• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.110-115
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• 2024

Global sustainable energy needs and carbon neutrality goals make hydrogen a key future energy source. South Korea and Japan lead with proactive hydrogen policies, including South Korea's Hydrogen Law and Japan's strategy updates aiming for a hydrogen-centric society by 2050. A notable advance is the solar thermal chemical water-splitting cycle for green hydrogen production, spotlighted by Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) and Niigata University's joint initiative. This method uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, offering a carbon-neutral hydrogen production route. The study focuses on international collaboration in solar energy for thermochemical water-splitting and E-fuel production, highlighting breakthroughs in catalyst and reactor design to enhance solar thermal technology's commercial viability for sustainable fuel production. Collaborations, like ARENA in Australia, target global carbon emission reduction and energy system sustainability, contributing to a cleaner, sustainable energy future.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.143-153
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• 2001

In this study we develop a computer simulation model to evaluate the effects of various production and order processing policies measured in terms of on-time delivery rate and average waiting time of job orders. Policies considered include : eliminating inflated due date, lot splitting, loss time reduction, attaining full flexibility in production lines, and selective order promising scheme. Actual order-production data from a chemical company were used in the simulation model. Based on the simulation results, we make several suggestions that can significantly reduce the production lead time and increase the on-time delivery rate.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.12D no.4 s.100
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• pp.507-520
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• 2005

The R-trees are usually used for an index of trajectories in moving-objects databases. However, they need to access a number of nodes to trace same trajectories because of considering only a spatial proximity. Overlaps and dead spaces should be minimized to enhance the performance of range queries in moving-objects indexes. Trajectories of moving-objects should be preserved to enhance the performance of the trajectory queries. In this paper, we propose the TP3DR-tree(Trajectory Preserved 3DR-tree) using clusters of trajectories for range and trajectory queries. The TP3DR-tree uses two split policies: one is a spatial splitting that splits the same trajectory by clustering and the other is a time splitting that increases space utilization. In addition, we use connecting information in non-leaf nodes to enhance the performance of combined-queries. Our experiments show that the new index outperforms the others in processing queries on various datasets.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.98-106
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• 2022

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are widely used in various fields because they make it easy to control porous structures according to combinations of metal ions and organic linkers. In addition, ZIF (zeolitic imidazolate framework), a type of MOF, is made up of transition metal ions such as Co²⁺ or Zn²⁺ and linkers such as imidazole or imidazole derivatives. ZIF-67, composed of Co²⁺ and 2-methyl imidazole, exhibits both chemical stability and catalytic activity. Recently, due to increasing need for energy technology and carbon-neutral policies, catalysis applications have attracted tremendous research attention. Moreover, demand is increasing for material development in the electrocatalytic water splitting and metal-air battery fields; there is also a need for bifunctional catalysts capable of both oxidation/reduction reactions. This review summarizes recent progress of bifunctional catalysts for electrocatalytic water splitting and metal-air batteries using ZIF-67. In particular, the field is classified into areas of thermal decomposition, introduction of heterogeneous elements, and complex formation with carbon-based materials or polyacrylonitrile. This review also focuses on synthetic methods and performance evaluation.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.51 no.5
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• pp.392-409
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• 2023

The amount of wood waste from furniture production is increasing. Wood waste is diverse and ranges from wood-splitting residues to leftovers from furniture production. Wood waste occurs in companies, household-based industries, and other forms of business where waste accumulates; therefore, an environmental and ethical policy is needed. The aim of this study was to identify products created using wood waste and describe government regulations related to environmental policies. We analyzed the management of wood waste for use as a new product so that it is useful, does not become waste, and complies with policies related to environmental ethics. A case study design using qualitative methods was used. This research focused on managing wood waste in Jepara's furniture and crafts industry for the 2010-2021 period, using 23 sources from primary, secondary, and other supporting documents. Data were collected through observation or gathering information related to research needs, conducting closed-door interviews with research sources, documenting data to strengthen research findings, and using online questionnaires to corroborate information related to wood waste management. This article presents wood waste products designed with optimized environmental ethics and awareness of environmental laws in wood-based industries.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.37-39
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• 2003

이동체 데이터베이스를 위한 과거 궤적 색인으로 R-tree계열이 많이 사용된다. 그러나 R-tree계열의 색인은 공간 근접성만을 고려하였기 때문에 동일 궤적을 검색하기에는 많은 노드 접근이 필요하다. 이동체 색인의 검색에서 영역 질의와 궤적 질의는 공간 근접성과 궤적 연결성과 같이 상반된 특징으로 인하여 함께 고려되지 않았다. 이동체 색인에서 영역 질의의 성능개선을 위해서는 노드 간의 심한 중복과 사장 공간(Dead Space)을 줄여야 하고, 궤적 질의의 성능 개선을 위해서는 이동체의 궤적 보존이 이루어져야 한다. 이와 같은 요구 조건을 만족하기 위해, 이 논문에서는 R-tree 기반의 색인 구조에서 새로운 분할 정책을 제안한다. 제안하는 색인 구조의 노드 분할 정책은 궤적 클러스터링을 위한 동일 궤적을 그룹화해서 분할하는 공간 축 분할 정책과 공간 활용도를 높이는 시간 축 분할 정책을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 R-tree기반의 색인 구조에서 변경된 분할 정책을 구현하고, 실험 평가를 수행한다. 이 성능 평가를 통해서 검색성능이 우수함을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.773-775
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• 2003

이동성을 갖는 장치들의 위치 정보를 관리하기 위하여 이동체 데이터베이스에 관한 연구가 필요하게 되었다. 이동체 색인의 검색에서 영역 질의와 궤적 질의는 공간 근접성과 궤적 연결성과 같이 상반된 특징으로 인하여 함께 고려되지 않았다. 이동체 색인에서 영역 질의의 성능개선을 위해서는 노드간의 심한 중복과 사장 공간(Dead space)을 줄여야 하고, 궤적 질의의 성능 개선을 위해서는 이동체의 궤적 보전이 이루어져야 한다. 이와 같은 요구 조건을 만족하기 위해, 이 논문에서는 R-tree를 기반의 색인 구조에서 새로운 분할 정책을 제안한다. 제시하는 색인 구조에서 단말 노드의 엔트리는 궤적이며, 비단말 노드의 엔트리는 자식 노드이다. 단말 노드 분할 정책에서 동일 궤적을 그룹화해서 분할 하는 공간 축 분할 정책과 공간 활용도를 높이는 시간 축 분할 정책을 제안한다. 시간 축 분할 후 사장영역이 클 경우에는 다중 분할을 수행하여 사장 공간을 줄이고 노드간의 중복을 최소화한다. 비 단말 노드 분할 정책에서는 같은 궤적을 저장하는 노드들을 연결 노드(Connected Node)라고 정의하고, 엔트리의 궤적 연결성을 기준으로 분할한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.19-21
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• 2002

최근 이동통신 및 GPS 기술의 발달로 위치기반서비스 요구가 점점 증가하고 있고, 대용량의 위치데이터가 저장되는 위치기반서비스의 구현을 위한 이동체외 저장 및 검색에 관한 연구가 활발하다. 이동체의 위치 정보를 점으로 모델링하여 색인 할 경우 KDB-Tree의 성능이 우수하다. 그러나 KDB-Tree는 시공간에서의 이동체 위치데이터 색인을 고려할 경우 시간 도메인의 특성으로 인해 성능 저하의 문제를 발생시킨다. 본 논문에서는 이동체 위치데이터의 색인을 위한 KDB-Tree의 사용에서 시간 도메인의 특성을 반영한 분할 도메인 선정 방법과 분할 정책을 제시한다. 새로운 분할 정책은 색인의 공간활용도를 높이고 색인의 크기를 작게 하여 검색의 성능을 높인 최근 시간 분할 기법과 LD(Last Division) 분할 정책이다. 본 논문에서는 KDB-Tree의 변경된 분할 정책을 구현하고 성능평가론 수행한다. 이 성능 평가 실험을 통해서 변경된 분할 정책을 사용한 KDB-Tree에서 공간활용도가 높고 검색 성능이 우수함을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1250-1256
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• 2004

The movement of continuously changing positions should be stored and indexed for querying current and past positions. A simple extension of the original R-tree to add time as another dimension, called 3D R-tree, does not handle current position queries and does not address the problem of low space utilization due to high overlap of index nodes. In this paper, 1 propose the dynamic splitting policy for improving the 3D R-tree in order to improve space utilization of split nodes. 1 also extend the original 3D R-tree by introducing a new tagged index structure for being able to query the current and past positions of moving objects. 1 found out that my extension of the original R-tree, called the tagged dynamic 3DR-tree, outperforms both the 3D R-tree and 75-tree when querying current and past position.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.2777-2783
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• 2015

Peak power reduction is becoming increasingly important not only for grid operators but also for residential users. The scheduling of electric loads tries to reduce the power peak by splitting the power-on period of an electric device into multiple smaller ones and by interleaving the on-periods of every device in a holistic way. This paper analyzes the performance of EDF, LSF, TCBM, and lazy scheduling algorithms and proposes the enhancement schemes. For analysis, we have implemented the scheduling policies in a simulation environment for distributed control systems. Through extensive experiments using real power traces, we discuss their performance characteristics in terms of power deviation, switch count, and temperature violation ratio. To prevent excessive switching, we propose to employ the concept of limited preemptibility and evaluate its effect on performance. It is found that the best performance is achieved when the scheduler capacity is dynamically adjusted to the actual power demand. The experiment results show that, by load scheduling, the probability of having a power deviation greater than 150W is reduced from 21.5% down to 3.2%.