• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.55-74
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• 2005

In order to purchase a product cheaper, a lot of customers have been trying to search one or more marketplaces. Ever since the commercial use of the Internet, several types of marketplaces have been operating successfully on the Internet. Some of them are online shopping malls, auction markets, and group-buying markets. They have the price settlement mechanisms of their own. Online shopping malls where many stores are located support a customer to purchase the product that matches his/her requests such as price, function, design, and so forth. In online auction market, a customer can buy the product by making bids sequentially and competitively until a final price is reached. In online group-buying market, a customer can purchase the product by aggregating the orders from several buyers so that cheaper prices can be negotiated. The cheaper customers could purchase the same product item, the more satisfied they would be. However, it is very difficult for the customer to determine the marketplace to purchase, considering different kinds of marketplaces at the same time. Even though the purchasing price is cheapest in one marketplace, it is very difficult for customers to convince it the cheapest for all marketplaces. Therefore, rules and methods have been developed for purchase decision making in multiple marketplaces to reach the optimal purchase decision as a whole. They can maximize customer's utility and resolve the conflicts with other marketplaces through multi-agent negotiation.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.83-103
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• 2008

In the new web based learning environment which has recently emerged, a variety of new learning objectives and teaching methods suited to this learning environment have been adopted. Recently, web based project-based learning methods have received a great deal of attention from those wishing to improve learning performance. The objective of this study is to identify the impact of characteristics of communication media and instruction behavior on collaborative interaction and project performance through web based group projects. The characteristics of communication media were divided into richness, flexibility, and ease of use, and the characteristics of instruction behavior were divided into support and expression, which are independent variables. Collaborative interaction as a mediate variable, was divided into information sharing and negotiation. Project performance was the dependent variable. To verify the proposed research model empirically, an experiment was conducted in which learners participated in on-line and off-line courses with group projects. The group project was conducted virtual product development(VPD), and designed a web-site about the VPD. At the end of the project, a survey was conducted. Of the 270 students, 239 responded. The students were assigned to groups of 3 or 4 members, and represented different genders and levels of computer competence. The reliability, validity, and correlation of research variables were analyzed using SPSS 14.0, and the measurement model and the structural goodness-of-fit of the research model were verified through SEM analysis using Lisrel 8.54. We found important results as follows; First, richness and ease of use has positive impacts on each of sharing information and negotiation. This suggests that richness and ease of use are useful in sharing information which is related to the task and agreeing in opinions among group members. However, flexibility has not positive impacts on sharing information and negotiation. This implies that there is no great difference in performance of PC and information literacy of user. Second, support and expression of instructor have positive impacts on sharing information and negotiation. This indicates that instructors play an important role in encouraging learners to participate in the project and communicating with them, sharing information related to the project, making a resonable decision and finally leading them to improve a project performance. Third, collaborative interaction has a positive impact on project performance. This result shows that if the ability to share information and negotiate among students was improved then a project performance would be improved as well. Recently, in the state of revitalized web based learning, it is opportune that web-based group project is practically conducted, and the impact of characteristics of communication media and characteristics of instruction behavior on sharing information, negotiating among group members and improving a project performance is verified. On the basis of these results, we propose that forms of learning, such as web based project, could be one of solution which is to enforce interaction among learners, and ultimately improve learning performance. Moreover web-based group project is able to make up for a weakness which makes it difficult to make interpersonal relations or friendship among learners in computer mediated communication or web based learning.

• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.131-146
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• 2004

전자상거래가 활성화되면서 멀티에이전트를 비롯한 다양한 에이전트 기법을 전자상거래에 적용하여 구매자와 판매자간의 매매를 지능적으로 수행시키는 연구가 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 그러나 기존의 연구들은 구매자와 판매자간의 매매 프로세스를 에이전트들이 수행하는 과정에서 에이전트의 지능적 능력이 부족하여 의사결정시 사용자의 개입을 요구하고 있다. 또한 사용자가 매매활동에서 중요하게 고려하는 항목들을 충분히 수용하지 못한 상태에서 서로 연결되는 수준에 머무르고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점들을 극복하는 매매 프로세스를 위한 멀티에이전트 기반의 비즈니스 모형을 제안한다. 제안된 모형에서는 기존의 특정 항목을 중심으로 한 중개의 단점을 극복하고 사용자의 다양하고 차별적인 요구사항들을 만족시키면서 최적의 중개가 이루어지도록 하기 위하여 중개 프로세스에 CSP 기법을 적용한다. 또한 매매후보 에이전트들이 서로의 의견을 조정하면서 매매계약을 체결하기 위하여 게임이론에서의 협상모형을 응용한 에이전트들의 자동 협상 메커니즘을 제안한다. 이러한 중개 프로세스의 최적화 및 자동 협상을 위하여 제안 된 모형에서는 에이전트들이 경쟁계층, 제약만족계층, 협상계층을 통과하면서 매매계약 활동을 수행하도록 한다 이 때 에이전트 간 통신을 위하여 본 모형에서는 자체적으로 정의한 메시지 기반 통신 프로토콜을 설계 및 구현하였다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 모형을 기반으로 한 응용시스템들을 구현하고 다양한 실험 및 평가를 수행한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.3904-3917
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• 2017

IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) is an open standardized architecture for delivering multimedia service over IP network in a route-agnostic manner. With the increasing popularity of conversational class service, the delivery of a traffic flow with a certain bandwidth demand over a single network path is either not possible or not cost-effective. Multipath transmission is considered to be a promising solution to provide high-quality delivery service. This paper proposes a software defined service overlay network (SDSON) based multipath transmission framework for IMS, which is complementary to existing network architecture. The framework transforms original two-party session negotiation into three-party session negotiation that supports participants to negotiate multipath transmission capacity and path information by signaling message. Based on existing IETF standards, SIP and SDP are scalable to support these functions. Finally, the proposed framework is fully implemented on open source platform and examined by experiments. Experimental results show that multipath-enabled IMS is an effective way to improve the delivery performance of conversational class service.

• 한국산업정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산업정보학회 2003년도 추계공동학술대회
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• pp.239-250
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• 2003

In this research, we propose a hybrid group decision support mechanism (H-GDSM) based on Fuzzy AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and FCM (Fuzzy Cognitive Map). The AHP elicits a corresponding priority vector interpreting the preferred information among the decision makers. Corresponding vector was composed of the pairwise comparison values of a set of objects. Since pairwise comparison values are the judgments obtained from an appropriate semantic scale. However, AHP couldn't represent the causal relationship among information, which were used by decision makers. In contrast to AHP, FCM could represent the causal relationship among variables or information. Therefore, FCMs were successfully developed and used in several ill-structured domains, such as strategic decision-making, policy making, and simulations. Nonetheless, many researchers used subjective and voluntary inputs to simulate the FCM. As a result of subjective inputs, it couldn't avoid the rebukes of businessman. To overcome these limitations, we incorporated the Fuzzy membership functions, AHP and FCM into a H-GDSM. In contrast to current AHP methods and FCMs, the H-GDSM method developed herein could concurrently tackle the pairwise comparison involving causal relationships under a group decision-making environment. The strengths and contributions of our mechanism were 1) handling of qualitative knowledge and causal relationships, 2) extraction of objective input value to simulate the FCM, 3) multi-phase group decision support based on H-GDSM. To validate our proposed mechanism we developed a simple prototype system to support negotiation-based decisions in electronic commerce (EC).

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제27권1C호
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• pp.21-35
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• 2002

인터넷상에서 멀티미디어 서비스와 스트림 서비스 기대가 증가함에 따라 이를 지원하기 위한 애플리케이션 개발을 많이 요구하게 되었다. 그러나, 기존에 제시된 모델들은 QoS에 관련된 분산 응용 서비스들이 중앙 제어 형태의 통합 모델로 개발됨에 따라 확장이나 재사용을 지원할 수 없는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위하여 객체지향 미들웨어인 CORBA 상에서 분산 QoS 관리 시스템을 제시하였다. 이는 기존 QoS 제어에서 실시간 협약과 동적 적응 기능뿐만 아니라, 효과적인 QoS 제어 기능도 제공하고 있다. 본 시스템은 QoS의 제어와 관리를 분산된 형태의 시스템으로 설계하였으며, 클라이언트 측에 QoS 제어 관리 모듈(QoS CMM), 서버 측에는 QoS 관리 모듈(QoS MM)을 객체 형태로 각각 구성하였다. 이러한 분산 모듈들은 분산 스트리밍 애플리케이션을 지원하는 동안 분산 QoS 관리를 위해 서로 다른 시스템 상에서 CORBA를 통하여 서로 상호작용 한다. 시스템 설계 단계에서, 스트림 서비스의 QoS 제어를 위해 세부적인 기능과 메소드 호출, 각 모듈의 컴포넌트를 설계하기 위해 UML을 사용했다. 제안된 시스템을 구현하기 위해서 Solaris 2.5/2.7에 CORBA 표준을 따르는 OrbixWeb 3.1c, Java 언어, Java Media Framework API 2.0, Mini-SQL 1.0.16과 SunVideoPlus/SunVideo Capture 보드, Sun Camera와 같은 멀티미디어 장치들을 이용하였다. 마지막으로, 분산 QoS 관리 시스템이 스트림 서비스를 실행하는 동안, 동적으로 클라이언트와 서버 상에서 GUI의 QoS 맵 정보를 근거로, 실시간적으로 협약 및 적응하는 과정을 수치 데이터로 보였다.

• 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영과학회/대한산업공학회 2003년도 춘계공동학술대회
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• pp.800-807
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• 2003

Decomposition of tasks in the ordinary manufacturing systems is usually based on the predefined goal of the system. To achieve the high-level-goals (e.g., factory goal or company goal), several sub-goals should be achieved in advance. However, goals can change along with the current status of the system and the external environmental situations. Thus, a manufacturing system should support the goal-formations which can be bearable these changes for efficient and effective operations. Therefore, it IS necessary to develop a systematic methodology for the goal-formations in a manufacturing system. Especially, the formation and/or change of goals in real-time should be possible for distributed and dynamic systems including the fractal manufacturing system (FrMS). In this paper, a threefold methodology is proposed for the goal-formation process (GFP) in the FrMS; 1) a goal­generating process (GGP) to make and propagate fuzzy goals, 2) a goal-harmonizing process (GHP) to eliminate or reduce conflicts and interferences of goals by using a mobile agent- based negotiation scheme, and 3) a goal-balancing process (GBP) to make a compromise between goals by using quantifiable indicators of the manufacturing system.

• 한국지능정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지능정보시스템학회 2002년도 추계정기학술대회
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• pp.432-444
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 전자상거래의 확산에 따른 환경변화 속에서 다품종소량생산체제의 특성을 가진 주문제조업체들이 동적으로 변화하는 환경과 다양한 고객들의 주문에 대응하여 경쟁력을 제고시키기 위한 멀티에이전트 기반 협상지원시스템(MANESS)을 개발하였다. 이 시스템은 동적으로 변하는 환경과 고객들의 주문에 대응하기 위한, 그리고 유연한 시스템 구조를 이루기 위한 새로운 패러다임으로 부각되는 에이전트기술을 사용하였다. 그 중에서도, 에이전트간의 협업을 통해 문제를 해결하는 멀티에이전트기술을 사용하여 시스템을 개발하였다. 이 시스템은 주문제조업체에서 가장 중요한 거래활동인 협상의 자동화를 통해 주문에서부터 생산에 이르는 일련의 모든 거래활동을 자동화하는 것이다.

• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.89-122
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• 2002

Mediation is defined most simply as facilitated negotiation. An impartial third party(the mediator) facilitates negotiations between disputants or the disputants' representatives in their search for a resolution of their dispute. The disputants remain responsible for negotiating a settlement; the mediator's role is to assist the process in ways acceptable to the disputants. Sometimes this means merely providing a forum for negotiations or convening the negotiations. More often it menas helping the disputants find areas of common ground for resolution, offering alternatives, supervising the bargaining, then drafting the final settlement. mediation can occur between two disputants seeking to resolve one issue, or among many disputants seeking to resolve several issues. The disputants can participate in mediation themselves or they can have representatives negotiate for them. Mediation most often is a voluntary process. In Korea, as mediation could not have developed for lack of people's correct understanding on it, there must be enlightenment against the people, and it needs subsidiary from government and support from lawers. In order for the lawers to accomplish their role in progressing mediation procedure favorably, they should study and develope on the skill on mediate the case. Furthermore through the good mediation system, it also needs to induce the parties to participate in mediation procedure voluntarily. On the other hand, It also needs to bring up and develope the ADR institution to proceed the mediation impartially and effectively, and let them improve the mediation systems, like the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제47권
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• pp.185-212
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• 2010

This study aims to derive practical suggestions to apply application methods by auxiliary costs, especially application of logistics and customs clearance areas in order to establish EPS support system of auxiliary cost occurred from export/import. For the propose, this study has analyzed types and situation of auxiliary costs, application method by auxiliary costs, payment situation of logistics auxiliary costs and clearance auxiliary costs and suggested the relevant problems and their application methods. Especially, in case of logistics auxiliary costs through connection to the attached general documents required for negotiation by reflecting characteristics of B2B transactions. In addition, it has suggested that those services by the said system should be conveniently used commonly by the export companies and logistics companies through provision of various payment measures, support of foreign currency payment, etc. and security of reliability/system stability, etc. for the compatible payment with other systems as the prerequisite for the successful settlement of the auxiliary costs EPS. It is expected that satisfaction of the uTradeHub users such as export/import companies and logistics companies will be increased, user-oriented customized information services such as raw cost prediction service through calculation of auxiliary costs could be available in the future and efficiency of work processes related to auxiliary costs will be increased, by providing the EPS through various single window based payment measures through establishment of the export/import auxiliary costs payment system.