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I have been a professor of Kyoto
University from 1993, IEEE fellow from 2002, IPSJ fellow from 2005, and IEICE
fellow from 2008. I received the B.Eng., M.Eng. and PhD degrees from Kyoto
University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1976, 1978 and 1989, respectively. From 1978 to
1993, I was a research scientist of NTT Laboratories. I was a visiting research
scientist at the Department of Computer Science, Columbia University from 1983
to 1984, a guest professor at Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet
Muenchen in 1996, an invited professor at Le Laboratoire d'Informatique de
Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie in 2000 and 2003, a visiting professor at Institute for Advanced Computer Studies,
University of Maryland in 2002, a visiting professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong
University from 2002 to 2008, a visiting professor at Computer Science and
Technology Department, Tsinghua University in 2006, a research professor of NTT
Communication Science Laboratories from 1998 to 2004, and a project leader of NICT Language Grid Project
from 2006.
I have been working on autonomous
agents and multiagent systems for more than twenty years. My research
contribution can be classified into the three categories:
In production systems, I first proposed parallel rule firing with Sal Stolfo, when researchers
mainly worked on parallel rule matching. I viewed production systems as a
collection of individual concurrent activities, invented compile/run time
algorithms to guarantee serializablility of rule firings, and actually
developed parallel firing systems. I then extended parallel firing systems to
distributed rule firing and introduced organizational self-design for adapting
to environmental changes with Les Gasser. I was a member of the NTT Knowledge
Base Management System Project, and developed an intelligent
In multiagent search, since production systems are reactive, I tried
to introduce deliberation in multiagent problem solving. I initiated an agent
research group in NTT, and start creating computational algorithms for
multiagent systems, when researchers mainly focused on conceptual works. I
worked on path finding problems and constraint satisfaction problems, the two
major search problems in AI. For path finding problems, I extended realtime
search to be capable to utilize and improve previous experiments, to adapt to
the dynamically changing goals with Richard Korf, and to cooperatively solve
problems with other problem solvers. For constraint satisfaction, I worked with
Makoto Yokoo and created a
new problem called distributed constraint satisfaction, which has been widely
accepted in this field. Papers have been published at conferences including
IEEE ICDCS, AAAI, IJCAI, and appeared as two IEEE TKED/TPAMI transaction
papers. I am a co-author of a multiagent search chapter for the first textbook
of multiagent systems, which was published from the MIT press.
In community computing, I created a new application field for
autonomous agents and multiagent systems. I
realized a paradigm shift in computing metaphors: from team to community. Given
that the team metaphor has created research fields like groupware and
cooperative agents, the community metaphor will generate new research field. I
proposed a concept of communityware to support the process of organizing
diverse and amorphous groups of people, while groupware mainly addressed the
collaborative work of already-organized people. In other words, compared to
groupware studies, he focused on an earlier stage of collaboration: group
formation from a wide variety of people. My team developed mobile assistants
and tried out them at international conference ICMAS96 with 100 PDAs with
wireless phones. This work was done with Yoshiyasu Nishibe. I also worked on a
3D interaction space called FreeWalk/Q with Hideyuki Nakanishi, and applied it
to Digital City Kyoto. I published three LNCS proceedings and created a network
among digital cities in
In 2006, I started the Language
Grid project. The Language Grid is an infrastructure that is built on the top of
the Internet. It allows a better understanding of Internet contents written in
different languages and by people from different countries. In addition, the
Language Grid allows users to easily develop new language services by combining
existing ones to satisfy their needs. Basic software for the Language Grid has
been studied and developed at the National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology (NICT). For trial operation, however, Department of
Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University takes on
the role as the Language
Grid Operator. During this trial, the usage of the Language Grid is limited
to non-profit activities. To accumulate use cases and best practices, user
groups including NPOs, NGOs and universities form the Language Grid
Association. Papers related to the Language Grid have been published at
conferences on human computer interactions including IUI, CSCW and CHI, on
services computing including ICSOC and ICWS, and on artificial intelligence
including ICSW and IJCAI.
I have been working for
conferences on autonomous agents and multiagent systems including
MACC/JAWS (Japanese Workshop), PRIMA (
Last Update: April 2009
Previous
Research Activities
4.
JST CREST Digital City
Project
Current
Projects
2.
Intercultural
Collaboration
Books
(detail)
1.
Toru
Ishida, Susan R. Fussell and Piek TJM Vossen Eds. Intercultural Collaboration, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4568,
Springer-Verlag, 2007.
2.
Toru
Ishida, Les Gasser and Hideyuki Nakashima Eds. Massively Multi-Agent Systems I.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 3446, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
3.
Toru
Ishida. Activities and Technologies in
Journals
(detail)
1.
Makoto
Nakatsuji, Makoto Yoshida and Toru Ishida. Detecting Innovative Topics based on
User-Interest Ontology. Journal of Web Semantics. Journal of Web Semantics, 2009.
2.
Yue
Suo, Naoki Miyata, Hiroki Morikawa, Toru Ishida and Yuanchun Shi. Open Smart
Classroom: Extensible and Scalable Learning System in Smart Space using Web
Service Technology. IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2009.
3.
Toru
Ishida and Hiromitsu Hattori. Participatory Technologies for Designing Ambient
Intelligence Systems. Journal of Ambient
Intelligence and Smart Environments, IOS Press, Vol. 1, pp. 39-45, 2009.
Conference
Papers (detail)
1.
Masahiro
Tanaka, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami, and Satoshi Morimoto. Service Supervision:
Coordinating Web Services in Open Environment. IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS-09), 2009.
2.
Rie
Tanaka, Yohei Murakami and Toru Ishida. Context-Based Approach for Pivot
Translation Services. International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI-09), 2009.
3.
Naomi Yamashita, Reiko Inaba, Hideaki Kuzuoka and Toru
Ishida. Difficulties
in Establishing Common Ground in Multiparty Groups using Machine Translation. International Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (CHI-09), pp. 679-688, 2009.
4.
Arif
Bramantoro, Masahiro Tanaka, Yohei Murakami, Ulrich Schäfer and Toru Ishida. A
Hybrid Integrated Architecture for Language Service Composition. IEEE International Conference on Web
Services (ICWS-08), pp. 345-352, 2008.
5.
Heeryon
Cho, Toru Ishida, Toshiyuki Takasaki and Satoshi Oyama. Assisting Pictogram
Selection with Semantic Interpretation. European
Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-08), LNCS 5021, pp. 65–79, 2008. (pdf)
6.
Toru
Ishida, Yuu Nakajima, Yohei Murakami and Hideyuki Nakanishi. Augmented
Experiment: Participatory Design with Multiagent Simulation.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07),
2007. (pdf)
7.
Yichuan
Jiang and Toru Ishida. A Model for Collective Strategy Diffusion in Agent
Social Law Evolution. International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI-07), pp. 1353-1358, 2007. (pdf)
8.
Naomi Yamashita and Toru Ishida. Effects of Machine
Translation on Collaborative Work. International Conference on Computer Supported
Cooperative Work (CSCW-06),
pp. 515-523, 2006. (pdf)
9.
Ahlem Ben Hassine, Matsubara Shigeo and Toru Ishida.
Constraint-based Approach for Web Service Composition. International
Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-06), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4273,
Springer-Verlag, pp. 130-143, 2006. (pdf)
10. Daisuke
Torii, Toru Ishida and Francois Bousquet. Modeling Agents and Interactions in
Agricultural Economics. International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-06), pp. 81-88, 2006. (pdf)
11.
Toru
Ishida. Language Grid: An Infrastructure for Intercultural Collaboration. IEEE/IPSJ
Symposium on Applications and the
Internet (SAINT-06), pp. 96-100, keynote address, 2006. (pdf)
12.
Yohei
Murakami, Yuki Sugimoto and Toru Ishida. Modeling Human Behavior for Virtual
Training Systems. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05),
pp. 127-132, 2005. (pdf)
13.
Takeru
Miki, Saeko Nomura, Toru Ishida. Semantic Web Link Analysis to Discover Social
Relationships in Academic Communities, IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT-05), pp. 38-45,
2005. (pdf)
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