Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a product purchase support program that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes receiving a first list for a first products for which a first user has performed a certain action from a mobile terminal; specifying a second list for a second products that corresponds to the first products included; and transmitting, to the mobile terminal, information that indicates that the certain action has not been performed for the second products when it is determined that the mobile terminal has moved to a position different from a position where the second products are arranged before information that indicates that the first user has performed the certain action for the second products is received from the mobile terminal.

Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations for recommending version updates for software packages are provided. The operations may include receiving an input which indicates a usage of a first version of a first software package inside a source code of a software and determining a second version of the first software package. The operations may further include selecting one or more constraints from a set of constraints and executing a set of checks based on the selected constraints to determine a suitability of the second version as an update for the first version. The set of constraints may include a security constraint, a backward compatibility constraint, an interoperability constraint, and a performance constraint. The operations may further include controlling an electronic device to render user-assistive information that includes a recommendation to update the first version to the second version.

Abstract: A recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute processing including: specifying a second quantum circuit of which a feature amount regarding communication is similar to a first quantum circuit used for a first quantum simulation, with reference to a first memory that stores a feature amount regarding communication of a quantum circuit, for each quantum circuit for a quantum simulation; calculating a predicted execution time of the first quantum simulation when the number of nodes are allocated for each of numbers of nodes, with reference to a second memory that stores a measured execution time for each number of nodes allocated to a quantum simulation in the past by using the specified second quantum circuit; and determining the number of nodes to be allocated to the first quantum simulation, from among the numbers of nodes, based on the calculated predicted execution time.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a data management program for causing a data management device to execute a process including: accepting, from another data management program among a plurality of data management programs that has accepted, from a data owner, a request for cancellation of consent to data sharing regarding the data sharing among the plurality of data management programs, consent identification information commonly issued to a set of data for which the data sharing has been consented and that is designated by the data owner when the consent to the data sharing is cancelled; and executing deletion of the data that corresponds to the consent identification information that matches the consent identification information accepted by the another data management program among pieces of the consent identification information associated with a data body managed by the data management program.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a flow generation program that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes based on first metadata that corresponds to a first problem of processing flow generation, selecting a processing flow that corresponds to a second problem with second metadata with a certain similarity level with respect to the first metadata by referring to a memory that stores a plurality pieces of metadata and a plurality of processing flows that correspond to each of a plurality of problems, the plurality of problems including the first problem and the second problem; and specifying a tree structure of the process flow that corresponds to the first problem based on genetic programming that uses the selected processing flow as an initial individual.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a first information processing device among information processing devices that manages data in relational databases, to execute processing including: storing, in a first relational database, data of tables, each table of the tables having relevance to at least any one of the tables, the first relational database being a relational database in which the first information processing device manages data; and in response to a request for transmitting a first table among the tables stored in the first relational database, transmitting to a second relational database in which a second information processing device manages data, data of the first table stored in the first relational database, and data of a second table that has relevance to the first table, the second information processing device being any one of the information processing devices other than the first information processing device.

Abstract: A control method in which a computer executes processing includes: specifying a first data group of which a processing load of a query is less than a first reference value, in a first data constellation, based on statistical information that indicates a statistical value regarding the processing load of the query, for each data group to be an access unit of the query, in the first data constellation included in a first execution environment included in a plurality of execution environments that has different data constellations; specifying a second execution environment that has a second data constellation that includes the specified first data group, included in the plurality of execution environments, other than the first execution environment; and controlling the plurality of execution environments to transmit a new query that uses the specified first data group as an access unit to the specified second execution environment.

Abstract: A storing unit stores, amongst coefficients, values of a coefficient group associated with one selected from multiple variable groups, which are obtained by dividing state variables of an evaluation function. A searching unit searches for a solution to an optimization problem by repeating update processing, which includes calculating, using the values of the coefficient group, a value change of the evaluation function responsive to changing the value of each state variable of the variable group and changing the value of one state variable thereof based on the value change and temperature. A processing unit calculates multiplicity indicating the iteration count in which the values of the variable group are maintained in a search using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), and causes, responsive to cumulated multiplicity exceeding a threshold, the searching unit to perform the update processing using the values of the coefficient group associated with a different variable group.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a navigation monitoring program that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes acquiring direction information that indicates a direction of a vessel and position information that indicates a position of the vessel; and predicting whether or not the vessel navigates along a course by inputting the acquired direction information and the acquired position information to a prediction model generated by machine learning by using direction information and position information for each of a plurality of vessels that has navigated in the past and a correct answer label that indicates whether or not each of the plurality of vessels navigates along a course.

Abstract: A touch panel device includes a first conductive film having first and second regions, at least a part of the first conductive film between the first and the second regions being removed, a second conductive film laminated on the first conductive film across a gap, first and second terminals that output signals, a first electrode electrically connected to the first terminal, a second electrode facing the first electrode across the first region, a first resistor provided on the first conductive film in the second region and having a pair of electrodes, the pair of electrodes facing each other across a first resistance region in the first conductive film, one of the electrodes being electrically connected to the second electrode, the other of the electrodes being electrically connected to the second terminal, and a first switch electrically connecting the first conductive film to the second conductive film, in the second region.

Abstract: A method of controlling a traffic system having a plurality of intersections with switchable traffic lights and road sections located between the intersections includes detecting traffic loads of multiple relevant road sections, determining a local stress function for each relevant road section depending on the detected traffic load of the respective relevant road section, determining a global stress function for the entire traffic system based on the local stress functions, determining, using a quantum concept processor, improved switching times for the traffic lights of the intersections adjacent to the relevant road sections, wherein the improved switching times are determined such that the global stress function reaches a smallest detectable value, and switching the traffic lights according to a switching model based on the improved switching times.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication device, and a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device includes: a communicator that delivers, to the second wireless communication device, data addressed to a third wireless communication device and receives, from the second wireless communication device, information on communication quality according to failed data of which delivery fails among the data delivered from the second wireless communication device to the third wireless communication device; and a controller that controls delivery of the data in accordance with the information on the communication quality.

Abstract: A data management method causes a computer to execute processing including: creating, when a predetermined data processing program performs data processing, based on an access frequency to a data store, high-frequency state item list information obtained by listing high-frequency state items of which the access frequency is high; determining, when state information that includes a value of the high-frequency state item is written to the data store, whether or not the state information corresponds to the high-frequency state item with reference to the high-frequency state item list information; grouping and writing pieces of the state information of a plurality of the high-frequency state item.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a transmission support program that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes generating a management identifier of a message in response to reception of the message; returning the management identifier to a transmitter of the message; when receiving the management identifier and lists of personal identifiers of individuals who have attributes according to conditions regarding the attributes, from each of a plurality of companies that holds information on the attributes of the individuals, based on reception of the conditions and the management identifier from the transmitter, specifying the personal identifiers that are duplicate between the lists that have the management identifier that is common; and transmitting the specified personal identifiers and the received message.

Abstract: A communication adapter connected to an indoor unit included in an air conditioner includes a communication unit, a determination unit, and a communication control unit. The communication unit communicates data to an air conditioning control apparatus that performs centralized control of a plurality of air conditioners. The determination unit determines whether or not transmission target data is communicated by using encryption communication. The communication control unit controls, when the transmission target data is communicated by using the encryption communication, the communication unit in order to communicate the transmission target data by using the encryption communication. Consequently, it is possible to decrease a laying cost of a dedicated communication cable and reduce a communication load needed for data communication related to the air conditioners in an existing communication network at the time of central control performed on the air conditioners.

Abstract: A wavelength converter includes: a first multiplexer that combines input signal light with wavelength-conversion excitation light; a second multiplexer that combines the signal light with Raman excitation light; a first nonlinear optical medium that generates wavelength-converted light of the signal light, based on a nonlinear optical effect; and a second nonlinear optical medium that amplifies wavelength-converted light of the signal light output from the first nonlinear optical medium. A wavelength of the Raman excitation light being a wavelength within an amplification band that allows Raman amplification of wavelength-converted light.

Abstract: A method may include obtaining variables that represent characteristics related to an optimization problem and weights that correspond to the variables. The variables may be divided into groups that each include a sub-set of the variables. The method may include obtaining a group local field matrix for each group of variables. Each local field matrix may include local field values that indicate interactions between a respective variable and the other variables as influenced by their respective weights. The method may include performing a semi-sequential trial process, which may be a stochastic process that includes performing trials with respect to the variables in which each trial determines whether to change a state of a variable. The semi-sequential trial process may include updating all of the group local field matrices based on the stochastic process results, and a solution to the optimization problem may be determined based on the results.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes identifying, among pieces of feature information of a plurality of pieces of time-series data, a plurality of pieces of feature information similar to feature information of processing target time-series data, obtaining a predicted value distribution of the processing target time-series data based on each of the plurality of pieces of feature information, obtaining a combined distribution from the predicted value distribution, and determining a range of predicted value for the processing target time-series data based on the combined distribution.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an information management program for causing a computer to execute processing including: receiving distribution information obtained by attaching, to distribution content to be distributed by a user, attribute information on the user that includes signature information that is signed by an issuing authority that issues information regarding an attribute of the user and that proves that the issuing authority has issued the attribute information; verifying whether the attribute information on the user included in the distribution information is the attribute information issued by the issuing authority, by using the signature information; and outputting the distribution content, based on a verification result.

Abstract: An optical transmission device configured to: receive an input of signal interruption information from a second optical transmission device that detects a signal interruption of signal light on a transmission path, and to receive an input of ASE light after the signal interruption, has a wavelength selective switch configured to drop and/or add signal light; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: switch, based on the input of the signal interruption information from the second optical transmission device, control of output of the wavelength selective switch from a constant level control of the output, to a constant level control of attenuation for holding an amount of the attenuation of the signal light constant; and return the constant level control of the attenuation to the constant level control of the output, after the input of the ASE light.