Journal of Information Processing and Management
Online ISSN : 1347-1597
Print ISSN : 0021-7298
ISSN-L : 0021-7298
Volume 38, Issue 9
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  • —The organizational structure in the network age—
    Masahiro KIKUTA
    1995 Volume 38 Issue 9 Pages 783-794
    Published: December 01, 1995
    Released on J-STAGE: May 30, 2008
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    What is CALS ? At the begining of CALS, CALS stood for "Computer Aided Logistic System". The new name is "Commerce at Light Speed". The changes of name have not helped people who have been struggling to understand CALS. CALS represents a new way of dealing with information. It is a strategy which standardizes, automates and integrates information across organizational and regional boundaries. CALS is not an Technology, though without Technology it would be impossible to adopt a CALS strategy, but rather a comprehensive approach to Information Management.
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  • Haruhisa OHTA
    1995 Volume 38 Issue 9 Pages 795-803
    Published: December 01, 1995
    Released on J-STAGE: May 30, 2008
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    Riken Vinyl Industry, K.K. has implemented the intellectual property education and information searching education for end users at various levels. It has employed some ideas which help them understand the content of such education. The paper describes the education method and the problems. It also describes the efficient information searching methods where the tools prepared by Tokyo Information Dissemination Research Group are utilized.
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  • Noboru HASEGAWA
    1995 Volume 38 Issue 9 Pages 804-813
    Published: December 01, 1995
    Released on J-STAGE: May 30, 2008
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    This paper is intended to contribute on readers' understanding on the present state of art of quality management in the European sector of information and some ways of introducing quality management into such a sector, based on an EUSIDIC's report, entitled "THE IMPACT ON QUALITY MANAGEMENT ON THE INFORMATION SECTOR". In particular, the activities of quality management of some database producers in the Europe are reviewed finally.
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  • Structural reform of science and technology towards the 21st century (1): The structural reform of science and technology at the end of the 19th century and the lessons
    Tateo ARIMOTO
    1995 Volume 38 Issue 9 Pages 814-830
    Published: December 01, 1995
    Released on J-STAGE: May 30, 2008
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    In the 19th century a great leap had been seen in scientific knowledge such as themodynamics, electromagnetics as it was called the second scientific revolution. In addition as the nationals and the nation had been established, and the industrial revolulion had been enlarged, science and technology was merged or mixed to become science and technology in combined context. By the way until that time science and technology had been developed separately. This merged science and technology was recognized to be an important element which contributed to a nation's military force or economic force enhanced. Thus here lay the reason why such a system that the governments or enterprises supported strongly was established. Major European nations and the U.S. reformed science and technology systems responding to the progress or changes in politics and economy from the end of the 19th to the 20th century. It gives important lessons to us when we are reforming Japan's science and technology structure facing the 21st century coming. This paper describes characteristics of the second scientific revolution of the 19th century, factors of modern scrence and technology development and its international movement centered around the activities.
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  • A multimedia and a home
    Fumio OZAWA
    1995 Volume 38 Issue 9 Pages 831-840
    Published: December 01, 1995
    Released on J-STAGE: May 30, 2008
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    As singular households and twin income households increase, and the society becomes aged, a multimedia surely enlarges, which meets needs of people such as convenience, safety, amusement, stability and low prices. The technology which can realize such a multimedia society is represented by advanced CPU, image data compressing process, high-speed telecommunication networks and large-amount of wireless process. In two or three years to come, a multimedia is expected to considerably respond to such technology. Some products where new technology is incorporated will be on sale this year and next year. Such a multimedia promises great help to homes or housekeeping, for example, shopping service at homes, games which many people or people who are in distance, can participate into at the same time, portable information terminal devices.
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