• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.112-122
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• 2009

The EPCglobal leading the development in RFID standards proposed Event Cycle Specification (ECSpec) and Event Cycle Reports (ECReports) for the standard about RFID middleware interface. ECSpec is a specification for filtering and collecting RFID tag data and is treated as a Continuous Query (CQ) processed during fixed time intervals repeatedly. ECReport is a specification for describing the results after ECSpec is processed. Thus, it is efficient to apply Query Indexing technique designed for the continuous query processing. This query index processes ECSpecs as data and tag events as queries for efficiency. In logistics environment, the similar or same products are transferred together. Also, when RFID tags attached to the products are acquired, the acquisition events occur massively for the short period. For these properties, it is inefficient to process the massive events one by one. In this paper, we propose a technique reducing similar search process by considering tag events which are collected by the report period in ECSpec, as a range query. For this group processing, we suggest a queuing method for collecting tag events efficiently and a structure for generating range queries in the queues. The experiments show that performance is enhanced by the proposed methods.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.17D no.3
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• pp.193-202
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• 2010

Recently, there have been several researches on automatic object identification and distributed computing technology to realize a ubiquitous computing environment. Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology has been applied to many business areas to simplify complex processes and gain important benefits. To derive real benefits from RFID, the system must rapidly implement functions to process a large quantity of event data generated by the RFID operations and should be configured dynamically for changing businesses. Consequently, developers are forced to implement systems to derive meaningful high-level events from simple RFID events and bind them to various business processes. Although applications could directly consume and act on RFID events, extracting the business rules from the business logic leads to better decoupling of the system, which consequentially increases maintainability. In this paper, we describe an RFID business aware framework for business processes in the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Network. This framework is proposed for developing business applications using business services. The term "business services" refers to generated events that can be used in business applications without additional data collection and processing. The framework provides business rules related to data collection, processing, and management, and supports the rapid development and easy maintenance of business applications based on business services.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.65-76
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• 2018

Purpose - This paper investigates how the market value of the firms are impacted by distribution information technology investment in Korea over time and across markets, industries and project characteristics. This is the first empirical study on the market payoffs from the RFID investment in Korea. The purpose of this study is to provide a appropriate guideline for investors and practitioners with respect to the announcement representing RFID adoption in Korea. This reaction guideline will stimulate the practitioners to monitor and evaluate the benefits and costs of the innovative RFID technology. Research design, data, and methodology - This paper employs event study methodology to analyze the payoffs from distribution information technology investment announcements over a fifteen-year period from 2003 to 2017. Event study method is based on the assumptions such as market efficiency, unanticipated RFID invest announcements and no confounding effects in the data. This study collected the information on RFID investment announcements by using a full text search engine Bigkinds provided by Korea Press Foundation over a fifteen-year period from January 2003 through December 2017. This paper selected 88 announcements representing RFID adoption by 46 firms. This paper estimated the payoffs from RFID investment announcement through events windows by using the market model of Mcwilliams and Siegel (1997) and calculated the Z-values. Using this test statistics we could infer if RFID adoption make large differences in abnormal returns across various classifications of the firms. Results - There is significant positive market returns from the announcement representing distribution information technology investment in the pre-2009 time period, the significances of payoffs disappear in the post-2009 time period. For this reason investors or practitioners can understand the importance of market entry time and the fact that the greater rewards may belong to early innovators while late imitators cannot reap such a rewards. This paper also find that there is a large differences in the payoffs from the announcement across markets, industries and project characteristics. Conclusions - Analysing the selected sample of 88 announcements representing RFID Adoption over fifteen-year period from 2003 to 2017, this study find that there is not only significant abnormal excess returns from RFID investment announcements but also there is great differences in the abnormal returns over time and across firm sizes or affiliated markets, industries, and project characteristics. This means that there are considerable values for the investors across various firm classifications. The findings of this paper provide useful implications for the practitioners to make judicious decisions whether to adopt the innovative technologies in general or not considering the various concrete circumstances in Korea.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.231-242
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• 2009

The EPC-Discovery Service (EPC-DS) is a good representative of the RFID Track & Trace. But this mechanism has several problems. EPC-DS uses centralized server scheme which may arise bottle-neck state and that cannot provide detail trace information of a RFID object. In addition, a trace node requires direct access method to a RFID object or an element which has information of the RFID object for Track & Trace. In this paper, we propose a novel RFID Track & Trace mechanism which based on the SIP presence model and SIP event notification. This mechanism can provide detail trace information and monitoring function, and also can rid the bottle-neck section by combination of SIP methods instead of centralized element.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.111-121
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• 2009

Public Information Documental of the administrative, legislative and judicial etc. is lastingness documental and need administration. Whenever the crime event happens, judicature's documental is lent frequently to reference data and is returned, event posting of documental, hysteresis inquiry, lending/return, conservation search, documental exhaust management must consist for administration of lastingness documental. RFID is utilized by the practical use plan of recent Ubiquitous information. Because attaching tag to lastingness documental that use RFID in this treatise, register and manage documental, and chase hysteresis, and design upkeep, present condition analysis of lastingness documental to search, S/W, H/W, network layout, Ubiquitous RFID lastingness recording administration system. Construct lastingness recording administration system after a performance experiment and a chase experiment that is applied in spot that attach 900MHz important duty's RFID tag. After construction practice, create link sex with connection system, security analysis and Forensic data and analyze improvement effect. Is going to contribute Ubiquitous information technology application and Forensic technology development in country documental administration through. research of this treatise.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.83-86
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• 2004

With the proliferation of smart devices, applications under ubiquitous environment must provide transparent access to computer resources. However, existing u-Logistics systems can not properly react on such requirements, because the status information of objects is input only in fixed milestones by system's operators. In this paper, we introduce an event notification service suitable for u-Logistics environment. The system is based on RFID infrastructure and provides real-time tracking by combining the event of objects with location information received from GPS satellites. The system also provides a graphical user interface based on a state/transition approach, making it easy that clients facilitate definition of profile, and uses XML structure to more easily represent and exchange events.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.14D no.3 s.113
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• pp.273-284
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• 2007

RFID middleware systems collect and filter the RFID streaming data gathered continuously by numerous readers in order to process requests from applications. These requests are called continuous queries because they are kept on executing during certain periods. To enhance the performance of the middleware, it is required to build an index to process the continuous queries efficiently. Several approaches of building an index on not data records but queries, called Query Index, are proposed and widely used for evaluating continuous queries over streaming data. The EPCglobal proposed an Event Cycle Specification (ECSpec) model, which is a standard query interface for RFID applications. Continuous queries based on ECSpec consist of a large number of segments for representing the query conditions. The problem with using any of the existing query indexes on these continuous queries is that it takes a long time to build the index because it is necessary to insert a large number of segments into the index. To solve this problem, we propose an Aggregate Transformation that converts a group of segments into a compressed data which is representative of the segments. We compare the performance of a transformed index with the existing query indexes.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.166-178
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• 2007

The ALE specification of EPCglobal is leading the development of RFID standards, includes the Event Cycle Specification (ECSpec) describing how long a cycle is, how to filter RFID tag data and which reader is interested in. The ECSpec is a specification for filtering and collecting RFID tag data. It is registered to a middleware for long time and is evaluated to return results satisfying the requirements included in it. Thus, it is quite similar to the continuous query. It can be transformed into a continuous query as its predicate in WHERE clause is characterized by the long interval. Long intervals cause problems deteriorating insertion and search performance of existing query indices. In this paper, we propose a TLC-index as a new query index structure for long interval data. The TLC-index has hybrid structure that uses the cell construct of CQI-index with the virtual construct of VCR-index for partitioning long intervals. The TLC-index can reduce the storage cost and improve the insertion performance through decomposing long intervals into one or more cell constructs that have long size. It can also improve the search performance through decomposing short intervals into one or more virtual constructs that have short size enough to fit into those intervals.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1311-1314
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• 2005

최근 정부는 IT839 전략을 발표하여 IT 산업의 새로운 서비스 도입과 신규 수요 창출에 역량을 집중하고 있으며, 신규 서비스로서 RFID/USN 도입을 강력히 추진[1][2]하고 있다. 또한 RFID/USN 활성화를 위한 새로운 시도의 일환으로 핸드폰에 RFID 리더기능을 접목시킨 모바일 RFID 구조를 제안[3]하여 기존의 RFID 리더기가 가지는 시공간 제약을 완화함으로서 더욱 다양한 서비스를 지원할 수 있는 초석을 세우고 모바일 RFID 포럼을 설립하여 다양한 서비스모델들을 검토중에 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 모바일 RFID 개념을 한단계 더 진화시켜 진정한 유비쿼터스 정보처리를 가능하게 해주는 모바일 USN 을 제안한다. 모바일 USN 은 RFID 태그를 진화시킨 USN 노드와 RFID 리더 내장형 휴대폰(줄여서 RFID 폰)을 개선한 USN 기능 내장형 휴대폰(줄여서 USN 폰)으로 구성된다. 본 논문에서는 또한 USN 노드와 USN 폰 간의 정보전달을 위하여 사용되는 소비에너지에 대하여 분석해보고 USN 노드와 USN 폰의 유지보수 비용을 대폭 개선하는 USN 노드-USN 폰간의 에너지 절감형 이벤트 전송 프로토콜을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.553-555
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• 2004

유비쿼터스 환경의 RFID 애플리케이션을 위해 RFID 태그에서 발생하는 베이직 이벤트와 복합 이벤트 인 시맨틱 이벤트의 두 가지로 이벤트를 분류하고 이중화된 구조의 분산 이벤트 네트웍 아키텍쳐 모델을 제안한다. 이중화된 구조는 각각 베이직 이벤트의 전달을 위한 아래쪽 이벤트망, 시맨틱 이벤트의 전달을 위한 위쪽 이벤트망으로 구성된다. 제안한 모델은 이벤트 통지 서비스와 메시징 서비스를 응용한 이벤트 등록 및 전달 구조를 사용하여 작업 부하를 애플리케이션에서 미들웨어로 이전함으로써 전체 작업의 양을 감소시킬 수 있고 시맨틱 이벤트를 사용함으로써 미들웨어-애플리케이션 통신량을 줄일 수 있다.