• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.179-190
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• 2015

Objective and Background: Due to increase in Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) relating to computer use, a number of ergonomics recommendations have been proposed in order to tackle this problem. However, some of these recommendations have been conflicting. Method: This study was to survey the VDT (Visual Display Terminal) use of office workers. The subjects were 452 workers at 13 places of business and the data were collected by self-administered questionnaire. Results: As a result, prevalence of self-reported MSDs of all VDT workers was 90.2% and shoulder took up 57.0% and neck 38.3% by symptom part of body. The population of computer use of more than 6h/day was 84.5%, and 33.8% also reported using the VDT 2~3h/day without the rest time. Desktop computer users were 95.6%, and a 17-inch monitor accounted for 42.0% among the desktop users. As a result of satisfaction survey on overall computer work, 21.1% of the total respondents said satisfied, desk complaint was about 24.6%, and chair complaint was 33.4%. Despite the importance of computer environment, satisfaction was from fair to uncomfortable. Conclusion and Application: In conclusion, office workers are prone to the MSDs due to their work environment. Additionally, this study found that task was a significant effect for the majority of dependent variables, and therefore, the improvement of computer workstations work environment is urgent, and the improvement of desk height adjustment, chair seat size (length, width), backrest condition, location of keyboard (mouse) and arm rest is required.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회 1993년도 추계학술대회발표논문집; 서강대학교, 서울; 25 Sep. 1993
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• pp.12-19
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• 1993

In general, the line balancing problem is defined as of finding an assignment of the given jobs to the workstations under the precedence constraints given to the set of jobs. Usually, the objective is either minimizing the cycle time under the given number of workstations or minimizing the number of workstations under the given cycle time. In this paper, we present a new type of an assembly line balancing problem which occurs in an electronics company manufacturing home appliances. The main difference of the problem compared to the general line balancing problem lies in the structure of the precedence given to the set of jobs. In the problem, the set of jobs is partitioned into two disjoint subjects. One is called the set of fixed jobs and the other, the set of floating jobs. The fixed jobs should be processed in the linear order and some pair of the jobs should not be assigned to the same workstations. Whereas, to each floating job, a set of ranges is given. The range is given in terms of two fixed jobs and it means that the floating job can be processed after the first job is processed and before the second job is processed. There can be more than one range associated to a floating job. We present a procedure to find an approximate solution to the problem. The procedure consists of two major parts. One is to find the assignment of the floating jobs under the given (feasible) assignment of the fixed jobs. The problem can be viewed as a constrained bin packing problem. The other is to find the assignment of the whole jobs under the given linear precedence on the set of the floating jobs. First problem is NP-hard and we devise a heuristic procedure to the problem based on the transportation problem and matching problem. The second problem can be solved in polynomial time by the shortest path method. The algorithm works in iterative manner. One step is composed of two phases. In the first phase, we solve the constrained bin packing problem. In the second phase, the shortest path problem is solved using the phase 1 result. The result of the phase 2 is used as an input to the phase 1 problem at the next step. We test the proposed algorithm on the set of real data found in the washing machine assembly line.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2015

실생활에서 2개의 병렬형 대기행렬 시스템은 흔히 발견된다. 병렬형 대기행렬 시스템에서 각 작업장은 서로 다른 고객 도착패턴과 고객 서비스 시간 분포를 갖는 경우가 많다. 이 논문은 서로 다른 서비스 시간을 갖는 병렬형 대기행렬 시스템에 총 서버 수가 제한되어 있는 상황에서 각각의 작업장에 적절한 수의 서버를 배치하는 문제를 다룬다. 각 작업장은 제한된 수의 서버를 전체 시스템의 가중평균 시스템 시간이 최소가 되는 기준에 따라 배치 받는다. 일반적으로 M/M/c 시스템은 시스템 시간에 대한 해석적 방법의 산출식이 알려져 있다. M/M/c 시스템에 대한 최적 서버 배치 방안을 해석적 방법에 따라 계산한 결과를 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 실험 결과와 비교해 본 결과, 두 가지 방법에 의한 최적 해가 동일함이 확인되었다. M/M/c 시스템의 최적화 과정에서 발견한, 각 작업장의 유효작업부하가 가장 비슷하거나 같게 되도록 서버를 배치하는 방식인 CETI 규칙에 따라 M/G/c, G/M/c 그리고 G/G/c 시스템에 대한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 실험 결과를 제시하였다. 그 결과, 해석적 방법으로는 증명할 수 없지만 일부 G/G/c 시스템을 제외한 나머지 경우에서는 CETI 규칙이 최적의 서버 배치 방식인 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 1998년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.25 No.2 (3)
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• pp.169-171
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 성능이 서로 다른 워크스테이션들을 효과적으로 사용하기 위한 동적인 Load Balancing 방식을 제안한다. 각 워크스테이션의 수행시간에 따라서 load 의양이 결정되며 각 워크스테이션의 성능을 사전에 알아야 할 필요가 없는 방식이다. 이를 Ethernet으로 연결된 두 개의 워크스테이션에서 실험하여 그 성능을 비교 평가한다.

• 경영과학
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.31-52
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• 1997

The Generalized Assignment Problem(GAP) determines the minimum assignment of n tasks to m workstations such that each task is assigned to exactly one workstation, subject to the capacity of a workstation. In this paper, we presented a new heuristic search algorithm for GAPs. then we tested it on 4 different benchmark sample sets of random problems generated according to uniform distribution on a microcomputer.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.672-672
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• 2004

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.31-31
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• 1989

The Generalized Assignment Problem(GAP) determines the minimum assignment of n tasks to m workstations such that each task is assigned to exactly one workstation, subject to the capacity of a workstation. In this paper, we presented a new heuristic search algorithm for GAPs. Then we tested it on 4 different benchmark sample sets of random problems generated according to uniform distribution on a microcomputer.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.11-24
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• 2012

이 연구는 상수 공정 시간을 갖는 라인생산시스템에서 CONWIP과 DBR이 각각 max-plus 선형시스템의 특수형태임을 밝히고 max-plus 대수에 기반한 안정대기시간 연구결과를 이용하여 CONWIP와 DBR의 성능을 비교 분석하였다. CONWIP의 경우, 생산시스템 내의 체류시간은 DBR의 경우보다 항상 짧다는 사실이 수학적으로 규명되었고 예제를 통해 계산, 비교되었다. 한편 두 경우에서 모두, 애로공정이후 노드에서의 대기시간은 유한버퍼의 크기와 공정의 순서에 무관함을 확인하였다. CONWIP에서는 시스템 내 평균 대기시간 또는 체류시간이 공정의 순서에 무관하지만, DBR에서는 애로공정이 뒤로 갈수록 감소함을 확인하였다.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.181-189
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• 2013

This paper proposes a two-phase genetic algorithm (GA) to solve the problem of obtaining an optimum configuration of a paired single row assembly line. We pair two single-row assembly lines due to the shared usage of several workstations, thus obtaining an optimum configuration by considering the material flow of the two rows simultaneously. The problem deals with assigning workstations to a sequence and selecting the best arrangement by looking at the length and width for each workstation. This can be considered as an enhancement of the single row facility layout problem (SRFLP), or the so-called paired SRFLP (PSRFLP). The objective of this PSRFLP is to find an optimal configuration that seeks to minimize the distance traveled by the material handler and even the use of the material handler itself if this is possible. Real-world applications of such a problem can be found for apparel, shoe, and other manual assembly lines. This research produces the schematic representation solution using the heuristic approach. The crossover and mutation will be utilized using the schematic representation solution to obtain the neighborhood solutions. The first phase of the GA result is recorded to get the best pair. Based on these best matched pairs, the second-phase GA can commence.

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제8A권2호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2001

At NOW (Networks Of Workstations), the load sharing is very important role for improving the performance. The known load sharing strategy is fixed-granularity, variable-granularity and adaptive-granularity. The variable-granularity algorithm is sensitive to the various parameters. But Send algorithm, which implements the fixed-granularity strategy, is robust to task granularity. And the performance difference between Send and variable-granularity algorithm is not substantial. But, in Send algorithm, the computing time and the communication time are not overlapped. Therefore, long latency time at the network has influence on the execution time of the parallel program. In this paper, we propose the preSend algorithm. In the preSend algorithm, the master node can send the data to the slave nodes in advance without the waiting for partial results from the slaves. As the master node sent the next data to the slaves in advance, the slave nodes can process the data without the idle time. As stated above, the preSend algorithm can overlap the computing time and the communication time. Therefore we reduce the influence of the long latency time at the network and the execution time of the parallel program on the NOW. To compare the execution time of two algorithms, we use the $320{\times}320$ matrix multiplication. The comparison results of execution times show that the preSend algorithm has the shorter execution time than the Send algorithm.