• IE interfaces
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.515-524
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• 2007

This paper introduces the methodology for restrict adjustment of 25 mail sorting centers including 3 new mail sorting centers to balance their work loads and minimize their operating costs. We calculated the capacity of mail sorting centers considering mail types and analyzed the collection/delivery mail volume of 214 post offices to measure the work loads of mail sorting centers. We also developed the mathematical model and genetic algorithm to find the optimal solution for this problem.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.8-16
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• 2008

Mail centers play an important role such as sorting and transporting postal items in the process of postal logistics. Therefore, there is need of efficiency measurement of the facilities to reduce the inefficiency of factors. But only few attempts have so far been made at measuring the efficiency of postal logistics hubs. The purpose of this paper is to make a reasonable suggestion for the improvement of inefficient mail centers. So this study found the efficient mail centers and inefficient mail centers using data envelopment analysis(DEA) and compared inputs and outputs of the former with those of the latter.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.10-16
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• 2010

Mail centers are essential postal facilities that sort and dispatch postal items, and should be operated efficiently to provide customers high quality postal services. So the efficiency analysis of mail centers should be performed in order to induce better operation. But current performance evaluation system has 95 percent of predetermined and weighted non-quantitative indices. There is need to introduce objective efficiency measurement methodology. The main objectives of this study was to analyze the efficiency of 24 mail centers empirically using cone-ratio DEA and suggest the appropriate cone-ratio method. Consequently, this paper suggests that the cone-ratio DEA model integrating decision-maker's preferences is more desirable for efficiency analysis than that of using transformed data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.586-589
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• 2004

This paper attempts to propose the decision support model, which can be employed for 22 mail centers to improve their operational efficiency and competitive. This model deals with both DEA method and system dynamics model. DEA is a management tool aimed to determine relative efficiency of independent decision making unit. We measured the relative efficiency between mail centers using CCR model and tried to find the reason for inefficiency mail centers. Also, we introduced the system dynamics model to present the strategic policy for mail center to strengthen their efficiency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.11
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• pp.7-13
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• 2010

For swiftness and economic feasibility of parcel delivery, optimal location of mail exchanging centers considering not only section delivery distance but also some weights like the number of delivery vehicles are necessary. In this paper, a mechanism with section delivery distance and vehicle number for locating of mail distribution centers which connect some mail centers of major cities in Republic Korea by applying GOSST theory is proposed. This mechanism for locating mail exchange centers can make the total delivery distance of postal matters less than not only present method which assigns Daejun as mail exchange center, but also Steiner tree method which does not consider weights like number of delivery vehicles. The mechanism is good for protecting the environment as well as rapid and economic delivery. In experiment, the proposed mechanism could curtail total delivery distance by 2.52 percentages compared with Steiner tree method and by 6.66 percentages compared with present method. The mechanism may be used in electric power transmission routing, distribution line topology design, power relay station locating where various voltages and other weights should be considered.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.13-34
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• 2002

This paper considers a postal transportation planning problem in the transportation network of the form of hub and spoke Given mail sorting centers and an exchange center, available vehicles and amount of mails to be transported between mail sorting centers, postal transportation planning is to make a transportation plan without violating various restrictions. The objective is to minimize the total transportation cost. To solve the problem, a tabu search algorithm is proposed. The algorithm is composed of a route construction procedure and a route improvement procedure to improve a solution obtained by the route construction procedure using a tabu search. The tabu search uses the best-admissible strategy, BA, and the first-best-admissible strategy, FBA. The algorithm was tested on problems consisting of 11, 16 and 21 mail sorting centers including one exchange center. Solutions of the problems consisting of 11 mail sorting centers including one exchange center were compared with optimal solutions On average, solutions using BA strategy were within 0.287% of the optimum and solutions using FBA strategy were within 0.508% of the optimum. Computational results show that the proposed algorithm can solve practically sized problems within a reasonable time and the quality of the solution is very good.

• IE interfaces
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.120-130
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• 2008

In this paper, we develop a transportation planning system for the mail transportation network, which consists of 25 mail centers and one mail exchange center. The main functions of the system are adjustment of transportation plan, creation of new transportation plan, and calculation of expected exchange mail volume which are transported through mail exchange center. We develop an adjusting algorithm which gives a new transportation plan by deleting, adding or changing the current routes. The algorithm based on the transportation results of current transportation plan and mail volume data. We design and implement a planning system by installing the algorithm as the planning engine. For the practical use, the system is connected to the information system of Korea Post, PostNet.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.24 no.A
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• pp.263-271
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• 2004

Recently, the public postal service of Korea confronts with business environment changes such as the opening of postal market and appearance of the domestic competitive enterprises. It is the current state that the public postal service of Korea should have a competitive edge by the productivity improvement of business processes. In this paper, we proposed new working tables for manual letter sorting which is one of the important process in mail center. We suggested standard working method and standard time in a mail center Based on these, we established the procedure for setting up a fair day's work in other mail centers. By the result of this research, we expect that the productivity of the mail sorting operation will be increased.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.308-315
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• 2005

Purpose: This descriptive study was conducted to examine the status of the health examination in child care centers. Method: The participants in this study were 631 child care centers. A self report questionnaire on health examination which has been examined for content validity, was distributed by mail to 2,000 child care centers using randomized sampling. Result: Of the sample, $76.2\%$ child care centers had done health examination for children. Height & weight, urinalysis, dental check, anemia test and visual acuity were the most frequently performed items. The rate for maintaining a health record was highest in the national/public child care centers. Child care centers more closely related to community health centers, showed higher rates of health examination. Conclusion: Health care personnel and financial aids should be provided for child care centers to enhance the level of health management of children.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.191-194
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• 2001

We consider a postal transportation planning in the transportation network of the form of hub and spoke. Given mail sorting centers and an exchange center, available vehicles and amount of mails to be transported between mail sorting centers, postal transportation planning is to make a transportation plan without violating various restrictions. The objective is to minimize the total transportation cost. To solve the problem, a tabu search algorithm is Proposed. The algorithm is composed of a route construction procedure and a route improvement procedure to improve a solution obtained by the route construction procedure using a tabu search. Computational results show that the proposed algorithm can solve practically sized problems within a reasonable time and the quality of the solution is acceptable.