• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.87-96
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• 2006

데이터베이스 시스템에서 협력적 질의응답이란 질의 내용과 정확히 일치하는 자료뿐만 아니라 좀 더 넓은 인근 범위의 자료 또는 근사적인 자료를 검색해 주는 것을 말한다. 협력적 질의응답은 질의 분석, 질의 유연화, 유연화된 질의에 따른 근사적 자료 제공의 세 단계로 이루어져 있다. 질의 유연화를 수행하기 위해 의미적 관계를 표현하는 지식추상화 방법과 자료 사이의 정량적인 유사도를 거리로 표현하는 방법들이 지식표현 방법으로 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 보다 효과적으로 질의 유연화 단계를 지원하기 위해, 다단계 데이터 추상화 계층과 거리 척도를 지원하는 계량화된 지식추상화 계층(MKAH: Metricized Knowledge Abstraction Hierarchy)을 제안한다. MKAH는 카테고리화 될 수 있는 자료에 대해 질의 유연화를 효과적으로 지원하며 두 값 사이의 정량적인 의미상의 유사도를 제공하여, 질의 결과에 순위가 매겨질 수 있도록 한다. MKAH의 실용성과 효율성을 검증하기 위하여 경력직 검색 분야에 대한 원형 시스템을 구현해보았다. 다양한 실험을 통하여 MKAH가 풍부한 의미 표현이 가능하면서 질적으로도 높은 거리 척도를 제공해 준다는 것을 보였다. 그 결과 MKAH를 채택하는 도메인은 다른 정량적인 숫자 도메인과 호환될 수 있다는 점과, 큰 규모의 시스템을 만드는 데에도 장점이 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.131-156
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• 1998

Cooperative query answering is a research effort to develop a fault-tolerant and intelligent database system using the semantic knowledge base constructed from the underlying database. Such knowledge base has two aspects of usage. One is supporting the cooperative query answering Process for providing both an exact answer and neighborhood information relevant to a query. The other is supporting ongoing maintenance of the knowledge base for accommodating the changes in the knowledge content and database usage purpose. Existing studies have mostly focused on the cooperative query answering process but paid little attention on the dynamic knowledge base maintenance. This paper proposes a multi-level knowledge representation framework called Knowledge Abstraction Hierarchy (KAH) that can not only support cooperative query answering but also permit dynamic knowledge maintenance. The KAH consists of two types of knowledge abstraction hierarchies. The value abstraction hierarchy is constructed by abstract values that are hierarchically derived from specific data values in the underlying database on the basis of generalization and specialization relationships. The domain abstraction hierarchy is built on the various domains of the data values and incorporates the classification relationship between super-domains and sub-domains. On the basis of the KAH, a knowledge abstraction database is constructed on the relational data model and accommodates diverse knowledge maintenance needs and flexibly facilitates cooperative query answering. In terms of the knowledge maintenance, database operations are discussed for the cases where either the internal contents for a given KAH change or the structures of the KAH itself change. In terms of cooperative query answering, database operations are discussed for both the generalization and specialization Processes, and the conceptual query handling. A prototype system has been implemented at KAIST that demonstrates the usefulness of KAH in ordinary database application systems.

• 한국지능정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지능정보시스템학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.354-360
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• 2006

The purpose of this paper is to propose a securely personalized context-aware cooperative query that supports a multi-level data abstraction hierarchy and conceptual distance metric among data values, while considering privacy concerns around user context awareness. The conceptual distance expresses a semantic similarity among data values with a quantitative measure, and thus the conceptual distance enables query results to be ranked. To show the feasibility of the methodology proposed in this paper we have implemented a prototype system in the area of site search in a large-scale shopping mall.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.339-348
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• 1996

Plant monitoring algorithm developments seem to be saturated which means that display system to show the results from the algorithm should be the well-defined and interactive tools for operator's diagnosing, controlling, restoring the abnormal plant situations. On the other hand, very little generalized display design concepts and evaluations are available. Events that are unfamiliar to operators and that has not been anticipated by designers may cause great threats to the nuclear power plant system safety operation. The abstraction hierarchy, considered most popular display design methodology but not generalized for nuclear power plant design space, has ken proposed as a representation frame work that can be adopted to design interfaces and supports operators in diagnosing overlooked events that should have been considered to operate plant safely. However most practical plant display systems do not fully stick to this design concept but partially rely on their philosophy from design experiences. Abstraction hierarchy display design concept will be do scribed and the trend of Advanced Control Room(ACR) CRT design will also be presented with the conventional display for the several type of plants. Consequently this complementary material should be of interest to designer and regulators concerned with nuclear power plant.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.125-136
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• 2007

The study on query relaxation which provides approximate answers has received attention. In recent years, some arguments have been made that semantic relationships are useful to present the relationships among data values and calculating the semantic distance between two data values can be used as a quantitative measure to express relative distance. The aim of this article is a hierarchical metricized knowledge abstraction (HiMKA) with an emphasis on combining data abstraction hierarchy and distance measure among data values. We propose the operations and the query relaxation algorithm appropriate to the HiMKA. With various experiments and comparison with other method, we show that the HiMKA is very useful for the quantified approximate query answering and our result is to offer a new methodological framework for query relaxation.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.133-141
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• 2013

As a work analysis technique, Work Domain Analysis (WDA) aims to identify the design knowledge structure of a work domain that human operators interact with through human-system interfaces. Abstraction hierarchy (AH) is a multi-level, hierarchical knowledge representation framework for modeling the functional structure of any kinds of systems. Thus, WDA based on AH aims to identify the functional knowledge structure of a work domain. AH has been used in a range of work domains and problems to model their functional knowledge structure and has proven its generality and usefulness. However, many of researchers and system designers have reported that it is never easy to understand the concepts underlying AH and use it effectively for WDA. This would be because WDA is a form of work analysis that is different from other types of work analysis techniques such as task analysis and AH has several unique characteristics that are differentiated from other types of function analysis techniques used in systems engineering. With this issue in mind, this paper introduces the concepts of WDA based on AH and offers a comprehensive list of references. Next, this paper proposes a set of principles for effectively applying AH for work domain analysis, which are developed based on the author's experiences, consultation with experts, and literature reviews.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.43-64
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• 1998

Cooperative query answering is a research effort to develop a fault-tolerant and intelligent database system using the semantic knowledge base constructed from the underlying database. Such knowledge base has two aspects of usage. One is supporting the cooperative query answering process for providing both an exact answer and neighborhood information relevant to a query. The other is supporting ongoing maintenance of the knowledge base for accommodating the changes in the knowledge content and database usage purpose. Existing studies have mostly focused on the cooperative query answering process but paid little attention to the dynamic knowledge base maintenance. This paper proposes a multi-level knowledge representation framework called Knowledge Abstraction Hierarchy(KAH) that can not only support cooperative query answering but also permit dynamic knowledge maintenance, On the basis of the KAH, a knowledge abstraction database is constructed on the relational data model and accommodates diverse knowledge maintenance needs and flexibly facilitates cooperative query answering. In terms of the knowledge maintenance, database operations are discussed for the cases where either the internal contents for a given KAH change or the structures of the KAH itself change. In terms of cooperative query answering, four types of vague queries are discussed, including approximate selection, approximate join, conceptual selection, and conceptual join. A prototype system has been implemented at KAIST and is being tested with a personnel database system to demonstrate the usefulness and practicality of the knowledge abstraction database in ordinary database application systems.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2004

객체 모델링 기법의 그래픽 표현을 이용하여 자료의 추상화, 캡슐화, 모듈화, 계층화 할 수 있는 새로운 그래픽 정보시스템 개발 기술이 절실히 필요하다. 그래픽 자료의 추상화 방법을 개선하기 위하여 복합객체 기술로 자료의 추상화와 계층화 개념을 기반으로 모델링하였으며, 메쉬, 레이어, 세그먼트, 인스턴스 등과 같은 여러 가지 도형요소의 클래스들을 지원하는 분류화와 다중상속 관계모델을 제안한다. 객체 모델링 기법과 스파이스 참조 모델을 이용하여 간단한 그래픽 정보시스템 개발사례를 통하여 소프트웨어 개발주기와 소프트웨어 유지보수 비용을 줄일 수 있는 요구사항을 지원하는 객체 표현 방법의 데이터 모델링 기법을 비교하고 평가한다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.262-269
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• 2007

Hierarchical Planning based on Abstraction of World Elements and Operators(HiPAWO) is proposed for mobile robots task planning, where abstraction of world elements is used for hierarchical planning and abstraction of operators is used for hierarchical decomposition of abstracted actions. Especially, a hierarchical domain theory based on JAH(Joint of Action Hierarchy)-graph is proposed to improve efficiency of planning, where a number of same actions are included in both adjacent hierarchical levels of domain theories to provide relationships between adjacent hierarchical levels. To show the validities of our proposed HiPAWO, experimental results are illustrated and will be compared with two other classical planning methods.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.99-117
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• 1999

Since query language is used as a handy tool to obtain information from a database, a more intelligent query answering system is needed to provide user-friendly and fault-tolerant human-machine Interface. Frequently, database users prefer less rigid querying structure, one which allows for vagueness in composing queries, and want the system to understand the intent behind a query. When there is no matching data available, users would rather receive approximate answers than a null information response. This paper presents a knowledge abstraction database that facilitates the development of such a fault-tolerant and intelligent database system. The proposed knowledge abstraction database adepts a multilevel knowledge representation scheme called the knowledge abstraction hierarchy(KAH), extracts semantic data relationships from the underlying database, and provides query transformation mechanisms using query generalization and specialization steps. In cooperation with the underlying database, the knowledge abstraction database accepts vague queries and allows users to pose approximate queries as well as conceptually abstract queries. Specifically. four types of vague queries are discussed, including approximate selection, approximate join, conceptual selection, and conceptual Join. A prototype system has been implemented at KAIST and is being tested with a personnel database system to demonstrate the usefulness and practicality of the knowledge abstraction database in ordinary database application systems.