• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.1583-1600
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• 2015

When natural disasters occur, including earthquakes, tsunamis, and debris flows, they are often accompanied by various types of damages such as the collapse of buildings, broken bridges and roads, and the destruction of natural scenery. Natural disaster detection and warning is an important issue which could help to reduce the incidence of serious damage to life and property as well as provide information for search and rescue afterwards. In this study, we propose a novel computer vision technique for debris flow detection which is feature-based that can be used to construct a debris flow event warning system. The landscape is composed of various elements, including trees, rocks, and buildings which are characterized by their features, shapes, positions, and colors. Unlike the traditional methods, our analysis relies on changes in the natural scenery which influence changes to the features. The "background module" and "monitoring module" procedures are designed and used to detect debris flows and construct an event warning system. The multi-criteria decision-making method used to construct an event warring system includes gradient information and the percentage of variation of the features. To prove the feasibility of the proposed method for detecting debris flows, some real cases of debris flows are analyzed. The natural environment is simulated and an event warning system is constructed to warn of debris flows. Debris flows are successfully detected using these two procedures, by analyzing the variation in the detected features and the matched feature. The feasibility of the event warning system is proven using the simulation method. Therefore, the feature based method is found to be useful for detecting debris flows and the event warning system is triggered when debris flows occur.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.187-195
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• 2009

결점나무 분석에서 불확실설 중요도 측도는 basic event 확률 ($q_i$)의 불확실성이 top event 확률 (Q)의 불확실성에 얼마나 많이 기여하는지를 나타내는 측도로서, top event 확률의 불확실성을 감소시키기 위하여 어떤 basic event 확률의 불확실성을 감소시키는 것이 효과적인지를 밝히는데 사용된다. $q_i$의 분산 $\upsilon_i$가 백분율 단위로 한 단위 변화될 때 Q의 분산 V의 변화량을 평가하는 측도가 불확실성 중요도 측도로서 많은 저자들에 의해 제안되었으며, 이 측도를 계산하기 위해서는 V와 ${\partial}V/{\partial}{\upsilon}_i$를 해석적인 방법이나 몬테칼로 시뮬레이션을 사용하여 계산해야 한다. 그러나 대규모 결점나무에 대해서 V와 ${\partial}V/{\partial}{\upsilon}_i$를 해석적인 방법으로 계산하는 것은 매우 복잡하며, 몬테칼로 시뮬레이션을 사용하여 V와 ${\partial}V/{\partial}{\upsilon}_i$의 안정적인 추정치를 얻는 것은 매우 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 불확실성 중요도 측도를 실험적인 방법을 이용하여 평가하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 몬테칼로 시뮬레이션을 이용하는 방법에 비해 계산량이 매우 적으며, 불확실성 중요도의 안정적 인 추정치를 제공한다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.129-134
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 하부 안전 시스템의 개선이 전체 안전 시스템에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위한 방법론을 개발하였다. 어느 하부 시스템의 안전성을 개선하느냐에 따라 전체 시스템의 안전성 증가는 서로 다르게 나타날 수도 있다. 본 연구에서는 베이지안 기법을 활용하여 사건가지와 상호연관도를 응용한 모형을 활용하였다. 또한 가지 파라메터의 확률 값 향상이 다음 번 사고까지의 시간을 어떻게 변화시키는지 연구하였다. 본 연구를 통해 우리가 관심을 갖고 있는 시스템 전체의 안전성 향상을 위해서는 어느 하부 시스템을 우선적으로 개선해야할지를 판단할 수 있게 한다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.97-105
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• 1984

고장수목 정점사상에 대한 이용불능도의 불화실성을 분석하기 위한 방법 및 전산코드를 개발하였으며 그 유용성을 검증하였다. 이 방법은 몬테카를로 방법과 모멘트 방법을 고장수목 축소 기법과 함께 조합하여 개발하였고 WASH-1400에 있는 고장수목과 신뢰도 자료를 이용하여 본 연구에서 개발된 코드의 효율성을 검증하였다. 몬테카를로 방법과의 비교결과 이 방법을 이응하면 계산시간을 상당히 줄일 수 있으며 충분히 정확한 결과를 얻을 수 있음을 입증하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.182-186
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• 2008

RFID systems generate huge amount of data quickly. The data are associated with the locations and the timestamps and the containment relationships. It is requires to assure efficient queries and updates for product tracking and monitoring. We propose a clustering technique for fast query processing. Our study presents the state charts of temporal event flow and proposes the dependence trees with data association and uses them to cluster the linked events. Our experimental evaluation show the power of proposing clustering technique based on dependence tree.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.25-37
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• 2008

In a fault tree analysis, an uncertainty importance measure is often used to assess how much uncertainty of the top event probability (Q) is attributable to the uncertainty of a basic event probability ($q_i$), and thus, to identify those basic events whose uncertainties need to be reduced to effectively reduce the uncertainty of Q. For evaluating the measures suggested by many authors which assess a percentage change in the variance V of Q with respect to unit percentage change in the variance $v_i$ of $q_i$, V and ${\partial}V/{\partial}v_i$ need to be estimated analytically or by Monte Carlo simulation. However, it is very complicated to analytically compute V and ${\partial}V/{\partial}v_i$ for large-sized fault trees, and difficult to estimate them in a robust manner by Monte Carlo simulation. In this paper, we propose a method for evaluating the measure using discretization technique and Monte Carlo simulation. The proposed method provides a stable uncertainty importance of each basic event.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.517-524
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• 2017

Cyber security is an important issue in the field of nuclear engineering because nuclear facilities use digital equipment and digital systems that can lead to serious hazards in the event of an accident. Regulatory agencies worldwide have announced guidelines for cyber security related to nuclear issues, including U.S. NRC Regulatory Guide 5.71. It is important to evaluate cyber security risk in accordance with these regulatory guides. In this study, we propose a cyber security risk evaluation model for nuclear instrumentation and control systems using a Bayesian network and event trees. As it is difficult to perform penetration tests on the systems, the evaluation model can inform research on cyber threats to cyber security systems for nuclear facilities through the use of prior and posterior information and backpropagation calculations. Furthermore, we suggest a methodology for the application of analytical results from the Bayesian network model to an event tree model, which is a probabilistic safety assessment method. The proposed method will provide insight into safety and cyber security risks.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권8호
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• pp.2933-2940
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• 2022

Approximations such as the delete-term approximation, rare event approximation, and minimal cutset upper bound (MCUB) need to be prudently applied for the quantification of a seismic probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) model. Important characteristics of seismic PSA models indicate that preserving the success branches in a primary seismic event tree is necessary. Based on the authors' experience in modeling and quantifying plant-level seismic PSA models, the effects of applying negate-down to the success branches in primary seismic event trees on the quantification results are summarized along with the following three insights gained: (1) there are two competing effects on the MCUB-based quantification results: one tending to increase and the other tending to decrease; (2) the binary decision diagram does not always provide exact quantification results; and (3) it is identified when the exact results will be obtained, and which combination provides more conservative results compared to the others. Complicated interactions occur in Boolean variable manipulation, approximation, and the quantification of a seismic PSA model. The insights presented herein can assist PSA analysts to better understand the important theoretical principles associated with the quantification of seismic PSA models.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.558-567
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• 2024

Diagnostic support systems are being researched to assist operators in identifying and responding to abnormal events in a nuclear power plant. Most studies to date have considered single abnormal events only, for which it is relatively straightforward to obtain data to train the deep learning model of the diagnostic support system. However, cases in which multiple abnormal events occur must also be considered, for which obtaining training data becomes difficult due to the large number of combinations of possible abnormal events. This study proposes an approach to maintain diagnostic performance for multiple abnormal events by training a deep learning model with data on single abnormal events only. The proposed approach is applied to an existing algorithm that can perform feature selection and multi-label classification. We choose an extremely randomized trees classifier to select dedicated monitoring parameters for target abnormal events. In diagnosing each event occurrence independently, two-channel convolutional neural networks are employed as sub-models. The algorithm was tested in a case study with various scenarios, including single and multiple abnormal events. Results demonstrated that the proposed approach maintained diagnostic performance for 15 single abnormal events and significantly improved performance for 105 multiple abnormal events compared to the base model.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.115-125
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• 2020

Background: The phenomenon of tree dieback in forest ecosystems around the world, which is known to be associated with high temperatures that occur simultaneously with drought, has received much attention. Korea is experiencing a rapid rise in temperature relative to other regions. Particularly in the growth of evergreen conifers, temperature increases in winter and spring can have great influence. In recent years, there have been reports of group dieback of Pinus densiflora trees in Korea, and many studies are being conducted to identify the causes. However, research on techniques to diagnose and monitor drought stress in forest ecosystems on local and regional scales has been lacking. Results: In this study, we developed and evaluated an index to identify drought and high-temperature vulnerability in Pinus densiflora forests. We found the Drought Stress Index (DSI) that we developed to be effective in generally assessing the drought-reactive physiology of trees. During 2001-2016, in Korea, we refined the index and produced DSI data from a 1 × 1-km unit grid spanning the entire country. We found that the DSI data correlated with the event data of Pinus densiflora mass dieback compiled in this study. The average DSI value at times of occurrence of Pinus densiflora group dieback was 0.6, which was notably higher than during times of nonoccurrence. Conclusions: Our combination of the Standard Precipitation Index and growing degree days evolved and short- and long-term effects into a new index by which we found meaningful results using dieback event data. Topographical and biological factors and climate data should be considered to improve the DSI. This study serves as the first step in developing an even more robust index to monitor the vulnerability of forest ecosystems in Korea.