• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.143-158
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• 2006

This paper considers probable determinants of the application software outsourcing costs and focuses on the service level agreement (SLA) influence. Recently, outsourcing clients and vendors have contracted SLA and tried to reflect them on outsourcing prices. While application software maintenance has been one of the most frequently outsourced functions, its cost did not reflect the service level requirements by the client. This paper empirically shows that the service urgency requirement on SLA increases the maintenance programmers' effort and thus increases the vendor's cost. This result can be used by vendors for program allocation purposes.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.47-50
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• 2008

The sub-zero cold is a major environmental consideration for the operational readiness of FCEVs because fuel cells produce water and utilize wet air with varying water content to generate electricity. Typical fuel cells thus have a fatal flaw in freezing conditions at startup. This drawback becomes more serious with the outsourced fuel cell that is entirely water-based for its internal humidification. In this background, the HMC's self-designed fuel cell was developed as an alternative and was employed in the Tucson-based FCEV in 2006 demonstrating its good cold-startup characteristics. The cold-startup capacity of the vehicle was validated through tests in the cold chamber and on the road, resulting in 50% stack power achieved in 250 seconds at $-15^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.80-93
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• 2008

This paper improves algorithms for an assembly-type flowshop scheduling problem in which each job is to assemble two types of components and makespan is the objective measure. For the assembly, one type of the components is outsourced with job-dependent lead time but the other type is fabricated in-house. When both components for a job are prepared, the assembly operation for the job can be started. This problem had been proved to be NP-Complete, so branch-and-bound (B&B) and heuristic algorithms have already been developed. In this paper, we suggest other dominance rules, lowerbound and heutistic algorithms. Also, we develop a new B&B algorithm using these improved bound and dominance rules. The suggested heuristics and B&B algorithm are compared with existing algorithms on randomly-generated test problems.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.158-162
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• 2006

This paper presents a speaker recognition system intended for use in human-robot interaction. The proposed speaker recognition system can achieve significantly high performance in the Ubiquitous Robot Companion (URC) environment. The URC concept is a scenario in which a robot is connected to a server through a broadband connection allowing functions to be performed on the server side, thereby minimizing the stand-alone function significantly and reducing the robot client cost. Instead of giving a robot (client) on-board cognitive capabilities, the sensing and processing work are outsourced to a central computer (server) connected to the high-speed Internet, with only the moving capability provided by the robot. Our aim is to enhance human-robot interaction by increasing the performance of speaker recognition with multiple microphones on the robot side in adverse distant-talking environments. Our speaker recognizer provides the URC project with a basic interface for human-robot interaction.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.562-566
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• 2016

클라우드 컴퓨팅의 발전과 더불어 데이터베이스 아웃소싱에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 그러나 기존 정보보호를 지원하는 Topk 질의처리 연구는 다양한 형태로 정보가 노출되는 문제점을 보인다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 데이터 보호, 사용자 질의 보호, 데이터 접근 패턴 은닉을 모두 지원하는 아웃소싱 데이터베이스 상에서의 안전한 Topk 질의처리 알고리즘을 제안한다. 성능평가를 통해, 제안하는 기법이 정보보호를 지원하는 동시에 효율적인 성능을 제공함을 보인다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.181-195
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• 2006

In recent years, increasing attention has been paid on how to manage a successful relationships between the receiver and provider of the Information Systems(IS) outsourcing services. This study explores the sources of influence for successful outsourcing relationships. Based on the Jaworski's control combination model for marketing, we (1) propose a management combination model of outsourcing relationships where trust is introduced as an intervening variable and outsourcing compleyity as a moderating variable, (2) test this model using a sample of 94 outsourcing projects in 36 organizations that have outsourced there IS functions to external service providers. The results indicated several significant findings. First, the deployment of management mechanism such as contract mechanism and trust building has a significant effect on the outsourcing success through trust only. Second, complexity of outsourcing activities has a moderating effect on relationship management combinations.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.34-42
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• 2006

This paper considers an assembly-type flowshop scheduling problem in which each job is assembled with two types of components. One type of the components is outsourced with positive lead time but the other type is fabricated in-house at the first stage. The two types of the components should be prepared at the first stage before starting the assembly operation for each job at the second stage. The objective is to schedule the jobs so that the makespan is minimized. Some solution properties and lower bounds are derived and incorporated into a branch and bound algorithm. Also, an efficient heuristic is developed. The performances of the proposed branch and bound algorithm and heuristic are evaluated through computational experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.1199-1202
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• 2011

최근 클라우드 컴퓨팅에 대한 관심이 고조됨에 따라, 이를 활용한 데이터베이스 아웃소싱에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 한편, 데이터 소유자가 자신이 가지고 있는 공간 데이터베이스를 그대로 아웃소싱 할 경우, 서비스 제공자는 이를 불법으로 취득하여 악용할 수 있고, 질의 요청자들의 통계 정보를 통해 개인정보를 획득할 수 있다. 따라서 아웃소싱 환경에서 개인정보 보호 및 공간 데이터베이스를 보호하기 위한 데이터 변환기법 및 변환된 데이터베이스 상에서 질의를 처리하는 연구가 필요하다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 아웃소싱 환경에서 공간 네트워크를 고려한 가공 데이터 생성 기법 및 암호화 기법을 설계한다. 아울러, 인증된 사용자가 질의 요청 시, 서비스 제공자가 저장한 가공 데이터를 이용하여 효율적으로 k-최근접점 질의를 수행하기 위한 힐버트 커브 기반 k-최근접점 질의처리 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.9
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• pp.1175-1184
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• 2015

Recently, there has been an explosive increase in the volume of multimedia data that is available as a result of the development of multimedia technologies. More and more data is becoming available on a variety of web sites, and it has become increasingly cost prohibitive to have a single data server store and process multimedia files locally. Therefore, many service providers have been likely to outsource data to cloud storage to reduce costs. Such behavior raises one serious concern: how can data users be authenticated in a secure and efficient way? The most widely used password-based authentication methods suffer from numerous disadvantages in terms of security. Multi-factor authentication protocols based on a variety of communication channels, such as SMS, biometric, or hardware tokens, may improve security but inevitably reduce usability. To this end, we present a data block-based authentication scheme that is secure and guarantees usability in such a manner where users do nothing more than enter a password. In addition, the proposed scheme can be effectively used to revoke user rights. To the best of our knowledge, our scheme is the first data block-based authentication scheme for outsourced data that is proven to be secure without degradation in usability. An experiment was conducted using the Amazon EC2 cloud service, and the results show that the proposed scheme guarantees a nearly constant time for user authentication.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.145-171
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• 2004

This study aims at understanding in detail the process of constructing database from outsourced cataloging by investigating the actual conditions of university libraries nationwide regarding the outsourcing of cataloging processing that are being carried out in technical processing. And librarians' opinions about the cataloging inserted by outsourcing companies are considered and revised in depth. Also the degree of understanding of outsourcing company staffs regarding the cataloging is investigated then compared to that of library processing staffs and the difference is analyzed. Coupled with that, degree of understanding about CIP of National Library of Korea and functionality of reference cataloging of Korea Education & Research Information Service(KERIS) is investigated, thus the future directions to which technical processing of library should move forward are presented.