Abstract: According to various embodiments, there is provided a passenger load prediction system including: a component configured to detect a wireless device carried by a passenger on a train or a train station platform, the train including a plurality of train cars; a passenger to train car mapper configured to determine a location of the passenger, based on a location of the wireless device; a destination predictor configured to predict a destination of the passenger, based at least in part on an identifier code of the wireless device; and a train car load level estimator configured to predict a respective passenger load of each train car of the plurality of train cars, based on the predicted destination and further based on the determined location of the passenger.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, there is provided a passenger load prediction system including: a component configured to detect a wireless device carried by a passenger on a train or a train station platform, the train including a plurality of train cars; a passenger to train car mapper configured to determine a location of the passenger, based on a location of the wireless device; a destination predictor configured to predict a destination of the passenger, based at least in part on an identifier code of the wireless device; and a train car load level estimator configured to predict a respective passenger load of each train car of the plurality of train cars, based on the predicted destination and further based on the determined location of the passenger.

Abstract: A computer system including a management computer for managing the entire system, an integral apparatus, and a high-level connecting device for connecting the management computer and the integral apparatus is designed so that the management computer retains integral apparatus internal configuration information, configuration information about an integral apparatus to be introduced, that indicates the configuration of the integral apparatus that may possibly be introduced to the system, and lifetime information indicating lifetime of the integral apparatus; obtains connectivity guarantee information indicating whether connectivity between the computer and the storage apparatus is guaranteed or not; selects an integral apparatus to be removed from the system by referring to the lifetime information; selects an integral apparatus to be introduced to the system by referring to the integral apparatus internal configuration information, the configuration information about the integral apparatus to be introduced, an

Abstract: An operating ratio is improved in a vacuum processing apparatus to which a plurality of vacuum transfer chambers are connected through a vacuum transfer intermediate chamber. In a method of operating the vacuum processing apparatus having the plurality of vacuum transfer chambers connected through the vacuum transfer intermediate chamber and a plurality of vacuum processing vessels connected to the vacuum transfer chambers, respectively, the plurality of vacuum transfer chambers are made to communicate through the vacuum transfer intermediate chamber, a purge gas is supplied to the vacuum transfer chamber connected to a lock chamber in the plurality of vacuum transfer chambers, an inside of the transfer chamber of the vacuum transfer chamber which is far from the lock chamber is decompressed/exhausted, and pressures in all the transfer chambers of the plurality of vacuum transfer chambers are raised to be higher than the pressure in the vacuum processing vessel.

Abstract: An information acquisition method whereby a management computer provided with a processor, a memory, and an interface acquires information of a plurality of computers via a network, the method including: a first step in which the management computer sets, in acquisition group information, a group of computers for acquiring information among the plurality of computers; a second step in which the management computer determines a sequence in which information is acquired for each group, then determines the sequence of computers for acquiring information in the group; a third step in which the management computer outputs an instruction for acquiring information of computers in the determined sequence; and a fourth step in which an information acquisition execution unit acquires the information of the computers of each group in the determined sequence on the basis of the instruction to acquire the information.

Abstract: A management apparatus comprises a processor configured to execute a program and a storage resource configured to store the program, wherein the processor executes: an identifying process configured to identify an another job having a scheduled execution period overlapping with a scheduled execution period of an estimation subject job among a plurality of jobs executed at a first server from the plurality of jobs; a calculating process configured to calculate an islanding execution time in which the estimation subject job is executed individually at the first server based on the scheduled execution period of the estimation subject job and the scheduled execution period of the another job identified in the identifying process and a creation process configured to create a schedule which correlates the estimation subject job with the islanding execution time calculated in the calculating process.

Abstract: This invention includes an application server for executing an application and transmitting the execution results to a terminal or other such device connected to a network, and a management server for allocating the application and data on an application server and a storage device, respectively, wherein the management server reallocates the application execution site using: a procedure for obtaining device location information from a device via an application server and selecting, from the location information, an application server that will be the application migration destination; a procedure for indicating the migration-destination application server to the migration-source application server; and a procedure for migrating the application and the data between the application servers.

Abstract: Monitoring apparatus is configured to execute: obtaining pieces of information about access in a first time slot by specifying the first time slot including access to a first apparatus in the system where a response time is long; selecting a feature common to the access in the first time slot from the pieces of information about the access in the first time slot that have been obtained; first extracting from pieces of information about access in a given period of time, pieces of information about access that has the common feature selected as a feature common to the access in the first time slot; and first generating a first graph which shows changes with time in response time, based on the pieces of information about the access having the feature common to the access in the first time slot that have been extracted.

Abstract: A management system manages a plurality of management target devices. A storage device stores one or more rules, plan information, and plan history information. A control device specifies a first cause event that is a candidate of a cause of the event that has occurred in any one of the management target devices based on the one or more rules, specifies a plurality of first plans that can be executed in the case in which the first cause event is a cause based on the plan information, calculates an index value indicating a possibility of succeeding in a failure recovery in the case in which the plan is executed for each of the plurality of first plans based on the plan history information, and displays data indicating any one or more plans of the plurality of first plans according to a display mode decided based on the index value.

Abstract: A management apparatus comprises a processor configured to execute a program and a storage resource configured to store the program, wherein the processor executes: an identifying process configured to identify an another job having a scheduled execution period overlapping with a scheduled execution period of an estimation subject job among a plurality of jobs executed at a first server from the plurality of jobs; a calculating process configured to calculate an islanding execution time in which the estimation subject job is executed individually at the first server based on the scheduled execution period of the estimation subject job and the scheduled execution period of the another job identified in the identifying process and a creation process configured to create a schedule which correlates the estimation subject job with the islanding execution time calculated in the calculating process.

Abstract: Provided is a management system managing a computer system including apparatuses to be monitored. The management system holds configuration information on the computer system, analysis rules and plan execution effect rules. The analysis rules each associates a causal event that may occur in the computer system with derivative events that may occur by effects of the causal event and defines the causal event and the derivative events with types of components in the computer system. The plan execution effect rules each indicates types of components that may be affected by a computer system configuration change and specifics of the effects. The management system identifies a first event that may occur when a first plan changing the computer system configuration is executed using the plan execution effect rules and the configuration information, and identifies a range where the first event affects using the analysis rules and the configuration information.

Abstract: Monitoring apparatus is configured to execute: obtaining pieces of information about access in a first time slot by specifying the first time slot including access to a first apparatus in the system where a response time is long; selecting a feature common to the access in the first time slot from the pieces of information about the access in the first time slot that have been obtained; first extracting from pieces of information about access in a given period of time, pieces of information about access that has the common feature selected as a feature common to the access in the first time slot; and first generating a first graph which shows changes with time in response time, based on the pieces of information about the access having the feature common to the access in the first time slot that have been extracted.

Abstract: A root cause analysis engine uses event survival times and gradual deletion of events to improve analysis accuracy and reduce the number of required calculations. Certainty factors of relevant rules are recalculated every time notification of an event is received. The calculation results are held in a rule memory in the analysis engine. Each event has a survival time, and when the time has expired, that event is deleted from the rule memory. Events held in the rule memory can be deleted without affecting other events held in the rule memory. The analysis engine can then re-calculate the certainty factor of each rule by only performing the re-calculation with respect to affected rules that are related with the deleted event. The calculation cost can be reduced because analysis engine processes events incrementally or decrementally.

Abstract: This invention includes an application server for executing an application and transmitting the execution results to a terminal or other such device connected to a network, and a management server for allocating the application and data on an application server and a storage device, respectively, wherein the management server reallocates the application execution site using: a procedure for obtaining device location information from a device via an application server and selecting, from the location information, an application server that will be the application migration destination; a procedure for indicating the migration-destination application server to the migration-source application server; and a procedure for migrating the application and the data between the application servers.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus including a wafer stage disposed in a processing chamber arranged in a vacuum chamber to hold a wafer as a processing object on a surface of the wafer stage, to conduct processing for the wafer by use of plasma, wherein the wafer includes grooves, each of the grooves extending from a central portion of a surface on which the wafer is held to an outer circumferential edge of the surface, the grooves including openings at the outer circumferential edge, and the processing is conducted in a state in which the wafer is held at predetermined height over an upper surface of the wafer stage.

Abstract: A technique determines which configuration change(s) caused an application invocation failure of a computer application without the need for a knowledge database. To determine which configuration change is the most likely cause, the cause analysis program checks other computers that have experienced the same configuration changes. The cause analysis program checks and counts the application invocation results before and after each configuration change is done. If the same configuration changes are found in the other computers, the program checks whether each configuration change caused or cured the same problem in that computer. The program counts the similar cases for all of the computers. Subsequently, the program calculates the ratio of those instances involving a change from success to failure and the ratio of those instances involving a change from failure to success out of all instances for each configuration change.

Abstract: An information acquisition method whereby a management computer provided with a processor, a memory, and an interface acquires information of a plurality of computers via a network, the method including: a first step in which the management computer sets, in acquisition group information, a group of computers for acquiring information among the plurality of computers; a second step in which the management computer determines a sequence in which information is acquired for each group, then determines the sequence of computers for acquiring information in the group; a third step in which the management computer outputs an instruction for acquiring information of computers in the determined sequence; and a fourth step in which an information acquisition execution unit acquires the information of the computers of each group in the determined sequence on the basis of the instruction to acquire the information.

Abstract: A root cause analysis engine uses event survival times and gradual deletion of events to improve analysis accuracy and reduce the number of required calculations. Certainty factors of relevant rules are recalculated every time notification of an event is received. The calculation results are held in a rule memory in the analysis engine. Each event has a survival time, and when the time has expired, that event is deleted from the rule memory. Events held in the rule memory can be deleted without affecting other events held in the rule memory. The analysis engine can then re-calculate the certainty factor of each rule by only performing the re-calculation with respect to affected rules that are related with the deleted event. The calculation cost can be reduced because analysis engine processes events incrementally or decrementally.

Abstract: A computer system, comprising: at least one computer; at least one network apparatus; at least one storage apparatus; and a plurality of service systems for use in execution of given services, the at least one computer including a system control part for managing the plurality of service systems, the system control part being configured to: hold system configuration information and evaluation information; obtain configuration information of the plurality of service systems from the system configuration information, in a case of evaluating the reliability of the plurality of service systems in the services; calculate the evaluation values of the plurality of service systems; and generate information that indicates the reliability of the plurality of service systems based on the calculated evaluation values.

Abstract: A computer system including a management computer for managing the entire system, an integral apparatus, and a high-level connecting device for connecting the management computer and the integral apparatus is designed so that the management computer retains integral apparatus internal configuration information, configuration information about an integral apparatus to be introduced, that indicates the configuration of the integral apparatus that may possibly be introduced to the system, and lifetime information indicating lifetime of the integral apparatus; obtains connectivity guarantee information indicating whether connectivity between the computer and the storage apparatus is guaranteed or not; selects an integral apparatus to be removed from the system by referring to the lifetime information; selects an integral apparatus to be introduced to the system by referring to the integral apparatus internal configuration information, the configuration information about the integral apparatus to be introduced, an