• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.508-521
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• 2006

The results of environmental equity analysis vary dramatically depending on different methods used. The information and data available to the researcher are also often uncertain and imprecise in empirical studies. A sensitivity analysis approach was used too handle uncertainties and methodological inconsistencies in environmental equity analysis. This paper explores the sensitivity of environmental equity analysis to two spatial measures such as proximity and scale. Two experiments were implemented to evaluate the effects of two spatial measures on the environmental equity analysis using a combination of control and experimental factors. Fulton County, Georgia was selected as a case study area for these experiments. Two major data sets including demographic characteristics and toxic release inventory (TRI) database for the study area in 1990 were integrated into a GIS environment. Two statistical analyses such as independent samples t-test and coefficient of variation were performed to determine the environmental equity in the study area and to compare the relative variability in the socioeconomic characteristics of populations over different spatial measures. The findings from two experiments indicate that the outcomes of environmental equity analysis are slightly sensitive to the buffer distance used to determine the impact zones of TRI facilities, but not to the geographic scale used in the analysis. The findings also suggest that the consequences of these choices can alter spatially and statistically the results in environmental equity analysis.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.209-219
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• 2012

Objects such as products, product reviews, and user profiles are important in e-commerce domain. Vector is one of the most widely used object representation scheme. Information of e-commerce objects may be modeled by vectors in which the featured values are assigned to various dimensions. E-commerce objects are in general quantitatively large while some are similar or even same in reality. It Plays, therefore, an important role to measure the similarity between objects. In this paper, we survey the state-of-the -art vector similarity measures. Similarity measures are analyzed to feature the algebraic characteristics and relationship of those, and upon which we classify the related measures accordingly. We then present such features that standard vector similarity measures should convey.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.1207-1212
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• 2009

Basic objective in cluster analysis is to discover natural groupings of items or variables. In general, clustering is conducted based on some similarity (or dissimilarity) matrix or the original input text data. Various measures of similarities (or dissimilarities) between objects (or variables) are developed. We introduce a real application problem of clustering procedure in SPSS when the distance matrix of the objects (or variables) is only given as an input data. It will be very helpful for the cluster analysis of huge data set which leads the size of the proximity matrix greater than 1000, particularly. Syntax command for matrix input data in SPSS for clustering is given with numerical examples.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.64-72
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• 2007

Mobile technology appears promising as a method to promote group performance in circumstances dependent on time, but not member proximity. However, the success of mobile technology in group decision-making situations has not yet been proven. This paper aims to see how mobile technology affects the performance of group decision-making tasks that should be resolved urgently and/or sources of idea are disconnected with on-line network. Laboratory experiment was used to investigate the effects of mobile factors on group decision-making. The results from the experiment supported the proposition that pressures of time and location play a significant role in the assessment of group decision performance measures. We found that the adoption of mobile technology to group decision-making procedures might be competitive when group decision-making tasks are urgent and sources of idea are disconnected with on-line network, even though mobile technology is not a panacea on which to depend when designing group decision-making.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.655-669
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• 2010

In this paper we propose new primal-dual interior point methods (IPMs) for $P_*(\kappa)$ linear complementarity problems (LCPs) and analyze the iteration complexity of the algorithm. New search directions and proximity measures are defined based on a class of kernel functions, $\psi(t)=\frac{t^2-1}{2}-{\int}^t_1e{^{q(\frac{1}{\xi}-1)}d{\xi}$, $q\;{\geq}\;1$. If a strictly feasible starting point is available and the parameter $q\;=\;\log\;\(1+a{\sqrt{\frac{2{\tau}+2{\sqrt{2n{\tau}}+{\theta}n}}{1-{\theta}}\)$, where $a\;=\;1\;+\;\frac{1}{\sqrt{1+2{\kappa}}}$, then new large-update primal-dual interior point algorithms have $O((1\;+\;2{\kappa})\sqrt{n}log\;n\;log\;{\frac{n}{\varepsilon}})$ iteration complexity which is the best known result for this method. For small-update methods, we have $O((1\;+\;2{\kappa})q{\sqrt{qn}}log\;{\frac{n}{\varepsilon}})$ iteration complexity.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.13-24
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• 1998

This study aims at examining the safety of the would-be approach channel of LNG Terminal at Kwangyang Harbour, by utilizing Captains 2000 port-design simulator. Six competent shipmasters or navigators participated in this study. The developed model ship was a 70,200DWT (138,000m3) LNG carrier. The environmental conditions were maximum flood-and-ebb current condition and wind condition. To evaluate the navigational safety, two categories were analyzed, which were measures of vessel's proximity and shiphandler's subjective evaluations. With respect to the effects of the worst environmental conditions on transit safety, it was concluded that the would-be approach channel was safe on basis of the support of four tugs of 3,200hp or more and current speed of 0.5knots or less.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.77-81
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• 2007

Fault current can be discharged from power transmission tower due to lightning or inadvertent contact of crane, etc. Pipelines in proximity to either the source of the ground fault or the substation grounding grid may provide convenient conductive path for the fault current to travel. Inappropriate measures to the neighboring pipelines against the fault current may cause severe damages to the pipes such as coating breakdown, arc burn, puncture, loss in wall thickness, or brittle heat-affected zone. Like inductive and conductive AC coupling, steadily induced fault current right after the coating breakdown can lead to corrosion of the pipeline. In this work, some protection guidelines against fault currents used in the field have been validated through the simulation and analytical method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.69-88
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• 2007

In this paper we propose new large-update primal-dual interior point algorithms for $P_{\neq}({\kappa})$ linear complementarity problems(LCPs). New search directions and proximity measures are proposed based on a specific class of kernel functions, ${\psi}(t)={\frac{t^{p+1}-1}{p+1}}+{\frac{t^{-q}-1}{q}}$, q>0, $p{\in}[0,\;1]$, which are the generalized form of the ones in [3] and [12]. It is the first to use this class of kernel functions in the complexity analysis of interior point method(IPM) for $P_*({\kappa})$LCPs. We showed that if a strictly feasible starting point is available, then new large-update primal-dual interior point algorithms for $P_*({\kappa})$ LCPs have the best known complexity $O((1+2{\kappa}){\sqrt{2n}}(log2n)log{\frac{n}{\varepsilon}})$ when p=1 and $q=\frac{1}{2}(log2n)-1$.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.907-915
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• 2018

This paper proposes a method to improve the performance of low cost infrared distance sensor. Infrared distance sensor measures the intensity of reflected light and converts it into distance. The proposed method improves the sensing distance of the sensor and makes it operate robustly in various lighting environments. This is achieved by extracting the characteristic curves of the sensor and applying the HDR (High Dynamic Range) technique. The output value of the sensor was obtained by varying the intensity of the infrared input and the exposure time, and the characteristic curve of the sensor was extracted from it.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.55-68
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• 2009

In this paper we propose new large-update primal-dual inte-rior point algorithms for $P_*(\kappa)$ linear complementarity problems(LCPs). New search directions and proximity measures are proposed based on the kernel function$\psi(t)=\frac{t^{p+1}-1}{p+1}+\frac{e^{\frac{1}{t}}-e}{e}$,$p{\in}$[0,1]. We showed that if a strictly feasible starting point is available, then the algorithm has $O((1+2\kappa)(logn)^{2}n^{\frac{1}{p+1}}log\frac{n}{\varepsilon}$ complexity bound.