Toru Ishida
(Professor)
Laboratory for Global
Information Network
Department of Social
Informatics
Kyoto University
606-8501 Kyoto , Japan
TEL:
+81-75-753-4821
FAX: +81 75-753-4820
Email: ishida@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
URL: http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ishida/.
Access: Engineering Building 10, Room 431 (detail)
I
have been a professor of Kyoto University since 1993. I gained his B.Eng., and
M.Eng. Degrees from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1976, 1978, and
subsequently became a research scientist at NTT Laboratories, where I was
engaged in research and development of software engineering and knowledge
processing until 1993. In 1989, I received my PhD in engineering degree from
Kyoto University.
My
academic paths include visiting scientist/professor positions at Department of
Computer Science, Columbia University, Institut fuer Informatik, Technische
Universitaet Muenchen, Le Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, Pierre et
Marie Curie,Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of
Maryland,Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Computer Science and Technology
Department, Tsinghua University. Between 1998 and 2004, I was appointed as a
research professor at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, and between 2006
and 2010, I was a project leader at the National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology (NICT). I am a fellow of IEEE, IPSJ, and IEICE since
2002, 2005, and 2008. I am acting President- Elect of IEICE Information and Systems Society (IEICE-ISS),
a research supervisor of JST
PRESTO Information Environments and
Humans, and a board member of Web Science Research Initiative.
My
research interest lies with autonomous agents and multiagent systems, and I
have been working on this theme for more than twenty years. I am a founder and
a coordinator of MACC/JAWS (Japanese), PRIMA (Asia/Pacific) and ICMAS/AAMAS
(International), conferences on autonomous agents and multiagent systems. I
served as a program co-chair of the second ICMAS, a chair of the first PRIMA,
and a general co-chair of the first AAMAS. I was also an editor-in-chief of
Journal on Web Semantics (Elsevier) and an associate editor of IEEE PAMI, and
Journal on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (Springer). I was a board
member of the International Foundation on Autonomous Agent and Multiagent
Systems (IFAAMAS). I have also started workshop/conference on Digital Cities, Intercultural Collaboration, and Culture and
Computing.
My
previous research contribution can be classified into the four 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
ICMAS 1996 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
intercultural collaboration, I
initiated an Intercultural Collaboration Experiments (ICE) with Chinese,
Korean, Malaysian colleagues in 2002, a year after 9.11. In 2006, I began the
Language Grid project to create a language service infrastructure on the
Internet. 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. So far, 120 groups from 18 countries join the Language Grid to share
more than 90 language services.
Last Update: June 2010
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, Vol.7, No.2, pp. 107-120, 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, Vol.21, No.6, pp.
814-828, 2009. (pdf)
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. (pdf)
Conference
Papers (detail)
1.
Masahiro
Tanaka, Yohei Murakami, Donghui Lin and Toru Ishida. Service Supervision for
Service-oriented Collective Intelligence. IEEE
International Conference on Services Computing (SCC-10), 2010.
2.
Yohei
Murakami, Lin Donghui, Masahiro Tanaka, Takao Nakaguchi and Toru Ishida.
Language Service Management with the Language Grid. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-10),
2010.
3.
Donghui
Lin, Yoshiaki Murakami, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami and Masahiro Tanaka.
Composing Human and Machine Translation Services: Language Grid for Improving
Localization Proces. International
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-10), 2010.
4.
Rie
Tanaka, Yohei Murakami and Toru Ishida. Context-Based Approach for Pivot
Translation Services. International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI-09), pp.1555-1561, 2009. (pdf)
5.
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), pp.
238-245, 2009. (pdf)
6.
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. (pdf)
7.
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. (pdf)
8.
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)
9.
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)
10.
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)
11. 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)
12.
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)
13. 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)
14.
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)
15.
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)
16.
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)
Magazines
(detail)
1.
Toru
Ishida and H Toru Ishida. Intercultural Collaboration Using Machine Translation.
IEEE Internet Computing, pp. 26–28, 2010.
2.
Toru
Ishida. Communicating Culture. IEEE Intelligent
Systems, Special issue on the Future of AI, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 62-63, 2006.
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