Shigeo MATSUBARA, Associate Professor

Research Interests

• Information Economics
  • Auction
  • Incentive matching 

Publications

• Information economics, game theory
  • Book
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. Robust Combinatorial Auction Protocol against False-name Bids. in Game Theory and Decision Theory in Agent-Based Systems, Parsons. S., Gmytrasiewicz, P. and Wooldridge, M. J., eds, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2002.
  • Journal
  • Takayuki Ito, Makoto Yokoo, and Shigeo Matsubara. A Combinatorial Auction among Versatile Experts and Amateurs. Transactions of the Japanese Soceity for Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 84-93, 2005. (In Japanese)
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. Robust Double Auction Protocol against False-name Bids. Decision Support Systems, Volume 13, Issue 2, pp. 241-252, 2005.
  • Takayuki Ito, Makoto Yokoo, and Shigeo Matsubara. Toward a Combinatorial Auction Protocol among Experts and Amateurs: The Case of Single-Skilled Experts. IEICE Transactions D-I, Vol. J87-D-I, No. 10, pp.920-930, 2004. (In Japanese)
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. The Effect of False-name Bids in Combinatorial Auctions: New Fraud in Internet Auctions. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 46, Issue 1, pp. 174-188, 2004.
  • Shigeo Matsubara. Trading a Problem-solving Task. Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.18, No.5, pp. 269-277, 2003. (In Japanese)
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. Bundle Design in Robust Combinatorial Auction Protocol against False-name Bids. Computer Software (Journal of Japan Society for Software Science and Technology), Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 25-34, 2003. (In Japanese)
  • Takayuki Ito, Makoto Yokoo, and Shigeo Matsubara. The Design of an Auction Protocol under Asymmetric Information on Nature's Selection. Computer Software (Journal of Japan Society for Software Science and Technology), Vol.20, No.1, pp.16-26, 2003. (In Japanese)
  • Shigeo Matsubara and Makoto Yokoo. Defection-Free Exchange Mechanisms based on an Entry Fee Imposition. Artificial Intelligence Journal, Vol.142, No.2, pp. 265-286, 2002.
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. Robust Combinatorial Auction Protocol against False-name Bids. Journal of Information Processing in Japan, Vol. 43, No. 06, 2002. (In Japanese)
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. Robust Multi-unit Auction Protocol against False-name Bids. Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.17, No.4, pp. 390-397, 2002. (In Japanese)
  • Shigeo Matsubara. Promoting Information Revelation in an Ascending-Bid Auction. Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.16, No.6, pp. 473-482, 2001. (In Japanese)
  • Shigeo Matsubara. A Collusion-free Adaptive Pricing Mechanism. Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 375-383, 2001. (In Japanese)
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. Robust Combinatorial Auction Protocol against False-name Bids. Artificial Intelligence Journal, Vol. 130, No. 2, pp. 167-181, 2001.
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. Robust Double Auction Protocol against False-name Bids. IEICE Transactions, Vol. J84-D-I, No. 8, pp. 1140-1149, 2001. (In Japanese)
  • Shigeo Matsubara and Makoto Yokoo. Fraud-free Exchange Machanisms in Electronic Commerce. Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.15, No.5, pp. 912-921, 2000. (In Japanese)
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. The Effect of False-name Declarations in Mechanism Design: Towards Collective Decision Making on the Internet. Computer Software (Journal of Japan Society for Software Science and Technology) , Vol. 17, No. 5, pp.445-454, 2000. (In Japanese)
  • Yuko Sakurai, Makoto Yokoo, and Shigeo Matsubara. A Limitation of the Generalized Vickery Auction in Electronic Commerce: Robustness against False-name Bids. Computer Software (Journal of Japan Society for Software Science and Technology) , Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 1-9, 2000. (In Japanese)
  • Shigeo Matsubara and Makoto Yokoo. Emergence of Cooperative Behavior by using a Look Ahead Method for Selecting Actions in an Iterated Game. Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 881-890, 1997. (In Japanese)
  • Referred Conference
  • Shigeo Matsubara. Auction in Dynamic Environments: Incorporating the Cost Caused by Re-allocation. In Proceedings of the Fourth Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2005), pp. 643-649, 2005.
  • Takayuki Ito, Makoto Yokoo, Shigeo Matsubara, Atsushi Iwasaki. A New Strategy-Proof Greedy-Allocation Combinatorial Auction Protocol and its Extension to Open Ascending Auction Protocol. In Proceedings of The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), pp. 261-266, 2005.
  • Takayuki Ito, Makoto Yokoo, and Shigeo Matsubara. Designing Auction Protocols under Asymmetric Information on Nature's Selection. In Proceedings of DIMACS Workshop on Computational Issues on Auction Design
  • Takayuki Ito, Makoto Yokoo, and Shigeo Matsubara. A Combinatorial Auction among Versatile Experts and Amateurs. In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2004), pp. 378-385, 2004.
  • Takayuki Ito, Makoto Yokoo, and Shigeo Matsubara. Toward a Combinatorial Auction Protocol among Experts and Amateurs: The Case of Single-Skilled Experts. In Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2003), pp. 481-488, 2003.
  • Shigeo Matsubara. Trade of a Problem-solving Task. In Proceedings of the Second Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2003), pp. 257-264, 2003.
  • Shigeo Matsubara. Auctioning Contracts in Trade of Services. AAAI-2002 Workshop on Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents (GTDT-02), 2002.
  • Takayuki Ito, Makoto Yokoo, and Shigeo Matsubara. Designing an Auciton Protocol under Asymmetric Information on Nature's Selection. In Proceedings of the First International joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2002), 2002.
  • Shigeo Matsubara. Accelerating Information Revelation in Ascending-Bid Auctions - Avoiding Last Minute Bidding -. In Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-2001) , pp. 29-37, 2001.
  • Shigeo Matsubara. Adaptive Pricing that can Withstand Buyer Collusion of False-type-declaration. In Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-2001) , pp. 249-252, 2001.
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. Bundle Design in Robust Combinatorial Auction Protocol against False-name Bids. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2001), pp.1095-1101, 2001.
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. Robust Multi-unit Auction Protocol against False-name Bids. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2001), pp. 1089-1094, 2001.
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. Robust Double Auction Protocol against False-name Bids. In Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-2001), pp.137--145, 2001.
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. Robust Combinatorial Auction Protocol against False-name Bids. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000), pp.110-116, 2000.
  • Shigeo Matsubara and Makoto Yokoo. Defection-Free Exchange Mechanisms for Information Good. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-2000) , pp. 183-190, 2000.
  • Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. The Effect of False-name Declarations in Mechanism Design: Towards Collective Decision Making on the Internet. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-2000), pp.146-153, 2000.
  • Yuko Sakurai, Makoto Yokoo, and Shigeo Matsubara. A Limitation of the Generalized Vickrey Auction in Electronic Commerce : Robustness against False-name Bids. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), pp.86-92, 1999.
  • Shigeo Matsubara and Makoto Yokoo. Negotiations with Inaccurate Payoff Values. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-98) , pp. 449-450, 1998.
  • Shigeo Matsubara and Makoto Yokoo. Cooperative Behavior in an Iterated Game with a Change of the Payoff Value. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS-96), pp. 204-211, 1996.
  • Conference
• Masafumi Matsuda and Shigeo Matsubara. Designing an auction protocol for cases including insincere sellers: motivating buyers to investigate unidentified sellers. IPSJ Technical Report 2005-ICS-139, 2005.
• Shigeo Matsubara and Makoto Yokoo. Robust Exchange Mechanisms for Information Goods with Low Entry Barriesrs. IPSJ Technical Report 2000-ICS-119, pp. 95-102, 2000. (In Japanese)
• Semantic Web
• Referred Conference
• Ahlem Ben Hassine, Shigeo Matsubara, and Toru Ishida. A Constraint-based Approach to Horizontal Web Service Composition. The Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-06), 2006.
• Socialware
  • Book
  • Shigeo Matsubara. Supporting a Community Formation and Discussions in Network Communities. Chapter 3, Information Society and Digital Community, Tokyo Denki University Press, 2002. (In Japanese)
  • Referred Conference
  • Shigeo Matsubara, Takeshi Ohguro, and Fumio Hattori. Communityboard 2: Mediating between Speakers and an Audience in Computer Network Discussions. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents-99) , pp. 370-371, 1999.
  • Shigeo Matsubara, Takeshi Ohguro, and Fumio Hattori. Communityboard: Social Meeting System able to Visualize the Structure of Discussions. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Knowledge-based Intelligent Electronic Systems (KES-98) , pp. 423-428, 1998.
  • Conference
  • Shigeo Matsubara, Takeshi Ohguro, and Fumio Hattori. CommunityBoard 2: Supporting Discussions in Network Communities. Proceedings of the Human Interface Symposium'99, 1999. (In Japanese).
  • Shigeo Matsubara, Takeshi Ohguro, and Fumio Hattori. A Talk Support System in a Virtual Community, 6th Multi-Agent and Cooperative Computing Workshop (MACC-97), 1997. (In Japanese).
• Planning
  • Journal
  • Shigeo Matsubara and Toru Ishida. Real-Time Planning by Interleaving Real-Time Search with Flexible Subgoaling. Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligentce, Vol.12, No.1, pp. 90-99, 1997. (In Japanese)
  • Referred Conference
  • Shigeo Matsubara and Toru Ishida. Real-time planning by interleaving real-time search with subgoaling. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on AI Planning (AIPS-94), pp. 122-127, 1994.

Awards

• 1999 Best Presentation Prize in Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. Yuko Sakurai, Makoto Yokoo, and Shigeo Matsubara. A Limitation of the Generalized Vickery Auction in Electronic Commerce: Robustness agaist Flase-name Bids.
• 2003 Best Paper Award in Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. Makoto Yokoo, Yuko Sakurai, and Shigeo Matsubara. "Robust Multi-unit Auction Protocol against False-name Bids."
• IPSJ 2003 Research and Development Award. Shigeo Matsubara. "Research on Mechanism Design for Electronic Commerce".
• The Ninth Japan Society for Software Science and Technology Best Paper Award. Takayuki Ito, Makoto Yokoo, and Shigeo Matsubara. "A Combinatorial Auction among Versatile Experts and Amateurs."

Social Activities

• AAMAS2007 Industrial Track Co-chair

Society affiliations

• Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
• Japanese Society for Software Sceince and Technology
• Information Processing Society in Japan
  

Biography

• 1992 M.E. in Precision Mechanics from Kyoto University.
• 1992-2006 NTT Communication Science Laboratories.
• 2002-2003 visiting researcher at University of California, Berkeley
• 2006-2007 advisor at NICT Language Grid project 
• 2007- Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University

Contact Address

E-mail: matsubara at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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