References

Journals

  1. Takayuki Ito, Rafik Hadfi, and Shota Suzuki, An Agent that Facilitates Crowd Discussion: A Crowd Discussion Support System based on an Automated Facilitation Agent, Group Decision and Negotiation Journal, The Special Issue on Negotiation Systems and Studies (Celebrating the life and work of Gregory Kersten), 2021. (IF=2.648) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-021-09765-8

  2. Takayuki Ito, "Discussion and Negotiation Support for Crowd-Scale Consensus" in the book "Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation", Editors: Kilgour, D. Marc, Eden, Colin (Eds.),Springer, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49629-6_41

  3. Jawad Haqbeen, Sofia Sahab, Takayuki Ito and Paola Rizzi “Using Decision Support System to Enable Crowd Identify Neighborhood Issues and Its Solutions for Policy Makers: An Online Experiment at Kabul Municipal Level” Journal: Sustainability, (IF 2.576) ,2021.

  4. Wen Gu, Ahmed Moustafa, Takayuki Ito, Minjie Zhang, Chunsheng Yang, “A Case-based Reasoning Approach for Supporting Facilitation in Online Discussions”, Group Decision and Negotiation Journal, 2021.03.18 (impact factor 2.40)

  5. Chunsheng Yang, Wen Gu, Takayuki Ito and Xiaohua Yang, "Machine learning-based consensus decision-making support for crowd-scale deliberation”, Applied Intelligence, Springer, 2021.01.05. (IF = 3.325).https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-020-02118-z

  6. Rafik Hadfi, Jawad Haqbeen, Sofia Sahab and Takayuki Ito. Argumentative Conversational Agents for Online Discussions.Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering. Special Issue on　AI-enabled System Simulation and Modelling, 2020 (impact factor 1.2)

  7. Tomohiro Nishida, Takanori Ito, Takayuki Ito, “Verification of Effects Using Consensus-Building Support System in Continuous Workshops for City Development,” Journal of the Science of Design, Nov. 2018(accepted)

  8. Satoshi KAWASE, Takayuki ITO ,Takanobu OTSUKA,Akihisa SENGOKU, Shun SHIRAMATSU,Tokuro MATSUO,Tetsuya OISHI,Rieko FUJITA,Naoki FUKUTA, and Katsuhide FUJITA, "Cyber-physical hybrid environment using a largescale discussion system enhances audiences’ participation and satisfaction in the panel discussion", The IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Volume E101.D Issue 4 Pages 847-855 2018 (accepted).

  9. Takayuki Ito, Takanobu Otsuka, Satoshi Kawase, Akihisa Sengoku, Shun Shiramatsu, Takanori Ito, Eizo Hideshima, Tokuro Matsuo, Tetsuya Oishi, Rieko Fujita, Naoki Fukuta, Katsuhide Fujita, Experimental Results on Large-scale Cyber-Physical Hybrid Discussion Support, International Journal of Crowd Science, Emerald Publishing, ISSN 2398-7294, 2017, Vol. 1 Issue: 1, pp.26-38, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCS-01-2017-0003


Patent (International)

  1. Takayuki Ito, Shun Shiramatsu, Shota Suzuki, Discussion support device and program for discussion support device, US Patent App, 17/266.893, 2021.10.14.


International Conferences

  1. Jawad Haqbeen, Sofia Sahab, and Takayuki Ito, Facilitating Discussion on COVID-19 with Autonomous Facilitator: A Case Study on the Comparison of Expert Discussion versus the Public Paradigm Ratio of Reply for Agent Facilitation Post, The Sixteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2021), November 24-26, 2021.

  2. Atsuya Sakai, Shota Suzuki, Rafik Hadfi, Takayuki Ito, Extracting Issue-Based Information System Structures from Online Discussions for Automated Facilitation Agent, The Sixteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2021), November 24-26, 2021.

  3. Takayuki Ito,An Agreement Mechanism Among Negotiating Agents based on Self-Control in Two-Stage Negotiations, The Sixteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2021), November 24-26, 2021.

  4. Shun Okuhara, Rafik Hadfi, Takayuki Ito, Investigating shame and selfishness in two-stage choice problems with interdependent alternatives, The Sixteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2021), November 24-26, 2021.

  5. Sofia Sahab, Jawad Haqbeen, Takayuki Ito, Empowering the Vulnerable through Online Discussion Support System, The 2021 Invisible Reconstruction Conference (IR2021), Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, September 1 2021.

  6. Sofia Sahab, Jawad Haqbeen and Takayuki Ito. “The Effect of Competitors on Crowd Engagement in Incentivized Municipal Idea Contest Project”. The 9th ACM Collective Intelligence 2021, Copenhagen, June 29-30, 2021.

  7. Sofia Sahab, Jawad Haqbeen, Takayuki Ito, "Different or Alike? Motivation to Participate and Social Influence in Online Discussions by Age and Gender", The 26th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society, September 7-10, 2021, Vienna, Austria.

  8. Sofia Sahab, Jawad Haqbeen, Takayuki Ito, "What Makes a Participative Tool to Gather More Sample Views? Discussion with Supportive means for Mutual Benefit", The 26th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society, September 7-10, 2021, Vienna, Austria.

  9. Jawad Haqbeen, Sofia Sahab, Takayuki Ito, "Text-based Discussion Environment using a Discussion Support System Enhances Participants' Engagement at International e-Conference", The 26th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society, September 7-10, 2021, Vienna, Austria.

  10. Jawad Haqbeen, Sofia Sahab and Takayuki Ito “How to deliberate online discussion on COVID-19 at scale? Artificially but with efficient turn-taking”. The 21st International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, June 6-10, 2021, Toronto, Canada.

  11. Jawad Haqbeen, Takayuki Ito and Sofia Sahab, “AI-based Mediation Improves Opinion Solicitation in a large-scale online discussion: Experimental evidence from Kabul Municipality”, IJCAI-PRICAI2020 Workshop on AI for Social Good, 2021.01.07.

  12. Jawad Haqbeen, Takayuki Ito, Sofia Sahab, Takumi Sato, Shun Okuhara and Murtaza Hofiani “Insights from a Large-Scale Discussion on COVID-19 in Collective Intelligence”, The 19th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference of Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT-20), Melbourne, Australia (online), 14-17 December, 2020.

  13. Jawad Haqbeen, Takayuki Ito, Sofia Sahab, Rafik Hadfi, Shun Okuhara, Nasim Saba, Murtaza Hofaini and Umar Baregzai “ A Contribution to COVID-19 Prevention through Crowd Collaboration using Conversational AI & Social Platforms”, IJCAI 2019 Workshop on AI for Social Good, 2020.

  14. Takumi Sato, Shun Okuhara, and Takayuki Ito, “Fully Automatic Classification of Open-ended Questionnaire”, The 15th International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2020), Tasmania, Australia (Online), 25-27 November 2020 (ACCEPT)

  15. Naoki Kawamura, Shun Okuhara, and Takayuki Ito, “Increasing Facilitations by Extracting Concrete Discussion Structures”, The Twelfth 2020 International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2020), Tasmania, Australia (Online), 25-27 November 2020 (ACCEPT)

  16. Sofia Sahab, Takayuki Ito, Jawad Haqbeen, and Shun Okuhara, “A Study on Neighborhood Functions Using Smart Discussion Platform: Kabul City Experiment”, The 15th International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2020), Tasmania, Australia (Online), 25-27 November 2020.

  17. Jawad Haqbeen, Takayuki Ito, Sofia Sahab, Rafik Hadfi, Takumi Sato, and Shun Okuhara, “Meeting the SDGs: Enabling the goals by cooperation with crowd using conversational AI platform”, The 15th International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2020), Tasmania, Australia (Online), 25-27 November 2020.

  18. Atsuya Sakai, and Takayuki Ito, “Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Online Discussion Understanding”, The 15th 2020 International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2020), Tasmania, Australia (Online), 25-27 November 2020 (ACCEPT)

  19. Daiki Setoguchi, Shun Okuhara, Ahmed Moustafa, and Takayuki Ito “Alternating offers protocol by automated negotiation based on constraint relaxation”, The Twelfth 2020 International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2020), Tasmania, Australia (Online), 25-27 November 2020 (ACCEPT)

  20. Rafik Hadfi and Takayuki Ito. “Argumentative Conversational Agent for Polarized Online Debates”. ECAI Workshop on Dialogue, Explanation and Argumentation for Human-Agent Interaction (DEXA-HAI-2020). (Accepted)

  21. Takumi Sato, Ahmed Moustafa and Takayuki Ito. : “Automatic Classification of Freely-Offered Opinions”, The 2nd International Workshop on Agent-based Crowd Decision-making (AgentCrowd2020) in conjunction with AAMAS2020, Auckland, New Zealand. May 9 or 10, 2020 (Accepted)

  22. Yuya Kondo, Takayuki Ito, Ahmed Moustafa, “An Automated Tool for Visualizing Large-Scale Online Discussions”, The 2nd International Workshop on Agent-based Crowd Decision-making (AgentCrowd2020) in conjunction with AAMAS2020, Auckland, New Zealand. May 9 or 10, 2020 (Accepted)

  23. Atsuya Sakai, Ahmed Moustafa and Takayuki Ito. : “Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Online Discussion Understanding”, The 2nd International Workshop on Agent-based Crowd Decision-making (AgentCrowd2020) in conjunction with AAMAS2020, Auckland, New Zealand. May 9 or 10, 2020 (Accepted)

  24. Jawad, Takayuki Ito, Hadfi, Sahab, Sahab, Amiryar and Nishida “Usage & application of AI-based discussion facilitation system for city issues and town meeting: Kabul experimental view”, The 2nd International Workshop on Agent-based Crowd Decision-making (AgentCrowd2020) in conjunction with AAMAS2020, Auckland, New Zealand. May 9 or 10, 2020.

  25. Naoki Kawamura, Ahmed Moustafa and Takayuki Ito. : “Extracting Discussion Structures for Automated Facilitation Agents”, The 2nd International Workshop on Agent-based Crowd Decision-making (AgentCrowd2020) in conjunction with AAMAS2020, Auckland, New Zealand. May 9 or 10, 2020 (Accepted)

  26. Jawad Haqbeen, Takayuki Ito, Rafik Hadifi, Tomohiro Nishida, Zoia Sahab, Sofia Sahab, Shafiq Roghmal and Ramin Amiryar, “Promoting Discussion with AI-based Facilitation: Urban Dialogue with Kabul City”. The 8th ACM Collective Intelligence 2020, Boston-Copenhagen, June 18-19, 2020.(accepted)

  27. Rafik Hadfi and Takayuki Ito. “Exploring Interaction Hierarchies in Collaborative Editing using Integrated Information”. The 8th ACM Collective Intelligence 2020, Boston-Copenhagen, June 18-19, 2020.

  28. Takayuki Ito, Rafik Hadfi, Jawad Ahmad Haqbeen, Shota Suzuki, Atsuya Sakai, Naoki Kawamura and Naoko Yamaguchi, Agent-based Crowd Discussion Support System and Its Societal Experiments, 18th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS2020), demonstration, L'Aquila (Italy), 17th-19th June, 2020.

  29. Takayuki Ito, Shota Suzuki, Naoko Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Nishida, Kentaro Hiraishi and Kai Yoshino, D-agree: Crowd Discussion Support System based on Automated Facilitation Agent, Demonstration, 35th AAAI conference, February 7-12 2020, New York (Accepted, Demonstration Paper)

  30. Daichi Shibata, Shota Suzuki, Ahmed Moustafa, Takayuki Ito, On Facilitating Large-Scale Online Discussions, 2019 The 16th Pacific International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2019), August 26-30, 2019, Yanuca Island, Fiji. (accepted）

  31. Wen Gu, Ahmed Moustafa, Takayuki Ito, Minjie Zhang, Chunsheng Yang, A Case-based Reasoning Approach for Facilitating Online Discussions, 2019 The 16th Pacific International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2019), August 26-30, 2019, Yanuca Island, Fiji. (accepted)

  32. Wen Gu, Ahmed Moustafa, Takayuki Ito, Minjie Zhang and Chunsheng Yang, “Discussion Case Base Simulation for Case-based Reasoning based Online Discussion Facilitation”, IJCAI 2019 Workshop on Smart Simulation and Modelling for Complex Systems (SSMCS2019),Aug 10-16, 2019

  33. Takayuki Ito, Shota Suzuki, Naoko Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Nishida, Kentaro Hiraishi,and Kai Yoshino, “ Crowd Discussion for the Future of Your Hometown: An Agent-based Crowd Discussion Support System ”, IJCAI 2019 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (AI4SDG), Aug 10-16, 2019 (accepted)

  34. Takayuki Ito, Shota Suzuki, Naoko Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Nishida, Kentaro Hiraishi,and Kai Yoshino, “ Towards Smarter Democracy: An Agent-based Large-scale Discussion Support System”, IJCAI 2019 Workshop on AI for Social Good, Aug 10-16, 2019 (accepted for poster)

  35. Takayuki Ito, Daichi Shibata, Shota Suzuki, Naoko Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Nishida, Kentaro Hiraishi,and Kai Yoshino, “Agent that Facilitates Crowd Discussion”, The 7th ACM Collective Intelligence 2019, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, June 13-14, 2019

  36. Chunsheng Yang, Takayuki Ito and Wen Gu, Toward case-based reasoning facilitation for online discussion in deliberation, 2019 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (IEEE CSCWD 2019), May 6-8, 2019, Porto, Portugal.

  37. Naoko Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Nishida, Takayuki Ito,”An Annotation Scheme for Developing Prototype Automated Facilitation Software”,PICMET '19 Conference),"Technology Management in the World of Intelligent Systems" , August 25 - 29, 2019 Hilton Portland and Executive Tower,Portland, Oregon, USA

  38. Naoko Yamaguchi, Takayuki Ito, Tomohiro Nishida, “A Method for Online Discussion Design and Discussion Data Analysis”, The Thirteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS-2018) November 15-17, 2018 Pattaya, Thailand(Accepted)

  39. Wen Gu, Ahmed Moustafa, Takayuki Ito, Minejie Zhang, Chunsheng Yang, “A Case-based Reasoning Approach for Automated Facilitation in Online Discussion Systems”, The Thirteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS-2018) November 15-17, 2018 Pattaya, Thailand (Accepted)

  40. Tomohiro Nishida, Takanori Ito and Takayuki Ito, Verification of Consensus Building Support System on Large-Scale Social Experiment where Celebrities Participate a Discussion, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Agents (IEEE-ICA 2018), 2018. (full paper)

  41. Takayuki Ito, Takanobu Otsuka, Teruyoshi Imaeda, and Rafik Hadfi, An Implementation of Large-scale Holonic Multi-agent Society Simulator and Agent Behavior Model, The 15th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI2018), August 27-31, 2018, Nanjing, China. (accepted). (Acceptance Rate = 81/382)

  42. Takayuki Ito, Towards Agent-based Large-scale Decision Support System: The Effect of Facilitator, The 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hilton Waikoloa Village, USA, January 3-6, 2018.

  43. Tomohiro Nishida, Takayuki Ito, Takanori Ito, Eizo Hideshima, Shunpei Fukamachi, Akihisa Sengoku and Yumika Sugiyama, "Core Time Mechanism for Managing Large-Scale Internet-based Discussions on COLLAGREE", In the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Agents (IEEE ICA2017), Beijin, China, 2017. (accepted, acceptance rate: 30%)

  44. Daichi Shibata and Takayuki Ito, A Distributed Power Managing Method based on Power Grid Network Centrality, In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Agents (IEEE ICA 2017), Beijing, China, 2017. (accepted, acceptance rate: 30%)

  45. Katsuhide Fujita, Takayuki Ito, Mark Klein, "Enabling Large Scale Deliberation using Ideation and Negotiation-Support Agents", The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS 2017) US-Japan Workshop on Collaborative Global Research on Applying Information Technology, J.W. Marriott, Buckhead,Atlanta, GA, USA on June 5 – 6, 2017.

  46. Chunsheng Yang, Takayuki Ito, Yubin Yang, and Jie Liu. Developing machine learning-based models to estimate time to failure for PHM. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (ICPHM), pages 1–6. IEEE, 2016.

  47. Takayuki Ito, Takanobu Otsuka, Satoshi Kawase, Akihisa Sengoku, Shun Shiramatsu, Tokuro Matsuo, Tetsuya Oishi, Rieko Fujita, Naoki Fukuta, nd Katsuhide Fujita, "Preliminary Results on A Large-scale Cyber-Physical Hybrid Discussion Support Experiment", The Eleventh 2016 International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2016), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 10 - 12 November 2016.

  48. Akihisa Sengoku, Takayuki Ito, Katsuhide Fujita, Shun Shiramatsu, Takanori Ito and Eizo Hideshima, "Towards Intelligent Crowd Decision Support: A Preliminary Result on Large-scale Discussion Suppor based on the Discussion Tree", International Conference on Crowd Science and Engineering (ICCSE2016), Vancouver, Canada, July 27-30, 2016.(Best Paper Award)

  49. Akihisa Sengoku, Takayuki Ito, Kazumasa Takahashi, Shun Shiramatsu, Takanori Ito, Eizo Hideshima and Katsuhide Fujita，Discussion Tree for Managing Large-Scale Internet-based Discussions，Collective Intelligence 2016，Stern School of Business New York University，June 1-3, 2016．

  50. Kazumasa Takahashi, Takayuki Ito, Takanori Ito, Eizo Hideshima, Shun Shiramatsu, Akihisa Sengoku and Katsuhide Fujita，Incentive mechanism based on qualit of opinion for Large-Scale discussion support，Collective Intelligence 2016，Stern School of Business New York University，June 1-3, 2016．

  51. Takayuki Ito, Yuma Imi, Motoki Sato, Takanori Ito, and Eizo Hideshima, “Incentive Mechanism for Managing Large-Scale Internet-based Discussions on COLLAGREE”, Collective Intelligence 2015, May 31 - June 2, 2015@the Marriott Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA, USA.