• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.55-79
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA) approach to effectively solve the reverse logistics network with centralized centers (RLNCC). For the proposed HGA approach, genetic algorithm (GA) is used as a main algorithm. For implementing GA, a new bit-string representation scheme using 0 and 1 values is suggested, which can easily make initial population of GA. As genetic operators, the elitist strategy in enlarged sampling space developed by Gen and Chang (1997), a new two-point crossover operator, and a new random mutation operator are used for selection, crossover and mutation, respectively. For hybrid concept of GA, an iterative hill climbing method (IHCM) developed by Michalewicz (1994) is inserted into HGA search loop. The IHCM is one of local search techniques and precisely explores the space converged by GA search. The RLNCC is composed of collection centers, remanufacturing centers, redistribution centers, and secondary markets in reverse logistics networks. Of the centers and secondary markets, only one collection center, remanufacturing center, redistribution center, and secondary market should be opened in reverse logistics networks. Some assumptions are considered for effectively implementing the RLNCC The RLNCC is represented by a mixed integer programming (MIP) model using indexes, parameters and decision variables. The objective function of the MIP model is to minimize the total cost which is consisted of transportation cost, fixed cost, and handling cost. The transportation cost is obtained by transporting the returned products between each centers and secondary markets. The fixed cost is calculated by opening or closing decision at each center and secondary markets. That is, if there are three collection centers (the opening costs of collection center 1 2, and 3 are 10.5, 12.1, 8.9, respectively), and the collection center 1 is opened and the remainders are all closed, then the fixed cost is 10.5. The handling cost means the cost of treating the products returned from customers at each center and secondary markets which are opened at each RLNCC stage. The RLNCC is solved by the proposed HGA approach. In numerical experiment, the proposed HGA and a conventional competing approach is compared with each other using various measures of performance. For the conventional competing approach, the GA approach by Yun (2013) is used. The GA approach has not any local search technique such as the IHCM proposed the HGA approach. As measures of performance, CPU time, optimal solution, and optimal setting are used. Two types of the RLNCC with different numbers of customers, collection centers, remanufacturing centers, redistribution centers and secondary markets are presented for comparing the performances of the HGA and GA approaches. The MIP models using the two types of the RLNCC are programmed by Visual Basic Version 6.0, and the computer implementing environment is the IBM compatible PC with 3.06Ghz CPU speed and 1GB RAM on Windows XP. The parameters used in the HGA and GA approaches are that the total number of generations is 10,000, population size 20, crossover rate 0.5, mutation rate 0.1, and the search range for the IHCM is 2.0. Total 20 iterations are made for eliminating the randomness of the searches of the HGA and GA approaches. With performance comparisons, network representations by opening/closing decision, and convergence processes using two types of the RLNCCs, the experimental result shows that the HGA has significantly better performance in terms of the optimal solution than the GA, though the GA is slightly quicker than the HGA in terms of the CPU time. Finally, it has been proved that the proposed HGA approach is more efficient than conventional GA approach in two types of the RLNCC since the former has a GA search process as well as a local search process for additional search scheme, while the latter has a GA search process alone. For a future study, much more large-sized RLNCCs will be tested for robustness of our approach.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.21-28
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• 2008

In this paper, the edge parameters were drawn from speaking image around lip and effective automatic lip reading system to recognize the Korean 'a/e/i/o/u' 5 owels were constructed using the parameter. Speaking images around lip were divided into $5{\times}5$ pane. In each pane the number of digital edge element using Sobel operator were evaluated. The observational error between samples was corrected by using normalization method and the normalized value is used for parameter In the experiment to convince the strength of parameter, 50 normal persons were sampled. The images of 10 persons were analyzed and the images of another 40 persons were experimented for recognition. 500 data are gathered and analyzed. Based on this analysis, the neural net system is constructed and the recognition experiments are performed for 400 data. The neural net system gave the best recognition result of 91.1%.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.89-97
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• 2013

Recently, economic and social damages are globally increased due to the heavy snowfall caused by global warming. To reduce the damages of sudden regional heavy snow in roads, suitable countermeasures should be established based on the accurate detection of snowfall intensity for each roadway segment. In this paper, we deal with snowfall intensity detecting algorithm in the road area from CCD Imagery. First, we determine the MLZ (MotionLess Zone), which does not contain lane markings and moving cars, in the image space. Next, snow streaks trespassing the MLZ are extracted with Canny operator and proposed algorithm. Also, the concept of SII (Snow Intensity Index), which is the number of snow streaks during one minute in the MLZ, is defined. Finally, the effectiveness of proposed algorithm is proved by visually comparing the imagery and SII value obtained during 69 minutes. In consequence, we figured out that the integration of SII is significantly related to an actual amount of snowfall.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.101-108
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• 1992

This study is some parts, the contents on "Course of Power Machinery and of Automated-Ship Operation", of the results of the sixth curriculum, revision study for the fisheries high schools and merchant marine high schools. In this study, it was suggested that the existing name "the Course of Marine Engine" is revised to "the Course of Power Machinery" and "the Course of Automated-Ship Operation" is newly established. The purpose of the revision of the name to "the Course of Power Machinery" is to give the course a more flexible curriculum which enables the course to bring up not only sea duty marine engineers but also shore duty power engineers. Also, the purpose of the new establishment of "the Course of Automated-Ship Operation" is to bring up automated-ship operators. The necessities for automated-ship operator is derived from the process of ship automation to reduce the number of crew to cut down the expenses. The revised parts of the organization of the professional subjects exclusively related to "the Course of Power Machinery" and "the Course of Automated-Ship Operation" are summarised as follows; (l) The Automated-Ship are newly added. (2) The Sea Training, the Fisheries Law are Disused. (3) The Introduction to Ship, the Introduction to Marine Engine and the Introduction to Marine Communication are merged into the Introduction to Ship. (4) The name of the Marine Engine, the Shipping Business are revised to the Heat Engine, the Introduction to Shipping respectively. (5) M compulsory professional subjects, the Introduction to Fisheries is suggested for the fisheries high schools and the Introduction to Shipping is suggested for the merchant marine high schools.

• The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.25-31
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• 2020

Purpose: The AEO (Authorized Economic Operator) program, created in 2001 in the United States due to 9.11 terrorist's attack, fundamentally changed the trade environment. Korea, which introduced AEO program in 2009, has become one of the world's top countries in the program by ranking 6th in the number of AEO certified companies and the world's No. 1 in MRA (Mutual Recognition Agreement) conclusions. In this paper, we examined what trade-economic and non-economic effects the AEO program and its MRA have in Korea. Research design, data and methodology: In this study we developed a model to verify the impact between utilization of AEO and trade-economic effects of the AEO and its MRA. After analyzing the validity and reliability of the model through Structural Equation Model we conducted a survey to request AEO companies to respond their experience on the effects of AEO program and MRA. As a result, 196 responses were received from 176 AEO companies and utilized in the analysis. Results: With regard to economic effects, the AEO program and the MRA have not been directly linked to financial performance, such as increased sales, increased export and import volumes, reduced management costs, and increased operating profit margins. However, it was analyzed that the positive effects of supply chain management were evident, such as strengthening self-security, monitoring and evaluating risks regularly, strengthening cooperation with trading companies, enhancing cargo tracking capabilities, and reducing the time required for export and import. Conclusions: When it comes to the trade-economic effects of AEO program and its MRA, AEO companies did not satisfy with direct effects, such as increased sales and volume of imports and exports, reduced logistics costs. However, non-economic effects, such as reduced time in customs clearance, freight tracking capability, enhanced security in supply chain are still appears to be big for them. In a rapidly changing trade environment the AEO and MRA are still useful. Therefore the government needs to encourage non-AEO companies to join the AEO program, expand MRA conclusion with AEO adopted countries especially developing ones and help AEO companies make good use of AEO and MRA.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.142-155
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• 2017

It is anticipated that, in cases in which different train operators share railway network, conflicts may occur among train operators with regard to train operation rate, train priorities, and arrival and departure time; besides this, during times when there is high demand for trains, operators will request train operations intensively, steadily increasing train conflict phenomena. In the present study, train operation sequence, minimum headway, arrival and departure time, train priorities, etc., were analyzed, and while using train departure times as decision variables in variably given train schedules, by adjusting train time requested by train operators, and finally rejecting the train times in cases in which conflict resolution is impossible, so that various constraints can be satisfied, a train slot allocation model was suggested to find the objective function, that is, the maximum number of train slots that can be practically applicable to railway operation.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.33-39
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• 2018

For the integration test in the current field of defense simulation, each actual equipment and simulator's logging information is automated. Although the event of the integrated test system is written in the test log, it is not automated, and relies on the operator's handwriting or file creation, resulting in ineffective aspects such as low-quality record content and repetition of the same content. In this study, we propose the automatic test report recording program that solves these problems. Automatic test report recording program uses framework-based technology to receive information from the test control computer and user to record a log of the test log. Automatic test report recording program allows the user to record the repeated test content in a stable manner. Additionally, even if the number of test operators is limited, the efficiency is improved so that we can fucus on the integration test.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.11
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• pp.479-486
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• 2014

MapReduce is a programing model used for parallelly processing a large amount of data. To analyze a large amount data, the data cube is widely used, which is an operator that computes group-bys for all possible combinations of given dimension attributes. When the number of dimension attributes is n, the data cube computes $2^n$ group-bys. In this paper, we propose an efficient method for computing data cubes using MapReduce. The proposed method partitions $2^n$ group-bys into $_nC_{{\lceil}n/2{\rceil}}$ batches, and computes those batches in stages using ${\lceil}n/2{\rceil}$ MapReduce jobs. Compared to the existing methods, the proposed method significantly reduces the amount of intermediate data generated by mappers, so that the cost of sorting and transferring those intermediate data is reduced significantly. Consequently, the total processing time for computing a data cube is reduced. Through experiments, we show the efficiency of the proposed method over the existing methods.

• Korean Journal of Head & Neck Oncology
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.122-124
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• 2012

Introduction : No drain technique during parotidectomy had been introduced to reduce postoperative morbidity and to minimize hospital stay in a few previous publications. Since the authors have applied this technique in select patients for several years, we wanted to evaluate the feasibility and usefulness of no drain parotidectomy. Material & Methods : We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 96 patients who underwent superficial or total parotidectomy by one surgeon from May 2005 to July 2012. The decision on drain insertion was made by the operator at the end of the surgery. The patients were categorized as drain insertion group and no drain group. Results : The patients who have smaller tumors and benign lesions were more frequently chosen into no drain group. Hospital stay was shorter in no drain group than in drain insertion group. Although no drain group showed increased number of acute complications such as seroma and hematoma, the complications were mild and could be controlled easily at the outpatient clinic. Conclusion : No drain technique during parotidectomy could be done relatively safely in select patients and it could reduce hospital stay.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.478-482
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• 2002

Recently, the demand for the optical cable is rapidly glowing because the number of internet user increases and high speed internet data transmission is required. To meet this demand, it is necessary to have a sufficient manufacturing capability for mass and high-quality production. But the present optical cable winding system has some serious problems such that the optical cable of radius (6 mm -40 mm) is often piled up and collapsed usually at the edge of the bobbin in the process of the cable winding. It is often necessary to have an additional operator in order to adjust the cable, which causes the productivity decrease. In order to improve a performance of cable winding system which deals with relatively thick cable( radius : 6 mm -40 mm ), we developed a new guiding system for a high-speed self-align cable winding. First of all, the winding mechanism was analyzed. Synchronization logics for the motions of winding, traversing, and the guiding were created and implemented by using the PLC and guiding system controller in a prototype cable winding system manufactured in the CILS( Computer Integrated Large scale System ) lab. An experimental verification was carried out to validate the logic. Results showed that the winding system with the developed guiding system outperformed in reducing pile-up and collapse in the high-speed winding(up to 300 mm/s) compared with the system without the guiding system.