• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.1356-1376
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• 2023

Software effort estimation is one of the most difficult tasks in software development whereas predictability is also of equal importance for strategic management. Accurate prediction of the actual cost that will be incurred in software development can be very beneficial for the strategic management. This study discusses the latest trends in software estimation focusing on analogy-based techniques to show how they have improved the accuracy for software effort estimation. It applies the standard deviation technique to the expected value of analogy-based estimates to improve accuracy. In more than 60 percent cases the applied technique of this study helped in improving the accuracy of software estimation by reducing the Magnitude of Relative Error (MRE). The technique is simple and it calculates the expected value of cost or time and then uses different confidence levels which help in making more accurate commitments to the customers.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제11D권7호
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• pp.1483-1490
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• 2004

소프트웨어분야에서 성공적인 프로젝트를 완수하기 위해서는 프로젝트를 완수하는데 필요한 개발노력이 정확히 추정되어야 한다. 그러나 이러한 개발노력은 소프트웨어의 크기나 여러 가지 운영환경의 영향으로 인해 프로젝트에 따라서 총 개발 노력의 규모는 차이가 있다. 일반적으로 기존의 연구는 개발노력을 추정하기 위하여 소프트웨어 규모인 기능점수(FP ; Function Point)를 이용하였다. 본 연구를 위해서 1990년대에 개발된 789개의 소프트웨어 개발 프로젝트들에 관련된 데이터를 이용하였다. 실험을 통해서 개발노력에 영향을 미치는 변수를 조사하였다. 또한 변수사이에 선형적인 관계를 조사하기 위하여 다중회귀분석을 실시하였다. 이 경우 전체의 데이터를 이용하는 것이 아니라 프로젝트 인도비율(PDR ; Project Delivery Rate : Hours/FP)을 다단계로 나누어서 각 단계별로 개발노력에 영향을 미치는 변인을 찾아내고 가장 이상적인 회귀식으로 도출하였다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.10-29
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• 2023

Grit or perseverance as a factor for student success and life has gained increasing attention. Statistical methods have been the norm in analyzing various aspects of grit, but they do not address the transient and dynamic behavior well. We, for the first time, developed two linear dynamical models that specifically address the feedback structure of a child's desire to achieve a high grade point average (GPA) and the necessary effort that will increase stress between parents and a child. We call the dynamical model as GSES (Goal, Status, Effort & Stress). The two dynamical models incorporate the positive (i.e., achieving a high GPA) and the negative sides (i.e., effort and elevated stress and thus unhappiness) for being gritty or perseverant. Different types of parenting style and a child's characteristics were simulated whether parents and a child are empathetic or stubborn to their expectations and stress (i.e., willing or unwilling to change). Simulations show that when both parents and a child are empathetic to each other's expectation and stress, the most stable situations with minimal stress and effort occur. When a stubborn parent's and a stubborn child were studied together, this resulted in the highest elevation of stress and effort. Stubborn parents and a complying or empathetic child resulted in considerably high stress to a child. Interference from parents may unexpectedly result in a situation in which a child's stress is seriously elevated. The GSES model shows the U-shaped happiness curve (i.e., reciprocal of stress) caused by the increasing and then decreasing goal

• Asian Journal of Business Environment
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.43-53
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• 2022

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the performance of local taxes in Indonesia through the estimation of tax capacity and tax effort, as well as classifying provinces based on the estimated value of tax capacity and tax effort. Research design, data and methodology: this study uses panel data of 34 provinces in Indonesia for the period of 2014-2018. The analytical method used in the tax capacity model is panel data regression to explain the factors that influence tax performance. Tax effort is estimated by the ratio of tax to tax capacity. Results: The results of the analysis show that gini ratio and regional expenditures have a significant positive effect on the tax ratio, while the share of GRDP in the manufacturing sector and HDI has a significant negative effect on the tax ratio. Based on the results, there are 19 provinces that have low tax capacity and 16 provinces that have low tax effort. Conclusions: The development of local tax performance tends to fluctuate with an average of 1.24 percent per year. Gini ratio and regional expenditure have a significant positive effect on the tax ratio, while the share of GRDP in the manufacturing sector and HDI have a significant negative effect on the tax ratio.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.1543-1555
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• 2000

Home health care is moving into a set of new realities. An era of competition and cost containment has arrived. Before nurses are able to contain costs or describe the relationship between nursing activities, cost must be accurately measured based on the nurse's workload. Nurses in home health care usually desire to measure expenses for one of three reasons : reimbursement, management, or research. The purpose of the study was to investigate the work input by Registered Nurse in each of the home health care activities by relative value units and identify the factors affecting the nurses' total work input in health care services. To measure the work input by nurses, work was defined by four dimensions: time, physical effort, mental effort, and stress. This study used a descriptive-correlational design. Data collection consisted of two phases. In phase I, data on home health activities performed by nurses were collected. In phase II, data on nurses' time, physical effort, mental effort, and stress in each of home health care activities discovered phase I were collected. In this method, the respondent was asked to rate a service in relation to a reference service using a ratio scale. The sample included 39 home health care nurses. The results of the study indicated that home health care activities performed by the nurses were in 10 categories and 69 items. Measuring the relative work inputs in each of home health care activities, and foley catheterization was selected as the reference to service. In terms of time and physical effort dimensions, full bath service was rated as the most strenuous among 69 activities by the respondents, and intramuscular injection was rated as least. It was found that emergency treatment required the highest mental effort and the highest stress, while blood sugar tests required the lowest mental effort. Approximately 91.3% of the variance in total work input was accounted for by the linear combination of time, physical effort, mental effort judgement, and stress. Examining the regression coefficients of those variables, physical effort, time, and stress were found as the predictors which were significantly associated with the total work of nurses in home health care. Professional nursing's next step in the conundrum of economic volatility is to develop a tool to reflect the interaction of functional deficiency and direct professional nursing care. And this will be a more accurate predictor of nursing resource use and ultimately a great forcaeter cost.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.40-47
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• 2015

본 논문은 비디오 스트리밍 서비스를 위한 MMT (MPEG Media Transport) 시스템에서 제공하는 서비스 방식 중 노력형 서비스(Best-effort service)의 QoS 향상에 대한 연구이다. 퍼클래스(per-class), 퍼플로우(per-flow), 그리고 노력형 서비스와 같은 MMT 서비스 종류 중, 다른 서비스와는 달리 노력형 서비스는 보장된 대역폭을 제공받지 못한다. 따라서, 서비스 우선순위가 가장 낮은 노력형 서비스는 상대적으로 낮은 수준의 영상 서비스를 제공받게 된다. 본 논문에서는 위와 같은 노력형 서비스의 제한된 대역폭의 한계를 극복하기 위해 전송 비트율이 낮은 저해상도의 영상을 전송하고 상향표본화(Upsampling)하는 방식을 연구하고 실험 결과를 통해 전달된 영상의 화질 측면에서 제안하는 방식의 타당성을 증명한다.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제11D권1호
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• pp.173-182
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• 2004

소프트웨어의 개발 노력을 추정하기 위한 연구가 지속적으로 이루어지고 있다. 그러나 이러한 개발 노력 추정을 위한 가장 이상적인 모델을 제시하기 위해서 실험자료를 얻어야 하나 이러한 실험자료를 얻는 것은 그리 쉬운 일이 아니다. 또한 이러한 실험자료가 얻어지면 실험자료에 대한 분석 또한 상당히 중요한 연구과제라고 볼 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 1990년대에 개발된 789개의 소프트웨어 개발 프로젝트들에 관련된 데이터를 이용하여 개발 노력에 영향을 미치는 요인별 데이터 분석을 실시하여 그 특징을 추출하고자 한다. 개발 소프트웨어의 규모가 다양하고 소프트웨어의 개발에 참여한 개발 팀의 규모도 차이가 있기 때문이다. 이와 같은 특징을 고려하여 주어진 자료에 대한 분석을 통해서 요인별 특징을 파악하고 파악된 자료를 중심으로 개발 노력을 단계별로 추정하려고 한다. 따라서, 본 연구에 사용된 789개 프로젝트 데이터를 개발형태(Development Type), 개발환경(Development Environment), 개발언어(Development Language) 등으로 분류하여 개발 노력(Development Effort)에 차이가 있음을 증명하고 팀 규모(Team Sire)와 기능점수(Function Point)에 따른 교차분석(Crosstabs Analysis)을 실시하여 보았다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.20-28
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• 2004

소프트웨어 개발 초기에 개발비용, 소묘인력과 기간을 추정하는 것은 소프트웨어공학 분야의 중요하면서도 어려운 문제이다. 기존 모델은 개발업체의 생산성 수준을 고려하지 않고 단순히 기능점수와 노력, 노력과 개발기간 관계에 대한 회귀분석을 통해 개발노력과 기간을 추정하는 모델을 제시하였다. 그러나 동일한 규모의 소프트웨어라도 개발업체의 생산성 수준에 따라 다른 노력의 양이 투입되며, 동일한 노력이 투입되더라도 생산성에 따라 개발기간이 달라진다. 생산성 수준을 고려하지 않은 제안된 모델들은 실제 개발될 프로젝트 적용에 제한점을 갖고 있다. 본 논문은 기존 모텔의 단점을 보완하기 위해 생산성을 고려하여 개발기간을 추정할 수 있는 모델들을 제안한다. 생산성에 기반 하여 다양한 방법으로 개발기간을 추정할 수 있는 모델을 제안하고 모델들의 성능을 비교하였다. 모델 성능 비교 결과 생산성에 기반 하여 소프트웨어 규모로부터 개발기간을 추정하는 모델이 단순하면서도 가장 좋은 결과를 얻었다. 본 모델은 사업 초기에 프로젝트 관리자에게 소프트웨어 개발 기간 의사결정 정보를 제공한다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.27-37
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• 2015

This study was mainly aimed at investigating on the effects of background noises (i.e., white noise, multi-speaker conversational babble) on stuttering rate and other speech-related measures (i.e., articulation rate, speech effort). Nine Korean-speaking adults who stutter participated in the study. Each of the participants was asked to read a series of passages under each of four experimental conditions (i.e., typical solo reading (TR), choral reading (CR), reading under white noise presented (WR), reading with multi-speaker conversational babble presented (BR). Stuttering rate was computed based on a percentage of syllables stuttered (%SS) and articulation rate was also assessed as another speech-related measure under each of the experimental conditions. To examine the amount of physical effort needed to read, the speech effort was measured by using the 9-point Speech Effort Self Rating Scale originally employed by Ingham et al. (2006). Study results showed that there were no significant differences among each of the passage reading conditions in terms of stuttering rate, articulation rate, and speech effort. In conclusion, it can be argued that the two different types of background noises (i.e., white noise and multi-speaker conversational babble) are not different in the extent to which each of them enhances fluency of adults who stutter. Self ratings of speech effort may be also useful in measuring speech-related variables associated with vocal changes induced under each of the fluency enhancing conditions.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 통신소사이어티 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.168-171
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• 2003

IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN standard specifies the air interface of fixed point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access systems providing multiple services. Among the service classes supported by the wireless MAN, the best effort service class is ranked on the lowest position in priority and is assisted by a MAC scheme based on reservation ALOHL Such MAC scheme must include a number of components, while many of them are not specified in the standard. In this paper, we thus reveal main components of a MAC scheme supporting the best effort service and present candidate schemes implementing such components. Combining schemes for implementing components, we then construct distinctive MAC schemes supporting best effort service. In designing a MAC scheme, the delay performance induced by the scheme should be considered since scarce resource may be available for the best effort service after the preemptive resource occupation by other service classes. In this paper, we focus on the delay fairness among the subscriber stations using the best effort service. For evaluating a MAC scheme in delay fairness, we present two definitions of delay fairness and provide a criterion for optimal MAC scheme according to each definition of delay fairness. Using a simulation method we investigate the mean delay performance exhibited by each MAC scheme arid find an optimal scheme in delay fairness. From numerical examples, we observe that SR/ED/PG＋P scheme has strong delay fairness compared with MR/ED/PG＋P and SR/ED/PG＋D schemes according to a definition of delay fairness. However, other schemes are rather shown to have better delay fairness when the other definition is adopted.