Fiscal Year 2012, Tokyo Institute of Technology ASPIRE League Research Grant
Selected Research Projects in FY2012
Principal Researcher

NameKaoru HIROTA

Departmentand graduate

Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Scienceschool(institute Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering)in Tokyo Tech
Position
HKUST

Co-researchers

KAISTProfessor
King L. CHOW, Professor
Division of Life Science
Kwang H. LEE, Professor
Department of Bio and Brain Engineering

NTU
Tsinghua－Baoding LIU, Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences

Subject of the research

Soft Computing Approach to Intelligent Informatics under theproject

Existence of Uncertainty
This grant for Soft Computing (or Computational Intelligence)research has been proposed to develop and utilize humans’
intelligent information technology and to provide researchers inthese disciplines an opportunity to show leadership in the field.
Traditionally, the natural sciences in the West have stressed thepursuit of objectivity and clarity, whereas humans, especially inSummary of the research
project

Asian countries including Japan, have paid close attention tosubjectivity

and/oruncertainty.

Inhuman-to-humancommunications in European and American countries forexample, it is important to make clear “Yes” or “No.” However, it
is often thought that limiting research conclusions to this type of“crisp” information only is not enough in Asian countries,
especially in Japan. Asian researchers think that people need topay attention to other issues such as ambiguity, subjectivity,atmosphere capturing, and intention understanding.
Co-researcher Prof. Liu @ Tsinghua Univ., has established the1

Uncertainty Theory Lab in cooperation with Prof. Hirota@ Tokyo
Tech and other co-researchers, in order to study Intelligent
Informatics under the existence of uncertainty.

Researchersfrom the four universities participating in this grant proposalwill study these kinds of human-related information-processing
technologies on computers and the internet using soft computing
or computational intelligence that includes, as core technologies,
such areas of study as artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, neuralnetworks, genetic algorithm/evolutionary computation, chaos,and fractals. From the application viewpoint, the proposed
research

topicscommunication,

shouldincluderobot-humancasualquantum-computing-based

understanding,

bio-informatics,

retrieval/instrumentation,

logistics

multimedia

image
information

optimization,

financeengineering, and intelligence control.
A satellite lab will be established in the Department ofComputational Intelligence and Systems Science at Tokyo Techbased on this research grant, where TV conference systems will
be introduced to facilitate the smooth daily communication
among researchers/students in the four universities. Direct
face-to-facemeetings/symposiums

arealsoplannedand

research results will be published in the Journal of Advanced

Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics as a
special issue. One of the principal researchers, Professor Hirota,
is an editor-in-chief of this journal. Based on the 2012 research
activities resulting from this grant project, further researchcooperation will continue into 2013 in the form of symposiums,
lectures, and publications.

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