Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Inter-university Research Institute Corporation Research Organization of Information and Systems

Denso It Laboratory, Inc. and Research Organization of Information and Systems of C/o National Institute of Informatics

Shinichi Honiden

Akihiko Ohsuga

Yasuo Nagai

Masanori Hattori

Yasuyuki Tahara

Yutaka Irie

Satoshi Ito

Toshibumi Seki

Nobuyuki Sawashima

Keiichi Handa

Naoshi Uchihira

Hideaki Shiotani

Takeshi Kohno

Hiroshi Sasaki

Hirotoshi Iwasaki

Osamu Masutani

Akira Kagaya

Kazunori Sakamoto

Nobukazu Yoshioka

Yasushi Ando

An information extraction apparatus includes, a controller extracting, as variable elements, parts different between a plurality of structured documents and extract, as peripheral information pieces, elements within a predetermined range from the respective variable elements, and a storage unit storing the variable elements and the peripheral information pieces with respect to at least an extraction object which is at least one of the variable elements. The controller re-extracts variable elements and peripheral information pieces from the plurality of structured documents, calculates similarities of the variable elements and the peripheral information pieces between before and after the re-extraction, on the basis of (i) the re-extracted variable elements and the re-extracted peripheral information pieces and (ii) the variable elements and the peripheral information pieces stored in the storage unit, and identifies, out of the re-extracted variable elements, a variable element corresponding to the extraction object, on the basis of the calculated similarities.

Information extraction apparatus, information extraction method, and information extraction program

A technique to provide an information-sharing system and the like is disclosed. According to this technique, there are provided an on-board information terminal to transmit one or more types of information among a vehicle information relating to user's own vehicle and on-board program information to acquire shared information, an area information acquiring system for acquiring area information, and an information-sharing server for calculating time function existing quantity based on time function according to one or more types of information among vehicle information and area information, calculates time function transmission quantity based on time function including the calculated time function existing quantity, arranges the calculated time function existing quantity and the time function transmission quantity to a corresponding position on a map, attaches the map information to the on-board program information, and transmits it to the on-board information terminal.

Information-sharing system, information-sharing server, information-sharing method, and information-sharing program

A planning means generates a plan to be executed by agents on a node. In the case where the plan generated uses an uncertain knowledge required to be processed in other nodes, a judging means judges the communication line connecting the node and a network is low or high in reliability. In the case where the reliability of the communication line is low, an agent management unit moves the agent for executing the plan to another node for processing the uncertain knowledge. In the case where the reliability of the communication line is high, on the other hand, a cooperation protocol realization means requests an agent on another node to process the uncertain knowledge. An agent execution means executes the plan generated.

Information processing apparatus and method and information processing program recording medium

An apparatus for supporting parallelization according to the invention is characterized by comprising a serialization unit for converting a first concurrent program having a concurrent structure into a sequential program capable of being sequentially executed, a debugging unit for debugging the sequential program and forming debugging information, and a concurrent program programming unit for performing parallelization of the debugged sequential program on the basis of the debugging information to convert the sequential program into a second concurrent program. With above configuration, the debugging unit includes a unit for introducing information associated with concurrency to the sequential program.

Programming method for concurrent programs and program supporting apparatus thereof

A planning section generates a plan to be executed by agents on a node. In the case where the plan generated uses an uncertain knowledge required to be processed in other nodes, a judging section judges the communication line connecting the node and a network is low or high in reliability. In the case where the reliability of the communication line is low, an agent management unit moves the agent for executing the plan to another node for processing the uncertain knowledge. In the case where the reliability of the communication line is high, on the other hand, a cooperation protocol realization section requests an agent on another node to process the uncertain knowledge. An agent execution means executes the plan generated.

Method and apparatus that improves the technique by which a plurality of agents process information distributed over a network through by way of a contract net protocol

In a data-processing apparatus, in local information storage L and R at each node, local information for the purpose of accessing a constituent element is stored, this information being updated. A plan is generated that represents the action that should be taken by an agent in order to satisfy request code that has been input, this being generated as a set of actions, based on agent information and local information. The operation of the agent is implemented at the nodes L and R, based on the various actions that make up the thus-generated plan, and an agent is migrated to another node, based on a go action within the plan. It is possible to perform replanning and generation of a child agent at a migration destination node, if necessary, because of the failure of plan execution, for example.

Data-processing apparatus, data-processing method, and storage medium

Programming method for concurrent programs and program supporting

A program synthesis system comprises a function decomposition unit for decomposing a function according to a predetermined specification so as to obtain detailed functions of the specification, a similarity decision unit for retrieving intermediates similar to the detailed specification detailed by the function decomposition unit, a design process fusion unit for fusing a plurality of design processes, the design process fusion unit including a matching decision unit for deciding matching between design processes having high similarities with respect to the intermediate decided by the similarity decision unit, an object synthesis unit for synthesizing an object on the basis of a new design process synthesized by the design process fusion unit, a design process intermediate knowledge base for storing intermediates from which intermediates similar to the specification detailed by the function decomposition unit are retrieved, and a design process conversion knowledge base for storing a conversion knowledge for detailing the specification, a conversion knowledge for the intermediate, and a knowledge in a minimum unit for performing processing.

Apparatus for synthesizing an object described in an object-oriented

A program synthesis system comprises a function decomposition unit for decomposing a function according to a predetermined specification so as to obtain detailed functions of the specification, a similarity decision unit for retrieving intermediates similar to the detailed specification detailed by the function decomposition unit, a design process fusion unit for fusing a plurality of design processes, the design process fusion unit including a matching decision unit for deciding matching between design processes having high similarities with respect to the intermediate decided by the similarity decision unit, an object synthesis unit for synthesizing an object on the basis of a new design process synthesized by the design process fusion unit, a design process intermediate knowledge base for storing intermediates from which intermediates similar to the specification detailed by the function decomposition unit are retrieved, and a design process conversion on knowledge base for storing a conversion knowledge for detailing the specification, a conversion knowledge for the intermediate, and a knowledge in a minimum unit for performing processing.

Apparatus and methods for generating a program by synthesizing an object

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Shinichi Honiden