Makoto Yokoo

• My research interests include multi-agent systems, game theory, mechanism/market design, search and constraint satisfaction.

• I am a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), I am the first researcher from Asia to be selected as an AAAI fellow.

• I am a past president of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, which is the hosting organization of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems.

• My paper, Makoto Yokoo, Edmund H. Durfee, Toru Ishida, and Kazuhiro Kuwabara, ``The Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Formalization and Algorithms'', IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 10:673-685 (1998) and Makoto Yokoo and Katsutoshi Hirayama, ``Distributed Breakout Algorithm for Solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems Second. International Conference on Multiagent Systems'', ICMAS-96, pp.401-408 have received 2010 International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) influential paper award.

• I received 2004 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI) Autonomous Agents Research Award. This award is specifically intended to recognize researchers whose current research is influencing the field of autonomous agents.

Contact at: yokoo@inf.kyushu-u.ac.jp