• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.39-60
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• 2011

Since the introduction of web 2.0 technology, social network service has been recognized as the foundation of an important future information technology. The advent of web 2.0 has led to the change of content creators. In the existing web, content creators are service providers, whereas they have changed into service users in the recent web. Users share experiences with other users improving contents quality, thereby it has increased the importance of social network. As a result, diverse forms of social network service have been emerged from relations and experiences of users. Social network is a network to construct and express social relations among people who share interests and activities. Today's social network service has not merely confined itself to showing user interactions, but it has also developed into a level in which content generation and evaluation are interacting with each other. As the volume of contents generated from social network service and the number of connections between users have drastically increased, the social network extraction method becomes more complicated. Consequently the following problems for the social network extraction arise. First problem lies in insufficiency of representational power of object in the social network. Second problem is incapability of expressional power in the diverse connections among users. Third problem is the difficulty of creating dynamic change in the social network due to change in user interests. And lastly, lack of method capable of integrating and processing data efficiently in the heterogeneous distributed computing environment. The first and last problems can be solved by using FOAF, a tool for describing ontology-based user profiles for construction of social network. However, solving second and third problems require a novel technology to reflect dynamic change of user interests and relations. In this paper, we propose a novel method to overcome the above problems of existing social network extraction method by applying FOAF (a tool for describing user profiles) and RSS (a literary web work publishing mechanism) to OLAP system in order to dynamically innovate and manage FOAF. We employed data interoperability which is an important characteristic of FOAF in this paper. Next we used RSS to reflect such changes as time flow and user interests. RSS, a tool for literary web work, provides standard vocabulary for distribution at web sites and contents in the form of RDF/XML. In this paper, we collect personal information and relations of users by utilizing FOAF. We also collect user contents by utilizing RSS. Finally, collected data is inserted into the database by star schema. The system we proposed in this paper generates OLAP cube using data in the database. 'Dynamic FOAF Management Algorithm' processes generated OLAP cube. Dynamic FOAF Management Algorithm consists of two functions: one is find_id_interest() and the other is find_relation (). Find_id_interest() is used to extract user interests during the input period, and find-relation() extracts users matching user interests. Finally, the proposed system reconstructs FOAF by reflecting extracted relationships and interests of users. For the justification of the suggested idea, we showed the implemented result together with its analysis. We used C# language and MS-SQL database, and input FOAF and RSS as data collected from livejournal.com. The implemented result shows that foaf : interest of users has reached an average of 19 percent increase for four weeks. In proportion to the increased foaf : interest change, the number of foaf : knows of users has grown an average of 9 percent for four weeks. As we use FOAF and RSS as basic data which have a wide support in web 2.0 and social network service, we have a definite advantage in utilizing user data distributed in the diverse web sites and services regardless of language and types of computer. By using suggested method in this paper, we can provide better services coping with the rapid change of user interests with the automatic application of FOAF.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.190-193
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• 2008

사용자의 '참여'를 지향하는 웹2.0 서비스들은 사람간이나 정보간의 '관계'에 대한 문제에 주목하고 있다. 대표적인 서비스인 블로그는 엮인글을 통해 사용자들의 참여를 이끌고 문서를 연결하고 있으나 이를 악용하는 사례들이 발생하고 있어 이에 대한 해결을 위해 연결에 대한 분석이 요구되고 있다. 사람의 개인 정보와 친구 관계 및 주변 사물과의 관계를 모델링하는 방식인 FOAF(Friend of a Friend)는 이러한 사회연결망 분석을 가능케 하는 수단으로써 연구되고 있다. FOAF는 단순화되고 이해하기 쉬운 용어를 사용하여, 복잡하고 이해하기 어려운 시맨틱 웹의 단점을 극복하기 위한 발판으로서 또한 주목 받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 여러 웹 사이트를 하나의 ID로 이용하기 위한 OpenID를 통해 FOAF에 정보 관리 능력을 부여하여 개인정보 유출 문제를 해결하기 위한 방안을 제시한다. 또한 실제 운영되는 관리 능력을 부여하여 개인정보 유출 문제를 해결하기 위한 방안을 제시한다. 또한 실제 운영되는 사회연결망 서비스의 분석을 통해 OpenID의 정보에 따라 자동으로 사회연결망 정보를 수집하는 성장형 FOAF 프레임워크를 설계하였으며, 쉬운 FOAF를 보급하기 위한 발판을 마련하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.19B no.3
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• pp.165-176
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• 2012

In recent years, due to rapidly increasing user-created internet contents coupled with the development of community-based websites, the internet resource recommendation systems are attracting attentions of the users. However, most of the systems have failed in properly reflecting users' characteristics and thus they have difficulty in recommending appropriate resources to users. In this paper, we propose an internet resource recommendation method using FOAF and SNA which fully reflects the characteristics of users. In our method, 1) we extract the data about user characteristics and tags using FOAF; 2) we generate graphs representing users, user characteristics and tags after inserting data into 3 matrixes and integrating them; 3) we recommend the appropriate internet resources after selecting common characteristics of the recommended items and Hot tags by analyzing social network. For verification of our proposed method, we implemented our method to establish and analyze an experimental social group. We verified through our experiments that the more users added in the social network, the higher quality of recommendation result we got than the item-based recommendation method. By using the suggested idea in this paper, we can make a more appropriate recommendation of resources to users while effectively retrieving explosively increasing internet resources.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.485-495
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• 2009

We in this paper propose a social network based on ontology in Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM). By using the social network, researchers can find collaborators and share research results with others. For this purpose, first, personal profiles, scholarships, careers, licenses, academic activities, research results, and personal connections for all of researchers in KIOM are collected. After relationship and hierarchy among ontology classes and attributes of classes are defined through analyzing the collected information, a social network ontology are constructed using FOAF and OWL. This ontology can be easily interconnected with other social network by FOAF and provide the reasoning based on OWL ontology.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.531-534
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• 2010

웹 2.0의 적극적인 도입에 따라 소셜 네트워크 기반 커뮤니티 사이트에서는 관련된 콘텐츠를 적절하게 추천하는 것은 중요한 문제로 부각되고 있으며 이로 인해 사용자들의 동향 및 이슈 추출 기법이 중요하게 작용하고 있다. 이러기 위해서 지금까지의 연구에서는 콘텐츠에 포함된 키워드 매칭 방법을 이용하고 있으나 사용자들 간의 연결 관계와 키워드의 중요도를 고려하지 못하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 FOAF 기반의 소셜 네트워크와 del.icio.us에서 제공하는 소셜 북마크 데이터를 기초로 소셜네트워크 분석을 보이며 이를 통한 사용자들 사이에서 중요하게 부각되는 핫 이슈를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 핫 이슈 추출 방법을 활용하면 사용자들의 관심 분야 동향파악을 효율적으로 수행할 수 있으며 이를 통해 맞춤형 마케팅 및 콘텐츠 추천이 가능해 진다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.18B no.5
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• pp.279-290
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• 2011

As the volume of internet and web contents have shown an explosive growth in recent years, lately contents recommendation system (CRS) has emerged as an important issue. Consequently, researches on contents recommendation method (CRM) for CRS have been conducted consistently. However, traditional CRMs have the limitations in that they are incapable of utilizing in web 2.0 environments where positions of content creators are important. In this paper, we suggest a novel way to recommend web contents of high quality using both degree of centrality and TF-IDF. For this purpose, we analyze TF-IDF and degree of centrality after collecting RSS and FOAF. Then we recommend contents using these two analyzed values. For the verification of the suggested method, we have developed the CRS and showed the results of contents recommendation. With the suggested idea we can analyze relations between users and contents on the entered query, and can consequently provide the appropriate contents to the user. Moreover, the implemented system we suggested in this paper can provide more reliable contents than traditional CRS because the importance of the role of content creators is reflected in the new system.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.43-48
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• 2010

Useful emails influence on consumers' purchase behavior and activate them to visit retail stores. Regular contact with consumers by e-mail has positive effects on brand loyalty. However, email marketing has a limitation. Spam now accounts for over half of all e-mail traffic. The increase of email users has resulted in the dramatic increase of spam emails during the past few years. In this paper, we proposed an ontology-based system offering personalized email services to overcome such limitation. Our method is not the ontology-driven spam filtering, but a personalized content service considering personal interests and relations among people by using FOAF and domain ontologies. Our system was successfully tested in email marketing domain.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.390-394
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• 2009

The semantic web-based social network is highly useful in a variety of areas. In this paper we make diverse analyses of the FOAF-based social network, and propose an expert recommendation system. This system presents useful method of ontology-based social network using SparQL, RDFS inference, and visualization tools. Then we apply it to real social network in order to make various analyses of centrality, small world, scale free, etc. Moreover, our system suggests method for analysis of an expert on specific field. We expect such method to be utilized in multifarious areas - marketing, group administration, knowledge management system, and so on.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.523-526
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• 2010

오늘날의 인터넷은 웹 2.0 의 출현으로 인하여 콘텐츠의 생산주체가 서비스 제공자에서 서비스 수요자인 사용자들로 변화되고 있다. 이에 따라 사용자들의 경험은 콘텐츠의 품질에 큰 영향을 미치고 있으며 소셜 네트워크에서 취득한 콘텐츠는 검색으로 취득한 콘텐츠보다 신뢰를 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 소셜 네트워크를 기반으로 사용자들에게 양질의 콘텐츠를 추천하기 위한 방법과 그 개발을 보인다. 소셜 네트워크는 XML 기반의 사용자 프로파일 기술 언어인 FOAF 를 이용하여 수집하며 이를 통해 사용자와 사용자 사이의 관계를 수집한다. 그리고 웹 콘텐츠 출판언어인 RSS를 이용하여 각 사용자들이 블로그 등을 통해 배포한 콘텐츠를 수집한다. 본 논문에서 보이는 시스템은 FOAF 와 RSS 를 기초로 입력된 키워드에 대해 사용자와 콘텐츠의 관계를 분석하고 이를 통해 콘텐츠를 추천하는 기능을 가진다. 본 논문에서 보이는 시스템은 전통적인 콘텐츠 추천 시스템과 달리 사용자가 속한 소셜 네트워크에서 콘텐츠 생산자가 대한 중요도가 반영되므로 보다 신뢰성 있는 결과를 얻을 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.199-202
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• 2015

본 논문은 재난 방재 시 실내의 지하시설, 음영지역의 재난 상황 정보에 대하여 원활한 서비스 제공에 대해 제안 하였다. 소셜 네트워크 서비스를 통해 사용자가 공유하는 자연재해 발생 정보를 자동적으로 감지하고, 수집된 정보를 분석하여 FOAF 기반으로 소셜 네트워크와의 관계 및 특성을 이끌어내어 연계가 용이하도록 온톨로지 추론을 설계하였다. 또한 사용자의 분석된 정보에 따라 기관 및 개인에게 정보를 신속하게 제공할 수 있는 시스템의 설계를 제시하여, 재난 방재 시 BLE 센서를 이용한 재난재해 정보를 재난환경 주변의 사람들에게 실시간으로 알려주는 시스템을 제시하였다.