• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.14A no.7
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• pp.409-420
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• 2007

Software adaptation may be required to interact between heterogeneous platforms and to react to rapid change of environment in ubiquitous computing. Web service provides a way to use heterogeneous and distributed services or resources to utilize and organize them. But it is not easy to retrieve appropriate services when we search services because web service lacks of semantic information. Semantic web service provides additional information of services, but it does not support a method to match them in various ways. We can adapt and extend web applications by using web service, but a method for management and administration is still needed. Therefore in this paper, we propose a framework for dynamic growing of web service applications based on ESB(Enterprise Service Bus) and agent and provide a prototype to show its usefulness.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.129-139
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• 2005

The rapid growth of IT technologies enables the quality of human's daily life to be improved dramatically, Contrasting to the services in previous computing environment directed by user's request, the services in ubiquitous computing era of new IT technology are provided through recognizing users intention and utilizing context-aware information suited to the user. According to the contextual information, agents need to set a dynamic goal to achieve and work collaboratively with other agents. Agents that take control over their behaviors with capability of communicating with other agents become a thrust in this up-coming computing environment. This work focuses on building ontologies, shared knowledge bases among agents, to improve semantical interoperability among agents. More attention is given to the construction and effective management of ontology repository along with its requirement and organization. Ontology agent suggested takes an initiative role to manage the repository in a distributed manner and to facilitate the use of ontology in a multi-agent environment.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.200-207
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• 2009

U-Healthcare is more efficient as a solving method for health problems rather than visiting the hospital. Recently, systems have been studied to offer appropriate service to user, which gather and analyze biological signals of a user and context information around the user from a variety of sensors. The existing systems for U-Healthcare are based on domain specific service so it is difficult to expand and link to other systems. Also, they lack services focusing on the specific quality of the user, because they offer a general service which targets a lot of users. To address this problem, we expand an extensibility of system using the context-awareness agent based on multi-agents. Also, we provide the suitable services which match with the context information of user to each user using the modeling toolkit JaUCE based on GUI. We design and implement U-Silvercare service to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed context-awareness agent and modeling toolkit.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.81-91
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• 2005

Today, mobile phones have become an essential item for man-to-man communication. As more people use mobile phones, various services based on mobile phone networks and high-end devices have been developed. In addition, with the growth of the concept of ubiquitous computing, there are many ongoing studies on novel and useful services in smartphone. In this paper, for personalized service in smartphone we propose an intelligent agent that uses user modeling based on bayesian network and rule based service selection mechanism. It infers the user's status such as his current affect, how he is busy, and how someone is familiar with him from personal information and communication history using bayesian network and Provides appropriate services on the basis of the inferred information. We apply it to some realistic situation to confirm the usefulness our proposed agent.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.74-84
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• 2008

To support advanced collaboration among knowledge workers distributed geographically, there have been extensive researches under the scope of ubiquitous computing environments. Especially, to cope with several known problems in traditional room-based collaboration environments such as uncomfortable sharing of visuals and documents and difficult operation of collaboration tools, several conceptual frameworks are designed and prototyped. Focusing on practical and interactive collaboration with remote nodes, in this paper, we conceptually design an agent-based service composition model for multi-party collaboration environments. The proposed model is designed to automatically discover and combine services to achieve given tasks in a collaboration environment by using high-level user commands (without the knowledge of internal architecture). Based on the service composition model, we develop a multi-agent-based management toolkit for multi-party collaboration environments. It provides easy-to-use GUI to operate various services in an environment and perform service composition algorithm to discover appropriate services and combine them. To explore the possibility of the toolkit we implement collaboration services to support video conference by using the toolkit.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

Today, Korean medical community faces rapid changes in medical environment due to opening of medical market, more emphasis on making profit and introduction of private medical insurance. Therefore, it is apparent that around, major university hospitals, efforts are being made to adapt to such changes by establishing mid to long range strategic plans. We want to keep pace with changing times and diverse demand of patients by introducing state of the art system, utilizing Ubiquitous technologies for improvements. In doing so, we want to distinguish our hospital services from others. However, Hospital Information System that integrates ubiquitous technologies are introduced in limited basis due to problems like standardization and limits on medical use etc. Particularly, problems like absence of tag design suitable for medical environment, compatibility and extension issue with RFID system need to be addressed on application of RFID technologies. In order to solve such problems, this paper implemented RFID tag system, RFID-SIP UA program, location tracking program. This paper provides a comprehensive basic review of RFID and SIP model suggests the evolution direction of further advanced RFID application service. The design of RFID-SIP application offers advance RFID system with drawback and reduction search time of medical object. so there is a improvement of hospital information system in ubiquitous environment.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.35-43
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• 2011

USN is a technology to detect human external environment. It is an important factor in buildinga ubiquitous computing environment. In this thesis, an authentication method was proposed to allow the sensor nodes, which have weak computing operation capability, to safely communicate with each other in USN and guarantee the anonymity of users for their privacy. In the proposed authentication method that takes into account the characteristics of sensor network, sensor nodes based on a symmetric key algorithm do not transfer keys directly, instead, they mix the random numbers received from AS to generate keys necessary for communications, having a master key and a pseudo-random number generator.In addition, in this thesis, TA was adopted to minimize the leakage of users' information, and a scheme through which virtual IDs received from AS are delivered to sensor nodes was applied to improve anonymity.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.299-304
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• 2006

기존에 개발된 사용자 선호 정보를 이용한 TV 추천 시스템은 대부분 사용자의 명시적인 요구에 따라 방송 프로그램을 추천하는 데 중점을 두고 개발되었다. 하지만, 유비쿼터스 환경이 도래함에 따라서 사용자의 요구에 따라 반응하는 수동적인 서비스 보다는 상황정보(Context)를 활용하여 능동적인 서비스를 지원할 수 있는 기술이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 CAMUS(Context-Aware Middleware for URC Systems) 상황인식 미들웨어를 이용하여 사용자 위치 상황정보에 따라 능동적으로 추천할 수 있는 TV 추천 서비스 에이전트를 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 CAMUS 기반 서비스 에이전트와 태스크를 구현함으로써, 상황정보에 따라 능동적으로 다채널에서 방송되는 프로그램 및 사용자의 선호도 정보를 분석하여 사용자가 원하는 프로그램을 추천한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.157-160
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• 2005

유비쿼터스 환경에서 다양한 서비스를 사용자에게 제공하기 위해 지능형 에이전트는 먼저 사용자의 의도를 정확히 파악해야 한다. 명령어 기반의 기존 사용자 인터페이스와는 달리, 대화는 인간과 에이전트 사이의 유연하고 풍부한 의사소통에 유용하지만, 사용자의 배경지식이나 대화의 문맥에 따라 그 표현이 매우 다양하기 때문에 본 논문에서는 '상호주도형' 의사소통을 위한 계층적 베이지안 네트워크를 이용하여 사용자와 에이전트 사이에 발생하는 대화의 모호성을 해결한다. 서비스 추론 시 정보가 부족할 경우에는 계층적 베이지안 네트워크를 이용하여 추가로 필요한 정보를 분석하고 사용자로부터 수집한다. 제안하는 방법을 유비쿼터스 가정환경에 적용하고 시뮬레이션 환경을 구축하여 그 유용성을 확인하였다.

• 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.891-896
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• 2007

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 서비스의 주요 특징으로 언급되는 자연성, 사용 간편성, 비가시성, 선응성 등은 모두 사용자 인터페이스와 관련이 높다. 특히 이동중의 사용자들에게 그들이 처한 상황에 맞게 시의적절한 인터페이스를 제공하는 것은 서비스의 질 향상에 밀접한 관계를 가질 것으로 예상된다. 그러나 인터페이스의 시의적절성을 만족시키기 위한 필요한 기준들과 구현 방법에 대해서는 아직 구체적 연구가 미흡하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 시의적절성을 서비스 제공의 양상의 자연스러움과 존대등분의 자동적 적응이라는 두 가지 관점으로 보고 상황인식에 기반한 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 서비스의 시의적절성을 유지하도록 하는 프레임워크 및 방법론을 제안하는 것을 목적으로 한다.