• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.29-34
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• 2008

In this paper, we proposed a system protocol for detecting injurious insect to support energy saving transmission in wireless bio sensor networks. The main ideas and features of the system are as follows. First, the route establishment method which is based on the energy efficiency and stability by using time-division tree structure. Second, multi-hop direction-based data gatering structure. In this structure, the selected fading method is used to transmit packet via the established tree structure for supporting power saving and route lifetime efficiently. Finally, we can get the node power saving and reduce transmission delay, thus network lifetime and efficiency are improved. The performance evaluation of the proposed protocol is via OPNET(Optimized Network Engineering Tool).

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.190-202
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• 2015

Much research has been conducted on location-based intelligent personal assistants that can understand a user's intention by learning the user's route model and then inferring the user's destinations and routes using data of GPS and other sensors in a smartphone. The intelligence of the location-based personal assistant is contingent on the accuracy and efficiency of the real-time predictions of the user's intended destinations and routes by processing movement information based on uncertain sensor data. We propose a robust particle filter based on Dynamic Bayesian Network model to infer the user's routes. The proposed robust particle filter includes a particle generator to supplement the incorrect and incomplete sensor information, an efficient switching function and an weight function to reduce the computation complexity as well as a resampler to enhance the accuracy of the particles. The proposed method improves the accuracy and efficiency of determining a user's routes and destinations.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.75-90
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• 2009

Improvement of productivity and efficient process management need to define the problem of the previous work. If it takes long time to gather necessary information, it becomes difficult to continuously manage processes to satisfy customers' needs and to enhance business efficiency. This paper proposes methods and a context awareness system for decision making to solve problems originated in management of manufacturing process through real-time information acquisition. We implement the context awareness by suggesting decision logics that automatically classify works with acquired information. And we also implement a system for case study which makes workers recognize problems and notifies instructions to them. Consistency between real object and stored data and continuous process monitoring with this system could find inefficient resources or delayed works, resolve them and improve processes efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1994.11a
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• pp.90-96
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• 1994

본 연구는 에너지를 집중적으로 사용하는 발전소와 대규모 공장 단지에서 발생하는 배기가스 중에 포함된 황산화물의 제거 방법에 관한 것으로서, 활성탄의 적절한 전처리를 통해 이산화황 흡착능을 향상시켜 머지 않은 장래에 엄격히 적용될 대기오염 기준을 만족시킴과 동시에, 오염 물질의 제거 효율이 높고 폐기물 매립의 부담이 없는 건식 탈황 공정의 효율향상에 기여하는 것을 목적으로 하고 있다. Activated Char나 활성탄을 이용하여 황산화물과 질소산화물을 동시에 제거하기 위해서는 Carbon 표면을 적절하게 처리함으로써 활성탄의 촉매활성을 향상시키는 것이 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 활성탄을 열 및 $O_2$-NH$_3$ 혼합가스로 전처리하여 표면의 특성 변화와 SO$_2$ 흡착능에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. Coconut Shell로부터 제조한 활성탄을 NH$_3$의 농도를 변화시켜가며 $O_2$와의 혼합가스로 973~1173K에서 열처리하는 방법에 의해 전처리하여, 이률 고정층 반응기에서 SO$_2$흡착 및 반응실험을 수행하였고, 이 과정 중의 활성탄 표면의 특성변화를 원소분석, TPD(Temperature Programmed Desorption), FTIR(Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy), Acid-Base Titration, SEM(Scanning Electrolic Microscopy)등의 분석 방법을 통해서 알아보았다. 그 결과, 활성탄을 열 및 $O_2$-NH$_3$혼합가스로 처리하여 환원성 분위기 하에서 표면 활성점을 증가시킴으로써 황산화물 흡착제거율이 향상됨을 얻었다.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.257-268
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• 2023

Membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) is a variation of the conventional CDI process that can improve desalination efficiency by employing an ion-exchange membrane (IEM) together with a porous carbon electrode. The IEM is a key component that greatly affects the performance of MCDI. In this study, we attempted to derive the optimal fabricating factors for IEMs that can significantly improve the desalination efficiency of MCDI. For this purpose, pore-filled IEMs (PFIEMs) were then fabricated by filling the pores of the PE porous support film with monomers and carrying out in-situ photopolymerization. As a result of the experiment, the prepared PFIEMs showed excellent electrochemical properties that can be applied to various desalination and energy conversion processes. In addition, through the correlation analysis between MCDI performance and membrane characteristic parameters, it was found that controlling the degree of crosslinking of the membranes and maximizing permselectivity within a sufficiently low level of membrane electrical resistance are the most desirable membrane fabricating condition for improving MCDI performance.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.1-27
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• 2011

This paper aims to measure and analyze R&D productivities and efficiencies of 17 major OECD countries including Korea over the 1984-2008 period by using the Malmquist Productivity Index and Data Envelopment Analysis, classifying R&D performance into an output and outcome aspects. It also searches the Korea's current status and characteristics in each R&D stage to enhance Total Factor Productivity (TFP) compared with other developed countries. Our major findings are the followings: (i) Korea's productivity index of R&D input vis-a-vis R&D output is very high (13.39% annual growth rate) compared with those of major advanced countries, whereas the annual average of efficiency index is very low (0.33), i.e. Korea's technical efficiency index has risen to 0.83 at the last time series started at 0.10 point and come up to the level of major advanced countries. (ii) the Korea's productivity index of R&D output vis-a-vis R&D outcome is very low (14.02% annual reduction rate) compared with those of major advanced countries, whereas the annual average of efficiency index is very high (0.22), i.e. Korea's integrated frontier technical efficiency index has dropped to 0.057 at the last time series started at 1.00 point and coming up to the level of major advanced countries. (iii) The productivity of R&D input vis-a-vis R&D outcome is positively correlated with that of R&D output vis-a-vis R&D outcome and the growth of R&D input factors. In a nutshell, it implicates that the effort to take advantage of R&D outputs, namely establishing the diffusion and commercialization system of technical knowledge to the level of developed countries, should be strengthened over that on the growth of R&D investment and output for enhancing R&D productivity and efficiency in Korea.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.517-529
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• 2021

This study analyzes changes in the efficiency of the Department of Early Childhood Education in Korea to examine the effectiveness of the National Evaluation for Teacher Education Institution. We provide policy implications from exploring factors influencing efficiency and comparing characteristics of efficient and inefficient departments. With 149 Department of Early Childhood Education in Korea, DEA was conducted to estimate the relative efficiency, and the Tobit model was applied to explore factors affecting efficiency. The results confirm that the Department of Early Childhood in Korea is run efficiently, though there was no change in scale efficiency and relative efficiency after the two phases of the National Evaluation for Teacher Education Institution. The results show the number of books per student was significantly lower despite a significantly higher employment rate. Efficiency of college departments, department greater than 60 (per cohort), and department in metropolitan city (except Seoul area) is confirmed greater. These results provide policy implications on developing evaluation measure and processes to improve education quality and efficiency.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.50-63
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• 2018

The issue of global warming and environmental pollutant has become an international concern due to the widespread use of fossil fuels, and thus waste heat recovery technologies has become important to improve energy utilization. The global market of power generation system using industrial waste heat is rapidly growing at an average rate of 5% due to its advantage of increasing energy efficiency. In order to design an optimal waste heat recovery system, it is necessary to develop a program that offers economic evaluation of each power generating technology according to the heat source conditions. In this paper, the economic analysis module to calculate LCOE is developed and verified the reliability against NETL economic analysis results. As a result of the verification, the error rate is about 6 ~ 7%, which satisfy the accuracy for business feasibility evaluation. In order to enhance the reliability, the module was improved by applying the levelization method used by NETL. As a result of the verification of reliability, the error rate is less than 1% and the accuracy is improved.

• Ceramist
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.122-127
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• 2001

나노복합재료는 기계적, 전기적, 전자기적 특성을 향상하거나 새로운 기능을 갖는 신소재를 제조할 수 있는 가능성으로 인하여 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 우수한 특성을 갖는 나노복합재료의 제조에 있어서 주의할 점은, 나노복합재료가 다른 세라믹재료에 비하여 제조공정에 민감하게 영향을 받는다는 것이다. 출발원료, 혼합방법, 건조방법 등의 선택에 따라서 특성이 향상될 수도 있고 역으로 저하될 수도 있다. 이러한 현상은, 초미립자의 비표면적이 크기 때문에 균일한 분산이 어렵고 응집이 발생하기 쉽기 때문이라 생각된다. $Si_3N_4/SiC$ 나노복합재료의 경우는 고온강도와 열피로에 대한 저항성이 획기적으로 향상되어 $1400^{\circ}C$ 이상에서도 사용할 수 있는 초고온재료로로서의 가능성을 갖고 있다. 그러나 이러한 나노복합재료의 실용화를 위해서는 제조공정이 단순하고, 경제성이 있는 신 공정의 개발과 GPS 소결 등에 관하여 보다 많은 연구가 필요하다. 그러나 계속적인 환경오염에 관한 국제적 규제의 강화, 국제 원유가의 상승 등은 열기관의 열효율 향상을 위해서 초고온에서 사용할 수 있는 나노복합재료와 같은 재료를 요구할 것이며, 또한 정보통신산업 발전에 따른 소형화, 고 기능화는 우수한 특성과 새로운 기능을 갖는 나노복합재료의 개발과 실용화를 앞당기는 계기가 될 것으로 생각된다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.143-155
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• 2007

In video streaming applications over the Internet, TCP-friendly rate control schemes are useful for improving network stability and inter-protocol fairness. However it does not always guarantee a smooth quality for video streaming. To simultaneously satisfy both the network and application requirements, video streaming applications should be quality-adaptive. In this paper, we propose a new quality adaptation mechanism to adjust the quality of congestion controlled video stream by controlling the frame rate. Based on the current network condition, it controls the frame rate and sending rate of video stream. Through the simulation, we prove that our adaptation mechanism appropriately adjusts the quality of video stream while improving network stability.