• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.93-106
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to find the method of spatial analysis using GIS that would best reflect the characteristics of study area. The purpose was successfully achieved. In order to carry out multicriteria decision analysis of the study results, the spatial analysis process reflecting the characteristics of study area was examined through stages of evaluation criteria standardization and evaluation indicator weighting decision. In the stage of evaluation criteria standardization, the characteristics of study area could be reflected through the adjustment of critical when converting a real value to a general value. In the stage of evaluation indicator weighting determination, the characteristics of the study area were reflected using the present condition of land use. The results of evaluating the grades of development-potential regions by reflecting characteristics of study area showed high correlativity between already developed region and new developing region. Such results show that, in spatial analysis, by combining expert questionnaire survey and literature survey, this method which reflects the characteristics of an area is very reasonable.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1510-1514
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• 2008

많은 지역이 수자원 관리와 계획에 있어 많은 문제점을 가지고 있으며 우리나라의 경우 장래에 물 부족이 전망되고, 하천 수질과 생태환경의 개선은 국민이 바라는 만큼 기대 수준에 미치고 있지 못하고 있어 우리 삶의 질을 저해하고 있다. 따라서 수자원 계획이나 개발에 있어서 기존의 공급 차원만을 고려하기보다는 수질과 생태환경, 수요적 측면을 함께 고려하는 통합적인 접근 방법들이 시도되고 있다. 점점 증가하는 물수요 때문에 장래에 물 부족이 발생할 것으로 예상되며 이를 해소시킬 수 있는 대안들이 제시되어야 할 것으로 판단된다. 하지만 미래에 발생할 수 있는 다양한 상황들을 예측하고 분석하기는 쉽지 않으며, 물 부족을 해소시킬 수 있는 다양한 대안 중에 최적대안을 찾는 것 또한 쉬운 일이 아니다. 본 연구에서는 한국건설기술연구원과 SEI-US(Stockholm Environment Institute-US Center)가 공동으로 개발한 통합수자원평가계획모형인 K-WEAPq(Korea-Water Evaluation And Planning System Linked QUAL2K) 모형을 이용하여 미래에 발생할 수 있는 다양한 물 수급 전망을 분석하였으며, 물 부족을 해소시킬 수 있는 여러 대안에 따른 물 수급 변화를 분석하였다. 또한 수자원 계획 및 개발 분야에서 여러 상반된 기준들에 대해 최적의 대안들을 찾고 이를 결정하기 위해 다기준의사결정 분석(MCDA: Multicriteria Decision Analysis)을 이용하였다. 낙동강 권역에 대해 2011년 물 수급 전망을 분석한 후 물 부족이 예상되는 지역에 대한 물 부족 해소 정책으로 7가지 대안을 제시하였으며, 사회 경제 환경적 기준에 대해 각각의 대안을 분석하여 최적의 대안을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.39 no.12 s.173
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• pp.1067-1080
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• 2006

In empirical evaluations of public projects and public provided goods, MCDA(multicriteria decision-making analysis) has helped decision makers with an adequate policy decision-making tool since it allows taking into account a wide range of assessment criteria. As a tool for decision-making of conflict management, MCDA has demonstrated its usefulness in many public projects such as road, dam and harbor construction. In this study, to use this merit of MCDA, dam project assessment indicators from points of social, economic, environmental and practical views are developed based on sustainable development of water resources, and weighting factors are also estimated by means of questionnaire survey. In order to decide project investment rank, developed evaluation indicators are applied to 6 existing dams under investigation for a rehabilitation project. In addition to, it is recognized that the project practicability has become more important indicator as well as environmental and social issues. This is because cooperation and support from a local government and people are regarded as one of the most important problems in public projects recently.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.37 no.10
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

In this paper, positioning schemes based on AOA(Angle of Arrival), TOA(Time of Arrival), and TDOA(Time Difference of Arrival) measurements are reviewed and analyzed. In the case of using those schemes in microcell structure with severe multipath fading and shadowing conditions, the rapid and unpredictable variation of signal level makes it difficult to estimate the position and velocity of mobiles. Therefore, we propose a novel mobile tracking method based on the multicriteria decision making, in which uncertain parameters such as RSS(Received Signal Strength), the distance between mobile and base station, the moving direction, and the previous location are participated in the decision process using aggregation function in fuzzy set theory. Through a simulation, we analysis the impaction of the frequent change of direction and speed of mobiles.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.265-276
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• 2005

ELECTRE IS requires the decision maker (DM) to specify several parameters such as weights, pseudo-criteria thresholds and the concordance level. Among these parameters, the concordance level has a significant effect on the outranking relation. And the number of alternatives selected may be sensitive to the value of these parameters. Therefore the DM may have to perform many iterations to obtain the desired number of alternatives in the kernel set. In this study, we developed a mixed-integer programming (MIP) model to elicit the concordance level and thereby to choose the desired number of alternatives in the kernel set. The MIP model can be applied in the interactive process so that the pseudo-criteria thresholds are adjusted according to the results of MIP model. Using the MIP model in the interactive process, we can reduce the number of iterations needed to perform ELECTRE IS.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.59-71
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• 1993

Evaluation methods are employed in environmental impact assessment to choose between different project site, to determine the required measures to compensate impact and to decide whether the environmental impacts are more important than the social or economic effects of a project. The main obstacles that restrict use of quantitative evaluation method are a Lack of knowledge about the environmental effects (e.g. if impacts on wildlife or landscape amenities are predicted) and the relative importance of economic and social issues compared with nature conservation stability of ecosystem or landscape beauty. In Germany, the most common method for site planning is the "ecological risk analysis". It is a kind of multi-criteria-decision-method based on quantitative and qualitative description and ordinal ranking. The various kinds of "ecological balancing methods" that are more recently developed (within the last decade) to quantify the required amount for compensatory measures instead often use cardinal figures to express the value of ecosystems, the intensity of impacts, the need for additional measures to compensate for long recuperative periods when restoring ecosystems and so on. There are still only a view attempts to quantify decisions between environmental and socio-economic issues. Multicriteria-analysis as well as cost-benifit-analysis was used. Some new approaches which are still in a preliminary status are based on contingent valuation and on calculations for compensatory payments (instead of compensatory measures).

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.628-641
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• 2014

Stepwise efficiency improvement in data envelopment analysis (DEA)-based benchmarking is a realistic and effective method by which inefficient decision making units (DMUs) can choose benchmarks in a stepwise manner and, thereby, effect gradual performance improvement. Most of the previous research relevant to stepwise efficiency improvement has focused primarily on how to stratify DMUs into multiple layers and how to select immediate benchmark targets in leading levels for lagging-level DMUs. It can be said that the sequence of benchmark targets was constructed in a myopic way, which can limit its effectiveness. To address this issue, this paper proposes an optimization approach to the construction of a sequence of benchmarks in DEA-based benchmarking, wherein two optimization criteria are employed : similarity of input-output use patterns, and proximity of input-output use levels between DMUs. To illustrate the proposed method, we applied it to the benchmarking of 23 national universities in South Korea.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.53-70
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• 2007

This paper presents a analysis of the problem of optimal design of the beams with two I-type cross section shapes. These types of beams are simply supported and subject to pure bending. The strength and stability conditions were formulated and analytically solved in the form of mathematical equations. Both global and selected types of local stability forms were taken into account. The optimization problem was defined as bicriteria. The cross section area of the beam is the first objective function, while the deflection of the beam is the second. The geometric parameters of cross section were selected as the design variables. The set of constraints includes global and local stability conditions, the strength condition, and technological and constructional requirements in the form of geometric relations. The optimization problem was formulated and solved with the help of the Pareto concept of optimality. During the numerical calculations a set of optimal compromise solutions was generated. The numerical procedures include discrete and continuous sets of the design variables. Results of numerical analysis are presented in the form of tables, cross section outlines and diagrams. Results are discussed at the end of the work. These results may be useful for designers in optimal designing of thin-walled beams, increasing information required in the decision-making procedure.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.854-858
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• 2004

수자원 계획 및 관리 분야에서는 여러 상반된 기준들을 고려하여 의사결정을 내려야 하는 상황이 매우 빈번하게 발생한다. 따라서 이러한 상충되는 기준들에서 최적의 대안들을 찾고 이를 결정하기 위해 다기준 의사결정 분석과 같은 방법을 고려할 필요가 있다. 다기준 의사결정의 중요한 특징은 목적과 기준을 설정, 상대적 가중치들을 추정, 개별 성능 기준에 대한 대안들의 기여도를 결정하는데 있어서 의사 결정자의 판단에 중점을 두는 것이다. 주관적인 견해가 너무 많이 산재할 경우는 문제가 될 수 있지만, 원칙적으로 다기준 의사결정은 목적, 기준, 가중치 및 목표 달성 평가에 내한 의사결정자의 선택을 중시하며, 이를 과학적이고 명확한 방법으로 표현할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 또한 다기준 의사결정방법들은 비용-편익 분석의 실무적인 한계를 초월하는 의사결정 사안들을 위한 구조, 분석 방법, 융통성을 가지고 있기도 한다. 본 연구에서는 최근 국내 수자원 계획 및 관리 분야에 적용되는 계층화분석방법 이외에 유럽 등지에서 많이 활용되고 있는 가치함수법, Outranking 방법 등을 소개하고자 기준에 대한 대안들의 점수를 부여하는 방법과 가중치 산정 방법을 소개하였다. 또한 수자원 분야에 적용되었던 다기준 의사결정분석 방법을 소개함으로써 국내 수자원 분야에서 발생할 수 있는 여러 상반된 기준을 고려시 최적의 대안을 찾아내는데 중요한 정보를 제공하고자 한다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.339-345
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• 2021

Background: Some researchers state that they are not yet able to provide a deep understanding of the underlying causes of unsafe behaviors (UBs). Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the attitudes and experiences of Iranian workers of UBs. Methods: This present study was conducted in 35 industries using a semistructured interview based on grounded theory. Forty participants were interviewed, including 13 industrial safety and health experts and 27 workers and supervisors. The analysis of the present study consisted of a three-step coding process including open, axial, and selective coding. Results: The results showed that the factors affecting UBs could be classified into three categories: organizational, individual, and socioeconomic factors. Organizational factors were divided into 6 parts: procedure and environmental conditions, communications, monitoring, organizational safety culture, resource allocation, and human resources. Socioeconomic factors had three subcategories: community safety culture, type of organizational ownership, and economic problems. Finally, the individual factors were classified into two categories of personality traits and individual competence. Conclusion: The results showed that organizational factors were the most categorized, and it is estimated that this factor has a more important role in the UBs. Of course, to better understand the close relationship between these factors and find the weight and importance of each factor, it needs to measure it with multicriteria decision systems.