• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권8호
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• pp.1368-1387
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• 2011

In recent years, ubiquitous and pervasive scenarios have emerged as a complex ecosystem where differentiated software/hardware components interoperate wirelessly and seamlessly. The goal is to enable users to continuously access services and contents, and to always get the best out of their current environment and available resources. In such dynamic and flexible scenarios, the need emerges for flexible and general solutions for continuous runtime self-reconfiguration and self-optimization of ubiquitous support software systems. This paper proposes a fully reconfigurable middleware approach that aims at reconfiguring complex software systems made up of heterogeneous off-the-shelf components from both functional and non-functional perspectives. Our middleware can also extend already existing and non-reconfigurable middleware/applications in an easy and flexible way, with no need to re-design them. The proposed design principles have been practically applied to the implementation of a runtime self-reconfigurable middleware called Off-The-Shelf Ready To Go (OTS-RTG), implemented on top of iPOJO. The reported experimental results both exhibit a limited overhead and show the wide applicability of the proposed solution to many application scenarios, including complex, industrial, Enterprise Service Bus-based ones.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제66권
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• pp.81-89
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the potential enhancement of the flavonoid contents from Agastache rugosa, which can be obtained as raw materials for functional products in the food medicine industry by identifying important factors for efficient preparation to save costs and time in terms of economic factors. For this reason, response surface methodology using Box-Behnken design was used to optimize the extraction conditions for the maximum yield of seven major compounds from A. rugosa. The optimum conditions were obtained with an ethanol concentration of 60.0%, a temperature of 50 ℃, and an extraction time of 33.6 min, meaning that the regression analysis fits the experimental data well. Under these conditions, the seven major compounds 1-7 had observed values of 2.169, 2.135, 0.697, 2.485, 0.105, 1.247, and 0.551%, respectively. These results show that the observed values are in good agreement with the predicted values in the regression model. This process for optimization study exhibited a basic protocol for obtaining stable ingredients from A. rugosa that are appropriate for the development of effective functional products.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2014

레벨셋 기법과 무요소법을 결합한 위상 및 형상 최적설계 기법을 개발하여 선형 탄성문제에 적용하였다. 설계민감도는 애드조인트법을 사용하여 효율적으로 구하였다. 해밀턴-자코비 방정식을 업-윈드 기법을 이용하여 수치적으로 풀었으며, 구조물의 경계는 레벨셋 함수를 이용하여 암시적으로 표현하였다. 구조물의 응답과 설계민감도를 얻기 위하여 암시적 함수를 사용하여 명시적 경계를 생성하였다. 재생 커널 기법에 기초하여 얻어진 전역 절점 기저함수를 사용하여 연속체 지배방정식의 변위장을 이산화하였다. 따라서 질점들을 연속체 영역의 어느 곳이든 위치시킬 수 있으며, 이는 통해 명시적 경계를 생성하는 것이 가능하며, 결과적으로 정확한 설계를 얻을 수 있다. 개발된 방법은 제한 조건이 있는 최적설계 문제에 대하여 라그랑지안 범함수를 정의한다. 이는 경계의 변화를 통하여 허용 부피 제한조건을 만족시키면서 컴플라이언스를 최소화한다. 최적설계 과정 동안 라그랑지안 범함수의 최적화조건을 만족시킴으로써 해밀턴-자코비 방정식을 풀기 위한 속도장을 얻는다. 기존의 형상 최적설계 기법에 비하여, 본 방법론은 위상과 형상의 변화를 쉽게 얻어낼 수 있다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.284-292
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• 2019

For the continuous operation of a nuclear reactor, burnt fuel needs to be replaced with fresh fuel, where appropriate (ex-vessel) fuel handling is required. Particularly for the Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) refueling, its process has unique challenges due to liquid sodium coolant. The ex-vessel spent fuel transportation should concern several design features such as the radiation shielding, decay-heat removal, and inert space separated from air. This paper proposes a new design optimization methodology of cask shielding to transport the spent fuel assembly in a prototype SFR for the first time. The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm had been applied to design trade-offs between shielding and cask weight. The cask is designed as a double-cylinder structure to block an inert sodium region from the air-cooling space. The PSO process yielded the optimum shielding thickness of 26 cm, considering the weight as well. To confirm the shielding performance, the radiation dose of spent fuel removed at its peak burnup and after 1-year cooling was calculated. Two different fuel positions located during transportation were also investigated to consider a functional disorder in a cask drive system. This study concludes the current cask design in normal operations is satisfactory in accordance with regulatory rules.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.463-469
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 저차원 확률 함수를 사용하여 연속적인 선형 공극비 기울기를 갖는 기능경사재료 형태의 가상 시편을 제작하였다. 실제 물 시멘트 비가 다른 두 종류 시멘트 풀 시편의 X-선 CT 단면 이미지를 통해 3차원 공극 분포 모델을 제작하여 이를 기반으로 가상 시편을 제작하였다. 가상 시편이 두 실제 시편 사이에 위치하도록 공극 분포 특성을 저차원 확률 함수와 공극비 기울기로 구성하였다. 공극 분포의 기울기는 연속적인 형태의 수직 방향의 선형 공극비 기울기로 구현하며, 이를 위해 확률적 최적화의 목적 함수로 저차원 확률 함수와 공극비 기울기에 관한 함수를 사용하였다. 가상 시편 내 공극 분포 특성 확인을 위해 본 연구에서는 투기율 분석을 유한요소해석을 통해 수행하였다. 공극 분포 특성과 투기율 해석 결과를 비교하여 가상 시편이 갖는 공극 분포 특성이 투기율에 미치는 영향을 확인하고, 투기율의 실제 실험 결과와 해석 결과의 비교를 통해 해석 결과의 타당성을 입증하였다.

• 한국식품조리과학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.704-715
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• 2016

Purpose: This study was conducted to optimize the conditions of manufacturing the wet noodle added with Aloe powder. Methods: The I-optimal design of response surface methodology (RSM) was used for the optimization of added amount of Aloe powder, water content, and kneading time as the independent variables. The quality characteristics (color, texture, water absorption ratio, volume, turbidity) and sensory characteristics (color, flavor, taste, mouth feel, overall acceptance) were analyzed as dependent variables. Results: The lightness, redness, and yellowness of the Aloe noodle were all lowered with the addition of Aloe powder. All texture characteristics such as hardness, elasticity and chewiness of Aloe noodle showed the tendency to increase with increasing amount of Aloe added and kneading time. The water uptake and the volume expansion tended to increase with increasing aloe addition and water addition. As the kneading time increased, the dissolution of solids decreased and the turbidity tended to decrease. Aloe powder content influenced the color, flavor and taste of the noodles most among independent variables, and the mouthfeel of the noodle influenced by the water addition and the kneading time. Conclusion: Aloe noodle showed the best desirability with 3.03% of Aloe powder, 43.56% of water content and 13.06 min of kneading time by RSM analysis. Aloe noodles prepared under these optimized conditions are expected to be able to manufacture and utilize functional Aloe noodles by meeting the content of isobarbaloin, which helps the intestinal functional activity.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.2388-2398
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• 2017

In this study, we propose a robust face recognition system to pose variations based on automatic pose estimation. Radial basis function neural network is applied as one of the functional components of the overall face recognition system. The proposed system consists of preprocessing and recognition modules to provide a solution to pose variation and high-dimensional pattern recognition problems. In the preprocessing part, principal component analysis (PCA) and 2-dimensional 2-directional PCA ($(2D)^2$ PCA) are applied. These functional modules are useful in reducing dimensionality of the feature space. The proposed RBFNNs architecture consists of three functional modules such as condition, conclusion and inference phase realized in terms of fuzzy "if-then" rules. In the condition phase of fuzzy rules, the input space is partitioned with the use of fuzzy clustering realized by the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) algorithm. In conclusion phase of rules, the connections (weights) are realized through four types of polynomials such as constant, linear, quadratic and modified quadratic. The coefficients of the RBFNNs model are obtained by fuzzy inference method constituting the inference phase of fuzzy rules. The essential design parameters (such as the number of nodes, and fuzzification coefficient) of the networks are optimized with the aid of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Experimental results completed on standard face database -Honda/UCSD, Cambridge Head pose, and IC&CI databases demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of face recognition system compared with other studies.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.85-91
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• 2020

기능성 원료로 사용되는 아로니아 열매를 포함하여 열매 이외의 비가식 부위를 이용하여 바이오 융복합 소재로의 개발을 검토하기 위하여 폴리페놀의 추출 공정변수인 추출 용매, 온도, pH, 시간 등의 추출 조건을 최적화하였다. 아로니아 부위별(열매, 잎, 가지, 송이가지)로 물, 에탄올, 메탄올을 사용하여 추출하여 총 폴리페놀 추출율이 가장 높은 물을 추출용매로 선정하였다. 비가식 부위 중 가장 높은 총 폴리페놀 함량을 보인 아로니아 잎을 폴리페놀의 주원료로 선정하였고, 실험계획법을 이용하여 비가식 부위인 잎의 폴리페놀의 열수 추출 조건을 최적화하였다. 그 결과 79.3℃, 4.5시간, pH 7.2에서 추출하는 것이 최적의 추출 조건이었으며 폴리페놀의 최대 추출 수율은 139.4±2.5 mg/g이었다. 이와 같이 아로니아 비가식 부위인 잎의 최적화된 추출조건은 기능성 바이오 소재의 생산에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.123-130
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• 2015

Purpose - Due to highly elevated levels of competition, many companies today have to face the problem of decreasing profits even when their actual sales volume is increasing. This is a common phenomenon that is seen occurring among companies that focus heavily on quantitative growth rather than qualitative growth. These two aspects of growth should be well balanced for a company to create a sustainable business model. For supply chain management (SCM) planners, the optimized, quantified flow of resources used to be of major interest for decades. However, this trend is rapidly changing so that managers can put the appropriate balance between sales volume and sales quality, which can be evaluated from the profit margin. Profit optimization is a methodology for companies to use to achieve solutions focused more on profitability than sales volume. In this study, we attempt to provide executional insight for companies considering implementation of the profit optimization system to enhance their business profitability. Research design, data, and methodology - In this study, we present a comprehensive explanation of the subject of profit optimization, including the fundamental concepts, the most common profit optimization logic algorithm -linear programming -the business functional scope of the profit optimization system, major key success factors for implementing the profit optimization system at a business organization, and weekly level detailed business processes to actively manage effective system performance in achieving the goals of the system. Additionally, for the purpose of providing more realistic and practical information, we carefully investigate a profit optimization system implementation case study project fulfilled for company S. The project duration was about eight months, with four full-time system development consultants deployed for the period. To guarantee the project's success, the organization adopted a proven system implementation methodology, supply chain management (SCM) six-sigma. SCM six-sigma was originally developed by a group of talented consultants within Samsung SDS through focused efforts and investment in synthesizing SCM and six-sigma to improve and innovate their SCM operations across the entire Samsung Organization. Results - Profit optimization can enable a company to create sales and production plans focused on more profitable products and customers, resulting in sustainable growth. In this study, we explain the concept of profit optimization and prerequisites for successful implementation of the system. Furthermore, the efficient way of system security administration, one of the hottest topics today, is also addressed. Conclusion - This case study can benefit numerous companies that are eagerly searching for ways to break-through current profitability levels. We cannot guarantee that the decision to deploy the profit optimization system will bring success, but we can guarantee that with the help of our study, companies trying to implement profit optimization systems can minimize various possible risks across various system implementation phases. The actual system implementation case of the profit optimization project at company S introduced here can provide valuable lessons for both business organizations and research communities.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.353-369
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• 2020

This paper presents the flutter analysis and optimum design of axially functionally graded box beam cantilever wing section by considering various geometric and material parameters. The coupled dynamic equations of the continuous model of wing system in terms of material and cross-sectional properties are formulated based on extended Hamilton's principle. By expressing the lift and pitching moment in terms of plunge and pitch displacements, the resultant two continuous equations are simplified using Galerkin's reduced order model. The flutter velocity is predicted from the solution of resultant damped eigenvalue problem. Parametric studies are conducted to know the effects of geometric factors such as taper ratio, thickness, sweep angle as well as material volume fractions and functional grading index on the flutter velocity. A generalized surrogate model is constructed by training the radial basis function network with the parametric data. The optimized material and geometric parameters of the section are predicted by solving the constrained optimal problem using firefly metaheuristics algorithm that employs the developed surrogate model for the function evaluations. The trapezoidal hollow box beam section design with axial functional grading concept is illustrated with combination of aluminium alloy and aluminium with silicon carbide particulates. A good improvement in flutter velocity is noticed by the optimization.