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Indicators for the Quantitative Assessment of Tree Vigor Condition and Its Theoretical Implications : A Case Study of Japanese Flowering-cherry Trees in Urban Park (도시공원에 식재된 왕벚나무 수종을 중심으로 한 수목활력도의 정량평가지표 개발 및 이론적 고찰에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Youngkeun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.57-67
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    • 2014
  • The vigor condition of trees is an important indicator for the management of urban forested area. But difficulties in how to assess the tree vigor condition still remain. Previous efforts were limited in the 1) measurement of single indicator rather than using multiple indices, 2) purpose-oriented measurement such as for air-pollution effect or specific pathological symptom, and 3) ordinal-scale evaluations by field crews 4) despite human errors based on his/her experiences or prior knowledge. Therefore, this study attempted to develop a quantitative and objective methodology for assessing tree vigor condition, by measuring multiple modules and building the profile inventory. Furthermore, the possibility and limitations were discussed in terms of schematic frames describing tree vigor condition. The vigor condition of 56 flowering cherry plants in urban park were assessed by in-situ measurements of following eight items; growth of crown(Gc), growth of shoots, individual tree volume(Vol), plant area index, woody area index, leaf area index, leaf chlorophyll content(Lc) and leaf water content(Lw). For validation, these measurements were compared with the ranks of holistic tree vigor condition, which were visually assessed using a 4-point grading scale based on the expert's knowledge. As a result, the measures of each evaluation item successfully highlighted a variety of aspects in tree vigor condition, including the states of both photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic parts. The variation in the results depending on evaluated parts was shown within an individual tree, even though the broad agreement among the results was found. The result of correlation analysis between the tested measurements and 4-point visual assessment, demonstrated that the state of water-stressed foliage of the season (Lw) or the development of plant materials since sapling phase (Vol) could be better viewed from the outer appearance of trees than other symptoms. But only based on the visual assessment, it may be difficult to detect the quality of photosynthesis (Lc) or the recent trend in growth of trees (Gc). To make this methodology simplified for the broad-scale application, the tested eight measurements could be integrated into two components by principal component analysis, which was labelled with 'the amount of plant materials' and 'vigor trend', respectively. In addition, the use of these quantitative and multi-scale indicators underlies the importance of assessing various aspects of tree vigor condition, taking into account the response(s) on different time and spatial scale of pressure(s) shown in each evaluated module. Future study should be advanced for various species at diverse developing stages and environment, and the application to wide areas at a periodic manner.

Re-Ordering of Users in the Group Key Generation Tree Protocol (사용자 순서 재조정을 통한 그룹 키 생성 트리 프로토콜)

  • Hong, Sung-Hyuck
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.247-251
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    • 2012
  • Tree-based Group Diffie-Hellman (TGDH) is one of the efficient group key agreement protocols to generate the GK. TGDH assumes all members have an equal computing power. As one of the characteristics of distributed computing is heterogeneity, the member can be at a workstation, a laptop or even a mobile computer. Therefore, the group member sequence should be reordered in terms of the member's computing power to improve performance. This research proposes a reordering of members in the group key generation tree to enhance the efficiency of the group key generation.

Intelligent Fault Diagnosis System Using Hybrid Data Mining (하이브리드 데이터마이닝을 이용한 지능형 이상 진단 시스템)

  • Baek, Jun-Geol;Heo, Jun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.960-968
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    • 2005
  • The high cost in maintaining complex manufacturing process makes it necessary to enhance an efficient maintenance system. For the effective maintenance of manufacturing process, precise fault diagnosis should be performed and an appropriate maintenance action should be executed. This paper suggests an intelligent fault diagnosis system using hybrid data mining. In this system, the rules for the fault diagnosis are generated by hybrid decision tree/genetic algorithm and the most effective maintenance action is selected by decision network and AHP. To verify the proposed intelligent fault diagnosis system, we compared the accuracy of the hybrid decision tree/genetic algorithm with one of the general decision tree learning algorithm(C4.5) by data collected from a coil-spring manufacturing process.

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Maximization of Path Reliabilities in Overlay Multicast Trees for Realtime Internet Service (실시간 인터넷 서비스를 위한 오브레이 말티케스트 트리의 패스 신뢰성 최대화)

  • Lee, Jung-H.;Lee, Chae-Y.
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.103-114
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    • 2008
  • Overlay Multicast is a promising approach to overcome the implementation problem of IP multicast. Real time services like Internet broadcasting are provided by the overlay multicast technology due to the complex nature and high cost of IP multicast. To reduce frequent updates of multicast members and to support real time service without delay, we suggest a reliable overlay multicast tree based on members' sojourn probabilities. Path reliabilities from a source to member nodes are considered to maximize the reliability of an overlay multicast tree. The problem is formulated as a binary integer programming with degree and delay bounds. A tabu search heuristic is developed to solve the NP-complete problem. Outstanding results are obtained which is comparable to the optimal solution and applicable in real time.

Column Generation Approach to the Steiner Tree Packing Problem (열 생성 기법을 이용한 스타이너 나무 분할 문제에 관한 연구)

  • 정규웅;이경식;박성수;박경철
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.17-33
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    • 2000
  • We consider the Steiner tree packing problem. For a given undirected graph G =(V, E) with positive integer capacities and non-negative weights on its edges, and a list of node sets(nets), the problem is to find a connection of nets which satisfies the edge capacity limits and minimizes the total weights. We focus on the switchbox routing problem in knock-knee model and formulate this problem as an integer programming using Steiner tree variables. The model contains exponential number of variables, but the problem can be solved using a polynomial time column generation procedure. We test the algorithm on some standard test instances and compare the performances with the results using cutting plane approach. Computational results show that our algorithm is competitive to the cutting plane algorithm presented by Grotschel et al. and can be used to solve practically sized problems.

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A Branch and Bound Algorithm for Solving a Capacitated Subtree of Tree Problem in Local Access Telecommunication Networks

  • Cho, Geon;Kim, Seong-Lyun
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.81-98
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    • 1997
  • Given a rooted tree T with profits and node demands, the capacitated subtree of a tree problem (GSTP) consists of finding a rooted subtree of maximum profit, subject to having total demand no larger than the given capacity H. We first define the so-called critical item for CSTP and find an upper bound on the optimal value of CSTP in O(n$^{2}$) time, where n is the number of nodes in T. We then present our branch and bound algorithm for solving CSTP and illustrate the algiruthm by using an example. Finally, we implement our branch-and-bound algorithm and compare the computational results with those for both CPLEX and a dynamic programming algorithm. The comparison shows that our branch-and-bound algorithm performs much better than both CPLEX and the dynamic programming algorithm, where n and H are the range of [50, 500] and [5000, 10000], respectively.

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A Hybrid Evolution Strategy on the Rectilinear Steiner Tree

  • Yang, Byoung-Hak
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.27-37
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    • 2005
  • The rectilinear Steiner tree problem (RSTP) is to find a minimum-length rectilinear interconnection of a set of terminals in the plane. It is well known that the solution to this problem will be the minimal spanning tree (MST) on some set Steiner points. The RSTP is known to be NP-complete. The RSTP has received a lot of attention in the literature and heuristic and optimal algorithms have been proposed, A key performance measure of the algorithm for the RSTP is the reduction rate that is achieved by the difference between the objective value of the RSTP and that of the MST without Steiner points. A hybrid evolution strategy on RSTP based upon the Prim algorithm was presented. The computational results show that the evolution strategy is better than the previously proposed other heuristic. The average reduction rate of solutions from the evolution strategy is about 11%, which is almost similar to that of optimal solutions.

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A branch and bound algorithm for solving a capacitated subtree of a tree problem in local access telecommunication network

  • Cho, Geon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 1995.09a
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    • pp.202-210
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    • 1995
  • Given a tree T with a root node 0 having the capacity H and a profit $c_{v}$ and a demand $d_{v}$ on each node v of T, the capacitated subtree of a tree problem(CSTP) is to find a subtree of T containing the root that has the maximum total profit, the sum of profits over the subtree, and also satisfies the constraint of which the sum of demands over the subtree must be less than or equal to H. We first define the so-called critical item for CSTP and find an upper bound on the linear programming relaxation of CSTP. We then present our branch and bound algorithm for solving CSTP and finally report the computational results on a set of randomly generated test problems.s.s.

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Path Level Reliability in Overlay Multicast Tree for Realtime Service

  • Lee, Chae-Y.;Lee, Jung-H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.312-315
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    • 2006
  • Overlay Multicast is a promising approach to overcome the implementation problem of IP multicast. Real time services like internet broadcasting are provided by overlay multicast technology due to the complex nature of IP multicast and the high cost to support multicast function. Since multicast members can dynamically join or leave their multicast group, it is necessary to keep a reliable overlay multicast tree to support real time service without delay. In this paper, we consider path level reliability that connects each member node. The problem is formulated as a binary integer programming which maximizes the reliability of multicast tree. Tabu search based algorithm is presented to solve the NP-hard problem.

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Developing An Evolution Programming for the Euclidean Steiner Tree Problem (유클리디언 스타이너 문제에 대한 진화해법의 개발)

  • Yang Byoung Hak;Kim Sung Chul
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.1056-1064
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    • 2003
  • The Euclidean steiner tree problem (ESTP) is to find a minimum-length euclidean interconnection of a set of points in the plane. It is well known that the solution to this problem will be the minimal spanning tree (MST) on some set steiner points, and the ESTP is NP-complete. The ESTP has received a lot of attention in the literature, and heuristic and optimal algorithms have been proposed. In real field, heuristic algorithms for ESTP are popular. A key performance measure of the algorithm for the ESTP is the reduction rate that is achieved by the difference between the objective value of the ESTP and that of the MST without steiner points. In recent survey for ESTP, the best heuristic algorithm showed around $3.14\%$ reduction in the performance measure. We present a evolution programming (EP) for ESTP based upon the Prim algorithm for the MST problem. The computational results show that the EP can generate better results than already known heuristic algorithms.

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