Katsutoshi Hirayama

Degree

Ph. D in Engineering (Osaka University, 1995)

Educational Contents

The Liberal Arts: Introduction to Computer Literacy

Undergraduate Course: Mathematical Programming, Combinatorial Optimization, Strategic Decision Making, Introduction to Logistics Study

Graduate Course: Intelligent Decision Making, Advanced Navigational Information Systems

Research Interests

My major field is computer science. I have investigated optimization/satisfaction algorithms that solve various problems in economics, logistics, or information systems. I have special interests in extending problem formulations and algorithms in order to deal with the distributed or dynamic nature of the world. The fields related to my research are Artificial Intelligence, Multi-agent Systems, Operations Research, and Game Theory. I have been conducting the following projects

• Distributed Constraint Satisfaction
• Distributed Constraint Optimization
• Distributed Lagrangian Relaxation
• Weighted Partial Max-SAT
• Distributed SAT
• Dynamic SAT with Decision Change Costs
• Payoff Division for Coalitional Game

Message for Students

Learn some theories and methodologies while you are young. On top of that, develop yourself to have good taste in research questions.

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence, Multi-agent Systems, Operations Research

Affiliations

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), Operations Research Society of Japan (ORSJ)

Academic Journals

Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Constraints, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

International Conferences

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP)