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Development of a Forensic Analyzing Tool based on Cluster Information of HFS+ filesystem

  • Cho, Gyu-Sang
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.178-192
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    • 2021
  • File system forensics typically focus on the contents or timestamps of a file, and it is common to work around file/directory centers. But to recover a deleted file on the disk or use a carving technique to find and connect partial missing content, the evidence must be analyzed using cluster-centered analysis. Forensics tools such as EnCase, TSK, and X-ways, provide a basic ability to get information about disk clusters, but these are not the core functions of the tools. Alternatively, Sysinternals' DiskView tool provides a more intuitive visualization function, which makes it easier to obtain information around disk clusters. In addition, most current tools are for Windows. There are very few forensic analysis tools for MacOS, and furthermore, cluster analysis tools are very rare. In this paper, we developed a tool named FACT (Forensic Analyzer based Cluster Information Tool) for analyzing the state of clusters in a HFS+ file system, for digital forensics. The FACT consists of three features, a Cluster based analysis, B-tree based analysis, and Directory based analysis. The Cluster based analysis is the main feature, and was basically developed for cluster analysis. The FACT tool's cluster visualization feature plays a central role. The FACT tool was programmed in two programming languages, C/C++ and Python. The core part for analyzing the HFS+ filesystem was programmed in C/C++ and the visualization part is implemented using the Python Tkinter library. The features in this study will evolve into key forensics tools for use in MacOS, and by providing additional GUI capabilities can be very important for cluster-centric forensics analysis.

Optimization for robot operations in cluster tools for concurrent manufacturing of multiple wafer types (복수 타입의 웨이퍼 혼류생산을 위한 클러스터 장비 로봇 운영 최적화)

  • Tae-Sun Yu;Jun-Ho Lee;Sung-Gil Ko
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2023
  • Cluster tools are extensively employed in various wafer fabrication processes within the semiconductor manufacturing industry, including photo lithography, etching, and chemical vapor deposition. Contemporary fabrication facilities encounter customer orders with technical specifications that are similar yet slightly varied. Consequently, modern fabrications concurrently manufacture two or three different wafer types using a cluster tool to maximize chamber utilization and streamline the flow of wafer lots between different process stages. In this review, we introduce two methods of concurrent processing of multiple wafer types: 1) concurrent processing of multiple wafer types with different job flows, 2) concurrent processing of multiple wafer types with identical job flows. We describe relevant research trends and achievements and discuss future research directions.

An Arbitrary Disk Cluster Manipulating Method for Allocating Disk Fragmentation of Filesystem (파일시스템의 클러스터를 임의로 할당하여 디스크를 단편화하기 위한 방법)

  • Cho, Gyu-Sang
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.11-25
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    • 2020
  • This study proposes a method to manipulate fragmentation of disks by arbitrarily allocating and releasing the status of a disk cluster in the NTFS file system. This method allows experiments to be performed in several studies related to fragmentation problems on disk cluster. Typical applicable research examples include testing the performance of disk defragmentation tools according to the state of fragmentation, establishing an experimental environment for fragmented file carving methods for digital forensics, setting up cluster fragmentation for testing the robustness of data hiding methods within directory indexes, and testing the file system's disk allocation methods according to the various version of Windows. This method suggests how a single file occupies a cluster and presents an algorithm with a flowchart. It raises three tricky problems to solve the method, and we propose solutions to the problems. Experiments for allocating the disk cluster to be fragmented to the maximum extent possible, it then performs a disk defragmentation experiment to prove the proposed method is effective.

The Formation of Information Technology Clusters in Kazakhstan: System and Structured Approaches

  • Kireyeva, Anel A.
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.51-57
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    • 2016
  • The aim of this study is to examine of the cluster approach to ensure high rates of innovation, information and communication enterprises of information technology cluster in order to enhance the competitiveness of regions. Keeping with the previous literature, the present research determined that the novelty of the problem, concerning of the creation IT clusters as drivers of new generation, i.e. a kind of platform of "startup accelerators" through the creation of previously not existing in the country high-tech industries and sectors of the economy. The study employs system approach involves to determine prospective directions of the formation of clusters of IT industry, also applies structured approach to shows relationships between elements of cluster systems (participants of cluster), as well as focusing on some aspects of cluster development such as networking. Based on this analysis we have proposed to create clusters in regions, which can play the role of translator's innovations at the periphery of the country. This research shows that formation of IT clusters is one of the most successful tools to avoid of dependence of Kazakhstan from raw materials.

Phase Space as a Tool for Understanding Galaxy Cluster Environmental Effects

  • Smith, Rory;Rhee, Jin Su;Choi, Hoseung;Yi, Sukyoung
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.34.3-35
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    • 2016
  • A galaxy-cluster phase space diagram is a simple plot of clustocentric velocity versus clustocentric radius for each member of the cluster. Using state-of-the-art, cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate where simulated galaxies fall in phase space. We find the galaxies with different cluster infall times often separate cleanly in phase space. We also investigate how a galaxy's location in phase space is correlated with its tidal mass loss, and ram pressure stripping. By comparing our simulated cluster galaxies to observed cluster galaxies, we show how phase space diagrams are essential tools for understanding environmental effects acting on cluster galaxies.

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The Technical Trend and Future Development Direction of Machine Tools Spindle System by Patent Analysis (특허분석을 통한 공작기계 주축기술현황과 발전방향)

  • Park, Dong-Keun;Choi, Jun-Young;Choi, Chi-Hyuk;Lee, Choon-Man
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.500-505
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    • 2012
  • Recently, a high speed spindle is an essential part of machine tools to satisfy latest demand of high precision product and machining of hard materials. But, there are many disadvantages such as heat generation of built-in-motor, bearing friction, noise, vibration and displacement because of the high speed. Many researches on spindle systems have been conducted for solving these problems. In this study, technical trend of machine tools spindle systems are analyzed with patent PSM, mapping and grouping. The analysis is carried out for the applied patent during January 2000 and December 2009 in Korea, Japan, EU and U.S.A. And development of the direction, strategy and promising technologies of the spindle system are suggested.

The Evolution of Innovation Cluster : Focusing on the Daedeok Innopolis (혁신클러스터의 진화 : 대덕연구개발특구를 중심으로)

  • Hwang, Doohee;Cheong, Young Chul;Chung, Sunyang
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.1207-1236
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    • 2018
  • This paper explores the life cycle of innovation cluster, especially focussing on the Korean representative innovation cluster, Daedeok Innopolis. For this purpose, we review theoretically how an innovation cluster has been growing up. In particular, we discuss how a cluster has been formed and activated by governmental innovation policies from an evolutionary perspective. By doing so, the study identifies the typical features of an innovation cluster according to each dimensions of the cluster life cycle. The results of this study are as follows: First, in this study, Daedeok Innopolis has characteristics of latency, emergence, growth, and maturity from evolutionary perspective. Second, the governmental structure of the Daedeok Innopolis is a strong government-led and top-down structure, which has features of inclusiveness and flexibility such as umbrella policy. Third, the Daedeok Innopolis can be seen that adaptive or renewal development, as while, it can be applied fine adjustment the innovation cluster policy towards the recognition of innovation obstacle at each dimensions of the life cycle. Therefore, these discussions expose what kind of policy interventions should be addressed to form and develop the innovation cluster according to the cluster life cycle, as while, the development of adaptive policies during the risk and take-off period. Ultimately, the study provides that a different kind of policy instruments and tools should be implemented according to innovation cluster development and its distinctive characteristic per each dimensions of the cluster life cycle.

Nature of a Firm, Degree of Cluster Linkages, and Innovation: A Study of Bengaluru High-tech Manufacturing Cluster

  • Chandrashekar, Deepak
    • Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.103-130
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    • 2018
  • It is generally understood that clusters are the promoters of innovation and therefore, the attention of researchers has been increasingly to discern the factors driving innovation among the firms in a cluster, especially in a high-tech cluster. In this study, we identify the variables capturing the nature of a firm that possibly impact the absorptive capacity of a firm and subsequently ascertain their impact on the degree of interactions between a firm, and other firms and associated institutions within and outside a cluster, respectively. Furthermore, we probe the influence of these interactions as a whole on firm-level innovation. The study was carried out in the context of Bengaluru, which houses the densely interconnected network of innovation-intensive high-tech manufacturing firms forming a high-tech manufacturing cluster. Data were drawn from 101 high-tech manufacturing firms belonging to electronics, machine tools, electrical and pharmaceutical industries. Based on the cluster analysis and subsequent graphical analysis on each of the three profiled clusters, it was found that size and origin of a firm have significant impact on the degree of firm's interactions. In turn, higher dynamism of firms in terms of degree of interactions led to higher innovation performance.

Scheduling Start-up Transient Periods of Dual Armed Cluster Tools (양팔 클러스터장비의 초기 전이 기간 스케줄링)

  • Hong, Kyeung-Hyo;Kim, Ja-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.17-26
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    • 2015
  • A cluster tool used in many kinds of semiconductor processes for improving the performance and the quality of wafers has a simple configuration, but its schedule is not easy because of its parallel processing module, a lack of intermediate buffers, and time constraints. While there have been many studies on its schedule, most of them have focused on full cycles in which identical work cycles are repeated under constant task times. In this research, we suggest strategies of start-up transient scheduling which satisfies time constraints and converges into a desirable steady schedule for full work cycle. The proposed schedules are expected robust under the stationary stochastic task times. Finally, we show that the strategies make schedules enters the desirable steady schedule and robust using the simulation.