[Japanese]

Kazuhiro Kuwabara

Research Topics

• Semantic Communication
• Networked Interaction Therapy
• Socialware
• Coordination Protocol Description for Multi-agent Systems

Selected Publications

Networked Interaction Therapy (and Sensory Media)

• Hattori, F., Kuwabara, K., Kuwahara, N., Abe, S., and Yasuda, K.: Socialware for People with Disabilities, The 6th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, pp. 321-326 (2007).
• Kuwahara, N., Abe, S., Yasuda, K., and Kuwabara, K.: Networked Reminiscence Therapy for Individuals with Dementia by using Photo and Video Sharing, ASSETS 06: The 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility 2006, pp. 125-132 (2006).
• Kuwabara, K., Kuwahara, N., Yasuda, K., and Abe, S.: Semantic Web Enabled UserInteraction for Cognitive Prostheses, The 3rd International Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop, (poster) (2006).
• Kuwabara, K., Kuwahara, N., Abe, S., and Yasuda, K.: Using Semantic Web Technologies for Cognitive Prostheses in Networked Interaction Therapy, International Workshop on Cognitive Prostheses and Assisted Communication (CPAC 2006), pp. 1-5 (2006).
• Kuwahara, N., Abe, S., and Kuwabara, K.: Networked Reminiscence Content Authoring and Delivery for Elderly People with Dementia, International Workshop on Cognitive Prostheses and Assisted Communication (CPAC 2006), pp.20-25 (2006).
• Yasuda, K., Kuwabara, K., Kuwahara, N., Abe, S., and Tetsutani, N.: Talking with Individuals with Dementia on Video Phone: A Preliminary Study for Networked Interaction Therapy, International Workshop on Cognitive Prostheses and Assisted Communication (CPAC 2006), pp.43-46 (2006).
• Kuwabara, K. Kuwahara, N., Abe, S., Yasuda, K., and Tetsutani, N.: Effects of Reminiscence Video on People with Dementia in Networked Interaction Therapy, 21st International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International, Abstract Book, p.21 (2005).
• Lyons, M. J., Funk, M., and Kuwabara, K.: Segment and Browse: A Strategy for Supporting Human Monitoring of Facial Expression Behaviour, Costabile, M. F. and Paterno, F. eds., Interact 2005: Tenth IFIP IC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (LNCS 3585), pp. 1120-1123 (2005).
• Urushibara, I., Aizawa, A., Ti-Rung, Y., Nakajima, S., Yamauchi, N., and Kuwabara, K.: Configuration of an Experimental Sensor-Actuator Network for Networked Interaction Therapy, Proc. Second International Workshop on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2005), pp.91-96 (2005).
• Funk, M., Kuwabara, K., and Lyons, M. J.: Sonification of Facial Actions for Musical Expression, Proc. the 2005 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME05), pp.127-131 (2005).
• Kuwahara, N., Kuwabara, K., Tetsutani, N., and Yasuda, K.: Reminiscence Video - Helping At-Home Caregivers of People with Dementia, in Sloane, A. ed., Home-Oriented Informatics and Telematics (Proceedings of HOIT 2005 Conference), pp.145-154, Springer (2005).
• Lindeman, R. W., Yanagida, Y., Noma, H., Hosaka, K., and Kuwabara, K.: Design of a Wireless Tactor System for Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality, Proc. IEEE Virtual Reality 2005, pp.285-286 (2005).
• Kanbara, D., Utsumi, A., Kuwabara, K., and Yamauchi, H.: Human Tracking using IR Pattern Projections for Networked Information Therapy, Proc. International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology (IWAIT 2005), pp.405-410 (2005).
• Kuwahara, N., Kuwabara, K., Tetsutani, N., and Yasuda, K.: Using Photo Annotations to Produce a Reminiscence Video for Dementia Patients, 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004) Demo Papers (2004).
• Kuwabara, K., Tetsutani, N., Kuwahara, N., Kawato, S., Lyons, M. J., Utsumi, A., Yanagida, Y., and Yasuda, K.: Networked Interaction Therapy: Supporting People with Mild Dementia and their Family Members with Internet, 20th International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International Kyoto 2004, Abstracts, p.377 (2004).
• Kuwahara, N., Kuwabara, K., Utsumi, A., Yasuda, K., and Tetsutani, N.: Networked Interaction Therapy: Relieving Stress in Memory-Impaired People and Their Family Members, Proc. 26th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS 2004), pp.3140-3143 (2004).
• Utsumi, A., Kawato, S., Susami, K., Kuwahara, N., and Kuwabara, K.: Face-orientation Detection and Monitoring for Networked Interaction Therapy, Proc. Joint 2nd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 5th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (2004).
• Lyons, M. J., de Silva, G., and Kuwabara, K.: Facial Gesture Interfaces for Hands-Free Input, 18th British HCI Group Annual Conference (HCI2004), pp.57-60 (2004).
• Kuwabara, K., Kuwahara, N., and Tetsutani, N.: Agent-based Framework for Networked Interaction Therapy: Relieving Stress in People with Cognitive Disabilities and in Their Family Members, Proc. 7th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA2004), pp.206-217 (2004).
• Kawato, S., Utsumi, A., and Kuwabara, K.: Use Your Face for Interface - Real-time image processing can make your face an input device -, The Eighth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2004) Demo session (2004).

Socialware (Community Computing)

• Aye, N., Hattori, F., and Kuwabara, K.: Bridging Semantic Gap in Distant Communication: Ontology-Based Approach, Nguyen, N. T., Jo, G. S., Howlett, R. J., and Jain, L. C. eds., Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications, Second KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2008, LNAI 4953, pp. 252-260, Springer (2008).
• Ohguro, T., Kuwabara, K., and Kamei, K.: Designing a Group Communication Media that is Connectedness Oriented, IEICE Transaction on Information and Systems, Vol. E87-D, No. 6, pp. 1320-1327 (2004).
• Kamei, K., Yoshida, S., Kuwabara, K., Akahani, J., and Satoh, T.: An Agent Framework for Inter-personal Information Sharing with an RDF-based Repository, in Fensel, D., Sycara, K. and Mylopoulos, J. eds., The SemanticWeb - ISWC 2003 (Proc. Second International Semantic Web Conference), LNCS 2870, pp. 438 - 452 (2003).
• Ohguro, T., Uchihori, Y., Kamei, K., Kuwabara, K., and Sunaga, T.: Facilitating Interaction between Interaction Designers and Software Engineers - Case Study of the Development of 'mixe', Journal of the Asian Design International Conference, Vol. 1 (2003).
• Kamei, K., Owada, T., Nakamura, T., Kuwabara, K., Sunaga, T., Tsurumaki, F., and Tokumura, A.: Design Process of a Collaboration Support System, Journal of the Asian Design International Conference, Vol. 1 (2003).
• Kamei, K., Yukawa, T., Yoshida, S., and Kuwabara, K.: Collaborative Information Retrieval Method among RDF-based Personal Repositories, Proc. First International Conference on Agent-Based Technologies and Systems (ATS 2003), pp. 162 - 169 (2003).
• Yukawa, T., Yoshida, S., and Kuwabara, K.: A Collaborative Personal Repository System and Its Information Retrieval Scheme, IEICE Transaction on Information and Systems (Special Issue on Text Processing for Information Access), Vol. E86-D, No. 9, pp. 1788-1795 (2003).
• Yoshida, S., Kamei, K., Ohguro, T., and Kuwabara, K.: Shine: A Peer-to-Peer Based Framework of Network Community Support Systems, Computer Communications, Vol. 26, No. 11, pp. 1199-1209 (2003).
• Yoshida, S., Yukawa, T., and Kuwabara, K.: Constructing and Examining Personalized Cooccurrence-based Thesauri on Web Pages, The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003) posters (2003).
• Yukawa, T., Yoshida, S., and Kuwabara, K.: A Vector Space Equalization Scheme for a Concept-based Collaborative Information Retrieval System, Proc. FLAIRS 03, pp.427-431 (2003).
• Kuwabara, K., Watanabe, T., Ohguro, T., Itoh, Y., and Maeda, Y.: Connectedness Oriented Communication: Fostering a Sense of Connectedness to Augment Social Relationships, IPSJ Journal, Vol. 43, No. 11, pp. 3270-3279 (2002).
• Yukawa, T., Yoshida, S., and Kuwabara, K.: Collaborative Information Retrieval for a Personal Repository System based on Vector Space Model, Workings Notes 5th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA2002), pp. 101-112 (2002).
• Kamei, K., Fujita, K., Jettmar, E., Yoshida, S., and Kuwabara, K.: Effectiveness of Spatial Representation in the Formation of Network Communities: Experimental Study on Community Organizer, Interacting with Computers, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 739-759 (2002).
• Kuwabara, K., Watanabe, T., Ohguro, T., Itoh, Y., and Maeda, Y.: Connectedness Oriented Communication: Fostering a Sense of Connectedness to Augment Social Relationships, The 2002 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2002), pp.186-193 (2002).
• Funakoshi, K., Kamei, K., Yoshida, S., and Kuwabara, K.: Incorporating Content-Based Collaborative Filtering in a Community Support System, in Yuan, S.-T. and Yokoo, M. eds., Intelligent Agents: Specification, Modeling, and Applications (PRIMA2001 Proceedings), LNAI 2132, pp.198-209, Springer-Verlag (2001).
• Kamei, K., Jettmar, E., Fujita, K., Yoshida, S., and Kuwabara, K.: Community Organizer: Supporting the Formation of Network Communities through Spatial Representation, The 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2001) (2001).
• Yoshida, S., Kamei, K., Ohguro, T., Kuwabara, K., and Funakoshi, K.: Building a Network Community Support System on the Multi-Agent Platform "Shine", Zhang, C. and Soo, V.-W. eds., Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents -- Proceedings of the Third Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2000), LNAI 1881, pp. 88 - 100, Springer-Verlag (2000).
• Yoshida, S., Ohguro, T., Kamei, K., Funakoshi, K., and Kuwabara, K.: A Platform for Making Network Community Support Systems in a Cooperative Distributed Architecture, Shibata, Y. ed., Proc. the Seventh International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Workshops (ICPADS 2000 Workshops), pp. 441 - 446 (2000).
• Ohguro, T., Yoshida, S., and Kuwabara, K.: Gleams of People: Monitoring the Presence of People with Multi-agent Architecture, in Nakashima, N. and Zhang, C. eds., Approaches to Intelligent Agents (PRIMA'99 proceedings), LNAI 1733, pp. 170 - 182, Springer-Verlag (1999).
• Yoshida, S., Ohguro, T., Kamei, K., Funakoshi, K., and Kuwabara, K.: Shine: a Cyber-community Application Platform - A Proposal -, Short Papers Proceedings of the Second Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA'99), pp. 31 - 40 (1999).
• Ohguro, T., Yoshida, S., and Kuwabara, K.: People's Presence and Status Information as the Basis for Community Knowledge, Presented at SMC'99 Workshop on Social Aspects of Knowledge and Memory (1999).
• Kuwabara, K., Yamaki, H., Ishiguro, H., and Ishida, T.: Agent Networks for Connecting People Together, in Ishida, T. ed., Community Computing, Chapter 2, pp. 13-53, John Wiley & Sons (1998).

Coordination Protocol and Negotiation

• Ueno, I., Yoshida, S., and Kuwabara, K.: A Multi-Agent Approach to Service Integration, Proc. 2nd International Conference on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM '97), pp. 507-521 (1997).
• Kuwabara, K.: Meta-Level Control of Coordination Protocols, Proc. Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS '96), pp. 165-172 (1996).
• Kuwabara, K., Ishida, T., and Osato, N.: AgenTalk: Describing Multiagent Coordination Protocols with Inheritance, Proc. 7th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI '95), pp. 460-465 (1995).
• Kuwabara, K., Ishida, T., and Osato, N.: AgenTalk: Coordination Protocol Description for Multiagent Systems, Proc. First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS '95), p. 455 (1995).
• Conry, S. E., Kuwabara, K., Lesser, V. R., and Meyer, R. A.: Multistage Negotiation for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 1462-1477 (1991).
• Kuwabara, K. and Lesser, V. R.: Extended Protocol for Multistage Negotiation, Proc. 9th Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, pp. 129-161 (1989).

Market-based Approach

• Kuwabara, K., Ishida, T., Nishibe, Y., and Suda, T.: An Equilibratory Market-Based Approach for Distributed Resource Allocation and Its Applications to Communication Network Control, in Clearwater, S. H. ed., Market-Based Control: A Paradigm for Distributed Resource Allocation, pp. 53-73, World Scientific Publishing (1996).
• Kuwabara, K. and Ishida, T.: Equilibratory Approach to Distributed Resource Allocation: Toward Coordinated Balancing, in Castelfranchi, C. and Werner, E. eds., Artificial Social Systems, MAAMAW '92, Lecture Notes in AI 830, pp. 133-146, Springer-Verlag (1994).
• Nishibe, Y., Kuwabara, K., Yokoo, M., and Ishida, T.: Speed-Up and Application Distributed Constraint Satisfaction to Communication Network Path Assignments, Systems and Computers in Japan, Vol. 25, No. 12, pp. 54-67 (1994).
• Nishibe, Y., Kuwabara, K., Suda, T., and Ishida, T.: Distributed Channel Allocation in ATM Networks, Proc. GLOBECOM '93, pp. 417-423 (1993).
• Kuwabara, K., Ishida, T., and Nishibe, Y.: Market-Based Distributed Resource Allocation: Equilibratory Approach, IJCAI '93 Workshop on Artificial Economics (1993).

Distributed Constraint Satisfaction

• Yokoo, M., Durfee, E. H., Ishida, T., and Kuwabara, K.: The Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Formalization and Algorithms, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 673-685 (1998).
• Yokoo, M., Durfee, E. H., Ishida, T., and Kuwabara, K.: Distributed Constraint Satisfaction for Formalizing Distributed Problem Solving, Proc. 12th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 614-621 (1992).
• Nishibe, Y., Kuwabara, K., and Ishida, T.: Effects of Heuristics in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction: Towards Satisficing Algorithms, Proc. 11th International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, pp. 285-302 (1992).

Biography

Kazuhiro Kuwabara received B. Eng., M. Eng., and Dr. Eng. degrees from the University of Tokyo, in 1982, 1984, and 1997 respectively. In 1984, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (NTT), and was engaged in research and development on knowledge-based systems, multi-agent systems and socialware. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1988-1989, and he was with ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories in 2003 - 2006. Currently he is a professor at Ritsumeikan University.

Contact Address

Kazuhiro Kuwabara
Department of Information and Communication Science
College of Information Science and Engineering
Ritsumeikan University
1-1-1 Noji Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577 Japan
e-mail: kuwabara _at_ is.ritsumei.ac.jp