• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.1591-1600
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• 2011

The skyline of a multidimensional data set is the maximal subset whose elements are not dominated by other elements of the set. Skyline computation is considered to be very useful for a decision making system that deals with multidimensional data analyses. Recently, a great deal of interests has been shown to improve the performance of skyline computation algorithms. In order to speedup, the number of comparisons between data elements should be reduced. In this paper, we propose a filter lining scheme to accomplish such objectives. The scheme divides the multidimensional data space into angle-based partitions, and places a filter for each partition, and then connects them together in order to establish the final filter line. The filter line can be used to eliminate data, that are not part of the skyline, from the original data set in the preprocessing stage. The filter line is adaptively improved during the data scanning stage. In addition, skylines are computed for each remaining data partition, and are then merged to form the final skyline. Our scheme is an improvement of the previously reported simple preprocessing scheme using simple filters. The performance of the scheme is shown by experiments.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.1171-1180
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• 2015

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a graphical technique of multivariate analysis to display dissimilarities among individuals into low-dimensional space. We often have two kinds of MDS which are metric MDS and non-metric MDS. Metric MDS can be applied to quantitative data; however, we need additional information about variables because it only shows relationships among individuals. Gower (1992) proposed a method that can represent variable information using trajectories of the pseudo-points for quantitative variables on the metric MDS space. We will call his method a 'replacement method'. However, the trajectory can not be represented even though metric MDS can be applied to binary data when we apply his method to binary data. Therefore, we propose a method to represent information of binary variables using pseudo-points called a 'partition method'. The proposed method partitions pseudo-points, accounting both the rate of zeroes and ones. Our metric MDS using the proposed partition method can show the relationship between individuals and variables for binary data.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.5244-5259
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• 2019

With the continuous development of LBS (Location Based Service) applications, privacy protection has become an urgent problem to be solved. Differential privacy technology is based on strict mathematical theory that provides strong privacy guarantees where it supposes that the attacker has the worst-case background knowledge and that knowledge has been applied to different research directions such as data query, release, and mining. The difficulty of this research is how to ensure data availability while protecting privacy. Spatial multidimensional data are usually released by partitioning the domain into disjointed subsets, then generating a hierarchical index. The traditional data-dependent partition methods need to allocate a part of the privacy budgets for the partitioning process and split the budget among all the steps, which is inefficient. To address such issues, a novel two-step partition algorithm is proposed. First, we partition the original dataset into fixed grids, inject noise and synthesize a dataset according to the noisy count. Second, we perform IH-Tree (Improved H-Tree) partition on the synthetic dataset and use the resulting partition keys to split the original dataset. The algorithm can save the privacy budget allocated to the partitioning process and obtain a more accurate release. The algorithm has been tested on three real-world datasets and compares the accuracy with the state-of-the-art algorithms. The experimental results show that the relative errors of the range query are considerably reduced, especially on the large scale dataset.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.101-107
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• 2012

For each dimension exceeds 1, determining the number of multi-dimensional partitions of a positive integer is an open question in combinatorial number theory. For n ${\leq}$ 14 and d ${\geq}$ 1 we derive a formula for the function ${\wp}_d(n)$ where ${\wp}_d(n)$ denotes the number of partitions of n arranged on a d-dimensional space. We also give an another definition of the d-dimensional partitions using the union of finite number of divisor sets of integers.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.367-380
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• 2002

Due to recent increase in applications requiring huge amount of data such as spatial data analysis and image analysis, clustering on large databases has been actively studied. In a hierarchical clustering method, a tree representing hierarchical decomposition of the database is first created, and then, used for efficient clustering. Existing hierarchical clustering methods mainly adopted the bottom-up approach, which creates a tree from the bottom to the topmost level of the hierarchy. These bottom-up methods require at least one scan over the entire database in order to build the tree and need to search most nodes of the tree since the clustering algorithm starts from the leaf level. In this paper, we propose a novel top-down hierarchical clustering method that uses multidimensional indexes that are already maintained in most database applications. Generally, multidimensional indexes have the clustering property storing similar objects in the same (or adjacent) data pares. Using this property we can find adjacent objects without calculating distances among them. We first formally define the cluster based on the density of objects. For the definition, we propose the concept of the region contrast partition based on the density of the region. To speed up the clustering algorithm, we use the branch-and-bound algorithm. We propose the bounds and formally prove their correctness. Experimental results show that the proposed method is at least as effective in quality of clustering as BIRCH, a bottom-up hierarchical clustering method, while reducing the number of page accesses by up to 26～187 times depending on the size of the database. As a result, we believe that the proposed method significantly improves the clustering performance in large databases and is practically usable in various database applications.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.67-75
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• 2018

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is an exploratory analysis of multivariate data to represent the dissimilarity among objects in the geometric low-dimensional space. However, a general MDS map only shows the information of objects without any information about variables. In this study, we used MDS based on the algorithm of Torgerson (Theory and Methods of Scaling, Wiley, 1958) to visualize some clusters of objects in categorical data. For this, we convert given data into a multiple indicator matrix. Additionally, we added the information of levels for each categorical variable on the MDS map by applying the partition method of Shin et al. (Korean Journal of Applied Statistics, 28, 1171-1180, 2015). Therefore, we can find information on the similarity among objects as well as find associations among categorical variables using the proposed MDS map.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.153-167
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• 2001

다차원 온라인 분석처리(Multidimensional On-Line Analytical Processing: MOLAP)에서 집계 연산은 중요한 기본 연산이다. 기존의 MOLAP 집계 연산은 다차원 배열 구조를 기반으로 한 파일 구조에 대해서 연구되어 왔다. 이러한 파일 구조는 편중된 분포를 갖는 데이터에서는 잘 동작하지 못한다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 편중된 분포에도 잘 동작하는 다차원 파일구조를 사용한 집계 알고리즘을 제안한다. 먼저, 새로운 분리-포함 분할이라는 개념을 사용한 집계 연산 처리 모델을 제안한다. 집계 연산 처리에서 분리-포함 분할 개념을 사용하면 페이지들의 액세스 순서를 미리 알아 낼 수 있다는 특징을 가진다. 그리고, 제안한 모델에 기반하여 원-패스 버퍼 크기(one-pass buffer size)를 사용하여 집계 연산을 처리하는 원-패스 집계 알고리즘을 제안한다. 원-패스 버퍼 크기란 페이지 당 한 번의 디스크 액세스를 보장하기 위해 필요한 최소 버퍼 크기이다. 또한, 제안한 집계 연산 처리 모델 하에서 제안된 알고리즘이 최소의 원-패스 버퍼 크기를 갖는다는 것을 증명한다. 마지막으로, 많은 실험을 통하여 이론적으로 구한 원-패스 버퍼 크기가 실제 환경에서 정확히 동작함을 실험적으로 확인하였다. 리 알고리즘은 미리 알려진 페이지 액세스 순서를 이용하는 버퍼 교체 정책을 사용함으로써 최적의 원-패스 버퍼 크기를 달성한다. 제안하는 알고리즘을 여 러 집계 질의가 동시에 요청되는 다사용자 환경에서 특히 유용하다. 이는 이 알고리즘이 정규화 된 디스크 액세스 횟수를 1.0으로 유지하기 위해 반드시 필요한 크기의 버퍼만을 사용하기 때문이다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.258-268
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• 2004

We demonstrate rotationally invariant space-time (ST) trellis codes with a 4-D rectangular signal constellation for data transmission over fading channels using two transmit antennas. The rotational invariance is a good property to have that may alleviate the task of the carrier phase tracking circuit in the receiver. The transmitted data stream is segmented into eight bit blocks and quadrature amplitude modulated using a 256 point 4-D signal constellation whose 2-D constituent constellation is a 16 point square constellation doubly partitioned. The 4-D signal constellation is simply the Cartesian product of the 2-D signal constellation with it-self and has 32 subsets. The partition is performed on one side into four subsets A, B, C, and D with increased minimum-squared Euclidian distance, and on the other side into four rings, where each ring includes four points of equal energy. We propose both linear and nonlinear ST trellis codes and perform simulations using an appropriate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel model. The 4-D ST codes constructed here demonstrate about the same frame error rate (FER) performance as their 2-D counterparts, having however the added value of rotational invariance.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.12
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• pp.726-734
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• 2004

This paper presents a facial animation method that enables the user to select a sequence of facial frames from the facial expression space, whose level of details the user can select hierarchically Our system creates the facial expression space from about 2400 captured facial frames. To represent the state of each expression, we use the distance matrix that represents the distance between pairs of feature points on the face. The shortest trajectories are found by dynamic programming. The space of facial expressions is multidimensional. To navigate this space, we visualize the space of expressions in 2D space by using the multidimensional scaling(MDS). But because there are too many facial expressions to select from, the user faces difficulty in navigating the space. So, we visualize the space hierarchically. To partition the space into a hierarchy of subspaces, we use fuzzy clustering. In the beginning, the system creates about 10 clusters from the space of 2400 facial expressions. Every tine the level increases, the system doubles the number of clusters. The cluster centers are displayed on 2D screen and are used as candidate key frames for key frame animation. The user selects new key frames along the navigation path of the previous level. At the maximum level, the user completes key frame specification. We let animators use the system to create example animations, and evaluate the system based on the results.