{"id":8,"date":"2025-12-20T21:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mindware.llc\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:09:05","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mindware.llc\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>Trade name<br>Mindware LLC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representative<br>CEO Kunihiro Tada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Establishment<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Location<br>1st Central Building, 6-36 Honcho, Kita-ku, Okayama City, 700-0901<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Registered place<br>Shimizu, Naka-ku, Okayama City, 703-8243<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Business details<br>Research on AI and data tech businesses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sales of data analysis software<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1998<br>Founded Mindware Limited Partnership.<br>Aiming to computerize the \u201cconcept research method\u201d he had published in engineering and management journals the previous year, he began researching Kohonen\u2019s self-organizing map.<br>2000<br>Viscovery SOMine has been released in Japanese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022<br>The company moved to Okayama City and moved into the incubation facility e-Plaza in Okayama Prefecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2003<br>Partnered with Addsinsoft and Hugin Expert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2004<br>Mindware Limited Liability Company was established and the business of Mindware Limited Partnership was transferred to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2004<br>The office was relocated to Nakasange, Kita-ku, Okayama City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2005<br>Partnered with Dimension5 (Miner3D).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2008<br>Company name changed to Mindware Research Institute Co., Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2009<br>Moved to Okayama Station (Orix Okayama Building).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2011<br>Moved to Terminal Square, Ekimotocho, Kita-ku, Okayama City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023<br>Following the sale of Addinsoft, we have discontinued handling XLSTAT, which we had been doing for 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024<br>We have begun providing qualitative information analysis solutions that utilize LLMs (large-scale language models) such as OpenAI. Concept Map, which combines LLMs with SOMs and BBNs, has achieved our original goal of computerizing \u201cconcept research.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025<br>Based on the experiments conducted with Concept Map, we developed ConceptMiner as a unique web application. Instead of SOM, we use our own fuzzy growth batch neural gas + MST (minimum spanning tree) to build a topological concept structure network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Map<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2764.0469524276705!2d133.91755914473717!3d34.665465820278804!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x3554064b8245ba21%3A0xb079b4365c9cbd6a!2z56ys5LiA44K744Oz44OI44Op44Or44OT44Or77yR5Y-36aSo!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sjp!4v1754019430767!5m2!1sen!2sjp\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Directions<br>Exit the east exit of JR Okayama Station, and across the main street (City Hall Street) you will see the Takashimaya department store. The building is next to it on the right. If you go down to the underground shopping mall (Ichibangai), you can get there directly from the station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Sambrora Hea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mindware.llc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mindware.llc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mindware.llc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindware.llc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindware.llc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindware.llc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindware.llc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mindware.llc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}