• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.79-106
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• 2005

This study, by adopting case study methodology, is focused on examining the present state and analyzing the cause of the digital divide, and suggesting policies for bridging the divide, specifically in view of SMEs. We have taken cases of manufacturing companies, visiting and interviewing 18 SMEs in 10 APEC member economies which show sharp difference in usage of ICT. In order to analyze the digital gap among SMEs, we used 5 variables that are composed of computer hardware, computer software, Internet, readiness of ICT, and performance of ICT adoption, while categorizing the cases into low and high tier based on the national ICT index. From a computer hardware perspective, the high tier (0.66) has almost double the number of PC’s per employee, compared with the low tiers (0.34). This gap can be explained by financial availability of low income and high tariff in the developing economies. In the computer software perspective, the SMEs in the low tier had some restrictive use of computer applications such as financial and accounting management and document management, while those in the high tier enjoyed more diversity in the use of applications such as inventory management, sales management, financial and accounting management, procurement management, CRM, and ERP. In view of the readiness of ICT, the difference in ICT infrastructure and financial status between the low and high tier was far wider than any other variables. As a result of ICT adoption, SMEs benefited in view of learning and growth, internal business processes, customer service, and financial affairs. To effectively bridge the digital divide between the low and high tier, actions such as setting up a secondary market of used computers among cooperating developed and developing countries, developing and diffusing good business applications, and building speedy, low-cost telecommunication infrastructures should be taken.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.105-117
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• 2024

This study conducted in-depth interviews with 8 ICT companies experienced in technology transfer and collaboration with government-funded research institutions, employing Grounded Theory methodology. From these interviews, 139 episodes were extracted and categorized into 29 sub-categories across the companies. Validation by independent coders further classified these into 5 categories: potential absorptive capacity, realized absorptive capacity, technology collaboration activities, technology collaboration performance, and innovation intermediaries. The validation results suggest that companies with higher absorptive capacity are more actively involved in technology collaboration. Moreover, companies utilizing innovation intermediaries demonstrate increased collaboration frequencies. The study contributes to academia and industry by providing insights for companies to improve competitiveness and foster smooth technology collaboration, enhancing collaborative outcomes. Future research should focus on quantitatively validating these findings.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.15-34
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• 2024

This study aims to analyze the effect of absorptive capacity on technology collaboration performance and the moderating effect of innovation intermediaries. We set absorptive capacity (potential, realized) as independent variables and technology collaboration performance (relative technology level, development period, cost savings, new product development, collaboration satisfaction) as dependent variables, with innovation intermediaries as a moderating variable. We conducted a survey of 145 ICT companies that experienced technology collaboration and analyzed the data using 101 valid responses. The results show that potential absorptive capacity has a significant effect on new product development and collaboration satisfaction, while realized absorptive capacity has a significant effect on relative technology level, cost savings, and new product development. Furthermore, innovation intermediaries have a moderating effect between realized absorptive capacity and new product development. The contribution of this study to academia and industry is that it highlights absorptive capacity as a key factor influencing technology collaboration performance. The limitations of this study include the lack of accurate measurement of absorptive capacity and innovation intermediaries, as well as a lack of control over external factors. These limitations should be addressed through more in-depth research by systematically defining and measuring them in future follow-up studies.

• 적정기술학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.162-171
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• 2021

UN의 SDGs 추진을 위해 우리나라는 2019년 K-SDGs를 제시하였으나, SDGs의 중요한 이행 수단인 과학기술 분야에 대한 역할과 과제가 구체화 되지 않았다. 이에, 2020년 과기정통부의 정책연구과제인 '신남방정책 확산 및 2030 SDGs 실현을 위한 과학기술 ODA 추진 로드맵'을 통해 SDGs 추진을 위한 과학기술 ODA의 역할을 정립하고, 물, 기후변화, 에너지, ICT 등 10개 분야에 대한 향후 10년간의 추진 목표와 전략 및 중점과제를 도출하였다. 본 논문에서는 SDGs 실현을 위한 과학기술 ODA 추진 로드맵의 30개 중점과제를 분석하여 효과적인 로드맵 추진을 위한 중·단기 과제 및 추진방안을 제안하고자 한다. 각 분야의 중점과제 중 로드맵 추진 여건 조성 및 통합이 가능한 ICT/스마트화, 글로벌 문제해결거점, 협력/소통 플랫폼, 비즈니스 모델/창업지원플랫폼/리빙랩의 4개 공통 키워드를 도출하고, 이를 로드맵의 세부 내용과 연계하여 과학기술 ODA 네트워크 구축, 리빙랩 연계 창업지원 비즈니스 플랫폼 구축, 수원국 현지 스마트화, 글로벌문제해결거점 확장 및 지속성 확보의 4개 중·단기 과제로 설정하였다. 도출된 중·단기 과제에 대해서는 글로벌문제해결거점의 ICT화를 통한 추진 방안을 제시하였다. 본 논문에서 제시하는 중·단기 과제의 추진은 과학기술 ODA 로드맵의 보다 효과적인 달성에 기여할 수 있을 것이며, 이를 통해 우리나라의 SDGs 이행 또한 높은 성과를 올릴 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to provide the basic information related to electronic picture books and implications for the development of high-quality in-home child care service programs by examining the perceptions and actual conditions of electronic picture books. A survey was conducted with 216 in-home childcare workers from the one Healthy Family Support Center who participated in the workshop on electronic picture books and 161 students from the Department of Early Childhood Education at two Universities as a comparison group. The findings are as follows. First, there was no difference between the two groups in recognition of ICT competencies and satisfaction with electronic picture books. Second, both groups viewed electronic picture books are effective in preparing for the information age and very positive in providing electronic picture books. Third, the valuation of electronic picture books in both groups was higher than that of paper picture books. Fourth, there was no significant difference between the two groups in valuing e-picture books by ICT competence. The results of this study provide implications for the development of systematic educational programs to enhance the job performance of in-home child providers, which will be expanded in the future, by examining ICT competencies, e-picture book actual utilization, and recognition between the in-home childcare providers and ECE students.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국벤처창업학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.277-281
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• 2018

Information system has been at center of economic development in several developed countries, and as Africa envision to improve its global economic competitiveness it is important to assess penetration rate the digital divide and catch-up effect over the years. This paper examined whether there exists digital divide and if so, is it narrowing over time and whether the ICT is converging with time in the African countries. Three technologies namely mobile-cellular, internet and fixed broadband were used to measure the digital divide and the catch-up effect. Gamma and sigma convergence methodology together with averaged penetration ratios were used to assess the cross-country performance of each technology. This study confirms both the narrowing of digital divide and convergence of ICT in all three technologies for both total group and subgroups. The digital gap was narrowing over time and the low-income countries were catching up faster to the middle-income countries in all three technologies. However, there are marked differences exhibited in the speed of narrowing digital divide and the speed of convergence between the total groups and the subgroups of countries. Some policy implications were discussed in the conclusion and they can be utilized in designing developmental ICT policies in each technology case for individual countries.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.230-238
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• 2020

Human-object interaction (HOI) detection is a popular computer vision task that detects interactions between humans and objects. This task can be useful in many applications that require a deeper understanding of semantic scenes. Current HOI detection networks typically consist of a feature extractor followed by detection layers comprising small filters (eg, 1 × 1 or 3 × 3). Although small filters can capture local spatial features with a few parameters, they fail to capture larger context information relevant for recognizing interactions between humans and distant objects owing to their small receptive regions. Hence, we herein propose a three-stream HOI detection network that employs a context convolution module (CCM) in each stream branch. The CCM can capture larger contexts from input feature maps by adopting combinations of large separable convolution layers and residual-based convolution layers without increasing the number of parameters by using fewer large separable filters. We evaluate our HOI detection method using two benchmark datasets, V-COCO and HICO-DET, and demonstrate its state-of-the-art performance.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.146-149
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• 2022

본 레터는 Layered-Division-Multiplexing Multiple-Inputs-Multiple-Outputs ATSC 3.0 방송 시스템의 Core-Layer신호에 대한 저복잡도 Hybrid-Partial-Gaussian-Approximation(HPGA) 복호 기법들을 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 HPGA 기법들은 각 수신 안테나 신호의 Injection-Level 값에 따라 기존의 제안된 GA 및 PGA 기법들을 선택적으로 사용하여 기존의 PGA 기법에 비해 큰 성능 저하 없이 복호 복잡도를 크게 줄일 수 있는 장점을 갖는다.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.3-9
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 멀티코어 프로세서 및 매니코어 프로세서에서의 스캐터 통신 성능을 최대화 하기 위하여 프로세싱 노드의 통신채널 상태를 고려하는 기법을 32개 코어로 구성된 멀티코어 프로세서에 적용하였다. 기존의 스캐터 알고리즘은 프로세싱 노드들의 통신채널 상태를 확인할 수 없기 때문에 일반적으로 초기 셋팅 된 전송순서에 따라서 통신을 수행한다. 이 경우 프로세서 내부의 모든 프로세싱 노드에서 기존 수행 중인 통신이 종료된 후에야 스캐터 통신이 시작되는데, 이때 발생하는 전송 대기 시간을 줄임으로서 스캐터 통신 성능을 향상 시킬 수 있다. 본 기법에 의하여 스캐터 통신 성능이 향상되었고, BFM 시뮬레이션을 통하여 기존 알고리즘 대비 최대 78.93%의 성능 향상이 있음을 확인하였다.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.567-573
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• 2020

코로나19 발발은 우리 삶에 지대한 영향을 미치고 있다 사회적 거리 두기 정책은 특히 문화예술산업 분야에 심대한 영향을 미치고 있다. 코로나19에 대한 공포와 사회적 거리두기로 많은 문화예술 행사가 취소되고 있는 반면, 많은 아티스트들과 단체는 ICT기술과 라이브 스트리밍을 이용해 온라인으로 그들의 예술을 전달하려 시도하고 있다. 또한 정부 역시 코로나19로 인해 경제적 어려움을 겪고 있는 아티스트와 제작자, 회사등에 재정적 지원을 하기 위한 노력을 기울이고 있다. 마지막으로 본 논문에서는 앞으로의 방향에 대해 제언한다.