This page is the legacy when I was an associate professor of Graduate School of Informatics, Koto University

KAWAKAMI, Hiroshi

Areas of Interest:

• Ecological and Emergent System Design
• Methodology of Collaborative Synthesis
• Human-System Communication
• Knowledge Information Processing

Representative Publications:

• H. Kawakami, O. Katai, T. Sawaragi, T. Konishi and S. Iwai,
  Knowledge acquisition method for conceptual design based on value engineering and axiomatic design theory,
  Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, 10 (3), pp.187-202, (1996), Elsevier Applied Science.
• H. Suto, H. Kawakami, O. Katai,
  A Model for Representing Artifacts based on the Modality of Operations and States,
  Trans. Soc. Instrum. & Control Eng. (in Japanese), 37 (11), pp.1078-1086 (2001).
• H. Kawakami, T. Konishi, H. Suto and O. Katai,
  A Method for Extracting and Utilizing Design Knowledge on Physical Causal Laws on Artifacts,
  Trans. Soc. Instrum. & Control Eng. (in Japanese), 38 (7), pp.632-640 (2002)
• H. Kawakami, E. Irie, T. Konishi and O. Katai,
  A Method of Artifact Fusion based on the Interactions in Qualitative Physical Causality,
  Trans. Soc. Instrum. & Control Eng. (in Japanese), 39 (3), pp.286-294 (2003)
• H. Kawakami, R. Akinaga, H. Suto, O. Katai,
  Translating Novelty of Business Model into Terms of Modal Logics,
  LNAI2903: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, pp.821-832 (2003)

Academic Degree: Doctor of Engineering (Kyoto Univ.)

Academic Society: Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems, Human Interface Society

Courses

• Graduate Courses:
  Theory of Intelligent Collaborative Systems

• Undergraduate Courses:
  Mechanical and System Engineering Laboratory

Further Information:

• My research project "Benefit of Inconvenience"

Last Updated: Aug. 2004