Tokyo, August 21, 2019- NEC Corporation(NEC; TSE: 6701), Fraunhofer IOSB, Kabuku Inc, theKorea Electronics Technology Institute(KETI) ,Oki Electric Industry カジノプロジェクト, Ltd,and カジノオンライン announced today the approval by theIndustrial Internet Consortium®(IIC™,*1) ofa Negotiation Automation Platform Testbedin cooperation withJapan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST), designed for the validation of new technologies, applications, products, services and processes for industrial networks This represents an important step towards a global standard for AI technology

The IIC Negotiation Automation Platform Testbed leverages a variety of AI infrastructure technologies, which automatically negotiate trading conditions and resource assignment with each other in order to coordinate interests among various AI systems The networking of AI throughout society, such as the automatic negotiation between AI, has brought a great deal of attention to the importance of responsible social implementation, the need for legal guidelines, and the consideration for economic and ethical issues In terms of specific applications, this product is expected to be used across areas that include the manufacturing, transportation, electricity and water supply fields

NEC led the proposal of this testbed, with the support of Fraunhofer IOSB, Kabuku Inc, KETI, OKI, カジノオンライン and AIST as participants In the future, testbed participants aim to expand the range of organizations and target industries that contribute to these developments and to promote standardization activities that support the growth of AI throughout society

In order to increase industrial competitiveness and social value, utilization of AI technologies for smart カジノプロジェクト is attracting a great deal of attention recently In the future, multiple AIs operating in individual カジノプロジェクト with different owners are expected to collaborate together automatically and solve social challenges such as labor shortages In addition, efforts to address issues from a social, economic, ethical, and legal perspective are also underway, including the development of new legal カジノプロジェクト, whether or not important decision making should be automated, and the vulnerability of information

Automatic negotiation between AI can be interpreted as networking of AIs in a society, and application areas such as a "manufacturing value chain", "transportation / people flow", “electricity / water distribution", and "autonomous mobiles", which are expected to be promising For example, in a business-to-business transaction in the value chain, AI can coordinate and reconcile interests between organizations more effectively than current human negotiations that require a great deal of effort and time consumption It can also be expected that great social value will be created by the efficient operation of society as a whole

In this testbed, the partner companies will develop and evaluate the functions of discovering business partners and negotiating trading conditions with them in an automated manner, as a support for supply / order contracts in a series of supply chains from processing, assembly, and logistics

・Each company that places or receives an order is provided with a negotiation AI agent through the Negotiation Automation Platform This AI agent searches for terms and conditions that can be agreed upon by both parties by using standardized protocols, data formats, and lexical definitions

・If a condition that can be agreed upon by both parties is found, human users are asked to make a final decision as to whether or not to conclude a contract This makes it easier for both parties to find win-win conditions, making the value chain of manufacturing and logistics more efficient and flexible

This approved testbed utilizes research results from Japan’s Cabinet Office's Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP*2)

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*1) About the IIChttps://wwwiiconsortiumorg/
*2) SIP projects aim to create technological innovations that extend the capabilities of a wide range of fields while promoting the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the super-smart Society50