• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.63-86
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• 2010

Personalized services directly and indirectly acquire personal data, in part, to provide customers with higher-value services that are specifically context-relevant (such as place and time). Information technologies continue to mature and develop, providing greatly improved performance. Sensory networks and intelligent software can now obtain context data, and that is the cornerstone for providing personalized, context-specific services. Yet, the danger of overflowing personal information is increasing because the data retrieved by the sensors usually contains privacy information. Various technical characteristics of context-aware applications have more troubling implications for information privacy. In parallel with increasing use of context for service personalization, information privacy concerns have also increased such as an unrestricted availability of context information. Those privacy concerns are consistently regarded as a critical issue facing context-aware personalized service success. The entire field of information privacy is growing as an important area of research, with many new definitions and terminologies, because of a need for a better understanding of information privacy concepts. Especially, it requires that the factors of information privacy should be revised according to the characteristics of new technologies. However, previous information privacy factors of context-aware applications have at least two shortcomings. First, there has been little overview of the technology characteristics of context-aware computing. Existing studies have only focused on a small subset of the technical characteristics of context-aware computing. Therefore, there has not been a mutually exclusive set of factors that uniquely and completely describe information privacy on context-aware applications. Second, user survey has been widely used to identify factors of information privacy in most studies despite the limitation of users' knowledge and experiences about context-aware computing technology. To date, since context-aware services have not been widely deployed on a commercial scale yet, only very few people have prior experiences with context-aware personalized services. It is difficult to build users' knowledge about context-aware technology even by increasing their understanding in various ways: scenarios, pictures, flash animation, etc. Nevertheless, conducting a survey, assuming that the participants have sufficient experience or understanding about the technologies shown in the survey, may not be absolutely valid. Moreover, some surveys are based solely on simplifying and hence unrealistic assumptions (e.g., they only consider location information as a context data). A better understanding of information privacy concern in context-aware personalized services is highly needed. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to identify a generic set of factors for elemental information privacy concern in context-aware personalized services and to develop a rank-order list of information privacy concern factors. We consider overall technology characteristics to establish a mutually exclusive set of factors. A Delphi survey, a rigorous data collection method, was deployed to obtain a reliable opinion from the experts and to produce a rank-order list. It, therefore, lends itself well to obtaining a set of universal factors of information privacy concern and its priority. An international panel of researchers and practitioners who have the expertise in privacy and context-aware system fields were involved in our research. Delphi rounds formatting will faithfully follow the procedure for the Delphi study proposed by Okoli and Pawlowski. This will involve three general rounds: (1) brainstorming for important factors; (2) narrowing down the original list to the most important ones; and (3) ranking the list of important factors. For this round only, experts were treated as individuals, not panels. Adapted from Okoli and Pawlowski, we outlined the process of administrating the study. We performed three rounds. In the first and second rounds of the Delphi questionnaire, we gathered a set of exclusive factors for information privacy concern in context-aware personalized services. The respondents were asked to provide at least five main factors for the most appropriate understanding of the information privacy concern in the first round. To do so, some of the main factors found in the literature were presented to the participants. The second round of the questionnaire discussed the main factor provided in the first round, fleshed out with relevant sub-factors. Respondents were then requested to evaluate each sub factor's suitability against the corresponding main factors to determine the final sub-factors from the candidate factors. The sub-factors were found from the literature survey. Final factors selected by over 50% of experts. In the third round, a list of factors with corresponding questions was provided, and the respondents were requested to assess the importance of each main factor and its corresponding sub factors. Finally, we calculated the mean rank of each item to make a final result. While analyzing the data, we focused on group consensus rather than individual insistence. To do so, a concordance analysis, which measures the consistency of the experts' responses over successive rounds of the Delphi, was adopted during the survey process. As a result, experts reported that context data collection and high identifiable level of identical data are the most important factor in the main factors and sub factors, respectively. Additional important sub-factors included diverse types of context data collected, tracking and recording functionalities, and embedded and disappeared sensor devices. The average score of each factor is very useful for future context-aware personalized service development in the view of the information privacy. The final factors have the following differences comparing to those proposed in other studies. First, the concern factors differ from existing studies, which are based on privacy issues that may occur during the lifecycle of acquired user information. However, our study helped to clarify these sometimes vague issues by determining which privacy concern issues are viable based on specific technical characteristics in context-aware personalized services. Since a context-aware service differs in its technical characteristics compared to other services, we selected specific characteristics that had a higher potential to increase user's privacy concerns. Secondly, this study considered privacy issues in terms of service delivery and display that were almost overlooked in existing studies by introducing IPOS as the factor division. Lastly, in each factor, it correlated the level of importance with professionals' opinions as to what extent users have privacy concerns. The reason that it did not select the traditional method questionnaire at that time is that context-aware personalized service considered the absolute lack in understanding and experience of users with new technology. For understanding users' privacy concerns, professionals in the Delphi questionnaire process selected context data collection, tracking and recording, and sensory network as the most important factors among technological characteristics of context-aware personalized services. In the creation of a context-aware personalized services, this study demonstrates the importance and relevance of determining an optimal methodology, and which technologies and in what sequence are needed, to acquire what types of users' context information. Most studies focus on which services and systems should be provided and developed by utilizing context information on the supposition, along with the development of context-aware technology. However, the results in this study show that, in terms of users' privacy, it is necessary to pay greater attention to the activities that acquire context information. To inspect the results in the evaluation of sub factor, additional studies would be necessary for approaches on reducing users' privacy concerns toward technological characteristics such as highly identifiable level of identical data, diverse types of context data collected, tracking and recording functionality, embedded and disappearing sensor devices. The factor ranked the next highest level of importance after input is a context-aware service delivery that is related to output. The results show that delivery and display showing services to users in a context-aware personalized services toward the anywhere-anytime-any device concept have been regarded as even more important than in previous computing environment. Considering the concern factors to develop context aware personalized services will help to increase service success rate and hopefully user acceptance for those services. Our future work will be to adopt these factors for qualifying context aware service development projects such as u-city development projects in terms of service quality and hence user acceptance.

• 한국유통학회지:유통연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.63-92
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• 2012

본 연구는 소비자가 지각하는 유통업체의 위치기반 모바일 쇼핑정보 서비스에 대한 정보의 상황관련성과 정보자극에 대한 PAD 감정변수들(환기, 지배력, 즐거움) 간의 상호 인과관계와 이용의도에 대한 이들의 효과를 실증 연구 하였다. 미국 내 모바일 이용자를 대상으로 무작위 표본추출법에 근거하여 추출되었고, 총 335명의 사용가능한 응답이 수거되었다. 분석결과, 환기와 상황관련성은 즐거움에 정(+)의 영향을 주었으나 지배력은 즐거움에 유의한 영향력을 나타내지 않았다. 즐거움은 이용의도에 정(+)의 영향을 주었다. 본 연구를 통해 위치기반 모바일 서비스에 대한 소비자의 인지적 반응과 감정적 반응을 통합적으로 살펴보았으며, PAD 감정차원간의 체계적인 관계를 규명하였다. 연구결과를 바탕으로 모바일 쇼핑서비스 개발자, 유통업체, 그리고 마케팅 실무자를 위한 시사점을 논의하였으며, 연구의 한계점과 더불어 향후 연구 방향을 제시하였다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.443-472
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• 2014

To survive in the global competitive environment, enterprise should be able to solve various problems and find the optimal solution effectively. The big-data is being perceived as a tool for solving enterprise problems effectively and improve competitiveness with its' various problem solving and advanced predictive capabilities. Due to its remarkable performance, the implementation of big data systems has been increased through many enterprises around the world. Currently the big-data is called the 'crude oil' of the 21st century and is expected to provide competitive superiority. The reason why the big data is in the limelight is because while the conventional IT technology has been falling behind much in its possibility level, the big data has gone beyond the technological possibility and has the advantage of being utilized to create new values such as business optimization and new business creation through analysis of big data. Since the big data has been introduced too hastily without considering the strategic value deduction and achievement obtained through the big data, however, there are difficulties in the strategic value deduction and data utilization that can be gained through big data. According to the survey result of 1,800 IT professionals from 18 countries world wide, the percentage of the corporation where the big data is being utilized well was only 28%, and many of them responded that they are having difficulties in strategic value deduction and operation through big data. The strategic value should be deducted and environment phases like corporate internal and external related regulations and systems should be considered in order to introduce big data, but these factors were not well being reflected. The cause of the failure turned out to be that the big data was introduced by way of the IT trend and surrounding environment, but it was introduced hastily in the situation where the introduction condition was not well arranged. The strategic value which can be obtained through big data should be clearly comprehended and systematic environment analysis is very important about applicability in order to introduce successful big data, but since the corporations are considering only partial achievements and technological phases that can be obtained through big data, the successful introduction is not being made. Previous study shows that most of big data researches are focused on big data concept, cases, and practical suggestions without empirical study. The purpose of this study is provide the theoretically and practically useful implementation framework and strategies of big data systems with conducting comprehensive literature review, finding influencing factors for successful big data systems implementation, and analysing empirical models. To do this, the elements which can affect the introduction intention of big data were deducted by reviewing the information system's successful factors, strategic value perception factors, considering factors for the information system introduction environment and big data related literature in order to comprehend the effect factors when the corporations introduce big data and structured questionnaire was developed. After that, the questionnaire and the statistical analysis were performed with the people in charge of the big data inside the corporations as objects. According to the statistical analysis, it was shown that the strategic value perception factor and the inside-industry environmental factors affected positively the introduction intention of big data. The theoretical, practical and political implications deducted from the study result is as follows. The frist theoretical implication is that this study has proposed theoretically effect factors which affect the introduction intention of big data by reviewing the strategic value perception and environmental factors and big data related precedent studies and proposed the variables and measurement items which were analyzed empirically and verified. This study has meaning in that it has measured the influence of each variable on the introduction intention by verifying the relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variables through structural equation model. Second, this study has defined the independent variable(strategic value perception, environment), dependent variable(introduction intention) and regulatory variable(type of business and corporate size) about big data introduction intention and has arranged theoretical base in studying big data related field empirically afterwards by developing measurement items which has obtained credibility and validity. Third, by verifying the strategic value perception factors and the significance about environmental factors proposed in the conventional precedent studies, this study will be able to give aid to the afterwards empirical study about effect factors on big data introduction. The operational implications are as follows. First, this study has arranged the empirical study base about big data field by investigating the cause and effect relationship about the influence of the strategic value perception factor and environmental factor on the introduction intention and proposing the measurement items which has obtained the justice, credibility and validity etc. Second, this study has proposed the study result that the strategic value perception factor affects positively the big data introduction intention and it has meaning in that the importance of the strategic value perception has been presented. Third, the study has proposed that the corporation which introduces big data should consider the big data introduction through precise analysis about industry's internal environment. Fourth, this study has proposed the point that the size and type of business of the corresponding corporation should be considered in introducing the big data by presenting the difference of the effect factors of big data introduction depending on the size and type of business of the corporation. The political implications are as follows. First, variety of utilization of big data is needed. The strategic value that big data has can be accessed in various ways in the product, service field, productivity field, decision making field etc and can be utilized in all the business fields based on that, but the parts that main domestic corporations are considering are limited to some parts of the products and service fields. Accordingly, in introducing big data, reviewing the phase about utilization in detail and design the big data system in a form which can maximize the utilization rate will be necessary. Second, the study is proposing the burden of the cost of the system introduction, difficulty in utilization in the system and lack of credibility in the supply corporations etc in the big data introduction phase by corporations. Since the world IT corporations are predominating the big data market, the big data introduction of domestic corporations can not but to be dependent on the foreign corporations. When considering that fact, that our country does not have global IT corporations even though it is world powerful IT country, the big data can be thought to be the chance to rear world level corporations. Accordingly, the government shall need to rear star corporations through active political support. Third, the corporations' internal and external professional manpower for the big data introduction and operation lacks. Big data is a system where how valuable data can be deducted utilizing data is more important than the system construction itself. For this, talent who are equipped with academic knowledge and experience in various fields like IT, statistics, strategy and management etc and manpower training should be implemented through systematic education for these talents. This study has arranged theoretical base for empirical studies about big data related fields by comprehending the main variables which affect the big data introduction intention and verifying them and is expected to be able to propose useful guidelines for the corporations and policy developers who are considering big data implementationby analyzing empirically that theoretical base.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-32
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• 1972

본연구(本硏究)는 주요조림수종(主要造林樹種)인 송백류중(松柏類中) 특(特)히 Sub-genus Diploxylon내(內)의 종간교잡(種間交雜)에 의(依)하여 생산(生産)된 일대잡종(一代雜種) ${\times}$P. rigielliottii, ${\times}$P. rigiradiata, ${\times}$P. rigiserotina 및 ${\times}$P. densithunbergii의 임성종자확득율(稔性種字穫得率)을 기준(基準)으로한 교배친화력(交配親和力)과 분류학상(分類學上)의 유연관계(類緣關係)를 검토(檢討)하는 동시(同時)에 조림지(造林地)에 있어서의 생장비교(生長比較), 침엽(針葉)의 외부(外部) 및 해부형태비교(解剖形態比較), phenol성물질(性物質)에 의(依)한 특성비교(特性比較) 및 천연적송림(天然赤松林)에 대(對)한 이입교잡현상등(移入交雜現象等)을 구명(究明)하여 금후계획적조림(今後計劃的造林)에 공헌(貢獻)할 잡종채종림조성(雜種採種林造成) 여부(與否)와 일대잡종(一代雜種)과 그 양친종간(兩親種間)의 차이점(差異點)을 분별관찰(分別觀察)한 결과(結果) 다음과 같은 성적(成績)을 얻었다. 1. 각공시수종(各供試樹種)을 Shaw, Pilger 및 Duffield 등(等)의 분류식(分類式)에 준(準)하여 각조합별(各組合別) 임성종자확득율(稔性種字穫得率)을 기준(基準)으로 교배친화력(交配親和力)과 유연관계(類緣關係)를 검토(檢討)한 바 각조합(各組合)의 양친종간(兩親種間)에는 상당(相當)한 교배친화력(交配親和力)이 있었고, 근연간(近緣間)임을 알수 있었으며, 각조합별(各組合別) 최고임성종자확득율(最高稔性種字穫得率)은 28~58%이었다(표(表) 13). 2. 조림지(稠林地)에 있어서 각일대잡종송(各一代雜種松)의 생장비교(生長比較)에서 특(特)히 ${\times}$P. rigiserotina는 수고(樹高)와 근원경(根元徑)에서 수종간(樹種間)에 1% 수준(水準)으로 고도(高度)의 유의성(有意性)이 있었으므로 재적비(材積比)에서도 종자모수(種字母樹) 보다 109~155%의 보다 월등(越等)한 생장(生長)을 보여 조림상(造林上) 유용성(有用性) 가치(價値)가 있는 우수(優秀)한 일대잡종(一代雜種)으로 기대(期待)되었다(표(表) 16, 17). 3. 각일대잡종송(各一代雜種松)은 내한성(耐寒性)에 있어서 종자모수(種字母樹)의 형질(形質)을 받어 전연(全然) 동해(凍害)를 받지 않았으므로 내한력(耐寒力)이 강(强)함을 알수있었다. 4. 침엽장비교(針葉長比較)에서 일대잡종(一代雜種)의 양친종간(兩親種間)에는 현저(顯著)히 식별(識別)되었으며, 화분모수(花粉母樹)의 형질(形質)을 받은 ${\times}$P. rigiserotina는 종자모수(種字母樹) 보다 65%의 보다큰치(値)를 보여 현저(顯著)하게 식별(識別)되었으나 타일대잡종송(他一代雜種松)은 종자모수(種字母樹)의 형질(形質)을 받어 엽장(葉長)만으로는 잡종성(雜種性)을 용이(容易)하게 식별(識別)하기 어려웠다(표(表) 21). 5. 침엽(針葉)의 해부형태(解剖形態)에 있어서 제형질중(諸形質中) 일부(一部) 예외(例外)도 있었으나 각일대잡종송(各一代雜種松)은 대부분(大部分)이 hypoderm에서 강화(强化)되었고, resin canal에서는 조합(組合)에 따라 종자모수(種字母樹) 또는 화분모수(花粉母樹)의 우성형질(優性形質)을 나타냈으며, fibrovascular bundle에서는 종자모수(種字母樹)와 같이 상이(相離)된 형질(形質)을 나타냈으므로 각일대잡종(各一代雜種)과 그 양친종간(兩親種間)의 식별(識別)이 어느정도(程度) 가능(可能)함을 보았다. 특(特)히 ${\times}$P. densithunbergii에서는 RDI 0.73으로 화분모수(花粉母樹)에 가까운 형질(形質)을 보였다(그림 1, 표(表) 22). 6. Phenol 성물질(性物質)에 의(依)한 특성비교(特性比較)에서 공시일대잡종중(供試一代雜種中) 특(特)히 ${\times}$P. rigielliottii, ${\times}$P. rigiradiata 및 ${\times}$P. rigitaeda는 공(共)히 Rf-0.46인 phenol 물질(物質) 7번(番)이 P. rigida와 동일(同一)하게 담황색(淡黃色)으로 반응(反應)되었으나 화분모수(花粉母樹)에는 반응(反應)이 나타나지 않았으므로 양친간(兩親間)에는 현저(顯著)한 식별(識別)을 할수있었다. 이 결과(結果)는 장차(將次) 차대검정(次代檢定)은 물론(勿論) 교잡육종(交雜育種)에 있어서 잡종성조기식별(雜種性早期識別)의 가능성(可能性)을 보았고, ${\times}$P. rigiserotina와 ${\times}$P. densithunbergii는 양친종(兩親種)과 동일(同一)한 반응(反應)을 나타내어 식별(識別)을 할수없었음을 보아 양친종(兩親種)이 근연간(近緣間)임을 알수있었다(그림 2, 표(表) 23). 7. TLC에 의(依)한 phenol성물질(性物質)의 분리(分離) 및 반응현상(反應現象)은 동일수종내(同一樹種內)에서는 개체별(個體別), 채취부위별(採取部位別), 수령별(樹齡別) 및 화분산지별(花粉産地別)에 관계(關係)없이 동일(同一)한 분리(分離) 및 반응현상(反應現象)을 보였으며, 전개용매(展開溶媒)에 있어서도 Aceton-Chloroform(3:7v/v)을 사용(使用)하였을때나 Benzene-Methanol-Acetic acid(90:16:8 v/v)를 사용(使用)했을때나 동일(同一)한 반응(反應)을 볼수있었다. 8. 천연적송림(天然赤松林)에 있어서의 이입교잡현상(移入交雜現象)은 조사지(調査地) 범위내(範圍內)에서는 동해(東海) 및 서해안지방(西海岸地方)의 각조사임분(各調査林分)의 대부분(大部分)이 잡종성(雜種性)인 사실(事實)과 동해안(東海岸) 보다 서해안지방(西海岸地方)의 조사임분(調査林分)이 월등(越等)히 높은 잡종성(雜種性)임을 알수있었다(표(表) 24, 25). 9. 한국(韓國) 및 일본(日本)에서 선발(選拔)된 수형목(秀型木)은 RDI에 있어서 순수(純粹)한 적송개체(赤松個體)를 발견(發見)할수 없었으며, 본공시목(本供試木)의 전부(全部)가 흑송(黑松)의 형질(形質)을 가진 잡종성(雜種性)임을 알수있었으므로 이러한 수형목(秀型木)은 잡종성(雜種性)에 기인(起因)한 것이라 사료(思料)된다. (그림 3,4, 표(表) 26,27).