• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.27-52
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• 2010

This study, using Korean Time Use Survey 1999, analyzes how opportunity costs of maternal time affects the ways in which mothers allocate their time to market work/housework/child care/leisure. Opportunity costs include two kinds: hourly child care costs and log hourly wage rates. Results show that a unit increase in child care costs reduces market work but increases housework, child care, and leisure. The effects of log wage rates are opposite those of child care costs. The result that a unit increase in the log wage rates decreases child care lime is not consistent with a previous study for the United Stales. These results differed by mother's educational attainments. This study suggests that policy-makers should pay careful attention to the effects of various types of mother's opportunity costs on non-market time in promoting maternal employment.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.383-390
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• 2002

The time cost of ship end cargoes is one of the most important data for decision-making of port investment and operational efficiency. Studies in this area were initiated internationally by Goss and Mann in late 70's and also done in Korea 10 years ago using the same methodology as Goss. The main purpose of this paper is to revisit to estimate the time cost using updated data. The estimation was undertaken sampling data on various investment and operating costs by vessel from 205 vessels, comprising 47.5％ of the notional fleet in Korea as well as on cargoes from international trade statistics. Compared with the study of 10 years ago, major finding of this research is that time costs of liquid and dry bulk carriers have increased, in case of the former type, showing almost doubled cost increase. The increase is deemed to be caused by very expensive LNG carriers. Lowered social discount rate in this study compared with 10 years ago, in general, has mused the costs to stay at similar level to the previous study. Sensitivity tests were conducted using various social discount rates.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.83-88
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• 2004

본 논문은 제품에 대한 비용 지불에 있어서 시간의 지연이 허용될 때 발생할 수 있는 기회비용과 그 지연에 따른 이자의 상충관계를 통해서 얻을 수 있는 이익에 관해 비용에 대해 다루었다. 여기에서 Continuous review를 고려한 (S, s)정책을 기본 가정으로 하여 주문량의 변동이 있을 수 있는 상황을 고려한다. 이러한 모델에서는 이 비용 계산의 연기 기간에 따라서 비용과 주문량의 민감한 변화를 보인다. 실제로 예를 통해 지불연기 허용에 따라서 재고 시스템 내에서 발생하는 비용의 감소와 주문량의 증가를 볼 수 있다. 또한 지불연기 기간을 허용한 경우와 그렇지 않은 경우의 비용 간 비교를 통해 구매자 입장에서 이윤을 가져올 수 있는 최소한의 지불연기 기간을 도출할 수 있다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.137-150
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• 2009

This paper proposes the hybrid heuristic method to apply the opportunity time to solve the vehicle routing and scheduling problem with time constraints(VRSPTW). The opportunity time indicates the idle time which remains after the vehicle performs the unloading service required by each customer's node. In this proposed heuristic, we add the constraints to VRSPTW model for the opportunity time. We also obtain the initial solution by applying the cost evaluation function to the insertion strategy considering the opportunity time. In addition, we improve the former result by applying the opportunity time to the tabu search strategy by swapping the customer's node. Finally, we suggest the construction strategies of initial routing which can efficiently acquire the nearest optimal solution from various types of data in terms of geographical condition, scheduling horizon and vehicle capacity. Our experiment show that our heuristic can get the nearest optimal solution more efficiently than the Solomon's I1 heuristic.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.183-202
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• 2009

This study estimates the port waiting cost of international trade ports in Korea by an opportunity cost approach. In the next step, we present a method to assess the levels of port services by the average waiting cost of ships derived from the results of the first step. Because the port waiting cost reflects the social cost, it is difficult to use as a service indicator even though it is the decision support information for a particular port facility expansion. The percentages of waiting ships and time also are insufficient indicators to reflect only the quantitative aspects by the time. However, the average waiting cost of ships in this study can be utilized as a service indicator to reflect waiting time and the loss of economic value simultaneously. It is also very useful information for a shipper and a carrier to select a port. Based on the average waiting cost of ships in 2007, it is analyzed in order of lowest service ports sequentially such as Pyeongtaek-Dangjin, Pohang, Donghae, and Samcheonpo. It is different from the sequential order of ports by the port waiting cost such as Pohang, Incheon, Gwangyang, Pyeongtak-Dangjin, and Ulsan. The port waiting cost is to a port authority as a key indicator what the average waiting cost of ships is to a port user as a useful indicator to evaluate the levels of port services.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.43-54
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• 2000

이 연구는 버스정보 시스템 설계에 필요한 운행시격 결정과 통행시간 예측을 위한 알고리즘 개발을 다룬다. 운행시격 결정 문제는 버스와 같은 대중교통 수단을 운영하는데 중요한 요소 중에 하나이다. 기존 연구는 버스 운행비용과 승객비용의 합을 최소로 하는 운행시 격을 찾는데 초점을 두고 이다. 이때 승객비용이란 승객 대기비용과 승객 교통비용의 합으로 이루어진다. 그런데 우리나라와 같이 버스회사 수입이 전액 운행수입에만 의존하는 경우엔 이러한 접근 방식이 타당하지 않다. 기존의 방식과 다르게 승객비용으로 승객 이탈비용을 사용하여 버스의 최적 운행시 격을 구하는 것이 이 연구의 목적이다. 먼저 정류장이 하나인 경우에 대해 해석적 방법으로 풀고, 정류장이 여러 개인 경우에 대해서는 시뮬레이션 기법을 적용한다. 또한 이 연구는 신뢰성이 높고 정확한 통행시간 예측정보를 산출하기 위해 2 단계 예측 기법과 전문가시스템을 이용하는 자료융합 알고리즘을 개발한다. 정확한 정보를 제공하려면 교통정보 수집원을 통해 얻는 자료가 정확해야 하고, 또한 교통상황 변화에 따라 실시간으로 통행시간을 예측하는 것이 필요하다. 이 연구는 AVL(Automatic Vehicle Location)시스템을 이용한 버스정보시스템에서 실시간 데이터와 과거 데이터를 융합하여 통행시간을 예측하는 알고리즘을 개발한다. AVL 데이터를 수집하는 과정에서는 경제성을 고려하여 데이터를 수집한다. 그리고, 버스의 운행관리와 정확한 도착예정시간을 예측하기 위해 AVL시스템을 통해 얻은 데이터의 패턴을 분석하고 유고상황을 감지한다.

• 정보화사회
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• s.138
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• pp.44-47
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• 2000

사이버교육의 가장 큰 매력은 시간과 공간의 제약을 받지 않는다는 것과 학습자(수요자) 중심의 학습이 가능하다는 것이다. 사이버교육은 인터넷이 접속 가능한 환경에서는 언제 어디서나 자신의 필요에 따라 (on-demand), 적시에(just-in-time)교육을 받을 수 있기 때문에 접근성이 높다. 특정 시간에 특정 강의실을 찾아야 하는 전통 교육 방식과 비교했을 때, 시간과 비용의 불필요한 낭비를 제거하고, 교육 기회를 넓혀 준다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.389-394
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• 2023

In recent years, use of machine automation is rising in the industry. Ships also obtain machine condition information from sensor as digital information. However, on ships, crew members regularly surveil the engine room to check the condition of equipment and their information through analog gauges. This is a time-consuming and tedious process and poses safety risks to the crew while on surveillance. To address this, engine room surveillance using an autonomous mobile robot is being actively explored as a solution because it can reduce time, costs, and the safety risks for crew. Analog gauge reading using an autonomous mobile robot requires digitization for the robot to recognize the gauge value. In this study, image processing techniques were applied to achieve this. Analog gauge images were subjected to image preprocessing to remove noise and highlight their features. The center point, indicator point, minimum value and maximum value of the analog gauge were detected through image processing. Through the straight line connecting these points, the angle from the minimum value to the maximum value and the angle from the minimum value to indicator point were obtained. The obtained angle is digitized as the value currently indicated by the analog gauge through a formula. It was confirmed from the experiments that the digitization of the analog gauge using image processing was successful, indicating the equivalent current value shown by the gauge. When applied to surveillance robots, this algorithm can minimize safety risks and time and opportunity costs of crew members for engine room surveillance.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.209-231
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• 2007

This paper suggested an approach to characterize travel choice behaviors using the implicit price instead of the indirect utility. The choice criterion to compare the implicit prices of available trip options was developed from the utility maximization problem of a trip maker which is supposed to choose the best option from the available ones differentiated by only by the quantitative attributes such as travel cost and time but also by qualitative attributes such as comfort and safety. The utility maximization problem is constructed under household production theory, and is incorporated with a special kind of joint homogeneous production functions. The implicit price of a certain trip option is the sum of the monetary price and the multiple of travel time and the value-of-travel-time, and the value-of-travel-time refers to the portion of wage, which can be assignable to the trip-making activity. This choice criterion is statistically identifiable, and behaviorally plausible. Moreover, this criterion has the expression simpler than the indirect utility, and therefore could be an effective target of the statistical estimation for travel choice behaviors.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.314-317
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• 2010

본 연구는 차량 경로 스케줄링 문제(VRSPTW, the Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problem with Time Window)를 해결하기 위하여, 멀티 비용 함수(Multi Cost Function)를 갖는 개미 군집 최적화(Ant Colony Optimization)을 이용한 휴리스틱을 제안하였다. 멀티 비용 함수는 각 개미가 다음 고객 노드로 이동하기 위해 비용을 평가할 때 거리, 요구량, 각도, 시간제약에 대해 서로 다른 가중치를 반영하여 우수한 초기 경로를 구할 수 있도록 한다. 본 연구의 실험결과에서 제안된 휴리스틱이 Solomon I1 휴리스틱과 기회시간이 반영된 하이브리드 휴리스틱보다 효율적으로 최근사 해를 얻을 수 있음을 보였다.