[Japanese]

Kazuhiro Kuwabara

Research Topics

• Socialware
• Coordination Protocol Description for Multi-agent Systems

Selected Publications

Socialware (Community Computing)

• Yoshida, S., Kamei, K., Ohguro, T., and Kuwabara, K.: Shine: A Peer-to-Peer Based Framework of Network Community Support Systems, Computer Communications, (to appear). [abstract]
• 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). [abstract]
• 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). [abstract]
• 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). [abstract]
• 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). [abstract]
  
• 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). [abstract]
• 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 has been engaged in research and development on knowledge-based systems, multi-agent systems and socialware. He was a visiting research scientist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1988-1989. Currently he is a research group leader at NTT Communication Science Laboratories.

Contact Address

Kazuhiro Kuwabara
Social Communication Laboratory
NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0237 Japan
E-mail: kuwabara@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp