• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.48-53
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• 2005

This paper aims to compare open source software (OSS) with proprietary software (PS), and to propose a new business model for OSS. Generally speaking, PS has made negative impact on software industry in various ways. In contrast, OSS may reduce negative aspects of lock-in effect and transaction cost the ways in which software distribution has been utilized. In this regard, OSS makes it possible to create a new business model, which is software customization. Software customization is not to sell software license directly to end-users, but to create values by means of developing and capitalizing software-related industries where value chain is linked. In other words, the new business model of OSS is focusing on software market where the value created by OSS can be enhanced.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.117-141
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• 2006

The paper describes the status and context of the Chinese Open Source Software (OSS) industry and ecosystem based on the analysis of the components of the China OSS Promotion Union. The analysis involves comparisons of several main Chinese developers of Linux operating system and makers of open source counterpart of the popular Microsoft Office package as well as several main Chinese OSS communities. Comparisons concern the technological and business aspect. The findings reveal peculiarities of the divergence of innovative activities of Chinese companies, as well as indicate that the strong government support may at the same time limit the technology selection under rigid competition, especially as foreign open source companies are found to be more focused on hobbyist developers and are able to maintain larger independent communities. Implications of the paper include the need to coordinate global development efforts and adjust science & technology policies in order to stimulate both the development and the diffusion of open source among Chinese companies and individual hobbyists.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.45-55
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• 2013

Purpose - The development and implementation of OSS (Open Source Software) led to a dramatic change in corporate IT infrastructure, from system server to smart phone, because the performance, reliability, and security functions of OSS are comparable to those of commercial software. Today, OSS has become an indispensable tool to cope with the competitive business environment and the constantly-evolving IT environment. However, the use of OSS is insufficient in small and medium-sized companies and software houses. This study examines the need for OSS Intermediaries in the Software Distribution Channel. It is expected that the role of the OSS Intermediary will be reduced with the improvement of the distribution process. The purpose of this research is to prove that OSS Intermediaries increase the efficiency of the software distribution market. Research design, Data, and Methodology - This study presents the analysis of data gathered online to determine the extent of the impact of the intermediaries on the OSS market. Data was collected using an online survey, conducted by building a personal search robot (web crawler). The survey period lasted 9 days during which a total of 233,021 data points were gathered from sourceforge.net and Apple's App store, the two most popular software intermediaries in the world. The data collected was analyzed using Google's Motion Chart. Results - The study found that, beginning 2006, the production of OSS in the Sourceforge.net increased rapidly across the board, but in the second half of 2009, it dropped sharply. There are many events that can explain this causality; however, we found an appropriate event to explain the effect. It was seen that during the same period of time, the monthly production of OSS in the App store was increasing quickly. The App store showed a contrasting trend to software production. Our follow-up analysis suggests that appropriate intermediaries like App store can enlarge the OSS market. The increase was caused by the appearance of B2C software intermediaries like App store. The results imply that OSS intermediaries can accelerate OSS software distribution, while development of a better online market is critical for corporate users. Conclusion - In this study, we analyzed 233,021 data points on the online software marketplace at Sourceforge.net. It indicates that OSS Intermediaries are needed in the software distribution market for its vitality. It is also critical that OSS intermediaries should satisfy certain qualifications to play a key role as market makers. This study has several interesting implications. One implication of this research is that the OSS intermediary should make an effort to create a complementary relationship between OSS and Proprietary Software. The second implication is that the OSS intermediary must possess a business model that shares the benefits with all the participants (developer, intermediary, and users).The third implication is that the intermediary provides an OSS of high quality like proprietary software with a high level of complexity. Thus, it is worthwhile to examine this study, which proves that the open source software intermediaries are essential in the software distribution channel.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.785-788
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• 2003

최근 휴대폰 및 PDA 에서 사용되는 위치기반 서비스의 활용도가 높아지고 있다. 사용자들은 보다 효과적인 위치기반 서비스의 디스플레이에 더욱 많은 기대를 하고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 platform 에 독립적이며, 다양한 머신에서 실행될 수 있도록 Java 를 통한 웹서비스 기술을 바탕으로 한 기본 아키텍쳐 및 프로그램을 선 보일 것이다. 또한 OpenLS 에서 제시하는 스펙을 기본으로 SOAP 방식으로 구현하고, LBS 기본 핵심 서비스 중 프리젠테이션 서비스의 콤퍼넌트 모듈을 분산 컴퓨팅 하에서 수행할 수 있는 Webservice 형태로 구현한 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.47-48
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• 2011

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.8D no.6
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• pp.657-664
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• 2001

The Information Technology has progressed to the open architecture, component, and multimedia services under Internet, ensuring interoperability, reusability, and realtime. The GIS is a system processing geo-spatial information such as natural resources, buildings, roads, and many kinds of facilities in the earth. The spatial information featured by complexity and diversity requires interoperability and reusability of pre-built databases under open architecture. This paper is for the development of component based open GIS Software. The goal of the open GIS component software is a middleware of GIS combining technology of open architecture and component ensuring interoperability of spatial information and reusability of elementary pieces of GIS software. The open GIS component conforms to the distributed open architecture for spatial information proposed by OGC (Open GIS Consortium). The system consists of data provider components, kernel (MapBase) components, clearinghouse components and five kinds of GIS application of local governments. The data provider component places a unique OLE DB interface to connect and access diverse data sources independent of their formats and locations. The MapBase component supports core and common technology of GIS feasible for various applications. The clearinghouse component provides functionality about discovery and access of spatial information under Internet. The system is implemented using ATL/COM and Visual C++ under MicroSoft's Windows environment and consisted of more than 20 components. As we made case study for KSDI (Korea Spatial Data Infrastructure) sharing spatial information between local governments, the advantage of component based open GIS software was proved. Now, we are undertaking another case study for sharing seven kinds of underground facilities using the open GIS component software.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.627-629
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• 2016

Open source software when promoting development in R&D has many advantages and is becoming an open software - based R&D projects continuously created in a number of countries. However, there are still limits to the creation of effective performance in R&D projects, as well as difficulty of the project implementation because it not yet established an appropriate management plan for the open source R&D projects in the public sector. Therefore, through investigating a number of previous studies and practices, we intend to enhance the effectiveness of the system by suggesting concrete measures for promoting and managing open source nature in a preperiodic point of view on the public sector open source software R&D projects.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.3-11
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• 2009

Open source is recently much more made and distributed by on-line such as internet in various fields. Therefore, end users could rapidly develop applications needed for some purposes using minimal efforts if use open sources. But, open source must be customized for their purposes. In this paper, we developed software for coordinates conversion and compared the software with NGI Pro which is developed by National Geographic Information Institute. Consequently, it is possible for us to easily develop the coordinates conversion module and we know that the use of open source is effective to develop various applications.

• Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.163-172
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• 2020

Recently, concepts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing have been introduced and the limits of individual or team development policies are being reviewed. Also, a lot of latest technology source codes have been opened to the public, and related studies are being conducted based on them. Meanwhile, the company is applying the strengths of the open source software development methodology to proprietary software development, and publicly announcing support for open source development methodology. In this paper, we introduced several software development methodology such as open source model, inner source model, and the similar DevOps model, which have been actively discussed recently, and compared their characteristics and components. Rather than claiming the excellence of a specific model, we argue that if the software development policy of an individual or affiliated organization is established according to each benefit, they will be able to achieve software quality improvement while satisfying customer requirements.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.541-544
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• 2012

In technology advances, The field of military and security surveillance system for a wide range of interest is required. Surveillance system offers a variety of services by the software that work with a remote access server. This paper shows the results of the implementation using three platforms as Mjpg-streamer for server, Arduino-multiwii for control system, OpenNI and OpenCV for image processing.