The First International Conference on Information
October 16-19, 2000, Fukuoka, Japan
Conference Program

October 16 (Monday)


5:00 -- 9:00 pm Registration and Welcome Reception

October 17 (Tuesday)


9:00 -- 9:20 am Opening

Nobuo Iwata, Dean of Faculty of Science, Yamaguchi University
Lei Li/Fuji Ren/Kang K.Yen(Organizers)

Keynote Address Chair : Cyrus F. Nourani, WWW.METAAI Ventures and UCSB, USA

9:20 -- 10:00 am Trends in Microprocessors in the 21st Century
Tadao Nakamura, Tohoku University, Japan

10:00 -- 10:10 am Coffee Break

Workshop on DDM and Related Topics
Organizer and Chair : Hiroshi Kanayama, Kyushu University, Japan

10:10 -- 10:30 am Parallel Computing of Large Scale Heat Conductive Analysis using a Domain Decomposition Method,
Ryuji Shioya, Hiroshi Kanayama and Itaru Ishikawa
Kyushu University, Japan

10:30 -- 10:50 am A Hierarchical Domain Decomposition Method for Magnetostatic Problems
Daisuke Tagami, Hiroshi Kanayama and Ryuji Shioya
Kyushu University, Japan

10:50 -- 11:10 am Numerical Analysis of 3-D Eddy Current Problems using an Iterative Method
Hiroshi Kanayama, Daisuke Tagami, Ryuji Shioya and Masahiro Saito
Kyushu University, Japan

11:10 -- 11:30 am An Implementation of Balancing Domain Decomposition Method to Elastic Stress Problems
Ryuji Shioya, Hiroshi Kanayama, Daisuke Tagami and Masao Ogino
Kyushu University, Japan

11:30 -- 11:50 am Parallel Computation of a Stokes Problem Subject to the Slip Boundary Conditions
Atsushi Suzuki and Masahisa Tabata
Kyushu University, Japan

11:50 -- 1:00 pm Lunch

Invited Speech Chair : Tetsuo Inoue, Kobe Mercantile Marine College, Japan

1:00 -- 1:30 pm Visual Environments for Declarative Programming Languages -- PP and Cafe Pie --
Jiro Tanaka, Tsukuba University, Japan

1:30 -- 2:00 pm Autonomy and Chaos: Generation of Autonomous Behaviour in an Evolutionary Mobile Robot
Kazuyuki Murase, Md. Monirul Islam, Shuichi Terao, Tatsuya Asai and Hirotaka Akita, Fukui University, Japan

2:00 -- 2:10 pm Coffee Break

Session MN-1 Chair:

2:10 -- 2:30 pm Classes of Logic Programs which Possess Unique Supported Models
Pascal Hitzler and Anthony K. Seda
National University of Ireland, Ireland

2:30 -- 2:50 pm A Complete Characterization of the Variety of Boolean Semirings
Shamik Ghosh
Indian Institute of Technology, India

2:50 -- 3:10 pm Set Covering Problem, Genetic Algorithm and Its Domain Specific Knowledge
Kakuzo Iwamura and Tomoya Sibahara, Josai University, Japan;
Masanori Fushimi and Hozumi Morohoshi, University of Tokyo, Japan

3:10 -- 3:20 pm Coffee Break

Session MN-2 Chair: Weiwei Sun, City University of Hong Kong, China

3:20 -- 3:40 pm A Recursive Algorithm for the Linear Complementarity Problem with an M-matrix
Yoshinori Ohkubo and Lei Li, Yamaguchi University, Japan

3:40 -- 4:00 pm Numerical Conformal Mappings of Unbounded Doubly Connected Domains
Tetsuo Inoue and Ikuyo Kitasaka, Kobe Mercantile Marine College, Japan

Session MN-3 Chair: Anthony K. Seda, National University of Ireland, Ireland

4:00 -- 4:20 pm Some Iterative Methods for Solving Statistical Estimating Equations with Multiple Roots
Jinfang Wang, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan

4:20 -- 4:40 pm Microlocal Analysis and Multiwavelet Frames
Ryuichi Ashino, Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan
Christopher Heil, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Michihiro Nagase, Osaka University, Japan
Remi Vaillancourt, University of Ottawa, Canada

4:40 -- 5:00 pm On the Bounds of (0,1) Matrix Permanents
Wakana Tamada and Lei Li, Yamaguchi University, Japan

5:00 -- 5:10 pm Coffee Break

Session MN-4 Chair: Hiroshi Kondo, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

5:10 -- 5:30 pm Spline Collocation Method for Solving Elliptic PDEs
Weiwei Sun, City University of Hong Kong, China

5:30 -- 5:50 pm First Excursion Probability Estimation Method of Secondary System with Elasto-Plastic Characteristics Subjected to Seismic Loading
Shigeru Aoki, Tokyo Metropolitan College of Technology, Japan

5:50 -- 6:10 pm Solution to the Partial Differential Equation for a Non-Newtonian Power-law Fluid Reservoir Model
Kaoping Song, Daqing Petroleum Institute, China
Yuzhou Wang, The Second Oil Production Plant of Daqing Oil Field
Xuping Tang, Daqing Petroleum Co. Ltd. of CNPC, China
Erlong Yang and Jian Li, Daqing Petroleum Institute, China

October 18 (Wednesday)


Invited Speech Chair : Kakuzo Iwamura, Josai University, Japan

9:00 -- 9:30 am TIGERMU: A Tightly Integrated General Environment for Resource Management and Utilization
Hongchi Shi, Yi Shang and Su-Shing Chen, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

Session HS-1 Chair : Shamik Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology, India

9:30 -- 9:50 am Decision Model for the Assessment of Information and Automation Technology in a Construction Company
Amaury A. Caballero and Jose D. Mitrani
Florida International University, USA

9:50 -- 10:10 am System Analysis based on the Physical Method and its Application to Social Prediction
H. Matsuura, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
M. Nakano, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan
L.G. Liu, ZhongShan University, China

10:10 -- 10:20 am Coffee Break

Workshop on Interconnection between Physics and Social Sciences
Organizer and Chair: Mieko Tanaka-Yamawaki, Miyazaki University, Japan

10:20 -- 10:40 am Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets
Masaru Nagura, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan

10:40 -- 11:00 am Independent Component Analysis as a Method Independent of Conventional PCA and FA
Toshinao Akuzawa, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan

11:00 -- 11:20 am The Cooperation of two Time-scale's Adaptation in Dynamical Environment
Kazuko Yamasaki and Masuteru Sekiguchi, Tokyo University of Information Sciences, Japan

11:20 -- 11:40 am Modeling the Price Fluctuations
Mieko Tanaka-Yamawaki, Miyazaki University, Japan

11:40 -- 12:00 am Great Economist Alfred Marshall and its Influence by Mechanics
Masayuki Deguchi, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan

12:00 -- 1:00 pm Lunch

Invited Speech Chair : Jinfang Wang, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan

1:00 -- 1:30 pm Comparison Theorems for the Preconditioning Gauss-Seidel Method
Hiroyuki Hirano and Hiroshi Niki, Okayama University of Science, Japan

1:30 -- 2:00 pm Stochastic Programming, Fuzzy Programming, Fuzzy Random Programming, Random Fuzzy Programming and Hybrid Intelligent Algorithm
Baoding Liu, Tsinghua University, China

2:00 -- 2:10 pm Coffee Break

Session AE-1 Chair : Atsushi Suzuki, Kyushu University, Japan

2:10 -- 2:30 pm Generating a Visual System with Soft Layout Constraints
Sucktae Joung and Jiro Tanaka
University of Tsukuba, Japan

2:30 -- 3:00 pm Some New Methods for the Design and Automatic Synthesis of Information Extraction from Natural Language Texts
Gregers Koch
Copenhagen University, Denmark

3:00 -- 3:20 pm Summarization of Multiple Chinese Technical Articles
Minghui Wang and Hediheko Tanaka
The University of Tokyo, Japan

3:20 -- 3:30 pm Coffee Break

Session AE-2 Chair : Ryuichi Ashino, Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan

3:30 -- 3:50 pm Model Discovery and Knowledge Engineering with Predictive Logic
Cyrus F. Nourani
WWW.METAAI Ventures and University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

3:50 -- 4:10 pm Genetic Algorithms in Fuzzy Competitive Learning
Chih-Cheng Hung, Kai Qian, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA
Tommy L. Coleman, Alabama A & M University, USA

4:10 -- 4:30 pm Nonlinear Function Identification by Using Neuro-Fuzzy Model
Yan Shi, Kyushu Tokai University, Japan;
Masaharu Mizumoto, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan
Baowen Wang, Yanshan University, China

4:30 -- 4:40 pm Coffee Break

Session AE-3 Chair : Yan Shi, Kyushu Tokai University, Japan

4:40 -- 5:00 pm Japanese-Chinese Machine Translation System Using Very Large Corpora
Fuji Ren, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Lixin Fan, Digital Express Corporation, Japan

5:00 -- 5:20 pm Encryption Enhancement of Steganography with Chaotic Signals
Kang K. Yen and Faisal Kaleem
Florida International University, USA

Session AE-4 Chair: Kang K. Yen, Florida International University, USA

5:20 -- 5:40 pm A Web-based Workflow Management System for Agile Virtual Enterprises
Jianming Li, Tsing-Hua University, China;
Chin-Shen Chen, Florida International University, USA

5:40 -- 6:00 pm Web-Integrated Approach to Shop Floor Scheduling & Control
Shih-Ming Lee, Florida International University, USA;
Pablo Viteri, Stoneworks Inc., USA

6:00 -- 6:20 pm Distributed Supply Chain Management for Cyber Manufacturing
Swee Leong
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

6:30 -- 9:30 pm Conference Dinner Party

Party Address : Prof. Heisuke Hironaka
President of Yamaguchi University, Japan

October 19 (Thursday)


Invited Speech Chair : Katsushi Inoue, Yamaguchi University, Japan
9:00 -- 9:30 am Internet Approach to CAD/CAPP System Integration
Eliecer Pinilla, Boston Scientific-Symbiosis Corp., USA;
Shih-Ming Lee, Florida International University, USA

Open Discussion Chair: Gustavo Roig, Florida International University, USA
9:30 -- 10:00 am Distance Education: Open Discussion

10:00 -- 10:10 am Coffee Break

Session AE-4 Chair : Gregers Koch, Copenhagen University, Denmark

10:10 -- 10:30 am Human Visual-Audio Information Processing on Phase Discrimination
Osamu Nobuki, Yamaguchi University, Japan;
Jing-Long Wu, Kagawa University, Japan;
Yoshiro Sakai, Yamaguchi University, Japan

10:30 -- 10:50 am Subjective Contours Strength Depends on the Curvature of Subjective Figure
Sheng Ge, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Jing-Long Wu, Kagawa University, Japan
Shunichi Kawano, Yamaguchi University, Japan

10:50 -- 11:10 am Implications of the Emerging Information Society
Emad Rashid, Anthony S. Rausch and Yoshio Yoshioka,
Hirosaki University, Japan
Tadao Nakamura, Tohoku University, Japan

Session AE-5 Chair :Jing-Long Wu, Kagawa University, Japan

11:10 -- 11:30 am Self-Verifying Nondeterministic and Las Vegas Multihead Finte Automata
Katsushi Inoue, Yasunori Tanaka, Akira Ito and Yue Wang
Yamaguchi University, Japan

11:30 -- 11:50 am An Autonomous Mobile Robot with Vertically Stretchable Mechanism for the Disabled's Activity Support
Tsuyoshi Kiyo-Oka, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Jing-Long Wu, Kagawa University, Japan
Masayuki Yamamoto and Yoshiro Sakai, Yamaguchi University, Japan

11:50 -- 12:10 am Project Vision : A Model Program for Teacher Training
Gustavo Roig
Florida International University, USA

12:10 -- 1:10 pm Lunch

Invited Speech Chair : Hongqian Liang, Chinese Academy of Science, China

1:10 -- 1:40 pm Complex Systems: How far can we go with the tools of physical sciences?
Mieko Tanaka-Yamawaki, Miyazaki University, Japan

1:40 -- 2:10 pm Scalability Measurement for Web-based Manufacturing Enterprises
Ronald Giachetti, Chin-Shen Chen and Stefanos Protopapas
Florida International University, USA

2:10 -- 2:20 pm Coffee Break

Workshop on Uncertain Programming and Intelligent Computation
Organizer and Chair : Baoding Liu, Tsinghua University, China

2:20 -- 2:40 pm Expected Value of Fuzzy Variable
Yian-Kui Liu and Baoding Liu
Tsinghua University, China

2:40 -- 3:00 pm Uncertain Programming: Models and Hybrid Intelligent Algorithms
Baoding Liu, Tsinghua University, China

3:00 -- 3:20 pm Prediction Problem of Discrete Multiple Time Series
Kakuzo Iwamura, Josai University, Japan

3:20 -- 3:40 pm Fuzzy Decision-Making Problems in Predictive Control
Shaoyuan Li and Yugeng Xi
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

3:40 -- 4:00 pm A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm
Hongqian Liang, Chinese Academy of Science, China

4:00 -- 4:10 pm Coffee Break

Session AE-6 Chair : Amaury A. Caballero, Florida International University, USA

4:10 -- 4:30 pm Wavelet Transform Image Compression with Transition Matrix
Tatsuya Fukushige and Hiroshi Kondo
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

4:30 -- 4:50 pm Wavelet Mosaic Pattern Application for Neural Network Human-Face Recognition
Norihide Ito and Hiroshi Kondo
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

4:50 -- 5:10 pm Rounded Opacity Detection in Chest Pneumoconiosis Radiographs using Neural Network
Lifeng Zhang, Takaharu Koda and Hiroshi Kondo
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Closing