• Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.113-118
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• 2021

Background: Consumers and patients in the last two decades have increasingly turned to various internet search engines including Google for information. Google Trends records searches done using the Google search engine. Google Trends is free and provides data on search terms and related queries. One recent study found a large public interest in "dental anesthesia". In this paper, we further explore this interest in "dental anesthesia" and assess if any patterns emerge. Methods: In this study, Google Trends and the search term "dental pain" was used to record the consumer's interest over a five-year period. Additionally, using the search term "Dental anesthesia," a top ten related query list was generated. Queries are grouped into two sections, a "top" category and a "rising" category. We then added additional search term such as: wisdom tooth anesthesia, wisdom tooth general anesthesia, dental anesthetics, local anesthetic, dental numbing, anesthesia dentist, and dental pain. From the related queries generated from each search term, repeated themes were grouped together and ranked according to the total sum of their relative search frequency (RSF) values. Results: Over the five-year time period, Google Trends data show that there was a 1.5% increase in the search term "dental pain". Results of the related queries for dental anesthesia show that there seems to be a large public interest in how long local anesthetics last (Total RSF = 231) - even more so than potential side effects or toxicities (Total RSF = 83). Conclusion: Based on these results it is recommended that clinicians clearly advice their patients on how long local anesthetics last to better manage patient expectations.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.54-63
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• 2000

고속 움직임 추정을 위한 다 해상도 블록 정합 기법을 제안한다 최저 해상도 계층에서 전역 탐색을 통해 최소 정함 오치를 갖는 움직임 벡터를 선택하고, 공간적으로 인접한 블록들의 움직임 벡터들 중에서 최소 정합 오차를 갖는 움직임 벡터를 찾는다 이 때, 주변 움직임 벡터들의 보다 정확한 탐색을 위해 저 해상도 계층에서도 움직임 벡터의 양자화 없이 탐색을 할 수 있는 효과적인 방법을 제안한다. 이렇게 얻어진 2개의 움직임 벡터들은 중간 해상도 계층에서의 탐색을 위한 초기 탐색 중심점들로 사용된다 중간 계층에서, 각 초기점을 중심으로 훨씬 좁아진 영역에서의 지역 탐색을 수행한다. 최저 해상도 계층에서 주변 움직임 벡터 탐색을 위해 사용했던 방법을 이용하면, 각 지역 탐색을 정수 화소 단위로 수행할 수 있다 지역 탐색 영역 내에서 최소 정함 오차를 갖는 움직임 벡터를 찾고, 이 벡터를 중심으로 마지막 계층에서의 마지막 탐색을 수행한다 그러나, 중간 해상도 계층에서 이미 정수 화소 단위의 정확한 움직임 벡터 추정을 수행했기 때문에, 마지막 최고 해상도 계층에서의 지역 탐색은 전체 성능에 미미한 영향을 주게 된다. 따라서 최고 해상도 계층에서의 탐색을 생략하더라도 성능 저하 없이 탐색 속도를 향상시킬 수 있다 모의 실험을 통해 최고 계층에서의 지역 탐색을 생략하더라도 제안한 블록 정합 기법이 전역 탐색 기법에 비해 보편적인 MPEG2 부호화 환경 하에서 최대 02dB의 PSNR 저하만을 보이며, 200배 이상의 계산 속도를 가점을 보인다 또한, 제안한 기법은 규칙적인 데이터 흐름을 가지am로 하드웨어 구현에도 적합하다.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제15B권2호
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• pp.159-170
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• 2008

최근 들어 로봇 작업 계획기에 요구되는 중요한 기능 중의 하나가 이미 존재하는 컴포넌트 서비스들을 결합하여 새로운 서비스로 조합해낼 수 있는 계획 기능이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 컴포넌트 서비스 조합을 위한 커널모듈로 개발된 휴리스틱 탐색 계획기인 JPLAN의 설계와 구현에 대해 설명한다. JPLAN은 효율적인 상태 공간 탐색을 위해 지역 탐색 알고리즘과 계획 그래프 휴리스틱을 이용한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 지역 탐색 알고리즘인 EHC+는 FF 등의 상태 공간 계획기에 적용되어 높은 효율성을 보인 Enforced Hill-Climbing (EHC)을 확장한 것이다. EHC+는 EHC에 비해 소량의 추가적인 지역 탐색을 필요로 하지만 목표 상태까지 전체 탐색 양을 줄일 수 있고 더 짧은 계획을 얻을 수있다. 또한 본 본문에서는 대규모 상태 공간 탐색에 필수적인 효과적인 휴리스틱 추출 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 휴리스틱 추출방법은 Graphplan에서 계획 생성을 위해 처음 제안된 계획 그래프를 이용한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 계획 그래프 기반의 다양한 휴리스틱들을 소개하고, 이들이 계획 생성에 미치는 효과를 실험을 통해 분석해본다.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회 1996년도 추계학술대회발표논문집; 고려대학교, 서울; 26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.135-138
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• 1996

In solving the Travel Salesman Problem(TSP), we easily reach local optimal solutions with the existing methods such as TWO-OPT, THREE-OPT, and Lin-Kernighen. Tabu search, as a meta heuristic, is a good mechanism to get an optimal or a near optimal solution escaping from the local optimal. By utilizing AI concepts, tabu search continues to search for improved solutions. In this study, we focus on developing a new neighborhood structure that maintains the feasibility of the tours created by exchange operations in TSP. Intelligent methods are discussed, which keeps feasible tour routes even after exchanging several edges continuously. An extended tabu search model, performing cycle detection and diversification with memory structure, is applied to TSP. The model uses effectively the information gathered during the search process. Finally, the results of tabu search and simulated annealing are compared based on the TSP problems in the prior literatures.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1995년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automation Control Conference, 10th (KACC); Seoul, Korea; 23-25 Oct. 1995
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• pp.14-17
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• 1995

Various methods and techniques have been proposed for solving optimization problems; the methods have been applied to various practical problems. However the methods have demerits. The demerits which should be covered are, for example, falling into local minima, or, a slow convergence speed to optimal points. In this paper, Likelihood Search Method (L.S.M.) is proposed for searching for a global optimum systematically and effectively in a single framework, which is not a combination of different methods. The L.S.M. is a sort of a random search method (R.S.M.) and thus can get out of local minima. However exploitation of gradient information makes the L.S.M. superior in convergence speed to the commonly used R.S.M..

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제20권42호
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• pp.39-47
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• 1997

There are four parameters (i.e. overall density, local density, grouping, layout complexity) to consider in designing screen of a visual display terminal. Among these, only the optimum level of overall density is known to be about 25~30% by some studies. Therefore, the present experiment is conducted to define the optimum levels of the other parameters to achieve the user's best performance in visual search task. The results are as follows; (1) The function related to the levels of local density and user's search times is shown to be U -shaped. When the level of local density is about 40%, the search time is shorter than those of any other levels. (2) In the experiment of grouping, user's performance is best when the number of group is 5, and the size of group does not exceed visual angle $5^{\circ}$ (0,088rad). (3) The user performance is improved as the layout becomes less complex.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2007

In this paper, we develop an adaptive genetic algorithm (aGA). The aGA has an adaptive scheme which can automatically determine the use of local search technique and adaptively regulate the rates of crossover and mutation operations during its search process. For the adaptive scheme, the ratio of degree of dispersion resulting from the various fitness values of the populations at continuous two generations is considered. For the local search technique, an improved iterative hill climbing method is used and incorporated into genetic algorithm (GA) loop. In order to demonstrate the efficiency of the aGA, i) a canonical GA without any adaptive scheme and ii) several conventional aGAs with various adaptive schemes are also presented. These algorithms, including the aGA, are tested and analyzed each other using various test problems. Numerical results by various measures of performance show that the proposed aGA outperforms the conventional algorithms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.825-836
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• 2016

In this paper, a speed-up technique for the non-local means (NLM) image denoising method based on local binary descriptor (LBD) is proposed. In the NLM, most of the computation time is spent on searching for non-local similar patches in the search window. The local binary descriptor which represents the structure of patch as binary strings is employed to speed up the search process in the NLM. The descriptor allows for a fast and accurate preselection of non-local similar patches by bitwise operations. Using this approach, a tradeoff between time-saving and noise removal can be obtained. Simulations exhibit that despite being principally constructed for speed, the proposed algorithm outperforms in terms of denoising quality as well. Furthermore, a parallel implementation on GPU brings NLM-LBD to real-time image denoising.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.157-167
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• 2005

This paper presents a new perturbation technique for developing efficient iterated local search procedures for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem(ATSP). This perturbation technique uses global information on ATSP instances to speed-up computation and to improve the quality of the tours found by heuristic method. The main idea is to escape from a local optima by introducing perturbations on the out-of-kilter arcs in the problem instance. For a local search heuristic, we use the Kwon which finds optimum or near-optimum solutions by applying the out-of-kilter algorithm to the ATSP. The performance of our algorithm has been tested and compared with known method perturbing on randomly chosen arcs. A number of experiments has been executed both on the well-known TSPLIB instances for which the optimal tour length is known, and on randomly generated Instances. for 27 TSPLIB instances, the presented algorithm has found optimal tours on all instances. And it has effectively found tours near AP lower bound on randomly generated instances.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.416-420
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• 2004

Recently, the importance of vibration reduction at the local structure such as tank, deck which attached machinery and compass deck, has continuously increased by owner and shipbuilder. Because crews are afflicted with them and severe vibration problems affect on the crack of structure. This study conducted optimum design to get a stiffener size of local structure to reducing the vibration level and dec leasing the weight of structure in ship. Random tabu search method (R-Tabu) has fast converging time and can search variables size domains for nonlinear problems. This paper used Nastran external call type independence optimization method which makes using a solver module from Nastran.