• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.26-38
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• 2017

Even through many professional organizations increasingly use Q&A sites in their online communities for information sharing, there are few studies which examine what is really going on in the Q&A activities in professional online communities (POC). This study aims to examine the interaction patterns and contents posted in the Q&A site of a POC, KOSEN, a science and technology online community in South Korea, focusing on how actively scientific information and knowledge are shared. The interaction patterns among the participants were identified through social network analysis (SNA) and the contents in the Q&As were examined by content analysis. The results show that the overall network indicated a moderate level of participation and connection and answerers especially tended to be active. Also, there are different interaction patterns depending on academic fields. Relatively few participants were posting leaders who seemed to steer the overall interactions. Furthermore, some content related to manipulation and explanation for experiments, which are in urgent need, seem to be posted in the sites more frequently with more amounts. Combining both SNA and content analysis, this study demonstrated how actively information and knowledge is shared and what types of contents are exchanged. The findings have practical implications for POC managers and practitioners.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.189-207
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the network characteristics of ports and their performance that is represented by port competitiveness for the port operators. The study employs Social Network Analysis (SNA) to evaluate network characteristics comprising four centrality indices. For this research, data from Containerization International Yearbooks for 2006-2011 is used to analyze the service networks of 20 major liner shipping companies. In SNA, nodes (vertices) in the network are the ports and links (edges) in the network are connections realized by vessel movements, such that the liner shipping network determines the port network. In addition, panel regression analysis has been employed to investigate the relationship between port network characteristics and their performance. The results suggest that the four centrality indices identify the roles of the world's major ports from 2006 to 2011 and that port performance is determined not only by macroeconomic variables and service capabilities but also by the eigenvector centrality of ports in networks.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.201-210
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• 2020

Navy submarines are developed into complex weapons systems with various equipment, which directly leads to difficulties in submarine maintenance. In addition, the method of establishing a maintenance plan for submarines is limited in efficient maintenance because it relies on statistical access to the number of people, number of target ships, and consumption time. For efficient maintenance, it is necessary to derive and maintain major maintenance factors based on an understanding of the target. In this paper, the maintenance loads rate is defined as a key maintenance factor. the submarine maintenance data is analyzed using the SNA scheme to identify phenomena by focusing on the relationship between the analysis targets. Through this, maintenance loads characteristics that have not been previously revealed in quantitative analysis are derived to identify areas that the maintenance manager should focus on.

• Korea Trade Review
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.267-283
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• 2019

This study analyzes how the port connectivity network has changed with the restructuring of the liner shipping alliance and explores the impact of these changes on network characteristics using social network analysis (SNA). While due to economies of scale, the scale of ports and liner shipping has expanded, the goal of shipping companies has changed to achieve cost-effectiveness due to the diseconomies of scale. Such changes in the environment have greatly affected ports according to the strategies of major liner alliances, and port centrality has shifted in response to restructuring in strategic alliances. This research confirmed that port centrality has continuously changed, and the reason for this phenomenon was analyzed through the derived main network centrality indices. This finding provides significant implications for port authorities and terminal operators to consider different perspectives when planning for sustainable growth and management.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.73-80
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• 2018

There are various organizations in modern society, in which people have direct and indirect relationships. Internal structure of these organizations can be analyzed by the relationships which are officially pressed on the media. However, this task will be difficult when the media information is strictly limited, though the necessity of analyzing organization structure remains. In this study, we try to estimate the influence of North Korea's core members by using PageRank centrality to supplement the limitation of previous SNA analysis methods. Experimental results show that we can show and predict NK's power shifts more efficiently.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.421-430
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• 2017

In this research, we propose a methodology for assessing security vulnerability of the national defense intelligence system, considering not only target elements but also the interconnection relationship of the whole system. Existing approaches decide the security vulnerability of the whole system by assessing only target elements. However, those approaches have an issue with potentially showing the same outcome for the systems that have identical target elements but the different types of interconnection relationships. We propose a more practical assessment method which takes the interconnection relationship of a whole system into consideration based on the concept of SNA(Social Network Analysis).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.01a
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• pp.419-422
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• 2019

해군은 계획된 함정 수리기간을 통해 성능 유지를 위한 장비 정비를 수행한다. 함정의 수리기간이 한정되어있고, 장비는 많은 정비 대상 구성품으로 이루어져 통상의 경우 성능이 저하된 구성품을 미리 선정하여 일부분에 대해서만 정비가 수행된다. 본 연구에서는 SNA 분석을 통해 함정 수리 시 정비 대상 구성품을 더욱 효과적으로 선정할 수 있도록, 집중적으로 정비가 수행된 개체를 확인하고 이를 예방정비를 위한 정비요소로 도출하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 특정 모델을 샘플로, 도입시부터 ${\bigcirc}{\bigcirc}{\bigcirc}{\bigcirc}$년까지의 정비데이터를 수집하여 분석을 진행하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2024.01a
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• pp.215-218
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• 2024

본 논문에서는 사회연결망분석을 이용하여 무인체계 관련 뉴스, 기사 자료를 분석하고 이를 통해 무인체계 발전의 중심을 파악하고자 하였다. 국방부는 인구감소로 인한 병역자원의 감소 문제를 해결하기 위해 발전하는 과학기술을 바탕으로 기존 병력 중심의 유인체계에서 AI 기반 유·무인 복합전투체계로 전환하기 위한 계획을 추진하고 있다. 이에 따라 최근 5년간의 무인체계 발전 동향을 확인함으로써 국방 무인체계 발전의 중심이 되는 노드를 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.267-286
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• 2016

The study aimed to investigate a research trend in science gifted education of six years from 2010 to 2015 by utilizing literature analysis and Social Network Analysis (SNA) methods. In this study, 275 papers published in eight major academic journals of science education and gifted education were selected as research subjects. First, through the literature analysis, it was found that the most frequent research topics were cognitive characteristics (25.8%), curriculum/programs (22.6%), and social and emotional characteristics (20.2%). For the research method employed in research papers, the survey research (46.5%) was appeared as the most frequently employed method, and followed by experimental (18.8%), program development (10.6%), correlation (10.3%), and qualitative (6.4%) research methods. The most frequent research subject was appeared as middle school students (33.7%) and followed by elementary school (30.6%), and high school (12.7%) students. Second, the SNA method was utilized for producing keyword frequency, degree centrality and network analyses. It was appeared that the most common keywords over six years included 'science gifted', 'gifted education', and 'creativity' and frequent keywords were science gifted, gifted education, gifted, creativity, science inquiry, perception, (creative) problem solving, science high school, scientific attitude, and STEAM. Third, through 2-mode network analysis, it was found that the research papers about cognitive characteristics were mainly related to perceptions, thinking ability, scientific argumentation, science inquiry and so on. It was also found that the research papers about social and emotional characteristics were related to correlation, motivation, creativity-character, self-efficiency and so on. It was concluded that the SNA method can be performed with literature analysis together for better understandings and interpretations of the research trend of science gifted education in-depth.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.127-146
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• 2013

The online social networking services (SNS) have been growing as the means of communication. In this study, we investigated word-of-mouth (WOM) effect under the SNS environment and evaluated the impact of message sender's influence on the WOM effect. Especially, this study focused on the betweenness centrality calculated through the social network analysis (SNA) of SNS network information, and proposed it as the measure of WOM message sender's influence, SNA may provide more accurate and objective measures than subjective self-reporting survey method. Fifty-one Facebook users responded to each of their four Facebook friends, who had been selected based on their betweenness centrality, Statistical analyses were performed using the responses and the betweenness centralities of the Facebook friends. The results showed that the direction (positive vs, negative) of a WOM message in SNS had an impact on the attitude of the message receiver toward the product. Moreover, the betweenness centrality of the message sender as well as his/her opinion leadership had a moderating effect on the WOM effect. Opinion leadership is a measure that has been frequently used for indicating the influence of WOM message sender in the previous studies. Considering the result that the betweenness centrality of the message sender was Significantly correlated to his/her opinion leadership, the betweenness centrality can be used for indicating the influence of WOM message sender.