• Title/Summary/Keyword: Conceptual Modeling

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A Conceptual Model for the Performance Analysis Simulator of a Weapon Launching System (무장발사장치 체계성능분석을 위한 시뮬레이터 개념 모델링 사례)

  • Yoon, Jae-Moon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.407-414
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    • 2009
  • This paper describes a conceptual model for the performance analysis simulator of a weapon launching system. The system performance analysis simulator is envisioned to provide an integrated analysis environment in which the system performance and operational effectiveness can be analyzed in more rapid and efficient way. The conceptual model for the simulator describes a referent independently of specific technology and implementation, and it can be used to transform the simulator requirements into the simulator system specifications.

Design space exploration in aircraft conceptual design phase based on system-of-systems simulation

  • Tian, Yifeng;Liu, Hu;Huang, Jun
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.624-635
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    • 2015
  • Design space exploration has been much neglected in aircraft conceptual design phase, which often leads to a waste of time and cost in design, manufacture and operation process. It is necessary to explore design space based on operational system-of-systems (SoS) simulation during the early phase for a competitive design. This paper proposes a methodology to analyze aircraft performance parameters in four steps: combination of parameters, object analysis, operational simulation, and key-parameters analysis. Meanwhile, the design space of an unmanned aerial vehicle applied in earthquake search and rescue SoS is explored based on this methodology. The results show that applying SoS simulation into design phase has important reference value for designers on aircraft conceptual design.

Modeling Dynamic Business Rules using A Dynamic Knowledge Approach

  • Karami, Nasser;Iijima, Junichi
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.72-82
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    • 2007
  • Business Rules are formal statements about the data and processes of an enterprise. They present projections of the organization's constraints and ways of working on their supporting information systems. Therefore, their collection, structuring and organization should be central activities within information systems. In an enterprise, business rules are used to represent certain aspects of a business domain (static rules) or business policy (dynamic rules). Hence, regarding problem domains in the organization, business rules are classified into two groups: static and dynamic business rules. The paper introduces a new concept of business rules, Extended Dynamic Business Rule (EDBR) which contains the results of the occurrence of business rule's action. The focus of this paper is in the organizing, defining and modeling of such business rules using Mineau's approach. Mineau's approach is an extension of Sowa's Conceptual Graph theory.

Fuel Cycle Cost Modeling for the Generation IV SFR at the Pre-Conceptual Design Stage

  • Kim, Seong-Ho;Moon, Kee-Hwan;Kim, Young-In
    • Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.51-52
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    • 2009
  • Recently, several industrial countries using the fission energy have given attention to the Gen-IV SFR (sodium-cooled fast reactor) for achieving sustainable nuclear energy systems. In this context, an SFR is currently developed at the design concepts study stage in the Republic of Korea [Kim & Hahn 200909]. The sustainability of systems means economic, environment-friendly, proliferation-resistant, and safer systems. More specifically, this sustainability can be accomplished in terms of resource recycling and radioactive waste reduction. In the present work, the objective of fuel cycle cost modeling is to identify the impact of various conceptual options as a cost reduction measure for the Gen-IV SFR at the design concepts study stage. It facilitates the selection of several reasonable fuel cycle pathways for the future Gen-IV SFR from an economic viewpoint.

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Analysis of High School Students' Conceptual Change in Model-Based Instruction for Blood Circulation (혈액 순환 모형 기반 수업에서 고등학생들의 개념 변화 분석)

  • Kim, Mi-Young;Kim, Heui-Baik
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.379-393
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this article is to analyze the conceptual change of nine 11th graders after implementing the model-based instruction of blood circulation by multidimensional framework, and to find some implications about teaching strategies for improving conceptual understanding. The model-based instruction consisted of 4 periods: (1) introduction for inducing students' interests using an episode in the science history of blood circulation, (2) vivisectional experiment on rats, (3) visual-linguistic model instruction using the videotape of heartbeat, and (4) modeling activity on the path of blood flow. Based on the data from pre-test, post-test and interviews, we classified students' models on the path of blood flow, and investigated their ontological features and the conceptual status of blood circulation. Most students could describe the path of blood flow and the changes of substances in blood precisely after the instructions. However, the modeling activity were not sufficient to improve students' understanding of the mechanisms of the blood distribution throughout various organs and the material exchanges between blood and tissues. From the interview of 9 students, we acquired informative results about conceptual status elements that were helpful to, preventing from, or not used for students' understanding. It was also found that conceptual status of students depended on the ontological categories into which students' conceptions of blood circulation fell. The results of this study can help design the effective teaching strategy for the understanding of concept of the equilibrium category.

Multi-facetted Approach to Mathematical Model Representation and Management (수리 모형의 표현과 관리를 위한 다면적 접근법)

  • 김종우;김형도;박성주
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.157-185
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    • 1998
  • One of the essential issues in model systems is how to represent and manipulate mathematical modeling knowledge. As the bases of integrated modeling environments, current modeling frameworks have limitations: lack of facility to coordinate different users perpectives and lack of mechanism to reuse modeling knowledge. In this paper, multi-facetted modeling approach is proposed as a basis for the development of integrated modeling environment which provides facilities for (1) independent management of modeling knowledge from individual models; (2) object-oriented conceptual blackboard concept; (3) multi-facetted modeling; and (4) declarative representation of mathematical knowledge. The proposed multi-facetted approach is illustrated using multicommodity transportation models.

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Development of a Design Ontology and Design Process Visualization Environment for the Analysis and Leaning of Conceptual Design (개념 설계과정의 설계정보가시화를 위한 온톨로지 개발과 환경구현)

  • Kim, Sung-Ah
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.119-126
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    • 2007
  • A prototype design process visualization and guidance system, is being developed. Its purpose is to visualize the design process in more intuitive manner so that one can get an insight to the complicated aspects of the design process. By providing a tangible utility to the design process performed by the expert designers or guided by the system, novice designers will be greatly helped to learn how to approach a certain class of design. Not only as an analysis tool to represent the characteristics of the design process, the system will be useful also for learning design process. A design ontology is being developed to provide the system with a knowledge-base, representing designer's activities associated with various design information during the conceptual design process, and then to be utilized for a computer environment for design analysis and guidance. To develop the design ontology, a conceptual framework of design activity model is proposed, and then the model has been tested and elaborated through investigating the nature of the early conceptual design. A design process representation model is conceptualized based on the ontology, and reflected into the development of the system. This paper presents the development process of the visualization system, modeling of design process ontology, and how the system could be utilized for the analysis and learning of conceptual design methods using computer mediated design support environment.

Application of UML(Unified Modeling Language) Towards Object-oriented Analysis and Design of Geo-based Data Model (지질 데이터 모델의 객체지향 분석 및 설계를 위한 UML의 적용)

  • Lee, Ki-Won
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.719-733
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    • 2000
  • Normally, a digital geologic map can be defined as mappable one whose spatial information with geographic information details and geologic database attribute, recorded in a digital format that is readable by computer. It shows fundamentally two different conceptual perspectives: cartography for digital mapping and analysis for geo-data processing. While, as both aspects basically relate to natural entities and their interpretation of complex features fused with multi-sources, digital geo-data mapping or geologic mapping, it should be distinguished from digital mapping in engineering such as UIS(Urban Infomation System) and AM/FM(Automated Mapping/Facilities Management). Furthermore, according to short-cycled development of GIS(Geographic Information System) software architecture based on IT(Information Technology) and wide expansion of GIS applications' fields, the importance of domain analysis and application model is emphasized at digital geologic informatizaion. In this paper, first terms and concepts of geo-data model with general data modeling aspects are addressed, and then case histories for geo-data modeling and several approaches for data modeling in GIS application fields are discussed. Lastly, tentative conceptual geo-data modeling by using UML(Unified Modeling Language) of OO(Object-oriented) concepts with respect to USGS/AASG geo-data mode is attempted. Through this approach, the main benefits for standardization and implementation lineage with conceptual model in consideration to reusability are expected. Conclusively, it is expected that geo-information system and its architecture by UML is the new coming key approach for the GIS application in geo-sciences.

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