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Transmission Network Expansion Planning for the Penetration of Renewable Energy Sources - Determining an Optimal Installed Capacity of Renewable Energy Sources

  • Kim, Sung-Yul;Shin, Je-Seok;Kim, Jin-O
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.1163-1170
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    • 2014
  • Due to global environmental regulations and policies with rapid advancement of renewable energy technologies, the development type of renewable energy sources (RES) in power systems is expanding from small-scale distributed generation to large-scale grid-connected systems. In the near future, it is expected that RES achieves grid parity which means the equilibrium point where the power cost of RES is equal to the power costs of conventional generators. However, although RES would achieve the grid parity, the cost related with development of large-scale RES is still a big burden. Furthermore, it is hard to determine a suitable capacity of RES because of their output characteristics affected by locations and weather effects. Therefore, to determine an optimal capacity for RES becomes an important decision-making problem. This study proposes a method for determining an optimal installed capacity of RES from the business viewpoint of an independent power plant (IPP). In order to verify the proposed method, we have performed case studies on real power system in Incheon and Shiheung areas, South Korea.

A Vine-Based Stochastic Loading Technique in Pedestrian Networks Considering Space Syntax Theory (Space Syntax Theory를 반영한 덩굴망기반 확률적 보행네트워크 배정기법)

  • Kim, Jong Hyung;Lee, Mee Young;Nam, Doo Hee
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.71-79
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    • 2016
  • Evaluation of the walkability of the urban pedestrian network requires construction of a pedestrian network model that reflects Space Syntax Theory. Space Syntax Theory deduces an integration value through which materials for evaluation of the pedestrian network's connectivity can be produced; and can aid in illustrating the ease of walkability through the model's calculation of pedestrian indices such as movability, comfort, and safety. But the representation of space syntax theory in the pedestrian network requires that turn delay be added by means of a network-type construction method. While tree-based Dial Algorithm proposed for the logit-based probability walkability distribution model may be effective for link-based pedestrian volume distribution, it requires further network expansion to reflect turn delays. In this research, Vine-based Dial Algorithm is executed in order to obtain a measure reflecting the integration value for Space Syntax Theory. The Vine-based Dial Algorithm of two adjacent links, which forms the minimum unit of the Vine network, has the advantage of encompassing turn delay, and thus eliminates the need for network expansion. Usage of the model to evaluation of complicated pedestrian spheres such as urban roads is left to further research. Especially the progression of the proposed method is deduced through case study.

A Study on the Methodology for Expanding Collected Sampling Data with the RFID System and Applying in National Road Traffic Volume Survey (RFID 표본데이터의 전수화방법 및 '국가도로교통량조사'에 활용방안 연구)

  • Park, Bum-Jin;Lee, Seung-Hun;Moon, Byeong-Sup
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2008
  • In this parer, we purpose for applying the RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) system in National Road Traffic Volume Survey. Because there is limitation for shipping RFID Tag on every car, we firstly defined Expansion (process of making the number of all cars which passed survey point from sampling data) and determined the best methodology among 3 methodologies (Time factor Model, Fuzzy Model, Artificial Neural Network). As a result of analysis, Time Factor Model was chosen as the best methodology for Expansion. Also, we analyzed to find an application of the RFID system in National Road Traffic Volume Survey and obtained a possibility applying it. It is expected that if the RFID system is used in Traffic Volume Survey, the survey cost is saved than before.

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Hydraulic-Mechanical Modeling on Fracture Transmissivity Evolution Around a Borehole (시추공 주변 단열 투수도 진화에 대한 수리-역학 연동 모델링 평가)

  • Choi, Chae-Soon;Park, Kyung-Woo;Park, Byeong-Hak;Ko, Nak-Youl;Ji, Sung-Hoon
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.55-66
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    • 2021
  • Hydraulic-mechanical (H-M) coupled numerical modeling was used to evaluate the evolution of hydrogeological properties in response to the installation and expansion of a borehole. A domain with a discrete fracture network was adopted for discontinuum modeling to simulate changes in fracture apertures. Comparison with real hydraulic test data shows that the effects of principal stress direction and expansion of borehole diameter were reasonably simulated by H-M coupled numerical modeling. The modeling confirmed that aperture changes depended on the principal stress direction, with an increase in aperture size due to vertical displacement being the dominant effect. A concentration of shear dilation around the borehole had an additional, subsidiary, effect on the hydrogeological evolution. These results show that the permeability of fractured rock can be increased by changing the hydraulic properties of a fracture through stress redistribution caused by the installation and expansion of a borehole.

The Impact of Industry Architectures and Supply Chains on Successful Expansion in Emerging Markets (산업구조와 가치사슬이 신흥국 진출 성공에 미치는 영향)

  • Oh, Jae Ho;Park, Kwang Ho
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.29-40
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    • 2020
  • Korean firms have been vigorously searching and exploring overseas market opportunities through export and overseas investment. As of end of 2019, there were more than 80,000 Korean overseas subsidiaries all over the world. With Korean overseas direct investment increasing recently, it became one of the important issues for overseas investors to be successful in the global market. There are a lot of studies on factors influencing the performance of overseas subsidiaries such as 'firm' and 'country' factors. This study empirically examines subsidiary performance determinants with 'industry architectures' by using a sample of 292 overseas Korean firm subsidiaries. Industry architectures are the stable but evolving sets of rules and roles through which labor is divided within a sector. This article considers how industry architectures shape success in international expansion. Industry architectures differ between countries, are not necessarily technologically determined, shape firms' capabilities and their competitive environment, and constitute a distinct level of analysis. We extract antecedents of related theory and empirically test its impact with a survey of Korean firms expanding in emerging economies. We would say this is the first study which tries to focus on industry architectures with the performance of Korean overseas subsidiaries. We find that separability and similarity of industry architectures across countries and localization of subsidiaries are robust and important predictors of success in international expansion. Our results suggest that industry architectures should be added to firm and country as an intermediate level of analysis that helps explain success in international expansion. While we established a pattern, much more remains to be done. We focus on the success of foreign operations, but we do not consider the broader benefits of going abroad, such as the learning or network effects that accrue at the level of the entire firm. The next obvious question is whether the results would differ in the developed market context. These we leave for future research to consider.

Embedding a Mesh of Size 2n ×2m Into a Twisted Cube (크기 2n ×2m인 메쉬의 꼬인 큐브에 대한 임베딩)

  • Kim, Sook-Yeon
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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    • v.16A no.4
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    • pp.223-226
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    • 2009
  • The twisted cube has received great attention as an interconnection network of parallel systems because it has several superior properties, especially in diameter, to the hypercube. It was recently known that, for even m, a mesh of size $2{\times}2^m$ can be embedded into a twisted cube with dilation 1 and expansion 1 and a mesh of size $4{\times}2^m$ with dilation 1 and expansion 2 [Lai and Tsai, 2008]. However, as we know, it has been a conjecture that a mesh with more than eight rows and columns can be embedded into a twisted cube with dilation 1. In this paper, we show that a mesh of size $2^n{\times}2^m$ can be embedded into a twisted cube with dilation 1 and expansion $2^{n-1}$ for even m and with dilation 1 and expansion $2^n$ for odd m where $1{\leq}n{\leq}m$.

Design and Fabrication of Low Power Sensor Network Platform for Ubiquitous Health Care

  • Lee, Young-Dong;Jeong, Do-Un;Chung, Wan-Young
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1826-1829
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    • 2005
  • Recent advancement in wireless communications and electronics has enabled the development of low power sensor network. Wireless sensor network are often used in remote monitoring control applications, health care, security and environmental monitoring. Wireless sensor networks are an emerging technology consisting of small, low-power, and low-cost devices that integrate limited computation, sensing, and radio communication capabilities. Sensor network platform for health care has been designed, fabricated and tested. This system consists of an embedded micro-controller, Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver, power management, I/O expansion, and serial communication (RS-232). The hardware platform uses Atmel ATmega128L 8-bit ultra low power RISC processor with 128KB flash memory as the program memory and 4KB SRAM as the data memory. The radio transceiver (Chipcon CC1000) operates in the ISM band at 433MHz or 916MHz with a maximum data rate of 76.8kbps. Also, the indoor radio range is approximately 20-30m. When many sensors have to communicate with the controller, standard communication interfaces such as Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) or Integrated Circuit ($I^{2}C$) allow sharing a single communication bus. With its low power, the smallest and low cost design, the wireless sensor network system and wireless sensing electronics to collect health-related information of human vitality and main physiological parameters (ECG, Temperature, Perspiration, Blood Pressure and some more vitality parameters, etc.)

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Analysis of Topological Properties and Embedding for Folded Hyper-Star Network (폴디드 하이퍼스타 네트워크의 성질과 임베딩 분석)

  • Kim, Jong-Seok;Cho, Chung-Ho;Lee, Hyeong-Ok
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.11 no.9
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    • pp.1227-1237
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, we analyze topological properties and embedding of Folded Hyper-Star network to further improve the network cost of Hypercube, a major interconnection network. Folded Hyper-Star network has a recursive expansion and maximal fault tolerance. The result of embedding is that Folded Hypercube $FQ_n$ and $n{\times}n$ Torus can be embedded into Folded Hyper-Star FHS(2n,n) with dilation 2. Also, we show Folded Hyper-Star FHS(2n,n) can be embedded into Folded Hypercube $FQ_{2n-1}$ with dilation 1.

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Performance Improvement of Object Recognition System in Broadcast Media Using Hierarchical CNN (계층적 CNN을 이용한 방송 매체 내의 객체 인식 시스템 성능향상 방안)

  • Kwon, Myung-Kyu;Yang, Hyo-Sik
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.201-209
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    • 2017
  • This paper is a smartphone object recognition system using hierarchical convolutional neural network. The overall configuration is a method of communicating object information to the smartphone by matching the collected data by connecting the smartphone and the server and recognizing the object to the convergence neural network in the server. It is also compared to a hierarchical convolutional neural network and a fractional convolutional neural network. Hierarchical convolutional neural networks have 88% accuracy, fractional convolutional neural networks have 73% accuracy and 15%p performance improvement. Based on this, it shows possibility of expansion of T-Commerce market connected with smartphone and broadcasting media.

A Study for Improving WSNs(Wireless Sensor Networks) Performance using Clustering and Location Information (Clustering 및 위치정보를 활용한 WSN(Wireless Sensor Network) 성능 향상 방안 연구)

  • Jeon, Jin-han;Hong, Seong-hun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.260-263
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    • 2019
  • Recently, the need of researches and developments about WSN(Wireless Sensor Network) technologies, which can be applied to services to regions where the access is difficult or services that require continuous monitoring, has gradually increased due to its expansion and efficiency of the application areas. In this paper, we analyze existing researches which focused on reducing packet loss rate and increasing lifetime of sensor nodes. Then, we conduct studies about performance improvement factors where some schemes - clustering and location-based approaches - are applied and compare our study results with existing researches. Based on our studies, we are planning to conduct researches about a new scheme that could contribute to improve WSN's performance in terms of packet loss rate and network lifetime.

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