• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.650-661
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• 2005

As the Internet is growing, the use of XML which is a standard of semi-structured document is increasing. Therefore, there are on going works about integration and retrieval of XML documents. However, the basis of efficient integration and retrieval of documents is to cluster XML documents with similar structure. The conventional XML clustering approaches use the hierarchical clustering algorithm that produces the demanded number of clusters through repeated merge, but it have some problems that it is difficult to compute the similarity between XML documents and it costs much time to compare similarity repeatedly. In order to address this problem, we use clustering algorithm for transactional data that is scale for large size of data. In this paper we use common structures from XML documents that don't have DTD or schema. In order to use common structures of XML document, we extract representative structures by decomposing the structure from a tree model expressing the XML document, and we perform clustering with the extracted structure. Besides, we show efficiency of proposed method by comparing and analyzing with the previous method.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.14D no.1 s.111
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• pp.1-8
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• 2007

As the web document of XML, an exchange language of data in the advanced Internet, is increasing, a target of information retrieval becomes the web documents. Therefore, there we researches on structure, integration and retrieval of XML documents. This paper proposes a clustering method of XML documents based on frequent structures, as a basic research to efficiently process query and retrieval. To do so, first, trees representing XML documents are decomposed and we extract frequent structures from them. Second, we perform clustering considering the weight of large items to adjust cluster creation and cluster cohesion, considering frequent structures as items of transactions. Third, we show the excellence of our method through some experiments which compare which the previous methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.261-269
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• 2007

As a basic research to integrate and to retrieve XML documents efficiently, this paper proposes a clustering method by structures of XML documents. We apply an algorithm processing the many transaction data to the clustering of XML documents, which is a quite different method from the previous algorithms measuring structure similarity. Our method performs the clustering of XML documents not only using the cluster histograms that represent the distribution of items in clusters but also considering the global cluster cohesion. We compare the proposed method with the existing techniques by performing experiments. Experiments show that our method not only creates good quality clusters but also improves the processing time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10b
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• pp.181-183
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• 2004

기존의 연관규칙을 생성하는 알고리즘의 문제점을 개선하기 위해 본 논문에서는 XML 문서 클러스터링을 이용하였다. XML 문서 클러스터링을 이용하여 데이터베이스 탐색 횟수 일 조인 개수를 줄여서 수행 속도를 향상시키고, 또한 클러스터링을 통해 얻은 클러스터에서 규칙을 찾기 때문에 기존의 연관규칙 생성 방법에서는 찾지 못했던 규칙들도 찾아낼 수 있다 본 논문에서 사용하는 클러스터링 방법은 XML문서 검색을 위한 3차원 비트맵 인덱싱인 xPlaneb를 사용하여 구현하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.342-352
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• 2006

Current studies on storing XML data are focused on either mapping XML data to existing RDBMS efficiently or developing a native XML storage. Some native XML storages store each XML node with parsed object form. Clustering, the physical arrangement of each object, can be an important factor to increase the performance with this storing method. In this paper, we propose re-clustering techniques that can store an XML document efficiently. Proposed clustering technique uses path similarities among data nodes, which can reduce page I/Os when returning query results. And proposed technique can process a path query only using small number of clusters as possible instead of using all clusters. This enables efficient processing of path query because we can reduce search space by skipping unnecessary data. Finally, we apply existing clustering techniques to store XML data and compare the performance with proposed technique. Our results show that the performance of XML storage can be improved by using a proper clustering technique.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.34-36
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• 2004

최근 웹상에 산재한 정보들의 효율적인 검색과 이용을 위하여 정보의 구조를 정의하는 스키마들의 통합이 중요시되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 XML 스키마들을 클러스터링하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 두 스키마를 통합하는데 드는 비용이 적을수록 스키마간의 유사도가 높다는 가정하에 스키마 사이의 공통된 구조의 크기를 계산한다 이를 위해서 경로사이에 서로 대응하는 요소의 합이 최대가 되는 경로간의 일대일 매칭을 추출한다. 또한 계산된 유사도값에 기반하여 계층적 클러스터링 방법을 적용한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해서 다수의 XML 스키마를 대상으로 실험한 결과, 91%의 정확율과 93%의 재현율로서 기존의 알고리즘보다 우수하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.857-868
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• 2005

Schema clustering is important as a prerequisite to the integration of XML schemas. This paper presents an efficient method for clustering XML schemas. The proposed method first computes similarities among schemas. The similarity is defined by the size of the common structure between two schemas under the assumption that the schemas with less cost to be integrated are more similar. Specifically, we extract one-to-one matchings between paths with the largest number of corresponding elements. Finally, a hierarchical clustering method is applied to the value of similarity. Experimental results with many XML schemas show that the method has peformed better compared with previous works, resulting in a Precision of $99\%$ and a rate of clustering of $93\%$ in average.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.699-709
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• 2004

XML is increasingly important in data exchange and information management. Starting point for retrieving the structure and integrating the documents efficiently is clustering the documents that have similar structure. The reason is that we can retrieve the documents more flexible and faster than the method treating the whole documents that have different structure. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the similar structure-based incremental clustering method useful for retrieving the structure of XML documents and integrating them. As a novel method, we use a clustering algorithm for transactional data that facilitates the large number of data, which is quite different from the existing methods that measure the similarity between documents, using vector. We first extract the representative structures of XML documents using sequential pattern algorithm, and then we perform the similar structure based document clustering, assuming that the document as a transaction, the representative structure of the document as the items of the transaction. In addition, we define the cluster cohesion and inter-cluster similarity, and analyze the efficiency of the Proposed method through comparing with the existing method by experiments.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.7 s.96
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• pp.1357-1366
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• 2004

As the importance or XML is increasing to manage information and exchange data efficiently in the web, there are on going works about structural integration and retrieval. The XML. document with the defined structure can retrieve the structure through the DTD or XML schema, but the existing method can't apply to XML. documents which haven't the structure information. Therefore. in this paper we propose a new clus-tering technique at a basic research which make it possible to retrieve structure fast about the XML documents that haven't the structure information. We first estract the feature of frequent structure from each XML document. And we cluster based on the similar structure by con-sidering the frequent structure as representative structure of the XML document, which makes it possible to retrieve the XML document raster than dealing with the whole documents that have different structure. And also we perform the structure retrieval about XML documents based on the clusters which is the group of similar structure. Moreover, we show efficiency of proposed method to describe how to apply the structure retrieval as well as to display the example of application result.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.333-335
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• 2009

XML은 웹2.0 환경에서 데이터의 저장과 전달을 위한 역할을 수행하는 필수적인 포맷으로 각광받고 있다. 특히 RSS나 ATOM과 같은 피드기술은 XML을 이용한 성공적인 사례로 인정받고 있다. 이러한 XML 포맷 데이터는 빠른 검색을 위해 경로기반 클러스터링 기법이나 내용기반 클러스터링 기법을 적용하는 것이 일반적이다. 하지만 클러스터링 기법을 적용할 때 주어지는 임계값에 따라 재현율이 변화하게 되고, 검색 결과에서 배제되는 데이터가 발생하게 된다. 이 논문에서는 기존 클러스터링 기법을 적용할 때 발생하는 데이터 배제현상을 보완하는 2단계 인덱싱 기법을 제안하고, 제안한 방법의 성능에 대해 분석한다.