Abstract: A lighting device includes a white LED, a full-color LED, and a reflecting portion. The reflecting portion reflects light from the white LED and the full-color LED. A microcomputer turns on the full-color LED to emit light containing a red light component while the white LED is on. Further, the white LED and the full-color LED are arranged so that reflected lights thereof reflected by the reflecting portion are mixed to perform illumination. Thereby, direct lights of the white LED and the full-color LED cannot be visually recognized. Further, light from the white LED with a lot of blue components is compensated with light containing a red component from the full-color LED, and spectral distribution can be made even and illumination close to that of natural light can be performed.

Abstract: A process model is created from site data generated in a process. A process model creation system includes: a site data acquiring section that acquires, as site data, task information related to one or more tasks implemented for a process including the tasks, and task-related information related to the implemented tasks; an instance creating section that creates a step instance by associating the task-related information with the corresponding task information; and a process model creating section that creates, from one or more step instances, a process model which is a model representing a relationship between the one or more tasks in the process.

Abstract: A lighting device includes a white LED, a full-color LED, and a reflecting portion. The reflecting portion reflects light from the white LED and the full-color LED. A microcomputer turns on the full-color LED to emit light containing a red light component while the white LED is on. Further, the white LED and the full-color LED are arranged so that reflected lights thereof reflected by the reflecting portion are mixed to perform illumination. Thereby, direct lights of the white LED and the full-color LED cannot be visually recognized. Further, light from the white LED with a lot of blue components is compensated with light containing a red component from the full-color LED, and spectral distribution can be made even and illumination close to that of natural light can be performed.

Abstract: A solution is calculated using a tree search within a limited calculation time. A solution searching device that performs solution search using a search tree includes a search tree expanding unit that creates a node based on options until a stop condition is satisfied, an evaluation calculation unit that calculates an evaluation value for an leaf node using a first evaluation method, and a search solution determination unit that sequentially updates an evaluation value of an upper node based on an evaluation value of a lower node to determine a search solution.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information collection and display system in which a data generation device that generates site data and a transaction data accumulation unit that stores the site data are connected. The information collection and display system includes an association data accumulation unit that stores association data defining association of each of a plurality of pieces of information included in the site data; an association data search unit that searches for second information associated with first information included in the plurality of pieces of information, on the basis of the association data; and a user interface that displays a connection relation of the plurality of pieces of information associated by the association data.

Abstract: A grinding apparatus includes a holding unit including a holding table having a holder for holding a workpiece and a grinding water suction part for drawing in grinding water outside of the holder, a rotational shaft having an end fixed centrally to a bottom surface of the holding table, a tubular rotary joint surrounding the rotational shaft, and a motor rotating the rotational shaft about its own axis. The rotational shaft has a first suction channel held in fluid communication with the holder of the holding table and a second suction channel held in fluid communication with the grinding water suction part. The rotary joint has a communication channel by which the first suction channel and the second suction channel are held in fluid communication with at least a suction source.

Abstract: A supply chain model generation system independently uses a business entity code and an item code representing an item related to a transaction in result information on a supply chain operation of a plurality of business entities; transaction information is extracted from the result information and a transaction time series information table is generated; a relationship in the transaction time series information table in each business entity is analyzed and a virtual business entity code on a supply side and a virtual business entity code on a demand side are assigned for each business entity code; and further a logical model information table where a virtual item code is assigned with respect to an item code related to the transaction of a business entity of the virtual business entity code on the supply side and a business entity of the virtual business entity code on the demand side is generated.

Abstract: To shorten the simulation time without deteriorating the simulation accuracy. In a supply chain simulation system which performs simulation of a supply chain, a simulation data dividing unit creates a plurality of simulation divided input data obtained by consolidating and classifying, based on the transport-related information of each of the divided groups, simulation input data related to products of the plurality of items for each item in which the transport-related information of each of the divided groups are closely related to each other, and a plurality of simulators individually execute division simulation based on the plurality of simulation divided input data.

Abstract: A grinding apparatus includes a holding unit including a holding table having a holder for holding a workpiece and a grinding water suction part for drawing in grinding water outside of the holder, a rotational shaft having an end fixed centrally to a bottom surface of the holding table, a tubular rotary joint surrounding the rotational shaft, and a motor rotating the rotational shaft about its own axis. The rotational shaft has a first suction channel held in fluid communication with the holder of the holding table and a second suction channel held in fluid communication with the grinding water suction part. The rotary joint has a communication channel by which the first suction channel and the second suction channel are held in fluid communication with at least a suction source.

Abstract: A vehicle body front structure includes left and right front side frames including at least left and right front bending portions, left and right middle bending portions, and left and right rear bending portions. The left and right front bending portions are bent to project inwards in a vehicle's width direction by a collision load exerted on a front end of a vehicle body, whereby the left and right front bending portions restrain a power unit. The left and right middle bending portions are situated spaced apart to the rear from the left and right front bending portions. The left and right rear bending portions are situated spaced apart to the rear from the left and right middle bending portions, are bent outwards in the vehicle's width direction, and absorb collision energy when struck by the power unit moved rearward together with the left and right front bending portions.

Abstract: A vehicle body front structure includes left and right front side frames including at least left and right front bending portions, left and right middle bending portions, and left and right rear bending portions. The left and right front bending portions are bent to project inwards in a vehicle's width direction by a collision load exerted on a front end of a vehicle body, whereby the left and right front bending portions restrain a power unit. The left and right middle bending portions are situated spaced apart to the rear from the left and right front bending portions. The left and right rear bending portions are situated spaced apart to the rear from the left and right middle bending portions, are bent outwards in the vehicle's width direction, and absorb collision energy when struck by the power unit moved rearward together with the left and right front bending portions.

Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for failure analysis are provided. Using aggregation flow mining (AFM) or a similar method, an integrated mining of flow (IMF) acquires, from each router to be tested, information relating to each flow. The IMF, in relation to each of the routers, obtains distributions of statistical information such as throughput or difference for each flow; calculates, in relation to each of the distributions, a Mahalanobis distance in relation to the expected value of a reference distribution; and makes a comprehensive assessment of the distributions to perform a fault determination. When the fault determination is performed, a normal value of the distribution used for comparison is acquired from AFM and updated through feedback as needed. After the results of fault determination relating to other routers are assessed, the expected value of the standard deviation and the average value of the reference distribution used for comparison are updated.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: an information acquisition process control unit for selecting an information piece to be selected and sending an instruction to a communication unit; the communication unit for transmitting an information acquisition request to other information processing device connected via a network, and acquiring information from the other information processing device according to the instruction; and a storage unit storing a display amount information indicating the amount of display information which can be displayed on a display unit at once. The information acquisition process control unit instructs the communication unit to acquire more information than the amount indicated by the display amount information. This realizes an effective information acquisition and appropriate user-friendliness.

Abstract: Conventional network tomography techniques do not allow the location or cause of a failure to be specified, and false positives are common due to lack of information. Using aggregation flow mining (AFM) or a similar method, an IMF (102) acquires, from each router (105) to be tested, information in relation to each flow. The IMF, in relation to each of the routers, obtains distributions of statistical information such as throughput or difference for each flow; calculates, in relation to each of the distributions, a Mahalanobis distance in relation to the expected value of a reference distribution; and makes a comprehensive assessment of the distributions to perform a fault determination. When the fault determination is performed, a normal value of the distribution used for comparison is acquired from AFM and updated through feedback as needed.

Abstract: In the disclosed method for supporting the setting of a service, an allocation set that designates the allocation of a program to an information processing device is generated, the service response time and the consumed system power during use of each allocation set are calculated, and from these evaluation results, an allocation set that meets a standard service response time and reduces consumed system power is selected.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to enhance the followability of the automatic scaling of a whole system corresponding to an increase of requests in a service linkage system for linking plural services. A cloud that executes intermediate service receives an estimate of the output of service at a previous stage by an output rate estimating unit and an information gathering response from a cloud management server, estimates an output rate, and outputs the estimate to service at a following stage. A scaling control unit receives the estimate of the output of the service at the previous stage and the information gathering response, determines resources allocated to the intermediate service, and outputs a scaling request to the cloud management server and the output rate estimating unit.

Abstract: In hybrid peer-to-peer type content delivery, a server confirms user's intension as to content disclosure, guarantees content delivery by mutual authentication between a client to which content has been delivered and a client to which content has not been delivered, and guarantees the integrity of content having been delivered. Further, the server configures delivery connection based on the network relationship between the clients and priority factors taking account of a reservation status.

Abstract: For providing a user a plural number of trans-coding services with using a plural number of trans-coding services, at high speed, within a home network environment, an information processing apparatus is provided with a function of providing a list of formats, on which format conversion can be made, to a home server, and a function of managing the format conversion processes with using process identifiers, which are shared in common with the server and the information processing apparatus, each of the process identifiers being tied with information of a format conversion method, wherein the format conversion is executed upon a part of contents divided within the home server, following the process identifier designated by the home server, to grasp performances of the information processing apparatuses by measuring throughput per a unit time in the format conversion, and an adjustment is made on an amount of data to be transferred from the home server to the information processing apparatus in the next time, th

Abstract: The playback of contents in the course of progressive download is stopped depending on the information of the contents and network environments. Also, contents in the course of the playback of progressive download cannot be fast forwarded. When progressive download is indicated, a contents receiving terminal dynamically allocates resources (bus band, CPU, etc.) used in other stream processing within the receiving terminal and fast downloads a portion not downloaded to avoid the interruption of playing contents. Furthermore, the receiving terminal transmits a required communication band to a home gateway, which performs band control with other communications within a home network to allocate a maximum allocatable communication band to the contents receiving terminal.

Abstract: In hybrid peer-to-peer type content delivery, a server confirms user's intension as to content disclosure, guarantees content delivery by mutual authentication between a client to which content has been delivered and a client to which content has not been delivered, and guarantees the integrity of content having been delivered. Further, the server configures delivery connection based on the network relationship between the clients and priority factors taking account of a reservation status.