Takahiro KAWAMURA Visiting Associate Professor
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Name & Affiliation
Awards
Research Keywords
Research Developments
Academic & Industrial Committees
Journals
Conferences & Workshops
Articles & Talks
Books
Press Releases
Standardization Activities
Patents

Maekawa Lab., UEC
R&D Center, Toshiba

Last Update: Nov. 1, 2005.
  
 Name & Affiliation ^


Takahiro KAWAMURA, Ph.D.

Visiting Associate Professor
Graduate School of Information Systems
The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
kawamura@maekawa.is.uec.ac.jp

Research Scientist
Research & Development Center
TOSHIBA Corporation, Japan
takahiro@eel.rdc.toshiba.co.jp

Visiting Researcher (2001-2002)
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, USA


 Awards ^

3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004), Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention)

 Research Keywords ^

Software Agent, Web Services, Semantic Web, Mobile / Ubiquitous Computing

 Research Developments ^
  • Software Agent

    • Distributed Job-shop Scheduling System based on Multi-Agent Negotiation
    • Power Outage Scheduling System using Mobile-Agents
    • Multi-Agent Framework: Bee-gent
      • Product Life-Cycle Management System (in company use)
      • Operation Information System for Power Plant (Japan Switchboard Industries Association)
      • Diagnosis and Maintenance System for Chemical Plant (Asahi Engineering Co.,Ltd.)
      • Power-Dispatching Record System for Power Plant (KANSAI Electoric Power Co.,Inc.)
      • Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Interoperability based on FIPA Spec. (Fujitsu Laboratories)
      • Personalised Mobile Agent: Mobeet (National Institute of Informatics)

  • Semantic Web / Web Services

  • Mobile / Ubiquitous Computing

    • Ultra Light-Weight Mobile Script: Flipcast
      • Internet applications for Home Robot
 Academic & Industrial Committees ^
 Journals ^
  • T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa, A. Ohsuga, M. Paolucci, K. Sycara:
    Web Services Lookup: A Matchmaker Experiment,
    IEEE IT Professional, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 36-41, March/April, 2005.
  • N. Yoshioka, T. Kawamura, A. Ohsuga, S. Honiden:
    Evaluation of A Multi Agent Framework for Open Distributed Systems,
    IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications, and Computer Sciences,
    Vol.E85-A, No.11, pp. 2396-2406, 2002.
  • T. Kawamura, S. Joseph, A. Ohsuga, S. Honiden:
    Designing Multi-Agent Systems based on Pairwise Agent Interactions,
    IEICE Transaction on Information & Systems., Vol. E84-D, No. 8, pp. 968-980, 2001.
  • T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa, T. Seki, A. Ohsuga, S. Honiden:
    Development of Distributed Power Outage Scheduling System by Using Bee-gent,
    Electrical Engineering in Japan, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Vol. 139, No. 3, pp. 62-72, 2002.
  • T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa, A. Ohsuga, S. Honiden:
    Bee-gent: Bonding and Encapsulation Enhancement Agent Framework for Development of Distributed Systems,
    Systems and Computers in Japan, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Vol. 31, No. 13, pp. 42-56, 2000.
  • T. Kawamura, N. Kase, D. Araki, A. Ohsuga:
    Development of a Distributed Cooperative Scheduling System based on Negotiations between Scheduling Agents,
    Systems and Computers in Japan, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 92-101, 2000.
 Conferences & Workshops ^
  • T. Takenouchi, T. Kawamura, A. Ohsuga:
    Development of Knowledge-filtering Agent along with User Context in Ubiquitous Environment,
    Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart Worlds (UISW2005), 2005. to appear.
  • T. Kawamura, K. Ueno, S. Nagano, T. Hasegawa, A. Ohsuga:
    Ubiquitous Service Finder - Discovery of Services semantically derived from metadata in Ubiquitous Computing,
    Proceedings of 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005), 2005. to appear.
  • T. Kawamura, A. Ohsuga, T. Terasaki:
    Web Services User Agent supporting interactions between mobile users and service flows,
    Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2005), 2005.
  • H. P. Huy, T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa:
    How to make Web sites talk together - Web Service Gateway Solution,
    Proceedings of 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005), 2005.
  • T. Kawamura, K. Ueno, T. Hasegawa, A. Ohsuga:
    Ubiquitous Service Finder - Service Oriented Architecture in Ubiquitous Computing,
    Proceedings of Activities on Semantic Web Technologies in Japan (WWW 2005 Workshop), 2005.
  • K. Ueno, T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa, A. Ohsuga, M. Doi:
    Development of Ubiquitous and Multi-Robot Applications Using Mobile Script Technology,
    Proceedings of Network Robot System: Toward intelligent robotic systems integrated with environments (ICRA 2005 Workshop), 2005.
  • T. Kawamura, J. D. Blasio, T. Hasegawa, M. Paolucci, K. Sycara:
    Public Deployment of Semantic Service Matchmaker with UDDI Business Registry,
    Proceedings of 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004),
    LNCS 3298, pp. 752-766, 2004.
  • J. D. Blasio, T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa:
    Catalog Search Engine: Semantics applied to products search,
    Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (SemAnnot 2004), 2004.
  • K. Ueno, T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa, A. Ohsuga, M. Doi:
    Cooperation between Robots and Ubiquitous Devices with Network Script "Flipcast",
    Proceedings of Network Robot System: Toward intelligent robotic systems integrated with environments (IROS 2004 Workshop), 2004.
  • H. P. Huy, T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa:
    Web Services Gateway - a step forward to e-Business,
    Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004),
    IEEE, pp. 648-655, 2004.
  • T. Kawamura, J. D. Blasio, T. Hasegawa, M. Paolucci, K. Sycara:
    Preliminary Report of Public Experiment of Semantic Service Matchmaker with UDDI Business Registry,
    Proceedings of First International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2003),
    LNCS No. 2910, pp. 208-224, 2003.
  • H. P. Huy, T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa:
    From Web Browsing to Web Service - Fertilizing Agent Environment,
    Proceedings of Workshop on Web-services and agent-based engineering (WSABE 2003), 2003.
  • M. Paolucci, K. Sycara, T. Kawamura:
    Delivering Semantic Web Services,
    Proceedings of Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2003), 2003.
  • M. Paolucci, T. Kawamura, T. R. Payne, K. Sycara:
    Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI,
    Proceedings of E-Services and the Semantic Web (ESSW 2002),
    LNCS No. 2512, pp. 225-236, 2002.
  • M. Paolucci, T. Kawamura, T. R. Payne, K. Sycara:
    Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities,
    Proceedings of First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2002),
    LNCS No. 2342, pp. 333-347, 2002.
  • T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa, A. Ohsuga, J. Yamamoto:
    Proposal of Semantics-based Web Service Matchmaking,
    Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications 2001 (ICCIMA 01), IEEE, pp. 87-92, 2001.
  • S. Joseph, T. Kawamura:
    Why Autonomy Makes the Agent,
    Proceedings of Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agents Systems Workshop, 2000.
  • T. Kawamura, S. Joseph, A. Ohsuga, S. Honiden:
    Quantitative Evaluation of Pairwise Interactions between Agents,
    Proceedings of Workshop on Software Agent and its Applications (SAA2000), pp. 257-268, 2000.
  • T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa, A. Ohsuga, S. Honiden:
    Rental Application to Rental Service -Development of Advanced ASP Framework-,
    Proceedings of Fourth International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2000), IEEE, pp. 58-64, 2000.
  • T. Kawamura, S. Joseph, A. Ohsuga, S. Honiden:
    Quantitative Evaluation of Pairwise Interactions between Agents,
    Joint Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications / Mobile Agents (ASA/MA 2000), LNCS No. 1882, pp. 192-205, 2000.
  • T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa, A. Ohsuga, S. Honiden:
    Bee-gent: Bonding and Encapsulation Enhancement Agent Framework for Development of Distributed Systems,
    Proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 99), IEEE, pp. 260-267, 1999.
 Articles & Talks ^
  • T. Kawamura, J. D. Blasio:
    Ubiquitous Service Finder - Service Oriented Architecture in Ubiquitous Computing -,
    3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004),
    Demo Session, 2004.
  • T. Kawamura:
    Web Services with Matchmaker
    A Special Issue of Toshiba review, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HIGHLIGHTS, 2003.
  • T. Kawamura, K. Sycara:
    CMU-TOSHIBA Joint Research Project - Web Service Composition and Matchmaking,
    First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent systems (AAMAS 2002),
    demo session, 2002.
  • T. Kawamura:
    Development of the Multi-Agent Middleware System Bee-gent
    A Special Issue of Toshiba review, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HIGHLIGHTS, 2000.
  • T. Kawamura, N. Kase:
    Distributed Cooperative Scheduling System based on Negotiations between Scheduling Agents,
    Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 97),
    demo session, 1997.
 Books ^
  • H. P. Huy, T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa:
    Web Services Gateway - a step forward to e-Business,
    Web Service and Agent Technology,
    Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN???, 2004.
  • S. Joseph, T. Kawamura:
    Why Autonomy Makes the Agent,
    AGENT ENGINEERING,
    World Scientific Publishing (eds. J. Liu, N. Zhong, Y. Tang, P. Wang), ISBN981-02-4558-0, 2001.
 Press Releases ^

TBD

 Standardization Activities ^
  • SWSI, Toshiba Corp., et. al.:
    Semantic Web Services Framework (SWSF),
    W3C Member Submission 9 May 2005.
  • The OWL-Coalition, Toshiba Corp., et. al.:
    OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services,
    W3C Member Submission 22 November 2004.
  • Toshiba Corp.:
    Toshiba Bee-Gent response,
    Submitted to OMG Agent WG RFI, 2000.
  • Toshiba Corp.:
    Toshiba Plangent response,
    Submitted to OMG Agent WG RFI, 2000.
  • Toshiba Corp.:
    Mobile Agent Proposal,
    Submitted to FIPA, 1998.
 Patents ^

TBD

 
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