Hiroyuki Yamato / Professor / Division of Environmental Studies Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies / / Industrial Information Systems, Ship Design, Transportation System, On-demand Bus http://www.nakl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index-en.html Career Summary 1977: BS in Naval Architecture, The University of Tokyo 1982: Dr.of Engineering in Naval Architecture, The University of Tokyo 1982: Research Engineer, National Aerospace Laboratory, currrently JAXA. 1987-1988: Aerospace Engineer, NASA Ames Research Center, U.S.A. 1988: Associate Professor, Department of Naval Architecture, The University of Tokyo 1997: Professor, Department of Environmental & Ocean Engineering, The University of Tokyo 1999: Professor, Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo Educational Activities Graduate School: Engineered Environmental Studies, Optimal System Design Faculty of Engineering, Department of Systems Innovation: Undergraduate Project, System Control Engineering Research Activities Industrial Information System is a working environment composed of computers, database and other facilities linked together on the internet. The system works and facilitates the activities from design production to the final decommission of the product. The target of study is to provide more efficient and human-friendly information infrastructure by extraction and reformation of personal and group knowledge of various industries. Team collaboration is required in designing or operating complex systems such as ships, aircrafts and even medical surgery. To make these operations more efficient and reliable, it's necessary to understand complex team behavior and to develop the systems to support the collaboration of groups. For this purpose, CORAS (COoperation Record and Analyze System) was developed in house and applied to the collaborative work. The system supports efficient analysis by integrating video, sound and simulator training log. ShareFast is also an in house software to represent human practice by the form of work flow and it is used to represent activities and knowledge by groups. The software has been registered as an open source software. Studies on optimization methods of logistic system and design methods of transportation system have been continued. In this context, the on-demand bus system was developed to improve the mobility in the local area and to reduce the number of cars and the carbon dioxicide emission. The on-demand bus system is introduced in many places in Japan and now being arranged for the experiment in Europe. The history of Japanese naval vessels has been studied by the collection of the Yuzuru Hiraga. Dr. Yuzuru Hiraga was a President of the University of Tokyo and Vice-Admiral of Imperial Navy and left his collection of drawings, reports, notes, diary, letters and so forth. The collection was digitalized and open by this laboratory in the URL below. http://rarebook.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/hiraga/ He was awarded three prizes including The Prize of the Society of Naval Architects of Japan for his work "A Study on the Process Planning Expert System" in 1990. Literature 1) K. Hiekata, H. Yamato, and K. Tsubouchi, A Demand Responsive Transit Service with Emphasizing on Better Punctuality, The 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation, pp.93-98, 2008.3. 2) H. Yamato, K. Tsubouchi, and K. Hiekata, A Research on Real-time Scheduling Algorithm for On-demand Bus and Evaliation by Simulaion, Transport Policy Studies' Review, 10, 4, pp2-10, 2008.1. 3) K. Hiekata, H. Yamato, W. Oishi, Y. Sasaki, and K. Sato, A Knowledge Management Framework for Marine Propeller Design, 13th International Conference on Computer Applications in Shipbuilding, pp.79-89, 2007.9. Other Activities Academic membership: The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, etc. At the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers, Professor Yamato is serving as a head of information technology study group. In other institutions, he has held various positions including cooperation committee of Science Council of Japan. Future Plan Studies will be conducted according to the following categories. (a) Development of platform software for industries: Taking design and production systems of ships and aircrafts as examples, softwares suitable to work in a networked environment are developed. For product life cycle management, technologies such as human behavior analysis, information network, distributed objects, CAD and artificial intelligence have been applied. Based on the research experience, the most suitable CAD system for the practical engineers will be studied to determine the basic specification for the next generation CAD system. (b) Study on efficient logistic system: New transportation systems are proposed in consideration of both world economic trend and technological innovation of transportation. The study is an integration of economic analysis, mathematical programming and simulation engineering. It will be conducted jointly with National Maritime Research Institute, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, and other companies. (c) Mass transportation system suitable for individuals: In the shrinking society, even mass transit system should be in compliant with the individualism. From this perspective, on-demand bus providing high-efficient and high-quality service has been developed using information and telecommunication system. (d) History of Technology and Society: Digital and original Dr. Yuzuru Hiraga collection in Kashiwa Library will be examined from the view point of technology and society. Dr. Yuzuru Hiraga developed the ship design in the "Naval Holiday" and for the preparation to the seconde World War. His design of naval vessels can be characterized by the social conditions. Messages to Students Interdisciplinary approach is a primary methodology in the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences. Students are required having a firm foundation in each field they have engaged in the undergraduate level.