ECIT 2002 Plenary Lectures Speakers

Dr. Junzo Watada received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Osaka City University, Japan, and the Dr. of Eng. degree in fuzzy multivariate analysis from University of Osaka Prefecture, Osaka, Japan.

He is a Professor of Knowledge Engineering and Human Informatics, the School of Industrial Engineering at Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan since 1990, after he had contributed to Faculty of Business Administration, Ryukoku University for 8 years. Before moving to Academic, he was with Fujitsu Ltd. Co., where he worked on development of software systems as a senior system engineer for 7 years.

His research interests include fuzzy system methodologies for data analysis, decision support Systems, experts systems, financial engineering, and so on. Recently he works actively on intelligent systems, genetic algorithms, neural networks and so on. Especially his interest is in hierarchical reasoning based on evidential theory.

He is an advisory board of BISC Group, BISC Special Interest Group in Philosophy of Soft Computing , Helsinki University, Finland since 1996, an advisory board of Journal of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Malaysia since 1996, a member of Czech-Japan Research Cooperation since 1998, a founding member of Japanese-Hungarian Integrated Intelligent Systems Laboratory(IISL) in Budapest, Hungary.

He is an editorial board of International Journal of Systems and Control Engineering. He has edited several international journals including Fuzzy Sets and Systems, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning and so on as a guest editor. He has served for various international conferences as a president, an advisory committee, an international program committee, a secretariat general, etc..

Dr. Watada is an board member and a committee member of several universities in Malaysia and Hong Kong. He was a visiting professor at various universities and institutes over 12 countries including Purdue University, West Lafayette, University of Texas, Austin in USA, Tianjin University, Tsinhua University, P.R. CHINA, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, Malaysia University of Technology, Kuala Lumpur, San Paulo University, Brazil, Research Institute of Thompson CRF, Paris, France, and so on.

He is the President of Bio-Medical Fuzzy Systems Association since April 2001. He was the Vice President of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems for two years (1993-1995) and is a board committee of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems, and also serve as the principal editor for its journal, and was the president of Japan Chapter of International Fuzzy System Association for two years (1993-1995) and is a board committee of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems, and also serve as the principal editor for its journal, and was the president of Japan Chapter of International Fuzzy System Association for two years (1993-1995). And he contribute several journals as an editorial board. He is a member of IFSA, Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems, etc.

Dr. Kaoru Hirota was born in Japan on January 6, 1950. He received B.E., M.E., and Dr.E. degrees in electronics from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1974, 1976, and 1979, respectively. From 1979 to 1982, he was with the Sagami Institute of Technology, Fujisawa, Japan. From 1982 to 1995 he was with the College of Engineering, Hosei University, Tokyo. Since 1995, he has been with the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.

Prof. Hirota is a member of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association (Vice President, (1991-1993), Treasurer (1998-2001)), IEEE (Associate Editors of IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems (1993-1995) and IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics (1996-present)), and SOFT (Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems (President, 2001-2003)).

He is an editor in chief of Int. J. of Advanced Computational Intelligence and a Senior Associate Editor of Int. J. of Information Sciences.

Research interests cover soft computing including fuzzy-neuro-chaos-GA (EC), intelligent robots, image understanding, expert systems, and hardware implementation.

1. Basic theory of Computational Intelligence

2. Knowledge-Based Image Understanding

3. Multimedia Communication Systems

4. Legal Expert Systems

5. Intelligence Control

6. Circuit Design using VHDL or Verilog-HDL

7. Intelligent Robot

8. Scheduling

9. Finance Engineering

1. Kaoru Hirota, Witold Pedrycz: A Decomposition of Fuzzy Relations, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 31,No. 4, 657{663 (2001).

2. Kaoru Hirota: Intelligent VRSD (Vehicle Routing, Scheduling, and Dispatching) System Based on HIMS (Hierarchical Multiplex Structure) Model, 2001 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES2001), (Opening Invited Lecture) (Helsinki, Finland), 15-16 (2001).

3. Kaoru Hirota, Norikazu Ikoma: A Mathematical Principle of Stochastic Processes, Asakura Publ. Co Ltd., 2001 (in Japanese language).

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