• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.299-309
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• 2006

Due to the rapid development in mobile communication technologies, the usage of mobile devices such as cell phone or PDA becomes increasingly popular. As different devices require different applications, various new services are being developed to satisfy the needs. One of the popular services under heavy demand is the Location-based Service (LBS) that exploits the spatial information of moving objects per temporal changes. In order to support LBS efficiently, it is necessary to be able to index and query well a large amount of spatio-temporal information of moving objects. Therefore, in this paper, we investigate how such location information of moving objects can be efficiently stored and indexed. In particular, we propose a novel location encoding method based on hierarchical administrative district information. Our proposal is different from conventional approaches where moving objects are often expressed as geometric points in two dimensional space, (x,y). Instead, in ours, moving objects are encoded as one dimensional points by both administrative district as well as road information. Our method is especially useful for monitoring traffic situation or tracing location of moving objects through approximate spatial queries.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.67-76
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• 2018

This paper addresses the problem of efficient processing of region monitoring queries. The centralized methods used for existing region monitoring query processing assumes that the mobile object periodically sends location-updates to the server and the server continues to update the query results. However, a large amount of location updates seriously degrade the system performance. Recently, some distributed methods have been proposed for region monitoring query processing. In the distributed methods, the server allocates to all objects i) a resident domain that is a subspace of the workspace, and ii) a number of nearby query regions. All moving objects send location updates to the server only when they leave the resident domain or cross the boundary of the query region. In order to allocate the resident domain to the moving object along with the nearby query region, we use a query index structure that is constructed by splitting the workspace recursively into equal halves. However, However, the above index structure causes unnecessary division, resulting in deterioration of system performance. In this paper, we propose an adaptive split method to reduce unnecessary splitting. The workspace splitting is dynamically allocated i) considering the spatial relationship between the query region and the resultant subspace, and ii) the distribution of the query region. We proposed an enhanced QR-tree with a new splitting method. Through a set of simulations, we verify the efficiency of the proposed split methods.

• Physical Therapy Korea
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.1-11
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• 1996

The purpose of this study were to evaluate and compare the balance ability at different conditions in normal 20 to 29 years old on unstable platform, KAT 2000(Breg, Inc., Vista, CA. 1994). Static and dynamic BI(balance index) were measured 3psi and 5psi surface conditions. Static tests were done on right and left leg separately, then both legs together with the feet apart 20cm with the eyes opened and closed. Dynamic tests were done on both legs together with apart 20cm with the eyes opened. A dynamic test was performed in which the subject moved platform in a circular manner to chase a moving object on a computer screen. Seventy healthy students(average 21.6 years, male, female) were tested. In this study applied the paired t-test and correlation to determine the statistical significance of result. The results were as follow: 1) The mean static balance index of the Rt leg was $119.9{\pm}75.72$ on 3psi surface condition with the eyes opened, and that of the Lt leg was $224.3{\pm}121.16$. 2) The mean static balance index of the Rt leg was $93.1{\pm}24.16$ on 5psi surface condition with the eyes opened, and that of the Lt leg was $180.5{\pm}61.76$. 3) The mean static and dynamic balance index of both legs were $76.4{\pm}31.86$, $2187.6{\pm}696.99$ on 3psi with the eyes opened, and $68.3{\pm}14.82$, $1938.7{\pm}525.41$ on 5psi respectively. 4) The mean static balance index of the Rt leg was $517.8{\pm}220.87$ on 3psi surface condition with the eyes closed, and that of the Lt leg was $588.6{\pm}204.81$. 5) The mean static balance index of the Rt leg was $271.9{\pm}192.151$ on 5psi surface condition with the eyes closed, and that of the Lt leg was $363.4{\pm}98.97$. 6) The mean static balance index of both legs was $332.6{\pm}137.31$ on 3psi surface condition with the eyes closed, and that of the 5psi was $288.5{\pm}133.07$. 7) The balance index on 3psi surface condition was significantly higher than that of 5psi (p<0.05, p<0.01). 8) The balance index with the eyes closed was significantly higher than that of the eyes opened (p<0.05). 9) The balance index on the left leg was significantly higher than that of the right leg (p<0.05, p<0.01). 10) There was no correlation between static balance index and dynamic balance index. 11) Therewas no correlation between weight or height and balance index.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.23-39
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• 2005

As developing satellite communication, the tracking range of the moving objects which move in local area is expanded to the whole world. However previous logistics management system is able to monitor freight which transporting in local area using mobile communication system. In this paper, we propose the reefer container management system that manages the location information and other related information such as temperature, humidity of container using the satellite system. The proposed system consists of three parts; data collector, satellite communication manager, reefer container information manager. And the proposed system uses the moving object index for managing the trajectory of container and tracing the location of container or vessel that is transporting the container, and supports various services such as reefer container and vessel tracking, container control and container statistics to logistic companies like shipper and forwarding agent. And the system can be increasing the quality of container transportation service to the shipper, and it makes the efficient management of reefer container to the shipping company.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.16D no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2009

One of major purposes of a RFID system is to track moving objects using tags attached to the objects. Because a tagged object has both location and time information expressed as the location of the reader, we can index the trajectory of the object like existing spatiotemporal objects. More efficient tracking may be possible if a spatiotemporal trajectory can be formed of a tag, but there has not been much research on tag trajectory indexes. A characteristic that distinguishes tags from existing spatiotemporal objects is that a tag creates a separate trajectory in each reader by entering and then leaving the reader. As a result, there is a trajectory interruption interval between readers, in which the tag cannot be located, and this makes it difficult to track the tag. In addition, the point tags that only enter and don't leave readers do not create trajectories, so cannot be tracked. To solve this problem, we propose a tag trajectory index called TR-tree (tag trajectory R-tree in RFID system) that can track a tag by combining separate trajectories among readers into one trajectory. The results show that TR-tree, which overcomes the trajectory interruption superior performance than TPIR-tree and R-tree.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.420-436
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• 2007

The choice of an effective indexing method is crucial to guarantee the performance of the spatial join operator which is heavily used in geographical information systems. The $R^*$-tree based method is renowned as one of the most representative indexing methods. In this paper, we propose an efficient spatial join technique based on the DOT(Double Transformation) index, and compare it with the spatial Join technique based on the $R^*$-tree index. The DOT index transforms the MBR of an spatial object into a single numeric value using a space filling curve, and builds the $B^+$-tree from a set of numeric values transformed as such. The DOT index is possible to be employed as a primary index for spatial objects. The proposed spatial join technique exploits the regularities in the moving patterns of space filling curves to divide a query region into a set of maximal sub-regions within which space filling curves traverse without interruption. Such division reduces the number of spatial transformations required to perform the spatial join and thus improves the performance of join processing. The experiments with the data sets of various distributions and sizes revealed that the proposed join technique is up to three times faster than the spatial join method based on the $R^*$-tree index.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.4
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• pp.835-844
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• 2004

Recently, the location-based service for moving customers is becoming one of the most important service in mobile communication area. For moving object applications, there are lots of update operations and such update loads are concentrated on some particular area unevenly. Range queries, whose range can be window or circular, are the most essential query types in LBS. We need to distinguish completely contained cells from partially contained cells in those range queries. Also, it is necessary to consider temporal dimension to filter out qualifying objects correctly. In this paper, we adopt two-level index structures with fixed grid file structures in the second level, which are designed to minimize update operations. We propose a spatial ceil filtering method using VP filtering and a combined spatio-temporal filtering method using time gone concepts. Some experimental results are shown for various window queries and circular queries with different filtering combinations to show the performance tradeoffs of the proposed methods.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.153-158
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• 2003

최근 이동 통신 기술과 GPS 기술의 발달은 실시간으로 이동하는 차량이나 비행기 등과 같은 이동 객체의 위치 정보 서비스를 가능하게 하였고, 이로 인해 이동 객체의 정보를 빠르게 검색하고 저장하기 위한 기술에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 지금까지의 연구는 이동 객체의 과거 궤적 정보, 현재 및 미래 정보를 다루기 위한 구조가 각각 분리되어 연구되어 왔다. 하지만 이동객체는 시간의 흐름에 따라 연속적으로 변화하기 때문에 과거 정보와 현재 정보를 별도로 관리할 경우, 빈번한 위치 갱신이 발생하는 이동 객체의 환경에서는 심각한 처리비용이 요구된다. 따라서 이 논문에서는 이동 객체의 위치 정보를 효과적으로 관리하기 위하여 이동 객체의 과거 궤적정보 뿐만 아니라 현재의 정보까지도 하나의 색인 내에 통합하여 관리하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 범위 질의와 같은 좌표 기반의 질의뿐만 아니라 이동 객체의 궤적과 관련된 질의까지도 처리 가능하도록 기존의 TB-tree를 확장한다 또한 기존의 이동 객체 관리 기법들에서 처리하던 이동 객체의 궤적 정보를 저장하기 위한 방법을 개선하여 이동 객체 위치 정보의 중복저장 문제를 해결하고, 전체 색인의 크기를 크게 줄일 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 현재 정보의 관리를 통해 새로운 데이터 삽입 시 방문하는 node의 수를 줄이고, 삽입 시간을 단축하는 방법을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05c
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• pp.1575-1578
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• 2003

이동통신 기술의 발달로 인하여 무선 이동 기기의 사용이 보편화되면서 LBS(Location Based System)의 요구가 나날이 증대되고 있다. 이와 같은 위치 기반 서비스에서 클라이언트인 이동체들은 일정한 보고 주기를 가지고 서버에 위치 데이터를 보고하게 되는데, 빈번한 보고 데이터를 실시간으로 처리하기 위해서 서버에서는 메인 메모리 DBMS를 유지하는 것이 필요하다. 기존에 제시된 메인 메모리 색인으로는 T-tree 가 있는데, 이는 1차원 데이터를 위한 것이므로 이동체 데이터베이스 환경에 적합하지 못하다. 그리고, 디스크 기반의 다차원 색인으로는 R-tree 계열이 있는데, 이는 메인 메모리에서 효율적인 사용을 보장하지 못한다. 이 논문에서는 이동체 데이터베이스 환경에 적합한 메인 메모리 색인을 고려함에 있어서, 기존의 디스크 기반의 다차원 색인으로 가장 널리 알려진 R-tree 계열의 색인을 메인 메모리에 적재 후 메인 메모리 환경에서 성능에 영향을 주는 요소를 실험을 통하여 제시한다. 실험은 메인 메모리에서는 간단한 알고리즘을 사용하는 것이 성능에 좋고, 삽입 시에는 삽입할 노드를 찾기 위해서 비교하는 엔트리의 수가, 검색 시에는 노드간의 중첩으로 인하여 비교하는 노드의 수와 엔트리의 수가 성능에 영향을 주는 요소임을 보여준다.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.8 no.2 s.17
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• pp.13-38
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• 2006

Range query is one of the most important operations for spatial objects, it retrieves all spatial objects that overlap a given query region in multi-dimensional space. The DOT(DOuble Transformation) is known as an efficient indexing methods, it transforms the MBR of a spatial object into a single numeric value using a space filling curve, and stores the value in a $B^+$-tree. The DOT index is possible to be employed as a primary index for spatial objects. However, the range query processing based on the DOT index requires much overhead for spatial transformations to get the query region in the final space. Also, the detailed range query processing method for 2-dimensional spatial objects has not been studied yet in this paper, we propose an efficient multi-dimensional range query processing technique based on the DOT index. The proposed technique exploits the regularities in the moving patterns of space filling curves to divide a query region into a set of maximal sub-legions within which space filling curves traverse without interruption. Such division reduces the number of spatial transformations required to perform the range query and thus improves the performance of range query processing. A visual simulator is developed to show the evaluation method and the performance of our technique.