• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.461-463
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• 2016

Information security and preservation of customer's data privacy are key factors for further wide spread adoption of microgrid (MG) technology. However, strong coupling between the operation cost of multi-microgrid (MMG) system and privacy of customer data makes it more challenging. A nested energy management system (EMS) has been proposed in this paper. The surplus/shortage information from the inner level MGs is included in processing the optimal operation of outer level MGs. This type of optimization ensures a layered privacy-preservation to customer at each MG level. The proposed EMS architecture is a better trade-off architecture between the operation cost of the MMG system and customer privacy-preservation at each level of MG.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.65-72
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• 2014

Purpose - This study aims to provide a brief understanding of usability and its extended models with TAM as well as identifying additional determinants that had been suggested in previous studies on mobile services. Research design, data, and methodology - Empirical data were collected by conducting a field survey of potential mobile application service users. The call for participation was also made in mobile related application issues, which were widely discussed. Result - The ease of use and usefulness had a significantly positive influence on attitude and intention. It also was revealed that added value services can offer practical value to customers. Thus, positive attitudes toward the adoption of services by customers are present when they perceive higher usefulness and ease of use of mobile application services. Conclusion - It was indicated that customers who are more inclined to try new products or who have a higher demand for new things tend to think about those functionalities and added value mobile application services from the perspective of usefulness and ease of use and operation.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.69-81
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• 2013

Open innovation concept is advocating the importance of the customer roles in firm's innovation. As a result, crowdsourcing community is drawing attention as a strategic asset for open innovation across diverse industries. Considering that the goal of crowdsourcing community is harnessing innovative ideas, understanding the characteristics of user-favorable and organization-adoptable ideas can enhance the effectiveness of idea crowdsourcing. In our approach, we extract idea content-based characteristics such as subjectivity, negativity, prosocialneess, and depth of idea to examine what are the factors that affect user preference and organizational adoption. An analysis of 71,134 ideas from MyStarbucksIdea.com shows that there are significant differences between user-favorable and organization-adoptable ideas in terms of idea characteristics. Lastly, both theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

• Ceramist
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.30-36
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• 2006

Joining ceramics to metals has a variety of applications both in the structural and the electronics fields. One of the great benefits of the adoption of joining into the structural applications is to provide reliability to the ceramic components by backing up with metal components. In joining ceramics and metals, two key factors, i.e., establishing chemical bonding at interfaces and dissipation of thermal stress across interfaces, should be paid for attention. Many joining methods have been already established such as adhesive and mechanical joining, brazing and soldering, and solid state bonding. Each has its own benefits with some drawbacks. One can select a suitable process and materials following the requirements of the application. This report focuses on the current status of joining technology for ceramics/metal system.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.195-211
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• 2003

The technology acceptance model(TAM) has been widely studied in IS research in order to gain a better understanding of the adoption and use of information systems. Based on the TAM, we explored acceptance of internet shopping mall. 261 questionaries were collected and analyzed. The results of this study showed that the internet shopping mall characteristics such as information quality, system design quality, and communication are important factors in affecting user's visiting and buying frequency at the internet shopping mall. Therefore, the internet shopping mall providers should make the product's information more informative and design shopping mall sites more effectively and interactively.

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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• 2005.12a
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• pp.419-434
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• 2005

E-Trade is expected to dominate the global commerce in the 21th century and thus is being introduced as a major policy assignment for every development country. E-Trade has the potential to accelerate existing trends and introduce new ways of conducting traditional trade. Most of companies and countries recognize it as inevitable changes for the increase of their own competitive, and are willing to adopt the e-Trade systems. In this study, it was focused to analyze the factors affecting the adoption of e-Trade in small and medium enterprises using Technology Acceptance Model(TAM).

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.51-69
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• 2017

TVarious studies in different industries have proven the effectiveness of nanotechnology, which is considered as a representative technology that makes lives faster and more convenient and economical. However, as nanomaterials are tiny, consumers are concerned on whether they can do any physical harm. Therefore, based on the perceived usefulness and ease of use from the generally used Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this study added additional variables including perceived risk. Moreover, this study introduced three kinds of trust (institution, people, and technology trust) as moderating variables, which can reduce the negative effect of perceived risk. Based on the analysis using the Structural Equation Model, we determined that perceived usefulness and ease of use positively influenced the intention to adopt nanotechnology products. Thus, when consumers regarded nanotechnology products as efficient and convenient, they showed increased intention to adopt the technology. Furthermore, perceived risk negatively affected the intention to adopt nanotechnology products, that is, when customers' perceived risk increased, the adoption intention of nanotechnology product decreases because of the potential risk from nanotechnology. On the one hand, the negative effect of perceived risk on adoption intention decreased when trust in nanotechnology washigh and when consumers highlytrust experts or administrators. On the other hand, trust in government, public institutions, and companies which produce nanotechnology products showed no significant moderating effect. This study is meaningful as it generalized TAM by applying the model to new nanotechnology products and extended existing studies by the addition of perceived risk and various trust factors to the model.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.128-137
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• 2015

Going through rapid changes, the field of information technology (IT) has launched many innovative products. Some of those products have spread, forming a stable market, whereas others have disappeared. The purpose of the study is to purpose a theoretical model to show changes in the importance of competition factors over the three stages. Our study applied the innovation adoption stage model of the Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) to the industry life cycle of the Industry Life Cycle (ILC) Theory resulting in three stage of introduction, growth, and maturity, and defined a model of market characteristics according to time. By using the model, we analyzed the case of notebook computers and tablet and checked the fitness of the model. Results show that five competition factors worked differently according to time. In the introduction stage, relative functionality and relative playfulness are important competition factors. In the growth stage, compatibility is added to those two factors. In the last maturity stage, compatibility, complexity, and cost level are important competition factors.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.1262-1287
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• 2017

Recently, forecasting for next-generation technologies have influenced the competitiveness of companies. However, in previous studies, only extract factors influencing the adoption of technology have been investigated. Also, there are few researches on the importance of each decision factors or the competition between technologies. In this research, Lotka-Volterra model is used to confirm the technological competition in the new technology choice timing when the competition is intensified due to the emergence of new technologies. For purpose of this study, estimate the LVC model based on the data of the past competition and then derived the factors affecting the technology of competition and substitution from the literature survey. After that, we confirmed the factor value between the past and the present technology competition. The difference between the factor values derived from the previous step is used to revise the model estimated from the past data base. At this stage, regression analysis is used to derive the importance of each factor and use it as the weight. Through the correction model, the competitiveness is identified through 1:1 comparison with competition candidate technology and existing dominant design technology. In this research, we quantitatively propose the possibility that a specific technology can become a dominant design in the next generation, based on the difference in factor values and importance. This results will help the company's R&D strategy and decision making.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.49-67
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• 1999

본 연구는 객체지향 기술채택에 영향을 미치는 요인을 조사했다. 한가지의 중요한 연구 의문을 제시했다: 무엇이 객체지향 기술의 채택에 중요하게 영향을 미치는가? 본 연구는 객체지향 기술의 실제 사용정도에 영향을 주는 독립변수를 연구했다. 그 독립변수는 다음과 같은 세 가지 범주로 분류된다: (1) 개인적 요인: 구조지향 방법론을 사용한 경험, 새로운 기술에 대한 개방 정도: (2) 관리적 요인: 경영층의 지원 정도, 훈련, (3) 조직적/환경 요인: 부서와 조직에 있는 정보시스템 전문가의 수, 기술 챔피언에 대한 접근 용이성, 객체지향 기술을 지원하는 소프트웨어 및 하드웨어 환경. 설문지를 이용하여 위에서 언급된 독립변수들이 하나의 독립변수, 즉 객체지향 기술의 실제 사용정도에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 그 구조화된 설문지가 미국에 있는 DPMA(Data Processing Management Association)에 소속된 정보시스템 전문가에게 돌려졌다. 본 연구는 기존의 연구 결과와 일치하는 중요한 내용을 보여 주었다. 새로운 기술에 대한 개인의 개방성, 경영층의 지원정도, 훈련, 그리고 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어 환경은 객체지향 기술의 사용과 밀접한 관련이 있었다. 본 연구는 또 조직에서의 객체지향기술의 초기 채택을 이해하는 실증적인 근거를 제시하였다.