• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.73-81
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• 1996

The construction of the health care facilities in terms of medical institutional source cost much and affect on management of another sources like, staffs for the health care delivery systems and the medical service For it is hard to amend and change the physical component of the facilities, the reasonability and the efficiency of the facilities should be the major considering point. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to represent the basic data for determining the size of general hospital by analyzing the use pattern of existing facilities and investigating annual use pattern and user's distance from the facilities.

• International Journal of Quality Innovation
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.26-44
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• 2004

Distance Education is a non-traditional mode of training and can take many forms, one of which is the use of Computer Based Training (CBT). This paper reviews various quality assurance models for designing the delivery of programmes at the universities and other training institutions. It presents the findings of a CBT research that is currently being carried out at the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of the West Indies, Trinidad. The significance of the research is discussed with particular emphasis on the influence of curricula sequencing on knowledge acquisition in learners of varying cognitive styles. The paper concludes that adherence to quality assurance principles could result in the enhanced performance of users of the CBT.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.200-209
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• 2006

Load building is an important step to make the delivery supply chain efficient. We present a family of load makeup algorithms using market based control strategy, named LoadMarket, in order to build efficient loads where each load consists of a certain number of finished products having destinations. LoadMarket adopts Clark-Wright algorithm for generating initial endowment for Load Traders who cooperate to minimize either total travel distance or the variance with respect to the travel distances of loads by means of the spot market or double-sided auction market mechanism. The efficiency of the LoadMarket algorithms is illustrated using simulation based experiments.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.410-412
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• 2011

Magnetic cables that can deliver high frequency AC electric power safely for flammable or sensitive workplaces preventing from arcs and electric shocks are firstly proposed in this paper. To deliver the power for a long distance, several new magnetic cable structures which drastically reduce the parallel leakage flux by appropriate magnetic shield between the magnetic cables are suggested; hence, the output power can be improved more than ten times. The proposed magnetic cables are fully analyzed and verified by simulations and experiments with good agreement. The output power and efficiency for a prototype magnetic cable of 1.5m long and 1 cm gap between parallel cores were measured as 154W and 67 %, where the source current and frequency were 10 A and 20 kHz, respectively.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-14
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• 1997

We address the problem of determining the sequence of a vehicle with fixed capacity to visit n nodes at which a predetermined amount is picked up and/or delivered. The objective is to minimize the total travel distance of the vehicle, while satisfying the pick-up/delivery requirements and feasibility at all nodes. Existing methods for the problem allows the vehicle to visit a node twice, which is impractical in many real situations. We propose a heuristic algorithm, in which every node is visited exactly once. Computational results using random problems indicate that the proposed heuristic outperforms existing methods for practical range of the number of nodes in reasonable computation time.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.47-67
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• 2000

It is discussed how to assign delivery tasks to automated guided vehicles (AGVs) for multiple container cranes in automated container terminals. The primary goal of dispatching AGVs is to complete all the lading and discharging operations as early as possible, and the secondary goal is to minimize the total travel distance of AGVs. It is assumed that AGVs are not dedicated to a specific container crane but shared among multiple cranes. A mathematical formulation is developed and a heuristic algorithm is suggested to obtain a near optimal solution with a reasonable amount of computational time. The single-cycle and the dual-cycle operations in both the seaside and the landside operations are analyzed. The effects of pooling AGVs for multiple container cranes on the performance of an entire AGV system are also analyze through a numerical experiment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1195-1198
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• 2007

In this paper we study the problem of real time support in wireless sensor networks and propose a Real time Geographic Routing Protocol (ReGeo) which routes a packet towards the destination based on a compromise between distance and queue count to reduce traffic concentration wherever it has been determined to be too high and uses Gradient Table to store the route satisfying the delay constraints. We describe our prototype implementation of ReGeo Routing in TOSSIM - a TinyOS mote simulator. The simulation results show that the proposed routing protocol not only increases the packet delivery ratio but also keeps overall End to End Delay under a bounded value.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.26 no.B
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• pp.207-213
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• 2006

Mobility Anchor points are used for the mobility management in HMIPv6 networks. Currently a mobile node selects the MAP farthest away from itself as a new MAP among available candidates when it undertakes a macro hand off. With this technique, however, the traffic tends to be concentrated at a MAP with the largest domain size and the communication cost increases due to the distance between the mobile node and the MAP. In this work, we propose a novel scheme to select a MAP to minimize the communication cost, taking the mobile node's moving speed and data rate into account. To come up with the scheme we analyses the communication analyses the communication cost into the binding update cost and the data packet delivery cost, and derive an equation representing the optimal MAP domain size to minimize the total cost.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.22-23
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• 2015

As wireless power transfer (WPT) technology using strongly coupled electromagnetic resonators is a recently explored technique to realize the large power delivery and storage without any cable or wire, this technique is required for diffusion of electric vehicles (EVs) since it makes possible a convenient charging system. Typically, since the normal conducting coils are used as a transmitting coil in the CPT system, there is limited to deliver the large power promptly in the contactless EV charging system. From this reason, we proposed the combination CPT technology with HTS transmitting antenna, In this study, we examined the improvement of transmission efficiency and properties for HTS and copper antennas, respectively, at 30 cm distance. Thus, we obtained improved transfer efficiency with HTS antenna over 10% compared with copper antenna

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.95-109
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• 1996

In automobile industry, the depot (distribution center) system is utilized to adjust the inventory and to supply the demands to the firm timely. In case of the small lot demands of short delivery cycle and the long distance from the parts manufacturing to the firm, the depot system is very important. In this paper, a model to minimize the sum of costs of holding, inventory and transportation, is proposed to determine the optimal quantities of production and transportation in JTT system. Finally, computational results that verify the effectiveness of the proposed model are demonstrated.