Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nec Platforms, Ltd.

Tomohiro Uchida

Naoki Kato

Natsuki Oka

Hiroyuki Yoshimura

Shuji Yamaguchi

Katsumi Kayama

Authentication device

past positions of a plurality of composing elements indicated by various past arrangement examples are given to each potential function corresponding to one composing element, and parameter values of the potential functions corresponding to the composing elements are automatically set on condition that a past total potential energy obtained by solving the potential functions is minimized. Thereafter, the parameter values are given to the potential functions in which a position of any composing element is not determined, and particular positions of the composing elements are determined on condition that a total potential energy obtained by solving the potential functions is minimized. Because each potential function corresponding to one composing element has an attraction term indicating the attraction between the composing element and the other composing elements and an attraction-repulsion term indicating the setting of the composing element at a position spaced at moderate distances from the other composing elements, the particular positions of the composing elements are set in an optimum arrangement. Accordingly, the optimum arrangement of the composing elements can be automatically obtained without extracting any arrangement knowledge from a skilled person.

Method and system of automatic arrangement of composing elements

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Kawasaki, Japan

Tomohiro Uchida