Takashi Washio: Profile

First name: Takashi
Family name: Washio
Sex: Male
Birth date: October 30, 1960
Place of birth: Yamagata, Japan
Nationality: Japan
Personal Hobby: Sking

Office address:
The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research
Osaka University
8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567 Japan
Telephone: +81-6-6879-8540
Fax: +81-6-6879-8544
Email: washio(at)ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp

Qualification: Doctor of Engineering
Position: Professor

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Research interests:

• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining from in massive data
• Discovery of regularity and concept embeded in massive data
• Discovery of law equations from scientific data
• Industrial Application of Datamining and Knowledge Management

Participating Academic Society:

• American Association for Artificial Intelligence since 1988 (AAAI)
• Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence since 1989 (JSAI)
• IEEE Computer Society since 2005 (IEEE)
• Japan Statistical Society since 2006 (JSS)
• Information Processing Society of Japan since 1999 (IPSJ)
• The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers since 1985 (SICE)
• Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems since 1991 (SOFT)
• Human Interface Society from 2002 to 2005
• Japan Ergonomics Society from 1995 to 1998
• Atomic Energy Society of Japan from 1988 to 1999
• American Nuclear Society from 1987 to 1996

Awards

• June, 2005 Encouragement Awards of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  ・Development of Classification Method by Using Quantitative Association Rules
• June, 2004 Encouragement Awards of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  ・A Data Mining System: MUSASHI
• March, 2002 JCAC(Journal of Computer Aided Chemistry) Journal Award (2002)
  ・Applying the Apriori-based Graph Mining Method to Mutagenesis Data Analysis, Journal of Computer Aided Chemistry, Vol.2, pp.87-92, 2001
• May, 2001 JSAI Best Paper Awards
  ・Scientific Law Discovery based on Scale Type Constraint
• November, 1999 Best Paper Awards for the Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  ・Scientific Law Discovery from Observed Data and its Application to Socio-psychology
• October, 1998 Best Paper Awards for Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  ・The Extended SDS: A Model of Scientific Discovery for Simultaneous Equation Systems
• December, 1997 Encouragement Awards of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  ・A Method of Discovering the First Principles Based on Scale-based Reasoning and its Implementation
• June, 1997 Best Paper Awards for Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  ・A Data-driven Method to Discover the First Principle of Complex Systems
• December, 1996 Encouragement Awards of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  ・Abduction-based Evaluation among Multiple Axiomatic Systems and its Application
• March, 1996 The Best Paper Award of Atomic Energy Society of Japan
  ・Criteria of Diversity Evaluation for Intelligent Diagnosis of Nuclear Power Plants
• August, 1995 Best Paper Awards for Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  ・A Method of History-Oriented Envisioning by Introducing Temporal Logic
• February, 1988 Premium Paper Awards of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
  ・An Attempt of Fuzzy Qualitative Reasoning

Research Experience

• June, 1996 - Present
  Associate Professor, Department of Advanced Reasoning,
  Division of Intelligent Systems Science,
  Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research (I.S.I.R.),
  Osaka University
  ・ Discovery of a first principle equation from experimental and numerical data
  ・ Discovery of a first principle equation from observed and numerical data
  ・ Discovery of first principle simultaneous equations from experimental and numerical data
  ・ Discovery of first principle simultaneous equations from observed and numerical data
  ・ Complete search for extracting frequent patterns from graph structured data by Apriori-based graph mining (AGM)
  ・ Extention of Apriori-based graph mining (AGM) toward the application to wider areas
  ・ Discretization of numeric data by Akaike's information criterion (AIC) and minimum description length (MDL)
  ・ Reduction of association rules by maximal inference sets and Apriori algorithm
  ・ Feature generation method based on association rules
  ・ Fast classification method by using sub-sampling and Bagging
  ・ Identification and analysis of non-equilibrium thermodynamics from time series data analysis
  ・ Efficient approximate method of extracting typical patterns from graph structured data by graph based induction (GBI)
  ・ Integration of incremental knowledge acquisition from human expert and incremental machine learning from data in unstable environment within the framework of Ripple Down Rule method
  ・ Models of synthesis, its language and algorithm

• April, 1994 - May, 1996
  Senior Researcher, Safety Engineering Divison, Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc
  ・ Diagnosis for multiple faults of components and sensor by using model based diagnosis
  ・ History-oriented envisioning to predict behaviors of process systems in qualitative reasoning
  ・ Abduction-based reasoning among multiple axiomatic systems
  ・ Worm-type agents for intelligent operation of large-scale man-machine systems
  ・ Organization learning in multi-agent systems
  ・ Autonomous recovery execution in nuclear power plant by agent
  ・ Diversity criteria for control and sensing instruments of nuclear power plants
  ・ Adaptive microphone array technique for remote monitoring of components in nuclear power plants

• February, 1990 - March, 1994
  Junior Researcher, Researcher, Safety Engineering Divison,
  Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc.
  ・ Causal reasoning based on inherent causal structure of physical law formulae
  ・ Human reliability analysis based on fuzzy integral modeling
  ・ Decision support for operability improvement and maintenance planning by analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodology

• April, 1988 - January, 1990
  Visiting Researcher in Nuclear Reactor Laboratory,
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  ・ Development of a quantitative and symbolic causal reasoning method for spacecraft nuclear reactors
  ・ Derivation of exogenously-driven causality based on assumptive structural equations
  ・ Stability considerations concerning the implementation of the MIT-SNL period-generated minimum time control laws

Academic Activities

• Editorial Board
  07/1997 - Present Editorial board of New Generation Computing
  10/1995 - 09/1995 Editorial board of Journal of Atomic Energy Society of Japan

• Program Chairs and Organizers
  10/2001- Present
  Tutorial Chair of ICDM02: The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
  05/2001
  Program Chair of KDD Challenge 2001 International Workshop (JKDD01) of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  04/2000
  Local Arrangement Chair of PAKDD2000: The Forth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

• Program Committee
  10/2001 - Present
  Program Committee of ICML02: The Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
  10/2001 - Present
  Program Committee of ICDM02: The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
  10//2001- Present
  Program Committee of DX'02: Thirteenth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis
  09/2001-08/2002
  Program Committee of DaWaK 2002: Fourth International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
  04/2001-10/2001
  Program Committee of WI-2001: The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence
  10//2000 - 09/2001
  Program Committee of DX'01: Twelfth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis
  09/2000 - 08/2001
  Program Committee of DaWaK 2001: Third International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
  10//1999 - 09/2000
  Program Committee of DX'00: Eleventh International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis
  07/1999 - 06/2000
  Program Committee of ICML-2000: Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning
  05/1999 - 04/2000
  Program Committee of PAKDD2000: Fourth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  12/1998 - 11/1999
  Program Committee of RSFDGrC'99: Seventh International Workshop on Rough Sets, Data Mining, and Granular-Soft Computing
  10/1998 - 09/1999
  Program Committee of AAAI99: Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  10/1998 - 09/1999
  Program Committee of DX99: Tenth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis
  05/1998 - 04/1999
  Program Committee of PAKDD99: Third Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  10/1997 - 09/1998
  Program Committee of AAAI98: Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  04/1994 - 03/1995
  Program Committee of IEEE/IFES'95: The International Joint Conference
  of the Fourth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and the Second International Fuzzy Engineering Symposium
  10/1996 - 09/1997
  Program Committee of DX'97: Eighth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis
  10/1995 - 09/1996
  Program Committee of DX'96: Seventh International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis

• SIGs and Working Groups
  01/2002 - 08/2002
  MYCOM2002 of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Member of Arrangement Committee
  01/2001 - 08/2001
  MYCOM2001 of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Member of Arrangement Committee
  04/1998 - Present
  SIG-ICS (Intelligence and Complex Systems) Information Processing Society of Japan, Affiliate Member from 04/1998 - Present
  08/1997 - Present
  Member of Activity Planning Committee of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  11/1996 - Present
  SIG-IS (Intelligent Systems) of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Board Member from 11/1996.
  04/1996 - Present
  SIG-FAI (Foundation of Artificial Intelligence) of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Board Member from 04/1998 to 03/2000
  04/1995 - 06/1996
  Member of Kanto District Activity Planning Committee of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems, Board Member from 04/1995 to 06/1996
  04/1995 - 03/1997
  SIG-FEP (Fuzzy Evaluation Problem) of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems, Board Member from 04/1995 to 03/1997
  04/1995 - Present
  SIG-MMS (Man-Machine Systems) of Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Board Member from 04/1995.
  04/1994 - Present
  SIG-KBS (Knowledge-Based Systems) of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Affiliation Member from 04/1994.
  04/1993 - 03/1995
  SIG-MMS (Man-Machine Systems) of Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Affiliation Member from 04/1993 to 03/1995

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