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Fault Coverage Improvement of Test Patterns for Com-binational Circuit using a Genetic Algorithm (유전알고리즘을 이용한 조합회로용 테스트패턴의 고장검출률 향상)

  • 박휴찬
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.687-692
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    • 1998
  • Test pattern generation is one of most difficult problems encountered in automating the design of logic circuits. The goal is to obtain the highest fault coverage with the minimum number of test patterns for a given circuit and fault set. although there have been many deterministic algorithms and heuristics the problem is still highly complex and time-consuming. Therefore new approach-es are needed to augment the existing techniques. This paper considers the problem of test pattern improvement for combinational circuits as a restricted subproblem of the test pattern generation. The problem is to maximize the fault coverage with a fixed number of test patterns for a given cir-cuit and fault set. We propose a new approach by use of a genetic algorithm. In this approach the genetic algorithm evolves test patterns to improve their fault coverage. A fault simulation is used to compute the fault coverage of the test patterns Experimental results show that the genetic algorithm based approach can achieve higher fault coverages than traditional techniques for most combinational circuits. Another advantage of the approach is that the genetic algorithm needs no detailed knowledge of faulty circuits under test.

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Mathematical Programming and Optimization of the Resource Allocation and Deployment for Disaster Response : AED case study (수리계획법을 활용한 방재자원 배치 최적화: AED 배치 사례)

  • Hwang, Seongeun;Lee, Nagyeong;Jang, Dongkuk;Shin, Dongil
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.53-58
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    • 2021
  • The number of patients with cardiovascular diseases who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are increasing among young adults as well as the aged population. An automated external defibrillator (AED) is vital in improving survival rates of OHCA victims. Survival rates of OHCA were shown to decline exponentially in time to defibrillation, yet studies in Korea are uncommon that captures the properties of their survival rates in examining optimal locations of AEDs. In this study, we worked on the maximal gradual coverage location problem (MGCLP) with exponential decay coverage function to decide on their optimal locations. The exponential decay coverage function mitigates the drawback of over-estimating survival rates of OHCA patients. It is expected that a more sophisticated facility location problem will be developed to identify the "emergent" characteristics of pedestrians who responds to the OHCA occurrence by incorporating random pedestrian locations and movement through simulation.

An Optimal Algorithm for the Sensor Location Problem to Cover Sensor Networks

  • Kim Hee-Seon;Park Sung-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2006
  • We consider the sensor location problem (SLP) on a given sensor field. We present the sensor field as grid of points. There are several types of sensors which have different detection ranges and costs. If a sensor is placed in some point, the points inside of its detection range can be covered. The coverage ratio decreases with distance. The problem we consider in this thesis is called multiple-type differential coverage sensor location problem (MDSLP). MDSLP is more realistic than SLP. The coverage quantities of points are different with their distance form sensor location in MDSLP. The objective of MDSLP is to minimize total sensor costs while covering every sensor field. This problem is known as NP-hard. We propose a new integer programming formulation of the problem. In comparison with the previous models, the new model has a smaller number of constraints and variables. This problem has symmetric structure in its solutions. This group is used for pruning in the branch-and-bound tree. We solved this problem by branch-and-cut(B&C) approach. We tested our algorithm on about 60 instances with varying sizes.

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Collaborative Stepwise Movement of Mobile Sensor Nodes for Energy Efficient Dynamic Sensor Network Coverage Maintenance (모바일 센서노드들의 협동형 단계적 이동기법 기반의 에너지 효율적인 동적 센서네트워크 커버리지 관리)

  • Han, Ngoc-Soc;Kim, Seong-Whan
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.16C no.4
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    • pp.535-542
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    • 2009
  • Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a wireless network consisting of spatially distributed autonomous devices, using sensors to cooperatively monitor physical or environmental conditions. WSNs face the critical challenge of sustaining long-term operation on limited battery energy. Coverage maintenance has been proposed as a promising approach to prolong network lifetime. Mobile sensors equipped with communication devices can be leveraged to overcome the coverage problem. In this paper, we propose a stepwise movement scheme using perimeter coverage property for the coverage maintenance problem. In our scheme, each sensor monitors neighboring dead nodes, determines vulnerable node (i.e. dead node which makes uncovered area), computes the center of uncovered area HC, and makes a coordinated stepwise movement to compensate the uncovered area. In our experimental results, our scheme shows at least 50 % decrease in the total moving distance which determines the energy efficiency of mobile sensor.

Estimation of Coverage Growth Functions

  • Park, Joong-Yang;Lee, Gye-Min;Kim, Seo-Yeong
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.667-674
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    • 2011
  • A recent trend in software reliability engineering accounts for the coverage growth behavior during testing. The coverage growth function (representing the coverage growth behavior) has become an essential component of software reliability models. Application of a coverage growth function requires the estimation of the coverage growth function. This paper considers the problem of estimating the coverage growth function. The existing maximum likelihood method is reviewed and corrected. A method of minimizing the sum of squares of the standardized prediction error is proposed for situations where the maximum likelihood method is not applicable.

The extension of hierarchical covering location problem

  • Lee, Jung-Man;Lee, Young-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.316-321
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    • 2007
  • The hierarchical covering location problem emphasizes the issue of locating of hierarchical facilities in order to maximize the number of customers that can be covered. In the classical HCLP(Hierarchical Covering Location Problem), it is assumed that the customers are covered completely if they are located within a specific distance from the facility, and not covered otherwise. The generalized HCLP is introduced that the coverage of customers is measured to be any real value rather than 0 or 1, where the service level may decrease according to the distance. Mixed integer programming formulation for the generalized HCLP is suggested with a partial coverage of service. Solutions are found using OPL Studio, and are evaluated for various cases.

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Percolation Theory-Based Exposure-Path Prevention for 3D-Wireless Sensor Networks Coverage

  • Liu, Xiaoshuang;Kang, Guixia;Zhang, Ningbo
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.126-148
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    • 2015
  • Different from the existing works on coverage problems in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), this paper considers the exposure-path prevention problem by using the percolation theory in three dimensional (3D) WSNs, which can be implemented in intruder detecting applications. In this paper, to avoid the loose bounds of critical density, a bond percolation-based scheme is proposed to put the exposure-path problem into a 3D uniform lattice. Within this scheme, the tighter bonds of critical density for omnidirectional and directional sensor networks under random sensor deployment-a 3D Poisson process are derived. Extensive simulation results show that our scheme generates tighter bounds of critical density with no exposure path in 3D WSNs.

Genetic Algorithms for Maximizing the Coverage of Sensor Deployment (최대 커버리지 센서 배치를 위한 유전 알고리즘)

  • Yoon, You-Rim;Kim, Yong-Hyuk
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.406-412
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we formally define the problem of maximizing the coverage of sensor deployment, which is the optimization problem appeared in real-world sensor deployment, and analyze the properties of its solution space. To solve the problem, we proposed novel genetic algorithms, and we could show their superiority through experiments. When applying genetic algorithms to maximum coverage sensor deployment, the most important issue is how we evaluate the given sensor deployment efficiently. We could resolve the difficulty by using Monte Carlo method. By regulating the number of generated samples in the Monte Carlo evaluation of genetic algorithms, we could also reduce the computing time significantly without loss of solution quality.

Coverage Scheduling control Algorithm in MANET (모바일 에드 혹 네트워크에서 커버리지 스케쥴링 제어 알고리즘)

  • Oh, Young-jun;Lee, Kang-whan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2014.10a
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    • pp.848-850
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    • 2014
  • Mobile Ad hoc Networks(MANET) is consist of node that has mobility, MANET build cluster formation for using energy efficient. In existing LEACH algorithm elect cluster head node in coverage area by distribution function. However, when the cluster head node, that elected by distribution function, is divided coverage area unevenly, the network can't consumption energy efficiency. To solve this problem, we proposed CSWC(Coverage Scheduling Weight-value Control) algorithm. When the coverage area is divided nonchalance, proposed algorithm increased number of hops, that determines coverage area, for balance coverage area. As the result proposed algorithm is set balance coverage area, the network consumption energy efficiency.

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Understanding of National Health Insurance Non-benefit (건강보험 비급여의 이해)

  • Moon, Kitae
    • The Journal of the Korean life insurance medical association
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.15-17
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    • 2014
  • All Korean people are eligible for National Health Insurance(NHI). But large non-coverage of NHI is a big problem. The origin of this problem is from medical fee schedules. NHI calculate all hospital income including insurance medical practice, non-insurance medical practice and non-medical income(i.e. a funeral hall, a parking lot, stores in hospital).

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