• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.224-232
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• 2012

The paper proposes a non-parametric methodology, data envelopment analysis, for measuring efficiency and productivity in service delivery systems with capacity constraints. The methodology provides allocation approaches for studying behaviors of firm and customers in service delivery strategy. The experimental study is carried out to investigate allocation behaviors and conduct an objective tradeoff between efficiency approach and productivity approach. The experimental result indicates that the efficiency approach allocates resource via maximizing customer efficiency rather than firm productivity as in the productivity approach. Moreover, the experiment reveals that there exists an objective tradeoff between the efficiency approach and the productivity approach. These findings provide strategic options for allocation policy in service delivery systems.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.519-539
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• 2015

Customers are now demanding ever better service from customer service representatives (CSRs) to create superior customer service. Accordingly, CSRs are required to have more specialized knowledge and abilities of customer service. This study examines the roles of accumulated customer knowledge in electronic knowledge repositories (EKRs), which a firm has developed for customer service over time to enhance CSRs' work capabilities and work performance, in the context of call centers. To test the proposed research model and hypotheses, we conducted LISREL analysis using 261 responses collected on CSRs working for inbound call centers. The key results are as follows. First, accumulated customer knowledge in EKRs enhances CSRs' knowledge utilization and service expertise during the customer contact. Second, CSRs' knowledge utilization reinforces service expertise. Finally, service quality depends on CSRs' knowledge utilization and service expertise, but it is not directly related to accumulated customer knowledge. Overall, the findings suggest that accumulated customer knowledge in EKRs enhances CSRs' knowledge utilization and service expertise, and thereby leading to superior service quality.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.302-318
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• 2002

As facing the challenges from many competitors, the Office of Korea Postal Service has issued the fundamental plan of business renovation which includes the master plan of the information systems. In this paper we discuss the design of a to-be information system for postal service, which will be provided for the completion of the master plan. After briefly discussing the issues on developing information system and the current situation, we provide the design concept and the framework of the to-be system based on the bench marking and gap analysis with advanced systems. The to-be system consists of eight subsystems which can be grouped into three categories; intelligent systems, operational systems, and platforms. We develop detailed specification of each subsystem and provide an operational scenario. We also explain how the to-be system compatibly fits into an integrated information system, which will include the postal, banking, and management functions, to perform its ultimate role for the efficient postal service.

• 한국실천공학교육학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.69-75
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에 기반을 둔 e-러닝 모델을 제안하였다. 이를 위해 국내외 대학의 진보된 e-러닝 시스템을 조사 및 분석하였으며, 이를 근간으로 유비쿼터스 환경에 기반을 둔 최적의 e-러닝 모델을 제안하였다. 제안한 모델은 최적의 e-러닝 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어, 그리고 다양한 e-러닝 서비스를 포함하고 있다. 여기에는 출결체크 서비스, 수업운영 서비스, 공용지식 서비스, 성적처리 서비스, 편의시설 서비스, 개인운영 서비스, 신용조회 서비스, 캠퍼스안내 서비스, 강의실운영 서비스 등이 있다. 또한, 실험.실습에 관련된 서비스도 포함하고 있다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.81-96
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• 2005

ASP (Application service provider) as a new type of information systems service has been popular recently and has taken a much attention of information systems professionals and researchers. One stream of the research on ASP performed by IS community dealt with utilization and benefits of ASP systems use. The other researchers argue the importance of ASP vendors' capability to provide users with appropriate services. Kern, Lacity and Willcock (2002) summarized the components of core competency of service providers based on their extensive case studies on application service providers. Also, Levina and Ross (2003) developed a value delivery process of application service Providers in their case study This study is developing Prepositions and an empirical model based on the theory of core competency from strategic management study. The dimension of core competency is composed of management competency, technical service competency and customer service competency. Each dimension is made up of competency items derived from previous studies and adapted by professionals in ASP industry. The validity of the dimensions and items in each dimension has been checked with factor analytic method for empirical test. The core competency dimensions are correlated with performance factors of application service providers including growth of revenue, asset and customer base.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권2호
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• pp.225-231
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• 2010

As growth of operational complexity in power systems, necessity of information integration between automation systems such as EMS, SAS, DAS and renewable energy sources has been increased. This paper proposes a new information integration architecture between power automation systems based on web service technique. Loosely coupled feature of web service system can provide more flexible and reliable way to exchange information. Communication testing on the demonstration system has been performed to establish the feasibility of the proposed architecture.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.209-215
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• 2007

Various kind of ubiquitous healthcare services have been developed and tried in patient care and health care fields. Due to technical restrictions and not enough application practices, the service systems have been developed somewhat in ad hoc way. This paper describes the requirements for ubiquitous healthcare service systems most of which need to have and presents a ubiquitous healthcare service system architecture with which various ubiquitous healthcare services can be developed. It also introduces an application system for ubiquitous benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) patient care which has been developed based on the architecture.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.523-528
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• 2012

최근 IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS(Platform as a Service), SaaS(Software as a Service)를 포함한 클라우드 서비스의 등장과 진화는 정보통신기술 발전에 기여한 가장 큰 잠재력을 가진 기술 중에 하나이다. 현재의 클라우드 관련 연구들은 기술 자체에 중점을 두고 있으나, 클라우드 서비스를 둘러싸고 있는 비즈니즈 측면에서의 이슈들에 대한 이해도 시급하다. 점점 더 많은 개인과 기업의 정보들이 클라우드 서비스에 놓이게 되면, 주된 관심은 어떻게 안전하고 신뢰할 수 있는 클라우드 서비스를 제공할 것인가에 맞추어지게 된다. 본 논문에서는 클라우드 서비스 중에서 그 중요성이 더 커지고 있는 SaaS에 대하여 초점을 맞추기로 한다. 성공적인 SaaS 서비스를 위해서는 SaaS 서비스의 안전성과 신뢰성을 보증할 수 있는 인증제도의 수립이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 안전하고 신뢰할 수 있는 SaaS 서비스를 위한 인증제도의 프레임워크를 개발한다. 이를 위하여 SaaS 서비스 품질과 인증과 관련된 핵심 이슈들을 식별하고, SaaS 서비스 영역과 SaaS 서비스 제공자 영역의 인증제도를 위한 시스템적인 프레임 워크를 개발한다. 또한 개발된 인증제도의 평가방안도 제안한다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2017

IoT (Internet of Things) systems are based on heterogeneous hardware systems of different types of devices interconnected each other, ranging from miniaturized and low-power wireless sensor node to cloud servers. These IoT systems composed of heterogeneous hardware utilize data sets collected from a particular set of sensors or control designated actuators when needed using open APIs created through abstraction of devices' resources associated to service applications. However, previously existing IoT services have been usually developed based on vertical platforms, whose sharing and exchange of data is limited within each industry domain, for example, healthcare. Such problem is called 'data silo', and considered one of crucial issues to be solved for the success of establishing IoT ecosystems. Also, IoT services may need to dynamically organize their services according to the change of status of connected devices due to their mobility and dynamic network connectivity. We propose a way of dynamically composing IoT services under the concept of WoT (Web of Things) where heterogeneous devices across different industries are fully integrated into the Web. Our approach allows developers to create IoT services or mash them up in an efficient way using Web objects registered into multiple standardized horizontal IoT platforms where their resources are discoverable and accessible. A Web-based service composition tool is developed to evaluate the practical feasibility of our approach under real-world service development.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2004

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the manager's policy to maximize the profit in a multiple-server queueing facility with a limited queue capacity. We assume that the level of advertizing effects on the arrival rate of customers to the facility. The model without ‘word of mouth effect’ is assumed that the arrival rate is independent on the qualify of service level. We estimate the service quality by the balking rate of customers from system. We extend this to the model with ‘word of mouth effect’. To achieve the maximum profit, the most important factor is the considerably high utilization of facility for both models. Given service rate, we should maintain an effective arrival rate to some extent. To this end, among the available options, an increase of advertizing effort is more desirable than reducing the fee if the service value of customers remains unchanged. We also investigate whether the variability of service time has a significant impact on determining the optimal policy. The cost of service variability is not so expensive as that in a single server model due to the reduced variability of service times in a multiple-server model.