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Cloud Task Scheduling Based on Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithm for Lowering Energy Consumption of Data Center

  • Yang, Yongquan;He, Cuihua;Yin, Bo;Wei, Zhiqiang;Hong, Bowei
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.1877-1891
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    • 2022
  • As a part of cloud computing technology, algorithms for cloud task scheduling place an important influence on the area of cloud computing in data centers. In our earlier work, we proposed DeepEnergyJS, which was designed based on the original version of the policy gradient and reinforcement learning algorithm. We verified its effectiveness through simulation experiments. In this study, we used the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm to update DeepEnergyJS to DeepEnergyJSV2.0. First, we verify the convergence of the PPO algorithm on the dataset of Alibaba Cluster Data V2018. Then we contrast it with reinforcement learning algorithm in terms of convergence rate, converged value, and stability. The results indicate that PPO performed better in training and test data sets compared with reinforcement learning algorithm, as well as other general heuristic algorithms, such as First Fit, Random, and Tetris. DeepEnergyJSV2.0 achieves better energy efficiency than DeepEnergyJS by about 7.814%.

A study on the PBL Application Scheme for Optimal Maintenance of the KF-X Project (한국형전투기(KF-X)의 최적정비를 위한 PBL 적용방안에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Keun-Seog;Yoo, Yong-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.10-18
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    • 2016
  • This paper deals with the Performance Based Logistics(PBL) application scheme pertaining to optimal maintenance program for logistics of Korean Fighter Experimental(KF-X) Project. For enhancement of the performance based logistics system application to KF-X program the selection of appropriate standards fit to maximize cost-cutting, a set of performance metrics fit for the purpose of the contract, foreign technology dependence of core equipments and parts were considered. Thus, selecting appropriate standards fit for Korean logistics environment, domestic maintenance enterprise for stable rate of operation of KF-X, a systematic reliability task that is able to measure quantitative combat capability are suggested.

Managing Deadline-constrained Bag-of-Tasks Jobs on Hybrid Clouds with Closest Deadline First Scheduling

  • Wang, Bo;Song, Ying;Sun, Yuzhong;Liu, Jun
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.7
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    • pp.2952-2971
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    • 2016
  • Outsourcing jobs to a public cloud is a cost-effective way to address the problem of satisfying the peak resource demand when the local cloud has insufficient resources. In this paper, we studied the management of deadline-constrained bag-of-tasks jobs on hybrid clouds. We presented a binary nonlinear programming (BNP) problem to model the hybrid cloud management which minimizes rent cost from the public cloud while completes the jobs within their respective deadlines. To solve this BNP problem in polynomial time, we proposed a heuristic algorithm. The main idea is assigning the task closest to its deadline to current core until the core cannot finish any task within its deadline. When there is no available core, the algorithm adds an available physical machine (PM) with most capacity or rents a new virtual machine (VM) with highest cost-performance ratio. As there may be a workload imbalance between/among cores on a PM/VM after task assigning, we propose a task reassigning algorithm to balance them. Extensive experimental results show that our heuristic algorithm saves 16.2%-76% rent cost and improves 47.3%-182.8% resource utilizations satisfying deadline constraints, compared with first fit decreasing algorithm, and that our task reassigning algorithm improves the makespan of tasks up to 47.6%.

IS Acceptance in the Perspective of the Extended TTF Theory: An Exploratory Study on Employment Insurance Systems in Korea

  • Kwahk, Kee-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.99-102
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    • 2003
  • While information technology has been advanced impressively, the issue of system underutilization has continued. Although TAM provides a theoretical and empirical model for explaining information technology acceptance, there exist some issues: lack of focusing task and organization. The present study examines the motivational factors influencing the beliefs about the system, in terms or the extended TTF (task-technology fit) model, to address the issues. For this purpose, an exploratory case study was conducted based on the data gathered from a Web-based survey. The present research proposes five propositions, based on the results of the case study and prior study findings, which can be used as a starting point fur future research.

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An Exploration of a Performer's Organic Action

  • BongHee, Son
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.383-388
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    • 2022
  • This thesis explores the principle of a performer's organic action by means of his/her bodily responses on stage. This research has been developed to define the nature of a performer's central task in order to constitute empirical understanding of acting and the purpose of training in addressing the question of what sort of qualitative bodily training is necessary to be in a state of the full body involvement. This study investigates to articulate a performer's fundamental task at the most rudimentary level by utilizing those theatre artists' concepts with practical assumptions. In particular, the key terms, happen and change signifies the quality of a performer's body that has to fit into the given environment in which the performer's body can be subordinated through the moment on stage. Here, we argue that a performer's essential task parallel to make the following moment to happen and change by means of progressing a set of the next moment. In this manner, we also argue that a moment of displaying the performer's conscious effort, forceful and externalizing the visible elements under the use of erroneous language leads his/her body not to function on stage, a state of disengagement from his/her body. Finally, we provide a way to facilitate a performer's organic action by focused on his/her lived experience to create the functional moment which is opposite to the predominance of a representation, maintaining the performer's intellectual sense.

Exploring Silver ICT Convergent Typology and ICT Contribution Value (실버산업의 ICT 융합 유형과 ICT 기여 가치 탐색)

  • Han, Hyun-Soo;Kang, Tae-Wook
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.57-70
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    • 2017
  • The phenomenon of increasing aging population is one of the crucial social and economic issues in these day. In this paper, drawn from the industrial application cases and relevant literatures, we present the typology of ICT convergent applications targeted for silver generation, referred as silver ICT. Subsequently, the contributional value of ICT as the enabling technology is estimated. We firstly conduct keyword search to collect currently used silver ICT applications. Secondly, drawn from the social welfare literature, we organize distinctive needs of the silver generations. Then, on the basis of task technology fit framework, typology of ICT enabled silver applications is organized through the fit of ICT in the sense of fulfilling those silver needs. Finally, using the industry input-output table figures, potential ICT contributions for silver ICT are estimated. The proposed silver ICT typology and ICT contributions provides useful insights for further research in the area of ICT convergence and silver market research.

An Empirical Study of the Relationship between the 'Fit' of Task Characteristics and BSC System Characteristics and BSC System User Satisfaction (업무특성과 BSC 시스템 특성의 적합도가 BSC 시스템 사용자 만족도에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Chang-Jin;Lee, Jung-Hoon;Lee, Choong-C.;Song, Joon-Woo
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.1-21
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    • 2009
  • The balanced scorecard(BSC) framework is a tool for strategic decision making and task support that aims for efficiency in performance management and strategy execution. BSC evolved from an old performance management practice, which tended to be limited to a finance-only perspective, to a new system of corporate management looking at corporate tasks from a multi-dimensional, future-inclined value perspective. This form of BSC amounts to a framework capable of driving management innovation and renewing the ways in which companies conceive their strategy and perform their operations. Since BSC draws integrally on user participation, it can be expected that users' satisfaction with BSC systems is an important factor in systems' success or failure. However, previous studies of the BSC system have not yet considered it as a theoretical model, specifically examining BSC system and task characteristics. To date, only a few studies have put forward plans for the implementation and use of BSC systems, and these studies have the common limitation of failing to consider the circumstances or theoretical structure of the companies for which a BSC system is being proposed. This paper then begins to fill some of this gap by characterizing the BSC system from the perspective of contingency theories. Contingency theories can be particularly useful in the Korean context in exploring how different companies use the BSC system in ways determined by their unique environmental characteristics, which may also determine the performance factors behind the application of a company's particular BSC system. In order to provide concrete suggestions for implanting and using the BSC system from a contingency theory perspective, this study sets out to determine the relationships between the contingency variables affecting BSC system performance and BSC system property variables(in given cases) through an empirical analysis. The study takes into account the perspective from which contingency theory is to be applied in individual cases, sets contingency and BSC property variables with reference to the BSC system user's environment and BSC system's character, and frames initial hypotheses concerning corporate structure and environmental variables and BSC system performance variables with reference to previous studies. A survey was then conducted on users in Korean companies that have implemented the BSC system in order to verify the research model and understand results.

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Intention to Use and Group Difference in Adopting Big Data: Towards a Comprehensive View (활용 주체별 빅데이터 수용 인식 차이에 관한 연구: 활용 목적, 조직 규모, 업종 특성을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Young-Joo;Yang, Hyun-Cheol
    • Informatization Policy
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.79-99
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    • 2017
  • Despite the early success story, the pan-industry diffusion of big data has been slow mostly due to lack of confidence of the value creation and privacy-related concerns. The problem leads us to the need to a stakeholder analysis on the adoption process of big data. The present study combines technology acceptance model, task-technology fit theory, and privacy calculus theory to integrate the positive and negative factors on the big data adoption. The empirical analysis was performed based on the survey from the current and potential big data users. Results revealed perceived usefulness, task-technology fit, and privacy concern are significant antecedents to the intention to use big data. Furthermore, there are significant differences in the perceptions of each constructs among groups divided by the types of big data use, with several exceptions. And the control effect was found in the magnitude of the relation between independent variables and dependent variable. The theoretical and politic implications of the analysis are discussed as to the promotion of big data industry.

A Study on the Influence of Job-Embeddedness to Job Involvement in the convergence age (융·복합 시대의 직무임베디드니스가 직무몰입에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sun-Kyu;Kang, Eun-Gu;Kim, Eun-Kyeong
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.9
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    • pp.215-227
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    • 2016
  • This paper aims to examine the relationships between job embeddedness, Job Involvement in the convergence age. In addition, this study examined the moderating effects of Job Meaning. To accomplish these purposes, the main factors of the job embeddedness such as fit, link and sacrifice were found from the previous studies. Also, 306 questionnaires were used in the analysis. The following are the summary of hypothesis test: First, Job Embeddedness are positively related to Job Involvement. Second, the moderating effects of Skill Variety and Task Identity is a significant partial moderating effect on the relationship between job embeddedness and Job Involvement, but about Task Significance are significant full moderating effect.

Factors Influencing the Performance of Knowledge Management Systems: Focused on Individual Characteristics and Task-Technology Fit (지식경영시스템 성과 영향요인 -개인적 특성과 과업·기술적합을 중심으로-)

  • Yoo, Hyo-Sook;Ryu, Il;Choi, Hyuk-Ra;Kim, Seon-Myung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.376-390
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study are as follows : First, This study conceptually and artificially defines concepts of OCB, absorptive capacity, IT group-efficacy, and TTF. Second, this study confirms the relationship among the KMS performance, the result of using KMS, and the result drawn from OCB, absorptive capacity, group-efficacy, and TTF by the preceding researches, suggesting the research model and verifying through empirical study. Lastly, this study suggests the practical and strategic advices to the groups wanting to get on the edge through KMS. The results of data analysis showed that TTF was found to have a positive influence on KMS performance. IT group-efficacy and absorptive capacity were also found to have a positive effect on TTF. And IT group-efficacy was found to have a positive influence on OCB. The findings are discussed and further research topics are suggested as well.