Drivers are thought to be able to be assisted by presenting visual information. However, inappropriate presentation such as obstructing the driver’s vision, or being excessively conspicuous, may reverse the operation. We proposed an information presentation method that does not disturb driving by considering the peripheral vision area and the attractiveness of information using eye tracking and saliency map. Then we presented visual information based on the proposed method and verified the effect of the consideration of saliency on the eye movement of the subject. By considering saliency, the information became less likely to overlap the gaze points of subject and the time that subject looked at the information was shortened.

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In sightseeing guidance, a map design that effectively guides a pedestrian to a destination is required. In this paper, we aimed at walking guidance with a high walking guidance effect based on landmarks in particular, and as a fundamental study for that, walking experiments on various shaped routes were conducted. As a result, we succeeded in evaluating the characteristics of the “easy-to-miss route” and evaluating the effect of the land-mark on the map from the viewpoint of the walking guidance effect and the viewing behavior.

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Seasonality is a universal factor in tourism and has been regarded as one of problems. Seasonality destabilizes the income of tourism industry and created the surplus of labor and facility in the off-season. Tourism industry needs to mitigate the seasonality, but the research has been insufficiently studied. The purpose of this presentation is to analyze the actual situation of seasonality of tourism industry based on tourism regional eco-nomic survey.

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This document describes basic stance about tourism policy of Kyoto City, advantages and problems shown by various data. Number of annual visitors to Kyoto City is over 50 million in late years. Number of annual lodgers was over 15 million in 2017. Now, harmonization of resident life and tourism is very important problem.

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Mobility as a means of transportation is undergoing a drastic change due to popularization and in-novation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Autonomous car driving technologies is cur-rently under development. Among them, the concept of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) has been established, and it is an opportunity to recapture the whole Mobility as a Service. In this article, we discuss MaaS that should be used in the tourism field and attempt to design a service related to mobility from the technical innovation and regulations.

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Demand forecast must be not play of numbers. Results of demand forecast make for sev-eral planning. Tokyo Olympic game 2020, it is assumed the biggest game in the Olympic history. On the other hand, supply side such as hotels and transportation system, has many quantitative con-straints. Therefore, there is a strong relationship between demand and capacity. In this paper, these issues will be realized through demand forecasting.

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Natural extension of Japanese grid square coding system (JIS X0410) standardized in the Japan Industrial Standard (JIS) to the worldwide usage has been proposed. It is called world grid square coding system and enables us to produce grid square statistics across the globe. The data utilization platform based on the world grid square statistics has been developed as a Data as a Service (DaaS). Its application to the global tourism design and how to use it for a core technology of data-driven tourism services will be discussed.

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We have frequently heard the recommendations that the data driven marketing and technology will make the style of service and operation on the ground in the tourism business evolved. The speaker will share the actual business flow of the inbound tourism business on the ground in Japan with business cycle and propose the beneficial roles of technology based on the data for inbound tourism.

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In order to set an adequate reliability at the development stage, we have to grasp usage conditions, required levels of reliability, and correlation to lifetime characteristics with them. Actually, we have been working on collecting and analyzing the vehicle operation data. Currently, by our ICT system, various operation data can be transmitted in real time from all vehicles. We are studying how to evaluate and improve reliability by utilizing these big data.

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In the medical community, similar to the industrial world, a mechanism has been introduced that collects incident reports and uses them to prevent problems. In reality, however, a large amount of report content gathered has not been effectively utilized. The reason for this is that it is difficult to find important reports from many reports first, and secondly it is difficult to find the overall trend. Therefore, we report the result of attempted classification approach by hierarchical clustering.

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Sensor, information, and robotics technologies would advance the traditional agriculture to a new phase (Smart Agriculture). Efficient use of high-resolution satellite sensors, drone-based sensing systems, and geoinformation systems would strongly support diagnostics and decision making in smart agriculture. Remote sensing and geoinformation technologies will play a key role in smart agriculture.

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Quality Engineering, so called Taguchi Methods for building quality in products and for maintaining quality of products or production lines that were developed by late Dr. Genichi Taguchi. The author will introduce the outline of Quality Engineering and their methods.

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The design is carried out using the expression that described causation. The approximate expression of enough levels in a necessary range is enough for it. The approximate expression is often a multivariate multinomial expression made by the data which is acquired by an experiment plan. When the specific variable (hyper factor) in this expression is focused, another multinomial expression based on focused variable can be constituted. After it is constituted, the necessary role is assigned for focused variable, design is enabled. A designer has the freedom to decide which variable must be focused and decide which role must be assigned for it. This paper discusses a design as free creative activity of engineer from this point of view.

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The author reviews original statistical methods proposed for design of industrial experiments by Genichi Taguchi in the 1950s. Especially the method of random combination of fractional factorial design which is one of randomized designs is taken up and its interesting properties are introduced.

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The Mahalanobis-Taguchi (MT) system, a representative methodology of the Taguchi method, has seen wide acceptance, mainly in the manufacturing industry of Japan. However, when applying the MT system to the actual problem in accordance with the conventional analysis procedure, it is not always possible to conduct an appropriate analysis. The MT system is applied to data from various fields where a demand for practical applications exists. Therefore, in this research, we propose a novel analysis framework based on the statistical modeling in order to deal with actual problems adequately and flexibly.

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Energy storages are to play important roles for IoT, robots, etc. applied to “Society 5.0.” On the other hand, a vast amount of small batteries is under deployment in developing countries to store electricity generated by small photovoltaic power generation systems, which would essentially contribute to solving the global energy issues. In this manuscript, we propose the “Virtual Grid” as an energy platform for both Society 5.0 and developing countries, where appliances and batteries are managed via networks, and electricity is synthesized and distributed to appliances for satisfying their demands.

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In Japan, it is necessary to realize Society 5.0 in order to deal with problems such as declining birthrate, aging society and regional disparities. Although technologies and human resources to realize it are discussed in various places, there is little discussion on the competencies for living a satisfying life in this new society. This paper discusses the competencies required for people in society 5.0.

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In the super smart society, the problem of the current state of designing labor saving for retail stores is that the system is muddled by the country and companies independently studied. The purpose of this research is to establish a method to evaluate the province saving system which was built in order to make startup correction from this situation and shift to the optimum smart society. In this time we created a framework as a preliminary study for that.

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In Society 5.0, people are expected to perform tasks requiring creativity and cooperativeness, which are difficult to replace with artificial intelligence, and non-routine tasks. Nonaka & Takeuchi 1) advocates SECI model on organizational knowledge creation, and this model can be considered as aggregation of learning. In this paper, we focus on learning conceptions, which is one of the factors influencing learning strategy choice, general learning behaviors, learning outcomes, and clarify the influence of learning conceptions at work on organizational knowledge creation.

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The QC Circle activity is a small group activity consisting of first-line employees who continually control and improve the quality of their network, products and services and is the representative “Koto Tsukuri” by industrial-academia corporation in Japan. Since the activity was systematically organized in 1962, it has spread over the world. We will introduce this effective and standardized scientific methodology for “Kaizen” activities at Gemba.

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Measurement of greenhouse gases from satellites and its application will be introduced with a focus on Japanese Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) Series. Special emphasis will be placed on its early ideas, technology development, satellite operation and validation, progress of scientific research, efforts toward application in climate change policies, and international collaboration and competition.

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Interferometry using space based SAR is powerful tool to detect precious change on the ground such as crystal deformation. Because most area of Japan is covered with forest and high vegetation, long wave length is very useful to monitor the ground through penetrating vegetation. This paper introduces disaster mon-itoring using L-band SAR by Japan since 1992 (JERS-1, ALOS and ALOS-2).

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AIC is an information criterion derived by Dr. Hirotugu Akaike in 1973. His research is the beginning of research on criterion for model selection. In many area of science and technology such as geophysics, life science, economics and engineering, the AIC is used. For this research, Akaike has recieved Asahi Award, the Kyoto Prize, the purple medal. AIC is worthy to call it a treasure.

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Yokohama Business Game (YBG) is a comprehensive online service that supports the development and operation of business games aimed at education, training, research, problem solving in business administration. YBG is also a mechanism that provides games, related information, and game utilization support services to a community composed of game designers, educators, researchers, and practitioners. For more than 15 years, YBG has greatly promoted the development of game creation and distribution, human resource development related to game creation and operation, and research on business game design, operation and evaluation methods.

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This paper aims to derive optimal switching point for production network system. Due to the customer needs of reducing cost, delivery date shorting and provide quality, prompt change in the production plan became more important. In this paper, first, we discuss a switching model considered the risks of production, due date and quality for a production series line. Then, we present a switching model for parallel production process, where the risk depends on the previous situation and occurs repeatedly throughout multiple periods. Finally, we analyze the policies of optimal switching for the two production systems.

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Abstract－In this paper, we focus on the property of the optimal assignment with minimized total expected risk (cost) in the limited-cycle model. First, the reset model, a simple model of the limited-cycle model, is presented. Then, the optimal assignment problem under the reset model is defined. After that, for the cases of three special worker groups, the conditions for the optimal assignment are proposed with a mathematical approach. Finally, the assignment optimization rules about untrained or well-trained workers are discussed by numerical analyses.

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This study was conducted to facilitate implementation of the Internet of Moving things (IoMT), which refers to sensing locations and conditions of moving things during manufacturing. For manufacturing, machinery and robots with installed IoT devices are useful for anomaly detection and facility maintenance. The Radio-frequency identification device (RFIDs), bar codes and QR codes are also used to control products, parts, and work-in-process because they can be introduced easily and at low cost. Nevertheless, these technologies are unsuitable for construction of sensor networks sensing locations and conditions of moving things during manu-facturing. Therefore, this study presents a proposal of a smart tag that enable to construct the sensor network for moving things. First, requirement for smart tags and sensor networks is defined. Then developed prototype of smart tags are evaluated the positioning accuracy and sensing condition through experiments. These results pro-vide guidelines for the introduction of the IoMT.

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Our society is surrounded by many social risks. The 2011 East Japan great earthquake disaster is still new in memory and many natural disasters such as earthquakes, oods, avalanche, typhoons, etc. have also occurred after that. Also infectious diseases such as H1N1 in uenza, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, measles, rubella, dengue, HIV, syphilis endanger our lives. Looking at these, social risk can be said to be a complex system itself in that it is generated by the interaction of multiple factors, increasing its scale and seriousness. Social infrastructure itself has become larger scale. In advanced information processing and decentralization, it is difficult to precisely respond to various social risks as mentioned above merely by individually measuring and controlling various elements constituting our society It is becoming. In this paper, as an example of risk prevention and mitigation measures based on the systems approach, among the social risk countermeasures, the risk of infection is taken as an example.

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Closing of a regional facility that provides urban services may bring about decline in citizens' accessibility to those services. The paper focuses two strategies to prevent critical facilities from lower accessibility: fortification and reliable location of facilities. We show the interdiction median problem with fortification and optimal risk-averse location problem that minimize the loss of adjacency to a facility due to the interdiction of the facilities.

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This paper describes the affective/Kansei/fetish value strategy as follows:
1. Relation between affective/Kansei value and fetish value of Karl Marx
2. Reasons why regular brands do not apply affective/Kansei value
3. Reasons why Japanese brands do not use fetish value and affective/Kansei value in marketing
4. Pursuing through the luxury strategy
5. Importance of the luxury strategy

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We attempt to analyze the damage in disaster area and also guide victims according to individual attributes and circumstances by utilizing AI and the 3D data of respective areas including the underground shopping mall. To let foreign tourists evacuate from disaster area promptly, it is necessary to provide them clear messages that is optimized for each individual's attribute and situation. This is more challenging in dense cities with a number of high-rise buildings and highly developed underground mall that keep evolving time to time.

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In this paper, discussion about the future works of current AI technologies for which how to coexist with human society is described. Important break through is autonomy, meta-planning, multimodal information data processing, and deep abduction.

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This paper is about robots and artificial intelligence. What kind of relationship should AI and robots be in order to realize a smart society? The author believes that it is necessary for AI and the robot to have deep relationships, just like the human body and intelligence cannot be separated, and be in harmony with people.

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A variety of intelligent tasks and behaviors essentially depend on language. Hence, natural language processing (NLP) is an indispensable technology for true AI systems, which are assumed to be ubiquitously used in the era of super smart society. In this talk, I will discuss the difficulties of NLP and future possibilities of NLP technology such as machine reading, text generation and conversational agents.

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The current artificial intelligence is good at object recognition with high accuracy and high speed. However, it is still difficult to perceive things in the same way as the perception of human beings through touching things and feel from them because artificial intelligence does not have a body or sensory organs. However, “kan-sei” cannot be ignored in order to get close to people, strongly support people. Through this presentation, we think about what “artificial intelligence” is about “kansei” and what can be done and what is not likely to be expected to see in coming super smart society.

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IoT (Internet of Things) is one of the most significant technologies that impact the future society. Wireless communication is an essential technology for realizing the IoT. However, its performance much depends on the radio propagation environment. In this talk, impacts of radio propagation on IoT wireless communications and techniques to mitigate the impacts and increase the performance are presented for several cases of IoT.

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High dynamic range (HDR) imaging can capture an extremely wide range of illumination present in a scene. This document explains the problem of limited dynamic range in the standard imaging pipeline, and then present algorithms for composing ghost-free HDR images from a sequence of dierently exposed LDR images with motion. Firstly, we detect motion regions between LDR images, and then estimate the relative shutter speeds in the static regions. We generate dierent weights in each region to compose HDR images. Finally, we demonstrate the composing experiments using real LDR images, which is shown that the proposed composing algorithm can acquire ghost-free HDR images.

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This document introduces recent trends of connected vehicle (connected car) and market shifts from automotive manufacturing to service provisioning.

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This document introduces IoT field demonstrations such as smart fishery and climber monitoring. After accumulation of experiences on different use cases and field environments, agile design and development rules is expected to be derived.

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This paper proposes the new concept of the so-called “Society 5.0” where sustainable innovations emerge. Then the importance of the software platform is pointed out from the viewpoints both of the efficient development and the sustainable self-evolution. Finally, the current JST project status is briefly reported.

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This paper describes prospective data/system component models and platforms in upcoming Society 5.0. First, we define data linkage and system cooperation in “Society 5.0” in comparison with conventional ones. Next, we extract issues of the data linkage and the system cooperation through analysis of several practical cases. Finally, on the basis of the above discussion, we present a prospective view of data/system component models and platforms in “Society 5.0” and clarify requirements for them.

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This document describes collaboration of machine intelligence and human intelligence in upcoming “Society 5.0” where sustainable innovations emerge. This document also proposes its platform using DRQN and discusses the conceivable problems that the platform will confront.

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This paper considers cyber physical cooperation and its associated platform in upcoming “Society 5.0” where sustainable innovations emerge. Particularly, we consider some crucial roles from the broader viewpoints of cyber physical systems in the spiral up for the society 5.0.

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It has been over 50 years since the implementation of the national health insurance system and total medical expense of Japan has expanded to 42 trillion yen. However, if we consider the population transition and economic climate in future, we cannot avoid the collapse of current system because of the shortage of human and financial resources. In order to break through this current challenge and establish a brand new medical delivery system which are sustainable, we are developing the “Hachioji Model” that is a platform business for medical services as one of its component including the Digital Hospital and Total Life Support System in our hometown, Hachioji. We would like to introduce this model that would potentially save the medical services of Japan from the collapse beyond Hachioji area.

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This document describes examples of supporting systems for human physical activity, which based on the concept of augmented human. The first system is a tongue input interface that is capable to be used by people who have malfunction in their limbs. This system is used to encourage tongue and mouth training game named Squachu. The second system is designed to augment human’s physical ability by using virtual parameters. These parameters are used to compensate human physical ability in dodgeball. This document also intended to show potential of augmented human in supporting human physical activity through those examples.

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The technology for non-contact measurement of vital signs (i.e. heart rate, respiration, and body temperature) has attracted much attention, which are important for understanding the state of health. In recent years, as technology for sensing biological information has progressed, novel bio-sensors have been developed successively. There have also been reports regarding methods for measuring vital signs using microwave radar, thermography, and RGB camera, etc. The methods have wide-ranging applications, including systems for mon-itoring elderly people, identification of sleep apnea, detection of patients suspected to have an infectious dis-ease, and measurement of stress levels.

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The authors have studied functional electrical stimulation with surface electrodes (S-FES) for the purpose of rehabilitation and motion assistance. As for the stimulation wave profile, the authors have applied biphasic burst-modulated square waves, i.e. square waves that are frequency-modulated by burst waves. This report examines parameters of the stimulation waves suitable for motion assistance, especially for the assistance of the elbow flexion. In subjective experiments, exerted muscle force in each value of wave profile parameters are investigated.

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Short pulse lasers at the wavelength range of 2 μm have several applications such as material pro-cessing, gas sensing, pump source for MIDIR optical parametric amplifier and supercontinuum generation. De-velopment of highly efficient high power 2μm lasers are required for those applications. In the talk, we report the first Kerr-lens mode locked Tm solid state laser and the All normal dispersion Tm:ZBLAN fiber laser.

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X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) have opened new frontiers in broad research fields because of its unique properties; high brilliance, short pulse-duration, and high spatial coherence. Optical lasers with ultra- high powers have also been applied in variety of scientific fields particularly in high energy density science. Combinative use of XFELs and ultra-high power lasers provides novel capabilities to excite and diagnose ultra- fast phenomena within small spatial scales under extreme conditions.

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