• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.17A no.2
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• pp.93-102
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• 2010

There are many complicated situations which could be occurred in users' surroundings, so it is required to develop automation services to provide users with appropriate services in ubiquitous computing environments. However, most of the current context-aware workflow systems express context-aware services only with a single workflow. Therefore, they have difficulties in providing users with various and composite services by combining different workflows. In this paper we propose a CAWL-based context-aware workflow system, where CAWL is a context-aware workflow language to express a composite workflow model by describing individual service workflows. The proposed system can provide users with various composite workflow services based on a service scenario, which is described with CAWL. And by reusing a number of single workflows to construct composite workflow services, it is possible to save time and effort to develop context-aware workflows.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.5_6
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• pp.214-227
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• 2007

A context-aware service in ubiquitous computing environments aims to supply services according to users' situation information that is dynamically occurring. The existing context-aware workflow systems, such as FollowMe and uFlow, provide context-aware services based on a workflow, which uses users' situation information as transition conditions of a service. But they can't apply users' new service demands, which may dynamically occur even when a workflow is on going, to a workflow scenario. In this paper we propose a context-aware workflow system, which can reapply users' new service demands into an initial workflow without interrupting or deleting the workflow. The proposed system can provide context-aware services without interrupting of service by recognizing exactly a place holder that has to be changed in a workflow scenario and by reconstructing only the changed parts through an incremental parsing method. Therefore, a user can immediately apply his new service demands to an on-going workflow scenario, and he can be guaranteed continuous executions of context-aware services according to a workflow scenario, which includes new service demands.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.9
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• pp.676-686
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• 2010

An URC (Ubiquitous Robot Companion) is aimed for providing the best service according to situational information that it recognizes. In order to offer human-friendly and intelligent services, a robot middleware requires the technique to automate and control URC service processes, which are based on context-awareness. In this paper, we propose a context-aware workflow system to provide web services based URC services according to situational information. The proposed system offers a platform-independent command object model to control heterogeneous URCs, and supports web services based context-aware URC services. Therefore, the proposed system can increase the reliability of URC services in ubiquitous network environment, on which the diverse URC robots and platforms exist. And it can enhance the flexibility and adaptability of the functional and structural changes of URC systems.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.240-250
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• 2010

A URC, which is a Ubiquitous Robot Companion, provides services to users in ubiquitous computing environments and has advantage of simplifying robot's hardware and software by distributing the complicated functionality of robots to other system. In this paper, we propose SOWL, which is a software architecture for URC robots and a mixed word of SOMAR and CAWL. SOWL keeps the advantages of URC and it also has the loosely-coupled characteristics. Moreover it makes it easy to develop of URC robot software. The proposed architecture is composed of 4 layers: device software, robot software, robot application, and end user layer. Developers of the each layer is able to build software suitable for their requirements by combining software modules in the lower layer. SOWL consists of SOMAR and CAWL engine. SOMAR, which is a middleware for the execution of device software and robot software, is based on service-oriented architecture(SOA) for robot software. CAWL engine is a system to process CAWL which is a context-aware workflow language. SOWL is able to provide a layered architecture for the execution of a robot software. It also makes it possible for developers of the each layer to build module-based robot software.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.469-477
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• 2009

This study is about Augmentative and Alternative Communication as handicapped people actively pursue their life. Especially, although there are many ways and devices for communicating the same as a normal person, descriptive supplementation and sustaining studies are needed for perfect communication as a normal person. The purpose of the paper is to help handicapped people who have hardships about communication. This study develops the function of Smart Workflow AAC(Augmentative and Alternative Communication) and IR sensor_based context aware function that can offer services convenient to classified handicapped people for helping them to communicate effectively. This system from an experimental basis has improved efficiency to communicate more harmoniously within individual handicapped situations to schedule management and communication of handicapped people.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.221-222
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• 2009

워크플로우 기술은 현재까지 지속적으로 발전하고 있으며, 최근에는 이러한 기술을 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에 적용하려는 시도가 이루어지고 있다. 한편 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 서비스 제공자는 다양한 상황 정보들을 이용하여 동적으로 변화하는 환경에 대응하여 사용자에게 적합한 서비스가 제공할 수 있어야 한다. 그러나 기존의 워크플로우 기반의 상황인지 시스템들은 단순한 서비스 형태를 제공하는 수준에 머물러 있어, 다양하고 복합적인 서비스를 제공하는데 한계가 있다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 상황인지를 기반으로 다수의 사용자에게 복합적인 워크플로우 서비스를 동시에 제공할 수 있는 다중 워크플로우 시스템을 소개한다. 제안하는 시스템은 여러 사용자에게 동시에 서비스를 제공할 수 있으며, 서비스의 흐름을 병렬적으로 처리할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 기존의 워크플로우 서비스의 재사용을 통하여 시스템의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.207-210
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• 2011

표준 워크플로우 언어로 가장 인지도가 높은 BPEL은 분기를 통한 플로우선택에 있어 상황정보를 기술하기 어려워 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에 적용하기 어렵다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 모듈간 낮은 결합도를 보장하는 관점지향 프로그래밍 (AOP: Aspect-Oriented Programming) 기법을 사용하여 기존 BPEL 워크플로우 시스템에 상황인지 기능을 추가한 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 상황인지 워크플로우 시스템은 AOP 기법을 사용하여 BPEL 워크플로우에 상황에 따른 서비스를 제공하기 위한 Context 정보를 삽입하는 방식으로 개발함으로써, 기존 BPEL 문서를 수정할 필요 없이 상황인지 기능을 적용한 워크플로우의 생성이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 시나리오 기반의 실험을 통하여 제안한 시스템을 입증한다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.125-134
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• 2022

The development of information communication and artificial intelligence technology requires the intelligent command and control (C2) system for Korean military, and various studies are attempted to achieve it. In particular, as a volume ofinformation in the C2 workflow increases exponentially, this study pays attention to the collaborative filtering (CF) and recommendation systems (RS) that can provide the essential information for the users of the C2 system has been developed. The RS performing information filtering in the C2 system should provide an explanatory recommendation and consider the context of the tasks and users. In this paper, we propose a contextual pre-filtering CARS framework that recommends information in the C2 workflow. The proposed framework consists of four components: 1) contextual pre-filtering that filters data in advance based on the context and relationship of the users, 2) feature selection to overcome the data sparseness that is a weak point for the CF, 3) the proposed CF with the features distances between the users used to calculate user similarity, and 4) rule-based post filtering to reflect user preferences. In order to evaluate the superiority of this study, various distance methods of the existing CF method were compared to the proposed framework with two experimental datasets in real-world. As a result of comparative experiments, it was shown that the proposed framework was superior in terms of MAE, MSE, and MSLE.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.714-717
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• 2008

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅(Ubiquitous Computing) 시대에 기업의 사무 환경은 다양한 정보들과 많은 사용자들이 유기적인 관계를 형성한다. 이러한 관계에서 접근 제어는 다양한 정보 객체에 허가된 사용자만이 접근할 수 있는 권한을 갖는 기능을 제공하는 것이고, 사무 환경에서 보안상 필수적이며 중요한 역할을 한다. 하지만 기존의 접근 제어 모델들은 상황 정보를 고려하지 않아 동적인 접근 제어를 하지 못하는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문은 워크플로우 기반의 오피스 환경에서 동적이고 능동적인 접근제어 관리를 제공하기 위한 상황 정보와 역할 기반의 워크플로우 데이터 접근제어 모델을 제안한다. 이 모델은 수많은 상황 정보 및 사무 정보와 사용자가 동적으로 변화하는 사무환경에서 사용자에게 접근을 제어하기 적합하다.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.223-240
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• 2013

RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) is use of an RFID tag applied to object for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Recently, it is being actively researched and introduced in logistics and manufacturing. RFID portals in supply chains are meant to identify all the tags within a given interrogation zone. Hence the hardware and software mechanisms for RFID tag identification mostly focus on successful read of multiple tags simultaneously. Such mechanisms, however, are inefficient for determining moving direction of tags, sequence of consecutive tags, and validity of the tag reads from the viewpoint of workflow. These types of problems usually cause many difficulties in RFID portal implementation in manufacturing environment, there by having RFID-system developers waste a considerable amount of time. In this research, we designated an RFID portal system with SDO(Sequence, Direction, and Object-flow)-perception capability by using fundamental data supplied by ordinary RFID readers. Using our work, RFID system developers can save a great amount of time building RFID data-capturing applications in manufacturing environment.