• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.70-76
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• 2004

The most important work for early detection of liver cancer and decision of its characteristic and location is good segmentation of a liver region from other abdominal organs. This paper proposes a fully automatic liver segmentation algorithm based on the abdominal morphology characteristic as an easy and efficient method. Multi-modal threshold as pre-processing is peformed and a spine is segmented for finding morphological coordinates of an abdomen. Then the liver region is extracted using C-class maximum a posteriori (MAP) decision and morphological filtering. In order to estimate results of the automatic segmented liver region, area error rate (AER) and correlation coefficients of rotational binary region projection matching (RBRPM) are utilized. Experimental results showed automatic liver segmentation obtained by the proposed algorithm provided strong similarity to manual liver segmentation.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.13-20
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• 2011

LBS services is a user-centric location based information service, where its importance has been discussed as an essential engine in an Ubiquitous Age. We aimed to develop an ontology reasoning system that enables users to derive recommended results suitable through selection standard reasoning according to various users' preferences. In order to achieve this goal, we designed the Geo-ontology system which enabled the construction of personal characteristics of users, knowledge on personal preference and knowledge on spatial and geographical preference. We also integrated a function of reasoning relevant information through the construction of Cost Value ontology using multi-criteria decision making by giving weight according to users' preference.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.41 no.3 s.114
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• pp.319-330
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• 2006

The objective of this research is to achieve an objectivity of site decision after extracting site decision factors on a large-scale discount store(LSDS) and utilize any hidden information using the association rules mining through huge database. To catch this objective, we collect a census, economic, and environmental dataset related with locating of LSDS. And then, we construct a spatial data on the research area. These data is used for the extraction of a spatial association rules. To verify whether the extracted rules are suitability or not, we use the sales of some LSDS. As the result of test, the more sales, the more factors of the extracted rules relate with the sales it coincides. Consequently, the spatial association rules mining is efficient method which support the ideal site decision of LSDS.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.127-140
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• 2022

Recently, accelerators are attracting attention as a new startup incubator. This study empirically analyzed the relative importance and priority of decision-making factors when a startup selects an accelerator using the AHP technique. As a result, startup founders recognized the importance of decision-making factors in the order of funding factors, program factors, and accelerator characteristic factors. there was a difference in the relative importance of detailed factors between startup founders and accelerator workers, depending on the location of the business site and the presence or absence of sales performance. This suggests that accelerators need to strengthen the financial support capabilities and improve customized services to meet the needs of startups. This study can be used as a decision-making criterion when a startup selects an accelerator, and can be used as basic data for additional research on the accelerator program.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.276-285
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• 1991

The transient heat transfer characteristics in the radiant heating panel were predicted by numerical analysis. Thermal behaviors of panel, such as temperature distributions in panel and convective and radiative heat fluxes in panel surface with respect to time were obtained. Heating hours per day, rate of energy supplied and maximum temperature differences at panel surface were also compared for several important parameters. The performance and thermal comfort of heating panel were studied and compared for various operating and design conditions such as pipe pitch, pipe location, pipe diameter and flow rate of hot water for the purpose of producing useful data, which can be used for the test and decision of efficient operating condition of the conventional heating systems or the optimal design of the new panel heating systems.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.169-171
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• 2005

This paper presents a two-terminal approach for fault location estimation and for faults recognition. The proposed algorithm is also based on the synchronized phasors measured from the synchronized PMUs installed at two-terminals of the transmission lines. Also the arc voltage wave shape is modeled numerically on the basis of a great number of arc voltage records obtained by transient recorder. From the calculated arc voltage amplitude it can make a decision whether the permanent or transient fault. The results of the proposed algorithm testing through computer simulation are given.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.600-612
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• 2014

In this paper, we consider the problem of spectrum sensing for advanced television systems committee (ATSC) digital television (DTV) signal detection. To exploit the cyclostationarity of the ATSC DTV signals, we employ spectral correlation density (SCD) as the decision statistic and propose an optimal detection algorithm. The major difficulty is in obtaining the probability distribution functions of the SCD. To overcome the difficulty, we probabilistically model the pilot frequency location and employ Gaussian approximation for the SCD distribution. Then, we obtain a practically implementable detection algorithm that outperforms the industry leading systems by 2-3 dB. We also propose various techniques that greatly reduce the system complexity with performance degradation by only a few tenths of decibels. Finally, we show how robust the system is to the estimation errors of the noise power spectral density level and the probability distribution of the pilot frequency location.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.73-80
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• 1986

This paper deals with the problem of the optimal location of warehouses in the two stage distribution system, i.e., the distribution system where the product is transported from plants to customer areas via warehouses. The Problem is formulated with a zero-one mixed integer programming and an efficient branch and bound algorithm is then used to solve the problem. In order to obtain the solution of this problem, this paper shows the procedure of conversion of two stage distribution system into one stage distribution system. An improved method of solving the linear programming at the nodes and branching decision rule is also showed by this study.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.30-44
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• 2003

In the microcell-or picocell-based system the frequent movements of mobiles bring about excessive traffics into the networks. A mobile location estimation mechanism can facilitate both efficient resource allocation and better QoS provisioning through handoff optimization. Existing location estimation schemes consider only LOS model and have poor performance in presence of multi-path and shadowing. In this paper we study novel schemes which can increase estimation accuracy by considering NLOS environment and other multiple decision parameters than the received signal strength.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.223-234
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• 1997

Companies often have to locate their facilities considering competitors' response to their locational decision. One model available in the literature is due to Dobson and Karmarkar, in which a firm has to decide locations so as to prevent competitors from entering the market after the firm's entry. In this paper, we provide new compact binary integer program formulations for their competitive location model and also present an efficient Genetic Algorithm(GA) for finding a (near-)optimal stable set. The GA we propose utilizes a penalty function to handle the feasibility of the problem and modified elitism for better performance of the algorithm. Computational comparisons indicate the superior performance of the GA over the Dobson and Karmarkar's branch and fathom algorithm.