• KIEAE Journal
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.73-80
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• 2010

Since the Korean War, Korea has experienced modernization. The population increase by baby booming has asked for more space for educational facilities. In such a situation, the purpose of educational facilities was to accommodate continuously increasing students, rather than seeking for quantitative demands. In addition, in accordance with social changes, educational shifts were required. After the revision of the seventh national curriculum in education in 1997, the school buildings became varied. The design of buildings in accordance with educational curriculum has been improved, but still lack of forming comfortable environment and considering energy efficiency in school buildings. For the improvement of educational environments, educational media such as TV and computers have been provided, and energy systems, including heating and cooling systems, has been continuously increased. As a result, it appeared that energy use in school buildings and facilities has been steadily increased and that the structure of energy consumption has been also changed, especially with regard to electricity use. Living in the 21st century, human beings face global environmental issues, such as global warming, geographical climate changes, and ozone destruction that are the consequences of fossil energy use. Therefore, even in industrial areas, considering a counterplan for low energy use is being paid attention. Starting with Kyoto Protocol in 1992, people try to decrease carbon dioxide and to develop alternative energies (i.e. natural energy); for example, solar energy, wind force, terrestrial heat, and water power. Advanced countries already set up a criterion for $CO_2$ decrease ranging from office buildings to residential houses and also propose alternatives for the $CO_2$ decrease. However, there is no such a plan for low energy use and $CO_2$ decrease in school facilities, and any research on the actual conditions was not accomplished. Thus, this study examines energy demand in classrooms that take up a large portion of energy demand in school building structure.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.46-64
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to analyze how the contents of education for sustainable development are reflected in the middle school environment curriculum revised in 2007, and to propose how to integrate content for improving sustainable development education. For this, I analyzed the 2007 Revised Environment Curriculum for Middle Schools by using social network analysis which is the useful methodology to understand the relations of contents. Social Network analysis is a useful tool to excavate the forms of structure or relationship and to explain the characteristics of the system that arise through relationships or to explain the units composing the system. When sustainable development education was examined from 3 points of view, it included environmental sustainability, economical sustainability, and social sustainability. I used the 2007 Revised Environment Curriculum for Middle Schools and manual of curriculum for analysis. The results are 1) The biodiversity conservation and energy efficiency have taken most important positions. 2) In case of economical sustainability pillar, sustainable production had been emphasized. 3) In the case of the social sustainability pillar, health improvement are considered significant. 4) The efforts of trying to approach sustainable development education as an integrated curriculum is week. Integrated themes based on the results were developed. Five main themes were the energy and climate change, water resource and environmental pollution, sustainable village and sustainable food production, sustainable city and sustainable production, sustainable tourism and biodiversity. I hope these could function as theme of integrated-content. Based on the results of study, I propose joint researches on scope of sustainable development for environmental education.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-20
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• 1999

Since the late 1980s, there have been radical changes in the managerial environment of Y University Medical Center(YUMC). Externally, the competition among hospitals has intensified due to the establishment of universal health insurance in 1939 and the entrance of large enterprises into the health care industry in the early 1990s. In addition, government regulation of medical institution is becoming stricter. Also, consumer groups have continued to demand the respect for patient rights and improvement of the quality of medical services. Internally, the financial condition of YUMC has worsened, not only because weak control and poor mediation in its large-scale structure have made its operation inefficient, but also because the rates of increase in the prices of goods and labor have grown faster than any increases in revenues. This study on materials management at YUMC presents a way for YUMC to reduce costs and increase its productivity, thereby overcoming its financial difficulties and dealing with external pressures. This study utilized the case studies of the materials purchasing and medical supply management in the United States and the comparative analysis of management to suggest short-term and long-term alternatives for innovation in YUMC. The goals of the short-term alternatives for innovation are to centralize the purchasing and supply departments and to simplify the decision-making processes. Through these attempts, it is estimated that YUMC's costs could be reduced by $600,000 per year. In the long-term, it is necessary to consider introducing a Supply Processing Distribution(SPD) system and setting up a centralized electronic system for supply and inventory management, although it is difficult to estimate the effect of cost-cutting because of the lack of analysis data. Thus, YUMC should thoroughly analyze initial investment costs and economical efficiency generated from long-term alternatives.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38A권9호
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• pp.773-781
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• 2013

허프 변환은 데이터 손실 및 왜곡이 포함된 영상에서도 직선 정보 추출에 용이한 장점이 있어 컴퓨터 비전 분야의 응용분야에 널리 사용되어 왔다. 그러나 허프 변환의 보팅 과정은 비효율적인 연산구조와 많은 메모리 접근횟수로 인해 실시간 처리 임베디드 비전 시스템에 적용하는데 한계가 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 허프 변환의 개선된 보팅 정책을 제시하고, 이를 적용하여 적은 하드웨어 자원 사용량으로 실시간 성능을 만족하는 허프 변환의 하드웨어 구조를 제안한다. 제안된 보팅 정책은 인접한 픽셀 간의 관계를 이용하여 보팅 연산 과정의 오버헤드를 줄였으며, 하드웨어 재사용성을 높임으로서 효율적인 연산구조를 가진다. 이러한 개선된 보팅 정책을 적용한 제안된 하드웨어 구조는 인접한 픽셀들의 보트 값을 병렬적으로 연산하고 저장하여 시간당 처리량을 높인다. 제안 구조의 장점은 순차적 연산 방식 대비 매우 적은 추가 하드웨어 자원만으로 이러한 성능 향상을 위한 병렬화를 달성한다는 것이다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제41권9호
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• pp.1020-1025
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• 2016

최근 통신 시장의 규모는 해마다 늘어가고 있다. 무선 사용자들의 요구 데이터 전송 속도의 증가와 무선 자원의 포화로 인해 우리는 새로운 무선 기술을 개발하여 통신 자원을 효율적으로 이용할 필요가 있다. Femtocell은 작은 단위를 뜻하는 Femto와 기지국의 커버리지 범위를 나타내는 Cell의 합성어로 무선 자원을 효율적으로 이용할 수 있는 새로운 통신 기술을 원하는 통신 시장의 요구에 부흥하는 기술 중의 하나이다. Femtocell은 Macrocell 안에 설치되는 형태를 취하기 때문에 Power Control과 Handover는 중요한 사항 중에 하나이며 그에 따라 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 기존의 논문에서는 Handover 확률을 낮추기 위해 Tx Power를 낮춘 결과 통신 용량의 저하가 일어나는 문제가 발생하였다. 본 논문에서는 Femtocell의 문제 중 하나인 Macrocell과의 Handover 문제를 최소화하며 통신 용량을 늘리는 새로운 알고리즘을 제안하였고 이를 시뮬레이션으로 시연하였다. 그 결과 기존의 논문과 거의 비슷한 Handover 성능을 가지며 더 높은 Throughput 성능을 얻었다.

• 한국의료질향상학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.37-55
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• 2012

Objectives : This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of fixed critical pathway with emr (electronic medical record) on the length of hospital stay, the cost and quality of care provided to gastrectomy patients in a university hospital and to develop flexible critical pathway with emr which can be used excluded or drop-out patients. Methods : Thirty-eight patients with gastrectomy were included as case group and Thirty-four patients included as control group. The comparison between control and case with using fixed critical pathway were done. To develop and to evaluate usefulness of flexible critical pathway with flexible data base, simulation was done for flexible critical pathway with drop-out patients. Result : The major results of this study were as follows: There were no significant differences in patient clinical conditions and no sign of deterioration of quality from critical pathway. The length of hospital stay was 11 days in control group, 8 days in path group(P<0.01). The total costs during the hospital stay were reduced in path group. However the cost per day was significantly increased from reduction of hospital stay(554,352 won in control, 645,669 won in path group). One hundred percentage of drop out patients(60) in the simulation of flexible critical pathway was successful. Conclusion : Computerized critical pathway reduced the length of hospital stay, total hospital costs and resource utilization without harming quality of patient care. The flexible critical pathway program can be used as one of the powerful management tools for reducing the practice variations and increasing the efficiency of care process and decreasing the workload of doctors and nurses in Korean hospital settings.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.1498-1507
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• 2017

최근 발표에 따르면, 2020년까지 모바일 데이터 트래픽이 현재의 11배까지 증가 될 것으로 예상된다. 그 중 비디오 트래픽이 70%를 차지할 것으로 예상되는 만큼 방대해지는 모바일 비디오 트래픽의 문제를 해결하기 위해서는 비디오 트래픽의 특성을 이해할 필요가 있다. 최근, 인기 있는 유튜브 비디오와 같은 일부 인기 있는 콘텐츠의 반복적인 요청으로 인해 네트워크 트래픽 오버헤드가 많이 발생한다. 만약 콘텐츠 인기도를 알고 인기 있는 콘텐츠를 미리 캐싱 할 수 있는 네트워크 노드를 구성한다면 이용자의 요청에 대해 캐싱 된 콘텐츠를 이용함으로써 네트워크 오버헤드를 줄일 수 있다. 장치 대 장치 통신, 멀티캐스트, 헬퍼를 통해 비디오 처리량이 기존의 방법보다 약 1.5배에서 2배의 이득이 향상되었다. 또한, 프리픽스 캐싱을 통해 기존의 방법보다 약 0.2배에서 0.5배의 재생 지연이 감소되었다. 본 논문에서는 무선 네트워크 환경에서 콘텐츠 인기도를 기반한 캐싱 기술에 대한 최신 연구를 소개 한다.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2013

With aggravation of environmental contamination and energy resource exhaustion, Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) that can be economically operated with low fuel consumption are receiving greater attention. For performance improvement of such HEV, the development of efficient transmission can be seen as one of core technologies such as performance of components and driving strategy. Dual clutch transmission (DCT) is actively studied as a transmission type for HEV due to its advantages of having excellent power transmission efficiency based on manual transmission characteristic, resolving the problem of power interruption, and realizing driving convenience of automatic transmission (AT). In this paper, one diesel HEV equipped with 6-Speed DCT, modelled using MATLAB/Simulink, and a performance simulator developed for this vehicle are introduced. Driving simulation with driving cycles such as FTP75 and NYCC was performed using the developed performance simulator, and the simulated results regarding state of charge and fuel economy, when AT and DCT are applied to this diesel hybrid vehicle respectively, are compared. This performance simulator can be utilized to develop a control algorithm for improving the fuel economy of HEV with DCT.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.312-334
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• 2023

In large-scale computing, cloud computing plays an important role by sharing globally-distributed resources. The evolution of cloud has taken place in the development of data centers and numerous servers across the globe. But the cloud information centers incur huge operational costs, consume high electricity and emit tons of dioxides. It is possible for the cloud suppliers to leverage their resources and decrease the consumption of energy through various methods such as dynamic consolidation of Virtual Machines (VMs), by keeping idle nodes in sleep mode and mistreatment of live migration. But the performance may get affected in case of harsh consolidation of VMs. So, it is a desired trait to have associate degree energy-performance exchange without compromising the quality of service while at the same time reducing the power consumption. This research article details a number of novel algorithms that dynamically consolidate the VMs in cloud information centers. The primary objective of the study is to leverage the computing resources to its best and reduce the energy consumption way behind the Service Level Agreement (SLA)drawbacks relevant to CPU load, RAM capacity and information measure. The proposed VM consolidation Algorithm (PVMCA) is contained of four algorithms: over loaded host detection algorithm, VM selection algorithm, VM placement algorithm, and under loading host detection algorithm. PVMCA is dynamic because it uses dynamic thresholds instead of static thresholds values, which makes it suggestion for real, unpredictable workloads common in cloud data centers. Also, the Algorithms are adaptive because it inevitably adjusts its behavior based on the studies of historical data of host resource utilization for any application with diverse workload patterns. Finally, the proposed algorithm is online because the algorithms are achieved run time and make an action in response to each request. The proposed algorithms' efficiency was validated through different simulations of extensive nature. The output analysis depicts the projected algorithms scaled back the energy consumption up to some considerable level besides ensuring proper SLA. On the basis of the project algorithms, the energy consumption got reduced by 22% while there was an improvement observed in SLA up to 80% compared to other benchmark algorithms.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2011년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.564-567
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• 2011

센서노드의 에너지를 절약하는 것은 네트워크 수명을 늘리기 위해 필요하다. 센서의 에너지는 파워를 교체할 수 없기 때문에 매우 중요하다. 에너지를 절약함으로써 네트워크의 자원을 절약하고 더 오랫동안 사용할 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 베이스 스테이션을 활용하여 라우팅 프로토콜을 최적화하기 위한 프로토콜인 BSAH 를 제안하였다. BSAH 는 BeamStar 처럼 베이스스테이션이 안테나의 방향을 고려하여 센서를 나눈다. BSAG 는 PEGASIS 나 CHIRON 보다 25%에서 30% 정도 우수한 성능을 보였다.