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A User-centered Classification Framework for Digital Service Innovation : Case for Elderly Care Service

  • Lim, Hong-Tak;Han, Jeong-Won
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 2018
  • Digital technology has been changing everyday life of ordinary people let alone the structure of world industry. The elderly care service is also going through changes influenced by the unavoidable impact from torrents of digital technologies. There are numerous reports and news about the digital technologies increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of care service yet lacking systematic understanding of the sources of such improvement. This study aims to present a new classification framework for digital elderly care service innovation to fully utilize the power of digital technologies drawing on insights from innovation studies and service studies. First, 4 features of digital technologies are identified as sources of new value in service innovation. The co-creation of value by users and producers in service and technology development is discussed to illuminate users' contributions to service innovation. Communication of needs and ideas with producers and application of new technologies into everyday practice of life are identified as the source of new value which can be attributed to the elderly. Customization along with efficiency gains is the key to digital elderly care service innovation. The classification framework, thus, incorporates the needs of the elderly as one axis of criteria in the conventional technology-centered framework. The new classification framework would help give due weight to user-driven or demand-driven innovation in the elderly care service R&D activities.

Probability Sampling Method for a Hidden Population Using Respondent-Driven Sampling: Simulation for Cancer Survivors

  • Jung, Minsoo
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.4677-4683
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    • 2015
  • When there is no sampling frame within a certain group or the group is concerned that making its population public would bring social stigma, we say the population is hidden. It is difficult to approach this kind of population survey-methodologically because the response rate is low and its members are not quite honest with their responses when probability sampling is used. The only alternative known to address the problems caused by previous methods such as snowball sampling is respondent-driven sampling (RDS), which was developed by Heckathorn and his colleagues. RDS is based on a Markov chain, and uses the social network information of the respondent. This characteristic allows for probability sampling when we survey a hidden population. We verified through computer simulation whether RDS can be used on a hidden population of cancer survivors. According to the simulation results of this thesis, the chain-referral sampling of RDS tends to minimize as the sample gets bigger, and it becomes stabilized as the wave progresses. Therefore, it shows that the final sample information can be completely independent from the initial seeds if a certain level of sample size is secured even if the initial seeds were selected through convenient sampling. Thus, RDS can be considered as an alternative which can improve upon both key informant sampling and ethnographic surveys, and it needs to be utilized for various cases domestically as well.

Business Driven Science and Technology Parks (STPs) for Accelerating Innovation: Cases from Malaysia and India

  • Mohan, Avvari V.
    • World Technopolis Review
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.114-121
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    • 2014
  • This paper presents two cases of Science and Technology Parks (STPs), from Malaysia and India, that are driven by business organisations in partnership with governments. The need to locate the STP near to a university or a research institute has been considered crucial to attract firms to the STP - but in this paper, we illustrate the efforts to develop a locally relevant STP through the cases of Pahang Bio Science in Malaysia and the ICICI Knowledge Park (now known as IKP) in Hyderabad India. These two developments are anchored by business organisations that are playing a pivotal role in their development. The government plays a supporting role in terms of policy and supplying certain complementary resources. In addition, we note that the government support also provides legitimacy for the business organisation developing the STP. In the case of the Malaysian STP, we note the approach is towards inclusive development by developing linkages to local communities, and in the case of the Indian STP, one can see the development of the STP in a dynamic way changing according to the needs of the sector. Especially interesting is the foresight by the nodal business organisations in developing the STPs.

A Study on Collaborative Fashion Consumption Platform (협력적 패션 소비 플랫폼 연구)

  • Cho, Minjung;Ko, Eunju
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.777-788
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    • 2020
  • Growth in the sharing economy and sustainability have grown has influenced collaborative consumption that values usage rather than ownership. Collaborative fashion consumption platforms have become a rapidly growing business and need to be investigated. A theoretical review and case study were conducted to analyze the typology of collaborative fashion consumption consisting of renters, lenders, and platforms. Applying the nascent literature of partial organization, this paper outlines a typology, user-driven types in which lenders take responsibility to manage rental products and platform-driven types in which platforms are in charge. Four representative cases such as Hurr Collective, Villageluxe, Wardrobe, and Closetshare were selected in order to derive the roles of collaborative fashion consumption platforms. First, it is critical to balance between renters and lenders in collaborative fashion consumption platforms. Second, it is imperative to establish trust about the platform and formulate mutually understandable guidelines. Third, the concept of lenders needs to be broadened to individuals as well as fashion brand companies. Fourth, it is necessary to improve interaction between renters and lenders in platform-driven types. This study represents one careful step to understand collaborative consumption platforms that also provides managerial and academic implications.

A Causal Knowledge-Driven Inference Engine for Expert System

  • Lee, Kun-Chang;Kim, Hyun-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.70-77
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    • 1998
  • Although many methods of knowledge acquisition has been developed in the exper systems field, such a need form causal knowledge acquisition hs not been stressed relatively. In this respect, this paper is aimed at suggesting a causal knowledge acquisition process, and then investigate the causal knowledge-based inference process. A vehicle for causal knowledge acquisition is FCM (Fuzzy Cognitive Map), a fuzzy signed digraph with causal relationships between concept variables found in a specific application domain. Although FCM has a plenty of generic properties for causal knowledge acquisition, it needs some theoretical improvement for acquiring a more refined causal knowledge. In this sense, we refine fuzzy implications of FCM by proposing fuzzy causal relationship and fuzzy partially causal relationship. To test the validity of our proposed approach, we prototyped a causal knowledge-driven inference engine named CAKES and then experimented with some illustrative examples.

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Extraction of Geometric Components of Buildings with Gradients-driven Properties

  • Seo, Su-Young;Kim, Byung-Guk
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.723-733
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    • 2009
  • This study proposes a sequence of procedures to extract building boundaries and planar patches through segmentation of rasterized lidar data. Although previous approaches to building extraction have been shown satisfactory, there still exist needs to increase the degree of automation. The methodologies proposed in this study are as follows: Firstly, lidar data are rasterized into grid form in order to exploit its rapid access to neighboring elevations and image operations. Secondly, propagation of errors in raw data is taken into account for in assessing the quality of gradients-driven properties and further in choosing suitable parameters. Thirdly, extraction of planar patches is conducted through a sequence of processes: histogram analysis, least squares fitting, and region merging. Experimental results show that the geometric components of building models could be extracted by the proposed approach in a streamlined way.

Study on Cooling Charcteristics of Forced Evaporation by using Steam Ejector (스팀 에젝터에 의한 강제 증발 방식의 냉각 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Son, H.J.;Lee, Y.H.;Kim, Y.G.;Jeong, H.M
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 2006
  • This study shows a water cooling system by using a steam ejector and jet condenser to drop the temperature of the water by about $5^{\circ}C\;from\;25^{\circ}C$ or higher. In this research, to replace the present water cooling system, we focused on a water cooling system by latent heat of evaporation, thus this system needs a vacuum pressure to evaporate the water in enclosed tank. The water cooling effects are depended on the vacuum pressure in the enclosed tank, and the cooling water is generated by latent head of evaporation. As the experimental results, the absolute vacuum pressure obtained was about $5{\sim}8$ mmHg using a steam driven ejector with jet condenser.

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A Study on the Digital Control of Single Phase Induction Motor Driven by the Full Bridge Resonant Inverter(2) (전브리지 공진형 인버터에 의한 단상 유도전동기의 디지탈 제어에 관한 연구(2))

  • 노영오;박진길
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.86-98
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    • 1993
  • The application of A.C. motor for servo system is rapidly increased according to the recent advance of power electronics and digital control techniques. The induction motor which has a simple structure and needs less maintenance has become to be used widely in the industrial field for the speed and position control recently. In this paper, the full-bridge resonant inverter is applied to the speed control of single phase inducting motor. The digital PID control algorithm is used and the control parameter is determined by the Zigler-Nichols transient response method. The speed control is carried out by the one chip micro-processor(intel EV 8097BH) and control program is developed by the assembly language. By the experimental result, it is confirmed that the speed of single phase induction motor driven by full bridge series inverter can be smoothly controlled by a digital PID controller.

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The System Architecture and Standardzation of Production IT Convergence for Smart Factory (스마트공장을 위한 IT 융합 표준화 동향 분석과 시스템 구조)

  • Cha, Suk Keun;Yoon, Jae Young;Hong, Jeong Ki;Kang, Hyun Gu;Cho, Hyeon Chan
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2015
  • Smart factory requires 4 Zero factors including Zero Waiting-time, Zero Inventory, Zero Defect, Zero Down-time) that needs IT convergence for production resources of 4M1E(Man, Machine, Material, Method, Energy) in real time and event processing in all type of manufacturing enterprises. This paper will be explaining about core emerging production IT convergence technologies including cyber device security, 4M1E integration, real time event driven architecture, common platform of manufacturing standard applications, smart factory to-be model for small and medium manufacturing enterprises.

Inner Evaporative Cooling Wind Power Generator with Non-overlapping Concentrated Windings

  • Li, Wang;Wang, Haifeng
    • Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.15-19
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    • 2014
  • As the space of the wind power generator stator end is limited, it is difficult for us to place the inner evaporative cooling system in it. We use the non-overlapping concentrated windings scheme to solve the placing and cooling problem. The characteristic of a 5MW direct-driven permanent magnet generator with non-overlapping concentrated windings were analyzed under no-load, rating-load and short-circuit by (Finite Element Method) FEM for verification of design. We studied the connection methods of the stator windings and designed the end connection member. The heat dissipation of the stator end was simulated by FEM, the result showed that the end cooling could satisfy the wind generator operation needs. These results show that the direct-driven permanent magnet wind power generators with non-overlapping concentrated windings and inner evaporative cooling system can solve the cooling problem of wind power generator, and obtain good performance at the same time.