Abstract: According to an embodiment, a search device includes a first storage to store therein a keyword group generated by grouping keyword candidates which are to be candidates for a search keyword according to a rule set in advance; a first acquisition unit to acquire a first recommended keyword which is the keyword candidate partially including an input string not yet been entered; a second acquisition unit to acquire a second recommended keyword which is included in the keyword group to which the first recommended keyword belongs and which is the keyword candidate other than the first recommended keyword; an output unit to output a search screen for displaying the first recommended keyword and the second recommended keyword in a selectable way; and a search unit to perform a search with the first recommended keyword or the second recommended keyword selected on the search screen as the search keyword.

Abstract: An authentication system of an embodiment includes a control device, a user terminal, and a service providing device. The control device includes a storage unit, an information acquisition unit, an authentication processing unit, and a control management unit. The information acquisition unit acquires the authentication element for authentication.

Abstract: [PROBLEM] To assist in improvement of health and beauty of a user based on collected health and beauty statuses of the user and statuses of actions regarding health and beauty performed by the user. [SOLVING MEANS] A health information system according to embodiments is a system including a measurement apparatus configured to measure a health and beauty status of a user, an action status acquirement apparatus configured to acquire a history of actions regarding health and beauty performed by the user, and a management apparatus connected over a network to the measurement apparatus and the action status acquirement apparatus. The management apparatus associates health and beauty measurement information with the history of actions and stores the health and beauty measurement information and the history of actions of the user daily in time sequence.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a deduplication controller in a tiered storage system excludes data duplication physical chunk by physical chunk. Based on the input/output statistics of logical chunks, a tiering controller in the system acquires the input/output statistics of physical chunks, each of which is allocated to one or more of the logical chunks. Based on the input/output statistics of the physical chunks, the tiering controller further executes at least an operation of relocating the data of a physical chunk in a first storage device to a physical chunk in a second storage device that is lower in access speed, or an operation of relocating the data of a physical chunk in the second storage device to a physical chunk in the first storage device.

Abstract: A data analyzing apparatus of an embodiment generates a format variation, analytical algorithm name, and analytical parameter not stored in a first storage device, and executes analysis. The data analyzing apparatus determines whether the application accuracy is lower than the knowledge model accuracy. If the determination result is “not lower”, the data analyzing apparatus reactivates a format variation generating device and an analytical parameter generating device. If the determination result is “lower”, the data analyzing apparatus reads out a format variation and knowledge model name associated with the highest priority order in the first storage device, and executes analysis.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a structured document management device includes a query data receiving unit; a structural condition dividing unit; a structural condition rewriting unit; and a query execution unit. The query data receiving unit is configured to receive query data for searching a structured document. The structural condition dividing unit is configured to divide the query data into elements including a structural condition. The structural condition rewriting unit is configured to rewrite the structural condition into a rewritten query when a type of the structural condition is other than a descendant structural condition. The rewritten query is predetermined to include a joining process with a descendant structural condition so as not to affect structural conditions appearing before and after the structural condition. The query execution unit is configured to output a search result in response to query data that includes the structural condition and the rewritten query.

Abstract: [PROBLEM] To provide a technology of effectively using supplied electric power through adjustment of a charge schedule period of an EV. [SOLVING MEANS] A charge period adjusting apparatus according to embodiments includes an acquiring section and a control section. The acquiring section is configured to acquire a power supply schedule amount of an electric system including a charger connected during charge of an electric vehicle. The control section is configured to set a charge period such that the electric vehicle is charged by the charger in a time frame in which the power supply schedule amount acquired by the acquiring section exceeds a threshold value.

Abstract: Provided is a knowledge extracting apparatus for extracting knowledge information related to a knowledge-extraction target from an electronic document distributed continually in a state where the electronic document is not associated with the knowledge-information extraction target. A knowledge extracting apparatus according to one embodiment is a knowledge extracting apparatus including: an information receiving section for receiving an electronic document; a knowledge extracting section for extracting a concept from the electronic document based on a target word to extract knowledge information and a clue word to extract knowledge information and forming knowledge information in which the concept thus extracted and the target word are associated with each other; a storage section for storing the knowledge information thus extracted; and an information analysis section for, after the knowledge information is stored, analyzing the electronic document based on the knowledge information in the storage section.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tiered storage system includes a first storage device, a second storage device and a storage controller. The storage controller determines, when a range of an access request to a logical unit extends over some of logical extents in the logical unit, that these logical extents are correlated with each other. The storage controller transfers data of a set of the correlated logical extents as one extent group collectively in units of physical extents between the first storage device and the second storage device.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a first controller, an acceptor, a generator, and a second controller. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire characteristic information on a subject. The first controller is configured to generate a screen according to the acquired characteristic information and display the display screen on a first display. The screen contains clothing images corresponding to the acquired characteristic information in first information in which the characteristic information and the clothing images are associated with each other. The acceptor is configured to accept from the subject a selection of an image of clothing to be tried on from among the clothing images displayed on the first display. The generator is configured to generate a composite image of a subject image of the subject and the selected clothing image. The second controller is configured to display the composite image on a second display.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a storage, first data in which a sequence number indicating a write-completion order is associated with each erase unit area included in areas of the storage, second data indicating a relationship between each write interval and each write destination, a selection module which obtains the erase unit area corresponding to a logical address of target data to be written, calculates a write interval of the target data from a difference between the sequence number at an occurrence time of writing and the sequence number corresponding to the erase unit area of the first data, and selects the write destination corresponding to the write interval of the target data, and a write module which writes the target data to the selected write destination, and changes the sequence number when writing is completed for one erase unit area.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tiered storage system includes a tiered storage device and a computer. The computer uses the tiered storage device, and includes a file system and a correction support unit. If an access request from an application is a write request to request overwriting of data, the file system executes a copy-on-write operation. The correction support unit causes the storage controller to carry over an access count manacled by the storage controller and associated with the logical block address of a copy source in the copy-on-write operation, to an access count associated with the logical block address of a copy destination in the copy-on-write operation.

Abstract: A storage system includes a storage unit and a control unit. Data is stored in the storage unit. The control unit performs replication of data that is updated, based on the frequency with which the data is updated. The control unit may include a frequency detection unit, a policy management unit, and a replication performance unit. The frequency detection unit detects the update frequency with which the data is updated, by detecting the number of times that the data is updated. The policy management unit determines a replication policy for the data based on the update frequency with which the data is updated. The replication performance unit performs replication of the updated data based on the replication policy.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a data processing device includes an extractor, a generator, and a constructor. The extractor is configured to extract, from a document having been subjected to predicate argument structure analysis and anaphora resolution, an element sequence including elements each being a combination of predicate having a shared argument and case type information of the shared argument, together with the shared argument. The generator is configured to produce case example data expressed by a feature vector for each attention element which is one of the elements. The feature vector includes feature value(s) about a sub-sequence having the attention element and feature value(s) about a sequence of the shared argument corresponding to the sub-sequence. The constructor is configured to construct a script model for estimating the elements each following antecedent context by performing machine learning based on a discriminative model using the case example data.

Abstract: A network monitoring device according to an embodiment monitors a message that is periodically transmitted in a network in which a message identified by an identifier is transmitted and received, and includes a reception time recording unit and an unauthorized-transmission determination unit. The reception time recording unit records a reception time in association with the identifier, every time a message to be monitored is received. The unauthorized-transmission determination unit determines presence of an unauthorized transmission on the received message to be to be monitored, based on a latest reception time Ti, an m previous reception time Ti-m, a message transmission period F, and a constant ? determined in advance, in a period from the reception time Ti-m to the reception time Ti, every time the message to be monitored is received.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tiered storage system includes a first storage device, a second storage device and a storage controller. The first and second storage devices are positioned as an upper tier and a lower tier, respectively. The storage controller transfers data of q physical extents in the second storage device to q free physical extents in the first storage device, when an access request from a host computer designates access to one or more logical blocks including a first logical block, the first logical block is included in a first logical extent, and the first logical extent belongs to an extent group including q logical extents to which the q physical extents are allocated.

Abstract: A storage unit of a time-series data accumulation device of an embodiment stores statistical value data. A determination unit determines an interval function on the basis of data capacity, and a total amount of time elapsed from the beginning of measurement of a time-series data. A first calculation unit calculates an interval indicating an amount of time required to measure all the time-series data items constituting desired statistical value data on the basis of the determined interval function. A second calculation unit acquires all the time-series data items on the basis of the calculated interval, and thereafter calculates the statistical value on the basis of all the acquired time-series data items. A write unit writes the calculated statistical value to the storage unit as the statistical value data.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a RAID storage system includes a RAID storage device and a storage controller. The RAID storage device includes at least one RAID array. The at least one RAID array has a plurality of stripe groups. The storage controller controls access to the at least one RAID array. The storage controller includes an input/output controller and a patrol controller. The input/output controller executes one of a write access and a read access to a requested stripe group in the at least one RAID array according to an access request from a host device. The patrol controller patrols a stripe group having been subjected to write access, more preferentially than other stripe groups.

Abstract: A train scheduling diagram correction apparatus complies earliest and latest timings of a node on a schedule line placed in a shift direction and updates a network diagram by correcting a running hour/minute of the same train between a pair of neighboring trans on the schedule line placed in a schedule line shift direction on the basis of constraint time requirement data of arcs relating to the corresponding nodes in response to shift point information of the schedule line input from an input unit.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a storage device includes a shingled magnetic recording device, a management unit, selection unit, and execution unit. The shingled magnetic recording device performs writing in unit of a band including tracks being adjacent to and partially overlapping with each other. The management unit manages management information mutually associating band identifier of the band, characteristic information indicating a possibility that data stored in the band is not referred to, and data identifier of the data in a case where the data is stored in the band. The selection unit selects the band of the shingled magnetic recording device storing the data based on the data and the characteristic information in a case where the shingled magnetic recording device is requested to store the data. The execution unit stores the data to the selected band.