented development methodology's advantage. It has a flexibility in case of shopping mall structure change and acts as useful guideline in design phase of construction of Cyber Shopping Mall.