In this talk, we will introduce the “Waseda University Data Science Education Program” provided by the Center for Data Science. This program aims to help students utilize data science in their own fields. The structure of the program as well as the “Data Science Certificate” provided by the university will be explained.

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The Center for Data Science at Waseda University offers many full-on-demand courses related to data science, including statistics and machine learning. Since more than 10,000 students take these courses throughout the year, several faculty members work together to create the course content for a long time. The created contents are used in classes and in various ways, such as for students' self-study. This presentation will introduce the content creation method and its usage.

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The Center for Data Science of Waseda University designs and develops a data platform for research and education in order to provide a secure environment where faculty members and researchers use data provided by companies, and it is deployed on campus. In this paper, we discuss its design principle and practical approach, and present some use cases.

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Waseda University has established Waseda Data Science Consortium, and has been engaged in various initiatives in collaboration with companies. In this presentation, we will introduce some examples of these activities. Then, the future collaboration between universities and companies in the field of data science will be discussed.

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In recent years, STEM education has attracted worldwide attention. The same is true in Japan, where STEM education is being promoted at various levels. On the other hand, Japan ranks 116th out of 156 countries in the “2022 Gender Gap Index” released by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the lowest among developed countries.In this report, we introduce the career development process of a female project manager who has built her career at a major SIer, as well as practical examples of IT education at universities and raise issues regarding the interests and concerns of female students and the state of STEM education.

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This study showed the result of a case study about the carrier formation of the science and engineering wom-an, which examined the interview data with the same question items of questionnaire survey in Tsubaki, Ma-sui and Suzuki (2021)using a growth model of Levinson while considering the viewpoint of the Well-being type of the woman, who grew up by what kind of process, and achieve a state of well-being in detail.

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We named Data Science “DS 3.0”, which is based on empathy. In the light of Mode Theory proposed by Gibbons et al.(1994), in one way, DS 3.0 can be considered beyond Mode2.In this presentation, we introduce Women in Data Science(WiDS) as a platform for DS3.0. We need a place where people with diverse values gather and freely discuss to create new values of Data Science and our future.

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Information through hazard maps has been provided to reduce the damage from natural disasters through risk-averse behavior, such as moving house from hazardous area to safer location. In Japan, to promote risk-averse decision making at housing location selection, confirming safety from floods by showing flood hazard maps, have been obligated since 2020, before signing a real estate transaction contract. In this study, we review the effects of the provision of flood hazard map to reduce damage to housing and household belongings, and more effective provisional ways of flood hazard maps.

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In recent years, the creation of individual evacuation plans for people requiring assistance during a disaster has been requested, but it has not been sufficiently promoted. Therefore, we categorized the facts of the evacuation of people requiring assistance in the areas affected by the July 2018 heavy rain disaster in chronological order, and grasped the actual situation and characteristics of evacuation. We have summarized them as key points when creating an individual evacuation plan.

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This study is about a congestion simulation in Mega City, focused on the Tokyo metropolitan area. This simulation can be used not only for quantitative evaluation of policy for stranded commuters, but also for evaluation of evacuation for urban fires by overlaying fire evacuation in Mega City on this simulation.

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The authors present an estimating method for risk-facing populations and numbers of households in terms of their attributes, and of the critical risk level at the meso-spatial level, utilizing open data. We show some empirical results for the possible maximum flooding area by the Mukogawa River, which runs through the urbanized area. We also declare some characteristics and understandings obtained from our empirical results.

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The first purpose of this research is to show how to proceed with domestic and international surveys on EC in order to solve the social problem of SDGs Goal 12, “Responsibility for production and consumption.” Its research includes CE policies, international standards, case studies of advanced industries in companies and local governments. The second research objective is to devise “CE-oriented multi-generational and circular value chain management (VCM)” based on the results of the survey. Then, our research team sets five research themes related to this VCM, and proposes how to proceed with research and development and empirical research on “methodologies” and “system techniques” related to each research theme.

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We need the “Future Strategic Design Producers” who plan and manage a CSV strategy with the goal of the future. Regarding the future, the goal of SDGs has been set by society, and now, we should develop the multi-generational / circular value chain for the global environmental issues. The purpose of this study is to investigate new educational methods that contribute to develop the “Future Strategic Design Producer.”

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The shift from a linear economy to a circular economy requires new marketing methods. While linear businesses expanded touchpoints for segmented targets in order to create a market, circular economies require creating interconnectivity that connects with the all the resources that exist around them. Ao-yama Gakuin University has been working on PBL to plan service businesses that are compatible with Goal 12.3 of SDGs and CSV since 2020 with the aim of developing human resources that can produce the next generation of businesses. Goal 12.3 is “By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the re-tail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses” under Goal 12 of SDGs: “Responsible Production and Consumption”. In this re-search, based on the practical results of PBL, the training method of marketers required in the circular economy was examined.

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The authors have developed a method for designing products (IoT and DX systems) for realizing services in process of the creation and design of services.In this research, we examine the method of product design for environmental problem and the method of creating a business model considering the 3R (reuse, reduce, recycle) of the environment as a Circular Economy, which is currently attracting attention. Here, we develop a design method for environment-oriented product modules using environmental information. Furthermore, we will consider a method to build a business in product module units by combining it with service creation and design methods.

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Today, companies must act understanding their role in the societies they are in. Considering a sustainable global environment in the future, companies are forced to act thinking and planning with a long-term perspective. In such situation, it is essential for companies to design a business with a long-term perspective and a certain level of circularity. In order to do so, companies need to supply products and services which forecast changing in customer value based on careful considerations following a sustainable Earth environment. In this study, we propose a method for designing a platform based on the worldwide shared economy.

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There is an effort to collect successful cases of DX initiatives. However, it has not progressed to develop a DX theory that generalizes the results of problem solving by DX.In this paper, we propose the GAPDC (Goal, Actor, Process, Data, Control) as a framework for creating new DX knowledge by recombining knowledge from different academic fields.

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Using the SECI model as a case study, this paper discusses DX in innovation. In the process of converting tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge (externalization), it is necessary to identify stakeholders with their values and behavioral patterns, and to derive a system architecture that unifies functions (things) and forms (objects) that bring value to them. At the present stage, this DX has not yet been realized, but a significant contribution of computational systems science (systems informatics) is expected. In this presentation, we will consider the path toward the realization of this DX.

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Digital technology has a relationship with various activities of humans, and it needs to work in the direction of improving society in different environments. In the process of digital technology penetrating society, business, engineering activities, etc., it is necessary to think about how to have a relationship with humans, and then promote digital transformation (DX). This paper describes these efforts.

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As a strategic theme for companies, the importance of digital transformation (DX) is increasing. This paper discusses organizational capabilities and management architecture required for DX.

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Insurance companies have a lot of information about risks and accidents. However, such valuable information is not fully used for promoting development and performance improvement of products.The promotion of DX will increase the opportunities to utilize such information, and I'd like to propose a system for promoting development and performance improvement of products by insurance as transdisciplinary knowledge.Specifically, I consider housing performance and computer-aided diagnosis.

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DX is both a means and an end. It is important to clarify the desired end that is described as an architecture of the target system. There are many architecture description languages, such as Systemigram, Archimate, SysML,and OPM. Translation between the languages have been proposed, and an unified approach with UAF is proceeding; IIRA and RAMI are trying to enable interoperability among IIoT systems. Among these integrating activities, categorical approaches have been proposed. This study proposes a categorical approach that abstracts societal viewpoint in Society 5.0.

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This qualitative study explored why employees stay with organizations and why other employees leave focusing on Japanese and Gaishikei firms. The data was collected through interviews, with the conceptual diagrams being reviewed by people engaged with qualitative analysis.

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With the recent penetration of the concept of DX (Digital Transformation), attention is focused on agile development. Agile development is a method of repeating the development and release of each function in a short period of time according to the customer's priority. In this paper, we interviewed people who experienced agile development in actual development sites, and tried to extract features of agile development projects by using text mining.

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In recent years, in society, companies, and organizations, it is often carried out by forming project teams with members belonging to organizations of different cultures, fields, and industries. In this paper, in order to clarify the characteristics of conflicts in projects composed of such highly diverse members, we interviewed the subjects and analyzed their verbatim transcripts based on text mining.

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We are conducting a research and development project on a multi-scale ABSS method for social policy making in the area of “Realization of Society 5.0” of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Project for the Creation of a Future Society (MIRAI). In this paper, we introduce our research in this project and outline our research and development activities for the creation of basic technologies that enable digital social experiments targeting urban and social policies, which is an extension of this project.

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In this paper, we introduce the current situation of synthesized societal data to support real-scale social simulations in data-driven design. In order to conduct real-scale social simulations that target specific geographical areas or regions, the data relating to the specific regions are required. Although Informations on the land or buildings are summarized by Geographical Information Systems, it is difficult to utilize the informations on residents due to privacy reasons. This paper introduces synthetic populations including synthesized households based on the publicly released statistics. We also show synthesized societal data that includes synthetic populations and their activity data.

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We are developing a drone cage as a solution that enables the provision of safe and secure drone flight services without worrying about injuries due to collisions. The benefit is the prevention of hazards such as cuts due to approaching drones, but there is a risk of increased air drag of drone flight. So, we conducted an air drag measurement of the drone cage in a wind tunnel test and evaluated it.

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This paper provides a brief summary of the findings / results which obtained through the revision of the safety standard “JIS A 4722” to further improve the safety of automatic pedestrian doors. Specifically, practical measures that take into account elderly, physically handicapped persons and young children are included. This activity includes responses to the research report / particular instructions on “Accidents Caused by Automatic Doors” from the Consumer Safety Research Committee.

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This paper introduces activities of digital transformation to promote co-creation in care support. The concept of a new care support service that integrates artificial intelligence and robotics technologies is outlined. The digital platform currently under development for practical application of the proposed care service is described within the framework of digital transformation. Initiatives to promote co-creation using the digital platform are presented.

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In this study, we show the analytical result of examining the relationship between the spread of infection and flow of people of 23 wards of Tokyo estimated by Neural Collective Graphical Models using the population distribution statistics data of mobile spatial statistics,in consideration of regional characteristics,in some time periods.

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The purpose of this study is to explore the possibility of cross-sectional joint research planning across academic societies to achieve the aggregate goals of the SDGs indicators. To this end, we will use textual analysis and multivariate data analysis of linguistic information on the 17 SDGs goals and accompanying measurement indicators, as well as presidential addresses of societies affiliated Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology, in order to determine the relationship between the research themes of academic societies and SDGs indicators.

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The SDGs was adopted with the principle of EBPM (Evidence-based Policy Making), which is an idea that policy decisions should be based on, or informed by, objective evidence. The present paper reviews the processes that the SDGs indicators were introduced at the United Nations and how they have been used for global monitoring. Furthermore, the paper argues the challenges that the SDGs indicators have imposed on the international and national statistical systems.

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This study considers methods to measure city states based on grid square statistics and proposes a cloud-based data analytic platform named MESHSTATS. There are several challenges to big data processing techniques for measuring city-states since it needs various types of data sources and wide-area data. Some exam-ples to measure city states with grid square statistics and to produce grid square statistics available information includes physical addresses. Three classes of scenarios for measuring city states in usual life. The paper concludes that grid square statistics can be used for measuring city states from a macroscopic point of views.

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Local SDGs are based on the idea that while each region utilizes its local resources, the region's power can be demonstrated through new combinations of the inside and outside of the region. We are researching Hinohara Village as a target area for local SDGs. Hinohara Village is the only village in Tokyo, excluding the islands. Hinohara Village, which has a forest coverage of 93%, has been promoting the development of a sustainable community using the forest as a resource. Hinohara Village has years when the total fertility rate exceeds 3. We conducted interviews with the mayor of Hinohara Village and field surveys such as the Forest Toy Museum.

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This study examines the effect of introducing outside directors on ESG management at about 340 listed companies in Japan. The results suggest that the quality of outside directors and their understanding of the company are important. In order for outside directors to be effective, it is important for companies themselves to appoint high-quality outside directors by taking into account their own　characteristics, and to encourage outside directors to deepen their understanding of the company.

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To visualize the SDGs promoting status of Enterprises initiatives, we propose five-dimensional capability indices consisting of basic skills, risk analysis skills, vision building skills, practical communication skills, and product design skills.

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From the viewpoints of Japanese Total Quality Management, a problem-solving process for a society coexisting with COVID-19 is proposed based on the structure of quality of society, PDCA, data collection and analysis, and awareness of infection prevention by every citizen. Beｓides, the past measures against COVID-19 are looked back on.

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Each process of solution to the problem over “purpose setting - decision making – act” is accomplished by asking oneself at one's own situation for the behavioral change of top managements and subordinates. This study focuses on the function of Middle Voice which shows that the subject of action is possibly changed by oneself based on 5 patterns of 7 viewpoints about Meta Prevention (the purpose setting, the seesaw model, the prevention, the culture for safety, the rule for safety) and the East-West philosophical and ethical thought. Furthermore, the attitude based on Middle Voice is essential for reforming inspection-medical system by DX (Digital Transformation) highlighted at the time of spreading COVID-19 and preventing problems in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Our study on 3M&I-artifacts body looks at problems from the traditional Taylor-style static to dynamic (cock-pit) management approaches. Since the invention of pair-map (1983) at profit max, we are attempting to advance the on (moving-space)-management by pair (accelerator, brake) matrix approach. This attempt could be now characterized as the problem of profit max by pair (revenue, cost) method, and would be visualized and digitalized such as such a heliocentric vs. geocentric science as mobile “enterprise x computer” robots of SW (middle initiative) base. Finally, a static vs. moving-space automobile-like case on the pair-typed driving map is graphically given and discussed toward the shedding of classic pair-map at 2-center type since 1983.

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In this paper, we first compared ordered queuing vs. flow number methods to visualize cumulative processes for such entities as big data, and showed the anatomy of ellipse-cross type at the economics(engine) vs. reliability(handle) of body map by the last progressive-loop method at GDP case (Matsui, 2022).. Next, we presented a method and examples of virtual engines (square matrix or correlation table and Matsui's equation & ME (M-equation) approach at economic and knowledge systems. Finally, formulation types of AI-like matrix engine are graphically given at a white box, and would contribute to a knowledge-based and digital society of SW (middle initiative) base.

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Each organization (e.g., a retailer, a wholesaler, a maker, a material supplier) of the supply chain (SC) performs the generation of the information with information about the stock on demand, ability, and delivery date. Supply chain management (SCM) is carried out using such information. In other words, it is important to build enough information networks between organizations because a successful SCM uses the necessary information. However, there are few quantitative methods to evaluate the adequacy of the information network in SC. We develop a method to evaluate the adequacy of the information network quantitatively to manage SC by the main subject. In that way, we pay attention to the difference in the structure of the information network for the information of each type and divide an information network into some subnetworks based on the type of the information and evaluate each subnetwork and, as a weighting level of each subnetwork, get evaluation index SCV, and the information network is evaluated comprehensively as SCV. Using the evaluation technique, we evaluated a smart system of Ali Baba. Furthermore, we applied the old and new SC information network evaluations of the plastic wire production company which we evaluated before and compared it.

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A lot of Japanese companies cannot proceed digital transformation efficiently due to the lack of strategic purpose and operation unification. A sample model of lunch box packing line is developed and an actual IoT based case is introduced for the concrete secondary product plant where shortage of processing time of the neck process is completed.

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This study investigates and analyzes the impact of sustainability supply chain management, including corporate environmental and social practices, on financial performance using publicly available sustainability reports from the corporate side.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not the difference of salon shampoo has a change on sensibility evaluation of user. Fifty healthy university students participated in this experiment. Four conditions were required to complete this experiment since there were four kinds of salon shampoo. The subject's sensibility evaluation was measured after wash and dry hair. As one of the results, it was shown that the difference in the efficacy of salon shampoo affects the user's sensibility evaluation.

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Japan is a forest powerhouse on par with Northern Europe. More than 60 forest therapy bases and roads throughout Japan use this forest. Take a leisurely stroll through the forest and be healed. Forest therapy is a hot topic in COVID-19 for mental and physical health. Based on the case of forest therapy, apply it to the framework of the Regional Value Chain and explore the mechanism toward regional revitalization and social innovation.

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It has been a long time since value co-creation services were said to be the completed form of services. However, I have not come across a co-creation service where the transformation beyond the expectation happens in both company and customers. Recently, Tech Residence's share house service is a value co-creation service from any angle and has been successful in terms of business. This paper shows the difference between conventional value co-creation service and advanced value co-creation service, and the case of advanced value co-creation service.

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In addition to general landlord work, we limit the occupations of tenants to the IT field, conduct interviews with applicants, and manage housing that only successful applicants can move into. Not only the operator but also the residents themselves participate and discover mutual value.

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The psychological royalty assessment (structuralization, quantification & discussion) is very important in order to make a logical theory for the activity of the making of fan, while a paradigm shift of the marketing progresses from the making of buyer to the making of fan. In this study, I propose the improved psychological royalty assessment technique whose analysis accuracy improves and which increases on-site satisfaction.

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