Journal of Information Processing and Management
Online ISSN : 1347-1597
Print ISSN : 0021-7298
ISSN-L : 0021-7298
Volume 31, Issue 3
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Lecture
  • Yukio NAKAMURA
    1988 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 199-211
    Published: 1988
    Released on J-STAGE: March 23, 2012
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    This is a record of a keynote lecture at a symposium held in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the enactment of SIST. The paper describes the basic idea for the standardization in information that is diversified and numerous by its nature, should be the standardization of methods, thus leaving room for originality in contents. The object and degree and the tools for the standardization are also described. The activities for standardization in information and documentation in Japan as well as international efforts made by ISO and insufficient responses for those by Japan is summarized and the author offers some proposals for the future standardization in Japan.
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  • Taisuke NAGAYAMA
    1988 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 212-225
    Published: 1988
    Released on J-STAGE: March 23, 2012
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    This is a record of a special lecture at the symposium held in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the enactment of SIST. The paper describes the fifteen years history of SIST, that is, the NIST plan which caused the enactment of SIST, the establishment of Committee on SIST and the concept of standardization, the process of enactment, the methods of announcement, the activity for the spread of SIST and its response of the public concerned, and so on. Then the relation of SIST to ISO and JIS is explained. Lastly, the author describes the characteristics and the contents of the present SIST 01-10 in the following three categories; standards on writing and publication of thesis, standards on bibliographic description of the items in periodicals, and standards on machine readable information interchange.
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  • Kiyoshi SAWAI
    1988 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 227-237
    Published: 1988
    Released on J-STAGE: March 23, 2012
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    In order to evaluate the research activities of Japanese scientists internationally, the author researches organizations, institutions, and their locations, which Japanese scientists belong to, by analysing "Current Contents Address Directory - Science & Technology 1984". By the analysis of scientists in major cities and universities in Japan, it became obvious that the majority of Japanese scientists are concentrated in national universities and government-supported institutions. Such a concentration is traced back to the foundation of national universities (ex-Teidai) by the Meiji Government about 100 years ago.
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  • Yoshiki TAKATSU
    1988 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 239-254
    Published: 1988
    Released on J-STAGE: March 23, 2012
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    The use of games which simulate actual corporate management has recently become more common and is now utilized in various ways for in-house corporate training courses. KOSMS (Kobe Steel Management Simulation System), a training system designed to help improve the management skills of senior management staff, is a unique management simulation training system in which the participants, using personal computers, must make decisions concerning a variety of management activities, in simulated competition with other corporations. This report outlines the KOSMS system, and describes the basic structure and detailed contents of the management simulation models, and actual application of the KOSMS management simulation training.
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  • Internationalization of information in Japan
    Takashi NAGATSUKA
    1988 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 255-264
    Published: 1988
    Released on J-STAGE: March 23, 2012
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    It was reviewed for the internationalization of information in Japan. The most of information has been imported from the foreign countries to Japan. This is very differ from the industrial products, e.g. the automobiles or the electronic products. While the international telecommunication networks have been developed from the beginning of 1980's, it has been able to access to many of the databases produced in the foreign countries from Japan. On the other hand, the databases produced in Japan has not served to the foreign countries except a few systems, e.g. QUICK. In recent years, it has been tried to provide the foreign countries with some of the databases produced in Japan, e.g. JAPIO English database, JOIS/E, NIKKEI TELECON (English), COMLINE. The transborder data flows has become more important in Japan.
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