Yohei MURAKAMI

Updated January 15, 2009

Yohei MURAKAMI, Ph.D.

Language Grid Project
 Language Infrastructure Group,
Knowledge Creating Communication Research Center,
National Institute of Information and Communication Technology

Phone: (+81)-774-98-6907
Fax: (+81)-774-98-6960
Email: yohei at nict.go.jp
Web: http://langrid.nict.go.jp/~murakami/index.html

RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Multi-Agent System
- Services Computing
EMPLOYMENT
2006/4-current Researcher
Language Grid Project,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology - JAPAN
Project Leader: Professor Toru Ishida
2005/10-2006/3 Technical Assistant
Language Grid Project,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology - JAPAN
Project Leader: Professor Toru Ishida
2004/12/13-17 Teaching Assistant
ACM SIGART/ATAL/IFMAS sponsord China Agent Systems School,
Southwest China Normal University - Chongqing, China
2004/4-2005/3 Research Assistant
Digital City Project,
Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST),
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) - JAPAN
Project Leader: Professor Toru Ishida
2002/6-2002/12 Visiting Scholar
MIND lab (Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab Semantic Web Agents Project),
University of Maryland at College Park - Maryland, USA
Supervised by Professor James Hendler
EDUCATION
2003-2006 Ph.D Program
Laboratory for Global Information Network , Department of Social Informatics
Kyoto University, Japan
Supervisor: Professor Toru Ishida
THESIS TITLE:
"Protocol Design Using Participatory Simulation"
ABSTRACT:
Making it easier to design interactions between agents and humans is essential for realizing multi-agent simulations of social phenomena such as group dynamics. To realize large-scale social simulations, we have developed the scenario description languages Q and IPC (Interaction Pattern Card); they enable experts in the application domain (often not computing professionals) to easily create complex scenarios. We have also established a four-step process for creating scenarios: 1) defining a vocabulary, 2) describing scenarios, 3) extracting interaction patterns, and 4) integrating real and virtual experiments. In order to validate the scenario description languages and the four-step process, we ran a series of evacuation simulations based on the proposed languages and process. We successfully double-check the result of the previous controlled experiment done in a real environment.
2001-2003 Master of Informatics
Laboratory for Global Information Network , Department of Social Informatics
Kyoto University, Japan
THESIS TITLE:
"Generating Process Semantics Description from Web Service Scenarios"
ABSTRACT:
Recently, it has become possible to employ as components the services which are ubiquitous on the Web, and provide new composite services at low cost by coordinating them. However, the problem of usage restriction arises depending on user's situation, since current technology implements static service composition which lacks flexibility.
In this paper, we suggested architecture coordinating users and service providers in order to reflect user needs in services. This architecture consists of three technologies. One is scenario description to describe composite services suitable to user situations, second is process semantics description to enable planners at server side to dynamically incorporate services, and the other is translator converting from service scenarios into process semantics description. It enables planners at server side to reuse composite services described by users.
1997-2001 Bachelor of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Information Science
Kyoto University, Japan
THESIS TITLE:
"Protocol Description among Agents in the System Supporting International Conference"
ABSTRACT:
In paper review process in an international conference, authors, reviewers and the chairs share the electronic information through the network. The information is, for example, paper itself, data relevant to the paper, or assignment of the review and so on. We aim to develop ''Information Sharing Platform,'' where each agent serves its user.
The goal of this system is to promote efficiently the distribution of shared information in this community and manage flexibly changes in the requests of users, by introducing agents that behave reflecting users' intentions and support whole review process.
In this paper, we described a cooperation protocol required by agents which have different tasks on such system. This protocol was extracted through the analysis of e-mails exchanged between administrators and participants including authors, chairs and reviewers.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
-Conferences-
  1. Program Committee Member of Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, 2009.
  2. Program Committee Member of Tenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI, 2008.
  3. Doctoral Mentoring Chair of Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, 2008.
  4. Program Committee Member of Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, 2008.
  5. Program Committee Member of Sixth International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC, 2007.
-Technical Groups-
  1. Chair of Services Computing Technical Committee in IEICE
AWARDS
  1. Our paper ``Context-based Coordination of Machine Translation Services'', has received the Best-Paper Award of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence in 2008 (in Japanese).
  2. Our paper ``Dynamic Binding of Composite Web Services'', has received the Best-Paper Award of the 69th National Convention of IPSJ in 2007 (in Japanese).
  3. Our paper ``Language Grid: An Infrastructure for Intercultural Collaboration'', has received the Best-Paper Award of the 20th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence in 2006 (in Japanese).
  4. Our paper ``Evacuation Simulation by using Multi-agent System'', has received the Best-Paper Award of the 16th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence in 2002 (in Japanese).
  5. Our paper ``Multi-agent Simulation for Urban Crisis Management'', has received the Best-Session Award of the 3rd SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2002) in 2002 (in Japanese).
PUBLICATIONS
-Journals-
  1. Yohei Murakami, Toru Ishida, Tomoyuki Kawasoe and Reiko Hishiyama, "Multi-Agent Simulation Based on Interaction Design," Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp.278-285, 2003. (in Japanese)(pdf 3.2MB)
  2. Yohei Murakami, Yuki Sugimoto, and Toru Ishida, "Constructing Agent Model for Virtual Training Systems," Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp.243-250, 2006. (in Japanese)(pdf 1.6MB)
  3. Sachiko Masaki, Masahiro Tanaka, Yohei Murakami, and Toru Ishida, "Agent-based Level Test Management System for Information Education," Transactions of the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2006. (in Japanese)(pdf 1.6MB)
  4. Eiji Aramaki, Takeshi Abekawa, Yohei Murakami, and Akiyo Nadamoto, "Dialog analysis of the Community Type Content for Content Hole Search," Journal of the Database Society of Japan, Vol.7, No.1, June 2008, pp.109-114. (in Japanese)
  5. Satoshi Sakai, Masaki Gotou, Satoshi Morimoto, Yohei Murakami, and Toru Ishida, "Language Grid Playground: Intercultural Collaboration Environment Using Light Weight Building Blocks," Journal of Human Interface Society Japan, Vol.11, No.1, 2009. (in Japanese)
-Conferences-
  1. Msahiro Tanaka, Donghui Lin, Yohei Murakami and Toru Ishida. Service Supervision for Service-oriented Collective Intelligence. 7th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2010), pp.154-161, 2010. (acceptance rate 18%)
  2. Donghui Lin, Yohei Murakami and Masahiro Tanaka. Dynamic Service Invocation Control in Service Composition Environments. 7th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2010), pp. 25-32, 2010. (acceptance rate 18%)
  3. Yohei Murakami, Naoki Miyata, and Toru ishida. Market-Based QoS Control for Voluntary Services. 7th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2010), pp.370-377, 2010.
  4. Donghui Lin, Yoshiaki Murakami, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami and Masahiro Tanaka. Composing Human and Machine Translation Services: Language Grid for Improving Localization Processes. 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), pp. 500-506, 2010.
  5. Yohei Murakami, Donghui Lin, Masahiro Tanaka, Takao Nakaguchi and Toru Ishida. Language Service Management with the Language Grid. 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), pp. 3526-3531, 2010.
  6. Donghui Lin, Yoshiaki Murakami, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami, Masahiro Tanaka. Lessons Learned from Composing Web Services and Human Activities. 7th International Joint Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC2009), Industry Track, November, 2009.
  7. Masahiro Tanaka, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami, and Donghui Lin. Service Supervision Patterns: Reusable Adaption of Composite Services. First International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUDCOMP 2009), pp. 147-163, October, 2009.
  8. Satoshi Morimoto, Satoshi Sakai, Masaki Gotou, Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, and Yohei Murakami.Building Blocks: Layered Components Approach for Accumulating High-Demand Web Services. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-09), pp. 430-433, 2009.
  9. Rie Tanaka, Yohei Murakami and Toru Ishida. Context-Based Approach for Pivot Translation Services. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), 2009. (acceptance rate 25.7%)
  10. Masahiro Tanaka, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami, and Satoshi Morimoto. Service Supervision: Coordinating Web Services in Open Environment. IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS-09), 2009. (acceptance rate 15.6%)
  11. Masahiro Tanaka, Yohei Murakami, and Toru Ishida. "Towards Service Supervision for Public Web Services." The IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC08), 2008.
  12. Akiyo Nadamoto, Eiji Aramaki, Takeshi Abekawa, and Yohei Murakami. "Searching for Important but Neglected Content from Community-type-content." The Fourth International Conference on Signal-Image Technology Internet-based Systems (SITIS08), pp. 161--168, 2008.
  13. Arif Bramantoro, Masahiro Tanaka, Yohei Murakami, Toru Ishida. "A Hybrid Integrated Architecture for Language Service Composition." The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS08), 2008.
  14. Yohei Murakami and Toru Ishida, "A Layered Language Service Architecture for Intercultural Collaboration," Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2008), 2008, pp. 3-9.
  15. Toru Ishida, Akiyo Nadamoto, Yohei Murakami, Rieko Inaba, Tomohiro Shigenobu, Shigeo Matsubara, Hiromitsu Hattori, Yoko Kubota, Takao Nakaguchi, and Eri Tsunokawa, "A Non-Profit Operation Model for the Language Grid", Proceedings of the First International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources, 2008, pp. 114-121.
  16. Satoshi Sakai, Masaki Gotou, Masahiro Tanaka, Rieko Inaba, Yohei Murakami, Takashi Yoshino, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Yasuhiko Kitamura, Yumiko Mori, Toshiyuki Takasaki, Yoshie Naya, Aguri Shigeno, Shigeo Matsubara, and Toru Ishida, "Language Grid Association: Action Research on Supporting the Multicultural Society", Proceedings of International Conference on Informatics Education and Research for Knowledge-Circulating Society (ICKS-08), 2008.
  17. Toru Ishida, Yuu Nakajima, Yohei Murakami and Hideyuki Nakanishi. "Augmented Experiment: Participatory Design with Multiagent Simulation." The 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), 2007. Acceptance rate 16% (212/1353)
  18. Toru Ishida and Yohei Murakami, "Language Infrastructure on the Internet," The 7th APRU Distance Learning the Internet 2006 Conference (DLI-06), 2006
  19. Yohei Murakami, Toru Ishida and Takao Nakaguchi, "Infrastructure for Language Service Composition," The 2nd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG-06), 2006. Acceptance rate (18%)
  20. Ikuo Matsumura, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami and Yoshiyuki Fujishiro, "Situated Web Service: Context-Aware Approach to High Speed Web Service Communication," The 4th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS-06), pp.673-680, 2006.
  21. Yohei Murakami, Toru Ishida, Tomoyuki Kawasoe and Reiko Hishiyama, "Scenario Description for Multi-Agent Simulation," The 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-03), pp. 369-376, 2003. (pdf 280KB) Acceptance rate 25% (115/466)
  22. Yohei Murakami, Yuki Sugimoto and Toru Ishida, "Modeling Human Behavior for Virtual Training Systems," The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), 2005.(pdf 487KB) Acceptance rate 28% (223/803)
-Workshops-
  1. Satoshi Sakai, Masaki Goto, Yohei Murakami, Satoshi Morimoto, Daisuke Morita, Masahiro Tanaka, and Toru Ishida. "Language Grid Playground: Light Weight Building Blocks for Intercultural Collaboration." The Second International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, 2009. (to appear)
  2. Eiji Aramaki, Takeshi Abekawa, Yohei Murakami, and Akiyo Nadamoto. "Discriminative Dialog Analysis Using a Massive Collection of BBS Comments." International World Wide Web Conference (WWW08) Workshop on NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX2008), 2008.
  3. Rieko Inaba, Yohei Murakami, Akiyo Nadamoto and Toru ishida, "Multilingual Communication Support Using the Language Grid," LNCS 4568, Intercultural Collaboration, pp. 118-132, 2007.
  4. Yohei Murakami, Masaaki Iwabu and Toru Ishida, "Collaborative Creation Platform for Community Language Resources," The First International Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKa-07), 2007.
  5. Rieko Inaba, Yohei Murakami, Akiyo Nadamoto and Toru ishida, "Multilingual Communication Support Using the Language Grid," The First International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC07), 2007.
  6. Ahlem Ben Hassine, Yoshinori Fujihara, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Reiko Hishiyama, Rieko Inaba, Toru Ishida, Chigusa Kita, Shigeo Matsubara, Yohei Murakami, Akiyo Nadamoto, Takao Nakaguchi, Hideyuki Nakanishi, Tomohiro Shigenobu, Takashi Yoshino, "Language Grid: An Infrastructure for Intercultural Collaboration," The 20th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2006 (in Japanese)
  7. Yohei Murakami, and Toru Ishida, "Participatory Simulation for Designing Evacuation Protocols," First International Workshop on Agent Technology for Disaster Management (ATDM 2006), pp.100-107, 2006.(pdf 542KB)
  8. Yohei Murakami, and Toru Ishida, "Protocol Design Using Multi-Agent Simulation," Third Joint Agent Workshops & Symposium (JAWS 2004), pp.66-73, 2004. (in Japanese)(pdf 380KB)
  9. Yohei Murakami, Yuki Sugimoto and Toru Ishida, "User Modeling by Participatory Simulation," Fourth Joint Agent Workshops & Symposium (JAWS 2005), 2005. (in Japanese)(pdf 457KB)
  10. Sachiyo Arai, Yohei Murakami, Yuki Sugimoto and Toru Ishida, "Semantic Web Service Architecture using Multi-agent Scenario Description," Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2003), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2891, Springer-Verlag, pp.98-109, 2003.
  11. Yuki Sugimoto, Yohei Murakami, Sachiyo Arai and Toru Ishida, "User-Oriented Web Service Composition with Semantics," The 17th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2003 (in Japanese).(pdf 409KB)
  12. Yohei Murakami, Kazuhisa Minami, Tomoyuki Kawasoe and Toru Ishida, "Multi-Agent Simulation for Crisis Management," IEEE International Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking (KMN-02), pp. 135-139, 2002.(pdf 657KB)
  13. Toru Ishida, Hideyuki Nakanishi, Yohei Murakami, Tomoyuki Kawasoe and Reiko Hishiyama, "Multi-agent Simulation for Urban Crisis Management," The 3rd SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference, 2002 (in Japanese).(pdf 130KB)
  14. Kazuhisa Minami, Yohei Murakami, Tomoyuki Kawasoe and Toru Ishida, "Evacuation Simulation by using Multi-agent System," The 16th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2002 (in Japanese).(pdf 481KB)