• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.465-472
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• 2019

Today, in many area the rise of software necessity there has been increasing the issue of the impotance of Good Software. Our reality in software industrial world has been happening to frequently change requirements at any stage of software life cycle. Furthermore this frequent changing will be increasing the design complexity, which will result in being the lower quality of software against our purpose the original design goals. To solve this problem, we suggest how to improve software design through refactoring based on reverse engineering. This is our way of diverse approaches to visually identify bad smell patterns in source code. We expect to improve software quality through refactoring on even frequently changing requirements.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.52 no.7
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• pp.1462-1470
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• 2020

Reliability in safety-critical systems and equipment is of vital importance, so the probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) has been widely used for many years in the nuclear industry to address reliability in a quantitative manner. As many nuclear power plants (NPPs) become digitalized, evaluating the reliability of safety-critical software has become an emerging issue. Due to a lack of available methods, in many conventional PSA models only hardware reliability is addressed with the assumption that software reliability is perfect or very high compared to hardware reliability. This study focused on developing a new method of safety-critical software reliability quantification, derived from hardware-software integrated environment testing. Since the complexity of hardware and software interaction makes the possible number of test cases for exhaustive testing well beyond a practically achievable range, an importance-oriented testing method that assures the most efficient test coverage was developed. Application to the test of an actual NPP reactor protection system demonstrated the applicability of the developed method and provided insight into complex software-based system reliability.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.13D no.6 s.109
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• pp.807-814
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• 2006

Along with the enlargement of application scope, the growth of requirements complexity, and the fast development of product for embedded system, lots of industries developing embedded software try to evolve their traditional development environment into the new paradigm such as product line engineering approach. In order to sufficiently support the evolution, software architecture is essentially required to develop the embedded software. In this paper, we propose a tool, named TToSA which translates the conventional software models to software architecture models. Our TToSA is developed with the critical implication about that an industry can approach toward the new development paradigm without the big change of the existing software development method.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.209-215
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• 2009

Nowadays there are gradually the importance issues of embedded software for productivity as the fusion and complexity of industry. Especially, people are recognizing the importance of reliability within the embedded software systems(e.g. weapons and medical equipments, etc.). It makes currently mention of software reliability on ISO/IEC 9126, 12119, etc.. However, it is insufficient for the embedded software area in spite of being mentioned the generic software. To do this, we suggest our embedded software reliability assessment through extracting the embedded software meaurement items from reliability assessment items of ISO/IEC 9126, 12119 series.

• Journal of Community Nutrition
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.149-155
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• 2005

This exploratory study investigated the software programs utilized by clinical dietitians and their perceptions on the use of information technology. The study focused on the use of specialized software for dietetics, general software for any office use and the Internet. A self-administered survey was used to collect data from clinical dietitians identified in the Kentucky Dietetic Association Directory 2003-2004. The survey was conducted in March through April, 2004. A total of 22 responses were collected, which yielded a response rate of $68\%$. Findings suggest that computer use has become a routine for optimal clinical practice ; major specialized software programs are used for nutrition assessment, nutrition analysis and menu development. Use of specialized software appears to be unassociated with dietitians' age and years of experience ; however, the associations are indicated between use of specialized software and education level as well as their specialty ; word processing and spreadsheet are the major general software used. Internet is used mainly for information search and communication. Respondents perceived that overall work efficiency and productivity significantly increased with computer use. The complexity of software is the major barrier encountered so training is the most needed support by the department. Strategic promotion on the use of specialized software should be targeted to the management team of the hospitals/facilities.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.79-86
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• 2022

This paper focuses on realizing design improvement and high quality through visualization of reverse engineering-based software. As new technologies and complex software emerge in various areas of the fourth industry in the future, software verification with both stability and reliability is becoming an issue. We propose a reverse engineering-based UML design extraction and visualization for high-quality software ranging from simple computational software to machine learning-based data-oriented software. Through this study, it is expected to improve software quality through design improvement by checking the accuracy of the target design and identifying the code complexity.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.3
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• pp.139-143
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• 2014

This paper proposes a simplified DC calculation method for simplified depth coding (SDC) mode of 3D High Efficiency Video Coding (3D-HEVC) to reduce the computational complexity. For the computational complexity reduction, the current reference software of 3D-HEVC employs reference samples sub-sampling method. However, accumulation, branch, and division operations are still utilized and these operations increase computational complexity. The proposed method calculates DC value without those operations. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves 0.1% coding gain for synthesized views in common test condition (CTC) with the significantly reduced number of computing operations.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.320-322
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• 2017

In this paper, a high-performance, low-area gradient-magnitude calculator architecture is proposed, based on approximate image processing. To reduce the computational complexity of the gradient-magnitude calculation, vector properties, the symmetry axis, and common terms were applied in a hardware-resource-shared architec-ture. The proposed gradient-magnitude calculator was implemented using an Altera Cyclone IV FPGA (EP4CE115F29) and the Quartus II v.16 device software. It satisfied the output-data quality while reducing the logic elements by 23% and the embedded multipliers by 76%, compared with previous work.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.18-25
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• 2018

In High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), integer motion estimation (IME) requires a large amount of computational complexity because HEVC adopts the high flexible and hierarchical coding structures. In order to reduce the computational complexity of IME, this paper proposes the search range reduction algorithm, which takes advantage of motion vectors similarity between different layers. It needs only a few modification for HEVC reference software. Based on the experimental results, the proposed algorithm reduces the processing time of IME by 28.1% on average, whereas its the $Bj{\emptyset}ntegaard$ delta bitrate (BD-BR) increase is 0.15% which is negligible.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2016

Domain analysis is an important component for reliability of development project. Domain analysis error have an effect in the whole system. As a result, the system reliability will be deteriorated. Therefore, we need a methodology to analyze domain characteristic for a reliable analysis in the domain analysis phase. In this paper, we propose a methodology for domain categorization and estimation of complexity for reliability improvement of domain analysis.