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MapReduce has emerged as a popular programming model in the field of data-intensive computing. This is due to its simplistic design, which provides ease of use for programmers, and its framework implementations such as Hadoop, which have been adopted by large business and technology companies. One significant issue in practical MapReduce applications is data skew: the imbalance in the amount of data...
Internet of Things (IoT) is overturning traditional business models. IoT and Internet of Cars compose the internet of vehicles, which is creating driverless car times. Automotive aftermarket including maintenance, washing, car care, insurance and automobile finance, represents a whopping 60% of the overall auto market. Car wash is the most frequent one of all the service items, attracting internet...
Advances in computer science prompt the creation of new economic models. One of them in urban life is Sharing Economy. This new economic model receives high attentions and has been applied to a wide range of fields in recent years. We argue that sharing economy, and its applications, may be taken as a way for researchers to understand human behavior, and thus this paper targets a growing issue on...
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake, We have acknowledged the need for demand response. Therefore, we developed a system of experimental evaluation of fast demand response (fast DR) for small-scale buildings. Using this system, we confirmed that it is possible to achieve more than 10% reduction in energy consumption by controlling the air conditioning. In this paper, we describe outline of the fast...
Companies have recently been introducing an event system called shuffle lunch, which aims to effectively utilize lunch breaks. The system has been garnering attention from many enterprises because it livens relationships and strengthens cooperation between departments and individual workers. In existing shuffle lunch systems, lunch groups are randomly generated. Random groups however, can cause problems...
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