• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.71-78
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• 2014

The RFID-tag objects can be recognized by a distinct reader where it is installed. The RFID-tag objects are likely described as storages rather than the mobiles in the use of GPS. As RFID tags are large in number compared to moving objects, so the storing and retrieval costs are highly expensive. Here, two solutions for spatio-temporal model taking account of the feature in the tagged objects are proposed. First, the moving-tag objects are expressed by the terms "now" as well as "path location". Second, the size of storing index was noticeably reduced by not saving the tag information of palletizing products but mapping the tagged objects.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.432-446
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• 2008

Queries for tracing tag locations are among the most challenging requirements in RFID based applications, including automated manufacturing, inventory tracking and supply chain management. For efficient query processing, a previous study proposed the index scheme for storing tag objects, based on the moving object index, in 3-dimensional domain with the axes being the tag identifier, the reader identifier, and the time. In a different way of a moving object index, the ranges of coordinates for each domain are quite different so that the distribution of query regions is skewed to the reader identifier domain. Previous indexes for tags, however, do not consider the skewed distribution for query regions. This results in producing many overlaps between index nodes and query regions and then causes the problem of traversing many index nodes. To solve this problem, we propose a new disproportional insertion and split policy of the index for RFID tags which is based on the R*-tree. For efficient insertion of tag data, our method derives the weighted margin for each node by using weights of each axis and margin of nodes. Based the weighted margin, we can choose the subtree and the split method in order to insert tag data with the minimum cost. Proposed insertion method also reduces the cost of region query by reducing overlapped area of query region and MBRs. Our experiments show that the index based on the proposed insertion and split method considerably improves the performance of queries than the index based on the previous methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06c
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• pp.52-54
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• 2006

RFID를 이용하는 물류 시스템에서 태그 객체의 위치 추적을 위해서는 태그 객체의 궤적을 모델링하고 효율적으로 검색하기 위한 색인 구성이 필수적이다. 태그 객체의 궤적은 리더의 인식 영역에 들어오고 나가는 두 점을 연결한 시공간 선분으로 표현할 수 있다. 그러나 태그 객체가 리더의 인식영역 밖으로 벗어나게 되면 태그 객체의 궤적을 표현 할 수 없으므로 위치 추적이 불가능하게 되는 문제를 가진다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 리더의 비 인식 영역에서 GPS를 이용한 태그 객체의 위치 추적을 병행할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 RFID 시스템과 LBS 시스템을 연동한 환경에서 태그 궤적을 표현하기 위한 위치 추적 시스템의 모델을 제시하고. 제시된 모델에서 태그 객체의 위치 추적을 효율적으로 처리하기 위한 색인 구조를 제안한다. 제안된 색인 구조는 태그 객체의 현재 위치뿐만 아니라 과거 궤적을 효율적으로 처리하기 위한 새로운 삽입 및 분할 알고리즘을 제안하여 노드가 차지하는 영역을 최소화한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.59-69
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• 2007

The trajectory of a tag in RFID system is represented as a interval that connects two spatiotemporal locations captured when the tag enters and leaves the vicinity of a reader. Whole trajectories of a tag are represented as a set of unconnected interval because the location of the tag which left the vicinity of a reader is unknown until it enters the vicinity of another reader. The problems are that trajectories of a tag are not connected. It takes a long time to find trajectories of a tag because it leads to searching the whole index. To solve this problem, we propose a technique that links two intervals of the tag and an index scheme called SLR-tree. We also propose a sharing technique of link information between two intervals which enhances space utilization of nodes, and propose a split policy that preserves shared-link information. And finally, we evaluate the performance of the proposed index and prove that the index processes history queries efficiently.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.1
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• pp.71-78
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• 2009

For more effective index extraction and index weight determination, studies of extracting indices are carried out by using document content as well as structure. However, most of studies are concentrating in calculating the importance of context rather than that of XML tag. These conventional studies determine its importance from the aspect of common sense rather than verifying that through an objective experiment. This paper, for the automatic indexing by using the tag information of XML document that has taken its place as the standard for web document management, classifies major tags of constructing a paper according to its importance and calculates the term weight extracted from the tag of low weight. By using the weight obtained, this paper proposes a method of calculating the final weight while updating the term weight extracted from the tag of high weight. In order to determine more objective weight, this paper tests the tag that user considers as important and reflects it in calculating the weight by classifying its importance according to the result. Then by comparing with the search performance while using the index weight calculated by applying a method of determining existing tag importance, it verifies effectiveness of the index weight calculated by applying the method proposed in this paper.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.12a
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• pp.14-19
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• 2004

RFID는 라디오 주파수 기반의 자동 인식 데이터 수집 장치로서 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 기반 기술의 핵심 분야이다. RFID 태그(전자태그)가 부착된 개체의 위치를 저장할 수 있기 때문에 시간에 따라 위치가 변하는 이동체와 유사하다. 그러나 태그 객체는 판독기(reader)의 위치로 인식되며 일정 수 이상의 객체들이 같은 시간에 함께 이동하는 특징을 가지기 때문에 기존의 이동체 모델링 방법을 사용하여 전자 태그 객체를 표현하면 색인의 성능이 저하되는 문제가 발생한다. 이 논문에서는 시공간 질의를 처리하는 색인의 성능을 개선하기 위하여 태그 객체의 특징을 반영한 모델링 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 모델링 기법에서 간격 데이터 개념을 기반으로 시간과 공간 도메인 외에 식별자 도메인을 추가하여 태그 객체를 표현한다. 그리고 세 가지 도메인을 이용하여 태그 객체에 대한 색인을 구성한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.143-146
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• 2008

For tracing tag locations, a trajectories should be modeled and indexed in radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. The trajectory of a tag can be represented as a line that connects two spatiotemporal locations captured when the tag enters and leaves the vicinity of a reader. If a tag enters but does not leave a reader, its trajectory is represented only as a point captured at entry and we should extend the region of a query to find the tag that remains in a reader. In this paper, we propose an interval data model of tag's trajectory in order to solve the problem. For the interval data model. we propose a new index scheme called the IR-tree(Interval R-tree) and algorithms of insert and split for processing query efficiently. We also evaluate the performance of the proposed index scheme and compare it with the previous indexes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.2140-2146
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• 2009

Since tags do not have location informations, the identifiers of tags which are symbolic data are used as the location informations. Therefore, it is difficult to define the proxmity between two trajectories of tags and inefficient to process the user queries for tags. In this paper, we define the perceptual space to model the location of a tag and propose the proximity of the perceptual spaces. The proximity of the perceptual spaces is composed of the static proximity and dynamic proximity. Using the proximity of the perceptual spaces, it is possible to measure the proximity between two trajectories of tags and build the efficient indexes for tag trajectories. We evaluated the performance of the proposed proximity function for tag trajectories on the IR-tree and the $R^*$-tree.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.82-84
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• 2004

최근 유비쿼터스 환경에서 객체에 태그를 장착하여 위치를 추적하는 응용분야가 늘어가고 있는 추세이며, 이러한 응용에서 빈번히 사용되는 질의는 객체의 위치를 찾는 find와 특정 위치의 객체를 찾는 look질의가 있다. 두 질의에서 처리되는 데이터는 시간과 공간을 포함한 다차원 대용량 데이터이며 과거 및 현재 상태의 검색을 지원해야 하므로 효율적인 질의 처리를 위해서는 태그 객체를 위한 새로운 데이터 모델과 색인이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 태그 객체를 간격 데이터로 정의하고 과거 및 현재 데이터에서 find와 look질의를 처리할 수 있는 색인 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 색인에서 노드에 오버플로우가 발생할 경우 새로운 단말 노드 분할 정책을 사용하여 분할하며 성능 평가를 통해서 기존 정책보다 우수함을 증명한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.12D no.3 s.99
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• pp.439-446
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• 2005

XML is the standard that can manage systematically WWW documents and increase retrieval efficiency. Because XML documents have the information of contents and that of structure in single document, users can get more suitable retrieval result by retrieving the information of content as well as that of logical structure. In this paper, we will propose a method to calculate the weights of XML tags so that the information of XML tag is used to index decision. A proposed method creates term vector and weight vector for XML tags, and calculates weight of tag by reflecting user's retrieval behavior (user's query). And it decides the weights of index terms of XML document by reflecting the weights of tags. And we will perform an evaluation of proposed method by comparison with existing researches using weights of paragraphs.