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Study on Risk Analysis for Software Functional Safety of Marine Navigational Equipment (항해장비 소프트웨어 기능안전성 확보를 위한 위험분석 단계 연구)

  • Lim, Sang-Woo;Lee, Seojeong;Yang, Hoi-seok
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.393-401
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    • 2017
  • As the importance of software in various industry areas has been increased, the number of accidents related to software safety are growing up. The key industries such as railroads, aviation and medicine, recommend IEC 61508 and international safety standards for their own to achieve functional safety and reduce the issues caused by that. For equipment of ship navigation, there are not any particular standards or guidance which Korean users can introduce as considering software functional safety. This article defines the procedure and outcomes of the risk analysis in order to secure software functional safety in marine navigational equipment and applies them to an echo sounder as a case study.

Software Development Effort Estimation Using Partition of Project Delivery Rate Group (프로젝트 인도율 그룹 분할 방법을 이용한 소프트웨어 개발노력 추정)

  • Lee, Sang-Un;No, Myeong-Ok;Lee, Bu-Gwon
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.9D no.2
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    • pp.259-266
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    • 2002
  • The main issue in software development is the ability of software project effort and cost estimation in the early phase of software life cycle. The regression models for project effort and cost estimation are presented by function point that is a software sire. The data sets used to conduct previous studies are of ten small and not too recent. Applying these models to 789 project data developed from 1990 ; the models only explain fewer than 0.53 $R^2$(Coefficient of determination) of the data variation. Homogeneous group in accordance with project delivery rate (PDR) divides the data sets. Then this paper presents general effort estimation models using project delivery rate. The presented model has a random distribution of residuals and explains more than 0.93 $R^2$ of data variation in most of PDR ranges.

Formal Verification of Functional Properties of an SCR-style Software Requirements Specifications using PVS (PVS를 이용한 SCR 스타일의 소프트웨어 요구사항 명세에서 기능 요구 사항의 정형 검증)

  • Kim, Tae-Ho;Cha, Sung-Deok
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.46-61
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    • 2002
  • Among the many phases involved in software development, requirements analysis phase in generally considered to play a crucial role in determining the overall software quality. Therefore, many software development companies manages the phase as one of the important phase. Especially, safety assurance through requirements analysis for safety-critical systems is quite demanding, and national and international bodies routinely require safety demonstration. Among various approaches, inspection and formal methods are generally shown to be effective. In this paper, we propose a formal verification procedure for SCR(Software Cost Reduction)-style SRS(Software Requirements Specification) using the PVS specification and verification procedure and applied this procedure to an industrial system such that a shutdown system for Wolsung nuclear power plant. This system had been verified through inspection not formal verification. The application of formal methods is rare in Korea, so it is very important to experiment about formal verification to industrial systems.

Framework and Tool for Quantitative Six Sigma Project Management (정량적 식스 시그마 프로젝트 관리를 위한 프레임워크와 도구)

  • Park, Hyun-Cheol;Ryu, Ho-Yeon;Baik, Jong-Moon
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.234-244
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    • 2008
  • Since the advent of Six Sigma in 1980's, Six Sigma is widely used in various industry areas, such as manufacturing, financial, government, and service, and proves its innovation ability and value by providing lots of success stories. Several researches have been conducted to adopt Six Sigma for Software Development and Software Quality Assurance-Software Six Sigma. Although the wide use of Six Sigma, there is no software tool to support the execution of Six Sigma Project. For this reason, the Quantitative Six Sigma Project Management is required to support for measuring and analyzing Six Sigma Projects, storing and reporting the results from Six Sigma Projects, and managing Six Sigma Projects through the whole process of, DMAIC or DMADV. In this paper, we introduce the design and implementation of a Quantitative Six Sigma Project Management Framework and Tool. The execution of Six Sigma Project based on Six Sigma Project Management Tool benefits the quantification, the systematization, and the integration.

Isocenter Verification Using Linac-Gram Films Taken with Angiolocalizer : Improved Quality Assurance of Fractionated Stereotactic Radiation Therapy(FSRT) (Angiolocalizer를 사용하여 얻어진 Linac-Gram을 이용한 조사야 중심의 정확도 평가 (FSRT의 진보된 Quality Assurance))

  • Cho, Jung-Keun;Park, Young-Hwan;Ju, Sang-Kyu;Kim, Young-Gon;Cho, Hyun-Sang
    • The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.25-28
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    • 1997
  • With the advances in radiation therapy technology and equipment, the need for more accurate and safer radiation delivery to the target region has been continuously growing. Stereotactic Radiosurgery(SRS) is a good example of $^{\ast}Accuracy^{\ast}$ but has a substantial risk of causing severe late neurological damages. Fractionated Stereotactic Radiation Therapy(FSRT) is a modification of SRS enabling conventional fractionation with maintaining accuracy using noninvasive and relocatable frame. Verification of mechanical accuracy in FSRT has been done according to the manufacture's recommendations using RLPP, LTLF, and Depth-helmet. In order to reinforce this, we have developed additional novel verification procedure using Linac-grams with the Angiolocalizer attached on the GTC frame, which are then digitized into the planning software(X-Knife) to generate the three dimensional coordinates for cmoparison. This method has been successful in such ways that the anatomical landmarks are identifiable on the Linac-gram films and that the serial comparisons of the stereotactic coordinates of the isocenter are possible with more certainty a along the FSRT course than before.

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A Development of The IT Audit-Based Application Framework for University IT Governance (대학정보화 거버넌스를 위한 감리기반 응용프레임워크 개발)

  • Choi, Jae Jun;Kim, Chi su
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.179-186
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    • 2019
  • Information system audit, which provides effective diagnosis and inspection of IT governance, is applied to all aspects from planning to development and operation. However, there is a difficulty in carrying out the audit because the system for the specialized university IT project is not developed. Therefore, it is necessary to set the internal system as the audit-based application framework in order to apply it to university IT governance. In this paper, we propose a audit-based application framework of university information system developed for university. The framework has a difference from the existing audit system. By using this framework, it is possible to present a standard for the university IT project and easily approach and use it in the field. And it can be used for direct audit through this framework in the level of the auditor as well as the HQ admin. The framework categorizes the audit into three major dimensions and suggests a method that can be applied to the university information system audit through the UAFP(University Audit Framework Process) and quality assurance.

Evaluation of Image for Phantom according to Normalization, Well Counter Correction in PET-CT (PET-CT Normalization, Well Counter Correction에 따른 팬텀을 이용한 영상 평가)

  • Choong-Woon Lee;Yeon-Wook You;Jong-Woon Mun;Yun-Cheol Kim
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2023
  • Purpose PET-CT imaging require an appropriate quality assurance system to achieve high efficiency and reliability. Quality control is essential for improving the quality of care and patient safety. Currently, there are performance evaluation methods of UN2-1994 and UN2-2001 proposed by NEMA and IEC for PET-CT image evaluation. In this study, we compare phantom images with the same experiments before and after PET-CT 3D normalization and well counter correction and evaluate the usefulness of quality control. Materials and methods Discovery 690 (General Electric Healthcare, USA) PET-CT equiptment was used to perform 3D normalization and well counter correction as recommended by GE Healthcare. Based on the recovery coefficients for the six spheres of the NEMA IEC Body Phantom recommended by the EARL. 20kBq/㎖ of 18F was injected into the sphere of the phantom and 2kBq/㎖ of 18F was injected into the body of phantom. PET-CT scan was performed with a radioacitivity ratio of 10:1. Images were reconstructed by appliying TOF+PSF+TOF, OSEM+PSF, OSEM and Gaussian filter 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6,5 mm with matrix size 128×128, slice thickness 3.75 mm, iteration 2, subset 16 conditions. The PET image was attenuation corrected using the CT images and analyzed using software program AW 4.7 (General Electric Healthcare, USA). The ROI was set to fit 6 spheres in the CT image, RC (Recovery Coefficient) was measured after fusion of PET and CT. Statistical analysis was performed wilcoxon signed rank test using R. Results Overall, after the quality control items were performed, the recovery coefficient of the phantom image increased and measured. Recovery coefficient according to the image reconstruction increased in the order TOF+PSF, TOF, OSEM+PSF, before and after quality control, RCmax increased by OSEM 0.13, OSEM+PSF 0.16, TOF 0.16, TOF+PSF 0.15 and RCmean increased by OSEM 0.09, OSEM+PSF 0.09, TOF 0.106, TOF+PSF 0.10. Both groups showed a statistically significant difference in Wilcoxon signed rank test results (P value<0.001). Conclusion PET-CT system require quality assurance to achieve high efficiency and reliability. Standardized intervals and procedures should be followed for quality control. We hope that this study will be a good opportunity to think about the importance of quality control in PET-CT

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Refining software vulnerbility Analysis under ISO/IEC 15408 and 18045 (ISO/IEC 15408, 18045 기반 소프트웨어 취약성 분석 방법론)

  • Im, Jae-Woo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.969-974
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    • 2014
  • CC (Common Criteria) requires collecting vulnerability information and analyzing them by using penetration testing for evaluating IT security products. Under the time limited circumstance, developers cannot help but apply vulnerability analysis at random to the products. Without the systematic vulnerability analysis, it is inevitable to get the diverse vulnerability analysis results depending on competence in vulnerability analysis of developers. It causes that the security quality of the products are different despite of the same level of security assurance. It is even worse for the other IT products that are not obliged to get the CC evaluation to be applied the vulnerability analysis. This study describes not only how to apply vulnerability taxonomy to IT security vulnerability but also how to manage security quality of IT security products practically.

A Study on Software Fault Analysis and Management Method using Defect Tracking System (결함 추적 시스템에 의한 소프트웨어 결함 분석 및 관리기법 연구)

  • Joon, Moon-Young;Yul, Rhew-Sung
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.15D no.3
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    • pp.321-326
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    • 2008
  • The software defects that are not found in the course of a project frequently appear during the conduct of the maintenance procedure after the complete development of the software. As the frequency of surfacing of defects during the maintenance procedure increases, the cost likewise increases, and the quality and customer reliability decreases. The defect rate will go down only if cause analysis and process improvement are constantly performed. This study embodies the defect tracking system (DTS) by considering the Pareto principle: that most defects are repetitions of defects that have previously occurred. Based on the records of previously occurring defects found during the conduct of a maintenance procedure, DTS tracks the causes of the software defects and provides the developer, operator, and maintenance engineer with the basic data for the improvement of the software concerned so that the defect will no longer be manifested or repeated. The basic function of DTS is to analyze the defect type, provide the measurement index for it, and aggregate the program defect type. Doing these will pave the way for the full correction of all the defects of a software as it will enable the defect correction team to check the measured defect type. When DTS was applied in the software configuration management system of the W company, around 65% of all its software defects were corrected.

A Case Study of Software Quality Improvement (소프트웨어의 품질개선을 위한 사례연구)

  • Jeong, Hyun-Seok;Hwang, In-Soo;Yang, Hae-Sool
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.10D no.4
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    • pp.727-734
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    • 2003
  • Recently various quality assurance activities have been applied in software industry for the purpose of software qualify improvement, and the ultimate target of those activities are focused on removing defects from its developed applications. We declared "ZERO DEFECT 21" movement on March 1999 whose purpose is to deliver defect-free applications to the customer. In this paper we would like to introduce the followings $\circled1$ Approaching Methods, $\circled2$ Achievements of "ZERO DEFECT 21". After accomplishing first you of "ZERO DEFECT 21" movement which consist of Audits and Software inspections, we could get the following improvement . $\circled1$ due to conducting the "Audits," we could prevent 22 cases of customer claims, enhance 11.7% of design quality and improve 23.3% of deliverable reusability : $\circled2$ also, due to conducting the "Periodic Sampling inspection and Final inspection," we could enhance 123% of defect rate compared with early stage of development and 247% of defect rate compared with previous yew. Based on the survey results, we could conclude that "ZERO DEFECT 21 " movement provides confidence to project team members and reliability to our customers.ce to project team members and reliability to our customers.