Imagine you are the person responsible for the application portfolio of a large insurance company. For their business the company runs one monolithic system for most of its product divisions1. This system is 25 years old, written in Assembler and sits on an IMS/DB database. This is the old town. It’s at the end of it’s potential growth and people want to move out of it to the other side of the ...

The great earthquake of 11 March 2011 and resulting tsunami caused serious damage to various areas of the Pacific coast in northeast Fukushima, and all the residents faced fears of meltdown of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. One of the most seriously affected areas was the district of Soso, located in the northeast part of Fukushima prefecture, with 12 municipalities ...

This paper presents 1) a new mathematical model improved from a conventional model that calculates a number of facility from an area and a population in a town and, 2) by using this model, a method to evaluate the enrichment (in other words, convenience or enough) of facilities in the town where many high-rise apartments have been built (the area is hereinafter referred to as the high-rise apar...