• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.245-255
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• 2007

In playing Baduk, Black plays first and, thus, can control the pace of a game. Usually a player with black stones plays conservatively to maintain the advantage of playing first. The purpose of dum is to compensate for Black having the first move. Currently, 6.5-point dum is applied in Korea and Japan, while 8-point dum is applied in Taiwan and China. In this study we investigated whether the current size of dum(6.5 points) is optimal, by statistically analyzing and comparing the advantage of taking Black across two data sets with different dun rules. Under the 5.5-point handicap, Blacks won significantly more games than Whites, revealing the advantage of playing first. However, with 6.5-point dum, Black's advantage of playing first was not significant. In Conclusion, implications and future research areas are discussed.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.31-48
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• 2021

Knowledge is a key resource for organizations to gain and maintain competitive advantage. Therefore, it is important for organizations to motivate employees to share knowledge with each other in order to achieve optimal performance of knowledge resources. Despite the efforts of organizations to share knowledge, knowledge hiding is still prevalent among employees. In this paper, we want to analyze the factors that may cause more general and pervasive knowledge-hiding behavior in organizations through empirical analysis. The results of this study show that, first, the relationship between team cohesion and knowledge hiding has been verified differently depending on the sub-behavior of knowledge hiding : playing dumb, evasive hiding, and rationalized hiding. Team cohesion has been shown to significantly reduce the playing dumb and evasive hiding. On the other hand, it was shown that team cohesion did not have a significant causal relationship with rationalized hiding. Second, the moderating effect of ethical leadership has been statistically significant in terms of team cohesion and relationships with playing dumb and evasive hiding. In other words, the higher the ethical leadership, the stronger the negative relationship between team cohesion and knowledge hiding. Finally, the theoretical and practical implications of this paper and future research directions are discussed.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.79-86
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• 2016

Monte-Carlo Tree Search(MCTS) is a best-first tree search algorithm and has been successfully applied to various games, especially to the game of Go. We evaluate the performance of MCTS playing against each other in the game of Tic-Tac-Toe. It reveals that the first player always has an overwhelming advantage to the second player; and we try to find out the reason why the first player is superior to the second player in spite of the fact that the best game result should be a draw. Since MCTS is a statistical algorithm based on the repeated random sampling, it cannot adequately tackle an urgent problem that needs a strategy, especially for the second player. For this, we propose a strategic MCTS(S-MCTS) and show that the S-MCTS player never loses a Tic-Tac-Toe game.