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Hirofumi Yamaki, Associate Professor, PhD

Advanced Networking Division
Information Technology Center
Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601
TEL: +81 52 789 4390
FAX: +81 52 789 4385
E-mail: yamaki at itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Education

Research Interests

Network applications, multiagent systems, ubiquitous computing

Professional Societies

Publications

Doctorate Thesis

1. Hirofumi Yamaki, "Market-Based Control for Quality of Services in Network Applications," Kyoto University, 1999.(pdf)

Chapters in Books

1. Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Hirofumi Yamaki, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Toru Ishida, "Agent Networks for Connecting People Together," In Toru Ishida Ed., "Community Computing: Collaboration over Global Information Networks, John Wiley and Sons, pp. 13-53, 1998.
2. Hirofumi Yamaki, Michael P. Wellman and Toru Ishida, "Market-Based QoS Control for Incorporating Community Preferences,"In Toru Ishida Ed., Community Computing: Collaboration over Global Information Networks, John Wiley and Sons, pp. 91-125, 1998.
3. Yoshiyasu Nishibe, Ichiro Morihara, Fumio Hattori, Toshikazu Nishimura, Hirofumi Yamaki, Toru Ishida, Harumi Maeda and Toyoaki Nishida, "Mobile Digital Assistants for International Conferences," In Toru Ishida Ed., Community Computing: Collaboration over Global Information Networks, John Wiley and Sons, pp. 245-284, 1998.

Jounals

1. Naoko Hayashida, Hirofumi Yamaki, Koji Kida, and Tomoharu Yamaguchi , "Toward Information Sharing Support by Agents: An Experiment to Unveil Effects of Support on Information Providing Activities," Systems and Computers in Japan. Vol. 36, No. 11, pp.93-101, 2005.(pdf)
2. Yoshiyasu Nishibe, Hiroaki Waki, Ichiro Morihara, Fumio Hattori,Toru Ishida, Toshikazu Nishimura, Hirofumi Yamaki, Takaaki Komura, Nobuyasu Itoh, Tadahiro Gotoh, Toyoaki Nishida, Hideaki Takeda, Atsushi Sawada, Harumi Maeda, Masao Kajihara and Hidekazu Adachi, "Mobile Digital Assistants for Community Support," AI Magazine, Vol.19, No.2, pp.31-49, 1998. (pdf)

Conferences and Workshops

1. Masaki Gotou, Hirofumi Yamaki, Daisuke Yanagisawa, Masamitsu Ukai, Masahiro Tanaka, Toru Ishida. Resource Sharing by Multilingual Expression Services, 2008 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2008), 2008 (to appear).
2. Hirofumi Yamaki, Takuya Furuta and Indika Katugampala. Platforms for Evaluating Automated Trust Negotiation Protocols and Strategies, The first International Workshop on Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations (ACAN2008), 2008.
3. Yuu Nakajima, Hironori Shiina, Shohei Yamane, Hirofumi Yamaki and Toru Ishida. Disaster Evacuation Guide Using a Massively Multiagent Server and GPS Mobile Phones. IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT-07), 2007.
4. Yuu Nakajima, Hironori Shiina, Shohei Yamane, Hirofumi Yamaki and Toru Ishida. Caribbean/Q: A Massively Multi-Agent Platform with Scenario Description, International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG-06), 2006.(pdf)
5. Kousuke Nakatsuka, Hirofumi Yamaki, "Global Navigation by Coordination of Local Information Services," Second International Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems, 2006.
6. Yuu Nakajima, Hironori Shiina, Shohei Yamane, Hirofumi Yamaki, Toru Ishida, "Protocol Description and Platform in Massively Multiagent Simulation," First International Workshop on Agent Technology for Disaster Management, 2006.
7. Hirofumi Yamaki, Masao Fujii and Kousuke Nakatsuka."A Dynamic Programming Approach to Automated Trust Negotiation for Multiagent Systems," T. Ito et al. eds., Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiation Mechanisms in Multi-Agent Systems -- 1st International Workshop on Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems (RRS2005), IEEE Press, pp.55-65, 2005. (pdf)
8. Kosuke Nakatsuka, Hirofumi Yamaki and Toru Ishida, "Market-Based Network Resource Allocation with Non-tatonnement process," C. Zhang and V. W. Soo eds., Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents -- Proceedings of the Third Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2000), LNAI 1881, pp.143-155, Springer-Verlag, 2000. (pdf)
9. Shinji Tanaka, Hirofumi Yamaki and Toru Ishida, "Mobile-Agents for Distributed Market Computing,"International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'99), pp. 472-479, 1999. (pdf)
10. Toshikazu Nishimura, Hirofumi Yamaki, Takaaki Komura and Toru Ishida, "Community Viewer: Visualizing Community Formation on Personal Digital Assistants,"ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring), pp. 13-18, 1998 (also appeard in ACM SAC'98 (Symposium on Applied Computing) Mobile Computing Track, pp. 433-438, 1998).(pdf)
11. Hirofumi Yamaki, Yutaka Yamauchi and Toru Ishida, "Implementation Issues on Market-Based QoS Control," International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-98), pp. 357-364, 1998.(pdf)
12. Toru Ishida, Hirofumi Yamaki, Hideyuki Nakanishi and Toshikazu Nishimura, "Casual Meetings in a Network," International Symposium on Cooperative Database Systems for Advanced Applications, World Scientific, pp. 391-397, 1997.
13. Hirofumi Yamaki, Michael P. Wellman and Toru Ishida, "A Market-Based Approach to Allocating QoS for Multimedia Applications," International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-96), 1996 pp. 385-392, 1996.(pdf)
14. Hirofumi Yamaki, Masao Kajihara, Goichi Tanaka, Toshikazu Nishimura, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Toru Ishida, "Socia: Non-Committed Meeting Scheduling with Desktop Vision Agents," International Conference on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM-96), pp. 727-742, 1996. (pdf)

Oral Presentations

1. Toru Ishida, Hirofumi Yamaki, Hideyuki Nakanishi and Toshikazu Nishimura, "Casual Meetings in a Network," International Symposium on Cooperative Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 1996.
2. Hirofumi Yamaki, Masao Kajihara, Toshikazu Nishimura and Toru Ishida, "Socia: An Agent Based Meeting Support System," JSAI SIG-FAI-9502-4, 1995.