• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.209-219
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• 2008

Recently the number of Internet firms providing useful information like weather forecast data is growing. However most of such information is not prepared in accordance with customers' demand, resulting in relatively low customer satisfaction. To upgrade the service quality, it is recommended to devise a system for customers to get involved in the process of service production, which normally requires a huge investment on supporting computer systems like clusters. In this paper, as a way to cut down the budget for computer systems but to improve the performance, we extend the HPC cluster system to include other Internet servers working independently on the same LAN, to make use of their idle times. We also deal with some issues resulting from the extension, like the security problem and a possible deadlock caused by overload on some non-dedicated nodes. At the end, we apply the technique in the solution of some 2D grid problem.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Mechanical Technology
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.119-124
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• 2011

Electric night storage heater was introduced and disseminated for power grid balancing and efficient management of power generation facility. But fuel cost for heating has been increased rapidly while the cost of electricity increased slightly. This abnormal rate system caused peak load in winter at last. To solve this problem, application of an air source heat pump was suggested. In the study, the effect of replacing night heater by heat pump and the economics were analysed. In addition the expectation of prospect of heat pump penetration was simulated based on surveyed and investigated data. As a result, fund supporting as well as institutional backing was needed for effective propagation and return of investment.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.533-547
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• 2013

"Reciprocal Frame" refers to a self-supporting grid structure used both for floor and roof. Using Finite Element Methods for non-linear solid mechanics and frictional-contact, this paper intends to analytically and numerically investigate the collapse behaviour of a reciprocal frame structure made of fibre-reinforced concrete. Considering a simple 3-beam structure, it has been investigated using a solid finite element model. Once defined the collapse behaviour of the simple structure, the analysis has been generalized using a concentrated plasticity finite element method. Results provided will be useful for studying generic reciprocal frame structures with several beams.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.697-698
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• 2009

모바일 기기 및 무선 통신 기술의 발달로 인하여 위치 기반 서비스의 이용이 확산되었다. 그러나 이와 같이 사용자의 정확한 위치정보를 가지고 LBS 서버에 서비스를 요청하는 것은 심각한 개인 정보 누출의 위협이 될 수 있다. 따라서 안전하고 편리한 위치기반 서비스 사용을 위한 개인 정보 보호 방법이 요구된다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 연속적인 위치기반 서비스를 지원하는 분산 그리드 기반 Cloaking 영역 설정 기법을 설계한다. 설계하는 기법은 분산 환경에서 연속적인 서비스를 지원하기 위해 Cloaking 영역 설정 시 필요한 정보를 분산 유지하고, 이동 확률 매트릭스 생성 및 확률 계산을 분산적으로 수행한다. 마지막으로는 모바일 사용자 사이에 발생하는 통신비용을 감소시키기 위해, 대표 노드는 해당 클러스터에서 떠난 사용자에 대한 정보를 유지하고 클러스터 내 부분 확률값의 합산시 병합노드를 사용한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.1369-1382
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• 2005

Vehicle segmentation, which extracts vehicle areas from road scenes, is one of the fundamental opera tions in lots of application areas including Intelligent Transportation Systems, and so on. We present a vehicle segmentation approach for still images captured from outdoor CCD cameras mounted on the supporting poles. We first divided the input image into a set of two-dimensional grids and then calculate the feature values of the edges for each grid. Through analyzing the feature values statistically, we can find the optimal rectangular grid area of the vehicle. Our preprocessing process calculates the statistics values for the feature values from background images captured under various circumstances. For a car image, we compare its feature values to the statistics values of the background images to finally decide whether the grid belongs to the vehicle area or not. We use dynamic programming technique to find the optimal rectangular gird area from these candidate grids. Based on the statistics analysis and global search techniques, our method is more systematic compared to the previous methods which usually rely on a kind of heuristics. Additionally, the statistics analysis achieves high reliability against noises and errors due to brightness changes, camera tremors, etc. Our prototype implementation performs the vehicle segmentation in average 0.150 second for each of $1280\times960$ car images. It shows $97.03\%$ of strictly successful cases from 270 images with various kinds of noises.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.239-246
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• 2017

Communications for mobile sink groups such as rescue teams or platoons bring about a new challenging issue for handling group mobility in wireless sensor networks. Recently, a group region-based approach has been proposed to send data to a mobile sink group. However, it uses excessive flooding for 3 steps (group region discovery, region information notification, and data dissemination) to support mobile sink group. Thus, it causes high energy consumption and data delivery failure. Moreover, its per-sink mobility supporting scheme makes energy consumption and data delivery failure more serious. Thus, this paper proposes an Energy-efficient and Reliable Mobile Group communication protocol (ERMG) to support a mobile sink group, which exploits a virtual grid structure. For the group region discover and notification and the data dissemination, ERMG uses communications with only cell heads of grid cells that manages group sinks. ERMG also uses a per-grid based scheme to support sink mobility. Simulation results show that ERMG has 30% less energy consumption and 6% more desired delivery deadline success ratio than the existing protocols.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.7B
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• pp.1091-1097
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• 2010

Energy and environment problem has been arisen and become one of the major concerns all over the world, due to scarce energy resources and inefficient energy consumption. Recently, energy-IT(EIT) convergence technology has been getting more attention, being expected to be one of key technologies to resolve the problem, and R&D projects on various areas of EIT convergence technologies have been launched in many countries on a large scale. Korea government and companies have also been interested in the development of EIT technologies, however, the scopes of technology areas are limited to just a small part such as smart grid technology. This paper investigates effectiveness of each EIT convergence technology and deduces EIT convergence technologies using AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process). It is expected that our research could be meaningful information supporting policies on R&D projects of EIT convergence technologies promoted to save energy and strengthen the national competitiveness. Our research results show that the EIT convergence technology area of green building would be the most effective EIT convergence technology except smart grid, and network-based energy management system would be the most effective amongst the sub-areas of green building.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.20-26
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• 2013

We propose PHY Frame Structure for M2M direct communications in licensed frequency band. Especially, the proposed PHY Frame Structure coexists in the same licensed frequency band as currently operating cellular systems. Recently, Machine to Machine (M2M) service markets, including SmartGrid, Mobile Health, and Smart Car, are being rapidly expanded. Supporting M2M services in a specific case can waste Radio Resource in cellular systems. For example, when two M2M terminals communicating to each other are closely located, direct communication is radio resource efficient. In this paper, we set the requirement of maintaining the existing PHY frame structure in cellular systems to meet the backward compatibility. Based on this backward compatibility requirement, PHY frame structure for M2M direct communications is developed while satisfying coexistence with current operating cellular system. The proposed PHY frame structure meets backward compatibility. Accordingly, it is expected that the proposed M2M frame structure is useful for its frequency resource efficiency.

• Korea Information Processing Society Review
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.15-28
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• 2008

The Korea UK e-Science Collaboration project has been aimed at supporting research and collaboration between Korean and UK researchers. Its goal is to benefit the nation by reducing cost and time in constructing the National e-Science Research Environment' by studying and benchmarking the cases in countries that have already procured advanced technologies in the area. Two joint workshops were held in a year where researchers from the two countries had the opportunities to share their research results with each other. Also, the project has supported exchanges of researchers fostering expertise in the field. In the course of the project, the e-Science Centre in the UK and KISTI have signed MoU(Memorandum of Understanding) in 2006. Moreover, there have been active research collaboration between Korea and the UK. The University of Southampton will share the BioSimGrid data with the Korean counterpart, and the University of York has provided the AURA software. In the future, KISTI and the UK NGS(National Grid Service) will organize a working group at OGF that will work mainly on the standardization of Parameter Sweep and bring it to lead the global standard. KISTI will include its own AURORA system into OMI-UK software stack, which will enable access to NGS resources through AURORA user application. The collaboration with the UK has opened up more opportunities for collaboration with other countries as well. KISTI and HLRS in Germany have agreed to share the COVISE and will have research exchanges. As such, it is expected that Korea will play a major role in e-Science research by building strategic and systematic collaborative relations with its International partners.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.49 no.5
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• pp.81-90
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• 2007

Watershed topographical information is required in hydrologic analysis, supporting efficient hydrologic model operation and managing water resources. Watershed topographical data extraction systems based on desktop GIS are abundant these days placing burdens for spatial data processing on users. This paper describes development of a Web-based Geographic Information Systems that can delineate the Geum River sub-basins and extract watershed topographical data in real time. Through this system, users can obtain a watershed boundary by selecting outlet location and then extracting topographical data including watershed area, boundary length, average altitude, slope distribution about the elevation range with Web browsers. Moreover, the system provides watershed hydrological data including land use, soil types, soil drainage conditions, and NRCS(Natural Resources Conservation Service) curve number for hydrologic model operation through grid overlay technique. The system operability was evaluated with the hydrological data of WAMIS(Water Management Information System) with the government operation Web site as reference data.