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Database Program for Managing Management Resources: General Contractor's Perspectives

  • Yong-Woo Kim;Sungwon Shin
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.1100-1106
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    • 2009
  • General contractors' overhead costs are increasing relative to direct costs. However, it is difficult to apply the traditional activity-based costing directly to the construction site overhead costing because the resource consumption rate per each activity is varied depending on the attributes of activities. The research develops a methodology of hybrid cost allocation system when resources are assigned to cost objects unlike the traditional activity-based costing. The study also develops a database program and demonstrates how it can be applied to the construction projects using a case study.

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An Optimal Control of the Crane System Using a Genetic Algorithm (유전알고리즘을 이용한 크레인 시스템의 최적제어)

  • 최형식
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.498-504
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    • 1998
  • This paper presents an optimal control algorithm for the overhead crane. To control the swing motion and the position tracking of the payload of the overhead crane a state feedback control algorithm is applied. by using a hybrid genetic algorithm the feedback gains of the state feedback is optimized to minimize the cost function composed of position errors and payload swing angle under unknown constant disturbances. Computer simulation is performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm.

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An Autonomous Power Control Scheme of Femto Cells for Throughput Improvement and Overhead Reduction in Heterogeneous Networks (이종망 환경에서 오버헤드 감소와 수율 향상을 위한 자율적인 펨토셀 전송 전력 조절 기법)

  • Jo, Younghoon;Lim, Jaechan;Hong, Daehyoung
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.38B no.1
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    • pp.26-33
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    • 2013
  • Femto-cells are low power/cost, micro-base stations and are main components in heterogeneous networks. However, some of technical issues arise when femto-cells are initially installed. One approach to resolve the problems is to control the transmission (TX) power autonomously via SON(Self-Organized Network) scheme. By controlling the femto-cell TX power, the system throughput performance can be improved or the system overhead is highly reduced. Generally, the TX power for maximizing the system throughput and that for reduced system overhead may not be identical. Therefore, we propose a TX power control scheme by which we can improve the system throughput and reduce the system overhead, simultaneously. When we apply the proposed method, the simulation results show that the system overhead can be reduced by up to 41% compared to the performance of the method which maximizes throughput performance only, and the throughput performance can be improved by up to 63% compared to that of the method which only optimizes the coverage area.

A Configurable Software-based Approach for Detecting CFEs Caused by Transient Faults

  • Liu, Wei;Ci, LinLin;Liu, LiPing
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.1829-1846
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    • 2021
  • Transient faults occur in computation units of a processor, which can cause control flow errors (CFEs) and compromise system reliability. The software-based methods perform illegal control flow detection by inserting redundant instructions and monitoring signature. However, the existing methods not only have drawbacks in terms of performance overhead, but also lack of configurability. We propose a configurable approach CCFCA for detecting CFEs. The configurability of CCFCA is implemented by analyzing the criticality of each region and tuning the detecting granularity. For critical regions, program blocks are divided according to space-time overhead and reliability constraints, so that protection intensity can be configured flexibly. For other regions, signature detection algorithms are only used in the first basic block and last basic block. This helps to improve the fault-tolerant efficiency of the CCFCA. At the same time, CCFCA also has the function of solving confusion and instruction self-detection. Our experimental results show that CCFCA incurs only 10.61% performance overhead on average for several C benchmark program and the average undetected error rate is only 9.29%. CCFCA has high error coverage and low overhead compared with similar algorithms. This helps to meet different cost requirements and reliability requirements.

A Study on the Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis in the Food Service Operation (호텔 영업장의손익분기점 분석에 관한 연구)

  • 김기영;강종헌
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.3
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    • pp.165-179
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    • 1997
  • Cost-volume-profit analysis shows the relationship between these factors. The figures expressed in a break-even chart can be used planning control and decision making. The relation ships can also be helpful in understanding how all costs must be covered in menu pricing. Involved in these relationship is the contribution to overhead and profit, or contribution ratio. This study used the food service operation of H hotel. Assumed the FC would be 10% of the High Volume, the VC would be 76% of the high volume. And in the CVP of individual meals, selected labor cost of the VC, assumed labor cost would be 35% of the volume.

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A Study On The Reliability Characteristics of Fail-Safe Control Logic (고장-안전 제어논리의 신뢰성 특성에 관한 연구)

  • 한상섭;김민수;이정석;이기서
    • Journal of Applied Reliability
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2001
  • This paper modelled the fail-safe control logic through the frequency coding input and designed the 3-out of-6 self checker using the error detect coding method of information redundancy. In addition, this paper also peformed the reliability parallel numeric analysis regarding single module between fail-safe. control logic module and TMR(Triple Modular Redundancy), therefore, we achieved the result that the fail-safe control logic increases a functional reliability because of decreasing system waste cost and functional overhead rather than the existing hardware redundancy method.

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A Study on Optimum Shape of Shield Gas Nozzle for Bead Shape Control in TIG Welding using Gas Force (II) - Effect of Molten Metal Control by Venturi Nozzle in Overhead Position - (TIG용접에서 가스력을 이용한 비드형상제어를 위한 실드가스 노즐의 최적 형상에 관한 연구 (II) - 벤투리 노즐의 위보기 자세 용융금속제어 효과 -)

  • Ham, Hyo-Sik;Seo, Ji-Seok;Choi, Yoon-Hwan;Lee, Yeon-Won;Cho, Sang-Myung
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.58-63
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    • 2011
  • Bead shape control with gas force process has been developed to overcome the concave back bead in pipe orbital welding. However, It is impossible to make a convex back bead using the existing gas nozzle, because it has high gas-consuming and low gas force. The purpose of this paper, to develop optimum shape of nozzle which to reduce the consumption of gas, maximizing the shield gas force with low cost and high productivity coincide the Green welding. In this paper venturi-type nozzle was compared with existing CP-type nozzle by TIG pulse welding in overhead position. As a result, CP-type occurs the wormholes in the overhead position, but the Venturi-type without the pore and formed a good bead appearance.

Anti-Swing Control Algorithm for the Automation of Overhead Crane (천정크레인 설비의 자동화를 위한 반진동 제어 알고리즘)

  • 배상욱;노철균;배영호;이득기
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, is proposed an anti-swing control algorithm for the automation of overhead crane. The algorithm consists of three parts, the FCL with compensatory FLC which generates acceleration, velocity and position reference to reduce swing angle and acceleration feedback controller which feedback control errors. Especially the algorithm dose not need angular sensor which detect swing angle of payload and requires high cost. By the simulation study and experiment with prototype crane, we showed the usefulness of the proposed algorithm.

Design of an NFC Baseband Modem for Software Overhead Minimization (소프트웨어 비용을 최소화하는 NFC 기저대 모뎀 설계)

  • Jun, Jaeyung;Kim, Seon Wook;Han, Youngsun
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.18 no.12
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    • pp.1547-1554
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    • 2015
  • Because there are numerous near field communication (NFC) technical standards and each standard has an independent communication protocol, an NFC software for controlling the protocols are significantly complicated. Especially, the anticollision algorithm for establishing the initial communication connection is classified into bit-oriented or time slot method according to the technical standards. Moreover, the anticollision algorithm is generally manipulated in software because of its complexity. In addition, since one host processor is shared by multiple modems in a connectivity SoC, embedding several communication modems with an NFC modem, the spare computing resources can be utilized for other modems by reducing the software cost to control the NFC modem. In this paper, we propose new design methods of the NFC modem for supporting anticollision, framing and bit rate detection in the hardware to reduce the software overhead. Therefore, the utilization of the NFC technology is enhanced in the connectivity SoC by minimizing the cost of software.

A Cost-effective Control Flow Checking using Loop Detection and Prediction (루프 검출 및 예측 방법을 적용한 비용 효율적인 실시간 분기 흐름 검사 기법)

  • Kim Gunbae;Ahn Jin-Ho;Kang Sungho
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.42 no.12
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    • pp.91-102
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    • 2005
  • Recently, concurrent error detection for the processor becomes important. But it imposes too much overhead to adopt concurrent error detection capability on the system. In this paper, a new approach to resolve the problems of concurrent error detection is proposed. A loop detection scheme is introduced to reduce the repetitive loop iteration and memory access. To reduce the memory overheat an offset to calculate the target address of branching node is proposed. Performance evaluation shows that the new architecture has lower memory overhead and frequency of memory access than previous works. In addition, the new architecture provides the same error coverage and requires nearly constant memory size regardless of the size of the application program. Consequently, the proposed architecture can be used as an cost effective method to detect control flow errors in the commercial on the shelf products.