• 대한한의학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2013

Objectives: As a newcomer to the medical tourism industry, Korea needs to differentiate itself from the leading competing countries to vitalize its early-stage medical tourism industry. This study aims to introduce a strategic plan to vitalize the Korean integrated medical tourism so that Korea can differentiate itself from competing countries and create high added value. Methods: The concept and actual conditions of medical tourism and Oriental medical tourism were examined. A plan to differentiate Korea from the competing countries in the medical tourism industry was studied to create high added-value through strategic vitalization of its medical tourism industry. Results: Korean integrated medical tourism must be developed differently from those of other South-East Asian countries in order to strategically promote the cash-cow medical tourism industry. In order to develop such medical tourism, Korean medical practice, which integrates Western and Oriental medicine, is to be developed through mutual understanding and fusion of other disciplines among medical doctors and Oriental medical doctors who are working in local healthcare for health promotion of local residents and disease prevention and control. This will play a key role in developing a unique medical tourism product of Korea by means of strategic alliances as an integrated medicine. Manpower specialized for integrated medicine is to be specially supplied for Oriental medicine-related business lines at city, county and borough levels, among local governments, that are enthusiastically carrying forward Oriental medical tourism with an interest to promoting more active and strategic business development and raise the effectiveness and efficiency of public health centers handling related medical tourism. Manpower specialized for Korean integrated medical tourism is to be specially supplied for the Ministry of Culture, Health and Tourism, a policy control tower to develop and vitalize high value-added fusion (theme) tourism products such as the Korean integrated medical tourism, in order to discover, promote and support Korean integrated medical tourism's differences from existing medical tourism. Conclusions: The differentiated integrated medical tourism that only Korea can offer in a variety of forms, in order to create a key area of high value-added medical tourism, should be strategically vitalized through a liaison between integrated medicine and tourism and the realization of patient-centered health care services with medical technology developed based on mutual understanding of Western and Oriental medicine.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.116-126
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• 2021

지상작전사령부는 지상작전수행개념인 "결정적 통합작전" 구현을 위해 작전계획 및 작전수행체계 발전을 지속해서 추진하였고 괄목할 만한 성과를 거두었다. 특히 전쟁 초기부터 공격과 방어를 동시에 실시하여 종심지역의 적을 무력화시켜 아군에게 유리한 여건을 조기에 조성하기 위한 "공방동시통합작전"을 중점적으로 발전시켰다. 그러나 기존의 M&S 체계만으로는 종심작전 효과분석이 제한되어 지휘관에게 과학적이고 합리적인 의사결정 지원이 불가하였다. 본 연구의 목적은 전장관리체계에서 사용 가능한 종심작전 효과분석 모델을 개발하는 것이다. 이를 위해 먼저 종심작전 수행 구성요소인 감시, 물리적타격, 비물리적타격 효과분석에 관한 선행연구를 하여 각각의 특징 및 제한사항을 고찰하고 연구 방향을 제시하였다. 다음으로 전·평시 지구사에서 생산되는 데이터를 활용하여 구성요소 간 상호작용이 반영된 종심작전 효과분석 방법론을 제시하였고, 전투실험 및 자료수집 등을 통해 분야별 입력데이터를 산출하였다. 최종적으로 종심작전효과예측모델 (DECAM)을 구현하고 지구사 및 군단 전투참모단에 배포하여 연합연습 간 활용하였다. 본 연구를 통해 효과분석 방법론 및 개발된 모델의 유용성을 확인할 수 있었으며 지구사 및 군단의 종심작전 수행능력 발전에 기여할 수 있었다.

• 인지과학
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.237-270
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• 2013

결정론과 양립가능론은 그동안 자유의지론이 과학적인 견해와 맞지 않다고 생각해왔다. 이 논문은 친-과학적인 입장을 견지하면서 자유의지가 존재한다는 것이 아무런 문제나 모순을 발생시키지 않으며, 오히려 결정론이 과학적, 논증적 근거가 부족하다는 것을 논증한다. 먼저, 자아와 물리적인 신체(두뇌)의 동일론을 가정함으로써 이원론적인 자아를 거부한다. 자유의지는 다수실현이 가능한 기능적 개념이자 속성이다. 그래서 외계인이나 로봇의 행동 관찰을 통해서도 그들의 자유의지 유무를 판별할 수 있다. '자유의지'는 '소화' 처럼 기능류어이다. 우리가 소화기능을 가진다는 것을 아는 것처럼, 인간-자유의지의 미시적 구조를 파악해서 존재의 필연성을 알기 전이라도 우리에게 자유의지가 있다는 것은 알 수 있다. 어떤 개체가 자유의지 기능을 가지는가의 판단은 그것이 특정한 행동들을 가지는가에 달려있다. 그러한 행동은 상황에 맞게 행동을 조절하고 절제하며, 미래를 예측하고, 정교한 조건문을 만드는 등의 행동이다. 자유의지의 실체는 그러한 행동을 만들어내는 기능의 물리적인 담당자이다. 결정론은 갖가지 오해와 착각에 기초하고 있다. 결정론자들은 종종 물리법칙의 필연성과 결정론을 혼동한다. 또 다른 큰 착각은 자유의지가 한 시점에서 동일한 조건과 서로 다른 결과를 가진다고 생각한 것이다. 그러나 자유의지는 그 두 시점이 다르다는 것을 가정한다. 결정론은 종교의 영향을 받은 불필요한 추가적 가설이므로 오컴의 면도날에 따라 제거되어야 한다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.207-228
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• 2007

Measuring Information Technology(IT) organizations' activities have been limited to mainly measure financial indicators for a long time. However, according to the multifarious functions of Information System, a number of researches have been done for the new trends on measurement methodologies that come with financial measurement as well as new measurement methods. Especially, the researches on IT Balanced Scorecard(BSC), concept from BSC measuring IT activities have been done as well in recent years. BSC provides more advantages than only integration of non-financial measures in a performance measurement system. The core of BSC rests on the cause-and-effect relationships between measures to allow prediction of value chain performance measures to allow prediction of value chain performance measures, communication, and realization of the corporate strategy and incentive controlled actions. More recently, BSC proponents have focused on the need to tie measures together into a causal chain of performance, and to test the validity of these hypothesized effects to guide the development of strategy. Kaplan and Norton[2001] argue that one of the primary benefits of the balanced scorecard is its use in gauging the success of strategy. Norreklit[2000] insist that the cause-and-effect chain is central to the balanced scorecard. The cause-and-effect chain is also central to the IT BSC. However, prior researches on relationship between information system and enterprise strategies as well as connection between various IT performance measurement indicators are not so much studied. Ittner et al.[2003] report that 77% of all surveyed companies with an implemented BSC place no or only little interest on soundly modeled cause-and-effect relationships despite of the importance of cause-and-effect chains as an integral part of BSC. This shortcoming can be explained with one theoretical and one practical reason[Blumenberg and Hinz, 2006]. From a theoretical point of view, causalities within the BSC method and their application are only vaguely described by Kaplan and Norton. From a practical consideration, modeling corporate causalities is a complex task due to tedious data acquisition and following reliability maintenance. However, cause-and effect relationships are an essential part of BSCs because they differentiate performance measurement systems like BSCs from simple key performance indicator(KPI) lists. KPI lists present an ad-hoc collection of measures to managers but do not allow for a comprehensive view on corporate performance. Instead, performance measurement system like BSCs tries to model the relationships of the underlying value chain in cause-and-effect relationships. Therefore, to overcome the deficiencies of causal modeling in IT BSC, sound and robust causal modeling approaches are required in theory as well as in practice for offering a solution. The propose of this study is to suggest critical success factors(CSFs) and KPIs for measuring performance for IT organizations and empirically validate the casual relationships between those CSFs. For this purpose, we define four perspectives of BSC for IT organizations according to Van Grembergen's study[2000] as follows. The Future Orientation perspective represents the human and technology resources needed by IT to deliver its services. The Operational Excellence perspective represents the IT processes employed to develop and deliver the applications. The User Orientation perspective represents the user evaluation of IT. The Business Contribution perspective captures the business value of the IT investments. Each of these perspectives has to be translated into corresponding metrics and measures that assess the current situations. This study suggests 12 CSFs for IT BSC based on the previous IT BSC's studies and COBIT 4.1. These CSFs consist of 51 KPIs. We defines the cause-and-effect relationships among BSC CSFs for IT Organizations as follows. The Future Orientation perspective will have positive effects on the Operational Excellence perspective. Then the Operational Excellence perspective will have positive effects on the User Orientation perspective. Finally, the User Orientation perspective will have positive effects on the Business Contribution perspective. This research tests the validity of these hypothesized casual effects and the sub-hypothesized causal relationships. For the purpose, we used the Partial Least Squares approach to Structural Equation Modeling(or PLS Path Modeling) for analyzing multiple IT BSC CSFs. The PLS path modeling has special abilities that make it more appropriate than other techniques, such as multiple regression and LISREL, when analyzing small sample sizes. Recently the use of PLS path modeling has been gaining interests and use among IS researchers in recent years because of its ability to model latent constructs under conditions of nonormality and with small to medium sample sizes(Chin et al., 2003). The empirical results of our study using PLS path modeling show that the casual effects in IT BSC significantly exist partially in our hypotheses.