• Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2017

Construction delay is one of the basic constrains to achieve the project objectives in developing countries. This study aims to find the causes and effects of construction delays in developing countries. A thorough literature review has been done following the content analysis method. The relevant literature of 28 developing countries was collected from the scholarly journals published in the period of 2006 to 2016. The different developing countries are grouped into three geographic regions, i.e. South and Southeast Asia, Middle East, and Africa. In these regions, total 53 potential causes of delay under 8 major groups are identified. Frequency and ranking of these factors have been done. The factors, delay in progress payment by owner, contractors' cash flow problem, improper planning and scheduling, poor site management, and change order by owner during construction, are acknowledged as critical causes of delay in developing countries. This study will assist both academic and professional experts providing more insight about the construction delays and project management in developing countries.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.423-431
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• 2000

In this paper, the effect of computing time-delay in the real-time digital fuzzy control systems is investigated and the design methodology of a real-time digital fuzzy controller(DFC) to overcome the problems caused by it is presented. We propose the fuzzy feedback controller whose output is delayed with unit sampling period. The analysis and the design problem considering computing time-delay is very easy because the proposed controller is syncronized with the sampling time. The stabilization problem of the digital fuzzy control system is solved by the linear matrix inequality(LMI) theory. Convex optimization techniques are utilized to find the stable feedback gains and a common positive definite matrix P for the designed fuzzy control system Furthermore, we develop a real-time fuzzy control system for backing up a computer-simulated truck-trailer with the consideration of the computing time-delay. By using the proposed method, we design a DFC which guarantees the stability of the real time digital fuzzy control system in the presence of computing time-delay.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.719-727
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• 2006

This paper proposes a new method to obtain a maximum allowable delay bound for a scheduling of networked discrete control systems and event-based scheduling method. The proposed method is formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities and can give a much less conservative delay bound than the existing methods. A network scheduling method is presented based on the delay obtained through the proposed method, and it can adjust the sampling period to allocate same utilization to each control loop. The presented method can handle three types of data (sporadic, emergency data, periodic data and non real-time message) and guarantees real-time transmission of periodic and sporadic emergency data using modified EDF scheduling method.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제52권5호
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• pp.268-276
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• 2003

In this paper, we present a new control and monitoring technique for a power system using CAN(Controller Area Network). Feedback control systems having co'ntrol loops closed through a network(i.e. Ethernet, ControlNet, CAN) are called NCSs(Networked Control Systems). The major problem of NCSs is the variation of stability property according to time delay including network-induced delay and computation delay in nodes. We present a new stability analysis method of NCSs with time delay exploiting a state-space model of LTI(Linear Time Invariant) interconnected systems. The proposed method can determine a proper sampling period of NCSs that preserves stability performance even in NCSs with a dynamic controller. We design CAN nodes which can transmit control and monitoring data through CAN bus and apply these to NCSs for a power system. The results of the experiment validate effectiveness of our control and monitoring technique for a power system.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.91-99
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• 2021

In Korea, some pharmaceutical companies and agricultural machine manufacturers associate the length of the credit period with the retailer's order size. This kind of commercial practice is based on the principle of economy of scale from the supplier's point of view and tends to make retailer's order size large enough to qualify a certain credit period break. Also, the credit period allowed by the supplier makes it possible to reduce the retail price expecting that the retailer can earn more profits by the stimulating the customer's demand. Since the retailer's order size is affected by the end customer's demand, it is reasonable to determine the retail price and the order size simultaneously. In this regard, this paper analyzes the retailer's problem who has to decide his sales price and order quantity from a supplier who offers different credit periods depending on his order size. And we show that the retailer's order size large enough to qualify a certain credit period break. Also, it is assumed that the end customer's demand rate is represented by a linear decreasing function of the retail price.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.4715-4718
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• 2015

Background: Patient delay can contribute to a poor outcome in the management of head and neck cancers (HNC). The main objective of the present study was to investigate the factors associated with patient delay in our population. Materials and Methods: Patients with cancers of the head and neck attending a regional cancer center of North East India were consecutively interviewed during the period from June 2014 to November 2014. The participation of patients was voluntary. The questionnaire included information on age, gender, residential status, educational qualification, monthly family income, any family history of cancer, and history of prior awareness on cancer from television (TV) program and awareness program. Results: Of 311 (n) patients, with an age range of 14-88 years (mean 55.4 years), 81.7% were males and 18.3% females (M:F=4.4). The overall median delay was 90 days (range=7 days-365 days), in illiterate patients the median delay was 90 days and 60 days in literate patients (P=0.002), the median delay in patients who had watched cancer awareness program on TV was 60 days and in patients who were unaware about cancer information from TV program had a median delay of 90 days (p=0.00021) and delay of <10 weeks was seen in 139 (44.6%) patients, a delay of 10-20 weeks in 98 (31.5%) patients, and a delay of 20-30 weeks in 63 (20.2%) patients. Conclusions: Education and awareness had a significant impact in reduction of median patient delay in our HNC cases.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제23권9A호
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• pp.2305-2312
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 Virtual Cellular Network(VCN)을 사용하는 무선 통신망에서 음성 패킷의 지연 특성을 분석하였다. 주기적으로 발생하는 음성 패킷이 슬롯-알로하 프로토콜로 전송될 때의 전송 특성을 Markov Chain으로 모델링하여 정상 상태(steady state)에서의 지연 확률 분포를 구하였고, 무선 채널의 평균 수신확률(prbability of capture), 재전송 방식 등이 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 무선 단말기의 수신 확률의 변화에 따른 음성 패킷의 전송 지연 누적 확률 함수를 구하였다. 재전송 방식의 평균 backoff 시간이 성능에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 음성 패킷 발생 주기(N 슬롯시간)당 평균 재전송 횟수, NPr을 파라미터로 정의하였으며 여러가지의 프레임 크기 N에 대하여 1% outage delay를 비교하였다. 성능 실험 결과 NPr의 최적의 범위는 4~7임을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 프레임 크기 N이 주어졌을 때의 재전송 시도 확률 Pr을 구할 수 있다. 또한 전송큐의 크기가 유한함으로써 발생하는 blocking 확률과 전송큐의 적절한 크기를 구하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.137-144
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• 2015

In hybrid or electric vehicles, the hydraulic brake system must be controlled cooperatively with the traction motor for regenerative braking. Recently, a motor driven brake system with a PMSM (Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor) has replaced conventional vacuum boosters to increase regenerative power. Unlike industry motor controls, additional source codes such as functional safety are essential in automotive applications to meet ISO26262 standards. Therefore, the control logic execution time increases, which also causes an extension of the motor current control period. The increased current control period makes precise motor current control challenging inhigh speed ranges where the motor is driven by high frequency. In this paper, a PWM update strategy and a time delay compensation method are suggested to improve current control and system performance. The proposed methods are experimentally verified.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.192-200
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• 2005

ATM망에서 트래픽을 동적으로 제어하기 위한 개선된 사용자 파라미터 제어 알고리즘을 본 논문에서 제안한다. 기존의 알고리즘은 Cell Buffer, Red Token Pool, Green Token Pool, Spacer와 같은 지연요소로 구성되어 있다. 이는, 일정 기간이 지나면 토큰이 발생되고, 셀이 도착하면 Token Pool에서 토큰을 하나씩 소모시키며, Spacer라는 지연요소가 비어 있는지 확인하여 비어있으면 셀이 네트워크로 유입되고, 비어 있지 않으면 유입이 될 수 가 없다. 그리고 Token Pool에 토큰이 없는 경우에는 해당 셀을 폐기하게 된다. 본 논문에서 사용하는 Token은 기존의 중재기능은 삭제하고 네트워크의 트래픽 제어를 위한 용도로 사용된다. 또한 본 논문에서는 셀이 Spacer에 의해 일정시간 지연 이후에 네트워크에 유입되는 기존의 정적인 Spacer를 적용한 방법과 달리, 트래픽 상태에 따라 동적으로 지연요소인 Spacer를 적용함으로써 셀 지연율과 셀 손실율이 개선된 진화한 UPC 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1162-1167
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• 2004

This paper presents the design methodology of digital fuzzy controller(DFC) for the systems with time-delay. We propose the fuzzy feedback controller whose output is delayed with unit sampling period and predicted. The analysis and the design problem considering time-delay become easy because the proposed controller is syncronized with the sampling time. The stabilization problem of the digital fuzzy system with time-delay is solved by linear matrix inequality(LMI) theory. Convex optimization techniques are utilized to solve the stable feedback gains and a common Lyapunov function for designed fuzzy control system. To show the effectiveness the proposed control scheme, the network control example is presented.