• 산경연구논집
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.39-49
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• 2020

Purpose: Current study aimed at exploring the roles of system justification in the effects of consumers' self-identification with the threatened social in-group on the within-domain versus across-domain consumption. It focused on whether there are positive effects of both of the self-definition and the self-investment on the in-group system justification, and also explored whether the system justification, in turn, could make positive effects on the consumption. Research design, data and methodology: The self-identification was approached in view of self-definition and self-investment when the in-group was threatened by members of their out group. The empirical study was performed with the single factor within-subject design based on the feeling of the consumers' being threatened when the in-group was criticized by the others. The in-group threatened was accessed from the memory of each of the undergraduate students participating in the empirical study by asking them to remember the events by which their important in-group was perceived to be threatened in their past life. Questionnaire data collected from the undergraduate students were used to verify research hypotheses by structural equation model in Amos 21.0 program. Results: First, the self-definition positively affected the within-domain versus across-domain consumption, but did not affect the in-group system justification. Second, the self-investment positively affected the in-group system justification. Third, the system justification made positive effects on the within-domain versus the across-domain consumption. Therefore, this article could contribute to the development of the theory related to compensatory consumption in the view that there could be the positive mediation roles of system justification in the effects of consumers' self-investment to their in-group on the within-domain versus across-domain consumption when the in-group is threatened. Conclusions: The results of this study could give managerial implications to brand or product marketing managers. How to vitalize consumers' self-definition with, and self-investment to, the threatened in-group is at issue to the marketers when consumers' important in-group was threatened by others. By evoking the in-group-based self-investment to consumers when the in-group was threatened, the marketers should increase the level of the system justification, and the marketers should promote the consumers to recognize that their products or brands are included into the within-self domain.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.35-47
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• 2019

Purpose: Current study focused on investigating the effects of the self-dissociation as a thought in which consumers dis-identify or dissociate with the threatened in-group and the escapism as a tendency of consumers' distracting themselves and avoiding their thoughts about the in-group under severe but adoptable criticism by turning their attention elsewhere on across-domain compensatory consumption intention. And It explored not only the positive roles of undesirability thought against the in-group in consumers' forming the self-dissociation and the escapism, but also the effects of negative emotion to the in-group felt at the place of being exposed to the criticism against the in-group on the escapism. Research design, data, and methodology: The experiment was performed with the in-group-threatening single factor within-subject design. Questionnaire data were collected from 196 undergraduate students, and the data were used to testing research hypotheses by structural equation model of Amos 21.0. Results: First, both the self-dissociation of consumers' dis-identifying with the in-group criticized severely by others and the escapism of their deliberately directing their thoughts and distracting their attention away from thinking the in-group positively influenced on the across-domain compensatory consumption intention. Second, the negative emotion positively influenced on the escapism. Third, the undesirability thought to the in-group under the severe criticism positively effected on the self-dissociation as well as the escapism. Putting in the nutshell, the findings of this study are consistent with the idea that consumers can overcome the negative self-discrepancy on one dimension of their social identity by distracting themselves and avoiding thinking about the threatened in-group to find meaning on another dimension which might lead them to the place of doing the across-domain compensatory consumption. Conclusions - Focusing on the results of this study, checking which aspects of consumers' social identity are linked to products or brands is at issue to marketers when the consumers are faced with the criticism against the in-group. The marketers should build the messages about their products or brand not related to the checked aspects, and communicate the messages, to lead the consumers to the place of doing the across-domain compensatory consumption by their products or brands.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.75-88
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• 2021

Purpose: This research aimed at exploring the functions of consumers' perceiving approach and avoidance roles and their feeling anger and disgust in the effect of the two types of self-discrepancy at social identity such as the ideal self-discrepancy and the ought self-discrepancy on within-self domain versus across-self domain consumption. Research design, data, and methodology - This study divided the self-discrepancy group into the ideal self-discrepancy and the ought self-discrepancy group as experimental groups for empirical study. Self-discrepancy type between-subjects design was used to develop two types of questionnaire according to the type of experimental groups. The platform, 'questionnaire stars' of 'WeChat' in China was used to collect 103 data from the ideal self-discrepancy group and 102 from the ought self-discrepancy group for empirical study. T-test and the structural equation model in Amos 21 were used to verify hypotheses developed through theoretical review. Results - First, ideal self-discrepancy positively affected the role-approaching goal and anger. Second, ought self-discrepancy positively affected the role-avoiding goal and disgust. Third, the role-approaching goal and anger positively influenced on the within- versus across- domain consumption. Fourth, the disgust negatively influenced on the within- versus across- domain consumption, however the role-avoiding goal did not influence on the consumption. Fifth, there was the mediation roles of anger (disgust) in the effects of ideal (ought) self-discrepancy on the consumption. Conclusions - When consumers feel anger at the ideal self- discrepancy induced by in-group, it is necessary for the marketers to promote their product brand used by the in-group. They should develop and advertise the messages priming the ideal self-discrepancy and the anger to increase the intent to purchase or use their product brand when the in-group members have used the brand by relating the brand to their social identity concerned with the ideal self-discrepancy. However, marketers should help consumers feel disgust by developing and advertising the messages expressing the ought self-discrepancy to lead the consumers to the place of purchasing or using their product brand when the members have used the brand based on keeping the consistence between the brand and other social identity not related to the ought self-discrepancy.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.130-139
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• 2010

Environmental issues and the need to reduce energy consumption for lowering operating costs have pushed power efficiency to become one of the major issues of current research in the field of wireless networks. This paper addresses a number of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) precoding and scheduling techniques across the PHY and MAC layers that can operate under a reduced link budget and collectively improve the transmit power efficiency of a base station, while maintaining the same levels of service. Different MIMO transmission and precoding schemes proposed for LTE, achieving varying degrees of multiuser diversity in both the time, frequency as well as the space domain, are examined. Several fairness-aware resource allocation algorithms are applied to the considered MIMO schemes and a detailed analysis of the tradeoffs between power efficiency and quality of service is presented. This paper explicitly examines the performance of a system serving real-time, VoIP traffic under different traffic loading conditions and transmit power levels. It is demonstrated that by use of efficient scheduling and resource allocation techniques significant savings in terms of consumed energy can be achieved, without compromising QoS.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.77-110
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• 2017

최근 인터넷 기반의 웹 및 모바일 기기를 통한 소비 패턴의 다양화와 개성화가 급진전됨에 따라 전통적 유통채널인 오프라인 매장의 효율적 운영이 더욱 중요해졌다. 매장의 매출과 수익 모두를 제고하기 위해 매장은 소비자에게 가장 매력적인 상품을 적시에 공급-판매 해야 하는데 많은 상품들 중에서 어떤 SKU를 취급하는 것이 판매 확률을 높이고 재고 비용을 낮출 수 있는지에 대한 연구가 부족한 실정이다. 특히, 여러 지역에 걸쳐 다수의 오프라인 매장을 통해 상품을 판매하는 기업의 경우 고객에게 매력적인 적절한 SKU를 추천 받아 취급할 수 있다면 매장의 매출 및 수익률 제고에 도움이 될 것이다. 본 연구에서는 개인화 추천에 이용되어 왔던 협업 필터링과 하이브리드 필터링 등의 추천 시스템(Recommender System)을 국가별, 지역별로 복수의 판매 매장을 통해 동종 브랜드를 취급하는 유통 기업의 매장 단위 취급 SKU 추천 방식을 제안하였다. 각 매장의 취급 품목별 구매 데이터를 활용하여 각 매장 별 유사성(Similarity)을 계산하고 각 매장의 SKU별 판매 이력에 따라 협업 필터링을 하여 최종적으로 매장에 개별 SKU를 추천하였다. 또한 매장 프로파일 데이터를 활용하여 주변수 분석 (PCA : Principal Component Analysis) 및 군집 분석(Clustering)을 통하여 매장을 4개의 군집으로 분류한 뒤 각 군집 내에서 협업 필터링을 적용한 하이브리드 필터링 방식으로 추천 시스템을 구현하고 실제 판매 데이터를 바탕으로 두 방식의 성능을 측정하였다. 현존하는 대부분의 추천 시스템은 사용자에게 영화, 음악 등의 아이템을 추천하는 방식으로 연구가 진행되어 왔고 실제로 산업계에서의 적용 또한 개인화 추천 시스템이 주류를 이루고 있다. 그 동안 개인화 서비스 영역에서 주로 다루어져 왔던 이러한 추천 시스템을 동종 브랜드를 취급하는 유통 기업의 매장 단위에 적용하여 각 매장의 취급 SKU를 추천하는 방식에 대한 연구는 거의 이루어지지 않고 있는 실정이다. 기존 추천 방법론의 추천 적용 대상이 '개인의 영역이었다면 본 연구에서는 국가별, 지역별로 복수의 판매 매장을 통해 개인의 영역을 넘어 매장의 영역으로 확대하여 동종 브랜드를 취급하는 유통 기업의 매장 단위 취급 SKU 추천 방식을 제안하고 있다. 또한 기존의 추천시스템은 온라인에 한정되었다면 이를 오프라인으로 활용 범위를 넓히고, 기존 개인을 기반으로 분석을 하는 것보다 매장영역으로 확대 적용하기에 적합한 알고리즘을 개발하기 위해 데이터마이닝 기법을 적용하여 추천 방법을 제안한다. 본 연구의 결과가 갖는 의의는 개인화 추천 알고리즘을 동일 브랜드를 취급하는 복수의 판매 매장에 적용하여 의미 있는 결과를 도출하고 실제 기업을 대상으로 시스템으로 구축하여 활용할 수 있는 구체적 방법론을 제시했다는 데에 있다. 개인화 영역을 위주로 이루어졌던 기존의 추천 시스템과 관련한 학계의 연구 영역을 동종 브랜드를 취급하는 기업의 판매 매장으로 확장시킨 첫 시도라는 데에도 의미가 있다. 2014년 03주차 ~ 05주차 전(全) 매장 판매 수량 실적 Top 100개 SKU로 추천의 대상을 한정하여 협업 필터링과 하이브리드 필터링 방식으로 52개 매장 별로 취급 SKU를 추천하고, 추천 받은 SKU에 대한 2014년 06주차 매장별 판매 실적을 집계하여 두 추천 방식의 성과를 비교하였다. 두 추천 방식을 비교한 이유는 본 연구의 추천 방법이 기존 추천 방식 보다 높은 성과를 입증하기 위해 단순히 오프라인에 협업필터링을 적용한 것을 기준 모델로 정의하였다. 이 기준 모델에 오프라인 매장 관점의 특성을 잘 반영한 본 연구 모델인 하이브리드 필터링 방법과 비교 함으로써 성과를 입증한다. 연구에서 제안한 방식은 기존 추천 방식보다 높은 성과를 나타냈으며, 이는 국내 대기업 의류업체의 실제 판매데이터를 활용하여 입증하였다. 본 연구는 개인 수준의 추천시스템을 그룹수준으로 확장하여 효율적으로 접근하는 방법을 이론적인 프레임 워크를 만들었을 뿐 아니라 실제 데이터를 기반으로 분석하여 봄으로써 실제 기업들이 적용해 볼 수 있다는 점에서 연구의 가치가 크다.