• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.103-112
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• 2013

While the competition among many portal sites has been very serious in the Internet, very little research has been conducted on the perceptions of the users visiting those sites. To investigate how differently the Internet users perceive each of the portal sites, we attempted to analyze the similarities of five popular portal sites (Daum, Naver, Google, Nate, and MSN). By measuring the conceptual distances among the portal sites using Multi-Dimensional Scaling, this study was intended to understand the positions of the sites relative to those of other sites. The results of this study is expected to contribute to our understanding of competitive contexts among the portal sites.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.16-24
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• 1984

The objective data and subjective data correlated in order to rate sound quality of loudspeaker system and these data were analyzed by the Factor Analysis and Multi-Dimensioinal Scaling. The dimensions yielded Factor Analysis were interpreted as "Contrast", "Metallic", "Rich", "Present" and their relation to physical variables were explored by studying the positions of loudspeaker systems in the respective dimension. When the subjective similarity degree of loudspeaker systems was compared with the objective similarity degree of loudspeaker systems by Multi-Dimensional Scaling, the similarity degree of sound pressure response in the listening room closely coincided with the subjective similarity degree regardless of sound source. This result implies the necessity of measurements taken not only in an anechoic room but also in a listening room in order to rate sound quality of loudspeaker systems.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.237-245
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• 2003

MDS(multi-dimensional scaling) for preference data is a graphical tool which usually figures out how consumers recognize, evaluate certain products. This article is mainly concerned with an optimal scaling for MDS when target configuration is available. Rotation of axis and SUR(seemingly unrelated regression) methods are employed to get a new configuration which is obtained as close to the target as we can. Methodologies developed here are also illustrated via a real data set.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.433-438
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• 2007

This paper presents a distance mapping-based localization method with incomplete data which means partially observed data. We make three contributions. First, we propose the use of Multi Dimensional Scaling (MDS) for multi-robot localization. Second, we formulate the problem to accomodate partial observations common in multi-robot settings. We solve the resulting optimization problem using #Scaling by Majorizing a Complicated function (SMACOF)#, a popular algorithm fur iterative MDS. Third, we not only verify the performance of MDS-based multi-robot localization by computer simulations, but also implement a real world localization of multi-robot team. Using extensive empirical results, we show that the accuracy of the proposed method is almost similar to that of Monte Carlo Localization(MCL).

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.333-340
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• 2014

We analyzed pedestrian preference and features of preferential space by MDS (Multi Dimensional Scaling). As the result, features of pedestrian space in dimension 1 could be interpreted as "Segregation of Pedestrian and Vehicle", and features of pedestrian space in dimension 2 could be read like "Natural-City". And as a result of vector analysis about preferential of pedestrian, a pedestrian mall between housing complex, pedestrian space in pocket park, pedestrian space in neighborhood park, and pedestrian space around public facilities was the best preferential space. On the other hand, pedestrians tended to dislike pedestrian space between detached.

• Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.517-525
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• 2009

The water quality of Lake Shihwa had been rapidly deteriorating since 1994 due to wastewater input from the watersheds, limited water circulation and the lack of a wastewater treatment policy. In 2000, the government decided to open the tidal embankment and make a comprehensive management plan to improve the water quality, especially inflowing stream water around Shihwa and Banwol industrial complex. However, the water quality and microbial community have not as yet been fully evaluated. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influent water quality around the industrial area based on chemical and biological analysis, and collected surface water sample from the Siheung Stream, up-stream to down-stream through the industrial complex, Samples were collected in July 2009. The results show that the downstream site near the industrial complex had higher concentrations of heavy metals (Cu, Mn, Fe, Mg, and Zn) and organic matter than upstream sites. A combination of DGGE (Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis) gels, lists of K-WQI (Korean Water Quality Index), cluster analysis, MDS (Multi-Dimensional Scaling) and PCA (Principal Component Analysis) has demonstrated clear clustering between Siheung stream 3 and 4 and with a high similarity and detected metal reducing bacteria (Shewanella spp.) and biodegrading bacteria (Acinetobacter spp.). These results suggest that use of both chemical and microbiological marker would be useful to fully evaluate the water quality.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.101-106
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• 2012

Ship handling simulator is a virtual ship navigating system with three dimensional screen system and simulation programs. FTS simulation can produce theoretically infinite experiment tests without time constraint, but which results in collecting determinstic observations. RTS simulation can collect statistical observations but has disadvantage of spending at least 30 minutes for a single experiment. The previous studies suggested that the number of experiment conditions to be tested could be reduced to obtain random data with RTS simulation by focusing on highly difficult experiment condition for ship handling. It has the limitation of not estimating the distribution of ship handling difficulty for the route. In this paper, similarity and clustering analysis are suggested for reduction methodology of experiment conditions. Similarity of experiment conditions are measured as follows: euclidean distance of ship handling difficulty index and correlation matrix of distance differences from the designed route. Clustering analysis and multi-dimensional scaling are applied to classify experiment conditions with measured similarity into reducing the number of RTS simulation conditions. An empirical result on Dangin harbor is shown and discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.395-400
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• 2011

강변저류지는 국내에서 천변저류지라는 이름으로 2000년 초반부터 관련 연구가 시작되었으며, 기존의 하천연안 저지대 및 홍수터를 활용하여 제방의 일부 구간에 취수부를 설치, 하천의 계획홍수를 초가하거나 일정수위 이상의 홍수가 발생할 때 초과하는 홍수량을 저류하여 하류의 첨두홍수를 저감시키는 소규모 수공구조물이다. 이러한 강변저류지는 off-line 형식으로 2차원적인 홍수량 분담을 통해 홍수량을 조절하여, 홍수조절효과가 확실하고 그 효과가 즉시 나타나는 특징이 있다. 또한 한 대상유역 내에 다수의 대상지역이 존재하게 된다. 하지만 이들 후 보지 전체에 강변저류지를 설치하는 것은 다수의 제약조건에 의해 불가능하며 대상유역의 어느 후보지에 강변저류지를 설치한다는 문제를 해결하기위해 기존에 수행되었던 연구들은 각각의 장단점이 있으며 이들 연구의 가장 큰 문제는 의사결정을 위해 사용되는 변수의 통합과정에서 발생될 수 있는 오류가 있다는 것이다. 본 연구에서는 다수의 기준과 변수에 의해 결정되어진 강변저류지의 설치 우선순위들을 다차원척도법(Multi-Dimensional Scaling)를 이용하여 최종적인 하나의 순위를 도출하는 것으로 기존에 수행되었던 연구결과의 장점을 포함하며, 보다 많은 변수를 고려할 수 있는 방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.111-118
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• 2008

In usual safety signs are final means to transmit hazard information so that the importance of them cannot be emphasized too much. Nevertheless, in Korea, few people are interested in functions of safety signs so that evaluation of safety signs are seldom committed. This research was conducted to evaluate and compare perceptional characteristics of safety signs, especially "Fall" signs, by Semantic Differential Method and Multi-dimensional Scaling Method, with undergraduate students as well as industrial workers. According to research results on several signs evaluated high through suggested procedure, action inducibility was different for students majoring in different sciences, but it had common elements in the sense of 'openness' or 'arrangements'. Besides, perceptional images on safety signs were mainly recognized with bases of 'arrangement' for student group and 'simplicity' for industrial workers, respectively, and their maps corresponded well with each other by partial rotating so that students and workers seemed to recognize safety signs with similar factors though their name might be different. However, since perceptional characteristics including image map, comprehensibility, and action inducibility were similar for student group whereas those were not for worker group, it was concluded that the test for action inducibility would be absolutely necessary for safety signs for workers' group.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• no.1
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• pp.52-55
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• 1992

The purpose of this study was to suggest the spatial structure among residential behaviors in relation to work space. To find the structure, Multi-Dimensional Scaling analysis was used. Respondents were 349 middle income housewives living in apartments in the area of Caopital region. Data were collected through the questinnaire survey. For the future residential interior design, following points were sugtested. A laundary space neess to be developed independently , being separated from both bathroom and kitchen/dining space. A new area which will give housewives some territoriality and also function as home office needs to be considered. A space configuration which satisfies the organic relationships among laundary behaviors such as washing dying, ironing and folding , needs to be systematically planned, with two adjoining separate zones of wet and dry utility . The present bathroom nees to be more incorporated to the private bedroom rather than to workspace.