• Spatial Information Research
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.287-299
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• 2009

For the development and management of u-City(ubiquitous city), Ubiquitous City Construction Law was enacted(March 3, 2008) to form the legal basis of u-City plan, construction and managements afterwards. The ultimate goal of the u-City construction is the advancement of national territory utilization and management using Korea's high level of IT and spatial information infrastructure. Based on the definition of the u-City Construction Law, the u-City refers to a city where u-City services are provided through the u-City infrastructure applying u-City technology. But, based on the current level of relationship model among u-City service, technology and infrastructure, it is not enough to guide the local municipalities to plan and provide the successful u-City services in its vicinity. So as one of the core issues for the legal arrangements of successful u-City services, the purpose of the study is to suggest the basic directions and execution strategies for the relationship establishment among u-City service, technology and infrastructure.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.331-335
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• 2008

Recently, the development of u-City and u-City services have been actively pursued by individual local government bodies in South Korea. This study focuses on the development of u-Health service, one of the services of u-City, by studying u-Health services in development (domestic and foreign) and by analyzing and proposing the communication infrastructure required to provide such services. Mainly, this study will focus on analyzing the current trend in personal mobile device based u-Health services domestically and internationally, and propose a new type of u-Health service, u-Diet service. The study will introduce the architecture, service scenario, technologies, characteristics, and the business model for the u-Diet service. It is expected that this study will provide the guideline for developing new u-Health services.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.85-93
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• 2010

The goal of U-Eco City testbed is improving the technical completion of ubiquitous technology/Services which have been developed in other core projects in U-Eco City, by implementing newly developed ubiquitous technology/Services to testbed. When the newly developed ubiquitous technology/Services are implemented in the testbed, we will monitor whether the developed ubiquitous technology/Services can be applied in the real situation and if they have problems we will find out the solution to solve the problems. Final goal of this reaserch is framework development for the U-Eco City construction guideline. We developed the framework development for the U-Eco City construction guideline by i)analyzing steps for construction of U-Eco City, ii) analyzing details of each steps for construction of U-Eco City, and iii) including results of research which have been developed in other core projects in U-Eco City.

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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• 2005.12a
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• pp.349-358
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• 2005

Recently, developing U-City as an integrated set of ubiquitous spaces has been regarded as a promising field in realizing ubiquitous computing technology. However, well-organized requirement analyses of U-City to declare what kinds of ubiquitous space services are needed and which ubiquitous computing technology should be incorporated to come up with the needs are still insufficient. Hence, the aims of this Paper are to Propose a set of unique U-City construction philosophies and to analyze which services Should be offered in the ubiquitous Space services in U-Cities. A field survey to the citizens who are potential end users of the ubiquitous space services was conducted to analyze the success factors of U-City using CSF methodology. Focused group interview with professionals in the field of ubiquitous computing technology in Korea was then performed to identify the relationship of the ubiquitous space services and the critical success factors.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.77-88
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• 2010

It is possible to evaluate hi-tech spatial services such as U-City services as part of the visible results from more than 10 years of public efforts and budgets on Korea National Digitalization. The U-City services are mainly based on ICT(Information and Communication Technology), but in the aspect of giving intelligence to the existing physical space, in principle, they are to be inter-connected with both spatial information and spatial plan. But, still there are few shared concepts for linking U-City services with spatial information and spatial plan. Therefore, under the proposition of the realization of Ubiquitous National Territory in the Digital Convergence Era, the purpose of the current study is to facilitate the balanced development among U-City services, national spatial data and spatial plan by proposing a new concept of Digital Convergence Space. Then, for its realization, regarding laws and policy arrangements are suggested.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.185-199
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• 2009

This paper analyzed articles of u-City Construction Law, which has been enacted on 29th of September last year, and evaluated their appropriateness and other laws associated with u-city services for better provision of u-cities and u-city services. The enacted law established the concept of u-city in Korea and provided relating industries with construction procedures, technology developments, and standards. These efforts have substantial implications as the first stepping stone, but also raised several problems. Hence, this paper suggested that the u-City Construction Law should be amended as follows. First, The minimum size of u-cities, that is required by the law, should be decreased. Second, various kinds of incentives should be provided to the u-city project companies. Third, new organizations such as u-City commission and National or Regional Control and Management Center will be necessary. Fourth, technology standards and inter-operability among cities should be provided in the areas of the control and management centers. And Finally, more measures of and focuses on project financing issues should be made.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.119-139
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• 2011

The concept of ubiquitous is being applied on diverse industry fields as a new growth engine in Korea. With constructing u-City, new services which are called 'ubiquitous services' are developed actively. Even though there are active movement to develop u-service, there is no clear definition of what service can be defined as ubiquitous service. Given that this study proposes a u-service value classification framework focusing on services' characteristics. We conducted experts' group interviews to analyze new operating or developing services whether it can be ubiquitous. Study results show that some services are hard to be defined as u-service, so this study offers possible improvement alternative. The u-service value classification which offers clear definition of u-service can be used for the practitioners offering measurement framework of u-service level.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.101-114
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• 2008

Ubiquitous City (u-City) and Intelligent Transport System (ITS) provide services, which are different from each other yet have close relation to each other partially. Thus, since a redundancy issue occurs or it is difficult to efficiently provide services depending on the relation degree, it is required to analyze the relation of services between the two systems and to elicit a priority. A table of relation among the services was created and the relation degree was analyzed by performing a survey for experts. As a result of calculating the total marks by accumulating and summing up the survey results, the incident management service and u-accident/calamity and disaster service of the ITS had the lowest value. The project priority was as follows: The basic principle of the project was that services with high relation degrees shall be worked on first. The services were categorized in each step and packaging the services could result in the synergy effect. This study is significant since it analyzed the relation degree between u-City and ITS and proposed schemes for efficiently working on the project by eliciting the priority of the services based on the analysis results.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.167-189
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• 2010

As adopting ubiquitous technology into civil engineering, new city model is suggested called U-City. This paper proposes the framework of U-City management center to support effective services operation. The aims of the framework are to provide the development and operation environment for U-City services. Basically, these objectives are achieved by adopting the semantic web service technology to the framework. In this paper, OWL-S is mainly conducted to represent the description of U-City services. In addition, this paper insists that fine grained unit services are required to guarantee reusability, compatibility, and scalability of the services on U-City management center. The documentations conducted by OWL-S are provided as an example of service descriptions. At the last section, this paper also presents the architecture of U-City management center which enables automatic service discovery, selection, composition and interoperation.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.170-176
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• 2009

The goal of U-Eco City testbed is im proving the technical com pletion of ubiquitous technology /services which have been developed in other core projects in U-Eco City, by implementing newly developed ubiquitous technology/services to testbed. When the newly developed ubiquitous technology/services are implemented in the testbed, we will monitor whether the developed ubiquitous technology/services can be applied in the real situation and if they have problems we will find out the solution to solve the problems. In addition to this we have goal to sale experience of construction of U-Eco city testbed to the local governments and foreign cities. To accomplish this goal, it is necessary to make the guideline for the construction of U-Eco City. Final goal of this research is develop guideline for the construction of U-Eco City. I developed the framework of U-Eco City construction guideline by i) analyzing problems when the local governments try to construct U-City, ii) finding out general idea of Eco City and investigate connection between Eco City and U-City, iii) analyzing main steps of constructing U-City, and iv) matching the all the issues and considerations into process of u-Eco city construction steps.