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Characteristics of Social Computing Websites Based on Design Factors and User Emotions (소셜 컴퓨팅 웹사이트의 디자인 및 감성 특성 연구)

  • Yang, Eui-Jung;Hwang, Won-Il;Kim, Dong-Soo
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.75-90
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    • 2012
  • The aim of this study is to investigate the preferred website's design factors. Social computing is driving a dramatic evolution of the Web these days, and a number of users are increasing every day. But many website designers are just focusing on functional aspects of website. Also, there are few studies regarding the social computing website's emotional design. Proper designs of social computing websites could be designed through investigating the websites design factors preferred by users. Empirical study was conducted in order to investigate websites design factors preferred by users. Website design and user emotion of social computing websites were measured by the questionnaire and 254 people participated. Also, Website design and user emotion of non-social computing websites were measured by same participants, and then comparing results each other. Five design factors and eight emotion factors were derived, and only four out of design factors and three out of emotion factors were found as having significant effects on the satisfaction of social computing website. In addition, different factors in determining user satisfaction when using social computing websites and non-social computing website.

Control of pH Neutralization Process using Simulation Based Dynamic Programming (ICCAS 2003)

  • Kim, Dong-Kyu;Yang, Dae-Ryook
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.2617-2622
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    • 2003
  • The pH neutralization process has long been taken as a representative benchmark problem of nonlinear chemical process control due to its nonlinearity and time-varying nature. For general nonlinear processes, it is difficult to control with a linear model-based control method so nonlinear controls must be considered. Among the numerous approaches suggested, the most rigorous approach is the dynamic optimization. However, as the size of the problem grows, the dynamic programming approach is suffered from the curse of dimensionality. In order to avoid this problem, the Neuro-Dynamic Programming (NDP) approach was proposed by Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis (1996). The NDP approach is to utilize all the data collected to generate an approximation of optimal cost-to-go function which was used to find the optimal input movement in real time control. The approximation could be any type of function such as polynomials, neural networks and etc. In this study, an algorithm using NDP approach was applied to a pH neutralization process to investigate the feasibility of the NDP algorithm and to deepen the understanding of the basic characteristics of this algorithm. As the global approximator, the neural network which requires training and k-nearest neighbor method which requires querying instead of training are investigated. The global approximator requires optimal control strategy. If the optimal control strategy is not available, suboptimal control strategy can be used even though the laborious Bellman iterations are necessary. For pH neutralization process it is rather easy to devise an optimal control strategy. Thus, we used an optimal control strategy and did not perform the Bellman iteration. Also, the effects of constraints on control moves are studied. From the simulations, the NDP method outperforms the conventional PID control.

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A Study on Automatic Design of Artificial Meural Networks using Cellular Automata Techniques (샐룰라 오토마타 기법을 이용한 신경망의 자동설계에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Dong-Wook;Sim, Kwee-Bo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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    • v.35S no.11
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    • pp.88-95
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    • 1998
  • This paper is the result of constructing information processing system such as living creatures' brain based on artificial life techniques. The living things are best information processing system in themselves. One individual is developed from a generative cell. And a species of this individual has adapted itself to the environment through evolution. In this paper, we propose a new method of designing neural networks using biological inspired developmental and evolutionary concept. Ontogeny of organism is embodied in cellular automata(CA) and phylogeny of species is realized by evolutionary algorithms(EAs). We call 'Evolving Cellular Automata Neural Systems' as ECANSI. The connection among cells is determined by the rule of cellular automata. In order to obtain the best neural networks in given environment, we evolve the arragemetn of initial cells. The cell, that is a neuron of neural networks, is modeled on chaotic neuron with firing or rest state like biological neuron. A final output of network is measured by frequency of firing state. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified by applying it to Exclusive-OR and parity problem.

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Institutional Roles of Korea Cadastral Survey Corp. in the Spatial Information Eco-system (공간정보생태계 활성화를 위한 대한지적공사의 역할)

  • Lee, Kook-Chul;Kang, Byung-Ki;Lee, Myong-Kun
    • Journal of Cadastre & Land InformatiX
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2014
  • This paper, at first, intends to develop a conceptual model of spatial information eco-system based on the related literature reviews. The basic requirements in constructing the model are also specified. Next, the functional roles and interrelationships among the actors constituting the eco-system are analyzed to investigate the major reasons of inefficient and unsmooth flows of value-added process of Korean spatial information industry. Especially, the Korea Cadastral Survery Corp.(KCSC), which has dual organizational characteristics of public and private entity, is analyzed to be positioned as the most dominant actors in the eco-system. However, the KCSC needs to be changed and challenged to re-establish the missions and institutional roles for upcoming network societies. Here, we proposed 4 future-oriented development strategies and action plans to promote the Korean spatial information industry and to activate the eco-system.

Expression profiling identified IL-8 as a regulator of homotypic cell-in-cell formation

  • Ruan, Banzhan;Wang, Chenxi;Chen, Ang;Liang, Jianqing;Niu, Zubiao;Zheng, You;Fan, Jie;Gao, Lihua;Huang, Hongyan;Wang, Xiaoning;Sun, Qiang
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.51 no.8
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    • pp.412-417
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    • 2018
  • Homotypic cell-in-cell (CIC) structures forming between cancer cells were proposed to promote tumor evolution via entosis, a nonapoptotic cell death process. However, the mechanisms underlying their formation remained poorly understood. We performed a microarray analysis to identify genes associated with homotypic CIC formation. Cancer cells differing in their ability to form homotypic CIC structures were selected for the study. Association analysis identified 73 probe sets for 62 candidate genes potentially involved in CIC formation. Among them, twenty-one genes were downregulated while 41 genes were upregulated. Pathway analysis identified a gene interaction network centered on IL-8, which was upregulated in high CIC cells. Remarkably, CIC formation was significantly inhibited by IL-8 knockdown and enhanced upon recombinant IL-8 treatment, which correlated with altered cell-cell adhesion and expression of adhesive molecules such as P-cadherin and ${\gamma}$-catenin. Together, our work identified IL-8 as a positive regulator of homotypic CIC formation via enhancing intercellular adhesion.

Prediction of Protein Secondary Structure Using the Weighted Combination of Homology Information of Protein Sequences (단백질 서열의 상동 관계를 가중 조합한 단백질 이차 구조 예측)

  • Chi, Sang-mun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.20 no.9
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    • pp.1816-1821
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    • 2016
  • Protein secondary structure is important for the study of protein evolution, structure and function of proteins which play crucial roles in most of biological processes. This paper try to effectively extract protein secondary structure information from the large protein structure database in order to predict the protein secondary structure of a query protein sequence. To find more remote homologous sequences of a query sequence in the protein database, we used PSI-BLAST which can perform gapped iterative searches and use profiles consisting of homologous protein sequences of a query protein. The secondary structures of the homologous sequences are weighed combined to the secondary structure prediction according to their relative degree of similarity to the query sequence. When homologous sequences with a neural network predictor were used, the accuracies were higher than those of current state-of-art techniques, achieving a Q3 accuracy of 92.28% and a Q8 accuracy of 88.79%.

Implementation of Conversion Solution for Interoperability of Applications Developed on Different Mobile Platforms (이기종 모바일 플랫폼 간 어플리케이션의 상호 호환을 위한 변환 솔루션 구현)

  • Kang, Kyung-Bo;Kang, Dong-Hyun;Ryu, Jong-Min;Hong, Chang-Pyo;Lee, Joong-Hoon;Yoon, Jung-Han;Jwa, Jeong-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.65-69
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    • 2006
  • Cellular network evolution and development of multi-function cellular phones introduce new mobile business mode. Cellular operators provide mobile internet services using the mobile browser such as ME and WAP and the mobile multimedia platform such as WIPI, J2ME, and BREW. New mobile applications are developed using mobile platforms provided by cellular operators as cellular phones having multimedia solutions such as camera, MP3, MPEG, 3D game engine, DMB, PAN such as bluetooth, IrDA, W-LAN, and location information using GPS are developed. Content providers have problems of redevelopment of a mobile application for different mobile platforms. In this paper, we propose a conversion solution for interoperability of applications developed on different mobile platforms of WIPI and BREW. We analyze APIs of WIPI and BREW and develop conversion solutions.

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XML-based Portable Self-containing Representation of Strongly-typed Genetic Program (XML 기반 강건 타입형 유전자 프로그램의 이식${\cdot}$독립적 표현)

  • Lee Seung-Ik;Tanev Ivan;Shimohara Katsunori
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.277-289
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    • 2005
  • To overcome the long design time/high computational effort/low computational performance of phylogenetic learning featuring selection and reproduction, this paper proposes a genetic representation based on XML. Since genetic programs (GP) and genetic operations of this representation are maintained by the invocation of the built-in off-the-shelf XML parser's API, the proposed approach features significant reduced time consumption of GP design process. Handling only semantically correct GPs with standard XML schema can reduce search space and computational effort. Furthermore, computational performance can be improved by the parallelism of GP caused by the utilization of XML, which is a feasible system and wire format for migration of genetic programs in heterogeneous distributed computer environments. To verify the proposed approach, it is applied to the evolution of social behaviors of multiple agents modeling the predator-prey pursuit problem. The results show that the approach can be applied for fast development and time efficiency of GPs.

Extended BSD Socket API Supporting Kernel-level RTP (커널 레벨 RTP를 지원하는 확장 BSD 소켓 API)

  • Choi Mun-Seon;Kim Kyung-San;Kim Sung-Jo
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.326-336
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    • 2006
  • Due to the evolution of wired and wireless communication technologies and the Internet, multimedia services such as Internet broadcast and VOD have been prevalent recently. RTP is designed to be suitable for transmission of real-time multimedia data on the Internet by IETF While a variety of applications have utilized different RTPs implemented as a library, embeddedRTP is RTP-based kernel-level protocol that resolved performance issues of this kind of RTPs. This paper proposes the ExtendedERTP protocol based on existing embeddedRTP. This new protocol resolves a couple of issues such as packet processing overhead and buffer requirement and combines its APIs with BSD socket APIs which have been widely utilized in network applications. This paper demonstrates that this integration makes it possible to transmit real-time multimedia data through the accustomed interface of BSD socket APIs with nominal extra overhead. This paper also proposes a scheme for improving packet processing time by 15$\sim$20% and another scheme for reducing memory requirement for packet processing to about 3.5%, comparing with those of embeddedRTP.

Balanced RF Duplexer with Low Interference Using Hybrid BAW Resonators for LTE Application

  • Shin, Jea-Shik;Song, Insang;Kim, Chul-Soo;Lee, Moon-Chul;Son, Sang Uk;Kim, Duck-Hwan;Park, Ho-Soo;Hwang, Sungwoo;Rieh, Jae-Sung
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.317-320
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    • 2014
  • A balanced RF duplexer with low interference in an extremely narrow bandgap is proposed. The Long-Term Evolution band-7 duplexer should be designed to prevent the co-existence problem with the WiFi band, whose fractional bandgap corresponds to only 0.7%. By implementing a hybrid bulk acoustic wave (BAW) structure, the temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) value of the duplexer is successfully reduced and the suppressed interference for the narrow bandgap is performed. To achieve an RF duplexer with balanced Rx output topology, we also propose a novel balanced BAW Rx topology and RF circuit block. The novel balanced Rx filter is designed with both lattice- and ladder-type configurations to ensure excellent attenuation. The RF circuit block, which is located between the antenna and the Rx filter, is developed to simultaneously function as a balance-tounbalance transformer and a phase shift network. The size of the fabricated duplexer is as small as $2.0mm{\times}1.6mm$. The maximum insertion loss of the duplexer is as low as 2.4 dB in the Tx band, and the minimum attenuation in the WiFi band is as high as 36.8 dB. The TCF value is considerably lowered to $-16.9ppm/^{\circ}C$.