• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.197-200
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• 2019

가상 화폐 분야의 핵심 기술로 소개된 블록체인(Blockcahin) 기술은 4차 산업혁명에서 중심이 되는 기술로 주목받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 블록체인 시스템의 구조도와 대표적인 합의 알고리즘, 즉 증명(PoW: Proof of Work), 지분증명(PoS: Proof of Stake) 그리고 PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance)을 조사하였다. 합의 알고리즘의 특성을 분석하기 위하여, 보안성, 에너지 소비량, 거래 처리속도를 지표로 세워서 합의 알고리즘들에 대하여 전체적으로 비교 및 분석을 하였다.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.119-144
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• 2021

Recently, as competition in the market evolves from the competition among companies to the competition among their supply chains, companies are struggling to enhance their supply chain management (hereinafter SCM). In particular, as blockchain technology with various technical advantages is combined with SCM, a lot of domestic manufacturing and distribution companies are considering the adoption of blockchain-oriented SCM (BOSCM) services today. Thus, it is an important academic topic to examine the factors affecting the use of blockchain-oriented SCM. However, most prior studies on blockchain and SCMs have designed their research models based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) or the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), which are suitable for explaining individual's acceptance of information technology rather than companies'. Under this background, this study presents a novel model of blockchain-oriented SCM acceptance model based on the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework to consider companies as the unit of analysis. In addition, Value-based Adoption Model (VAM) is applied to the research model in order to consider the benefits and the sacrifices caused by a new information system comprehensively. To validate the proposed research model, a survey of 126 companies were collected. Among them, by applying PLS-SEM (Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling) with data of 122 companies, the research model was verified. As a result, 'business innovation', 'tracking and tracing', 'security enhancement' and 'cost' from technology viewpoint are found to significantly affect 'perceived value', which in turn affects 'intention to use blockchain-oriented SCM'. Also, 'organization readiness' is found to affect 'intention to use' with statistical significance. However, it is found that 'complexity' and 'regulation environment' have little impact on 'perceived value' and 'intention to use', respectively. It is expected that the findings of this study contribute to preparing practical and policy alternatives for facilitating blockchain-oriented SCM adoption in Korean firms.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2021

Recently, incidents such as proxy surgery (unlicensed medical practice) have been reported in the media that threaten the safety of patients. Alternatives such as the introduction of operating room surveillance camera devices to prevent proxy surgery are emerging, but there are practical difficulties in implementing them due to strong opposition from the medical community. However, the social credibility of doctors is falling as incidents such as proxy surgery occur frequently. In this paper, we propose a medical staff identification system combining Beacon and iris recognition. The system adds reliability by operating on the blockchain network. The system performs primary identification by performing user authentication through iris recognition and proves that the medical staff is in the operating room through beacons. It also ensures patient trust in the surgeon by receiving beacon signals in the background and performing iris authentication at random intervals to prevent medical staff from leaving the operating room after only performing initial certification.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.321-332
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• 2020

Decentralized approaches are extensively researched by academia and industry in order to cover up the flaws of existing systems in terms of data privacy. Blockchain and decentralized learning are prominent representatives of a deconcentrated approach. Blockchain is secure by design since the data record is irrevocable, tamper-resistant, consensus-based decision making, and inexpensive of overall transactions. On the other hand, decentralized learning empowers a number of devices collectively in improving a deep learning model without exposing the dataset publicly. To motivate participants to use their resources in building models, a decent and proportional incentive system is a necessity. A centralized incentive mechanism is likely inconvenient to be adopted in decentralized learning since it relies on the middleman that still suffers from bottleneck issues. Therefore, we design an incentive model for decentralized learning applications by leveraging the Ethereum smart contract. The simulation results satisfy the design goals. We also outline the concerns in implementing the presented scheme for sensitive data regarding privacy and data leakage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.511-513
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• 2021

In this study, digital twin technology and block chain technology are used to provide. A learning method was suggested. The medium used in this study is a 6-axis robot released by Denso, and the operating coordinates of the equipment can be converted into data through the data displayed on each axis. In addition, the results of the practice can be stored in the blockchain to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the evaluation. The method proposed in this study is expected to be of great help to practical classes in specialized high schools even in the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.95-102
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• 2023

As the utilization value of personal information increases, discussions on how to provide personal information are active, but information required by institutions to utilize personal information is being exposed more than necessary. Therefore, personal privacy protection is essential to overcome the problems and limitations of personal information protection. In this study, a decentralized identity information management model that overcomes the problems and limitations of the centralized identity management method of personal information and manages and selectively provides personal information by the information owner himself and demonstrates the excellence of personal information by implementing the Smart Personal Information Provision System (SPIPS) in the PBFT consensus algorithm through experiments.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.115-133
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• 2024

Purpose: The purpose of research is to explore the factors influencing the intention to adopt altcoin investments, based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology. Through this, it seeks to elucidate the key factors impacting altcoin investment adoption, and provide a comprehensive understanding of the crypto-currency market and investor behavior. Methods: This study analyzed factors affecting altcoin investment intentions using frequency and descriptive analyses, and verified socio-demographic differences with t-tests and ANOVA. Exploratory factor and correlation analyses were conducted for research tool validity and relationship assessment among variables. Hypotheses were tested through regression analysis, integrating control, independent, and moderating variables, along with interaction terms, to establish the model and examine moderating effects. Results: As a result, it is revealed that higher age and experience in crypto-currency investment are associated with intention to invest. Among the independent variables, performance expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and personal innovativeness have positive effects to investment intention to invest, while effort expectancy had a negative effect. The moderating variable, perceived risk, also negatively affected the intention to invest. Notably, significant moderating effects of perceived risk were observed in the relationships between investment intention and both performance expectancy and personal innovativeness. Conclusion: This study provides empirical verification into consumers' intentions to invest in altcoins, offering insights into investors' behavior and decision-making processes based on a practical understanding of altcoin investment acceptance.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.74-82
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• 2022

With the introduction of proptech, this study aims to find out the changes and necessity of introducing blockchain technology, one of the most popular technologies, in real estate electronic transactions. In addition, it is intended to develop evaluation indicators that classify newly created values within real estate electronic transactions and calculate the relative importance of each value area through technology application. To this end, the value that can be created when applying blockchain technology to real estate electronic transactions was classified according to the hierarchy, and considering that the evaluation criteria are complex and the importance can be measured differently depending on various factors, an analysis was conducted according to the AHP method for experts in practical and academic fields. As a result of the analysis, general value showed the highest importance in the first dimension, and digitalization of real estate information showed the highest importance in the second dimension.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.334-336
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• 2021

허가형 블록체인 기반 데이터 공유 시스템은 분산 환경에서 신뢰 수준을 구축하고 일관된 메시지를 기록 및 공유함으로써 서비스의 상호 운용성을 가능하게 한다. 그러나 허가형 블록체인은 종종 탈중앙화, 보안 및 상호 운용성과 충돌한다. 이는 중앙 집중식 시스템으로 돌아가거나 데이터의 독점 및 남용 및 오용으로 이어질 수 있다. 따라서 CAP (Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance)에 이론 검증에 따라 메시지 공유, 비잔틴 내결함성 및 메시지 일관성을 고려하고 적용해야 한다. 기존의 PBFT(Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance) 합의 알고리즘는 노드의 증가시, 장애내성을 갖기위해 계산되어야 할 합의 처리시간이 증가하며, DPOS(Delegated Proof of Stake) 알고리즘은 보상, 리더 선출의 공정성 문제 등에 따라 허가형 블록체인에서의 적합한 방식이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 서비스의 상호 운용성과 과제에 대해 논의하고 허가된 블록체인의 합의 개선을 통한 데이터 공유 시스템을 제안한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.1-11
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• 2020

As an important basic building block of the smart grid environment, smart meter provides real-time electricity consumption information to the utility. However, ensuring information security and privacy in the smart meter data aggregation process is a non-trivial task. Even though the secure data aggregation for the smart meter has been a lot of attention from both academic and industry researchers in recent years, most of these studies are not secure against internal attackers or cannot provide data integrity. Besides, their computation costs are not satisfactory because the bilinear pairing operation or the hash-to-point operation is performed at the smart meter system. Recently, blockchains or distributed ledgers are an emerging technology that has drawn considerable interest from energy supply firms, startups, technology developers, financial institutions, national governments and the academic community. In particular, blockchains are identified as having the potential to bring significant benefits and innovation for the electricity consumption network. This study suggests a distributed, privacy-preserving, and simple secure smart meter data aggregation system, backed up by Blockchain technology. Smart meter data are aggregated and verified by a hierarchical Merkle tree, in which the consensus protocol is supported by the practical Byzantine fault tolerance algorithm.