报告题目：Research on Parallel and Distributed Intelligent System
报告人： Prof. Makoto Amamiya
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering Kyushu University
报告时间：6月1日（周二）下午3：30
报告地点：曹光彪西楼204多媒体教室
附1：Introduction of Prof. Makoto Amamiya
Makoto Amamiya is currently a professor of Department of Intelligent Systems at Kyushu University and the President of Information and System Society,Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers(IEICE). He received B.E, MS.E. and Ph.D from Kyushu University in 1967, 1969 and 1978.
He is an author (co-author) of four books, writer of IMIDAS (Innovative ulti-Information Dictionary Annual Series), Information Science Section(1988-1997). So far, he has published over 250 journal and conference papers.
From 1969 to 1988, Amamiya worked in NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) in various areas including natural language processing, artificial intelligence,parallel and distributed processing, data flow architecture. He was a member of the Fifth Generation Computer Project Promotion Committee (1982-1992). After joined Kyushu University in 1988, he has still maintained a strong connection with industry and has got several research projects from both industry and national organizations. At present, he mainly involves in three main projects,ranging from processor design --- the FUCE project, to operating system development --- the CEFOS project and multi-agent systems --- the KODAMA project.
Among his professional accomplishments, he served as Board member of Society for Software Science, Japan (1983-1988); Council member of Society for Artificial Intelligence, Japan (1992-1996); Technical Committee member of IFIP WG10.3 since 1997; Steering Committee member of European Parallel Processing,1997; Chair of Kyushu Branch, Information Processing Society, 1999; Vice President (Information and Systems Society, 1997), Council member (1993-1995,1997, 1999-2001), and Director member (2001-2003) of IEICE. Also he was the chair (co-chair) of IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing 1991 and 1996; Parallel Architecture and Language Europe Conference 1994; 9th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 1995; International Symposium on High Performance Computing 1999 and member of several editorial boards and program committees.
Amamiya is a fellow of IEICE and IPSJ, a member of IEEE CS and ACM,co-inventor of U.S. Patents (patent number: 6,144,989,published application number: 20030014558) and patent applicationsin Japan and U.S.
附2：Lecture Abstract
Research on Parallel and Distributed Intelligent System
Information network will be more common as an infra-structure in the 21st century society; that is commonly called the Ubiquitous Information Environment. However, there remain many issues to solve in order for people to enjoy such ubiquitous information environment in their daily life.
One of the issues is to develop information environment in which every people can access to his/her desired information at anytime，and another one is to develop human-oriented interface with which people can access to his/her desired information in a natural and easy way.
For the first issue, we are developing a new computer architecture FUCE (Fusion of Communication and Execution) and operating system CEFOS (Communication and Execution Fusion OS).
Current hardware technologies are advancing towards higher speed and larger scales. Software technologies including processor architectures, in contrast, are still within the conventional framework. New architecture and software technologies are urgently required to develop. Considering these hardware and software technology trends, we have planned and been pursuing the FUCE project at Kyushu University. FUCE means FUsion of Communication and Execution. The main objective of the research is, as the name shows, to develop a new architecture that truly fuses communication and computation. The FUCE project develops a new processor-architecture and kernel software on it. We name the processor FUCE processor, and the kernel software CEFOS (Communication and Execution Fusion OS).
FUCE processor is developed based on the technique of fine-grain multi-threading. Here thread means a tiny process executed without preemption. The fine-grain multi-threading technique promises high performance in fusing of communication and internal execution. Both event handling, e.g., incoming/outgoing messages and I/Os, and internal process execution are controlled by a unified thread execution mechanism. There is no distinction between event/transaction handling and internal execution. (Our technique will be feasible because messages are transmitted as frame-based or cell-based transactions in the global/local network, and such messages can be effectively handled by threads.) The FUCE processor executes multiple threads in parallel and concurrent ways.
For the second issue, we are developing the multi-agent system KODAMA (Kyushu University Open and Distributed Autonomous Multi-Agent system) and its application. KODAMA agents comprise a hierarchical structure of agent communities, and provide a human-oriented interface in information environment. KODAMA system will be applied to many applications, e.g., flexible man-machine interaction with natural language, Internet Web searching and various kinds of e-commerce systems.
Scientific significance of this research is to develop a new software paradigm, agent-oriented software paradigm, that enables to develop interaction-based computation system for various kinds of open environment systems like ubiquitous computing.
报告人： Prof. Makoto Amamiya
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering Kyushu University
报告时间：6月1日（周二）下午3：30
报告地点：曹光彪西楼204多媒体教室
附1：Introduction of Prof. Makoto Amamiya
Makoto Amamiya is currently a professor of Department of Intelligent Systems at Kyushu University and the President of Information and System Society,Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers(IEICE). He received B.E, MS.E. and Ph.D from Kyushu University in 1967, 1969 and 1978.
He is an author (co-author) of four books, writer of IMIDAS (Innovative ulti-Information Dictionary Annual Series), Information Science Section(1988-1997). So far, he has published over 250 journal and conference papers.
From 1969 to 1988, Amamiya worked in NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) in various areas including natural language processing, artificial intelligence,parallel and distributed processing, data flow architecture. He was a member of the Fifth Generation Computer Project Promotion Committee (1982-1992). After joined Kyushu University in 1988, he has still maintained a strong connection with industry and has got several research projects from both industry and national organizations. At present, he mainly involves in three main projects,ranging from processor design --- the FUCE project, to operating system development --- the CEFOS project and multi-agent systems --- the KODAMA project.
Among his professional accomplishments, he served as Board member of Society for Software Science, Japan (1983-1988); Council member of Society for Artificial Intelligence, Japan (1992-1996); Technical Committee member of IFIP WG10.3 since 1997; Steering Committee member of European Parallel Processing,1997; Chair of Kyushu Branch, Information Processing Society, 1999; Vice President (Information and Systems Society, 1997), Council member (1993-1995,1997, 1999-2001), and Director member (2001-2003) of IEICE. Also he was the chair (co-chair) of IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing 1991 and 1996; Parallel Architecture and Language Europe Conference 1994; 9th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 1995; International Symposium on High Performance Computing 1999 and member of several editorial boards and program committees.
Amamiya is a fellow of IEICE and IPSJ, a member of IEEE CS and ACM,co-inventor of U.S. Patents (patent number: 6,144,989,published application number: 20030014558) and patent applicationsin Japan and U.S.
附2：Lecture Abstract
Research on Parallel and Distributed Intelligent System
Information network will be more common as an infra-structure in the 21st century society; that is commonly called the Ubiquitous Information Environment. However, there remain many issues to solve in order for people to enjoy such ubiquitous information environment in their daily life.
One of the issues is to develop information environment in which every people can access to his/her desired information at anytime，and another one is to develop human-oriented interface with which people can access to his/her desired information in a natural and easy way.
For the first issue, we are developing a new computer architecture FUCE (Fusion of Communication and Execution) and operating system CEFOS (Communication and Execution Fusion OS).
Current hardware technologies are advancing towards higher speed and larger scales. Software technologies including processor architectures, in contrast, are still within the conventional framework. New architecture and software technologies are urgently required to develop. Considering these hardware and software technology trends, we have planned and been pursuing the FUCE project at Kyushu University. FUCE means FUsion of Communication and Execution. The main objective of the research is, as the name shows, to develop a new architecture that truly fuses communication and computation. The FUCE project develops a new processor-architecture and kernel software on it. We name the processor FUCE processor, and the kernel software CEFOS (Communication and Execution Fusion OS).
FUCE processor is developed based on the technique of fine-grain multi-threading. Here thread means a tiny process executed without preemption. The fine-grain multi-threading technique promises high performance in fusing of communication and internal execution. Both event handling, e.g., incoming/outgoing messages and I/Os, and internal process execution are controlled by a unified thread execution mechanism. There is no distinction between event/transaction handling and internal execution. (Our technique will be feasible because messages are transmitted as frame-based or cell-based transactions in the global/local network, and such messages can be effectively handled by threads.) The FUCE processor executes multiple threads in parallel and concurrent ways.
For the second issue, we are developing the multi-agent system KODAMA (Kyushu University Open and Distributed Autonomous Multi-Agent system) and its application. KODAMA agents comprise a hierarchical structure of agent communities, and provide a human-oriented interface in information environment. KODAMA system will be applied to many applications, e.g., flexible man-machine interaction with natural language, Internet Web searching and various kinds of e-commerce systems.
Scientific significance of this research is to develop a new software paradigm, agent-oriented software paradigm, that enables to develop interaction-based computation system for various kinds of open environment systems like ubiquitous computing.
