Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes: a binder to bind multiple sheets at a binding position to form a sheet bundle; a sheet inserter having an opening into which the sheet bundle is insertable from an outside of the sheet inserter to a bindable region having the binding position; and a binding position verifier allowing the multiple sheets, inserted from the opening to the bindable region, to be verifiable from an outside of the sheet inserter.

Abstract: A medium processing device includes a conveyor to convey multiple sheets in a conveyance direction; a tray to stack the multiple sheets; a first binder to perform a first binding process; a second binder to perform a second binding process; a common guide extending in a main scanning direction; a first branch guide branched from one end of the common guide in the main scanning direction to a first standby position; and a second branch guide branched from the one end of the common guide in the main scanning direction to a second standby position. The first binder is movable between the first standby position and the manual binding position along the first branch guide and the common guide. The second binder is movable between the second standby position and the manual binding position along the second branch guide and the common guide.

Abstract: To further reduce the number of times draft agreement candidates are provided until a consensus forms, a negotiation apparatus includes a disclosed negotiation strategy provision section that provides a first disclosed negotiation strategy that is a disclosed negotiation strategy of a first negotiation entity and that includes a first utility function or a parameter set defining the first utility function.

Abstract: A media processing apparatus includes: an internal tray; an ejection tray; a first conveyor to convey a sheet medium in a first conveyance direction leading to the ejection tray via the internal tray; a second conveyor to convey the medium in a second conveyance direction; a binder including a pair of clampers to clamp sheet media stacked on the internal tray and being switchable among an out-of-contact state in which the clampers are out of contact, a clamping state in which the media are clamped by the clampers, and a binding state in which the media are pressed and bound by the clampers. The circuitry switches the binder into the clamping state when an (N+1)-th sheet medium is conveyed in the first direction while contacting an N-th sheet medium in a state in which N sheets of sheet media are stacked on the internal tray, N being a natural number.

Abstract: A media conveying apparatus includes: a pair of first defining members defining an upstream part of a conveyance path in a conveyance direction; a pair of second defining members defining a downstream part of the conveyance path in the conveyance direction; a first conveyor to convey a medium in the upstream part in the conveyance direction; a second conveyor to convey the medium in the downstream part in the conveyance direction; and a tray disposed downstream from the pair of second defining members in the conveyance direction. The tray stacks the medium ejected from the conveyance path. The pair of first defining members and the pair of second defining members are movable relative to each other in the conveyance direction to lengthen and shorten the conveyance path including the upstream part and the downstream part.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: an ejection tray; an internal tray; a first conveyor to convey a sheet medium in a first direction in which the sheet medium is ejected to the ejection tray; a second conveyor to come into contact with and separate from sheet media stacked on the internal tray to convey the sheet media in a second direction different from the first direction; a crimp binder downstream from the internal tray in the second direction to execute crimp binding on the sheet media stacked on the internal tray; and control circuitry. When a subsequent sheet medium, which is subsequent to a preceding sheet medium of the sheet media stacked on the internal tray, is conveyed in the first direction while contacting the preceding sheet medium, the control circuitry causes the crimp binder to press a downstream end of the preceding sheet medium in the second direction.

Abstract: A medium processing apparatus for processing a medium ejected from an image forming apparatus includes a conveyor, a slit, a medium processing device, a stopper, and detectors. The conveyor conveys the medium ejected from the image forming apparatus. The slit communicates with an opening of a housing into which a medium is manually inserted from outside and includes a placement face on which the inserted medium is placed. The placement face has a first side and a second side orthogonal to the first side. The first and second sides are not parallel to a direction in which a side face of the housing extends. The medium processing device processes the medium conveyed by the conveyor or the medium placed on the slit. The stopper regulates edges of the medium along the first and second sides of the placement face. The detectors are disposed on the stopper to detect the medium.

Abstract: A liquid application device for applying liquid to a plurality of media to be crimped by a crimping device includes a liquid applier and a liquid-applier moving mechanism. The liquid applier applies liquid to the plurality of media. The liquid-applier moving mechanism moves the liquid applier to a first position at which the liquid applier applies liquid to a medium on a conveyance path in the liquid application device and a second position at which the liquid applier applies liquid to the plurality of media inserted through a liquid application slit of the liquid application device.

Abstract: A sheet processing device includes an upstream device, a downstream device, and a controller as circuitry. The upstream device includes multiple rollers to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction and perform a sheet processing. The downstream device is downstream from the upstream device in the conveyance direction. The downstream device includes a sheet sensor to detect the sheet. The controller controls a timing to rotate the multiple rollers of the upstream device to perform the sheet processing in response to a detection of the sheet by the sheet sensor.

Abstract: A sheet folder includes a conveyor conveying a sheet, a first folding roller and a second folding roller that form a first nip, a third folding roller forming a second nip with the second folding roller, a first guide movable between a first guide posture and a first retracted posture, a second guide movable between a second guide posture and a second retracted posture, and a motor. The motor rotates the second folding roller forward to convey the sheet toward the first nip, reverse to convey the sheet toward the second nip, moves the first guide to arrange in the first guide in the first guide posture or the first retracted posture, and moves the second guide to arrange the second guide in the second guide posture or the second retracted posture.

Abstract: The calculation means 82 calculates an accumulated material number by accumulating the number of materials in time series from a predetermined point in the past, and calculates the available number of materials by subtracting a cumulative production capacity accumulated up to an immediately preceding unit period among cumulative production capacities, each of which is a value obtained by accumulating a production capacity in each unit period in time series from the accumulated material number. Then, the calculation means 82 determines the smaller one of the number of products that can be produced, which is calculated based on the process capability, and the number of products that can be produced, which is calculated based on the available number of materials, as the production capacity, and accumulates the production capacities in time series from a predetermined point in the past to calculate the cumulative production capacity for each unit period.

Abstract: A negotiation apparatus capable of efficiently conducting appropriate negotiations is provided. A negotiation apparatus (1) includes a condition acquisition unit (2), a calculation unit (4), and an operation decision unit (6). The condition acquisition unit (2) acquires a demand condition including one or more elements regarding demand for a commodity or a service. The calculation unit (4) calculates a utility value of the acquired demand condition using a predetermined utility function based on resource information. The resource information indicates availability status of one or more resources required to provide the commodity or the like. The operation decision unit (6) decides a negotiation operation, which is an operation regarding a negotiation for providing the commodity or the like based on the calculated utility value.

Abstract: A negotiation system 20 for negotiating with an order-placing side who presents, to an order-receiving side that provides any product or service, an order that represents a request for provision of the any product or service, includes: a determination unit 21 which determines whether execution conditions according to an existing order from the order-placing side can be changed; a planning unit 22 which prepares an order-receiving plan for execution conditions according to a new order from the order-placing side and execution conditions according to the existing order after changing of an execution condition determined to be changeable; and a utility computation unit 23 which computes a utility based on the order-receiving plan.

Abstract: An order-receiving-side negotiation device 20 for negotiating with an order-placing source who presents, to an order-receiving side that provides any product or service, an order proposal that represents a request for provision of the any product or service under predetermined negotiation conditions, includes: a planning unit 21 which prepares one or more negotiation candidates based on the predetermined negotiation conditions presented in the order proposal; an order-receiving-side's utility computation unit 22 which computes utility values for the order-receiving side with respect to the negotiation candidates; an order-placing source's utility estimation unit 23 which estimates utility values for the order-placing source with respect to the negotiation candidates; and a negotiation candidate determination unit 24 which determines a negotiation candidate with respect to the order proposal from among the plurality of negotiation candidates based on both the utility values for the order-receiving side and the

Abstract: A negotiation candidate generation unit 82 generates a negotiation candidate of a receiving side for an assumed order from an ordering side and makes store the negotiation candidate in a negotiation candidate storage unit 81. A negotiation condition receiving unit 83 receives negotiation conditions from the ordering side. A negotiation candidate sending unit 84 sends a corresponding negotiation candidate stored in the negotiation candidate storage unit 81 to the ordering side in response to the received negotiation conditions.

Abstract: The target setting unit 7 sets a target state of the self-driving vehicle 10. The planned route creating unit 3 creates a planned route of the self-driving vehicle 10 for realizing the target state. The transmission unit 6 transmits the planned route to another vehicle. The response receiving unit 9 receives, from another vehicle, a notification indicating agreement with the planned route or disagreement with the planned route as a response to the planned route. The traveling control unit 8 controls the self-driving vehicle 10 so as to cause the self-driving vehicle 10 to travel along the planned route when the response receiving unit 9 has received the notification indicating agreement with the planned route.

Abstract: The non-traveling area plan creating unit 4 creates a plan of the non-traveling area, which is an area where the self-driving vehicle 10 can travel and which is an area set as an area where the self-driving vehicle 10 does not travel. The negotiation area information receiving unit 9 receives, from another vehicle, information on one or more negotiation areas each of which is an area other than the non-traveling area and is a subject of negotiation to be included in the non-traveling area. The permissible area determining unit 35 calculates, for each negotiation area, the first value which is the value of the negotiation area indicated by the information for the self-driving vehicle 10, and determines one negotiation area permissible to be included in the non-traveling area, or determines not to include any negotiation area in the non-traveling area.

Abstract: An automatic negotiation apparatus is an apparatus for automatically negotiating with the other party. The automatic negotiation apparatus includes: a proposal candidate setting unit configured to set proposal candidates to be presented to the other party in a negotiation; a utility value calculation unit configured to calculate a utility value indicating a utility for when the candidate is accepted by the other party for each of the set candidates; a priority setting unit configured to select a candidate that meets set criteria using the utility value for each of the candidates, and further set a priority of each of the selected candidates; and a proposal unit configured to propose one of the selected candidates to the other party according to the priority.

Abstract: A prediction data input unit 91 inputs prediction data that is one or more explanatory variables that are information likely to affect future sales. An exposure pattern generation unit 92 generates an exposure pattern which is an explanatory variable indicating the content of a commercial message scheduled to be performed during a period from predicted time to future prediction target time. A component determination unit 93 determines the component used for predicting the sales, on the basis of a hierarchical latent structure that is a structure in which latent variables are represented by a tree structure and components representing probability models are located at nodes of a lowest level of the tree structure, gating functions for determining a branch direction in the nodes of the hierarchical latent structure, and the prediction data and the exposure pattern.

Abstract: The planned route creating unit 3 creates a planned route of the self-driving vehicle 10. The non-traveling area plan creating unit 4 creates a plan of the non-traveling area, which is an area where the self-driving vehicle 10 can travel and which is an area set as an area where the self-driving vehicle 10 does not travel. The non-traveling area plan creating unit 4 creates a plan of the non-traveling area at a frequency lower than the frequency at which the planned route creating unit 3 creates a planned route. The transmission unit 6 transmits the plan of the non-traveling area to the other vehicle each time the plan of the non-traveling area is created.