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A Study on Satisfaction of Service by the Models of Informal-formal Resources Linkages for Long-term Care Elder (장기요양대상노인의 비공식적·공식적 자원연계 유형에 따른 서비스 만족도 연구)

  • Kim, Geum-Yeol
    • 한국노년학
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.1027-1044
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    • 2010
  • This study is to examine the effective system for providing services for long-term care elders, despite the expansion of formal care, informal care still is needed. Thus, this study's purpose is to classify the informal-formal resources linkages types of long-term care elders and looks into service satisfaction by these types and discover effective informal-formal resources linkages models. For that, this study is to divide informal-formal resources linkages types by the degree of providing services of informal and formal caregivers and discover the informal-formal resources linkages types using cluster analysis and explores the effectiveness of service satisfaction using multiple regression. The study's results is to suggest four models, such as family care, complementary, separation, formal service and complementary type was founded to be the most effective and then based on the result, we discuss as follows. First, we must strive to combine informal resources into formal service systemto the system for providing of service is made up the complementary type. Second, the system for providing services of long-term care elders is required integrated care system to alining of medical and long-term care services. Third, we have to consider a measure to improve of formal service type, for the satisfaction of formal service appears low relatively. Based on research findings, this study propose that the informal-formal resources linkages models are subdivided into the dimension of quantity and quality of care for improving the effectiveness of long-term care services.

Analysis of the Formal Specification Application for Train Control Systems

  • Jo, Hyun-Jeong;Yoon, Yong-Ki;Hwang, Jong-Gyu
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.87-92
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    • 2009
  • Many critical control systems are developed using formal methods. When software applied to such systems is developed, the employment of formal methods in the software requirements specification and verification will provide increased assurance for such applications. Earlier errors of overlooked requirement specification can be detected using the formal specification method. Also, the testing and full verification to examine all reachable states using model checking to undertake formal verification are able to be completed. In this paper, we proposed an eclectic approach to incorporate Z(Zed) formal language and 'Statemate MAGNUM', formal method tools using Statechart. Also we applied the proposed method to train control systems for the formal requirement specification and analyzed the specification results.

Formal Verification of Functional Properties of an SCR-style Software Requirements Specifications using PVS (PVS를 이용한 SCR 스타일의 소프트웨어 요구사항 명세에서 기능 요구 사항의 정형 검증)

  • Kim, Tae-Ho;Cha, Sung-Deok
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.46-61
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    • 2002
  • Among the many phases involved in software development, requirements analysis phase in generally considered to play a crucial role in determining the overall software quality. Therefore, many software development companies manages the phase as one of the important phase. Especially, safety assurance through requirements analysis for safety-critical systems is quite demanding, and national and international bodies routinely require safety demonstration. Among various approaches, inspection and formal methods are generally shown to be effective. In this paper, we propose a formal verification procedure for SCR(Software Cost Reduction)-style SRS(Software Requirements Specification) using the PVS specification and verification procedure and applied this procedure to an industrial system such that a shutdown system for Wolsung nuclear power plant. This system had been verified through inspection not formal verification. The application of formal methods is rare in Korea, so it is very important to experiment about formal verification to industrial systems.

Formal Analysis of Automatic Train Protection and Block System for Regional Line Using VDM++

  • Xie, Guo;Hei, Xinhong;Mochizuki, Hiroshi;Takahashi, Sei;Nakamura, Hideo
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.65-70
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    • 2012
  • This paper introduced a novel railway system, Automatic Train Protection and Block (ATPB) briefly, which is proposed to improve the efficiency of existing regional train lines with low cost in Japan. The biggest superiority of ATPB system is a great use of universal and mature technologies, such as GPS and regular mobile telephone networks, so that there is nearly no increment of trackside equipments in the reconstruction. Then in order to guarantee the system safety, a formal model of ATPB is established and analyzed by formal method VDM++. Firstly, the specification is specified by VDM++ formally without ambiguity. Secondly, its internal consistency is proved by discharging the proof obligations. And finally, its satisfiability is checked by systematic testing, which executes specification and checks the outputs against corresponding inputs.

Development of the Formal Requirements Specification of the Safety-critical Railway Systems (안전 필수 철도 시스템 개발을 위한 요구 사항의 정형 명세 작성)

  • Lee, Jean-Ho;Hwang, Dae-Yon;Kim, Jin-Hyun;Park, Jun-Kil;Choi, Jin-Young;Hwang, Jong-Gyu;Yoon, Yong-Ki;Jo, Hyun-Jeong
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.35 no.12
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    • pp.731-740
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    • 2008
  • A railway control system is one of the typical safety-critical systems. It is required to use formal methods for the requirements specification and verification in order to develop the global-standard railway control systems based on the computer systems. In this paper, we develop a guideline for requirements specification using formal methods, and present a case study of the development of a computer-based railway control system through the application of the proposed guideline. We use the Statechart and the Z method for the formal requirements specifications and verify the consistency and completeness of the formal specifications of the requirements.

Role of Informal Sector Competition on Innovation in Urban Formal Manufacturing Enterprises in India

  • Shekar, K Chandra
    • Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.1-38
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    • 2021
  • The paper examines the role of the informal sector on innovation activities of urban formal manufacturing enterprises in India. It provides empirical evidence on firm-level linkages between formal and informal sectors by using the World Bank Enterprise Survey, 2013-14 and the Innovation Follow-up survey, 2014. Primarily, the paper aims to examine the effect of informal sector competition on innovation in urban formal manufacturing enterprises in India. Secondly, the paper analyses the mediation effect of informal sector competition on innovations in the urban manufacturing enterprises. It determines the direct and indirect influence of business regulations and constraints on innovation outcomes through the mediation effect of informal sector competition by using the SEM "Structural Equation Modeling" guidelines. The econometric results show that informal sector competition has a negative effect on the introduction of product innovations while industry-level informal sector competition has a positive effect on product innovation through the local knowledge spillovers from the informal to the formal sector. However, the informal sector competition was found to have no significant effect on the probability of introducing process innovations. Further, the results show the inhibitive role of informal sector competition on innovation in urban formal manufacturing enterprises is more severe for firms with heavy regulatory burdens and is relatively weakened in firms with resource constraints. This suggests that the informal sector plays an important role in the NIS (National Innovation System) in India.

Formal Verification of Twin Clutch Gear Control System

  • Muhammad Zaman;Amina Mahmood;Muhammad Atif;Muhammad Adnan Hashmi;Muhammad Kashif;Mudassar Naseer
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.151-159
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    • 2024
  • Twin clutch model enables the power-shifts as conventional planetary automatic transmission and eradicates the disadvantages of single clutch trans- mission. The automatic control of the dual clutches is a problem. Particularly to control the clutching component that engages when running in one direction of revolution and disengages when running the other direction, which exchange the torque smoothly during torque phase of the gearshifts on planetary-type automatic transmissions, seemed for quite a while hard to compensate through clutch control. Another problem is to skip gears during multiple gearshifts. However, the twin clutch gear control described in ["M Goetz, M C Levesley and D A Crolla. Dynamics and control of gearshifts on twin clutch transmissions, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering 2005"], a significant improvement in twin clutch gear control system is discussed. In this research our objective is to formally specify the twin clutch gear control system and verify it with the help of formal methods. Formal methods have a high potential to give correctness estimating techniques. We use UPPAAL for formal specification and verification. Our results show that the twin clutch gear control model partially fulfills its functional requirements.

A Comparative Study of Formal Methods for Safety Critical Software in Nuclear Power Plant

  • Sedo Sohn;Seong, Poong-Hyun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.537-548
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    • 2000
  • The requirement of ultra high reliability of the safety critical software can not be demonstrated by testing alone. The specification based on formal method is recommended for safety system software. But there exist various kinds of formal methods, and this variety of formal method is recognized as an obstacle to the wide use of formal method. In this paper six different formal method have been applied to the same part of the functional requirements that is calculation algorithm intensive. The specification results were compared against the criteria that is derived from the characteristics that good software requirements specifications should have and regulatory body recommends to have. The application experience shows that the critical characteristics should be defined first, then appropriate method has to be selected. In our case, the Software Cost Reduction method was recommended for internal condition or calculation algorithm checking, and statechart method is recommended for the external behavioral description.

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A formal approach to support the identification of unsafe control actions of STPA for nuclear protection systems

  • Jung, Sejin;Heo, Yoona;Yoo, Junbeom
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.54 no.5
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    • pp.1635-1643
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    • 2022
  • STPA (System-Theoretic Process Analysis) is a widely used safety analysis technique to identify UCAs (Unsafe Control Actions) resulting in potential losses. It is totally dependent on the experience and ability of analysts to construct an information model called Control Structures, upon which analysts try to identify unsafe controls between system components. This paper proposes a formal approach to support the manual identification of UCAs, effectively and systematically. It allows analysts to mechanically extract Process Model, an important element that makes up the Control Structures, from a formal requirements specification for a software controller. It then concisely constructs the contents of Context Tables, from which analysts can identify all relevant UCAs effectively, using a software fault tree analysis technique. The case study with a preliminary version of a Korean nuclear reactor protections system shows the proposed approach's effectiveness and applicability.

Formal Model 작성을 위한 Event Graph 모델링 연구

  • 박정현;최병규
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 1995.10a
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    • pp.864-867
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    • 1995
  • Presented in the paper is a structured approach to modeling automated manufacturing system (AMS) in the form of an event graph. The proposed two-phase procedure for formal modeling is 1) reference modeling by schematic supervisory control modeling and 2) event graph transformation from supervisory control model. Also described is a formal model for a small-sized FMS in the form of an event graph.

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