• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.666-676
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• 2005

In recent years, motivated by the emergence of ubiquitous computing technologies, a new class of networked robots, ubiquitous robots, has been introduced. The Ubiquitous Robotic Companion (URC) is our conceptual vision of ubiquitous service robots that provide users with the services they need, anytime and anywhere in ubiquitous computing environments. To realize the vision of URC, one of the essential requirements for robotic systems is to support ubiquity of services: that is, a robot service must be always available even though there are changes in the service environments. Specifically robotic systems need to be automatically interoperable with sensors and devices in current service environments, rather than statically preprogrammed for them. In this paper, the design and implementation of a semantic-based ubiquitous robotic space (SemanticURS) is presented. SemanticURS enables automated integration of networked robots into ubiquitous computing environments exploiting Semantic Web Services and AI-based planning technologies.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.717-720
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• 2007

With the convergence of mobile devices and the Internet ubiquitous computing promises to revolutionalize the way that we access services and run application. However, ubiquitous computing environments, in particular, mobile and wireless environments interfaced with the Internet, currently possess security vulnerabilities that are ripe for attack from cyber-threats. Thus, this paper discusses the Limitation of current security mechanisms in ubiquitous computing environments

• 한국정보보호학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보보호학회 2006년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.329-333
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• 2006

New computing paradigm in ubiquitous computing environments is revolutionizing the way people interact with computers, services and the surrounding physical spaces. In order to provide stronger authentication, MIST proposed an authentication framework for ubiquitous computing environments and assigned confidence values to some authentication methods to facility the combining. However, the assigned confidence values lack sufficient evidence. In this paper reliable confidence values for each authentication method used in MIST is proposed. These confidence values can combine multiple confidence values in some manner, producing a more accurate net confidence value. Authentication entities with confidence values allows the authentication framework to blond nicely into ubiquitous computing environments.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.547-565
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• 2012

The design, development and deployment of Mobile Agent (MA) systems for high-level inference and surveillance in wireless sensor networks and RFID systems have drawn increasing attention in the past decade. To answer how the state-of-the-art of MA in a wide range of ubiquitous and sensor environments is, this paper investigates the current progress of MA. It proposes a taxonomy, by which MA systems in ubiquitous computing environments are decomposed and discussed. Then, this paper provides insights into the strengths and weaknesses of existing efforts. Finally, it presents a series of solutions from the viewpoint of various roles of MA in ubiquitous environments and situations.

• 산업공학
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.65-74
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• 2008

In the future, the ubiquitous computing environment will provide users with context-aware services, intelligently interacting with omnipresent resources and surrounding environments at any location and time. Therefore, the ubiquitous computing environment requires context-aware applications in order to gather and analyze context information in various situations. However, existing context-aware applications have mainly focused on providing services and adapting themselves to users based on user related contexts. But this environment requires not only user related contexts but also Quality-of-Service (QoS) related contexts. In this paper we propose a frame-work for supporting user-oriented QoS in ubiquitous environments. The proposed approach adopts a semantic ontology and a neural network algorithm in order to reason about explicit and uncertain contexts. We also show the possibility of applying the framework to real environments such as collaborative engineering service, automobile maintenance service and ubiquitous home service.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.3-12
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• 2006

모바일 디바이스, PDA, 센서들의 확산은 실생활 공간이 지능적이고 향상된 서비스를 제공하는 스마트 공간으로 전환되는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경이 구축될 수 있도록 하였다. 그러나 모바일 디바이스, PDA, 센서들과 같은 다양한 유비쿼터스 디바이스들의 초기 설계 단계부터 프라이버시 문제를 고려하지 않는다면 유비쿼터스 감시체제가 구축될 위험성이 있다. 또한 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 다양한 디바이스들은 대체로 컴퓨팅 연산 능력이 적기 때문에, 공개키 기반의 암호기술을 적용하는 것은 부적절할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 사용자 프라이버시를 위하여 익명성이 보장되고, 컴퓨팅 연산 능력이 적은 디바이스를 위한 효율적인 사용자 인증 및 키 동의 프로토콜을 제안한다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.58-65
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• 2006

Accurate and efficient monitoring of dynamically changing environments is one of the most important requirements for ubiquitous network environments. Ubiquitous computing provides intelligent environments which are aware of spatial conditions and can provide timely and useful information to users or devices. Also, the growth of embedded systems and wireless communication technology has made it possible for sensor network environments to develop on a large scale and at low-cost. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a monitoring system that collects, analyzes, and controls the status information of each sensor, following sensor data extracted from each sensor node. The monitoring system adopts Web technology for the implementation of a simple but efficient user interface that allows an operator to visualize any of the processes, elements, or related information in a convenient graphic form.

• 교육시설
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.4-13
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• 2007

In 21st century, mankind greets an era of ubiquitous computing where physical and virtual space are merged through the innovation of digital and IT(Information Technology), meanwhile ubiquitous computing and network paradigm suggest a new direction which our future educational system should head for. A society where people, computers, and objects can be connected with each other anytime and anywhere, that is, a society of ubiquitous computing where everything in our living space are interconnected by a immense network system may bring a variety of changes into our educational environment in schools. In this study I analysed the forecast of school educational orientation and ubiquitous educational environment and facilities in developed countries, and on the basis of the result, I performed a fundamental work for formation of a ubiquitous classroom environment which is feasible in Korea. In the section of conclusion, I present a model of ubiquitous classroom as a scenario based on ubiquitous computing technology applicable to future classroom environment.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제32권11_12호
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• pp.617-628
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• 2005

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 서비스들은 사용자가 제공하는 정보뿐만 아니라 사용자가 있는 환경이 제공하는 많은 정보들을 이용하여 동적으로 변화하는 환경에서 사용자에게 적합한 서비스를 자동으로 제공해야 한다. 비즈니스 및 분산 컴퓨팅 환경에서 사용되는 워크플로우는 여러 작업들을 일련의 작업 절차 규칙에 의해 연계시켜 서비스의 자동화를 지원한다. 따라서 서비스의 자동화에 사용되어 왔던 워크플로우를 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅에 적용하여 상황인지 서비스를 지원하기 위해서는 컨텍스트 정보를 서비스의 전이조건으로 명시해야 한다 이를 위하여 본 논문에서는 워크플로우를 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅에 적용하고 워크플로우의 상태 전이 제약조건에 컨텍스트 정보를 명시하기 위한 구조적인 컨텍스트 모델을 제시한다. 또한 이 구조적인 컨텍스트 모델을 사용하기 위해서, 이질적이면서 다양한 플랫폼, 프로토콜 및 언어에 독립적인 표준화된 인터페이스를 제공하는 웹 서비스 기반의 워크플로우 언어인 uWDL을 제안한다. uWDL은 유비쿼터스 환경의 워크플로우 엔진에 의해 해석되고 실행되어 사용자에게 상황인지 기반의 자동화된 서비스를 제공한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.169-178
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• 2007

With the advent of ubiquitous computing environments, it has become increasingly important for applications to take full advantage of contextual information, such as the user's location, to offer greater services to the user without any explicit requests. In this paper, we propose context-aware active services based on context-aware middleware for URC systems (CAMUS). The CAMUS is a middleware that provides context-aware applications with a development and execution methodology. Accordingly, the applications based on CAMUS respond in a timely fashion to contextual information. This paper presents the system architecture of CAMUS and illustrates the content recommendation and control service agents with the properties, operations, and tasks for context-aware active services. To evaluate CAMUS, we apply the proposed active services to a TV application domain. We implement and experiment with a TV content recommendation service agent, a control service agent, and TV tasks based on CAMUS. The implemented content recommendation service agent divides the user's preferences into common and specific models to apply other recommendations and applications easily, including the TV content recommendations.