• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.172-182
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• 2008

Application Contents of based on a workflow process unit in grid system is a practical work to solve the problem. To construct cooperation environment is very important because the contents are deployed and executed. And the most of cooperation is executed by workflow. Globus toolkit is the middleware for cooperation process in grid environment. However the middleware only provides basic services for constructing grid, not workflow that can provides cooperation, job scheduling, application contents management. Also Globus toolkit is suitable for huge gird community but small size pc based grid community. Therefore, this paper proposes the efficient application contents deployment system for small sizes cooperation. This system supports efficient cooperation environment with Application contents deployment and resource management provided in grid community. Also it presents information and association relation among application contents with association dictionary among application contents based on workflow process unit, and utilizes this as information for application contents deployment.

• IE interfaces
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.680-687
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• 2000

The objectives of this research are to establish the operation scheduling and the preventive maintenance system in order to optimize the operation of mailing center. For the optimal operation scheduling of mailing process, the existing workflow of mailing process and that of required time are investigated prior to simulation modeling. The simulation experiments are conducted to increase the nextday delivery rate. The best alternative whose nextday delivery rate up to 100% is selected based the AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) method. The optimal work scheduling of all mailing centers are also presented. In addition, the CMMS(Computerized Maintenance Management System) for preventive maintenance is introduced for efficient operation of highly automated facilities of mailing center.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.1544-1572
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• 2011

Task placement and scheduling are traditionally studied in following aspects: resource utilization, application throughput, application execution latency and starvation, and recently, the studies are more on application scalability and application performance. A methodology for task placement and scheduling centered on tasks based on virtual machines is studied in this paper to improve the performances of systems and dynamic adaptability in applications development and deployment oriented parallel computing. For parallel applications with no real-time constraints, we describe a thought of feature model and make a formal description for four layers of task placement and scheduling. To place the tasks to different layers of virtual computing systems, we take the performances of four layers as the goal function in the model of task placement and scheduling. Furthermore, we take the personal preference, the application scalability for a designer in his (her) development and deployment, as the constraint of this model. The workflow of task placement and scheduling based on virtual machines has been discussed. Then, an algorithm TPVM is designed to work out the optimal scheme of the model, and an algorithm TEVM completes the execution of tasks in four layers. The experiments have been performed to validate the effectiveness of time estimated method and the feasibility and rationality of algorithms. It is seen from the experiments that our algorithms are better than other four algorithms in performance. The results show that the methodology presented in this paper has guiding significance to improve the efficiency of virtual computing systems.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.137-148
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• 2012

Cloud service users request dedicated virtual computing resource from the cloud service provider to process jobs in independent environment from other users. To optimize this process with automated method, in this paper we proposed a framework for workflow scheduling in the cloud environment, in which the core component is the middleware called broker mediating the interaction between users and cloud service providers. To process jobs in on-demand and virtualized resources from cloud service providers, many papers propose scheduling algorithms that allocate jobs to virtual machines which are dedicated to one machine one job. With this method, the isolation of being processed jobs is guaranteed, but we can't use each resource to its fullest computing capacity with high efficiency in resource utilization. This paper therefore proposed a cost-efficient job scheduling algorithm which maximizes the utilization of managed resources with increasing the degree of multiprogramming to reduce the number of needed virtual machines; consequently we can save the cost for processing requests. We also consider the performance degradation in proposed scheme with thrashing and context switching. By evaluating the experimental results, we have shown that the proposed scheme has better cost-performance feature compared to an existing scheme.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.691-697
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• 2017

Volcanic ash has been predicted to be the main source of damage caused by a potential volcanic disaster around Mount Baekdu and the regions of the Korean peninsula. Computer simulations to predict the diffusion of volcanic ash should be performed according to prevalent meteorological situations within a predetermined time. Therefore, a workflow using pipelining is proposed to parallelize the software used for this computation. Due to the nature of volcanic calamities, the simulations need to be carried out for various plausible conditions given that the parameters cannot be precisely determined during the simulations, even at the time of a volcanic eruption. Among the given conditions, computations need to be first performed for the condition with the highest probability so that a response to the volcanic disaster can be provided using these results. Further action can then be performed later based on subsequent results. The computations need to be performed using a volcanic disaster damage prediction system on a computing server with limited computing performance. Hence, an optimal distribution of the computing resources is required. We propose a method through which specific data can be provided first to the proposed pipeline-based workflow.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.45-56
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• 2017

In astronomy, the amount of data generated using wide-field optical telescope has increased exponentially. However, the fixed-size small-scale computing environment and the complexity of data analysis tools, results in difficulties to process the massive observation data collected. To resolve this problem, we propose a cloud-based automation system for the efficient processing of the enormous data gathered. The proposed system consists of a Workflow Execution Manager which manages various workflow templates and controls the execution of workflows instantiated from theses templates, and an Elastic Resource Manager that dynamically adds/deletes computing resources, according to the amount of data analysis requests. To show the effectiveness of our proposed system, we exhaustively explored a board spectrum of experiments, like elastic resources allocation, system load, etc. Finally, we describe the best practice case of DEEP-SOUTH scheduling system as an example application.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.124-125
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• 2014

워크플로우 관리 시스템은 사용자의 어플리케이션 실행 요청들을 받아서 클라우드 위에서 수행시켜주는 역할을 한다. 따라서, 다중 워크플로우 요청을 스케줄링할 수 있는 알고리즘이 반드시 필요하다. 본 논문은 다중 워크플로우를 스케줄링하기 위한 기법들을 분석하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.147-149
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• 2015

게놈을 위한 Bioinformatics 분석을 위해 순서가 있는 작업(Task)의 집합인 워크플로우를 특정 데드라인 이내로 수행할 것을 요청하면, 워크플로우 관리자는 데드라인을 지켜주면서 비용이 최소가 되는 방향으로 워크플로우를 수행하여야 한다. 본 논문은 클라우드 환경에서 유전알고리즘을 적용하여 이 워크플로우를 효율적으로 스케줄링하는 기법을 분석하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.31-39
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• 2010

As the linear scheduling method has been used since the Empire State Building linear schedule in 1929, it is being applied in various fields, such as construction and manufacturing. When addressing concurrent critical paths occurring in a linear construction schedule, empirical researches have stressed resource management, which should be applied for optimizing workflow, ensuring flexible work productivity and continuous resource allocation. However, work relationships have been usually overlooked in making the linear schedule from an existing network schedule. Therefore, this research analyzes the previous researches related to the linear scheduling model, and then proposes a method that can be applied for adopting the relationships of a network schedule to the linear schedule. To this end, this research considers the work relationships occurring in changing a network schedule into a linear schedule, and then confirms the activities movement phenomenon of linear schedule due to workspace change, such as physical floors change. As a result, this research can be used as a basic research in order to develop a system generating a linear schedule from a network schedule.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10c
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• pp.552-554
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• 2000

기존 워크플로우 시스템은 비즈니스 프로세스 내의 정보와 제어의 흐름 수행에 있어서 중앙 집중적인 워크플로우 엔진이 전체 실행의 모든 부분을 담당하고 있다. 이러한 워크플로우 시스템이 갖는 성능, 확장성 등 구조적 제약의 단점을 극복하기 위하여 워크플로우 엔진의 분산, 이동 에이전트의 적용, 웹 기반 등 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 단위 업무 스케쥴링 기능과 관련된 정보를 분산된 형태로 참가자에게 일임하여 워크플로우 엔진 부하를 줄이고, 프로세스 인스턴스 단위의 이동 에이전트를 적용하여 비동기적 특성을 이용한 성능 및 확장성의 향상을 제공하는 워크플로우 시스템의 설계를 제안한다. 또한 제안한 시스템을 위하여 각 참가자별 스케쥴링 정보를 WfMC의 프로세스 정의 표준 언어인 WPDL로부터 추출하는 방법을 제안한다.