International Business Machines Corporation

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation

Hideki Tai

Gaku Yamamoto

Hisashi Miyashita

Hiroshi Horii

Mari Abe

Naishin Seki

Takashi Nerome

Futoshi Iwama

Kouichi Ono

Shunichi Amano

Hiroaki Nakamura

Yoshiaki Kobayashi

Mikio Takeuchi

Hiroshi Hori

Masahiro Hori

Kentaro Fukuda

Yuhichi Nakamura

Hiroyuki Miyajima

Ikuo Matsumura

Guku Yamamoto

Junichi Aoki

Provided is a generation device including: a test vector generation unit for selecting, for each of parameters to be included in a test vector, one value from among possible values for the parameter to generate test vectors whose combinations of values are different from each other; an extraction unit for extracting, as partial sequences each including one or more test vectors, portions of a series including the test vectors output by the test vector generation unit; and a test sequence generation unit for generating a test sequence based on the extracted partial sequences.

Generation device, generation method, and program

Methods for processing a one-directional message transmitted by a currently running agent for an agent transaction context (ATC) are presented, the ATC configured to process a transaction utilizing any of a number of active agents in a multiagent system using a computing device including: causing the computing device to determine whether a destination agent designated as a destination for the one-directional message is present in an agent list corresponding with the ATC, where the agent list includes the active agents required for executing a number of threads; and if the destination agent is present in the agent list, storing the one-directional message in an intramessage queue, where the intra-transaction message queue corresponds with the ATC and is configured to store a number of one-directional messages, and where the number of one-directional messages are associated with the transaction.

Apparatus and method for executing agent

A set of ID for data of an existing tool is created as a parameter. A bulk access template that acquires a plurality of data is prepared. Access is provided to an existing tool path through the bulk access template. The bulk access template is prepared for each type of data that is acquired. The template is instantiated based on the URI that is requested. Entries that correspond to the operating table are filled in by executing the bulk access template that was created. When an RDF expression is requested for the URI of the template that is the same as one previously accessed, the entries would already be in the operating table, so that the RDF expression can be generated without accessing the existing tool.

Generating RDF expression technical field

A product retail sales management server for managing the retail sales of a product across a communication network comprises: a retail sales management module for managing the retail sales of the product; a price update modulefor dynamically setting the price of the product in accordance with rules and the retail sales state of the product and in accordance with the actual retail sales state of the product when managed by the retail sales management module; and an acceptance modulefor, upon the receipt of an information request via the communication network, furnishing a request transmission source with the information concerning the product and the price of the product, set by the price update module at the time the information request is received.

Server, information communication terminal, product sale management method, and storage medium and program transmission apparatus therefor

Techniques are disclosed for effectively reflecting a manipulation of an object in graph data. In one example, a method enables a manipulation performed on an object as an image of a mapping of at least a part of graph data including nodes and edges to be reflected in the graph data. The method includes the step of specifying, from among nodes in the graph data that are related to the object being modified by the manipulation, a shared node that may be related to another object as well, and the step of reflecting the manipulation in the graph data while preventing the shared node from being modified.

Manipulation of an object as an image of a mapping of graph data

An apparatus, method and program for dividing a conversational dialog into utterance. The apparatus includes a computer processor; a word database for storing spellings and pronunciations of words; a grammar database for storing syntactic rules on words; a pause detecting section which detects a pause location in a channel making a main speech among conversational dialogs inputted in at least two channels; an acknowledgement detecting section which detects an acknowledgement location in a channel not making the main speech; a boundary-candidate extracting section which extracts boundary candidates in the main speech, by extracting pauses existing within a predetermined range before and after a base point that is the acknowledgement location; and a recognizing unit which outputs a word string of the main speech segmented by one of the extracted boundary candidates after dividing the segmented speech into optimal utterance in reference to the word database and grammar database.

Technique for accurately detecting system failure

Methods for selecting an initial agent for an agent transaction context (ATC) are presented, the ATC configured to process a transaction utilizing a number of active agents in a multiagent system using a computing device including: causing the computing device to determine whether an agent having a top priority message is present, where the agent is one of the number of active agents in the multiagent system; if the agent having the top priority message is present, causing the computing device to determine whether the agent having the top priority message is processing; and if the agent having the top priority message is not processing, causing the computing device to select the agent having the top priority message as the initial agent for the ATC.

To provide a method, program, and system for converting graph data to a data structure that enables manipulations in various applications to be reflected in the original graph data. The method uses at least one graph matching pattern to convert at least a part of graph data including nodes and edges to a data structure as an image of a homomorphism thereof. A pattern is provided which includes one representative node variable having a first constraint that at most one node in the graph data matches the representative node variable; the node is prohibited from matching a node variable in another pattern. The method includes the step of performing matching between the graph data and the pattern to obtain a matching result that does not violate constraints including the first constraint, and the step of generating a data structure corresponding to the matching result that does not violate the constraints.

Method, program, and system for converting part of graph data to data structure as an image of homomorphism

The present invention proposes a system for resending a process to a backup server farm from a client without waiting for the failure-detection, if no reply is received for a certain time. The transaction processing mechanism of the present invention has a transaction start processing mechanism in which an exclusive control using a valid processing authority token and data consistency are combined, and a commit processing mechanism in which determination on whether a commit is available or not based on a distributed agreement and replication of updated data. With the mechanisms, a system for shortening a service halt time when a failure occurs to a time as such it appears to a client that the service does not stop is provided.

Failure tolerant transaction processing system

A product retail sales management server for managing the retail sales of a product across a communication network comprises: a retail sales management module for managing the retail sales of the product; a price updatefor dynamically setting the price of the product in accordance with rules and the retail sales state of the product and in accordance with the actual retail sales state of the product when managed by the retail sales management module; and an acceptance modulefor, upon the receipt of an information request via the communication network, furnishing a request transmission source with the information concerning the product and the price of the product, set by the price update module at the time the information request is received.

A method, computer program, and system-model converter for converting system model. The method includes the steps of: receiving input of a conversion processing description about a structure of a multi-dimensional data model and extraction queries, where the multi-dimensional data model and the extraction queries extract at least one element from a plurality of model elements; and generating a hierarchical multi-dimensional data model from a graph model stored in a graph model storage unit on the basis of the inputted conversion processing description, where the hierarchical multi-dimensional data model includes dimensions having a hierarchical relationship.

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Hideki Tai