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Efficient Exploration of On-chip Bus Architectures and Memory Allocation (온 칩 버스 구조와 메모리 할당에 대한 효율적인 설계 공간 탐색)

  • Kim Sungcham;Im Chaeseok;Ha Soonhoi
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.55-67
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    • 2005
  • Separation between computation and communication in system design allows the system designer to explore the communication architecture independently of component selection and mapping. In this paper we present an iterative two-step exploration methodology for bus-based on-chip communication architecture and memory allocation, assuming that memory traces from the processing elements are given from the mapping stage. The proposed method uses a static performance estimation technique to reduce the large design space drastically and quickly, and applies a trace-driven simulation technique to the reduced set of design candidates for accurate Performance estimation. Since local memory traffics as well as shared memory traffics are involved in bus contention, memory allocation is considered as an important axis of the design space in our technique. The viability and efficiency of the proposed methodology arc validated by two real -life examples, 4-channel digital video recorder (DVR) and an equalizer for OFDM DVB-T receiver.

The Experience of Reorganization of the Everyday Lives among Middle-aged Women with Hwabyung (화병을 가진 중년여성의 일상생활 재편성 경험)

  • Park, Yeong-Sook;Chae, Sun-Ok;Yang, Jinhyang
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.239-249
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    • 2017
  • This ethnography was done to understand the daily lives and life values of the experience of middle-aged women with Hwabyung. It also focused on how they reorganized their lives to escape their crisis and how they continued living going forward. The participants were 5 middle-aged women with Hwabyung and 2 family members in K city. Data were collected from iterative fieldwork through in-depth interviews and participant observations. Data were analyzed using text analysis and taxonomic method. The reorganization of the everyday lives of participants with Hwabyung started from the perception of family values and the crisis of those values failing. The participants' everyday lives were reconstructed by changing their perspectives on life, and renewing their family relationships. In addition, middle-aged women with Hwabyung managed to cope with their own roles, fill in for the role of husband, and reinforce their capacities. Their children' attitudes and behaviors were also reshaped due to the rearrangement of family roles. These results may help nurses understand and provide culture specific care for the middle-age women with Hwabyung.

Developing statistical models and constructing clinical systems for analyzing semi-competing risks data produced from medicine, public heath, and epidemiology (의료, 보건, 역학 분야에서 생산되는 준경쟁적 위험자료를 분석하기 위한 통계적 모형의 개발과 임상분석시스템 구축을 위한 연구)

  • Kim, Jinheum
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.379-393
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    • 2020
  • A terminal event such as death may censor an intermediate event such as relapse, but not vice versa in semi-competing risks data, which is often seen in medicine, public health, and epidemiology. We propose a Weibull regression model with a normal frailty to analyze semi-competing risks data when all three transition times of the illness-death model are possibly interval-censored. We construct the conditional likelihood separately depending on the types of subjects: still alive with or without the intermediate event, dead with or without the intermediate event, and dead with the intermediate event missing. Optimal parameter estimates are obtained from the iterative quasi-Newton algorithm after the marginalization of the full likelihood using the adaptive importance sampling. We illustrate the proposed method with extensive simulation studies and PAQUID (Personnes Agées Quid) data.

A Proposal on Digital Cable TV Menu for 20's (20대 사용자를 위한 디지털 케이블 TV 메뉴 제안)

  • Kim, Yong-Seong;Noh, Ji-Hye;Park, Su-Bin;An, So-Hyeon;Yeoun, Myeong-Heum
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.02a
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    • pp.1053-1058
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    • 2009
  • Digital cable TV(DCATV) is totally different with a existing TV which is passive, and can pick the contents anytime we want. It is very popular in many houses and we can see bright future with this. This study will show a standard that is a suitable and convenient VOD menu category for 20's through a various usability test. Moreover it will be provided new menu style and GUI through the preferences. For this, we found expected problems first through the heuristic analysis and did iterative usability test to verify and improve these problems. As a result of that, we improved errors of VOD menu structure and suggested new menu style including metaphor, colour and icon users can recognize easily. That is, VOD categories should be grouped among definite meanings. And we found using convenience is more important than new discovery of method on menu style for experienced users. This study can be not only based data when DCATV menu is renewed but also can be used as a reference data when designing other DCATV menu.

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Back Analysis of the Earth Wall in Multi-layered Subgrade (다층지반에 근입된 흙막이 벽의 역해석에 관한 연구)

  • 이승훈;김종민;김수일;장범수
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents a back-calculation technique leer the prediction of the behavior of earth wall inserted in multi-layered soil deposit. The soil properties are back-calculated from the measured displacement at each construction stage and the behavior of earth wall far the next construction stage is predicted using back-calculated soil properties. For multi-layered soil deposit, the back-calculation would be very difficult due to the increase in the number of variables. In this study, to solve this difficulty, the back-calculation was performed successively from the lowest layer to the upper layers. An efficient elasto-plastic beam-column analysis was used for forward analysis to minimize the computation time of iterative back-calculation procedure. The coefficients of subgrade reaction and lateral earth pressure necessary for the formation of p-y curve were selected as back calculation variables, and to minimize the effect of abnormal behavior of the wall which might be caused by any unexpected action during construction, the difference between measured displacement increment and computed displacement increment at each construction stages is used as the objective function of optimization. The constrained sequential linear programming was used for the optimization technique to found values of variables minimizing the objective function. The proposed method in this study was verified using numerically generated data and measured field data.

A Neural Metwork's FPGA Realization using Gate Level Structure (게이트레벨 연산구조를 사용한 신경합의 FPGA구현)

  • Lee, Yun-Koo;Jeong, Hong
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.257-269
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    • 2001
  • Because of increasing number of integrated circuit, there is many tries of making chip of neural network and some chip is exit. but this is not prefer because YLSI technology can't support so large hardware. So imitation of whole system of neural network is more prefer. There is common procedure in signal processing as in the neural network and pattern recognition. That is multiplication of large amount of signal and reading LUT. This is identical with some operation of MLP, and need iterative and large amount of calculation, so if we make this part with hardware, overall system's velocity will be improved. So in this paper, we design neutral network, not neuron which can be used to many other fields. We realize this part by following separated bits addition method, and it can be appled in the real time parallel process processing.

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Flexible Decision-Making for Autonomous Agent Through Computation of Urgency in Time-Critical Domains (실시간 환경에서 긴급한 정도의 계산을 통한 자율적인 에이전트의 유연한 의사결정)

  • Noh Sanguk
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.31 no.9
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    • pp.1196-1203
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    • 2004
  • Autonomous agents need considerable computational resources to perform rational decision-making. The complexity of decision-making becomes prohibitive when large number of agents are present and when decisions have to be made under time pressure. One of approaches in time-critical domains is to respond to an observed condition with a predefined action. Although such a system may be able to react very quickly to environmental conditions, predefined plans are of less value if a situation changes and re-planning is needed. In this paper we investigate strategies intended to tame the computational burden by using off-line computation in conjunction with on-line reasoning. We use performance profiles computed off-line and the notion of urgency (i.e., the value of time) computed on-line to choose the amount of information to be included during on-line deliberation. This method can adjust to various levels of real-time demands, but incurs some overhead associated with iterative deepening. We test our framework with experiments in a simulated anti-air defense domain. The experiments show that the off-line performance profiles and the on-line computation of urgency are effective in time-critical situations.

Analysis of Tunnel Behavior Using Progressive Rockmass Failure Technique (암반의 진행성 파괴 기법을 이용한 터널거동 분석)

  • 이성민;이윤규;신성렬
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.288-295
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    • 1999
  • Concentrated stresses due to the underground tunnel excavation easily cause many problems such as yielding, popping, and failure at the immediate roof, wall and floor of tunnel. Therefore, it is very important to predict the possibility of these problems when a tunnel is excavated underground. There are two typical methods to predict these problems. The one is to predict problems from the analysis of field monitoring data and the other is to predict them from computer simulations using good site investment data. Using the second method, this study attempted to describe the time-dependent or progressive manner of immediate roof and wall due to the underground tunnel excavation. An iterative technique was used to represent progressive failure of rockmass with the Hoek and Brown theory. By developing and simulating three different shapes of twin tunnels, this research estimated the proper size of critical pillar width between tunnels, distributed stresses on the tunnel walls, and convergences of tunnel crowns. Moreover, results out of progressive failure technique based on the Hoek and Brown theory were compared with the results out of Mohr-Coulomb theory.

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DYNAMIC ANALYSIS AND DESIGN CALCULATION METHODS FOR POWERTRAIN MOUNTING SYSTEMS

  • Shangguan, W.B.;Zhao, Y.
    • International Journal of Automotive Technology
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.731-744
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    • 2007
  • A method for dynamic analysis and design calculation of a Powertrain Mounting System(PMS) including Hydraulic Engine Mounts(HEM) is developed with the aim of controlling powertrain motion and reducing low-frequency vibration in pitch and bounce modes. Here the pitch mode of the powertrain is defined as the mode rotating around the crankshaft of an engine for a transversely mounted powertrain. The powertrain is modeled as a rigid body connected to rigid ground by rubber mounts and/or HEMs. A mount is simplified as a three-dimensional spring with damping elements in its Local Coordinate System(LCS). The relation between force and displacement of each mount in its LCS is usually nonlinear and is simplified as piecewise linear in five ranges in this paper. An equation for estimating displacements of the powertrain center of gravity(C.G.) under static or quasi-static load is developed using Newton's second law, and an iterative algorithm is presented to calculate the displacements. Also an equation for analyzing the dynamic response of the powertrain under ground and engine shake excitations is derived using Newton's second law. Formulae for calculating reaction forces and displacements at each mount are presented. A generic PMS with four rubber mounts or two rubber mounts and two HEMs are used to validate the dynamic analysis and design calculation methods. Calculated displacements of the powertrain C.G. under static or quasi-static loads show that a powertrain motion can meet the displacement limits by properly selecting the stiffness and coordinates of the tuning points of each mount in its LCS using the calculation methods developed in this paper. Simulation results of the dynamic responses of a powertrain C.G. and the reaction forces at mounts demonstrate that resonance peaks can be reduced effectively with HEMs designed on the basis of the proposed methods.

Non linear soil structure interaction of space frame-pile foundation-soil system

  • Chore, H.S.;Ingle, R.K.;Sawant, V.A.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.49 no.1
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    • pp.95-110
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    • 2014
  • The study deals with physical modeling of space frame-pile foundation and soil system using finite element models. The superstructure frame is analyzed using complete three-dimensional finite element method where the component of the frame such as slab, beam and columns are descretized using 20 node isoparametric continuum elements. Initially, the frame is analyzed assuming the fixed column bases. Later the pile foundation is worked out separately wherein the simplified models of finite elements such as beam and plate element are used for pile and pile cap, respectively. The non-linear behaviour of soil mass is incorporated by idealizing the soil as non-linear springs using p-y curve along the lines similar to that by Georgiadis et al. (1992). For analysis of pile foundation, the non-linearity of soil via p-y curve approach is incorporated using the incremental approach. The interaction analysis is conducted for the parametric study. The non-linearity of soil is further incorporated using iterative approach, i.e., secant modulus approach, in the interaction analysis. The effect the various parameters of the pile foundation such as spacing in a group and configuration of the pile group is evaluated on the response of superstructure owing to non-linearity of the soil. The response included the displacement at the top of the frame and bending moment in columns. The non-linearity of soil increases the top displacement in the range of 7.8%-16.7%. However, its effect is found very marginal on the absolute maximum moment in columns. The hogging moment decreases by 0.005% while sagging moment increases by 0.02%.