Nec Corporation

Nobuharu Kami

Masatsugu Ogawa

Kazuhiko Kurata

Hisaya Wakayama

Takehiro Itou

Takashi Yoshikawa

Mineto Satoh

Hiroyuki Oyama

Jun Suzuki

Youichi Hidaka

Junichi Higuchi

Mikio Oda

Shohei Ikeda

Kentarou Kudou

Takara Sugimoto

Teruyuki Baba

Satoshi Doumae

The control device 1A mainly includes a determination meansA, an abstract state setting meansA, and a sequence generation meansA. The determination meansA determines, based on at least one of environment information relating to environment observed in a workspace of a controlled device to be controlled, state information relating to a state of the controlled device, and stored information that is stored information relating to the objective task to be executed by the controlled device, whether or not the objective task can be completed. The abstract state setting meansA sets, when determined that the objective task cannot be completed, an abstract state in the workspace based on at least one of the environment information or the stored information. The sequence generation meansA generates, based on the abstract state and the objective task, a sequence of subtasks to be executed by the controlled device.

Control device, control method and storage medium

A control deviceA mainly includes a display control meansA and an operation sequence generation meansA. The display control meansA is configured to transmit display information Srelating to a task to be executed by a robot to a display deviceA. The operation sequence generation meansA is configured, in a case that the display control meansA has received, from the display deviceA, task designation information that is input information which schematically specifies the task, to generate an operation sequence to be executed by the robot based on the task designation information Ia.

In a robot control system, a storage unit stores a plurality of programs corresponding to tasks for a robot to perform. A reception unit receives selections made by a user, which designate a task for the robot to perform and attribute information related to a program causing the robot to perform the task among the plurality of programs. An acquisition unit acquires the program for performing the task among the plurality of programs from the storage unit based on the task and the attribute information. A robot control unit controls the robot in accordance with the acquired program.

Robot control system, robot control method, and recording medium

This flow control system is obtained by connecting a plurality of work units WU&#x3b1; and a plurality of work units WU&#x3b2; to one another, wherein: each WU&#x3b1; has an &#x3b1;-control purpose which is a WU-based independent control purpose, and has an &#x3b1;-control rule for the &#x3b1;-control purpose; each WU&#x3b2; has a &#x3b2;-control purpose to cause as many WU&#x3b1; as possible to achieve the own &#x3b1;-control purposes, and has a &#x3b2;-control rule for the &#x3b2;-control purpose; the &#x3b2;-control rule is dynamically changed on the basis of partial information about the flow control system; and the WU&#x3b2; is disposed in a part of the flow control system.

Flow control system and control method therefor

A distributed-cooperative-information-processing device according to the present invention is allocated in a distributed manner within a predetermined field. The device measures an environment by using a sensor device; generates estimate determination information being information indicating a probability of a hypothetical set of states in the environment, based on a measurement result of the environment; receives the estimate determination information generated by another distributed-cooperative-information-processing device within the field; manages information of the another distributed-cooperative-information-processing device; and integrates the estimate determination information generated by own device and the estimate determination information received from the another distributed-cooperative-information-processing device.

Distributed-cooperative-information processing device, distributed-cooperative-information processing method, and recording medium

A mobile node includes: a status acquiring unit for acquiring status information; and a communication module for transmitting the status information to a mobile management server. The mobile management server includes: an input/output unit for receiving the status information from the mobile node; a management data creating unit for analyzing changes in the distribution of the status information, thereby calculating, as characteristic parts, parts having high distribution densities; and a request processing unit for outputting information about the calculated characteristic part. The management data creating unit includes: a node data registering function for storing the status information; a label calculating function for calculating a label in which the status information is multiplexed; and a characteristic part extracting function for extracting, in descending order of distribution density, characteristic parts representative of parts having high label distribution densities.

Mobile management system, mobile management server, mobile management method and mobile management program

A network system of the present invention includes a computer and a device connected via a network, and a system management device. The computer and the device include, respectively, bridges that encapsulate transmission/reception data transmitted and received to and from each other and transmit and receive the data to and from each other via the network. Each of the bridges includes a control data transmitting means for generating control data for controlling the state of the system based on control auxiliary data issued from the computer or the device and used for controlling the state of the system, and transmitting the control data to the system management device via the network. The system management device includes a system controlling means for controlling the state of the system in accordance with the control data received thereby.

Network system

A data collection and management system includes: a terminal(s) that transmits measured data; and a management apparatus that receives and manages the measured data transmitted from the terminal(s). The management apparatus includes a notification unit that notifies the terminal(s) of transmission cost information indicating a cost incurrable upon transmitting measured data to the management apparatus by the terminal(s). The terminal(s) includes: a calculation unit that calculates an information value indicating a value of measured data as information; and a transmission control unit that determines whether to transmit measured data to the management apparatus based on the information value and the transmission cost information.

Data collection and management system, data collection and management method, terminal, and management apparatus

A recommender system includes: an input sectionconfigured to receive a search request from a user; a user managing sectionconfigured to manage context information representing a characteristic of the user; an index-table managing sectionconfigured to output an information object related to the search request of the user; a user-authority-value managing sectionconfigured to calculate, on the basis of similarity between users calculated from comparison of the context information of the user and another user and reliability from a plurality of users for the other user, an authority value representing reliability from the user for the other user; a rating calculating sectionconfigured to calculate an evaluation value of the user for the information object using a value obtained by weighting an evaluation value of the other user for the information object according to the authority value of the other user; and a ranked-list creating sectionconfigured to output a list of information objects ranked on the basis of the evaluation value of the user.

Method and apparatus for recommending content on the internet by evaluating users having similar preference tendencies

In order to detect similar data from a great deal of data at high speed, a similarity detecting apparatus includes a random number generating unitwhich calculates random number data based on a parameter list, a table managing unitwhich calculates a plurality of key calculation functions based on the random number data, calculates a plurality of tables based on input data, and calculates a candidate data list based on a query shown by a search condition, and a data processing unitwhich calculates search result data from the candidacy data list to satisfy the condition shown a search condition. Each table is calculated for a value corresponding to a key to show a data list of data in which the data substituted into a key calculation function is equal to the key. A candidate data list contains a plurality of search data list and a search data list corresponding to the table shows the value corresponding to a query value obtained by substituting the query into the key calculation function.

Similarity detecting apparatus and directional nearest neighbor detecting method

A virtual machine configuration system, comprising a virtualizer for, in a virtualization environment in which a plurality of physical resources connected mutually through a network circuit has been arranged on a computer system sectioned into a plurality of partitions, dynamically changing a physical resource configuration and a virtual machine configuration while simultaneously controlling a configuration of the physical resources of the partition and a configuration of virtual resources allotted to virtual machines without exerting an influence over an application service operating on the virtual machine.

Dynamic physical resource allocation in a networked system for migrating virtual computers

An information organizing system includes a reference information database storing reference information, a generalized expression unit to map measurement data and non-measurement data in a space in such a manner that the more they resemble each other, the shorter a distance between them becomes, an extended reference database in which the reference information is expressed in an extended manner by using the generalized expression unit, extended log data in which log data is expressed in an extended manner by using the generalized expression unit, a relevance detection unit to detect extended reference information having high relevance with the extended log data, and a template creation unit to create a predetermined template in which the log data is summarized by using the detected extended reference information.

Information organizing sytem and information organizing method

Optimization of resource allocation in a virtual computer system is efficiently performed according to a method consistent with a virtualization design concept. The virtual computer system includes a plurality of virtual devices that share the physical resources of a computer and execute an application, a virtualization section that manages the plurality of virtual devices, and a management section that controls the virtualization section. The plurality of virtual devices set allocation of physical resources to the applications by a first optimization calculation using resource supply information from the management section and transmit resource request information corresponding to the resource allocation setting to the management section. The management section sets allocation of the physical resources to the virtual devices by a second optimization calculation using the resource request information from the plurality of virtual devices and transmits resource supply information corresponding to the resource allocation setting to the plurality of virtual devices. While the resource supply information and the resource request information are exchanged between the plurality of virtual devices and the management section, the first and second optimization calculations are performed, thereby dynamically allocating the physical resources.

Virtual computer system and its optimization method

The characteristic point detection system of this invention includes: a staying area detection unitwhich performs clustering based on distribution of data points contained in GPS log data of a user, determines an index showing a staying time of the user in a cluster based on a number of data points contained in each cluster, extracts one or more clusters based on the index, and forms a staying area of the user based on the extracted clusters, wherewith a cluster is extracted with higher probability as the staying time is longer; a representative point extraction unitwhich extracts, one at a time, a representative point of the staying area from each of the extracted staying areas, and determines a score of each of the representative points based on density of the data points in each of the staying areas; and an output unitwhich outputs a list ranking each of the representative points based on the score.

Characteristic point detection system, characteristic point detection method, and program

A lower system structure reports performance information to an upper system structure. When detecting performance deterioration of the system structure on the basis of the reported performance information, the upper system structure optimizes resource redistribution of the system structure that the upper system structure manages. If the performance is improved by the optimization in the managed system structure, the optimization results is applied to the resource control of the lower system structure, and the lower system structure redistributes the resources according to the resource control. If the performance is not improved by the optimization, the lower system structure reports the performance information to the upper system structure, which optimizes the resource redistribution.

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Nobuharu Kami