INFORMATION 2026 Program (updating)

Thursday, January 15, Arrive in Tokyo for Onsite participants

Friday, January 16 (Morning), Hotel Arcadia Ichigaya, Hall Phoenix, 4F

09:00 – 09:40   Conference Registration

09:40 – 10:00   Opening Ceremony

Chair: Xuezhen Liu (Mitsubishi Precision Co., Ltd.)

Lei Li (President, International Information Institute, Japan)
Chih-Cheng Hung (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Xiang Li (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

10:00 – 12:00   Keynote Speeches

Chair: Chih-Cheng Hung (Kennesaw State University, USA)

Metamaterial Antennas Enabling Future Information and Communication Environments
Hisamatsu Nakano (IEEE Life Fellow, Honorary Professor of Hosei University, Japan and Swansea University, UK)

Invention and Evolution of QRcode
Masahiro Hara (Inventor of the QR Code, Chief Engineer of Denso Wave Inc., Japan)

Education in the Age of AGI
Pyeoungkee Kim (CEO President of International Association for Convergence Science & Technology (IACST), Professor of Silla University, Korea)

12:00 – 13:00   Lunch

Friday, January 16 (Afternoon), Hotel Arcadia Ichigaya, Hall Phoenix, 4F

13:00 – 13:30   Invited Speech

Chair: Motofumi Suzuki (The Open University of Japan, Japan)

Water Environmental Management Information Systems in Japan: Past, Present, and Future
Qingxue Wang (Principal Researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan)

13:30 – 15:10  Workshop on AI Era and Network Economics

Organizer: Prof. Ke Li (Nihon University, Japan)

Analyzing EV Transition Strategies in the Motorcycle Industry Through the Lens of Firm Theory
Shuangkai Mei and Ke Li (Nihon University, Japan)

Integrating Firm Theory and the Generalized Bass Diffusion Model: Predicting China's Electric Vehicle Market Sales Trends
Wei Li and Ke Li (Nihon University, Japan)

Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) as Production Factors
Wei She and Ke Li (Nihon University, Japan)

TBD
Hong Yu and Ke Li (Nihon University, Japan)

TBD
Liming Gao (Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, China)

15:10 – 15:20   Coffee Break

15:20 – 17:00  Workshop on Intelligent Optimization and AI Applications in Critical Infrastructure and Smart Environments

Organizer: Prof. Jiacheng Li (Kanagawa University, Japan)

Task-Conditioned Logit Fusion for Fine-Grained Few-Shot Classification
Derui Zheng, Jiacheng Li, Masato Noto (Kanagawa University, Japan)

Visual Identification of AI-Generated Disaster Images for Fake News Verification
Ziqi Chen, Jiacheng Li, Masato Noto (Kanagawa University, Japan)

Deep Learning-Based Detection and Classification of Insect Damage Traces on Cucumber Leaves Using an Improved YOLOv8-seg Framework
Yafu Lu, Jiacheng Li, Masato Noto (Kanagawa University, Japan)

A Genetic Algorithm-Based Optimization Strategy for Traffic Signal Control in Multiple Intersections
Dewei Ya, Jiacheng Li, Masanori Akiyoshi (Kanagawa University, Japan)

An Adaptive Multi-Operator Sequential Constructive Strategy for Routing Optimization
Hongyi Du, Yoshitaka Tanimizu and Ruriko Watanabe (Waseda University, Japan)

Friday, January 16 (Afternoon), Hotel Arcadia Ichigaya, Hall Kirishima East, 6F

13:00 – 13:30   Invited Speech

Chair: Jack Susuda (Japan Asian Medical Information Center, Japan)

Reconstruction of Multidimensional Data on Intelligent Technology and Artificial Intelligence
Dariusz Jacek Jakobczak (Editor in Chief of IJCVIP & BOHR IJSCIT, Associete Professor of Koszalin University of Technology, Poland)

13:30 – 14:30  General Session (1): Information Basis and Systems

Chair: Robert Meurant (Insitute of Traditional Studies, Korea)

Estimation of High-Dimensional Volatility Matrices with Dynamic Conditional Correlation-embedded Mixed Factor Structures
Runyu Dai and Yasumasa Matsuda Graduate (Tohoku University, Japan)

Polytope Typology D: The All-space-filling Periodic Honeycombs Separation and Progression of Polyhedra
Robert Meurant (Institute of Traditional Studies, Korea)

AI-Powered Assistive Advances for Elderly Care in Japan : Current Applications and Future Directions
Jack Susuda (Japan Asian Medical infromation Center, Japan)

14:30 – 14:40   Coffee Break

14:40 – 16:20  General Session (2): Information Network and Intelligent Information Processing

Chair: Yu-Teng Jang (Tunghai University, Taiwan)

A Mixture-of-Leaders with Teleportation QPSO and its performance evaluation for TSP/CVRP
Tatsuya Kiryu and Lei Li (Hosei University, Japan)

Enhancement of Exploration Efficiency in DQN-Based Reinforcement Learning
Shuai Yuan and Lei Li (Hosei University, Japan)

Voice Assistants in Customer Service of Electronic Commerce: From Conventional to ChatGPT-enabled
Yu-Teng Jang (Tunghai University, Taiwan)

Automated Generation of Synthetic 3D Gaussian Splatting Datasets for Shape and Texture Descriptor Analysis
Motofumi Suzuki (The Open University of Japan, Japan)

Simulation Experiments on Theme Parks Using Complex Network Models
Shohei Inomata and Lei Li (Hosei University, Japan)

Friday, January 16 (Afternoon), Hotel Arcadia Ichigaya, Hall Akagi, 5F

13:00 – 14:00  General Session (3): Applied Information Technology in Environment and Energy

Chair: Tsutomu Ishida (Ryutsu Keizai University, Japan)

Evaluating the Sustainability of Transit?Oriented Development along the Tsukuba Express Line
Huang Xinyi and Morimoto Takahiro (University of Tsukuba, Japan), Wang Qinxue and Tomohiro Okadera (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan)

Representation-Based Hierarchical Federated Learning for Household Energy Forecasting
Yinzhe Guo and Lei Li (Hosei University, Japan)

Analysis of Carbon Emissions from Road Transport in China
Qu Xianying and Tsutomu Ishida (Ryutsu Keizai University, Japan)

14:00 – 15:20  General Session (4): Applied Information Technology in Management and Society

Chair: Zhu Yuefeng Alex (The Education University of Hong Kong, China)

Shifting from Formal Authority to Personal Leadership and Self-Governance Case Study: Pormade Brazil
Juan Nicolas Montoya Monsalve and Juan Daniel Montoya Naranjo (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)

Overseas Warehouse Strategy and Information System Advancement in Chinese Cross-border E-commerce
Wang Yi and Katsuhiko Hayashi (Ryutsu Keizai University, Japan)

Revolutionizing Teen Finance: ML's 3-Minute Pocket Money Hack Unlocks Literacy Insights
Deng Yuting (Guangzhou City University of Technology, China), Zhu Yuefeng Alex (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)

TBD
Xiaolin Wu (Hosei University, Japan)

15:20 – 15:30   Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:10  General Session (5): Applied Information Technology in Agriculture and Engineering

Chair: Runyu Dai (Tohoku University, Japan)

Improvement of Cutting Edge Truncation on Metal-Bonded Diamond Grinding
Xijun Kang (Sanming University, China), Jun'ichi Tamaki and Akihiko Kubo (Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan)

Development of Biodegradable Mulching Sheets from Agricultural Waste Biomass
Shunhao Xu, Xiulun Wang and TingTing Wu (Mie University, Japan), Changqing Cai (Changchun Institute of Technology, China)

18:30 – 20:30   Welcome Banquet, Hall Taisetsu West

Saturday, January 17 (Morning), Zoom Online Meeting Room

10:00 – 11:20   Keynote Speeches

Chair: Wen Liu (Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan)

Education should help students develop their own "taste"
Peigen Li (Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Former President of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Digital Nudging in Education: Harnessing Technology to Empower Learners
Chei Sian Lee (Chair of the NTU Teaching Council, Professor of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

11:20 – 12:20  Workshop on Frontiers in Intelligent Biomaterials for Neural Information Interfacing

Organizer: Prof. Guihuai Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

Speaker:
Xiumei Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

Speaker:
Yumin Yang (Nantong University, China)

Speaker:
Qing Jiang (Nanjing University, China)

12:20 – 13:20  Lunch

Saturday, January 17 (Afternoon), Zoom Online Meeting Room

13:20 – 15:40  Workshop on AI for Data Intelligence and Decision-Making

Organizers: Prof. Xiang Li and Yuan Gao (Beijing Institute of Technology, China), Prof. Hongguang Ma (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China)

Speaker:
Sanshuai Cui (City University of Macau, China)

Speaker:
Yi Zhang (Renmin University of China, China)

Speaker:
Sini Guo (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

Speaker:
Mingxuan Zhao (Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China)

Speaker:
Zhongyi Jiang (Changzhou University, China)

Speaker:
Hongguang Ma (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China)

Speaker:
Yuan Gao (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

15:40 – 15:50   Coffee Break

15:50 – 17:00  Workshop on Vocational Education and Gender Education in the AI Era

Organizer: Prof. Wen Liu (Nippon University of Technology, Japan)

Panelist:
Sheng Chen (Zhejiang Yonglida CNC Machine Tools Co., Ltd, China)

Panelist:
Lei Jiang (Hangzhou UULC Education Technology Co., Ltd, China)

Panelist
Xiaochuan Weng (School Inspector of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government, Expert Committee Member of NAVEC, China)

Panelist
Guanglong Yang (Guizhou Kaiyuan Construction Engineering Co., Ltd, China)

Panelist
Tian Ye (Suzhou ZZJG Technology Co., Ltd, China)

Panelist
Xiaozhen Zheng (Quzhou Technician College, China)

Panelist
Yan Zhao (Quzhou Technician College, China)

Sunday, January 18 (Morning), Zoom Online Meeting Room

09:00 – 10:20  General Session (6): Applied Information Technology in Management and Society

Chair: Peng Fei (South China Normal University, China)

Does Capital Market Opening Curb Corporate "Short-Term Debt for Long-Term Investment"? Evidence from the Shanghai-Hong Kong and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect Programs
Peng Fei and Huang Lumin (South China Normal University, China), Tang Hairong (Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, China)

A CVaR-Based Multi-Stage Portfolio Optimization Model for Venture Capital
Peng Fei and Zen Xianmian (South China Normal University, China), Hu Zhijun (Guizhou University, China)

The Relationship Between Generative AI Use Anxiety and College Students' Innovation Competence: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Load
Xue bi Xiang (Chengdu Neusoft University, China)

Education based on AI: Value, Difficulty and Coping Method for Teachers
Xiaohua Li, Yi Li and Li Zhang (Qinghai Normal University, China)

10:20 – 10:30   Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:30  General Session (7): Applied Information Technology in Agriculture and Engineering

Chair: Junjie Chang (China Special Equipment Inspection and Research Institute, China)

Flexible ultrasonic array for breast-cancer diagnosis based on a selfshape-estimation algorithm
Junjie Chang (China Special Equipment Inspection and Research Institute, China), Zhiheng Chen (Nanchang Hangkong University, China)

Machine Learning-Based Prediction and Multi-Objective Optimization of Resistance in Shear Connectors
Kaijie Zhu, Duo Liu and Jiandong Zhang (Nanjing University of Technology, China)

Speaker:
Shaoqiang Chen (East China Normal University, China)

11:30 – 12:30  General Session (8): Applied Information Technology in Agriculture and Engineering

Chair: Xiulun Wang (Mie University, Japan)

Experimental study on the mechanical behavior of bridge concrete pile caps
Jilong Zhang, Chuang Li and Yong Yang (Nanjing Tech University, China)

Industry Outlook for Optical Interconnects in Intelligence Computing Centers
Tang Ningfeng, Liu faju, Shen Bailin, Zhang Pinghua (ZTE Corporation Limited ,China)

An Analysis on Traffic Characteristics Considering Mixed Autonomous Flow and Length of Weaving Segment
Kang Nan (Nanjing Tech University, China)

Sunday, January 18 (Afternoon), Conference Closing and Departure