In Japan, dental implant therapy which provides much greater patient satisfaction than removable dentures, has become the leading modality for restoring dento-alveolar defects. In this study, dental implant patient satisfaction was assessed by examining patient satisfaction factors such as the sense of happiness felt by regaining chewing ability. Chewing efficiency is also said to be an anti-aging factor. By examining patient satisfaction, this study aims to contribute both to the improvement of dental implant therapy and the healthcare system in our country.

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This paper addresses our recent practical research topic on healthcare service via information and communication technique. We propose and/or show the experimental verification of healthcare improvement service based on continuous lifestyle monitoring and behavior change. The evaluation and the analysis of experimental result are presented.

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The local medical information system is a medical support system, esp. in a local medical organization. This paper discusses the concrete support system image to assist efficient and helpful medical supports with good QOL, then, introduces our Nutrition Support Team System, Decubitus Ulcer System, and Medical Equipment Management System.

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The collaboration activities between the City of Sendai and the Republic of Finland started to promote healthcare and welfare related industries as Sendai-Finland Wellbeing Center Project since 2005. Several business collaborations have achieved between Japanese companies and Finnish companies. Finland is quite active to promote IC T to healthcare and wellbeing support system. These trials in Japan and this future direction are reviewed.

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The new health check up system for middle-aged population in Japan, has recently shifted to screening individuals with metabolic syndrome, and give them guidance for improving their life-style towards appropriate amounts of diet and daily physical activity. Accordingly, promotion of exercise and physical activity is essential in reducing the risk of arteriosclerosis related diseases. The proportion of those who are engaged in regular physical activity sums up to a little over 20% in the middle- aged men. Offering appropriate information as to where, when, with whom and which exercise they can participate may be essential together with the knowledge of how metabolic syndrome leads to higher risk of arteriosclerosis. Wearable sensors that measures exercise skills may further motivate them to continue the exercise they started to participate. Integration of these components in the newly developed exercise recommendation system may thus help people to increase physical activity.

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This study suggests the dilemma for realisation of a secure society using dataveillance system which automatically collect personal information in real time fashion.

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Although the development of ICT brought convenience for our life, it brought about various risks such as the illegal harmful site or net fraud. The government deals with those risks by a legislation policy, but a legislation step takes time and labor, too, and law and politics plan cannot but become back prodding. Therefore I consider whether what kind of law and politics plan is the effective in announcement.

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IT Governance is thought as a framework for establishing an enterprise's IT sustains and extends the organisation's strategies and objectives. But we need to extend the framework for the society level. More-over the role of information systems auditing is not only for an enterprise, but also for the safety and secure so-ciety.

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This paper examines how traditional stalking changes its form into cyberstalking by penetrating ICT among people, and what cyberstalking has risk for people's daily lives, in focusing on gender and ICT. Furthermore, we also examine how ICT obfuscates the boundary between real space and cyber space: because online communities can function as "social reality" and imprint people with specific norms. ICT have some kind of influence on people's formation of social norms through the Internet.

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This document develops experimental inquiryinto critical thoughts about "Anshin" and "Anzen" by clarifying differences between "Anshin" and "Anzen" in terms of notion. "Anzen" is risk-take based while "Anshin" is risk-averse based. The difference means that it is contradictory to pursue both "Anshin" and "An-zen" simultaneously. It is also important to know that Japan is "Anshin" oriented society while the Western is "Anzen" oriented society. The argument extends to how ICT fits "Anshin" and "Anzen" and finally refers po-tential risk when ICT based "Anzen" and "Anshin" society building is pursued .

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Secondary Use of Official Statistics under Statistics Act

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Any effective drug is accompanied with a risk, and a new risk often becomes clear after marketing in the real world. The Japanese IT new reform strategy aims for what database compilation of receipt and the epidemiological practical use achieve by March 2011. Expectation as information infrastructure for rapid im-provement of drug safety measures rises. Mutual access with medical information of a receipt database and that of each medical facility is indispensable to make a receipt database a useful thing. Under the privacy protection, it becomes an urgent issue to enable pharmacoepidemiological practical use for drug safety measures.

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The present article describes standard arguments to assess the risk of disclosing the privacy of individuals in disseminating microdata. The most prevailing anonymization method reduces the risk to the number of unique individuals in a population. Hence the estimation of the number of population uniques is of primary importance. This estimation is, however, unstable unless auxiliary information is supplied. Statistical models are useful for supplying information, and the compound Poisson distribution and its relatives are practical among those. Other anonymization methods are also mentioned, but the assessment of them is still immature.

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Clinical research is necessary to evaluate the safety and efficacy of proposed new treatments. Guidelines and systems to conduct clinical research ethically sound have been developed such as institutional review boards and Good clinical practice. However, Japanese system is a patchwork arrangement associated with regulatory review and approval of new drugs. There seems to be a lack of understanding of the role of investigators as a professional. We discuss the function of the professional associations and ethical guidelines.

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We propose principles of ethical codes forthe member bodies of TRAFST and TRAFST itself or-der to accelerate researches for societies by utilizing the valuable information of individuals or companies or intervening their lives or activities.

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The author clarifies the necessity of the individual's or organization's information collection to construct the system of official statistics by evaluating the opportunity loss if such information were not availa-ble for the policy making.

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Let us define value as the influence of an entity to the decision of human. The affected decision, however, relies on the goal he/she embraces implicitly. Due to the difficulty to recognize or express this goal in one's own mind, the value is hard to measure on a given scale. The phrase "value creation" is in fashion, but no creativity makes fruits without any seed of value. In this talk I show the overview of the sensing of value seeds via the meta-cognition on the verbal expression of one's interests and its visualization, which generates the scaling criteria of value based on which the spiral of value creation runs forward.

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We study the investment of the rm under uncertainties of both cash ows and tax law. The uncertainty of tax law which is considered in this paper is the switching between the dierent depreciation methods. We analyze the eect of new depreciation method, which has been introduced in Japan's nuclear policy, on the investment decision of nuclear power plants. It is shown that how regal durable years and construction times of nuclear power plants aect the investment threshold.

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In this article, we explain the role of prediction for weather risk management and discuss the connection with wind power energy businesses. We introduce weather derivatives to hedge the loss caused by prediction errors for power output based on the prediction error for the wind condition.

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This article presents generalized additive models using penalized smoothing for binary response data and a set of predictor variables. Illustrated herein are a number of resampling methods, that is cross-validation when selecting the optimum smoothing parameter, and bootstrapping applications that implement the bootstrap-based information when using the deviance in order to summarize the measure of goodness-of-fit on generalized additive models.

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In this paper, it introduces about activity of JABEE (Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education), and suppose that the cultivation of human's ability in the institution of higher education (a university, technical college) which raises the preliminary engineer described.

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MOT (Management of Technology) is an extremely practical academic discipline that combines indispensable aspects of theory and practice. By bringing together knowledge and hands-on training, our objective is to prepare students for the global work environment equipped with high levels of MOT aptitude (the ability to connect technology with business to create new values) that was previously hard to achieve with the conventional methods of education centered in the classroom lectures. Index terms- MOT (Management of Technology), knowledge and hands-on training , fusion of business and technology, global work environment, practicum.

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This research sets up the model for Industrial TeamworkDynamics (ITD), and verifies relationship between teamwork awareness and productivity on work team in Japan. Next, it focuses on teamwork awareness on native employees in the local factories from the viewpoint of worldwide. Awareness concerning teamwork in daily production activity is caught as a group process, and the internal structure is considered. More, it verifies awareness difference from a global aspect based on religion and national wealth.

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In this paper, I analyze human resource development in small businesses from the view of multi-focal engineers. Recently, companies have to use various technologies to develop a new product and process technology such as mechanics, electronics, material engineering, etc. These technologies need to be combined appropriately. But even if the company employs a top engineer, it's hard for him or her to master all the areas and combine them because the technology may change rapidly. A multi-focal engineer is an engineer who is specialized in one specific area, but can understand other technologies at a basic level and consider technical problems from another point of view. Therefore multi-focal engineers can assist in combining technologies.

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This study considers a training course for The Manufacturing Innovation for which was developed by the joint Industry-University Co-operation program. Osaka Institute of Technology took support from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and developed "Monodzukuri management course". The characteristic of the course is a product line simulator. This study introduces the educational program that utilized our college original teaching materials. In addition, this study shows a questionnaire result and adds the consideration.

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Design Education Based on Design Science

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Engineering design education is one of the most important components in engineering education programs. But, the awareness of its importance has been just grown up explicitly in recent years. Due to its short experience, there is no concrete common understanding of the important issues such as educational objectives, contents, and outcome evaluation. In this article, the current status and problems of the engineering design education in electrical and electronic engineering are discussed.

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In the local activation project field, the system designing plan seen in the past has very many problems and failure. Trans-disciplinary education of design and nursing may be the support which solves those local activation problems. In this paper, we applied that concept to the healthy preservation system of the elderly people of an area by trans-disciplinary education by de-sign and nursing. A success factor used service design concept and expression, became effective and was evaluated. We can rec-ognize that the viewpoint of trans-disciplinary education of design and nursing is worthy in the local activated solution field through this analysis. Furthermore, we will argue about the relation between elderly people and children just to the methodology for activation by utilizing a robot in trans-disciplinary education by design and nursing. Then, the important mission of the service system design by design and nursing will be evaluated when applying it to the aging society.

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Solutions to exhibit competencies of high-performer does not seem solvable problems. In order to be a high-performer, a student has to challenge some problems with appropriate difficulties. We, control systems engineering department in tokyo institute of technology, have built a series of lectures of creative design. With an international event named as international design contest, we are still arrarranging the lectures to gain results and also to reduce duty of staffs.

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Business value chain creates competitive advantage and client value chain creates personal benefit as well. Value proposition approach in the traditional sense evaluates only value creation stage and ignores value sustainable stage. This paper discusses on an innovative value proposition approach both in creation and sustainable stages from KANSEI management viewpoint in the prosumer Marketing Age. Various examples demonstrate advances of proposed KANSEI value proposition Approach.

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In the marketing field, activities such as One-to-One Marketing and Customer Relationship Man-agement (CRM) have gotten a lot of attention for its effectiveness. It is necessary to understand of consumer's latent structures for evaluating the activities adequately. In this paper, I explain two methods -induction and deduction- for understanding of consumer's latent structure of.

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This paper describes theory of consumer behavior and their modeling. First, we explain the market environment particularly with respect to accumulated records of consumer behavior in the marketplace via IT technology, and then we explain the hot issue of modern marketing. In order to solve required problems, we show how Bayesian modeling works in explaining consumer behavior to obtain marketing implications.

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This paper describes theory of consumer behavior and their modeling. First, we explain the market environment particularly with respect to accumulated records of consumer behavior in the marketplace via IT technology, and then we explain the hot issue of modern marketing. In order to solve required problems, we show how Bayesian modeling works in explaining consumer behavior to obtain marketing implications.

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A machine learning approach can be applied to consumer modeling. This modeling framework consists of statistical learning, probabilistic reasoning, graphical modeling, and large-scale data collecting technologies. Bayesian networks can represent causality relationships and latent structures as graphical structures. Such models can hold situations and contexts of daily life behavior through real services. In order to collect large-scale data connected with them, we have to provide real services supported by many users. This concept, "research as a service" is discussed with real applications.

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The conventional type of manufacturing is constructed based on the real-type flow of materials or prod-ucts, but the type of current manufacturing is based on the virtual-type flow of information or some other business resources. In other words, the characteristics about the current manufacturing types could be explained by combin-ing information resources with the conventional manufacturing process on the 2-dimensional management canvas. In this paper, the perspective of management information system is discussed.

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Under recent production environment, it is one of significant economical strategies for many companies to ship new products to market place earlier than other companies by reduction of the period. If product manufacturing process can be evaluated in the product design stage, lead time required between product design stage and product manufacturing stage would be reduced. In this study, a procedure to design new products with evaluation of process design is discussed to reduce the lead time. In addition, an information system is developed to support to create engineering mechanism with evaluation of assembly process from abstract functions required in new products. This paper shows characteristics of the proposed procedure for product design and the developed information system. Furthermore, case studies of redesign of a simple structured robot by using the proposed procedure are shown.

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Due to the diversification of consumer needs and the intensification of global competition, the in-troduction of ERP system covering all business activities and information of company has became more im-portant. However, the university education for fostering of human resources utilizing ERP system is late. In this background, in 2007, the project of education system of ERP management is started by research center for e-learning professional competency (eLPCO) of Aoyama Gakuin university research institute, which is as a part of the work of research group of business creation strategy (TF21). The project also is a joint research among NTT data systems corporation (DTTDS), ORACLE Japan corporation (ORACLE) and eLPCO. This paper proposes a design of graduate education system of ERP project management which is applied to a graduate class (Prof. Kinnya Tamaki) of Aoyama Gakuin University as a research result of the ERP project.

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This paper presents a stochastic framework to the sustainable enterprise management. The prob-lem is to apply and optimize the profit formula under process resources on demand by Matsui's formula and pair theory. By this logic, the new management method is formulated on the base of post ERP/SCM.

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This paper deals with the development of an educational program for manufacturing managers in leadership roles who are making contributions toward the use of manufacturing technology for the creation of customer satisfaction above and beyond what is generally expected. The basic concept combines an intelligent knowledge-based approach with the kaizen activity program within the framework of value creation and comparative advantage models based on a network referred to as Academia, Business, Consultancy, and Government (ABC-G). This educational program, which reflects the characteristics of manufacturing technologies and practices in the Hokuriku District of Japan, was developed in 2005–2006, and a run of this program was conducted from 2006 and 2008 in close collaboration with local manufacturing companies and their employees. The results are informative of the effects of educating manufacturing managers in Japan and the problems that will have to be overcome for the continuous improvement of the program.

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Most of planning problems in production and operations management have multiple heterogeneous decision features as shown in production scheduling problem of which item should be processed on which ma-chine, at what time, and how much. This paper discusses the methodology that we have presented to attain simultaneous global optimization of those multiple heterogeneous decision features from the viewpoint of the unity of knowledge. The paper suggests that our methodology is categorized into "generation" or "formation" in the unity of knowledge and then discusses the potential of the gener-ation in POM technology together with its advantages and open research subjects.

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The progress of visualization of Japanese production management can be summarized as in the following five stages. The first stage began from the visual control of manufacturing shop at Toyota as the self management tool. In the second stage, it was widely used as the tool of self management in the early period. In the third stage, it was evolved into the tool of CIM(Computer Integrated Management), and in the fourth stage as the tool of VCM(Value Chain Management). In the future, it is expected to be used as the tool of SRM (Social Responsibility Management).

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International standardization began to be attached to importance very much by the construction of an industrial technological base since the WTO/TBT agreement in 1995. However, it is also true that it can do nothing but be recognition "It is very inconvenient if natural, and not standardized if standardized" when standardization is discussed. The development of standardization that centers on the standard is described looking back on these backgrounds, and making the standard visible describes a standard spread and the next third stage at a standard enactment and the second stage in the first stage and important one to spreads describes the element.

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While there are many raw materials different individually, and a shape, size, an ingredient use it in comparison with a thing having a process of the product production using the raw materials which are in a stable state like other manufacturing industry, as for the food manufacturing industry, there is the difficulty that must maintain an always constant quality standard in the product. That is why I cross the product for a long term and I am stable and continue supplying it for a price of the quantity in the market, and the hurdle which must go when I retain it as a for-profit company is high. Here, I give consideration to the actual situation of the modern food manufacturing industry at "relief / security", "CSR" as the company, a point of view of "the risk management".

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Recently nancial education has become more important because nancial technology is highly developing and nancial market is growing in importance. In this research, we apply Business Game method to nancial education. Especially we focused on learning of asset allocation. As a result of intensive exper- iments, we found that (1) players learned not to take excessive risk through business gaming and (2) they recognize the importance of risk control by our experiments. These ndings indicate that our approach is valid for nancial education.

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This paper describes the role of social simulations for decision support under business complexity. The business complexity is characterized a systems property stemming from essentially limited experiences of people such as managers. Social simulations is expected to provide decision makers, who are facing on the business complex situation, with effective ways of thinking the possibilities of options. This paper proposes the concept of landscape of the bundle of possibilities and the method of scenario analysis, and demonstrates some simulation examples. Finally we discuss the viewpoint of the role of social simulations in decision support for managers.

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This paper proposes a grid-oriented social simulation framework for large scale agent based simulation on the grid, named Social Macro Scope (SOMAS). We focus on two social simulation methods, forward simulation to conduct sensitive analysis of parameters and inverse simulation to search for the optimal micro-level parameters. Furthermore, model selection function is implemented to improve the precise of inverse simulation. However, large-scale simulation models with vast parameter space as well as multi trials require highly intensive computational resources. Therefore, we develop SOMAS to obtain a precise result with a short CPU time. In this study, we apply the SOMAS for history simulation and confirm that it has a practical scalability.

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We focused the problem of the new graduate market in Japan, where there is the gap of required level between the companies and the students. Then we proposed the multi agent simulation system with reinforcement learning, and found the preferable support plan for the smooth job match making. It was effective to courage the students, whose abilities were medium to low level, at the final stage of the job searching period.

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This paper presents a novel agent-based simulation model to analyze organization structures, which will show optimum possible performances against environmental and organizational changes. The model is a natural extension of the tag model of cultural assimilations proposed by Axelrod. Using the model, we investigate the landscape of "could be" organizations through random search, and find an optimal organization through evolutionary computation techniques. The proposed model focuses on the process of how the organizational recognition on business environment changes when they face new one. The major findings are: 1) The optimum organizational structure is contingent upon who recognizes the environment, and 2) Such an optimum organization structure emerges depending on how fast schema of the staff correspond.

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A committee (2006-2007) in Japan Industrial Management Association had treated with researches on "practical education programs and carrier planning for human resources engaged in industrial management. The purpose of this paper focuses on making the competency lists of carrier planning for students of department and graduate school, and experienced business persons related to the field of industrial management.

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