• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.53-63
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• 2021

Changes in a marine environment have a broad socioeconomic implication on fisheries and their relevant industries so that there has been a growing demand for the medium-range (months to years) prediction of the marine environment Using a medium-range ocean prediction model (Ocean Mid-range prediction System, OMIDAS) for the northwest Pacific, this study attempted to assess seasonal difference in the mid-range predictability of the sea surface temperature (SST), focusing on the Korea seas characterized as a complex marine system. A three-month re-forecast experiment was conducted for each of the four seasons in 2016 starting from January, forced with Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2) forecast data. The assessment using relative root-mean-square-error was taken for the last month SST of each experiment. Compared to the CFSv2, the OMIDAS revealed a better prediction skill for the Korea seas SST, particularly in the Yellow sea mainly due to a more realistic representation of the topography and current systems. Seasonally, the OMIDAS showed better predictability in the warm seasons (spring and summer) than in the cold seasons (fall and winter), suggesting seasonal dependency in predictability of the Korea seas. In addition, the mid-range predictability for the Korea seas significantly varies depending on regions: the predictability was higher in the East Sea than in the Yellow Sea. The improvement in the seasonal predictability for the Korea seas by OMIDAS highlights the importance of a regional ocean modeling system for a medium-range marine prediction.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.1702-1721
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• 2019

A workflow process (or business process) management system helps to define, execute, monitor and manage workflow models deployed on a workflow-supported enterprise, and the system is compartmentalized into a modeling subsystem and an enacting subsystem, in general. The modeling subsystem's functionality is to discover and analyze workflow models via a theoretical modeling methodology like ICN, to graphically define them via a graphical representation notation like BPMN, and to systematically deploy those graphically defined models onto the enacting subsystem by transforming into their textual models represented by a standardized workflow process definition language like XPDL. Before deploying those defined workflow models, it is very important to inspect its syntactical correctness as well as its structural properness to minimize the loss of effectiveness and the depreciation of efficiency in managing the corresponding workflow models. In this paper, we are particularly interested in verifying very large-scale and massively parallel workflow models, and so we need a sophisticated analyzer to automatically analyze those specialized and complex styles of workflow models. One of the sophisticated analyzers devised in this paper is able to analyze not only the structural complexity but also the data-sequence complexity, especially. The structural complexity is based upon combinational usages of those control-structure constructs such as subprocesses, exclusive-OR, parallel-AND and iterative-LOOP primitives with preserving matched pairing and proper nesting properties, whereas the data-sequence complexity is based upon combinational usages of those relevant data repositories such as data definition sequences and data use sequences. Through the devised and implemented analyzer in this paper, we are able eventually to achieve the systematic verifications of the syntactical correctness as well as the effective validation of the structural properness on those complicate and large-scale styles of workflow models. As an experimental study, we apply the implemented analyzer to an exemplary large-scale and massively parallel workflow process model, the Large Bank Transaction Workflow Process Model, and show the structural complexity analysis results via a series of operational screens captured from the implemented analyzer.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.565-577
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• 2019

One of the most effective countermeasures for mitigating cable vibration is to install mechanical dampers near the anchorage of the cable. Most of the dampers used in the field are so-called passive dampers where their parameters cannot be changed once designed. The parameters of passive dampers are usually determined based on the optimal damper force obtained from the universal design curve for linear dampers, which will provide a maximum additional damping for the cable. As the optimal damper force is chosen based on a predetermined principal vibration mode, passive dampers will be most effective if cable undergoes single-mode vibration where the vibration mode is the same as the principal mode used in the design. However, in the actual engineering practice, multi-mode vibrations are often observed for cables. Therefore, it is desirable to have dampers that can suppress different modes of cable vibrations simultaneously. In this paper, MR dampers are proposed for controlling multi-mode cable vibrations, because of its ability to change parameters and its adaptability of active control without inquiring large power resources. Although the highly nonlinear feature of the MR material leads to a relatively complex representation of its mathematical model, effective control strategies can still be derived for suppressing multi-mode cable vibrations based on nonlinear modelling, as proposed in this paper. Firstly, the nonlinear Bouc-wen model is employed to accurately portray the salient characteristics of the MR damper. Then, the desired optimal damper force is determined from the universal design curve of friction dampers. Finally, the input voltage (current) of MR damper corresponding to the desired optimal damper force is calculated from the nonlinear Bouc-wen model of the damper using a piecewise linear interpolation scheme. Numerical simulations are carried out to validate the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm for mitigating multi-mode cable vibrations induced by different external excitations.

• 영미문화
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.251-285
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• 2014

Monsters cannot speak. They have been objectified and represented through a particular concept 'monstrosity' that renders the presence of monsters effectively simplified and nullified. In contemporary monster narratives, however, the site of monsters reveals that they could be the complex construction of society, culture, language and ideology. As going into the structure that concept is based on, therefore, meanings of monsters would be seen to be highly unstable. When symbolic language strives to match monsters with a unified concept, their meanings become only further deferred rather than valorized. This shows the language of monsters should disclose the self-contradiction inherent in 'monstrosity,' which has made others—namely beings we define as 'different' from ourselves in culture or physical appearance—embodied as abject and horrifying monsters. Unable to be understood, accepted, or called humans. I analyse Frankenstein and Dracula that firmly converge monstrous bodies into a symbolic meaning, demonstrating how this fusion causes problems in the multicultural society. I especially emphasize the undeniable affirmation of expurgated others we need to have empathetic relations with, because their difference, unfamiliarity, and slight divergences are likely to be defined as abnormalities. In the multicultural society, thus, we must learn to embrace diversity, while also having to recognize there are many others that have been thought of as monsters; ironically enabling us to think about an undeniable imperative of being responsive to other people. In this respect, the monstrous inhuman goes to the heart of the ethical undercurrent of multiculturalism, its resolute attempt to recognize and respect someone else's difference from me. A focus on empathetic relations with others, thus, can strengthen the process of creating social mechanisms that do justice to the competing claims of different cultural groups and individuals.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.4268-4289
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• 2020

Advanced traffic signal timing method plays very important role in reducing road congestion and air pollution. Reinforcement learning is considered as superior approach to build traffic light timing scheme by many recent studies. It fulfills real adaptive control by the means of taking real-time traffic information as state, and adjusting traffic light scheme as action. However, existing works behave inefficient in complex intersections and they are lack of feasibility because most of them adopt traffic light scheme whose phase sequence is flexible. To address these issues, a novel adaptive traffic signal timing scheme is proposed. It's based on actor-critic reinforcement learning algorithm, and advanced techniques proximal policy optimization and generalized advantage estimation are integrated. In particular, a new kind of reward function and a simplified form of state representation are carefully defined, and they facilitate to improve the learning efficiency and reduce the computational complexity, respectively. Meanwhile, a fixed phase sequence signal scheme is derived, and constraint on the variations of successive phase durations is introduced, which enhances its feasibility and robustness in field applications. The proposed scheme is verified through field-data-based experiments in both medium and high traffic density scenarios. Simulation results exhibit remarkable improvement in traffic performance as well as the learning efficiency comparing with the existing reinforcement learning-based methods such as 3DQN and DDQN.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권6호
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• pp.2112-2124
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• 2023

With the rise of economic and safety standards for nuclear reactors, new concepts of Gen-IV reactors and modular reactors showed more complex designs that challenge current tools for reactor physics analysis. A Monte Carlo (MC) two-step method was proposed in this work. This calculation scheme uses the continuous-energy MC method to generate multi-group cross-sections from heterogeneous models. The multi-group MC method, which can adapt locally-heterogeneous models, is used in the core calculation step. This calculation scheme is verified using a Gen-IV modular lead-based fast reactor (LFR) benchmark case. The influence of homogenized patterns, scatter approximations, flux separable approximation, and local heterogeneity in core calculation on simulation results are investigated. Results showed that the cross-sections generated using the 3D assembly model with a locally heterogeneous representation of control rods lead to an accurate estimation with less than 270 pcm bias in core reactivity, 0.5% bias in control rod worth, and 1.5% bias on power distribution. The study verified the applicability of multi-group cross-sections generated with the MC method for LFR analysis. The study also proved the feasibility of multi-group MC in core calculation with local heterogeneity, which saves 85% time compared to the continuous-energy MC.

• 영어영문학
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• 제58권5호
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• pp.859-880
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• 2012

This paper aims at analyzing Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer in relation to cultural colonialism of the British Romantic period and investigating the ways in which this text portrays the Other through its literary representation of the East. Especially, this paper attempts to show that the Oriental world constructed in Southey's text reveals the imperial subject's self-conscious awareness of its unstable relation with the unknown Other. For this purpose, this paper attends to the formal aspects of Thalaba the Destroyer, examining the process by which the reader's generic expectations about the "epic" undergo complex revisions and frustrations through reading this text. The epic elements contained in Thalaba the Detroyer include the battle between good and evil and the hero's moral epiphany arising from his struggle against malicious enemies. Yet, Thalaba the Destroyer constantly destabilizes the distinction between self and other by leading the reader to recognize the uncomfortable similarity between the poem's tyrannical figures and imperialistic monarchs in the Western civilization. Thus, when the hero enacts a revolution against despotism, the resistant power points not only to the imagined false kingdom within the text, but to the core of the real Empire that seeks to construct its own "garden" in the global scene. In addition, Southey's "panoramic" description of Oriental objects and stories in his footnotes lacks a framing perspective, erasing and de-stabilizing subject/object distinctions. In these footnotes, he exposes his profound attraction to the culture of "Other" and also conveys his aspiration to transforming Eastern myths and stories into profitable literary texts. Southey's attitude to the East in the footnotes appears to be partially grounded upon the interest of mercantile capitalists of the West, who need to discover potential commodities. Yet, simultaneously, he reveals a sense of moral hesitation about his own desire for the materiality of the East, along with deep anxiety arising from the fear of punishment.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제28권12호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 GPU기반으로 옷감을 찢는 데 필요한 동적 재메싱를 실시간으로 처리할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 얇은 쉘 재질은 물리 기반 시뮬레이션/애니메이션, 게임, 가상현실 등 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있다. 옷감을 찢는 것은 기하학과 연결 구조를 동적으로 갱신해야 되기 때문에 그 처리 과정이 복잡하고 계산양이 크다. 특히 인터랙티브 콘텐츠를 다루는 분야에서는 이 과정이 빠르게 수행되어야 한다. 대부분의 방법에서는 실시간을 유지하기 위해 저해상도 시뮬레이션을 통해 재메싱을 수행하거나 이미 분할된 패턴을 그대로 이용하기 때문에 동적 재메싱이라고 보기 어려우며, 찢어진 패턴의 품질이 낮다. 본 논문에서는 GPU에 최적화된 동적 재메싱 알고리즘을 새롭게 제안함으로써 고해상도 옷감 찢어짐을 실시간으로 처리할 수 있게 한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 사전에 쪼개진 메쉬 형태가 아닌 동적 재메싱이 가능하기 때문에 가상 수술시뮬레이션이나, 실시간을 요구하는 게임 및 가상환경에서 물리 기반 모델링울 할 때 활용될 수 있다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.177-188
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• 2024

기술이 발전함에 따라 인터넷 사용량은 더욱 증가하고 있으며, 이를 통해 네트워크 트래픽 및 통신량이 기하학적으로 증가하고 있다. 인터넷의 핵심 요소 중 하나인 네트워크 경로 선택 프로세스는 이에 따라 더욱 복잡하고 고도화되고 있으며, 이를 효과적으로 관리하고 분석하는 것이 중요하다. 또한 이를 직관적으로 이해할 수 있는 표현 및 가시화 방안이 필요하다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 네트워크 경로 선택 방법인 BGP를 사용하여 네트워크 데이터를 분석하고, 상황인식을 위한 사이버 공통작전상황도에 이를 적용하는 프레임워크를 설계한다. 그 후 정보들을 가시화하기 위해 필요한 작전상황도 가시화 요소들을 분석하고 간단한 가시화를 구현하는 실험을 진행한다. 실험에서 수집되고 전처리된 데이터를 기반으로 구현된 가시화 화면들을 통해 지휘관 또는 보안 담당자들이 네트워크 상황을 효과적으로 파악하고 명령 및 제어를 할 수 있도록 도움을 준다.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.91-100
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• 2008

본 연구는 Cartesian 격자망을 기본으로 하여 복잡한 지형을 위한 격자를 간편하고 효율적으로 생성할 수 있는 기법인 분할격자체계를 제안하고자 한다. 분할격자기법은 전반적인 흐름영역의 격자는 균일한 크기의 Cartesian 격자로 표현하지만 수치모형의 정확성, 적용성 및 효율성을 증대시키기 위하여 흐름의 특성이 변하는 격자를 분할하여 처리하는 기법이다. 분할격자체계에 의한 격자망은 다양한 크기 및 형상을 지니게 되므로, 유한체적기법을 적용하여 복잡한 흐름영역을 위한 수치모형을 구성한다. HLLC Riemann 근사해법을 이용하여 지배방정식을 이산화하였으며, 수치해의 안정성을 기하기 위하여 TVD-WAF기법을 적용하였다. 분할격자체계를 이용한 수치모형을 검증하기 위하여 해석해가 존재하는 사각형수조의 자유진동흐름을 모의하였다. 해석해와 수치모의 결과를 비교하여 본 연구에서 제안된 기법이 균일격자 및 분할격자체계에서 자유수면변위 및 x-축 및 y-축 방향의 유속을 정확히 모의함을 확인하였다.