Keynote speech

13:15 - 14:05 Invited Talk 1

Title:

Innovation as History Making: From the Humanities Perspective

Yutaka YAMAUCHI, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University.

Chair: Susumu KUNIFUJI

Abstract:

Innovations are often considered as an activity to fulfill customers' requirements, solve their problems and offer something pleasing to them. In this talk, I will demonstrate that innovations are "expression" of the historical time, which in turn allow people of the time to express themselves. Instead of closing the situation by meeting requirements, solving problems and satisfying customers, we need to take them out of the present and disclose them and the world in which they can find a new meaning of themselves. I will begin by showing my research on service encounters, specifically sushi bars in Tokyo, and then extend the argument into innovation in general by showing how innovations work.

Bio:

Yutaka Graduated from the Kyoto University Faculty of Engineering and received a Master's Degree from the Kyoto University Graduate School of Informatics, and Ph.D. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. After working as a researcher at the Xerox Corporation Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), he joined Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University. He was one of the founding members of Kyoto University Design School and in 2022, launched a new creative education program called Kyoto Creative Assemblage, in collaboration with Kyoto City University of Arts and Kyoto Institute of Technology.

15:30 - 16:20 Invited Talk 2

Title:

Building a Smart Society Using Open-Source Hardware and Co-Creation

Takanobu OTSUKA, Nagoya Institute of Technology

Chair: Takayuki ITO

Abstract:

Open-source software has developed through the co-creation of communities. In the hardware world, open-source software is also advancing, making it easier to reuse design information and other resources. Furthermore, the low cost of printed circuit boards and microcontrollers has lowered the hurdles for implementing IoT hardware. In the smart society of the future, it is important to collect and utilize data using IoT and AI technologies. In this talk, we will introduce the implementation method of IoT using open-source hardware and examples of social implementations in our research.

Bio:

Dr. Takanobu Otsuka is an Associate Professor of the Nagoya Institute of Technology. He received the M.E and Doctor of Engineering from the Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2011 and 2016, respectively. From 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor at the Nagoya Institute of Technology. From 2015 and 2016, he was a visiting researcher at UCI (University of California Irvine). His main research interests include IoT, multi-agent systems, intelligent agents, distributed systems, and software engineering on offshoring.

9:20 - 10:10 Invited Talk 3

Title:

Opinion Informatics

Xijin TANG, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science

Chinese Academy of Sciences

(https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87837774815)

Chair: Shohei KATO

Abstract:

People express personal opinions by a variety of ways, such as words of mouth, ideas, comments, votes, attitudes, or different actions. Extracting meaningful information from individual opinions to community opinions is of values, and is one normal or general task in many fields. Lots of research had been conducted at different disciplines. Computing technologies to visualized analysis of utterances during discussions had once been one of main streams for idea generation by creativity support systems. Supporting technologies for processing group discussions, debates and consensus making have also been long explored from group support systems for small-sized group work to current on-line discussions or debates happened in cyber space as analytical perspectives toward the working process go more diverse. In the Internet eras, user generated contents can be regarded as easily accessible while huge sized open public opinions toward various topics, and bring out many new cross-discipline research domains. The ever growing analytical tasks for intelligence with variety of needs toward different kinds of opinions are simply referred as opinion informatics.

Bio:

Xijin Tang is a full professor in the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She received her BEng in computer science and engineering from Zhejiang University in 1989, MEng on management science and engineering from University of Science and Technology of China in 1992, and doctoral degree in management engineering from CAS Institute of Systems Science in 1995. During her early systems research and practice, she developed several decision support systems for water resources management, weapon system evaluation, e-commerce evaluation, etc. During the past 20 years, she has been engaged in exploring the operable and feasible methods or supporting technologies for meta-synthesis systems approach to solving societal complex systems problems. Her recent interests include meta-synthesis and advanced modeling, social network analysis and knowledge management, opinion mining and opinion dynamics, opinion big data and societal risk perception. The courses of her recent teaching in University of Chinese Academy of Sciences include knowledge management, opinion big data and analysis, etc. She co-authored and published two influential books on meta-synthesis systems approach and an oriental systems approach in Chinese. She was one of 99 who won the 10th National Award for Youth in Science and Technology in China in 2007. She has been the secretary general of Systems Engineering Society of China since October of 2018, and one of vice presidents and the secretary general of International Society for Knowledge and Systems Sciences since November of 2014. Now she serves several editorial boards of some journals in systems studies, including Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, and Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, both published by Springer.