• Earthquakes and Structures
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.895-908
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• 2014

The main objective of critical excitation methods is to reveal the worst possible response of structures. This goal is accomplished by considering the uncertainties of ground motion, which is subjected to the appropriate constraints, such as earthquake power and intensity limit. The concentration of this current study is on the theoretical optimization aspect, as is the case with the majority of conventional critical excitation methods. However, these previous studies on critical excitation lead to a discontinuous power spectral density (PSD). This paper introduces some critical excitations which contain proper continuity in frequency domain. The main idea for generating such continuous excitations stems from the combination of two continuous functions. On the other hand, in order to provide a non-stationary model, this paper attempts to present an appropriate envelope function, which unlike the previous envelope functions, can properly cover the natural earthquakes' accelerograms based on multi-peak conditions. Finally, the proposed method is developed into the multiple-degree-of-freedom (M.D.O.F) structures.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.133-140
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• 2006

Large signal type data sets are difficult to classify, especially if the data sets are non-stationary. In this paper, large signal type and non-stationary data sets are wavelet transformed so that distinct features of the data are extracted in wavelet domain rather than time domain. For the classification of the data, a few wavelet coefficients representing class properties are employed for statistical classification methods : Linear Discriminant Analysis, Quadratic Discriminant Analysis, Neural Network etc. The application of our wavelet-based feature selection method to a mass spectrometry data set for ovarian cancer diagnosis resulted in 100% classification accuracy.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.125-133
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• 1999

We consider a FIFO single-server queueing model in which both the arrival and service processes are modulated by the amount of work in the system. The arrival process is a non-homogeneous Poisson process(NHPP) modulated by work, that is, with an intensity that depends on the work in the system. Each customer brings a job consisting of an exponentially distributed amount of work to be processed. The server processes the work at various service rates which also depend on the work in the system. Under the stability conditions obtained by Browne and Sigman(1992) we derive the exact stationary distribution of the work W(t) and the first exit probability that the work level b is exceeded before the work level a is reached, starting from x$\in$[a, b].

• Wind and Structures
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.369-386
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• 2006

A combination Aerodynamic/Atmospheric Boundary Layer (AABL) Wind and Gust Tunnel with a unique active gust generation capability has been developed for wind engineering and industrial aerodynamics applications. This facility is a cornerstone component of the Wind Simulation and Testing (WiST) Laboratory of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU). The AABL Wind and Gust tunnel is primarily a closed-circuit tunnel that can be also operated in open-return mode. It is designed to accommodate two test sections ($2.44m{\times}1.83m$ and $2.44m{\times}2.21m$) with a maximum wind speed capability of 53 m/s. The gust generator is capable of producing non-stationary gust magnitudes around 27% of the mean flow speed. This paper describes the motivation for developing this gust generator and the work related to its design and testing.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.57-72
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• 2007

Many Applications of scientific research have coupled with functional data signal clustering techniques to discover novel characteristics that can be used for the diagnoses of several issues. In this article we present an interpretable multi-scale cluster hierarchy framework for clustering functional data using its multi-aspect frequency information. The suggested method focuses on how to effectively select transformed features/variables in unsupervised manner so that finally reduce the data dimension and achieve the multi-purposed clustering. Specially, we apply our suggested method to mutual fund returns and make superior-performing funds group based on different aspects such as global patterns, seasonal variations, levels of noise, and their combinations. To promise our method producing a quality cluster hierarchy, we give some empirical results under the simulation study and a set of real life data. This research will contribute to financial market analysis and flexibly fit to other research fields with clustering purposes.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.24 no.7
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• pp.937-942
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• 2003

The relaxation phenomena of ionic currents through the charged membrane under the constant applied potentials has been studied. The formulation was obtained for the non stationary current by assuming that the ion mobility is independent of concentration and the potential gradient is a constant within membrane, and it was applied to the experimental results with the sulfonated polystyrene collodion base membrane. It has been shown that the initial ion distributions in the membrane play a predominant role in the relaxation phenomena.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.83-88
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• 1994

The transform trellis code is an optimal source code as a block size and the constraint length of a shift register go to infinite for stationary Gaussian sources with the squared-error distortion measure. However to implement this code, we have to choose the finite block size and constraint length. Moreover real-world sources are inherently non stationary. To overcome these difficulties, we developed a training algorithm for the transform trellis code. The trained transform trellis code which uses the same rates to each block led to a variation in the resulting distortion from one block to another. To alleviate this non-uniformity in the encoded image, we constructed clusters from the variance of the training data and assigned different rates for each cluster.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.216-228
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• 2011

A logistics system involving a supplier who produces and delivers a single product and a buyer who receives and sells the product to the final customers is analyzed. In this system, the supplier and the buyer establish a contract which specifies that the supplier will deliver necessary amount of the product to raise inventory up to a specified position at the beginning of each period. A new periodic order-up-to-level inventory control policy specifically designed for nonstationary end customer's demand is proposed for the system. Simulations are used to test the efficiency of the proposed policy. An analysis of the test results reveals that the proposed policy performs much better than does the existing order-up-to-level policy, especially when the demand is nonstationary.

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.427-441
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• 2009

The method of Lattice Dynamical System is used to establish a global model on an infinite chain of many local markets interacting each other through a diffusion of prices between them. This global model extends the Walrasian evolutionary cobweb model in an independent single local market to the global market evolution. We assume that each local market has linear decreasing demands and quadratic supplies with naive predictors, and investigate the stationary behaviors of global price dynamics and show that their dynamics are conjugate to those of $H{\acute{e}}non$ maps and hence can exhibit complicated behaviors such as period-doubling bifurcations, chaos, and homoclic orbits etc.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.295-299
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 주기 비안정 연속계의 해석을 위한 주파수 방법이 제안된다. 비안정시스템의 안정화를 위한 기존의 주파수 해석법을 일부 수정하여 연속계를 포함한 비안정 시스템에 적합하도록 수정하였으며, 직류모터와 동기발전기로 구성되어 있는 전기-기계 시스템에 적용하여 유용성을 보였다. 복잡한 비안정 연속계의 문제를 각 요소별 주파수 응답을 분리하고 조합하는 작업들을 통하여 쉽게 풀 수 있음을 보였다. 모터-발전기로 구성되어있는 전기-기계 시스템에서 발전기의 상호유도인덕턴스의 시간에 따른 주기적 변화와 장선(long electrical line)의 부하가 시스템의 불안정성을 야기함을 보였다.