Intelligent Software Laboratory

(Multi-agent systems Laboratory)

Computer Science and Communications

Engineering

at Waseda University, Japan

Academic activities

Japanese

Professional Activities

Board Member

  • Committee Member, Special Interested Group of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Processing (SIG-AI), Information and Systems Society, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), April 2010 - current.

  • Steering Committee Member, International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA) September, 2012 -- September, 2018.

  • Vice Chair, Special Interested Group of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Processing (SIG-AI), Information and Systems Society, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), April 2015 - March 2017.

  • Vice Chair, Special Interested Group of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Processing (SIG-AI), Information and Systems Society, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), April 2011 - March 2015.

  • Audit Committee Member, Japanese Society of Software Science and Techologies, April 2006 - March 2010.

  • Chair, Special Interest Group on Internet Technology (SIG-ITECH), Japanese Society of Software Science and Techologies, April 2006 - March 2009.

  • Editorial Board Member, Japanese Society of Software Science and Techologies, Apr. 1999 - March 2006.


Editorial Member

  • Editorial Member, Special Issue on "Software Agent and its Applications", Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers D, December, 2015.

  • Editorial Member, Special Issue on "Software Agent and its Applications", Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers D, December, 2014.

  • Associate Editor-in-Chief, Special Issue on "Software Agent and its Applications", Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers D, December, 2013.

  • Editorial Member, Special Issue on "Thoery and Application of Multi-agent System", IPSJ Journal, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), May, 2006.

  • Associate Editor-in-Chief, Special Issue on "Software Agent and its Applications", Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers D-I, September, 2005.

  • Co-Editor, Proceedings of Fifth Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2003), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Susaki Kochi, Japan, November 2003.

  • Co-Editor, Special Isssue of Computer Software on the Internet, Vol. 17, No. 4, Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Iwanami Shoten Publications, 2000.

  • Co-Editor, Proceedings of Second Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT'99), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Iwate, Japan, August 1999.

  • Co-Editor, Proceedings of First Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT'98), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Kouchi, Japan, August 1998.


International Conference/Workshop

  • Program Committee Member, the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21), Online conference, 19th -26th August, 2021.

  • Program Committee Member, The 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems (PAAMS 2021), Salamanca and online (hybrid), Spain, October 6-8, 2021.

  • Program Committee Member, 12th International Conference on E-Service and Knowledge Management (ESKM 2021) and 9th International Conference on Smart Computing and Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2021), in The 10th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI AAI 2021), online, July 11-16, 2021.

  • Program Committee Member, The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021), Online conference, Feb. 2-9, 2021.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'20) , online, 14-17 December 2020

  • Senior Program Committee Member, The 23rd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2020), online, NOv. 18-20, 2020.

  • Program Committee Member, The 9th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI AAI 2020), online, September 1-15, 2020.

  • Program Committee Member, The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), Hilton New York Midtown, NY, USA, Feb. 7-12, 2020.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (ICoIAS 2020), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, February 26-29, 2010.

  • Program Committee Member, The 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2020), Valleta, Malta, Feb. 22-24, 2019.

  • Program Committee Member, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Agents (ICA 2019), Jinan, Shandong, China, Oct. 18-21, 2019.

  • Senior Program Committee Member, The 22nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2019), Universita degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy, Oct. 28-31, 2019.

  • Program Committee Member, The 4th International Workshop on Application of Big Data for Computational Social Science (ABCSS 2019), Thessaloniki, Greece, October 14-19, 2019.

  • International Programme Committee Member, The 23rd International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems Danubius Health Spa Resort Margitsziget, Budapest, Hungary, September 4-6, 2019.

  • Program Committee Member, The 17th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems (PAAMS 2019), Avila, Spain, June 26-28, 2019.

  • Program Committee Member, The 8th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI AAI 2019), Toyama, Japan, July 7-12, 2019.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (ICoIAS 2019), Nanyang Executive Center of NTU Singapore, Singapore, February 28-March 2, 2019.

  • Senior Program Committee Member, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, May 13-17, 2019.

  • Program Committee Member, The 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2019), Prague, Czech Republic, Feb. 19-21, 2019.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2018), University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Dec. 4 - 6, 2018.

  • Senior Program Committee Member, The 21st International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-2018), Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2018.

  • Program Committee Member, The 3rd International Conference on Agents (ICA 2018). Singapore, July 28-31, 2018.

  • Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems (MMAS2018) in conjunction with IJCAI/ECAI/AAMAS/ICML 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, July 14, 2018.

  • International Programme Committee Member, The 22nd International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2018), Belgrade, Serbia, September 3-5, 2018.

  • Program Committee Member, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, July 10-15, 2018.

  • Program Committee Member, The 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2018), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, Jan. 16-18, 2018.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2nd International Conference on Agents (ICA 2017). Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, July 6-9, 2017.

  • Senior Program Committee Member, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2017), WTC Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 8-12, 2017.

  • International Programme Committee Member, The 21st International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2017), Marseille, France, September 6-8, 2017.

  • Program Committee Member, The 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2017), Porto, Portugal, Feb. 24-26, 2017.

  • International Programme Committee Member, The 20th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2016), York, UK, Sep. 5 - 7, 2016

  • Program Committee Member, The 7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon (ICAART 2015), Portugal, February 10 - 12, 2015.

  • Technical Program Committee Member, The 45th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (IEEE FIE 2015), El Paso, Texas, USA, Oct 21 - 24, 2015.

  • International Programme Committee Member, The 19th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Singapore, Sep. 7 - 9, 2015.

  • Program Committee Member, The 4th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (ESKM 2019 in IIAI AAI 2019), Okayama, Japan, July 12-16, 2015.

  • Program Committee Member, The 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems, University of Salamanca, Spain June 3-5, 2015.

  • Sponsorship Chair, The Fourteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - AAMAS 2015, Istanbul Congress Center, Republic of Turkey, May 4-8, 2015.

  • Program Committee Member, The 7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, Portugal, February 10 - 12, 2015.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2014), Warsaw, Poland, August 11 - 14, 2014.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2014), Warsaw, Poland, August 11 - 14, 2014.

  • Program Committee Member, The 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems, University of Salamanca, Spain June 4-6, 2014.

  • Program Committee Member, The 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Angers, France, March 6 - 8, 2014.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2013), Atlanta, GA, USA, November 17 - 20, 2013.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2013), Atlanta, GA, USA, November 17 - 20, 2013.

  • PRIMA Steering Committee Member, International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA), 2013 - 2018.

  • Program Committee Member, The 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems, University of Salamanca, Spain May 22-24, 2013.

  • Demonstrations Chair, The Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - AAMAS 2013, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 6--10, 2013.

  • Program Committee Member, The 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, February 15 - 18, 2013.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2012), Macau, December 4 - 7, 2012.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2012), Macau, December 4 - 7, 2012.

  • General Chair, the 15th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-2012), Kuching, Sawarak, Malaysia, September 3-7, 2012.

  • Program Committee Member, The 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, February 6 - 8, 2012.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2nd International Workshop on Empathic Computing (IWEC 2011), Hanoi, Vietnam, October 17, 2011.

  • Program Committee Member, the 14th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-2011), Wollongong, Australia, November 14-18, 2011.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2011), Lyon, France, August 22 - 27, 2011.

  • Program Committee Member, The 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2011), Pafos Cyprus, Aug. 31 - Sep. 2, 2011.

  • Program Committee Member, The 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Rome, Italy, January 28 - 30, 2011.

  • Program Committee Member, the 13th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-2010), Kolkata, India, November 12-15, 2010.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2010), Toronto, Canada, August 31 - September 3, 2010.

  • Program Committee Member, The 1st International Workshop on Empathic Computing (IWEC 2010), Cebu, Philippines, August 11-13, 2010.

  • Program Committee Member, The 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2010), Bradford, UK, June 29 - July 1, 2010.

  • Program Committee Member, The Fifth International Workshop on Emergent Intelligence on Networked Agents (WEIN 2010), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 10 - 11, 2010.

  • Program Committee Member, the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA2009), Nagoya, Japan, Dec. 13-16, 2009.

  • Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology 2009 (CIT2009), Xiamen, China, Oct. 11-14, 2009.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09), Milan, Italy, September 15-18, 2009.

  • Program Co-chair and Co-organizer, The Fourth International Workshop on Massively Multiagent Systems (MMAS2009), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009.

  • Scientific Program Committee Member, The Third International Workshop on Emergent intelligence of networked agents (WEIN2009), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009.

  • Program Committee Member, The Eighth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 10--15, 2009.

  • Program Committee Member, The Tenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents (PRIMA2008), Hanoi, Vietnam, December 15-16, 2008.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'08), Sedney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008.

  • Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology 2008 (CIT2008), Sydney, Australia, July 8-11, 2008.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07), Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007.

  • Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology 2007 (CIT2007), Aizu, Japan, October 16-19, 2007.

  • Program Committee Member, The First International Workshop on Coordination and Control in Massively Multi-Agent Systems (CCMMS 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 14-18 May, 2007.

  • Program Committee Member, IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC2006), Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2 - 4, 2006.

  • Program Committee Member, The Ninth Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA2006), Guilin, China, August 7 - 8, 2006.

  • Organizer and Program Comittee Co-Chair, Second International Workshop on Massively Multiagent Systems (MMAS2006), held in conjunction with AAMAS 2006, Future University Hakodate, Kokkaido, Japan, May 9, 2006.

  • Program Committee Member, The Eighth Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA2005), Kuala Lumpur, Malasia, September 26-30, 2005.

  • Industry/Demo-track Chair and Conference Committee Member, The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT2005), France, Septemper 19-22, 2005.

  • Industry/Demo-track Chair and Conference Committee Member, The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on web Intelligence (WI2005), France, Septemper 19-22, 2005.

  • Program Committee Member, The Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - AAMAS 2005, Utrecht, The Neterlands, July 25 - 29 2004.

  • Program Comittee Member, International Workshop on Massively Multiagent Systems (MMAS2006), Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan, December 10-11, 2004.

  • Program Comittee Member, International Workshop on Massively Multiagent Systems, Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan, December 10-11, 2004.

  • Program Committee Member, The Seventh Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA2004), New Zealand, August, 2004.

  • Program Committee Member, The Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - AAMAS 2004, New York, USA, July 19 - 23 2004.

  • Program Committee Member, The Sixth Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA2003), Korea, November, 2003.

  • Program Committee Member, The Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - AAMAS 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14 - 18 2003.

  • Program Committee Member, The Fifth Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA2002), Tokyo, japan, August 19 - 20, 2002.

  • Program Committee Member, The First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - AAMAS 2002, Bologna, Italy, July 15 - 19 2002.

  • Program Committee Member, The Fourth Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2001), Taipei, Taiwan, July 28 - 29, 2001.

  • Program Committee Member, The Third Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA2000), Sydney, Australia, September 2-3, 2000.

  • Program Committee Member, The Second Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA'99), Kyoto, Japan, December 2-3 1999.

  • Program Committee Member, Fourth Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Brisbane, QLD Australia, July 1998.

  • Program Committee Member, Thrid Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Perth, Australia, December 1997.

  • Publicity Chair and Program Committee Member, Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-96), Nara, Japan, December 1996.

  • Program Committee Member, Second Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Cairns, QLD Australia, August 1996.

  • Program Committee Member, First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-95), San Francisco, CA, June 1995.

  • Program Committee Member, First Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Canberra, ACT Australia, November 1995.

  • Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Heterogeneous Cooperative Knowledge-Bases, sponsored by ICOT, Tokyo, Japan, December 1994.

  • Local Arrangement and Program Committee Member, First International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 90), sponsored by Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo, Japan, October 1990.


Domestic Conference/Workshop

  • Program Committee Member, The 17th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2018), sponsored by JSSST, IEICE, IPSJ and JSAI, Aki, Hiroshima, Japan, Sep. 13 - 15.

  • Program Committee Member, The 16th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2017), sponsored by JSSST, IEICE, IPSJ and JSAI, Kamogawa, Chiba, Japan, Sep. 15 - 17.

  • Program Committee Member, The 15th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2016), sponsored by JSSST, IEICE, IPSJ and JSAI, Gifu-Hashima, Gifu, Japan, Sep. 15 - 16.

  • Program Committee Member, The 14th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2015), sponsored by JSSST, IEICE, IPSJ and JSAI, Yamanaka Hot Spring, Ishikawa, Japan, Sep. 30 - Oct. 2.

  • Program Committee Member, The 13th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2014), sponsored by JSSST, IEICE, IPSJ and JSAI, ANA Holiday Inn Resort Miyazaki, October 27-29, 2014.

  • Program Committee Member, The 12th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2013), sponsored by JSSST, IEICE, IPSJ and JSAI, Laforet Nanki Shirahama, September 17-20, 2013.

  • Program Committee Member, The 11th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2012), sponsored by JSSST, IEICE, IPSJ and JSAI, Tsumagoi, Shizuoka, Japan, October 24-26, 2012.

  • Program Committee Member, The Twelfth Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2011), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Hakodate, Japan, May 31- June 1, 2012.

  • General Chair and Program Committee Member, The 10th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2011), sponsored by JSSST, IEICE, IPSJ and JSAI, Atami, Shizuoka, Japan, October 26-28, 2011.

  • Program Committee Member, The Twelfth Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2011), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Sapporo, Japan, June 2-3, 2011.

  • Program Committee Member, The 9th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2010), sponsored by JSSST, IEICE, IPSJ and JSAI, Furano, Hokkaido, Japan, October 27-29, 2010.

  • Program Committee Member, The Eleventh Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2010), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Yamagata, Japan, June 24-25, 2010.

  • Program Committee Member, The 8th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2009), sponsored by JSSST, IEICE, IPSJ and JSAI, Zao, Japan, October 28-30, 2009.

  • Program Committee Member, The 4th Workshop on Intelligence Emerging in Network, Tsukuba University Tokyo Campus, Japan, August 13-15, 2009.

  • Program Committee Member, The Tenth Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2009), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Furano, Hokkaido, Japan, June 26-27, 2009.

  • Program Committee Member, The 4th Workshop on Intelligence Emerging in Network, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, August 29-31, 2008.

  • Program Committee Member, The 7th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2008), sponsored by JSSST IEICE IPSJ and JSAI, Ohtsu Prince Hotel, Japan, October 29-31, 2008.

  • Program Committee Member, The Ninth Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2008), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan, June 26-27, 2008.

  • Program Committee Member, The 6th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2007), sponsored by JSSST IEICE IPSJ and JSAI, Okinawa Convention Center, Japan, October 28-31, 2007.

  • Program Committee Member, The 3rd Workshop on Intelligence Emerging in Network, Odaiba, Japan, August 17-19, 2007.

  • Program Committee Member, The Eighth Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2007), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Tottori Univ. of Environmental Studies, Japan, June 25-26, 2007.

  • Program Committee Member, The 5th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2006), sponsored by JSSST IEICE IPSJ and JSAI, Suzuka, Japan, October 25-27, 2006.

  • Program Committee Member, The 2nd Workshop on Intelligence Emerging in Network, Akan Lake, Japan, September 27- 29, 2006.

  • Program Committee Member, Seventh Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2005), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Kokura, Japan, November 2005.

  • Program Committee Member, The 4th Joint Agent Workshops (JAWS2005), sponsored by JSSST IEICE IPSJ and JSAI, Hakone, Japan, November 7 - 9, 2005.

  • Program Committee Member, The 1st Workshop on Intelligence Emerging in Network, Ito, Japan, October3 - 5, 2005.

  • Program Committee Member, Sixth Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2004), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi Hot Spring, Ishikawa, Japan, December 14-15, 2004.

  • Program Committee Chair, Joint Agent Workshops and Symposium (JAWS2004), Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan, Octorber 27 - 29, 2004.

  • Program Committee Chair and Organizer, Fifth Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2003), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Susaki, Kouchi, Japan, November 2003.

  • Program Committee Member, Joint Agent Workshops and Symposium (JAWS2003), Awaji island, Hyogo, Japan, Octorber 6 - 8, 2003.

  • Program Committee Member, Joint Agent Workshop (JAWS2002), Onuma, Hokkaido, Japan, November 13 - 15, 2002.

  • Program Committee Member, Workshop on Multi-Agent and Cooperative Computation (MACC2001), Kanazawa, Japan, November 16 - 17 2001.

  • Organizer and Program Committee Member, Fourth Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2001), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Wakkanai, Japan, September 2000.

  • Program Committee Member, Workshop on Multi-Agent and Cooperative Computation (MACC2000), Okinawa, Japan, December 4 - 6 2000.

  • Organizer and Program Committee Member, Third Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2000), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Hakodate, Japan, September 2000.

  • Program Committee Member, Workshop on Multi-Agent and Cooperative Computation (MACC99), Kyoto, Japan, November 30 - December 1 1999.

  • Program Committee Member, The 16-th JSSST Conference, Wakayama, Japan, September 1998.

  • Chair Organizer and Program Committee Member, Second Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT'99), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Iwate, Japan, August 1999.

  • Program Committee Member, Workshop on Multi-Agent and Cooperative Computation (MACC98), Toyama, Japan, December 1998.

  • Program Committee Member, The 15-th JSSST Conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 1998.Chair Organizer and Program Committee Member.

  • Chair Organizer and Program Committee Member, First Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT'98), sponsored by Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Kouchi, Japan, August 1998.

  • Task group member, Task Group on Heterogeneous Cooperative Knowledge Bases, ICOT (the Fifth Generation Computer Systems project), 1994.