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How Collective Intelligence Emerge in Complex Environment?
In this paper we analyze a simple adaptive model of competition called the Minority Game, which is used in analyzing competitive phenomena in markets. The Minority Game consists of many simple autonomous agent...
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Responses of Fluctuating Biological Systems
A linear relationship between responses of biological systems and their fluctuations is presented. The fluctuation is given by the variance of a given quantity, whereas the response is given as the average cha...
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A High-Throughput Method to Quantify the Structural Properties of Individual Cell-Sized Liposomes by Flow Cytometry
We describe a new high-throughput method to quantify the structural properties of individual cell-sized liposomes. We labeled an internal aqueous solution of liposomes with a green fluorescent protein (GFP) an...
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Social Robot Design
The purpose of this study is to describe the network of human and non human as the personal robot in the community. We designed an original program for the personal robot and took it to the nursery school. We ...
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System for Tracking Human Position by Multiple Laser Range Finders Deployed in Existing Home Environment
This paper describes construction of a system for measurement of human position from laser range finders (LRFs) deployed in real home environment. The system gathers and stores scan data from LRF modules equip...
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A Supplementary Automatic Door Device for Hybrid Support of Humans and Robots
This paper describes the development of Automatic Door Device as a part of intelligent environment. This device, Robo-Door, can release home robots from door opening/closing task and serve handicapped humans a...
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Population Estimation of Internet Forum Community by Posted Article Distribution
Traditionally, it seems that there are no typical patterns or regularities on an internet forum and the bulletin board because it is a result of voluntary behaviour of an individual user. However, recent studi...
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Using PCA to Predict Customer Churn in Telecommunication Dataset
Failure to identify potential churners affects significantly a company revenues and services that can provide. Imbalance distribution of instances between churners and non-churners and the size of customer dat...
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A System to Share Arrangements for Daily Tasks and Life Events on the Web
It is important to make plans and preparations for daily tasks and life events, for example when moving house. A well-considered arrangement makes it possible to efficiently finish such tasks and events. It wo...
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Subjective Difficulty Estimation for Interactive Learning by Sensing Vibration Sound on Desk Panel
In this paper, we propose a method which estimates the student’s subjective difficulty with a vibration sound on a desk obtained by a microphone on the back of the desk panel. First, it classifies the student’...
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Probabilistic Matrix Factorization Leveraging Contexts for Unsupervised Relation Extraction
The clustering of the semantic relations between entities extracted from a corpus is one of the main issues in unsupervised relation extraction (URE). Previous methods assume a huge corpus because they have ut...
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Design and Analysis of Interactions with Museum Exhibits
The Definition of Self is a museum exhibition at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in 2010, intended to speculate our attributes in the contemporary world. This paper discusses design and interaction of two exhibits created ...
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Table-Top Interface Using Fingernail Images and Real Object Recognition
Many researchers have proposed the development of table-top interfaces in the last decade. In a table-top system, for user satisfaction, they must be able to operate digital and analog media seamlessly. In thi...
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Research on the Role of the Sketch in Design Idea Generation
The purpose of this research is to solve the function achieved in the design idea generation of idea sketches. We conducted the comparative-analysis experiment on the relation between the sketch and an idea ge...
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Word Familiarity Distributions to Understand Heaps’ Law of Vocabulary Growth of the Internet Forums
In this study, lexical analysis is applied to the log data of conversations on Internet forums. It is well known that many regularities in documents have been found, for example, Zipf’s law and Heaps’ law. Thi...
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Unsupervised Scene Classification Based on Context of Features for a Mobile Robot
This paper presents an unsupervised scene classification method based on the context of features for semantic recognition of indoor scenes used for an autonomous mobile robot. Our method creates Visual Words (...
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A Design-Supporting Tool for Implementing the Learning-Based Approach: Accommodating Users’ Domain Knowledge into Design Processes
In the current interactive product/system design, while users’ acquisition of sufficient knowledge for operating a product or system is increasingly considered important, their acquisition of problem-solving k...
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Autonomously Acquiring a Video Game Agent’s Behavior: Letting Players Feel Like Playing with a Human Player
Designing behavior patterns of video game agents (COM players) is a crucial aspect of video game development. While various systems aiming to automatically acquire behavior patterns has been proposed and some ...
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Co-occurring Cluster Mining for Damage Patterns Analysis of a Fuel Cell
In this study, we research the mechanical correlations among components of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) by analyzing the co-occurrence of acoustic emission (AE) events which are caused by damage. Then we propo...
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Where Buddhism Encounters Entertainment Computing
This special panel session provides an opportunity to discuss how entertainment computing designers create interactive media/ contents on Buddhism and also other religious practices. In this year, we have laun...