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Incentivizing User Contributions in Idea Crowdsourcing through Quantitative and Qualitative Feedback : A Field Experiment

  • Cho, Sook-Hyun;Lee, Sang-Min;Moon, Jae Yun
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.19-33
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    • 2014
  • Crowdsourcing is a popular tool for firms to harness external knowledge and resources. One variation of crowdsourcing entails the use of corporate channels in social network services (SNS) such as Twitter to hold public idea competitions. This study examined the role of feedback interaction between participants of idea competitions. More specifically, the study examined the impact of incentives to provide feedback on other participants' ideas. We found that idea competitions where explicit incentives were introduced to elicit crowdsourced feedback in the form of qualitative comments resulted in improved idea generation performance-with more ideas generated overall, and more ideas generated through participant collaborations, through increased comment-posting activities. Based on the findings, implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Mining Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Trajectory Data

  • Kang, Ju-Young;Yong, Hwan-Seung
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.521-536
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    • 2010
  • Spatio-temporal patterns extracted from historical trajectories of moving objects reveal important knowledge about movement behavior for high quality LBS services. Existing approaches transform trajectories into sequences of location symbols and derive frequent subsequences by applying conventional sequential pattern mining algorithms. However, spatio-temporal correlations may be lost due to the inappropriate approximations of spatial and temporal properties. In this paper, we address the problem of mining spatio-temporal patterns from trajectory data. The inefficient description of temporal information decreases the mining efficiency and the interpretability of the patterns. We provide a formal statement of efficient representation of spatio-temporal movements and propose a new approach to discover spatio-temporal patterns in trajectory data. The proposed method first finds meaningful spatio-temporal regions and extracts frequent spatio-temporal patterns based on a prefix-projection approach from the sequences of these regions. We experimentally analyze that the proposed method improves mining performance and derives more intuitive patterns.

A Rule-based Services of Multi-Agents for Ubiquitous Systems (유비쿼터스 시스템을 위한 다중 에이전트 규칙 기반 서비스)

  • 최정화;박영택
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.88-90
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    • 2004
  • 유비쿼터스 환경에서 에이전트는 사용자와 시스템의 인터페이스 역할을 한다. 본 논문에서는 현재 상황을 인지하여 사용자의 행위에 따른 서비스를 제공하는 연구를 수행하였다. 본 논문에서 사용하는 서비스 추론 방법은 온톨로지를 기반으로 정의한 도메인에 대한 규칙을 사용한다. 온톨로지는 다양한 환경에서 도메인의 지식(knowledge)을 공유하고 재 사용할 수 있기 때문에 현재 상황에 맞는 서비스를 추론할 수 있다. 또한 본 논문에서는 에이전트의 역할을 나누고 에이전트간의 커뮤니케이션을 통해 추론된 서비스를 환경에 반영한다. 이처럼 온톨로지를 이용하여 환경을 모델링 하고 규칙을 기반으로 서비스를 추론함으로, 같은 상황이더라도 사용자에 따라 추론되어지는 서비스가 달라진다. 즉, 주어진 상황뿐 아니라 사용자에 따라 제공되는 서비스가 달라지도록 사용자 중심의 서비스 예측의 정확성을 높이도록 연구하였다.

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Exploring the Use of Balanced Scorecards in Swedish Health Care Organizations

  • Kollberg, Beata;Elg, Mattias
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.1-18
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    • 2006
  • Many Swedish health care organizations have during the last decade started implementing the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a systematic way of following-up and analyzing their activities. However, the knowledge of its use and contribution in a health care context is insufficient. Based on a multiple case study the authors explore the use of the BSC in the Swedish health care services. The authors conclude that the concept in a health care context is used as a quality management tool that make new demands on management. In addition, the authors bring out important factors for a long-term use of the BSC.

A Study on an Internet-based Remote Diagnosis System for Machine Tool Failures (인터넷 기반의 공작기계 고장 원격 진단시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Dae-Chon;Kang, Mu-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.16 no.9
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    • pp.75-81
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    • 1999
  • In order to remain competitive, a manufacturing company needs to maintain the optimal condition of its manufacturing system. Machine tools as an important element of a manufacturing system consist of complex mechanical as well as electronic components. Therefore, diagnosing the troubles of machine tools is a tricky process which requires a lot of experience and knowledge. Since providing machine tool users with necessary services at the right time is very difficult and expensive, a remote diagnosis system is to be regarded as a good alternative, with which users can diagnose and fix the machine troubles. This paper presents a framework for a remote machine tools diagnosis system by combining the world wide web technology and backward reasoning expert system.

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New Downy Mildew Disease Caused by Hyaloperonospora brassicae on Pak choi (Brassica rapa) in Korea

  • Lee, Hyun Ju;Lee, Jae Sung;Choi, Young-Joon
    • Research in Plant Disease
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.98-101
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    • 2019
  • Pak choi (or a Bok choy; Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) is a popular brassicaceous vegetable worldwide. In January 2019, a downy mildew symptom on pak choi was found at a farm located in Yongin, Korea. Based on morphological characteristics and molecular phylogenetic inference, the pathogenic oomycete was identified as Hyaloperonospora brassicae. To our knowledge, this is the first report of downy mildew disease occurring on pak choi in Korea. Considering the increasing demand for this crop, this pathogen would be a potentially new threat to the cultivation of pak choi in Korea.

Research on big data curriculum in university suitable for the era of the 4th industrial revolution (4차 산업혁명 시대에 적합한 빅데이터 대학 교육과정 연구)

  • Choi, Hun;Kim, Gimun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.24 no.11
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    • pp.1562-1565
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    • 2020
  • With the development of digital technology, the industrial structure is becoming digitalize. The government selected big data as the key technology of the 4th industrial revolution. Among them, big data is widely used to create new values and services by utilizing vast amounts of information. In order to cultivate professional manpower for the use of big data, various education programs are provided at universities. We intend to develop a curriculum for systematic training of talented people who can acquire knowledge about the three stages of collection, analysis, and application of big data. To this end, subjects are classified into basic competency, technical competency, analysis competency, and business competency based on the big data competency model proposed by the Korea Internet & Security Agency.

Efficiency and continuancy of basic CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) education for the higher grade students of elementary schools (초등학교 고학년생의 기본심폐소생술 교육효과 및 지속성)

  • Kim, Hee-Jung
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.87-98
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    • 2008
  • Purpose : This study was designed to figure out the necessity of continuing basic CPR education for the higher grade students of elementary school. The assessment contents were knowledge, practice ability, precision level of CPR skills and continuation of the educational efficiency. Methods : Twenty two students of 4th and 5th grade of elementary school in K city in Chungcheongnam-do were recruited for this study. The study method was a control group of non-synchronized design. A preliminary study was done on October 27 in 2006. The main study was performed from February 14 to May 11 in 2007. The researcher adopted the method of Kyung-hui, Kang (1998) such as awareness, attitude and knowledge in control group, emergency medical technician test protocol, Anne/SkillReporter$^{(R)}$ in case of the basic CPR knowledge. Four times of measures were done in shortly after practicing CPR, 4 weeks after the education, 8 weeks after the education, and 12 weeks after the education. By using SPSS/PC+ (version 12.0), the researcher analyzed the collected data based on frequency, percentage, repeated measurement, ANOVA (analysis of variance), and sidak (multiple comparison - sidak). Results : 1) The confidence of people in the control group in terms of practicing CPR showed a statistically meaningful difference (t = 10.230, p = .000) before/after CPR education. Therefore, hypothesis No.1-1 was accepted. 2) The educational necessity of people in the control group showed no statistically meaningful difference (t = -1.695, p = 0.105) before/after CPR education. Therefore, hypothesis No.1-2 was rejected. 3) The knowledge points of people in the control group showed a statistically meaningful difference (t = -7.731, p = .000) before/after CPR education. Therefore, hypothesis No.2 was accepted. 4) The confidence of people in the control group in terms of practicing CRP showed no meaningful difference (F = 2.789, p = 0.072) as time passed. Therefore, hypothesis No.3 was rejected. 5) The knowledge of people in the control group showed a meaningful difference (F = 9.090, p = .000) as time passed. Therefore, hypothesis No.4 was accepted. 6) The capability of people in the control group in terms of practicing CPR showed a statistically meaningful difference (F = 42.795, p = .000) as time passed. Therefore, hypothesis No.5 was accepted. 7) The precision level of CPR skill of people in the control group showed a statistically meaningful difference (F = 25.198, p = .000) as time passed. Therefore, hypothesis No.6-1 was accepted. 8) The precision level of chest compression skill of people in the control group showed a statistically meaningful difference (F = 5.188, p = .003). Therefore, hypothesis No.6-2 was accepted. Conclusion : In a nutshell, CPR education for the 4th and 5th graders of elementary schools had an influence on their confidence in practicing CPR and on their knowledge. This study showed that as time passed. the educational effect declined in terms of knowledge point, capability of practicing CPR, and the precision level of CRP skill. The results of the study could be postulated into the fact that re-education within 8 weeks after the first education was essential to retaining the educational effect. Therefore, we need to vitalize the CPR education for elementary school students repeatedly on a regular basis in order to continue the educational effect after they were grown-ups and to make them play their roles as a first aider.

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U-Learning of 21 Century University Education Paradigm (21세기 대학교육 패러다임의 U-Learning)

  • Park, Chun-Myoug
    • The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.69-75
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    • 2011
  • This paper presents a model of e-learning based on ubiquitous computing configuration. First of all, we survey the advanced e-learning systems for foreign and domestic universities. Next we propose the optimal e-learning model based on ubiquitous computing configuration. The proposed e-learning model as following. we propose the e-learning system's hardware and software configurations, that are server and networking systems. Also, we construct the proposed e-learning systems's services. There are attendance and absence service, class management service, common knowledge service, score processing service, facilities management service, personal management service, personal authorization issue management service, campus guide service, lecture-hall management service. Then we propose the laboratory equipment management service, experimental materials management service etc. The proposed model of e-learning based on ubiquitous computing configuration will be able to contribute to the next generation university educational paradigm.

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A Solution to Privacy Preservation in Publishing Human Trajectories

  • Li, Xianming;Sun, Guangzhong
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.8
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    • pp.3328-3349
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    • 2020
  • With rapid development of ubiquitous computing and location-based services (LBSs), human trajectory data and associated activities are increasingly easily recorded. Inappropriately publishing trajectory data may leak users' privacy. Therefore, we study publishing trajectory data while preserving privacy, denoted privacy-preserving activity trajectories publishing (PPATP). We propose S-PPATP to solve this problem. S-PPATP comprises three steps: modeling, algorithm design and algorithm adjustment. During modeling, two user models describe users' behaviors: one based on a Markov chain and the other based on the hidden Markov model. We assume a potential adversary who intends to infer users' privacy, defined as a set of sensitive information. An adversary model is then proposed to define the adversary's background knowledge and inference method. Additionally, privacy requirements and a data quality metric are defined for assessment. During algorithm design, we propose two publishing algorithms corresponding to the user models and prove that both algorithms satisfy the privacy requirement. Then, we perform a comparative analysis on utility, efficiency and speedup techniques. Finally, we evaluate our algorithms through experiments on several datasets. The experiment results verify that our proposed algorithms preserve users' privay. We also test utility and discuss the privacy-utility tradeoff that real-world data publishers may face.