• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.413-424
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• 2018

The factors affecting the shear strength of the angle shear connectors in the steel-concrete composite beams can play an important role to estimate the efficacy of a composite beam. Therefore, the current study has aimed to verify the output of shear capacity of angle shear connector according to the input provided by Support Vector Machine (SVM) coupled with Firefly Algorithm (FFA). SVM parameters have been optimized through the use of FFA, while genetic programming (GP) and artificial neural networks (ANN) have been applied to estimate and predict the SVM-FFA models' results. Following these results, GP and ANN have been applied to develop the prediction accuracy and generalization capability of SVM-FFA. Therefore, SVM-FFA could be performed as a novel model with predictive strategy in the shear capacity estimation of angle shear connectors. According to the results, the Firefly algorithm has produced a generalized performance and be learnt faster than the conventional learning algorithms.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.293-300
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• 2016

The Voice recognition is one of convenient methods to communicate between human and robots. This study proposes a speech recognition method using speech recognizers based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) with a combination of techniques to enhance a biped robot control. In the past, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Dynamic Time Wrapping (DTW) were used, however, currently they are less commonly applied to speech recognition systems. This Research confirms that the HMM, an accepted high-performance technique, can be successfully employed to model speech signals. High recognition accuracy can be obtained by using HMMs. Apart from speech modeling techniques, multiple feature extraction methods have been studied to find speech stresses caused by emotions and the environment to improve speech recognition rates. The procedure consisted of 2 parts: one is recognizing robot commands using multiple HMM recognizers, and the other is sending recognized commands to control a robot. In this paper, a practical voice recognition system which can recognize a lot of task commands is proposed. The proposed system consists of a general purpose microprocessor and a useful voice recognition processor which can recognize a limited number of voice patterns. By simulation and experiment, it was illustrated the reliability of voice recognition rates for application of the manufacturing process.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.241-250
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• 2005

New product development (NPD) is defined as the transformation of a market opportunity and a set of assumptions about product technology into a product available for sale. Managers charged with project selection decisions in the NPD process, such as go/no-go choices and specific resource allocation decisions, are faced with a complicated problem. Therefore, the ability to develop new successful products has identifies as a major determinant in sustaining a firm's competitive advantage. The purpose of this study is to develop a new evaluation model for NPD project selection in the high -tech industry using support vector machines (SYM). The evaluation model is developed through two phases. In the first phase, binary (go/no-go) classification prediction model, i.e. SVM for high-tech NPD project selection is developed. In the second phase. using the predicted output value of SVM, feasibility grade is calculated for the final NPD project decision making. In this study, the feasibility grades are also divided as three level grades. We assume that the frequency of NPD project cases is symmetrically determined according to the feasibility grades and misclassification errors are partially minimized by the multiple grades. However, the horizon of grade level can be changed by firms' NPD strategy. Our proposed feasibility grade method is more reasonable in NPD decision problems by considering particularly risk factor of NPD in viewpoints of future NPD success probability. In our empirical study using Korean NPD cases, the SVM significantly outperformed ANN and logistic regression as benchmark models in hit ratio. And the feasibility grades generated from the predicted output value of SVM showed that they can offer a useful guideline for NPD project selection.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.1
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• pp.33-40
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• 2003

Data mining plays an important role in a knowledge discovery process and various algorithms of data mining can be selected for the specific purpose. Most of traditional hierachical clustering methode are suitable for processing small data sets, so they difficulties in handling large data sets because of limited resources and insufficient efficiency. In this study we propose a hybrid neural networks clustering technique, called PPC for Pre-Post Clustering that can be applied to large data sets and find unknown patterns. PPC combinds an artificial intelligence method, SOM and a statistical method, hierarchical clustering technique, and clusters data through two processes. In pre-clustering process, PPC digests large data sets using SOM. Then in post-clustering, PPC measures Similarity values according to cohesive distances which show inner features, and adjacent distances which show external distances between clusters. At last PPC clusters large data sets using the simularity values. Experiment with UCI repository data showed that PPC had better cohensive values than the other clustering techniques.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.35-43
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• 2020

Turbidity has various effects on the water quality and ecosystem of a river. High turbidity during floods increases the operation cost of a drinking water supply system. Thus, the management of turbidity is essential for providing safe water to the public. There have been various efforts to estimate turbidity in river systems for proper management and early warning of high turbidity in the water supply process. Advanced data analysis technology using machine learning has been increasingly used in water quality management processes. Artificial neural networks(ANNs) is one of the first algorithms applied, where the overfitting of a model to observed data and vanishing gradient in the backpropagation process limit the wide application of ANNs in practice. In recent years, deep learning, which overcomes the limitations of ANNs, has been applied in water quality management. LSTM(Long-Short Term Memory) is one of novel deep learning algorithms that is widely used in the analysis of time series data. In this study, LSTM is used for the prediction of high turbidity(>30 NTU) in a river from the relationship of turbidity to discharge, which enables early warning of high turbidity in a drinking water supply system. The model showed 0.98, 0.99, 0.98 and 0.99 for precision, recall, F1-score and accuracy respectively, for the prediction of high turbidity in a river with 2 hour frequency data. The sensitivity of the model to the observation intervals of data is also compared with time periods of 2 hour, 8 hour, 1 day and 2 days. The model shows higher precision with shorter observation intervals, which underscores the importance of collecting high frequency data for better management of water resources in the future.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.748-753
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• 2012

In this paper, Face recognition algorithm is designed based on optimized pRBFNNs pattern classifier using three-dimensional scanner. Generally two-dimensional image-based face recognition system enables us to extract the facial features using gray-level of images. The environmental variation parameters such as natural sunlight, artificial light and face pose lead to the deterioration of the performance of the system. In this paper, the proposed face recognition algorithm is designed by using three-dimensional scanner to overcome the drawback of two-dimensional face recognition system. First face shape is scanned using three-dimensional scanner and then the pose of scanned face is converted to front image through pose compensation process. Secondly, data with face depth is extracted using point signature method. Finally, the recognition performance is confirmed by using the optimized pRBFNNs for solving high-dimensional pattern recognition problems.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.608-615
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• 2006

This paper proposes a fuzzy model tree consisting of local linear models using fuzzy cluster for data modeling. First, cluster centers are calculated by fuzzy clustering method using all input and output attributes. And then, linear models are constructed at internal nodes with fuzzy membership values between centers and input attributes. The expansion of internal node is determined by comparing errors calculated in parent node with ones in child node, respectively. As a final step, data prediction is performed with a linear model having the highest fuzzy membership value between input attributes and cluster centers in leaf nodes. To show the effectiveness of the proposed method, we have applied our method to various dataset. Under various experiments, our proposed method shows better performance than conventional model tree and artificial neural networks.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.18-18
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• 2018

상수관망 시스템(Water Distribution System, WDS)은 이용자에게 양질의 상수도를 공급하기 위해 구축된 사회기반시설물로써, 정수된 물이 사용처에 도달하기까지 송수과정에서 발생 가능한 수질저하를 고려해야 한다. 일반적으로 정수장에서 염소처리를 한 후, 도달시간을 고려한 시스템 내 잔류 염소농도를 유지함으로써 수질저하를 예방한다. 여기서 상수도 내 잔류 염소농도는 미생물 번식 및 관내 부식물 등 다양한 생물 화학적 오염을 효과적으로 예방하는 반면, 과다할 경우 이용자의 음용성을 저해할 수 있어 시스템 전반에 걸쳐 염소농도의 적절한 관리가 요구된다. 특히, 상수관망에서는 공급경로 및 공급량에 따라 각 수요처의 도달 염소농도가 다르게 분포할 수 있으므로, 시설운영자는 균등하고 적절한 염소농도를 유지하기 위해 추가적인 염소 재투입시설을 설치하여 함께 관리하고 있다. 이 때, 염소투입 시설의 운영계획은 EPANET과 같은 상수관망 해석모형의 수질모의를 바탕으로 수립된다. 그러나 일반적으로 수질모의는 수리해석과는 달리 긴 시간이 소요되는 단점이 존재한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 단점을 개선하기 위해, 특정 네트워크의 수질모의 결과를 학습시킨 인공신경망(ANN) 모형을 구축하고 이를 이용하여 상수관망 수질모의 계산시간을 단축하고자 하였다. 여기서 ANN모형의 학습은 EPANET을 통해 미리 선정된 다양한 염소 투입지점의 염소 투입농도와 용수 공급량 자료, 그리고 주요 관측지점에서 측정된 염소농도자료를 이용하였다. 학습된 ANN모형을 EPANET 수질모의 결과와 비교 및 검증을 실시한 결과, 사전에 소요된 학습시간을 제외하면 수질모의 소요시간 측면에서 큰 개선효과를 보였으며, 대표지점에서의 수질모의 결과가 유사하였다. 추가적으로, 본 연구에서는 학습된 ANN모형과 최적화 알고리즘인 GA(Genitic Algorithm)를 연계하여 상수관망에서의 염소 재투입 스케줄링을 최적화하는 프로그램을 개발함으로써, 안전하고 경제적인 상수관망의 수질운영에 기여하고자 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.71-83
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• 2013

Recently, the advanced condition monitoring methods such as the model-based method and the artificial intelligent method have been applied to maximize the availability as well as to minimize the maintenance cost of the aircraft gas turbines. Among them the non-linear GPA(Gas Path Analysis) method and the GA(Genetic Algorithms) have lots of advantages to diagnose the engines compared to other advanced condition monitoring methods such as the linear GPA, fuzzy logic and neural networks. Therefore this work applies both the non-linear GPA and the GA to diagnose AE3007 turbofan engine for an aircraft, and in case of having sensor noise and bias it is confirmed that the GA is better than the GPA through the comparison of two methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.131-148
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• 2019

This study constructed a cognitive model of information processing to understand the topic of a sound material and its characteristics. It then proposed methods to generate sound summaries, by incorporating anterior-posterior N400/P600 components of event-related potential (ERP) response, into the language representation of the cognitive model of information processing. For this end, research hypotheses were established and verified them through ERP experiments, finding that P600 is crucial in screening topic-relevant shots from topic-irrelevant shots. The results of this study can be applied to the design of classification algorithm, which can then be used to generate the content-based metadata, such as generic or personalized sound summaries and video skims.