Algorithms for clustering data

How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

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Emotion and Adaptation

In Japan, teaching of the subject "Information" was started in the high schools in April 2003, and interest in IT/information education has continued to grow since then. It is very difficult to design IT/information education materials, and there are very few specialist teachers of IT/information education. For this reason, it is necessary and important to provide teachers of IT /information education with a variety of useful resources. To that end, we are building a system that supports teachers in designing instructional materials for IT/information education. Here, we describe a part of this system that reconstructs resources according to the various viewpoints which teachers require. This function of the system is realized by tagging each resource with the ontology of IT/information education in the Resource Description Framework (RDF).

Development of a System that Provides Teachers with Useful Resources from Various Viewpoints Based on Ontology

In this paper, we propose a system called Talkabout to support nebulous communication between users who do not clearly express the concepts intended. When people have di culty in understanding each other, using Talkabout to build an ontology of the common target world is helpful. By helping their inputting and showing some examples of concepts or ontologies from the World Wide Web, Talkabout enables users to discover the opinions of others on the use of the data. Then it facilitates discussion. This, in turn, should lead to a consensus or, at least, to a better understanding of why participants cannot come to an agreement. We describe the fundamentals of Talkabout in this paper.

Consensus Formation Support System via Ontology Generation

Employee Driven Approach to “Knowledge Explication” in Elderly Care Service

In ontological theories, is-a hierarchy must represent the essential property of things and hence should be single-inheritance, since the essential property of things cannot exist in multiple. However, we cannot avoid multiperspective issues when we build an ontology because the user often want to understand things from their own viewpoints. Especially, in the Semantic Web, the variety of users causes the variety of viewpoints to capture target domains. In order to tackle this multi-perspective issue, we adopt an approach of dynamically generating is-a hierarchies according to the viewpoints of users from an ontology using single-inheritance. This article discusses a framework for dynamic is-a hierarchy generation with ontological consideration on is-a hierarchies generated by it. Then, the author shows its implementation as a new function of Hozo and its applications to a medical ontology for dynamically generation of is-a hierarchies of disease. Through the function, users can understand an ontology from a variety of viewpoints. As a result, it could contribute to comprehensive understanding of the ontology and its target world.

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Dynamic is − a hierarchy generation system based on user's viewpoint

SPREX II is a continuous speech recognition system which uses the knowledge of experts able to recognize speech by inspecting trajectories of its feature parameters. This system has a powerful environment which supports the construction of its knowledge base, and it proposes a new paradigm which integrates speech recognition and knowledge engineering. This paper describes the necessity and the design philosophies of the support environment of this system, the outline and the effectiveness of the environment which has been implemented based on them, and its current performance.

Riichiro Mizoguchi

Papers

Development of a System that Provides Teachers with Useful Resources from Various Viewpoints Based on Ontology

Consensus Formation Support System via Ontology Generation

Employee Driven Approach to “Knowledge Explication” in Elderly Care Service

Dynamic is − a hierarchy generation system based on user's viewpoint

A continuous speech recognition system with a powerful environment for the knowledge-base construction: SPREX II