Yoshiaki Takai, Dr.Eng.
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Yoshiaki Takai was born in 1960.
He is currently a Professor and a Vice-director of Information Initiative
Center, Hokkaido University. He is an Aide to CIO of Hokkaido University.
From 1988 to 1989, he was a Research Associate of
the Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo.
In 1989, He joined the Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University.
His research interests include parallel computer architecture, parallel processing,
distributed processing, mobile agents applications, computer networks,
emergent computation, evolutional computation, physically-based modeling,
and computer graphics applications.
He received B.Eng. in electronic engineering in 1983, and M.Eng. and D.Eng.
in information engineering in 1985 and 1988 from Tohoku University.
He is a member of IPSJ, IEICE, International Academy of CIO,
and IEEE Computer Society.
- Graphics Applications of Cellular Automata
- Recent research activities
- Visualization applications (N.Kawasaki and Y.Takai: "Video
Monitoring System for Security Surveillance based on Augmented Reality",
Proc. Int. Conf. on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, 2002)
- Adaptive network routing (H.Kashiwazaki and Y.Takai: "Adaptive
Network Routing by Using the Multiagents", Proc. Int. Conf. on Networks,
Parallel and Distributed Processing, and Applications, 2002)
- Web-based training system (T.Nishita, K.Kondo, Y.Ohno, Y.Takai,
K.Miura, Y.Dobashi, et al: "Development of Web-Based Training System and
Courseware for Advanced Computer Graphics Courses Enhanced by Interactive
JAVA Applets", Proc. Int. Conf. on Geometry and Graphics, 2002)
- CORE: the super JAVA server (A.Fujimaki, Y.Takai, and N.Yoshikawa: "High-End Server
Based on Complexity-Reduced Architecture for Superconductor Technology",
IEICE Trans. on Electronics, vol.E85-C, no.3, 2002)
- Mobile agent applications (Y.Tomikawa and Y.Takai: "Access Path Selection by Using Mobile Proxy Agents",
IEICE Trans. Inf. and Sys., vol.J84-DI, no.2, 2001)
- Cluster shape modeling (Y.Takai, T.Saito, Y.Tomikawa, and N.K.Takai: "A Particle Cluster Deformation Model
by the Probabilistic Cellular Automata", IEICE Trans. Inf. and Sys., vol.J83-A, no.12, 2000)
- Parallel molecular dynamics simulation (Y.Takai, H.Emaru, and T.Yamamoto: "Dynamic Grouping of Particles
for Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulation", IEICE Trans. Inf. and Sys., vol.J82-DI, no.6, 1999)
- Virtual clay modelling (H.Arata, Y.Takai, N.K.Takai and T.Yamamoto: "Virtual Clay Modeling within
the Active Voxel Space", IEICE Trans. Inf. and Sys., vol.J82-DII, no.11, 1999)
- Chip implementation based on single flux quantum (F.Furuta, Y.Suzuki, E.Oya, S.Matsumoto,
H.Akaike, A.Fujimaki, H.Hayakawa, and Y.Takai: "New Logic Circuits Based on SFQ Signals",
IEEE Trans. on Applied Superconductivity, vol.9, no.2, 1999)
- Cellular constraint solver (H.Arata, Y.Takai, N.K.Takai, and T.Yamamoto: "A Declarative
Picture Drawing Model Based on Cellular Automata", IEICE Trans. Inf. and Sys., vol.J81-DII, no.6, 1998)
- Multiagent constraint solver (H.Arata, Y.Takai, and T.Yamamoto: "An alignment problem
within a gur game paradigm", IEICE Trans. Inf. and Sys. , vol.J81-A, no.5, 1998)
- Texture generation (Y.Takai, N.K.Takai, and K.J.Nakamori: "Exploration of
the reaction-diffusion textures", Proc. Int. Conf. on Modelling and Simulation , 1998)
- Network routing (M.Munetomo, Y.Takai, and Y.Sato: "An adaptive routing algorithm
with load balancing by a genetic algorithm", Trans. Information Processing Society of Japan ,
vol.39, no.2, 1998)
- Multiagent games (Y.Tomikawa, M.Munetomo, and Y.Takai: "An application of a stochastic
genetic algorithm to invisible matrices games", IEICE Trans. Inf. and Sys. ,
vol.J80-DII, no.2, 1997)
- Stochastic genetic algorithms (M.Munetomo, Y.Takai, and Y.Sato: "StGA: An Application
of a Genetic Algorithm to Stochastic Learning Automata", Systems and Computers in Japan ,
vol.27, no.10, 1996)
- Parallel particle systems (Y.Takai, K.Ecchu, and N.K.Takai: "A cellular automaton
model of particle motions and its applications", The Visual Computer , vol.11, no.5, 1995)
- Dynamic load balancing (M.Munetomo, Y.Takai, and Y.Sato: "A dynamic load balancing
scheme using a genetic algorithm with stochastic learning", Trans. Information Processing
Society of Japan , vol.36, no.4, 1995)
- Parallel genetic algorithms (M.Munetomo, Y.Takai, and Y.Sato: "An efficient string
exchange algorithm for a subpopulation-based asynchronously parallel genetic algorithm and
its evaluation", Trans. Information Processing Society of Japan , vol.35, no.9, 1994)
- Parallel constraint solving (N.Kin, Y.Takai, and T.L.Kunii: "Geometrical constraint solving
based on the extended Boltzmann machine", Computers in Industry , vol.19, no.2, 1992)
- Graphical editing system (N.Kin, Y.Takai, and T.L.Kunii: "PictureEditorII: a conversational
graphical editing system considering the geometrical constraint degree", Visual Computing ,
Springer-Verlag, 1992)
- Graphical user interface (Y.Takai and N.Kin: "Neuropad: a geometric constraint solver
based on the connectionist architecture", Proc. Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed
Computing and Systems , 1991)
- Artificial life (T.L.Kunii and Y.Takai: "Cellular self-reproducing automata as a parallel
processing model for botanical colony growth pattern simulation", New Advances in Computer
Graphics , Springer-Verlag, 1989)
- Parallel reduction machine (Y.Takai, T.Nakamura, and Y.Shigei: "Control scheme of
function-level computing on the brain structured computer", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Computer
Software and Applications (COMPSAC) , 1987)
- Logic design for single flux quantum (Y.Takai, T.Nakamura, Y.Shigei:
"A model of the logic circuit based on particlized information bits and logic specification
with temporal logic", IECE Trans. Inf. and Sys. , vol.J68-D, no.2, 1985)
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