• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.155-160
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• 2014

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to develop a workstation computer that allowed intraoperative touchless control of diagnostic and surgical images by a surgeon, and to report the preliminary experience with the use of the system in a series of cases in which dental surgery was performed. Materials and Methods: A custom workstation with a new motion sensing input device (Leap Motion) was set up in order to use a natural user interface (NUI) to manipulate the imaging software by hand gestures. The system allowed intraoperative touchless control of the surgical images. Results: For the first time in the literature, an NUI system was used for a pilot study during 11 dental surgery procedures including tooth extractions, dental implant placements, and guided bone regeneration. No complications were reported. The system performed very well and was very useful. Conclusion: The proposed system fulfilled the objective of providing touchless access and control of the system of images and a three-dimensional surgical plan, thus allowing the maintenance of sterile conditions. The interaction between surgical staff, under sterile conditions, and computer equipment has been a key issue. The solution with an NUI with touchless control of the images seems to be closer to an ideal. The cost of the sensor system is quite low; this could facilitate its incorporation into the practice of routine dental surgery. This technology has enormous potential in dental surgery and other healthcare specialties.

• Geotechnical Engineering
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.83-102
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• 1994

Design practice of the preloading method, which is one of the most used ground improvement methods, includes quite complicated problems, especially when the draining facilities such as rand drain piles are to be considered. But, such complicated problems can be easily handled once an expert system is developed. The expert system is an interactive computer program which has just succeeded in commercial application. It is a new field of CAE(computer aided engineering), which has developed on application of geotechnical problems in recent years In this study, the expert system which gives practical assistance to engineers is developed by building the knowledge base for the preloading method with vertical drains. In this study, an expert system is built by using CLIPS as a development tool. And the expert system is developed under the workstation environment using UNIX OS.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1992.10a
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• pp.54-62
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• 1992

This work has been directed at studying and developing a prototype Computer Aided Design(CAD) tool to be used for planning tendon paths in hand reconstructive surgery. The application of CAD to rehabilitative surgery of the hand is a new field of endeavor. There are currently no existing systems designed to assist the orthopedic surgeon in planning these complex peocedures. Additionally, orthopedic surgeons are not trained in mechanics, kinematics, math modeling, or the use of computers. It was also our intent to study the mechanisms and the efficacy of the application of CAD techniques to this important aspect of hand surgery. The following advances are reported here: Interactive 3D tendon path definition tools., Software to calculate tendon excursion from an arbitrary tendon path crossing any number of joints., A model to interactively compute and display the foirces in muscle and tendon., A workstation environment to help surgeons evaluate the consequences of a simulated tendon transfer operation when a tendon is lengthened, rerouted, or reattached in a mew location., It also has been one of the primary concerns in this work that an interactive graphical surgical workstation must present a natural, user-friendly environment to the orthopedic durgeon user. The surgical workstation must ultimately aid the surgeon in helping his patient or in doing his work more efficiently or more reliably.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.183-194
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• 2002

The clustering environment with heterogeneous workstations provides the cost effectiveness and usability for executing applications in parallel. Load balancing is considered a necessary feature for a cluster of heterogeneous workstations to minimize the turnaround time. Previously, static load balancing that assigns a predetermined weight for the processing capability of each workstation, or dynamic approaches which execute a benchmark program to get relative processing capability of each workstation were proposed. The execution of the benchmark program, which has nothing to do with the application being executed, consumes the computation time and the overall turnaround time is delayed. In this paper, we present efficient methods for task distribution and task migration, based on the relative load index. We designed and implemented a load balancing system for the clustering environment with heterogeneous workstations. Turnaround times of our methods and the round-robin approach, as well as the load balancing method using a benchmark program, were compared. The experimental results show that our methods outperform all the other methods that we compared.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.61-70
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• 2011

Virtualization is a technology that uses a logical environment to overcome physical limitations in hardware. As a part of cost savings and green IT policies, there is a tendency in which recent businesses increase the adoption of such virtualization. In particular, regarding the virtualization in desktop, it is one of the most widely used technology at the present time. Because it is able to efficiently use various types of operating systems in a physical computer. A virtual machine image that is a key component of virtualization is difficult to investigate. because the structure of virtual machine image is different from hard disk image. Therefore, we need researches about appropriate investigation procedure and method based on technical understanding of a virtual machine. In this research, we suggest a procedure of investigation on a virtual machine image and a method for a corrupted image of the VMware Workstation that has the largest number of users.

• Archives of design research
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• v.14
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• pp.109-119
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• 1996

One of the most important factors in the work environment of the industrial design is the design process which can systematically synthesize the informations of related fields. Because the computer technology is being radically developed, industrial should not only positively be able to cope with new technologies, but also should positively be able to take part in the development of the integrated system for the process by the new technologies. Recently in the industrial design field, designers are often using the computer~applied-3D modeling techniques in the development process of industrial design products, especially in the visualization level of the design development. In this paper, we studied the workstation modeling process to understand the computer~applied-3D modeling and presented the methods of transfer of the 3D-modeling data of a workstation(SGI) to the AutoCAD data of a personal computer which is generally being used as a drawing tool in mechanism parts. Through the development process of an electronic taxi meter as a practical case study, we check the possibility whether the 3D-modeling data transferred from an industrial design part to a mechanism part can directly be used as the mechanism data. For this, we transferred the 3D-modeling data of an electronic taxi meter created with a workstation(SGI) to the AutoCAD data of a personal computer and checked the usefulness of data transferred from an industrial design part to a mechanism part. Through these processes of data transfer, we aimed to find out the basic principles which can be rationally applied to a mechanism part or a production part.

• Proceedings of the KSLP Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.141-153
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• 1995

CSpeech is a software package that implements an audio waveform/speech analysis workstation on an IBM Personal Computer or hardware compatible computer. Features include digitizing audio waveforms on single or multiple channels, displaying the digitized waveforms, playing back audio waveforms from selected intervals of sing1e channels, saving and retrieving waveforms from binary format disk files, and analysing audio waveforms for their temporal and spectral properties. The distinguishing characteristics of CSpeech are its support for multiple channels, minimal restrictions on sample rate and waveform duration support fur a variety of hardware configurations, fast graphics display, and its user- extensible menu- based command structure.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.63-74
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• 2006

A molecular docking is thc process of reducing an unmanageable number of compounds to a limited number of compounds for the target of interest by means of computational simulation. And it is one of a large scale scientific application that requires large computing power and data storage capability. Previous applications or software for molecular docking were developed to be run on a supercomputer, a workstation, or a cluster computer. However the virtual screening using a supercomputer has a problem that a supercomputer is very expensive and the virtual screening using a workstation or a cluster-computer requires a long execution time. Thus we propose Grid service based molecular docking application. We designed a resource broker and a data broker for supporting efficient molecular docking service and developed various services for molecular docking.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.175-181
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• 2005

This paper describes the development of on-line computer vision laboratories to teach the detailed image processing and pattern recognition techniques. The computer vision laboratories include distant image acquisition method, basic image processing and pattern recognition methods, lens and light, and communication. This study introduces a case study that teaches computer vision in distance learning environment. It shows a schematic of a distant loaming workstation and contents of laboratories with image processing examples. The study focus more on the contents of the vision Labs rather than internet application method. The study proposes the ways to improve the on-line computer vision laboratories and includes the further research perspectives

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.1221-1230
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• 1997

In this study, the performance of a parallel file system(N-PFS), which is inplemented using conventional disks as disk arrays on a Workstation Cluster, is analyzed by using analytical method and adtual values in experiments.N-PFS can be used as high-performance file sever in small-scale server systems and effciently pro-cess massive data I/Os such as multimedia and scientifid data. In this paper, an analytical model was suggested and the correctness of the suggested was verified by analyzing the experimental values on a system.The result of the appropriate stping unit for processing massive data of the Workstation Cluster with 8 disks is 64-128Kbytes and the maximum throughput on it is 15.8 Mbytes/ses.In addition, the performance of parallel file system on massive data is bounded by the time required to copy data between buffers.