• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.813-832
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• 2009

As accessibility to health-care service in less populated rural areas is geographically limited and demand for public health-care by the aging is increasing, a new approach for health-care service such as a home care service is becoming more popular. For a home care service, health-care personnels directly visit to location of health-care clients. Such changes in provision of health services require developing innovative and scientific approaches for efficient allocation of health resources and managing services by public health-care organizations. The purpose of this study is to formulate a location model for visiting health-care districting for the rural elderly and to develop an Automated Zoning Procedure (AZP) to solve this model. Mobility, workload balance and contiguity criteria are considered in the model. Three different objective functions are evaluated; 1) minimizing the sum of network distance between the unit areas in a district, 2) maximizing spatial interaction between the unit areas in a district, and 3) minimizing tour distance that visits each unit area exactly once in a district. The AZP for solving the model is developed and applied to a rural area. The application results demonstrate that the AZP can generate different districting systems for each objective functions.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.67-84
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• 2012

Recent increases in uncertainty and speed of market change are driving the adoption of new intelligent mobile office systems. Organizational information systems paradigm suggests that a right match between organizational characteristics and the use of technology is critical in producing desired results. Following such perspective this study developed the mobile office system case of Seoul Metropolitan Railway Transit(SMRT) in Korea. SMRT developed the mobile task-supporting environment that help the management of subway lines real-time without the restriction of time and space. They named the system as ST&F(SMRT Talk and Flash). They decided to develop the application systems in-houses they did not want to be overly dependent on external services in future changes and developments of the system. The new practice reduced the time for moving back and forth to 10% of their working time from previous 20%. The time used for paper works and administration chore also reduce to 10% of their working time from previous 30% on the average. The employees could use 80% of their time to concentrate on the completion of assigned task. The effects of this improvement resulted in the heightened efficiency of the use of human resources and the heightened level of railway safety. The case of SMRT shows that the mobile office system can be applied and extended to various business areas such as facility management and maintenance beyond such typical uses as sales and marketing support. Also, The result of case study will be a useful guideline on the construction and using of mobile office system.

• Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.352-360
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• 2017

Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effects on musculoskeletal symptoms of both social demographic features and detailed characteristics of each task category of care workers who offer visiting home-help services. And to establish the measures that can reduce musculoskeletal symptoms among care workers. Methods: This study was conducted among 192 care workers from welfare centers C and K located in city P. After participants completed the task burden checklist regarding the scale of musculoskeletal symptoms and the details of their duties, the data collected were analyzed using the SPSS 21.0 program. Results: According to the degree of observable musculoskeletal symptoms in care workers, the highest figures were observed for back and shoulder pain. Based on the results of assessing the effect of detailed task category characteristics on musculoskeletal symptoms, "helping patients eat, helping patients move, helping patients bath, and changing body positions" were found to have an effect from the physical care category, "providing physical therapy assistance, treating bedsores" from the health care category, and "cleaning and doing laundry" from the facility management category. Conclusions: Due to the high proportion of patients requiring burdensome physical labor from care workers such as moving patients who have trouble doing so on their own, helping them change positions, and so on, it is highly likely that pain will occur in the low back, which carries most of the physical weight. So, education on human epidemiological positions that can reduce overload on areas prone to pain such as the low back and shoulders is essential. Proper equipment and personnel support must be provided for dangerous tasks. Further, multidimensional social support is required consistently.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.682-689
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to investigate the importance of stairs and to provide information on exploring desirable directions for stairs' designs by analyzing the architectural publicity characteristics for stairs in the office buildings. The research method was as follows: 1) Preparatory study and literature reviews to extract the elements of architectural publicity 2) Based on the elements of architectural publicity, each stairs in the office building was evaluated. The results of the case study show that the stairs of office building built since 2000 were characterized by improved architectural publicity. It was concluded that the stairs in an office building should accommodate and provide architectural publicity characteristics such as approachability, openness and amenity for enhancing the interactive atmosphere within the people in the office building.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.73-81
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• 2020

The main purpose of the study is to reduce the accident death rate in the construction industry. To achieve this goal, the safety planning tasks were analyzed and assessed in terms of the importance and preventive effects of the tasks. Through the extensive literature reviews, the safety planning tasks were identified and reviewed by safety managers. based on the safety planning tasks developed in the previous stage, a survey was conducted in order to receive responses by experts with knowledge on the effects and importance of preventive measures for safety. Then, the Importance Performance Analysis(IPA) method was employed to identify the safety manager's tasks that have an effect on performance indicators. Advice and guidance on making the employment rules, etc. (#18) and details about participation and consultation at the Occupational Safety and Health Committee (#16) were found to require revision and improvement of details and guidelines. The effective safety tasks identified are expected to have a critical role in reducing the accident death rate in the construction industry.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.111-128
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• 2018

Today the paradigm of the financial services industry is shifting to mobile banking, and each financial company provides a variety of mobile banking services. Because of the innovation of mobile banking service, the Internet Only Bank has been launched recently. However, the actual number of users is far less than the number of subscribers. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the intention to use of Internet only banking service by applying Task-Technology Fit (TTF) theory. In order to carry out this research, we conducted a survey on the user of the Internet only banking services, tested the measurement validity/reliability analysis and derived structural equation model. The results indicate that there are significant correlations between technology characteristics and task-technology fit and between task-technology fit and continuance intention. The results of this study are expected to provide implications for securing and maintaining the users of Internet banking providers.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.6D
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• pp.655-662
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• 2010

As the national competitive power indicator, the infrastructures have been constructed with government's SOC budgets. However, even SOC budget is decreased, Public-Private Partnership Project (PPP project) has been introduced to solve demands on extending infrastructures, and among PPP projects, road projects take high portions. This study analyzes the operation & management item of financial model which is connected to the O&M cost and project proposal of previously proposed road project and analyzes the Korea Expressway Co.,'s project cost items and O&M tasks to reflect the characteristics of road projects. Based on results, this study suggests necessity of the O&M cost breakdown structure and the cost calculation standard on each cost item. Also, for the existing task execution tools, O&M cost calculation tool and finance analysis task tool will be integrated, and the system is suggested web-based system. Thus, it is expected that it contributes to the securing overall business values on PPP project and expending profit-base infrastructures.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.193-205
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• 2008

Quality is an important keyword representing the corporate competitiveness and image in today' s construction industry. Especially in concrete construction, any problems or defects in fresh concrete can significantly degrade the entire quality and performance of the facility built. Thus, adequate quality inspection and testing must be exercised over the fresh concrete, if concrete with the required strength, durability and appearance is to be obtained. The testing of concrete delivered to the construction job site involves testing of fresh concrete and performing strength tests on hardened concrete. The principal tests conducted on fresh concrete include the slump test and tests for air and salt content. The temperature of fresh concrete should be checked out hot or cold weather concreting. The 7-day and 28-day strength of hardened concrete are also determined by compression tests on usually cylinder samples. However, it is very complex and time-consuming process requiring a lot of efforts to document those on-site concrete testing results and to accumulate their historical data. The primary objective of this study is to suggest a unique PDA and web-based system which enables an on-site quality manager to effectively conduct the concrete inspection and testing, automatically document and accumulate the collected historical data, and promptly obtain the approval from supervisors. Finally, it is anticipated that the effective use of the proposed PDA and web-based system would be able to improve reliability of the concrete quality inspection and testing data as well as significantly reduce the approval process.

• Journal of Software Engineering Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.18-30
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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 설계 및 구현을 소개한다. 또한 제안한 시스템을 위하여 각 참가자별 스케쥴링 정보를 WfMC의 프로세스 정의 표준 언어인 WPDL로부터 추출하여 프로세스 테이블로 구성하는 방법을 제안한다.

• 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.