Workshops / Special Sessions

Organizer:
Prof. Motoi Iwashita
Chiba Institute of Technology, 2-17-1 Tsudanuma Narashino-shi Chiba, 275-0016 Japan
Tel: +81-474780461
Fax: +81-474780461
E-mail: iwashita.motoi(at)it-chiba.ac.jp
Website: http://www.mis.it-chiba.ac.jp/~iwashita/workshop2012.html

Purpose:
Large amount of data will be stored through info-communication networks/services such as SNS (Social Network Services), sensor networks, life log, etc. these days. These data have possibility to characterize not only info-communication services but also complicated social systems. In fact, useful knowledge will be expected to be discovered for every field. Therefore, data mining will be more important technology not only for evolving info-communication networks/services but also for solving many kinds of social systems such as correcting digital divide, constructing new marketing approaches, etc. This workshop focuses on data mining for info-communication networks/services and its diffusion. It includes methodology, theoretical insight and empirical findings for info-communication technologies and services. Our aim is to encourage introducing both technology and case study. Moreover, we try to share new knowledge through info-communication services.

Organizers:
Prof. Kiyota Hashimoto
Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1, Gakuen-cho, Naka Ward, Sakai, 599-8531, Japan
E-mail: hash(at)lc.osakafu-u.ac.jp

Prof. Sachio Hirokawa
Kyushu University
E-mail: hirokawa(at)cc.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Purpose:
More and more attention has been paid to a sustainable society and its technological supports. However, sustainability requires each of us be wiser in order to save limited natural resources and yet to develop a more advanced society, which means that life-long education and learning is all the more important. For better education and learning, various learning technologies have been proposed. We have to evaluate them in a new perspective focusing on sustainability and create new, innovative learning technologies that will play a decisive role in future education and learning. The International Workshop on Learning Technologies in and for a Sustainable Society, LTSS 2012, which will be held as part of ACIS- SNPD 2012, brings together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of learning technologies from a perspective of sustainability, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

The workshop will cover a broad set of research topics including, but not limited to, the following:

Organizer:
Mr. Satoshi Takahashi
University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 3058573, Japan
Tel: +81-29-853-5395
Fax: +81-29-853-5395
E-mail: takahashi2007(at)e-activity.org

Purpose:
Optimization approaches are very important topic for Information Science researches. Recently, many company try to reduce several cost occurred by production, transportation and employment. The company employs the optimization approach to solve their problems by using information technologies. Scheduling problems, product managements are one of typical problems treated by optimization research area. Since their problems are very hard problems, we should consider how to solve efficiently by using usual computer. This topic has not only theoretical aspect, but also practical aspect. This special session aim to discuss about how to use optimization method with practical or theoretical approaches for real system such as economic activities, production activities and other actual situations of real world. Also this special session gathers young researchers' research results. Many conference does not organize a young researcher session, however, we think this session is very important to give a precious opportunity to discuss recent topic of the research with each other. So we think this session make some good suggestions to solve the problem by discussing.

Special Sessions

Organizer:
Prof. Tsuyoshi NAKAMURA
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan, 4668555
Tel: +81-052-735-5475
Fax: +81-052-735-5475
E-mail: tnaka(at)nitech.ac.jp

Purpose:
This special session aims at discussing the basic principles and methods of designing intelligent interaction with the bidirectional communication based on the effective collaboration and symbiosis between the human and the artifact, i.e. robots, agents, computer and so on. The research society "Human Symbiotic System (HSS)" was established in the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics on August in 2007 by Professor Yoichiro Maeda(Fukui University) and Associate Professor Daisuke Katagami(Tokyo Polytechnic University). This society aims at encouraging the academic and industrial discussion about the research on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI), Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) concerning Symbiotic Systems. Reflecting the fact that this society covers a wide range of topics, in this session we invite the related researchers from a variety of fields including intelligent robotics, human-machine interface, Kansei engineering and so on.

Organizer:
Prof. Dauw-Song Zhu
Department of Business Administration, National Dong-Hwa University
Tel: 886-3-8633024
Fax: 886-3-8633024
E-mail: dswu(at)mail.ndhu.edu.tw

Organizers:
Prof. Masashi Komori
Osaka Electro-Communication University, 18-8 Hatsucho, Neyagawa, Osaka 572-8530, Japan
Tel: +81-72-824-1131
Fax: +81-72-824-0014
E-mail: komori(at)oecu.jp

Prof. Hilofumi Yamamoto
Tokyo Institute of Technology, W1-8 O-okayama Meguroku Tokyo 152-8550 Japan
Tel: +81-3-5734-2324
Fax: +81-3-5734-2324
E-mail: yamagen(at)ryu.titech.ac.jp

Purpose:
In recent years, there have been enormous advances in information technology and a corresponding growth in the use of information technology resources and techniques in humanities research including historical and cultural studies, text analysis, and digital archives. These approaches are sometimes referred to as Humanities Computing or Digital Humanities. The application of computational techniques in the humanities has been changing not only the ways in which traditional humanities scholars work but also the research materials, the framework for humanities research, and the role of humanities. This special session aims to enhance the use of information technologies in the field. We welcome submissions that include new research methods, innovative solutions, and breakthrough approaches in the humanities and interdisciplinary areas.

Organizer:
Prof. Petr Skobelev
Knowledge Genesis Group (UK) & Smart Solutions (Russia) & Institute of Control of Complex systems of Russian Academy of Science (Russia),
Russia 4433080 Sanfirova street, Software Engineering Company «Smart Solutions», 443080, Samara, Russia, 95/4 Sanfirovoi st., Business Center "Sanfirova", office 416
Tel: 7 (846) 222-91-72 / 222-91-73
Fax: 7 (846) 222-91-72 / 222-91-73
E-mail: petr.skobelev(at)gmail.com

Purpose:
Multi-agent technology is fast growing area of Computer Science and a critical technology for developing self-organized systems for solving very complex problems, for example, in real time scheduling and optimization, pattern discovery, data mining and text understanding and a number of other domains. But today multi-agent technology is making only first steps to industry applications and delivering enterprise-ready systems. The purpose of session is to meet together academic researchers, pioneers of industry applications and industrial companies for presenting modern R&D and practical results and finding new ways for developing industrial applications and further advancing and commercialization of technology.

Organizers:
Prof. Kuniaki Uehara
Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
Tel: +81-78-803-6215
Fax: +81-78-803-6316
E-mail: uehara(at)kobe-u.ac.jp

Prof. Masahide Nakamura
Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
E-mail: masa-n(at)cs.kobe-u.ac.jp

Purpose:
This special session aims to bring together researchers, professors and practitioners who are working for any activities related to software engineering, in order to discuss their "experiences" to be shared within the community. The experiences including good and bad practices will play an important role to innovate new challenges as well as to improve the existing activities.

The following topics are relevant to the special session, but are not exclusive of other relevant issues.

Organizers:
Prof. Kensei Tsuchida
Toyo University, 2100 Kujirai, Kawagoe, Saitama 350-8585, Japan
Tel: +81-49-239-1453
Fax: +81-49-233-9788
E-mail: kensei(at)toyo.jp

Dr. Takaaki Goto
The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
Tel: +81-42-443-5838
Fax: +81-42-443-5839
E-mail: goto(at)kikou.uec.ac.jp

Purpose:
Software is becoming increasingly bulky and complicated due to demands placed for the enhancement of its functionality and the increasing sophistication of real-world problems. Future software development will require design and implementation based on theory such as advanced algorithms and sophisticated modeling. The aim of this special session is to provide a forum to discuss the technical issues surrounding modeling, data structures, algorithms for proposed modeling, and software based on models. This special session invites presentations on advanced studies relevant to theory and application in order to share new ideas and methods for the development of advanced and intelligent software.

Organizers:
Prof. Kenji Ozawa
University of Yamanashi, 4-3-11 Takeda, Kofu 400-8511, Japan
Tel: +81-55-220-8586
Fax: +81-55-220-8586
E-mail: ozawa(at)yamanashi.ac.jp

Prof. Shuichi Sakamoto
Tohoku University
E-mail: saka(at)ais.riec.tohoku.ac.jp

Purpose:
The 21st century is referred to as "the century of Kansei" in Japan. The Japanese word Kansei means the feelings and emotions that we experience when we interact with products as well as services. In the current century, the methodology to deal with Kansei information is a key technology in the field of engineering. This special session intends to give the state-of-the art of Kansei research that is related to multimedia systems, including audio-visual (AV) equipments, AV environments and AV materials. As the first step to obtain full understanding of such a kind of Kansei, measurements from several viewpoints are needed. Then, Kansei models which estimate the observed results based on the physical properties of multimodal signals are constructed using soft computing techniques such like neural networks and generic algorithms. These models can be applied to create more effective multimedia systems, including Ultra-realistic recording and reproduction systems. Among various kinds of Kansei evoked by multimedia systems, this session especially focuses on emotions as well as a sense of presence because the sense is an important point of view for evaluating current AV equipments.

Organizer:
Prof. Wladyslaw Homenda
Warsaw University of Technology, Plac Politechniki 1, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland
E-mail: homenda(at)mini.pw.edu.pl

Intelligent information processing is the fundamental area of artificial intelligence. Automatic information understanding is the indispensable property of intelligent information processing. This session is devoted to intelligent information processing focused on automatic information understanding.

The paradigm of automatic information understanding includes wide spectrum of topics: data representation, data arrangements, methods of data description, syntactic structuring and semantic analysis of descriptions, granulation of syntax and semantics, identification of local structures, knowledge space formation, performing structural operations and similar ones. The paradigm of automatic data understanding is a generalized methodology adaptable to different domains like technical drawings, geodesic maps, medical images, music information, written and spoken natural languages and others. Yet, detailed methods, algorithms and techniques derived from the paradigm of automatic data understanding are domain dependent.

The aim of this Session is to bring together different representative actors, to exchange ideas, to debate divergences and to construct convergences around the paradigm of automatic information understanding. Original contributions describing research ideas, case studies and new findings on methodological and technological aspects related to both paradigms of intelligent information processing and automatic information understanding are warmly welcomed.

Organizer:
Prof. Cuauhtemoc Lopez-Martin
Guadalajara University, Jalisco, Mexico
E-mail: cuauhtemoc(at)cucea.udg.mx

Purpose:
Software estimation can involve as dependent variables to size, effort, schedule, cost, and quality. Estimation techniques could be classified in those non-based on models (i.e. expert judgment) or based on models as statistical (i.e. regression equations) or computational intelligence techniques (i.e. fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks or evolutionary computing), and these techniques could be applied to data obtained from large (industrial environments) or small (academic environments) projects.

Papers should include sections related to the experimental context (industrial or academic environments), hypotheses, measurements, experimental design including the studied population and sample characteristics, experiment implementation and data collection, analysis (identifying outliers or influential observations, and ensuring that data do not violate the assumptions of the tests used on them: i.e. normality, independence, or equal variances), results presenting the raw data or providing where they are available, and describing each accuracy evaluation criterion for models (i.e. MMER or MMRE), and interpretation of these results. Each model from estimation technique should be depicted based on the following two stages: (1) when it has been checked its adequacy or model training (when each model is generated and then applied to original data set and their accuracy is evaluated), and (2) when it has been validated applying it to a new data set for predicting the dependent variable.

Organizer:
Prof. Zhiyi Fang
College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, P.O. Address: #2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun, P.R. China, 130012
E-mail: fangzy(at)jlu.edu.cn, gnqu(at)jlu.edu.cn

Purpose:
The growth of the internet traffic has been exponential for the past four decades, and will be growth even faster. A packet switch whose fundamental role is forward packets from input ports to output ports can be found at the core of high speed switch devices and routers, and is the foundation of the data communication networks. High performance and scalability of switches, especially for future network, attract most attentions of studies.

Output Queued switches provide maximum performance, however, N times memory speedup requirement is too high to be implemented. OQ switches have been used to be compared to as an ideal model. Input Queued, Combined Input and Output queued, Combined Input and Crosspoint buffered Queued Switches, Shared buffered, and Clos network switches, which are more practical, have been studies for decades of years, in many ways, e.g. QoS guarantee, scheduling algorithms, TCP packet switching, OQ matching, and so on.

Recently, we considered switch architectures with different aspects, and proposed some innovative switches, e.g. Contention-Tolerant Crossbar Switches. Therefore, we would like to proposal a special session. The purposes of session are:

Discuss the new challenges on switches for future networks, and how to meet these challenges using current switch architectures, theoretically and technically.
Propose and consider switch problems in different way. Some new switch architectures from our lab and from our cooperative lab will be presented, and any new considerations on any aspects are welcome.

Organizer:
Prof. Y. H. Wong
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
E-mail: msyhwong(at)inet.polyu.edu.hk

Purpose:
Ubiquitous commerce (u-commerce) is a dynamic convergence of the physical and the digital, the interface of brick-and-mortar commerce with web-based wireless and other next-generation technologies in ways that will create new levels of convenience and value for buyers and sellers.

U-commerce is considered to be substantially more advanced than PC-based e-commerce. In short, u-commerce is the creation of a personalized marketplace that reaches individuals where they are, at using the devices that they want to use, with the networks doing the work without the user needing to modify or intervene.

This session is intended to contribute to the understanding of the factors related to the supply, adoption and prospect of u-commerce. An ambidextrous approach will be used by exploring users’ intention to adopt in u-commerce (the demand dimension of u-commerce) and by studying the perceived market attractiveness by suppliers of u-commerce (the supply dimension of u-commerce). It will make significant contributions to a more in-depth understanding of the research related to the spread and acceptability of u-commerce.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Factors related to the decisions to adopt u-commerce, such as ubiquity (anywhere and any time), universality (multi-functional usage), ultra-yield (significant extra-gain), ultimacy (no need for further upgrading), usefulness (perceived value), uniformity (social recognition).
Factors related to the market attractiveness of u-commerce, such as various market, social, economic, technological, and environmental factors.
Types of new u-commerce technologies, such as those related to new wireless technology, voice recognition technology, radio frequency technology, digital TV technology, new microprocessors, CRM and Data mining technology.
[a:]Propositions, theories and models, and research methods concerning the design, use, and evaluation of u-commerce applications.
Concern for and evaluation of the security, safety, privacy, transparency of u-commerce applications.
Implications and consequences of u-commerce on the behavior of individuals, groups, society, and socio-technical units.
Qualitative & quality analysis of the components, process, interaction and context of the adoption and supply of u-commerce.
Novel interaction and interface design, usability testing methods, personalized design for u-commerce devices.
Case studies looking at the design, usability and evaluation of u-commerce applications.
CRM, trust & other human dimensions of U-commerce

Organizer:
Prof. Farid Beninel
CREST-ENSAI & UMR CNRS 7348
E-mail: fbeninel(at)ensai.fr

Purpose:
The special session is devoted to implementation of advanced data mining and machine learning methods, algorithms and technologies in real situations from business and industry with a very great importance to data fom finance, bank, insurance and customer relationship management.

Organizers:
Prof. Wojciech Burakowski
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
E-mail: wojtek(at)tele.pw.edu.pl

Prof. Shinji Shimojo
Osaka University
shimojo(at)cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp

Organizers:
Prof. Sang-goo Lee
Seoul National University
E-mail: sglee(at)snu.ac.kr

Prof. Young-Kuk Kim
Chungnam National University
E-mail: ykim(at)cnu.ac.kr

Purpose:
We are witnessing unprecedented quantity of information being generated each day by individuals and organizations, and the rate of growth is exponential. Although there are much expectation that such large amounts of data will provide various opportunities for intelligent decision making, the tremendous volume of information may create more noise than value. Innovative ways of organizing, mining and processing information is critical to realizing the potential value of the growing wealth of information to address global challenges.

Organizers:
Prof. Shinsuke Tamura
University of Fukui, 3-9-1, Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan
Tel: +81-776-27-8043
E-mail: tamura(at)u-fukui.ac.jp

Prof. Yohsuke Hosoda
University of Fukui, 3-9-1, Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan
Tel: +81-776-27-8471
E-mail: hosoda(at)u-fukui.ac.jp

Prof. Ken Higuchi
University of Fukui, 3-9-1, Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan
Tel: +81-776-27-8976
E-mail: higuchi(at)u-fukui.ac.jp

Purpose:
Recent advances of hardware and software had enabled us to use distributed and parallel processing technologies with less cost, and many efforts are being made in developing variety of application systems. Aiming at the more effective and efficient exploitation of distributed and parallel processing technologies, this session gathers results of case studies for developing and using distributed and parallel processing systems, so that researchers and practitioners can share ideas, knowledge and experiences in various applications.

Topics of the session include but are not limited to:

Developments of distributed and parallel processing system applications
Evaluation of distributed and parallel processing system applications
Methodologies for selecting architecture and/or components of distributed and parallel processing systems
Methodologies for developing and/or evaluating distributed and parallel processing systems.

Organizers:
Prof. Catalina Cocianu
Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Calea Dorobantilor 15-17, Bucharest 1, 10374, ROMANIA
E-mail: ccocianu(at)ase.ro

Prof. Luminita State
University of Pitesti, Targu din Vale 1, Pitesti, ROMANIA
E-mail: lstate(at)clicknet.ro

Purpose:
The purpose of the special session "Theoretical Developments and Special Topics of Machine Learning" is to emphasize the new approaches both theoretical and practical in the area of machine learning and to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners involved in a series of specific applications. Recently, the field of machine learning have seen an explosion of interest and nowadays is successfully applied across a wide range of domains as medicine, engineering, e-services in solving problems of high complexity as prediction, classification and control. The session intends to be an opportunity for scientists, engineers and practitioners interested in this filed to change ideas and point out the main trends in this area.

Topics:

Mathematical tools in analysis the behavior and performance of learning algorithms
Support Vector Machines
Hidden Markov Models
Special tailored neural architectures for implementing classes of learning algorithms
Advanced techniques in supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning
Specific applications of ML

Workshops / Special Sessions

Workshops

Special Sessions

Workshops

1. First International Workshop on Data Mining for Info-Communication Service and its Diffusion

2. First International Workshop on Learning Technologies in and for a Sustainable Society

3. First International Workshop on Practical and Theoretical Optimization for real systems in Information Science

Special Sessions

1. Human symbiotic systems

2. Technology Acceptance and Online Behavior

3. The Art of Humanities Computing

4. Multi-Agent Technology, Platforms and Systems

5. Experiences of Software Engineering

6. Intelligent Software: Theory and Application

7. Multimedia and Kansei Engineering

8. Methods of Intelligent Information Processing (MIIP)

9. Software Estimation

10. Innovative switch architectures for future networks

11. Ubiquitous Commerce: Theoretical & Application Perspectives

12. Data Driven Models In Machine Learning

13. Future Internet Architectures and Experimental Facilities

14. Data Intelligence

15. Applications of Parallel and Distributed Processing

16. Theoretical Developments and Special Topics of Machine Learning