• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.31-59
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• 2007

We frequently use search engines to find relevant information in the Web but still end up with too much information. In order to solve this problem of information overload, ranking algorithms have been applied to various domains. As more information will be available in the future, effectively and efficiently ranking search results will become more critical. In this paper, we propose a ranking algorithm for the Semantic Web resources, specifically RDF resources. Traditionally, the importance of a particular Web page is estimated based on the number of key words found in the page, which is subject to manipulation. In contrast, link analysis methods such as Google's PageRank capitalize on the information which is inherent in the link structure of the Web graph. PageRank considers a certain page highly important if it is referred to by many other pages. The degree of the importance also increases if the importance of the referring pages is high. Kleinberg's algorithm is another link-structure based ranking algorithm for Web pages. Unlike PageRank, Kleinberg's algorithm utilizes two kinds of scores: the authority score and the hub score. If a page has a high authority score, it is an authority on a given topic and many pages refer to it. A page with a high hub score links to many authoritative pages. As mentioned above, the link-structure based ranking method has been playing an essential role in World Wide Web(WWW), and nowadays, many people recognize the effectiveness and efficiency of it. On the other hand, as Resource Description Framework(RDF) data model forms the foundation of the Semantic Web, any information in the Semantic Web can be expressed with RDF graph, making the ranking algorithm for RDF knowledge bases greatly important. The RDF graph consists of nodes and directional links similar to the Web graph. As a result, the link-structure based ranking method seems to be highly applicable to ranking the Semantic Web resources. However, the information space of the Semantic Web is more complex than that of WWW. For instance, WWW can be considered as one huge class, i.e., a collection of Web pages, which has only a recursive property, i.e., a 'refers to' property corresponding to the hyperlinks. However, the Semantic Web encompasses various kinds of classes and properties, and consequently, ranking methods used in WWW should be modified to reflect the complexity of the information space in the Semantic Web. Previous research addressed the ranking problem of query results retrieved from RDF knowledge bases. Mukherjea and Bamba modified Kleinberg's algorithm in order to apply their algorithm to rank the Semantic Web resources. They defined the objectivity score and the subjectivity score of a resource, which correspond to the authority score and the hub score of Kleinberg's, respectively. They concentrated on the diversity of properties and introduced property weights to control the influence of a resource on another resource depending on the characteristic of the property linking the two resources. A node with a high objectivity score becomes the object of many RDF triples, and a node with a high subjectivity score becomes the subject of many RDF triples. They developed several kinds of Semantic Web systems in order to validate their technique and showed some experimental results verifying the applicability of their method to the Semantic Web. Despite their efforts, however, there remained some limitations which they reported in their paper. First, their algorithm is useful only when a Semantic Web system represents most of the knowledge pertaining to a certain domain. In other words, the ratio of links to nodes should be high, or overall resources should be described in detail, to a certain degree for their algorithm to properly work. Second, a Tightly-Knit Community(TKC) effect, the phenomenon that pages which are less important but yet densely connected have higher scores than the ones that are more important but sparsely connected, remains as problematic. Third, a resource may have a high score, not because it is actually important, but simply because it is very common and as a consequence it has many links pointing to it. In this paper, we examine such ranking problems from a novel perspective and propose a new algorithm which can solve the problems under the previous studies. Our proposed method is based on a class-oriented approach. In contrast to the predicate-oriented approach entertained by the previous research, a user, under our approach, determines the weights of a property by comparing its relative significance to the other properties when evaluating the importance of resources in a specific class. This approach stems from the idea that most queries are supposed to find resources belonging to the same class in the Semantic Web, which consists of many heterogeneous classes in RDF Schema. This approach closely reflects the way that people, in the real world, evaluate something, and will turn out to be superior to the predicate-oriented approach for the Semantic Web. Our proposed algorithm can resolve the TKC(Tightly Knit Community) effect, and further can shed lights on other limitations posed by the previous research. In addition, we propose two ways to incorporate data-type properties which have not been employed even in the case when they have some significance on the resource importance. We designed an experiment to show the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm and the validity of ranking results, which was not tried ever in previous research. We also conducted a comprehensive mathematical analysis, which was overlooked in previous research. The mathematical analysis enabled us to simplify the calculation procedure. Finally, we summarize our experimental results and discuss further research issues.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.958-961
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• 2012

In this letter, we present a new algorithm for the harmonic and percussive separation of jazz music. Using a short-time Fourier transform and nonnegative matrix factorization, the signal is decomposed into rank components. Each component is then split into harmonic and percussive parts using masks calculated based on their tonalities. Finally, the harmonic and percussive parts are separated after applying the masks and a summation. We evaluate the algorithm based on real audio examples using both objective and subjective assessments. The proposed algorithm performs well for the separation of harmonic and percussive parts of jazz excerpts.

• 산업공학
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2003

This study focuses on the detailed explanation of the strategic allocation algorithm which can be used as an ATP(Available To Promise) from the perspective of customers, and as a sales plan for sales organizations. A strategic allocation algorithm includes three methods depending on FIXED RATIO, RANK and DEMAND BASIS. In addition, further topics would be discussed regarding the method of system implementation utilizing strategic allocation algorithms and information flow with an aim to integrate such a sales plan into the e-Biz. This study aims to provide a new solution in order to secure emerging competitive factors in today's enterprise world; that is, an achievement of faster business processes. It is suggested that this new solution be implemented in order to achieve an efficient business environment by systemizing the decision making process which in the past was manually conducted.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제33권8호
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• pp.786-792
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• 2009

Topology optimization is to find the optimal material distribution of the specified design domain minimizing the objective function while satisfying the design constraints. Since the genetic algorithm (GA) has its advantage of locating global optimum with high probability, it has been applied to the topology optimization. To guarantee the structural connectivity, the concept of compliance pattern is proposed and to improve the convergence rate, small number of population size and variable probability in genetic operators are incorporated into GA. The rank sum weight method is applied to formulate the fitness function consisting of compliance, volume, connectivity and checkerboard pattern. To substantiate the proposed method design examples in the previous works are compared with respect to the number of function evaluation and objective function value. The comparative study shows that the compliance pattern based GA results in the reduction of computational cost to obtain the reasonable structural topology.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.781-790
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• 2004

This paper presents a fourth-order cumulants based iterative algorithm for blind channel equalization. It is robust with respect to the existence of heavy Gaussian noise in a channel and does not require the minimum phase characteristic of the channel. In this approach, the transmitted signals at the receiver are over-sampled to ensure the channel described by a full-column rank matrix. It changes a single-input/single-output (SISO) finite-impulse response (FIR) channel to a single-input/multi-output (SIMO) channel. Based on the properties of the fourth-order cumulants of the over-sampled channel outputs, the iterative algorithm is derived to estimate the deconvolution matrix which makes the overall transfer matrix transparent, i.e., it can be reduced to the identity matrix by simple reordering and scaling. Both a closed-form and a stochastic version of the proposed algorithm are tested with three-ray multi-path channels in simulation studies, and their performances are compared with a method based on conventional second-order cumulants. Relatively good results are achieved, even when the transmitted symbols are significantly corrupted with Gaussian noise.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.4611-4624
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• 2020

Future network scenario will be a heterogeneous wireless network environment composed of multiple networks and multimode terminals (MMT). Seamless switching and optimal connectivity for MMT among different networks and different services become extremely important. Here, a vertical handoff algorithm combined an improved entropy weighting method based on grey relational analysis (GRA) is proposed. In which, the improved entropy weight method is used to obtain the objective weights of the network attributes, and GRA is done to rank the candidate networks in order to choose the best network. Through simulation and comparing the results with other vertical handoff decision algorithms, the number of handoffs and reversal phenomenon are reduced with the proposed algorithm, which shows a better performance.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.459-473
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 Breiman 등(1984)의 전체탐색법이 갖고 있는 변수선택 편향을 극복할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 노드의 분리 변수를 선택하는 단계와 그 선택된 변수에 대해서만 이진분리를 위한 분리점을 찾는 단계로 나뉘어져 있다. 예측변수가 연속형 일 때는 스피어만의 순위상관계수에 의한 검정을 수행하고, 범주형일 때는 크루스칼-왈리스의 통계량에 의한 검정을 수행하여 통계적으로 가장 유의한 변수를 분리변수로 선택하였고 Breiman 등(1984)의 전체탐색법을 그 변수에만 적용하여 노드의 분리기준을 정하였다 모의실험 연구를 통해 Breiman등(19히)의 CART와 제안한 알고리즘을 변수선택 편의, 변수선택력파 평균제곱오차 측면에서 서로 비교하였다. 아울러 두 알고리즘을 실제 자료에 적용하여 효율을 서로 비교하였다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.111-117
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• 2014

본 논문은 안정된 결혼문제의 최적 해를 쉽고 빠르게 찾는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 첫 번째로, 남성의 여성선호도와 여성의 남성 선호도 합 $p_{ij}$의 $n{\times}n$ 정방행렬 할당문제로 변환시킨다. 두 번째로, 행렬에서 최대 선호도 합(최소 값)인 $_{min}p_{ij}$를 선택하고 i행과 j열을 삭제한다. 이 과정을 $i=0{\cap}j=0$일 때까지 수행한다. 세 번째로, 가능한 최초 또는 마지막 선택 $_{min}p_{ij}$에 대해 다른 값으로 변경시 선호도를 증가시킬 수 있으면 상호 교환하는 검증 절차를 수행한다. 제안된 알고리즘을 7개의 안정된 결혼문제에 적용한 결과 기존 알고리즘의 해를 개선하는 효과를 얻었다.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.23-41
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• 2019

This study combines the concept of degree centrality in complex network with the Term Frequency $^*$ Proportional Document Frequency ($TF^*PDF$) algorithm; the combined method, called PMCN (PDF-Modified similarity and Complex Network), constructs relationship networks among sentences for writing news summaries. The PMCN method is a multi-document summarization extension of the ideas of Bun and Ishizuka (2002), who first published the $TF^*PDF$ algorithm for detecting hot topics. In their $TF^*PDF$ algorithm, Bun and Ishizuka defined the publisher of a news item as its channel. If the PDF weight of a term is higher than the weights of other terms, then the term is hotter than the other terms. However, this study attempts to develop summaries for news items. Because the $TF^*PDF$ algorithm summarizes daily news, PMCN replaces the concept of "channel" with "the date of the news event", and uses the resulting chronicle ordering for a multi-document summarization algorithm, of which the F-measure scores were 0.042 and 0.051 higher than LexRank for the famous d30001t and d30003t tasks, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.91-107
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• 2002

This paper presents two new self-scaling variable-metric algorithms. The first is based on a known two-parameter family of rank-two updating formulae, the second employs an initial scaling of the estimated inverse Hessian which modifies the first self-scaling algorithm. The algorithms are compared with similar published algorithms, notably those due to Oren, Shanno and Phua, Biggs and with BFGS (the best known quasi-Newton method). The best of these new and published algorithms are also modified to employ inexact line searches with marginal effect. The new algorithms are superior, especially as the problem dimension increases.