• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.51-62
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• 2007

To efficiently design safety-critical systems such as nuclear power plants, with the requirement of high reliability, methodologies allowing for rigorous interactions between the synthesis and analysis processes have been proposed. This paper attempts to develop a reliability-centered design framework through an interactive process between Axiomatic Design (AD) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). Integrating AD and FTA into a single framework appears to be a viable solution, as they compliment each other with their unique advantages. AD provides a systematic synthesis tool while FTA is commonly used as a safety analysis tool. These methodologies build a design process that is less subjective, and they enable designers to develop insights that lead to solutions with improved reliability. Due to the nature of the two methodologies, the information involved in each process is complementary: a success tree versus a fault tree. Thus, at each step a system using AD is synthesized, and its reliability is then quantified using the FT derived from the AD synthesis process. The converted FT provides an opportunity to examine the completeness of the outcome from the synthesis process. This study presents an example of the design of a Containment Heat Removal System (CHRS). A case study illustrates the process of designing the CHRS with an interactive design framework focusing on the conversion of the AD process to FTA.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.386-403
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• 2016

The safety of nuclear power plants is analyzed by a probabilistic risk assessment, and the fault tree analysis is the most widely used method for a risk assessment with the event tree analysis. One of the well-known disadvantages of the fault tree is that drawing a fault tree for a complex system is a very cumbersome task. Thus, several graphical modeling methods have been proposed for the convenient and intuitive modeling of complex systems. In this paper, the reliability graph with general gates (RGGG) method, one of the intuitive graphical modeling methods based on Bayesian networks, is improved for the reliability analyses of dynamic systems that have various operation modes with time. A reliability matrix is proposed and it is explained how to utilize the reliability matrix in the RGGG for various cases of operation mode changes. The proposed RGGG with a reliability matrix provides a convenient and intuitive modeling of various operation modes of complex systems, and can also be utilized with dynamic nodes that analyze the failure sequences of subcomponents. The combinatorial use of a reliability matrix with dynamic nodes is illustrated through an application to a shutdown cooling system in a nuclear power plant.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.536-564
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• 2019

Soft faults are inherent in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) due to external and internal errors. The failure of processes in a protocol stack are caused by errors on various layers. In this work, impact of errors and channel misbehavior on process execution is investigated to provide an error classification mechanism. Considering implementation of WSN protocol stack, inter-process correlations of stacked and peer layer processes are modeled. The proposed model is realized through local and global decision trees for fault diagnosis. A hybrid framework is proposed to implement local decision tree on sensor nodes and global decision tree on diagnostic cluster head. Local decision tree is employed to diagnose critical failures due to errors in stacked processes at node level. Global decision tree, diagnoses critical failures due to errors in peer layer processes at network level. The proposed model has been analyzed using fault tree analysis. The framework implementation has been done in Castalia. Simulation results validate the inter-process correlation model-based fault diagnosis. The hybrid framework distributes processing load on sensor nodes and diagnostic cluster head in a decentralized way, reducing communication overhead.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.171-192
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• 2017

The change of any element in the network is possible to cause performance degradation of the multicast network. So it is necessary to optimize the topology path through the multicast update strategy, which directly affects the performance and user experience of the overlay multicast. In view of the above, a new multicast tree update strategy based on perturbation theory Musp (Multicast Update Strategy based on Perturbation theory) is proposed, which reduces the data transmission interruption caused by the multicast tree update and improves user experiences. According to the multicast tree's elements performance and the topology structure, the Musp strategy defines the multicast metric matrix and based on the matrix perturbation theory it also defines the multicast fluctuation factor. Besides it also demonstrates the calculability of the multicast fluctuation factor presents the steps of the Musp algorithm and calculates the complexity. The experimental results show that compared with other update strategies, as for the sensitivity of the multicast fluctuation factor's energized multicast tree to the network disturbance, the maximum delay of the Musp update strategy is minimal in the case of the local degradation of network performance.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.135-140
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• 2003

차량과 같이 시간의 흐름에 따라 위치를 변경하는 객체를 이동체라 한다. 이동체의 과거 궤적은 시간이 지남에 따라 누적되므로 대용량 정보가 된다. 대용량 궤적 정보를 저장하는 이동체 데이터베이스에서 효율적으로 궤적을 검색하기 위해서는 색인이 필요하다. 특히 궤적을 선택하는 과정과 선택된 궤적의 일부분을 추출하는 과정으로 이루어진 복합 질의를 처리하기 위해서는 궤적 보존을 지원하는 TB-tree와 같은 색인 구조가 적합하다. 그러나 TB-tree와 같이 시간적으로 잘 구성된 색인은 공간적인 겹침이 괴지는 문제가 있고, 반대로 공간적으로 잘 구성된 색인은 시간 도메인의 겹침을 심화시키는 문제점이 있다. 이 논문에서는 시간 도메인 중심의 분할 정책과 공간 도메인 중심의 분할 정책을 분석하여 서로 다른 두 도메인 사이의 관계를 밝힐 수 있는 파라미터를 제안하고, 이를 TB-tree에 적용하여 78-tree의 장점을 유지하면서 영역 질의껜 효과적인 분할 정책을 설계 및 구현한다. 또한 성능평가를 통하여 제안된 분할 정책이 기존의 TB-tree 보다 영역 질의에서 우수함을 보인다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.749-754
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• 2014

In this paper, we suggest tree-structure-aware GP (Genetic Programming) operators that heed tree distributions in structure space and their possible structural difficulties. The main idea of the proposed GP operators is to place the generated offspring of crossover and/or mutation in a specified region of tree structure space insofar as possible by biasing the tree structures of the altered subtrees, taking into account the observation that most solutions are found in that region. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, experiments on the binomial-3 regression, multiplexor and even parity problems are performed. The results show that the results using the proposed tree-structure-aware operators are superior to the results of standard GP for all three test problems in both success rate and number of evaluations.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.91-98
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• 2007

한국어에서 절들의 의존관계를 밝히는 작업은 구문 분석 작업에서 가장 어려운 작업들 중에 하나로 인식되고 있다. 절의 의존관계를 파악하는 일은 표면적으로 나타나는 정보만을 가지고 처리할 수 없고, 의미 정보 같은 추가적인 정보가 필요할 것으로 판단하고 처리해왔다. 본 논문에서는 추가적인 정보를 사용하지 않고, 문장에서 얻을 수 있는 표면적인 정보만을 사용하여 절들 간의 의존관계를 파악하는 방법을 제안한다. 문장에서 얻을 수 있는 표면적인 정보는 문장의 구문 정보(tree structure information)와 어휘 및 거리 정보를 가지고 있는 정적인 정보(static information)로 나누어 볼 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 절들 간의 의존 관계 파악을 위하여 구문 정보 및 어휘정보 등을 하나 이상의 커널의 결합해서 사용하는 복합 커널(composite kernel)을 제안하고, 이 커널에 맞는 다양한 인스턴스 공간의 설정을 제안한다. 실험 데이터는 구문 트리로 표현된 STEP 2000코퍼스를 사용하였다. 실험은 최적화된 인스턴스 공간을 절들 간의 의존관계 파악 및 문장 수준에서 성능을 검정하였다. 관계 인스턴스 공간은 절들 간의 연결을 기준으로 Path-enclosed Tree와 Flattened Path-enclosed Tree로, 하부절(관형절)의 표현 유무로 Complete Tree, Contex-sensitive Tree, Simple Tree로 나누어 각각의 조합으로 실험하여 결정하였다. 그리고 결정된 인스턴스 공간에서 복합커널을 사용한 방법이 좋은 성능을 발휘함을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.37-42
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• 1997

This study was carried out to track the heated-air flows within the tree disk through measuring the distribution of wood temperatures during explosing the 7.5mm-thick Japanese cedar disk and to investigate the effects of the time for the first explosion cycle and the number of explosion cycles on the improvement of permeability of tree disk. If the tree disk are explosed when the temperatures of the shell and core of it are not equilibrium yet, all of the inflated airs in the shell after explosion don't flow out toward the autoclave and some of them flow into the core of which the air pressures are lower than those of the shell. It is very effective for the improvement of permeability of tree disk to make the first explosion cycle when the temperatures of the shell and the core equilibrate at the setting temperature of steam in the autoclave. The more tree disks were explosed under the same conditions of first explosion, the more their permeabilities were improved.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.81-92
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• 2022

To analyze the relationship between climatic factors (mean monthly temperature and total precipitation) and tree-ring growths of Pinus densiflora S. et Z. from National Parks (according to region) of the Korea, 20 trees were sampled from 13 National Parks. Only trees that were successfully cross-dated were used for dendrochronological analysis, and at least 11 trees were included. The tree-ring chronology of Mt. Bukhan (covering the shortest period of 1917 - 2016 [100 years]) was assessed, as well as that of Mt. Seorak (covering the longest period of 1687 - 2017 [331 years]). After cross-dating, each ring width series was double-standardized by first fitting a logarithmic curve and then a 50-year cubic spline. The relationships between climate and tree-ring growth were calculated with response function analysis. The results show a significant positive correlation between a given year's February-March temperature, May precipitation levels, and tree-ring growth. It indicates that a higher temperature in early spring and precipitation before cambium activity are important for radial growths of Pinus densiflora in the Korea.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.46-54
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• 1996

This study was carried out to investigate the vacuum drying characteristics of 50mm- and 75mm- thick tree disks of some domestic softwoods for substituting the conventional hardwoods as the materials for wood crafts. Though the elapsed drying times from green to in-use moisture content(MC) were largely shortened by vacuum drying, the tree disks treated by EWS couldn't be dried to in-use MC, and so sapwood stains also were occurred severely. We suggest EWS treatment is undesirable for the species with very high sapwood portion or vacuum drying with hot water circulation heating system. Heart checks were slight, but sapwood checks, which have never been trouble in drying process of tree disks, were severe. For the reasonable explanation it is suggested MC differences between sapwood and heartwood were large and most of tree disks had already no barks before drying test. Ginkgo was vacuum-dried with very slight drying defects such as heart checks, sapwood checks. V-cracks and sapwood stains. In Korean red pine and pitch pine V-cracks were severely occurred. And it was found the special feature that most of these defected tree disks contained several V-cracks within one tree disk. It can be considered as the causes that the region of sapwood was defected by the several checks at the early drying stage because of the steep MC gradient along the radial direction, and then at the later drying stage the drying stresses due to differential shrinkage were concentrated on these brittle spots.