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Two young researchers from the systems school in the University of Hull Business School, England, visit Tokyo Tech in February. We would like to open an informal workshop to welcome the researchers and to enjoy the opportunity of learning what they are doing there in Hull. The University of Hull and Tokyo Tech together can cover a wide range of systems research and we are looking forward to seeing the contrasts among different systems research paradigms.
Program February 14 10:30-11:00 Introduction, Mission of the COE Program, Aim of Workshop K. Kijima, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology 11:00-12:00 Let us Justify 90% of the Extant Ways and Propose 10% of Improvements! N. Kobayashi, Ph.D. Candidate, Tokyo Institute of Technology 12:00-13:00 Action Education by ProjectFA new methodology for project-based education H. Chujo, Ph.D. Candidate, Tokyo Institute of Technology 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:30 To be announced M. Dauda, Ph.D. Candidate, Hull University 15:30-16:30 Making Knowledge in Public Sector Healthcare: A Systems Analysis of the National Health Service R. Chowdhury, Ph.D. Candidate, Hull University 16:30-17:00 Wrap Up February 15 10:30-11:30 Difference between Human and Computer-based Reasoning N. Konno, Ph.D. Candidate, Tokyo Institute of Technology 11:30-12:30 The Social Foundation of the Cognitive System of Socially-Supported Belief N. Matsumoto, Ph.D. Candidate, Tokyo Institute of Technology 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Kinds of Semantic Relations Wai Ling Lai, JSPS Research Fellow, Tokyo Institute of Technology 15:00-15:30 Coffee Break 15:30-17:00 Discussion All the Presenters 18:00-20:00 Welcome Party (to be fixed) Rsearch Project 'Social Simulation'
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Date: | February 20 and 21 Time schedule will be fixed within days |
Venue: | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Suzukake-dai Campus, J2 Building, 16F, 1601 |
Fee: | Free |
Apply: | If you would like to attend this tutorial, please send the following information to Mr. Arai(arai@dis.titech.ac.jp) by February 15. (1)Name (2)Affiliation (3)Purpose to attend (4)E-mail address |
Note: | This tutorial will be given in English. Participant should bring your own mobile PC with Java 1.4.2 or later installed. |
The 21st Century Program 'Creation of Agent-Based Social Systems Sciences' will hold 'International Workshop on New-Generation Social Systems Theory' on February 24, at Ookayama Campus of Tokyo Institute of Technology. We invite 3 guest speakers, Peter Dittrich, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, Thomas Kron, University in Hagen, Germany, and Amanda Gregory, University of Hull, UK. If you would like to attend this international workshop, please send a E-mail to contact address below.
Date: | February 24, 2006 |
Venue: | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama Campus, West9 Building, 6F, 607 |
Theme: | New-Generation Social Systems Theory |
Fee | Free (but the fee for the get-together-party is 5,000 JPY) |
Apply: | If you would like to attend this international workshop, please send the following information to 21coeabsss.titech.ac.jp no later than February 10. (1)Name (2)Affiliation and Position (3)E-mail Address (4)Attend/Not attend get-together-party |
Aims & Scope | Social systems theory is now arriving at the stage of
reconstruction under the global, inevitable and rapid change
of the world. Sociology is recognized as a social science
that treats domestic and historical social facts in each
cultural sphere. On the other hand we expect sociology
theory to provide a general framework for our common world.
Organization science and other social systems researches
face the same situation. We need the methodology of social systems research for analyzing each social fact in detail under the cultural context and common global fact at the same time. We expect new-generation social systems theory to be in the details and general at the same time. We should rebuild a social systems theory under the international collaboration. The social systems theory provide a general framework for social systems. The framework is also required to be applied to different cultural and historical facts at the same time. For the purpose we would like to collaborate and discuss. Contributors are expected to provide their own stand points for this mission program. Topics cover the wide range of social systems such as globalization, bottom up approach, autopoiesis, decision theory, organization sciences and so on. |
Date: | September 20-24, 2006 |
Venue: | O-okayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan |
Web Site: | http://scis2006.cs.dm.u-tokai.ac.jp/ |
Date: | November 18, 2005 |
Time: | 14:00-17:00 |
Place: | Room 715, 7th Floor, West 9 Building, Ookayama Campus |
Guests: | Amanda Gregory, Zhichang Zhu, and Jennifer Wilby (Hull Business School, UK) |
The 21st Century COE Program "Creation of Agent-based Social Systems Sciences" presents an informal seminar titled "Systems Thinking in UK and Japan 2" at Room 715, 7th Floor, West 9 Building, Ookayama Campus, from 2 pm to 5 pm, November 18.
We are inviting three distinguished researchers in the filed, Amanda Gregory, Zhichang Zhu, and Jennifer Wilby from Hull Business School, UK. The business School is one of the most active centers in UK to study systems thinking/approach and a partner of our COE center. At the seminar we will have an opportunity to learn each other about recent theoretical and practical progress in the field in UK and Japan.
Since the seminar will be on discussion basis, it will be so informal with a limited number of participants.
The seminar must be beneficial for a wide range of students and business persons:
- If you are not so familiar with systems thinking you can learn what it is like.
- If you want to know recent topics or advances in the area, you can discuss about them. It is highly appreciated if you could contribute to the discussion or questions and answers.
If you are interested in it, please contact Ms Satomi Segawa at satsegawa@jim.titech.ac.jp to tell her your name and affiliation (department).
Congress Name: |
IFSR 2005 (The First World Congress of the International Federation for Systems Research) |
Theme: | The New Roles of Systems Sciences for a Knowledge-based Society |
Date: | November 14- 17, 2005 |
Venue: | International Conference Centre, Kobe, Japan |
Regular Papers: | Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (2 - 3 pages) to the symposia and the Workshop by July 1, 2005. Final papers (8 pages) are due by Oct. 1, 2005. |
Position Papers: | Short Position Papers (1-2 pages) are invited for the Workshop, describing visions and predictions of the future impact and effects of Systems Sciences by July 1, 2005. Final position papers (2 pages) are due by Oct. 1, 2005. |
Lecturer: |
Hugo Tschirky, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Kyoichi Kijima, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Date: | September 29, 30, 2005 |
Place: | Room 607, 6th Floor, West bldg.9, O-okayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Fee: | Free |
Program: |
Sept 29 10:00-11:00 Introduction and Systems Approach Prof. K. Kijima 12:30-14:00 Innovation Management 1: Coping with technological change (Lecture) Prof. H. Tschirky 14:00-14:30 Break 14:30-16:00 Innovation Management 2: Selected management tools (Short Case Studies) Prof. H. Tschirky Sept 30 10:00-11:00 Innovation Management 3: Structured creativity: the innovation architecture (Lecture) Prof. H. Tschirky 12:30-14:00 Innovation Management 3: Applied innovation architecture (Group Work) Prof. H. Tschirky and Prof. K. Kijima 14:00-14:30 Break 14:30-16:00 Innovation Management 4: Group Work Presentations & Selected Themes (1 Presentation Per Group 15 Minutes) Prof. H. Tschirky and Prof. K. Kijima |
Date: | July 12, 13, 2005 |
Time: | 9:30- (Open Desk 9:00-) |
Place: | Collaboration Room, 2nd floor, West bldg.9, O-okayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Contact: | If you would like to attend the Symposium, please send us a e-mail with the following
data; name, affiliation, position, e-mail address, attendance (or not attendance) at luncheon gathering. Contact e-mail address: absss-web@dis.titech.ac.jp |
Date: | July 9-13, 2005 |
Venue: | O-okayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan |
AESCS 2005: | http://www.paaa.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/PAAA_aescs2005.html |
PAAA Web: | http://www.paaa.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ |
Important Dates
April 15, 2005: Paper submission deadline (by web-site)
April 15, 2005: Deadline for Summer School and Tutorial Proposals
May 7, 2005: Notification of paper acceptance (by e-mail)
June 7, 2005: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due (by web-site)
July 9-13, 2005: Workshop
Aims and Scope
There are many economic, organizational, and social problems, for which they require collective information processing with a large collection of autonomous and heterogeneous agents. Following the successes of the former AESCS workshops, the Fourth workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems (AESCS'05) focuses on the Agent-based Social Systems Science (ABSSS), an emerging scientific field as a trans-disciplinary and cross-cultural sciences. ABSSS will cover a broad spectrum of sciences such as social systems theory, sociology, business administration, management information science, organization science, computational mathematical organization theory, economics, evolutionary economics, international political science, jurisprudence, policy science, socio-information studies, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, complex adaptive systems theory, and philosophy of sciences. Also, AESCS'05 would include the issues of systems design for global and local socio-economic systems in the twenty first century. We would like to explore various new cross-cultural arenas of the human sciences. Of course, such an approach has been tried several times in the history of the modern sciences of humanities and systems, and has established such important conceptual frameworks and theories as Cybernetics, Synergetics, General Systems Theory, Cognitive Science and Complex Adaptive Systems. However, the rapid progress of computer technology enables us to create novel conceptual frameworks and design theories for socio-economic systems of the twenty-first century under the cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary context.
Topics to be Addressed
The topics include, but not limited to:
(1) Formal Theories on Agent-based Approaches
Agent-based computational foundations; Theories on rationality, intention, and emotion; Social behaviors, social action, and social interaction; Mathematical organization theory; Mathematical sociology
Agent-based computational economics; Econophysics; Market-oriented computing; Artificial markets; Agents in financial engineering; Computational organization theory;
Toolkits and methods for agent-based simulation; Large scale social simulation; Validation and verification of simulation results and simulation systems;
Gaming simulation; Participatory simulation; Hybridization of agent-based simulation and gaming simulation
Collective decision and behaviors; Emergent intelligence; Social intelligence
Organization and industrial design; Electronic commerce; Community design; Environment problems; Emergency management: prevention of disasters, epidemic diseases, and finance collapses; Medical and insurance systems; Public policies; Spatial modeling, pedestrian modeling; Marketing decision support
Evolutionary economics; Complex adaptive systems, chaotic and fractal dynamics; Evolutionary computation; Evolutionary games; Population dynamics; Anthropology
Conceptual modeling of agent-based approach; Philosophical issues of agent-based modeling
Paper Format
Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages in length with one column and single space. Please follow the format of Springer Lecture Notes series. The manuscript includes all figures, tables, graphs, and bibliography.
Publication
Accepted papers are published in the workshop proceedings. As post-proceedings, selected papers presented at the workshop will be published from Springer Verlag.
Registration and Participants
The registration fees are 10,000 Japanese Yen, which will cover conference materials including the proceedings.
Tutorials and Summer School
We will have two and/or four hours tutorials at the workshop. We will also organize international open summer schools for Agent-based modeling after the meeting. Participants of AESCS'05 are able to attend the summer school programs. Proposals for the tutorials and summer schools are welcome. The proposals must be written in one page summary within the deadline specified above.
Financial Support
The Organizing Committee of AESCS 2005 decided to give financial support of traveling cost to student participants. Each amount of financial support is depending on the distance from Tokyo. Applicants should be student and paper-giver of AESCS 2005. If you would like to apply for the financial support, please fill-in the Application Form, and send it back through e-mail to the secretary of AESCS 2005 (E-mail: AESCS05@dis.titech.ac.jp ) by April 15. You can also send us a Recommendation Letter which is wrote by the person who has relationship with NAACSOS or ESSA.
Note: if you apply for the financial support without submitting paper, your application will not be considered.
1. Full name
2. Nationality
3. Sex
4. Date of birth
5. Residential Address
6. Affiliation (Position and Organization)
7. Telephone
8. Fax
9. E-mail
10. Paper Title and Author(s)
11. Other information (Option)
Successful applicants will receive the Letter of Grant through e-mail by May 7, and receive a traveling ticket subsequently through air mail. The recipient should bring us at the Congress a copy of the recipient's valid passport, a copy of the student ID, and ticket stub. Please do not hesitate to contact with secretary of AESCS 2005, if you have any question.
Organizing and Program Committees
Workshop Chair:
Hiroshi Deguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Kyoichi Kijima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
COE21 Program "Creation of Agent-Based Social Systems Sciences", by Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science and Department of Value and Decision Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kiyoshi Arai, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
Query Address
E-mail: AESCS05@dis.titech.ac.jp
Date: | 26-27 March, 2005 |
Place: | Suzukakedai Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8503, JAPAN |
URL: | http://www.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~evoeco/indexj.html |
Inquiry: | Executive Committee of 9th Annual Meeting of Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics (evoeco@degulab.cs.dis.titech.ac.jp) |
Entry Title: | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Advertising Institutions: | Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science,
Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering and Department of Value and Decision Science, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology |
Description: | This postdoctoral position is available from April 1 or October 1, 2005 for a period of one year basically (depending on the situation, reemployment for every fiscal year, but up to five years). The Research Fellow will be expected to work in close collaboration with these program members on studying, by using the bottom up approach, a variety of different social systems found in the 21st century and understanding the principles and techniques of their institutional design. We will develop a theory of agent-based modeling (ABM) and a framework of agent-based simulation. In agent-based simulation machine agents are used as players and in addition to machine agents, key persons with a vested interest in the issue being modeled, such as a policy maker and other stakeholders, participate in the model as player agents. Through this interaction it is possible to share, interpret, understand and analyzes the issues as they are played out among the human players. By using a method, based on agent based modeling, there is an opportunity to understand from constructive points of view the various types of systems in our global society. For this purpose, emphasis is not only given to a bottom up approach, but also to a functional approach and an attempt is made to bridge the gap between constructive and functional, micro and macro, interpretive and rational modeling. By focusing on the traceability of the various processes found within a social system, frameworks are created for problem solving that enable the design, in a process traceable form, of different types of organization and institutions. Information on the "Creation of Agent-Based Social Systems Sciences (ABSSS)" can be found at http://www.dis.titech.ac.jp/coe/index_eng.htm |
Qualification Requirements: | Applicants should have, or expect shortly to obtain a PhD in the following research fields; Economics, artificial intelligence, mathematical or computational social sciences and decision sciences. Experienced programming skill in Java will be evaluated. However, since our research is essentially interdisciplinary, they are not exclusive. Every young researcher interested in developing "Agent-based Social systems Sciences" with us is more than welcome to apply to this position. |
Applications: | Applications should include a letter, a CV, a summary of your academic area of expertise, a list of your publications, a sample of academic work (e.g. offprint of your journal articles or a PhD dissertation), and a recommendation letter, and should be sent as soon as possible and no later than January 31 or July 31, 2005. |
Salary: | The salary is based on the directives of Tokyo Institute of Technology, and fringe benefit per year. Though it depends on the research hours and performance, a typical annual rate may be JPY 3,600,000 (tax inclusive). |
Duration: | April 1 or October 1, 2005 - 1 year basically. (depending on the situation, reemployment for every fiscal year, but up to five years.) |
Closing Date: | January 31 or July 31, 2005 |
Address for Receiving Application: | 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8502 Japan Tokyo Institute of Technology 21st-Century COE Deguchi Group, G5-18 |
Web Address: | http://www.dis.titech.ac.jp/coe/index_eng.htm |
Primary Contact: | Professor Hiroshi Deguchi |
Contact E-mail: | arai@dis.titech.ac.jp |
Date: | March 3, 2005 |
Time: | 10:00-17:30 |
Place: | Collaboration Room, 2nd floor, West bldg.9, O-okayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Contact: | If you would like to attend the Symposium, please send us a e-mail with the following
data; name, affiliation, position, e-mail address, attendance (or not attendance) at luncheon gathering. Contact e-mail address: absss-web@dis.titech.ac.jp |
Date: 27-28 January, 2005
Place: Suzukake Hall, Suzukakedai Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8503, JAPAN
URL:
http://www.mrt.dis.titech.ac.jp/sice-das05
Inquiry: Satoshi Murata, Associate Prof. of Tokyo Institute of Technology
E-mailFmurata@dis.titech.ac.jp
Lecture Title: | Granular Computing as a formal framework for human-centred (hypercomputational) information processing |
Lecturer: | Andrzej BARGIELA (Nottingham Trent University, UK) |
Date: | 18 January, 2005 |
Time: | 16:40-18:10 |
Place: | G3 2nd floor, Meeting Room, Suzukakedai Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Note: | On 11 January at 13:35-14:00 in the same room, we hold also another Meeting in which Prof. Bargiela talk about his research agenda and his University. It would be greatly appreciated if you would participate in both meetings. |
Summary: | Granular Computing (Zadeh, 1979, 1997)
has been motivated by the human information processing that can be
characterised by an adaptive adjustment of the abstraction (granulation)
of the problem at hand so as to achieve a mental model of the problem that
is both manageable and as accurate as possible. Such an adaptive
adjustment of abstractions does not fit easily into a definition of
standard computations formalised by a Universal Turing Machine (UTM) since
it presupposes the availability of "insight" and
"understanding" of the problem domain. In this talk we will look at the hypercomputational characteristics of Granular Computing that make it a good framework for human-centred information processing, a framework that still makes use of standard computers and is therefore eminently implementable. We will show that a parallel execution of granular models coupled with a possibility of "correcting" the results of computations at one level of abstraction with the results from another level of abstraction is capable of solving "uncomputable" (in the UTM sense) problems such as Godel's Entscheidungsproblem. This new insight puts an entirely different emphasis on the issue of Software Engineering of Granular Systems from designing correct computable processes to designing computable components for solving uncomputable, human-like information processing tasks. Andrzej Bargiela (Mf94) is Professor and founder-Director of the Intelligent Simulation and Modelling Lab at the Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom. His main research focus, pursued since 1978, is processing of uncertainty in the context of modelling and simulation of various physical and engineering systems. The research involves development of algorithms for processing uncertain information, investigation of computer architectures for such processing and the study of information reduction through visualisation. Recent research has been the development of a formal framework for processing of information abstractions. This is referred to as a Granular Computing framework. Professor Bargiela published widely and delivered invited lectures at several universities in Europe, North America and Japan (TITech, Konan University, Osaka Prefecture University). He was elected as chairman of the European Council of the Society for Computer Simulation in 2002 and was nominated to serve as associate vice-president of the Society for Computer Modelling and Simulation (USA) in 2004. He is Editor of a book series on Simulation and Modelling published by Research Studies Press. He is a founder and Director of a research spin-off company specialising in human-centred information processing; INFOHUB Ltd. |
Lecture Title: 'Searching a Polygonal Region from the Boundary'
Lecturer: Prof. Ichiro Suzuki (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Date: 14 January, 2005
Time: 15:00-16:00
Place: Meeting Room, 1st floor, G5, Suzukakedai Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
E-mailFmurata@dis.titech.ac.jp
Date: 21 December, 2004
Time: 10F00--
Place: Collaboration Room, 2nd floor, West bldg.9, O-okayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Date: 16 December, 2004
Place: Keidanren Hall, 14th floor,
Keidanren Kaikan
URL: http://www.rso.titech.ac.jp/
Date: 30 November, 2004
Place: Collaboration Room, 2nd floor, West bldg.9, O-okayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Lecturer: Keith W. Hipel (University of Waterloo, Professor, Department of Systems Design Engineering)
Lecture Title: A System Engineering Approach to Conflict Resolution
Summary:
The overall objectives of the research are to put the theory and practice of conflict
resolution into proper perspective and to introduce the graph model for conflict resolution as a
flexible decision technology for systematically studying realworld conflict which can arise in engineering,
international politics, business, and many other fields. Specific challenges that had to be overcome
in the development of the graph model are described and it is explained how ideas from computational
engineering and elsewhere were used to conquer them. For example, a difficult hurdle to surpass
in the design of any decision model is how to obtain preference information and within the graph
model paradigm for conflict resolution a number of flexible procedures have been designed for
conveniently eliciting ordinal preference information for each of the decision makers.
Other algorithmic and computational difficulties that had to be surmounted include developing techniques
for handling very large conflicts, handling irreversible moves by decision makers, and carefully
defining solution concepts for mathematically describing a rich range of human behaviour
that can take place under conditions of conflict. The foregoing and other related developments
have been incorporated into the decision support system GMCR II which permits practitioners and
researchers to carry out comprehensive strategic studies within a user-friendly windows operating environment.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is employed for clearly demonstrating how GMCR II can be effectively
used for modeling, analyzing, and better understanding realworld conflict. Strategic results obtained for
some environmental and water resources conflicts are also presented.
Date: 26 November, 2004
Place: G5 Meeting Room, Suzukakedai Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Date: 8 November, 2004
Time: 16:30-18:30
Place: 9th floor, West bldg.9, O-okayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, JAPAN
Guest: Prof. Mike Jackson
(Dean, Hull Business School, UK., Ex-president of the International Society for Systems Sciences)
Theme: Recent Trends in Systems Thinking in UK (tentative)
Date: 24-26 September, 2004
Host: Executive Committee of 2004 Summer Institute of Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science and ABSSS
Co-host: Department of Value and Decision Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Place: Suzukakedai Campus, G5 Meeting Room, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8503, JAPAN
We are looking for the Research Assistant widely.
If you have interest to this RA, Please send us the following information by 8 September, 2004.
1 Name and Grade
2 Laboratory which you are belonging to
3 Project which you are interested in (among our 8 Projects)
4 Special affairs