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A Finite Capacity Material Requirement Planning System for a Multi-Stage Assembly Factory: Goal Programming Approach

  • Wuttipornpun, Teeradej;Yenradee, Pisal;Beullens, Patrick;van Oudheusden, Dirk L.
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.23-35
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    • 2005
  • This paper aims to develop a practical finite capacity MRP (FCMRP) system based on the needs of an automotive parts manufacturing company in Thailand. The approach includes a linear goal programming model to determine the optimal start time of each operation to minimize the sum of penalty points incurred by exceeding the goals of total earliness, total tardiness, and average flow-time considering the finite capacity of all work centers and precedence of operations. Important factors of the proposed FCMRP system are penalty weights and dispatching rules. Effects of these factors on the performance measures are statistically analyzed based on a real situation of an auto-part factory. Statistical results show that the dispatching rules and penalty weights have significant effects on the performance measures. The proposed FCMRP system offers a good tradeoff between conflicting performance measures and results in the best weighted average performance measures when compared to conventional forward and forward-backward finite capacity scheduling systems.

Sensitivity analysis of weights in multi-layer perceptron realizing continuous mappings

  • Choi, Chong-Ho;Choi, Jin-Young
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1990.10b
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    • pp.1377-1382
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    • 1990
  • In Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) which realizes continuous mappings, the output errors is directly affected by the weight errors which may be caused by the limited precision of digital or analog hardware in implementations. So, it is important to study the sensitivity due to the perturbation of connection weights between neurons. In this paper, we derive a sensitivity function to the statistical weight perturbations in MLP with differentiable activation functions. This sensitivity function can be regarded as an ensemble average of deterministic sensitivity measures due to the perturbations of weights. Hence, this sensitivity function can be used as the criteria for selecting weights with the minimum sensitivity among possible sets of connection weights in MLP. For the verification of the validity of the proposed sensitivity function, computer simulations have been performed and through the simulations we find good agreement between the theoretical and simulation results.

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A CLASS OF NONLINEAR STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS(SDES) WITH JUMPS DERIVED BY PARTICLE REPRESENTATIONS

  • KWON YOUNGMEE;KANG HYE-JEONG
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.269-289
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    • 2005
  • An infinite system of stochastic differential equations (SDE)driven by Brownian motions and compensated Poisson random measures for the locations and weights of a collection of particles is considered. This is an analogue of the work by Kurtz and Xiong where compensated Poisson random measures are replaced by white noise. The particles interact through their weighted measure V, which is shown to be a solution of a stochastic differential equation. Also a limit theorem for system of SDE is proved when the corresponding Poisson random measures in SDE converge to white noise.

Balanced Scorecard Perspective Analysis of Institutional Performance Evaluation for Government S&T Research Institutes (과학기술계 출연연구기관 기관평가지표의 BSC 관점 분석)

  • Nam Yeong-Ho;Kim Byeong-Tae
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.265-293
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    • 2005
  • This research examines the relationship between the characteristics of Government S&T Research Institutes (GRI) and their institutional performance evaluation system. First, based on Kaplan & Norton (1992) Balanced Scorecard Model, six perspectives suitable to Korean GRI are derived. Second, personnel who works on evaluation job classified current performance measures into the six perspectives. Analyzing comparative weights of individual perspectives, the characteristics of performance evaluation systems among institutes are derived and compared with their missions. The results are as follows: First, GRI evaluation systems put most weight on the customer perspective and least weight on the financial perspective. This result complies with Korean GRI's missions and strategies as well as findings of foreign cases. Second, Basic-technology GRI group relatively more priotizes long-term customer perspective, while Applied-technology GRI Group relatively more priotizes short-term customer perspective. Public-technology GRI Group is located in the middle in terms of priority of customer perspectives. Third, for three yews (2000-2002), performance measure weights of Basic-technology Group are changed much less than those of the other two groups. Further research are needed for reasons of drastic changes for Applied-technology and Public-technology groups and some abnormally high and low measure weights.

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A Study on the Relative Importance of Quality Scorecard(QSC) for Open Quality (오픈퀄리티 품질성과지표(QSC)의 중요도 분석 연구)

  • Song, Ho Jun;Kim, Min Gyu;Shin, Wan Seon
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.49 no.1
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    • pp.61-79
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to study the relative weights of Quality Scorecard (QSC) which was developed for a new quality concept, called Open Quality, in the era of Industry 4.0. Open Quality aims to ensure quality responsibility by accurately measuring the quality level and sharing the quality data with stakeholders. Methods: To analyze the importance of QSC, a survey study was conducted based on 10 types of industry. The relative weights of QSC measures are investigated by both the industry types and the organizational life cycle. Further, the relative importance of QSC was analyzed according to the organization's lifecycle. By dividing the aspects with respect to the result data, application method for QSC is further provided. Results: The result indicates that there are significant differences among Korean companies in terms of the level of Industry revolution stages. Among ten industry types, manufacturing and finance sectors show the highest importance of QSC. QSC measures are also considered more importance in growth stage of the maturity cycle than generator and decline stages. Conclusion: When QSC is adopted for Open Quality, its relative weights must be considered to cope with the unique characteristics of industrial types. Besides, QSC's contribution may vary according to the level of maturity of the target company.

Influence of Math Education Utilizing Traditional Weights and Measures on Affective Domain of Elderly Learner (전통(傳統) 도량형(度量衡)을 활용한 수학교육(數學敎育)이 노인(勞人)학습자의 정의적(情意的) 영역(領域)에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jae-Hyo;Ko, Ho-Kyoung
    • The Journal of Korean Medical History
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2011
  • As the value of living a complete life has spread, the importance of elderly education as a part of continuing education is ever increasing. As much as the bodily health, the activity to prevent dementia or healthy brain is being emphasized, the math utilizing traditional material was suggested to devise the curriculum appropriate for the emotional/cognitive level of the elderly. This could induce interests of the elderly, and ultimately improved the concept of self-consciousness and self-esteem. Also, a plan for effective application of such 'silver math' should be prepared, and the execution of a fusion study for a medical approach of its effects is proposed.

Utterance Verification using Phone-Level Log-Likelihood Ratio Patterns in Word Spotting Systems (핵심어 인식기에서 단어의 음소레벨 로그 우도 비율의 패턴을 이용한 발화검증 방법)

  • Kim, Chong-Hyon;Kwon, Suk-Bong;Kim, Hoi-Rin
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2009
  • This paper proposes an improved method to verify a keyword segment that results from a word spotting system. First a baseline word spotting system is implemented. In order to improve performance of the word spotting systems, we use a two-pass structure which consists of a word spotting system and an utterance verification system. Using the basic likelihood ratio test (LRT) based utterance verification system to verify the keywords, there have been certain problems which lead to performance degradation. So, we propose a method which uses phone-level log-likelihood ratios (PLLR) patterns in computing confidence measures for each keyword. The proposed method generates weights according to the PLLR patterns and assigns different weights to each phone in the process of generating confidence measures for the keywords. This proposed method has shown to be more appropriate to word spotting systems and we can achieve improvement in final word spotting accuracy.

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Development of a Personalized Similarity Measure using Genetic Algorithms for Collaborative Filtering

  • Lee, Soojung
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.23 no.12
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    • pp.219-226
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    • 2018
  • Collaborative filtering has been most popular approach to recommend items in online recommender systems. However, collaborative filtering is known to suffer from data sparsity problem. As a simple way to overcome this problem in literature, Jaccard index has been adopted to combine with the existing similarity measures. We analyze performance of such combination in various data environments. We also find optimal weights of factors in the combination using a genetic algorithm to formulate a similarity measure. Furthermore, optimal weights are searched for each user independently, in order to reflect each user's different rating behavior. Performance of the resulting personalized similarity measure is examined using two datasets with different data characteristics. It presents overall superiority to previous measures in terms of recommendation and prediction qualities regardless of the characteristics of the data environment.

Empirical Comparison of Word Similarity Measures Based on Co-Occurrence, Context, and a Vector Space Model

  • Kadowaki, Natsuki;Kishida, Kazuaki
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.6-17
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    • 2020
  • Word similarity is often measured to enhance system performance in the information retrieval field and other related areas. This paper reports on an experimental comparison of values for word similarity measures that were computed based on 50 intentionally selected words from a Reuters corpus. There were three targets, including (1) co-occurrence-based similarity measures (for which a co-occurrence frequency is counted as the number of documents or sentences), (2) context-based distributional similarity measures obtained from a latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), and Word2Vec algorithm, and (3) similarity measures computed from the tf-idf weights of each word according to a vector space model (VSM). Here, a Pearson correlation coefficient for a pair of VSM-based similarity measures and co-occurrence-based similarity measures according to the number of documents was highest. Group-average agglomerative hierarchical clustering was also applied to similarity matrices computed by individual measures. An evaluation of the cluster sets according to an answer set revealed that VSM- and LDA-based similarity measures performed best.

Estimation of Relative Economic Weights of Hanwoo Carcass Traits Based on Carcass Market Price

  • Choy, Yun-Ho;Park, Byoung-Ho;Choi, Tae-Jung;Choi, Jae-Gwan;Cho, Kwang-Hyun;Lee, Seung-Soo;Choi, You-Lim;Koh, Kyung-Chul;Kim, Hyo-Sun
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.25 no.12
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    • pp.1667-1673
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    • 2012
  • The objective of this study was to estimate economic weights of Hanwoo carcass traits that can be used to build economic selection indexes for selection of seedstocks. Data from carcass measures for determining beef yield and quality grades were collected and provided by the Korean Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation (KAPE). Out of 1,556,971 records, 476,430 records collected from 13 abattoirs from 2008 to 2010 after deletion of outlying observations were used to estimate relative economic weights of bid price per kg carcass weight on cold carcass weight (CW), eye muscle area (EMA), backfat thickness (BF) and marbling score (MS) and the phenotypic relationships among component traits. Price of carcass tended to increase linearly as yield grades or quality grades, in marginal or in combination, increased. Partial regression coefficients for MS, EMA, BF, and for CW in original scales were +948.5 won/score, +27.3 $won/cm^2$, -95.2 won/mm and +7.3 won/kg when all three sex categories were taken into account. Among four grade determining traits, relative economic weight of MS was the greatest. Variations in partial regression coefficients by sex categories were great but the trends in relative weights for each carcass measures were similar. Relative economic weights of four traits in integer values when standardized measures were fit into covariance model were +4:+1:-1:+1 for MS:EMA:BF:CW. Further research is required to account for the cost of production per unit carcass weight or per unit production under different economic situations.