Abstract: An entrustee information transmitting method includes an entrustment managing storage storing entrustment relationship information indicating correspondence between entrusters who are voters performing entrustment and entrustees who are voters entrusted by the entrusters in an entrustment managing storage unit; an attendance managing storage storing attendance information of respective voters in an attendance managing storage unit in units of bills; an indirect-entrustment voter extracting operation of extracting one or more indirect-entrustment voter who indirectly entrust an attendee by using the entrustment relationship information and the attendance information; an entrustee determining operation of determining attendees who are indirectly entrusted by the indirect-entrustment voters to be recommended entrustees; and an entrustee information transmitting operation of transmitting information of the recommended entrustees.

Abstract: An electronic bulletin board apparatus and method enabling a second user to answer a question of a first user using an answer input picture, including generating guide information for guiding the second user to an answer input picture as a guide destination picture through which to respond to a first question of the first user based on a second question that is similar to the first question, and posting the guide information in an answer input picture as a posting destination picture through which to respond to the second question.

Abstract: Detailed information of each analysis subject partial network is displayed on a left pane of a screen. The detailed information includes the number of nodes, the number of edges, and accumulative coverage of the analysis subject partial network for each disease. Based on the detailed information, a user can designate the analysis subject partial network of a disease the user wishes to analyze. When the user has designated the disease, a network diagram indicating a partial network related to the designated disease is displayed on a right pane.

Abstract: In a device, a generating unit generates the document-information sets corresponding to each joint-author from the relevant-document information set, an analysis-result storing unit stores the result of the user's analyzing the document-information sets corresponding to each joint-author in the analysis-result DB as a topic, an analysis-result integrating unit integrates the joint author's topics stored in the analysis-result DB and displays the topics integrated as the integrated analysis-result screen. Appropriate screens are displayed to support selection of the target for the analysis using the document-information sets that the generating unit generates corresponding to each joint-author.