This paper addresses the organizational context of providing information technology support for emerging an organizational innovation. Especially, we will search for the clue of the IT use from the viewpoint of the knowledge base theory.

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This article discusses some issues toward synthesis education under the expanding meanings of design, and reports the new undergraduate and graduate curriculums of mechanical engineering at Osaka University and a series of project-based learning classes integrated into them. Then, it describes the concept and contents of graduate design education class on design methodologies through industry-sponsored design projects.

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Methodology on Cognitive Science, Information Science, Statistical Science and Knowledge Management

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Management Capability is continuously evolved due to change of environment. New management capability needs developed concept based on PDCA Cycle(Plan-Do-Check-Act) and Systems approach. As management innovation is required in industries, education and training of innovation capability by practical way are expected. University-Industry relation is powerful tool and mechanism for increasing such innovative management capability through those collaboration.

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Instrument and control technology is one of the transdisciplinary technologies to satisfy the customer satisfaction using leading-edge technology. Its technology transfer is an urgent issue in Japanese process industries. This document describes this aspect from the viewpoint of current status, analysis and action plans.

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Integrated systems have been developed on a large scale in recent years to create new added values. It is important to promote the system talent who has the skill in wide area. A premeditated talent promotion plan should be constructed being collaboration between the academic-business communities.

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The Center of Excellence (COE) program in Department of Mechanical Engineering Science at Kyushu University conducts the training framework of learning "Integrating Techniques" by research presentations for students in different majors and accident analyses for practical cases by Ph.D course students.The training framework involves the following process 1.Peer review among Ph.D course students for the presentations, 2.Instructions by teachers in order to improve the quality of the presentations based on the result of the peer-reviews, 3.Final evaluation for the improved presentations by teachers and the students.This research observed the quantitative effectiveness of the framework by the evaluations using questionnaires for the presentations. Furthermore, the effective practical methods in the improvement process can be visualized by investigating the revision process of the presentation.

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According to the expansion of computer network and information society, the needs for statistical knowledge and skills for data processing or analysis are more essential than before. However, due to the introduction of "the relaxed style education", the curriculum for data processing in primary education in Japan has been lessened. Besides, judging from the result of the essential survey for private companies and public institutions of Japan in March 2005, the statistics education at the university is far from the level of raising qualified personnel to the society. To help the future developments for statistical education in Japan, we will show some noteworthy educational cases.

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Development of faculties for a common education program of risk management has been done as a project in 2006 selected by the Ministry of Education in the program of promoting internationalization of Japanese universities. Ten faculty staffs in and around the Risk Engineering Department at the University of Tsukuba and two Ph.D. program students visited several universities in the United States. They also developed a model curriculum of the risk management as a common education program designed for all students in a university. These activities are summarized in this report.

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Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology has started a new M.E. course since 2006, aiming to education IT professionals who can design and develop satisfactory IT environment that is natural to everyone and liberated from difficulties to use rather than just from time and space constraint. The course provides students with intensive exercises in human interface, media processing, software engineering and information infrastructure before internships for about 3 months in partner companies, and project-based learning on the campus. It also features target-focussed learning subjects and distinguished visiting professors. The course is under the support of Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan.

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Paradigm shift has already begun in Medical field. The goal of the shift would be to establish self-directed learning environments including simulation-based learning. To achive this goal, collaboration of communities of practice is mandatory.

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INTRODUCTION: The optimized goal of the perioperative medicine can be accomplished through an appropriate risk management focused at an individual patient's problems. We reported the perioperative anesthetic management models (1) to show the relationship between pre- and intra-anesthetic parameters and the anesthetic outcomes and adverse events. Using these models may enable us to predict incidences of perioperative adverse events. In this study, we analyzed how the control or optimization of preoperative patients or anesthetic techniques parameters might reduce incidences of intra- and post-anesthetic adverse events by applying game theory to the models. METHODS: After obtaining the approval of the study protocol by the local ethical committee, this study was carried out using a simulation application. Using the 6 perioperative adverse event models (1) (intraoperative major cardiovascular event (IO-MCV), intraoperative minor cardiovascular event (IO-CV), intraoperative pulmonary event (IO-RESP), postoperative cardiovascular event (PO-CV), postoperative pulmonary event (PO-RESP), and postoperative central nervous event (PO-CNS)), the independent parameters in all the models were divided into two categories; controllable and uncontrollable parameters. The coefficients of dependent variables in the controllable parameters were calculated for each model, and their values were changed in order for the dependent parameter to be minimum by applying the game theory to reach Nash equilibrium status by modifying anesthetic and surgical techniques and by optimizing preoperative patient's status so far as to meet logically patient's and surgical procedure's capabilities. The perioperative anesthetic database (n=3,408) obtained in Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital was used in this study. The original group consisted of the calculated perioperative adverse events' risks using the perioperative anesthetic management models and the modified group consisted of the calculated perioperative adverse events' risks after the game theory application. Statistical analysis was carried out to evaluate the effect of the game theory application to the calculated perioperative adverse events using Student's t-test between the original and the modified groups. P<0.01 was considered significant. RESULTS: The optimization of independent parameters by applying the game theory significantly reduced IO-MCV, IO-RESP, PO-CV, PO-RESP and PO-CNS values, but not IO-CV values. CONCLUSIONS: It may be possible to reduce the perioperative adverse events by applying the game theory to the independent parameters in the perioperative models. REFERENCE: 1. Yamaguchi H. 2005.

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It is important to understand scenarios deciding if you catch a disease or not. This paper supposes a method to extract such important scenarios by combining Decision Tree and KeyGraph visualization. Decision Tree is used to find effective attributes dividing dataset into clusters towards objective variable. KeyGraph is used to find important rare events between the clusters. Dataset is focused by data found by DT and KG step by step and after a few iterations meaningful events would be visualized. This method is applied for Health and Retirement Study data to extract not usual but significant scenarios for diabetes prevention.

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A future successful global marketer must develop an excellent quality management system that impress users and continuously provides excellent, quality products in a timely manner through corporate management.The author proposes New JIT, a new management technology principle for manufacturing in the 21st century. New JIT contains hardware and software systems as next generation technical principles for transforming management technology into the management strategy. The hardware system consists of the Total Marketing System (TMS), Total Development System (TDS), Total Production System (TPS), Total Intelligence Management System (TIS) and TJS (Total Job Quality Management System).These are the three core elements required for establishing new management technologies in the marketing, engineering and production divisions. To improve work process quality of all divisions concerned with development, production and sales, the author proposes Science TQM (Total Quality Management by utilizing Science SQC) as the software system. The author believes that New JIT's effectiveness has been demonstrated as described herein based on the author's experience at Toyota.

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This document describes amethod of idea generation for value creating. It happens that seeds are developed without being thought use of them. A way of thinking use of the seed is proposed. We call it "Can Expansion Method". A project management is introduced.

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The firm's practice linkage that creates high values starts with front-end loaded strategic planning.Strategic front-end loaded planning determines the possibility of high effective practice linkage. The effectiveness of strategic front-end loaded pllaning is secured by developing the strategic management cycle. Setting of the firm's visions and strategic goals, and integrated strategic planning are keys to construct the strategic management cycle.

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Traditional TPS (Toyota Production System) - the foundation of JIT (Just in Time) contributed to global business in the latter half of the 20th century as Japanese production management system methodologies. At present, Japanese companies are endeavoring to survive in the competitive market by expanding their global production and achieving globally consistent levels of quality and simultaneous new model launches. An advanced production management principle, the Advanced TPS is proposed, which involves the systematization of Japanese production management methodologies as a strategic tool for global production. Effectiveness of the proposed Advanced TPS was verified at Toyota Motor Corporation.

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This paper reports a mental mechanism and the characteristics for human intentional activities as applied to trans-disciplinary activities. The elementary knowledge is a pair of a parent concept and its children concept as expressed by natural language, and the mechanism is repetitive hierarchical decompositions using the knowledge. Thus accumulating knowledge, Homo sapiens built up early culture and technology. Use of this common structure enables trans-disciplinary operations, which invites industrial prosperity.

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In the environmental recognition with the camera, numbers of photography should be few. When objects are put in complicated environment, it is difficult to find them out, and to measure their correct position. Active Vision System predicts movement of the objects in camera image based on future positions of camera in complicated environment. This system can get rid of useless photography and short processing time.

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This paper proposes the parallel flight control system using two airships that have advantage like flight duration and safety. These applications are an observation and monitoring activity and transport medium from these features. In the control system configuration, the target is recognized by using a vision sensor. Relative information on the position and attitude is acquired from the mark set on the airship. And, the effectiveness is examined from the parallel flight experiment which applies the designed control law.

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The application of a wireless CO2 sensor to the next generation air conditioning system is presented. The next generation air conditioning system can independently control the temperature and humidity, and is aiming at the achievement of energy conservation with maintaining the degree of the comfort. Moreover, the air ventilation is controlled to reduce the power consumption by the air blower. For this, it is necessary to measure not only the room temperature / humidity but also the CO2 concentration at several points of the office room. The method to estimate the number of people in the air conditioning zone by using software sensor technique is also discussed.

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The embodied communication system for mind connection (E-COSMIC) has been developed by applying the entrainment mechanism of the embodied rhythms of nodding and body movements to physical robots and CG characters in verbal communication. E-COSMIC comprises an embodied virtual communication system for human interaction analysis by synthesis and a speech-driven embodied interaction system for supporting essential human interaction and communication based on the analysis that uses the embodied virtual communication system. A human-entrained embodied interaction and communication technology for an advanced media society is introduced through some applications of E-COSMIC. A generation and control technology of human entrained embodied media is also introduced.

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In this study, we investigate what would happen in a Chinese historical family line. We analyzed a particular family line, which had so many successful candidates, who passed the very tough examinations of Chinese government officials over 500 years long. First, we studied the genealogical records 'Zokufu' in China. Second, based on the study, we implemented an agent-based model with the family line network as an adjacency matrix, the personal profile data as an attribution matrix. Third, using "inverse simulation" technique, we optimized the agent-based model in order to fit the simulation profiles to the real profile data. From the intensive experiments, we have found that both grandfather and mother have a profound impact within a family to 1) transmit cultural capital to children, and 2) maintain the system of the norm system of the family. We conclude that advanced agent-based models are able to contribute to discover new knowledge in the fields of historical sciences.

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In acquiring knowledge for working in the real collaboration environment, basic human factors such as empathy, analogical thought, sensitivity to environmental changes, etc., play essential roles. If these factors do not affect the knowledge acquiring process positively, the workplace will not learn, create, share, or reuse knowledge, even if they hire up-date technologies such as powerful search engines, scenario simulators, etc. This paper presents the list of required skills of human, for satisfying the conditions to activate the knowledge acquisition process based on the basic SECI model. The accelerated process by these skill are expected to en-able human to sense new values appearing in and around the team of collaborators.

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In recent years, comprehensive problem solving by a designer has been required as the demand to an artifact develops and complicates more. In the above background, we have proposed Universal Abduction Studio (UAS), a computer environment that supports a creative design synthetically. This paper proposes the method of expanding the design knowledge database used in UAS by extracting useful information for design from the resource on the web.

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This paper presents the computational results obtained in the strategy experiments in an artificial futures market with human subjects. Participants submit their own strategy files and they receive the performances of all the market participants in order to improve for the next round. After two-round experiments, simulations with only machine agents are run. We find that a proper educational program and experiments of subjects could result in dynamics observed in real markets.

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PANGEA or GakkaiNet is a general platform to support various activities of academic societies. The architecture is characterized by i) Database centered system, which contains various aspects of society members' information, ii) Software agent sub-systems to facilitate the implementation, and iii) Web-based applications for end-users. The paper addresses the basic principles of PANGEA and current status and future plans of SICE information systems.

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This paper proposes a novel architecture to promote small long tail businesses using intelligent information recommendation systems. The main features of the architecture are 1) Dual-directed Recommendation system, 2) Portal site for three kinds of users: Producers, Retailers, and Consumers, which are considered to be Prosumers, 3), and 4) Agent-based implementation. We are planning to develop a portal site to support the business schemes. We have just started the project and in this paper, we explain the basic principles .

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The analogy sometimes brings us new concepts. This study intends to explore the effect of analogy, where categorization of words as an action provides with an implication for human's concept creation. Those process are to be shown by dissecting playing logs derived from a Web based analogy game that is developed for players to enjoy categorization of words in consideration of analogy so as to make batch of words to produce new concepts. The result implies through playing logs the existence of two types of behavior and the characteristics of concept creation process in line with player's motion capture.

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