Profile of Prof. Motoda

English | Japanese

Current Titles:

Professor Emeritus, Osaka University

Research interests:

• Social Network Analysis

• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning in General

• Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, and Scientfic Discovery

• Knowledge Acquisition from Expert

Awards:

• Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, 4/2025

• Fellow of Web Intelligence Academy, 10/2023

• Special achievemen award of the Pacific Asian Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 05/2020

• Best paper award of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 06/2019

  • Extracting Cooperative Structure among Online Items from Share-Event Sequence

• Distinguished contribution award of the Asian Conference on Machine Learning, 11/2018

• Best paper award runner up for the 14th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 08/2016

  • Detecting Critical Links in Complex Network to Maintain Information Flow/Reachability

• Best paper award for the special interest group of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 06/2016

  • Combining Activity-evaluation Information with NMF for Trust-link Prediction in Social Media

• Distinguished contribution award of the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 12/2014

• Best paper award for the 2014 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, 10/2014

  • Efficient Analysis of Node Influence Based on SIR Model over Huge Complex Networks

• Fellow of Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence, 6/2009

• WIC outstanding contribution award, 12/2008

• Okawa publishing award, 11/2007

  • Fundamentals of Data Mining, Ohmsha, Ltd., 12/2006

• Distinguished contribution award of the Pacific Asian Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 04/2006

• Best paper award for the special interest group of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence,　06/2005 

  • Development of Classifier by Using QAR Analysis

• Best paper award for the special interest group of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence,　06/2003

  • A Data Mining System: MUSASHI

• Best paper award for the annual meeting of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 06/2003

  • Improvement of Search Capability of Decision Tree -- Graph-Based Induction 

• Best paper award of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 05/2001

  • Scientific Law Discovery based on Sacale Type Constraint

• Outstanding achievement award of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 06/2000

• Best paper award for the annual meeting of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 12/1999

  • Scientific Law Discovery from Observed Data and its Application to Socio-psychology

• Best paper award for the annual meeting of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 12/1998

  • The extended SDS: A Model of Scientific Discovery for Simultaneous Equation Systems

• Best paper award of the special interest geoup of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence,　12/1997

  • A method of discovering the first principlce based on scale-based reasoning and its implementation

• Best paper award for the annual meeting of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 06/1997

  • A data-driven method to discover the first principle of complex systems

• Best paper award of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 07/1993

  • Concept Learning from Inference Pattern

• Best paper award for the annual meeting of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 06/1991

  • Concept Learning from Inference Pattern

• Best paper award of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 07/1990

  • Frustration-Based Learning in Auxiliary-Line Problems in Elementary Geometry

• Best paper award of Atomic Energy Society of Japan, 03/1984

  • Method for plant operation guidance by knowledge engineering technique

• Best paper award of Atomic Energy Society of Japan, 03/1977

  • Optimization of refueling schedule for light water reactors

• Encouragement award for young scientists of Atomic Energy Society of Japan, 03/1970

  • Burnup optimization of nuclear power reactor

Membership of Academic Society:

• Japanese Society of Artificial intelligence since 1987

• Japan Society of Software Science and Technology from 1986 to 2008

• Cognitive Science Society of Japan from 1986 to 2008

• American Association for  Artificial Intelligence since 1985 (AAAI) to 2010

• Information Processing Society of Japan since 1982 to 2008

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Computer Society) from 1990 to 2007

• American Nuclear Society from 1972 to 1990

• Atomic Energy Society of Japan from 1965 to 1991

Academic Activities:

• Advisory board

  • Technical Committee member of Web Intelligence Consortium (04/2003 - Present)

  • Scientific advisory board of Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning (04/2003 - 05/2008)

  • Academic advisory board of Japan Institute of Science and Technology (04/2003 - 03/2006)

  • Academic advisory board of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (04/2004 - 03/2006)

• Board of Trustee

  • Board of Auditor of Japanese Cognitive Science Society (01/2005 - 12/2006)

  • Board of trustee of Japanese Cognitive Science Society (06/1995 - 05/1999)

  • Board of trustee of Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (06/1990 - 05/1992)

  • Board of trustee of Japan Society of Software Science and Technology (05/1987 - 04/1989)

• Editorial Board

  • Editorial board of International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (Springer) (04/2015 - 07/2022)

  • Advisory board of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) (10/2009 - 03/2012)

  • Editorial board of the AI Handbook (Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence) (08/2002 - 12/2005)

  • Advisory board of the Handbook of Data Mining (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) (04/2001 - 05/2003)

  • Editorial board of Intelligent Data Analysis: An Internartional Journal (IOS Press) (04/2001 - 03/2014)

  • Editorial board of Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (Springer Verlag) (01/1998 - 12/2005)

  • Editorial board of the Handbook of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Oxford University Press) (03/1997 - 12/2002)

  • Editorial board of International Journal of Human Computer Studies (Academic Press) (11/1994 - 03/2006)

  • Editorial board of Japanese Cognitive Science Society (06/1993 - 04/1997)

  • Editorial board of Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier) (08/1991 - 05/2005)

  • Editorial board of Computer Science (Shujunsha) (01/1991 - 01/1993)

  • Editorial board of IEEE Expert (02/1990 - 02/1994)

  • Editorial board of the Journal of Knowledge Acquisition (Academic Press) (04/1989 - 11/1994)

  • Editorial board of Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (04/1987 - 03/1991)

• Steering Committee

  • Discovery Science Conference, Honorary member (11/2018 - Present)

  • International Conference on Informatics for Human Brain, Behavior and Health (08/2014-04/2018)

  • International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (12/2013 - Present)

  • Asian Conference on Machine Learning, Chair (10/2009 - 10/2012})

  • Discovery Science Conference (11/2006 - 11/2018)

  • Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Life member (05/2006 - Present)

  • Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Honorary member (09/2004 - Present)

  • Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Chair (05/2003 - 04/2006)

  • Discovery Science Conference, Chair (11/2002 - 10/2006)

  • Algorithmic Learning Theory Conference (11/2002 - 10/2006)

  • Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Co-chiar (05/2001 - 04/2003)

  • Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (04/1998 - 04/2001)

  • Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (08/1996 - 08/2004)

• Program Chairs and Organizers

  • Honorary Co-Chair of the 2023 Principle and Practice of Data and Knowqledge Acquisition Workshop: PKAW2023 (2023)

  • Honorary Co-Chair of the 2022 Principle and Practice of Data and Knowqledge Acquisition Workshop: PKAW2022 (2022)

  • Honorary Co-Chair of the 2020 Principle and Practice of Data and Knowqledge Acquisition Workshop: PKAW2020 (2021)

  • Honorary Conference Co-Chair of the Twelveth Asian Conference on Machine Learning: ACML2020 (2020)

  • Honorary Co-Chair of the 2019 Pacific Rim Knowqledge Acquisition Workshop: PKAW2019 (2019)

  • Honorary Conference Co-Chair of the 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery Data Mining: PAKDD19 (2019)

  • Honorary Conference Co-Chair of the Tenth Asian Conference on Machine Learning: ACML2018 (2018)

  • Honorary Co-Chair of the 2018 Pacific Rim Knowqledge Acquisition Workshop: PKAW2018 (2018)

  • General Co-Chair of the 2017 IEEE International Confernece on Data Science and Advanced Analytics: DSAA2017 (2017)

  • General Co-Chair of the Third Asian Conference on Defense Technology: ACDT2017 (2017)

  • Honorary Conference Co-Chair of the Eleventh International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems: KICSS16 (2016)

  • Honorary Conference Co-Chair of the 14th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PRICAI2016 (2016)

  • Honorary Co-Chair of the 2016 Pacific Rim Knowqledge Acquisition Workshop: PKAW2016 (2016)

  • General Co-Chair of the Second Asian Conference on Defense Technology: ACDT2016 (2016)

  • Honorary Conference Co-Chair of the Tenth International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems: KICSS15 (2015))

  • Conference Co-chair of the First Asian Conference on Defence Technology: ACDT15 (2015)

  • Conference Co-chair of the Nineteenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery Data Mining: PAKDD15 (2015)

  • Program Co-chair of the 2nd International Conference on Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems Paradigms: RSEISP (2014)

  • Conference Co-Chair of the 2014 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics: DSAA (2014)

  • Honorary Conference chair of the Eighteenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD14 (2014)

  • Conference Chair of the Ninth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2013)

  • Co-organizer of the Fourth International Workshop on Behavior and Social Informatics and Computing: BSIC2013

  • Co-organizer of the Fourth International Workshop on Behavior and Social Informatics: BI2013

  • Conference Chair of the 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge

  • Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD2013 (2013)

  • Co-organizer of the Third International Workshop on Behavior Informatics: BI2012 (2012)

  • Honary Co-Chair of The 12th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems: PKAW2012 (2012)

  • Co-organizer of the Second International Workshop on Behavior Informatics: BI2011 (2011)

  • Conference Chair of the Fifth International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems: KICSS 2010 (2010)

  • Best Paper Award Chair of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML/PKDD2010 (2010)

  • Honary Co-Chair of The 11th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Smart Systems and Services: PKAW2010 (2010)

  • Co-organizer of the First International Workshop on Behavior Informatics: BI2010 (2010)

  • Co-organizer of the Fourth International Workshop on Feature Selection and Data Mining: FSDM2010 (2010)

  • Conference chair of the First Asisan Conference on Machine Learning (ACML09)

  • Honorary Conference chair of the Thirteenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining: PAKDD09 (2009)

  • Conference chair of the Tenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence PRICAI2008 (2008)

  • Honorary Conference chair of the Eleventh Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining: PAKDD07 (2007)

  • Conference chair of the Eighth International Conference on Discovery Science: DS2005 (2005)

  • .Conference Chair of the Ninth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining: PAKDD05 (2005)

  • Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Active Mining: AM-2004 (2004)

  • Honoyrary Chair of the Fifth Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop: PKAW04 (2004)

  • Co-organizer of the International Workshop on Active Mining: AM-2003 (2003)

  • Organizer of the International Workshop on Active Mining: AM-2002 (2002)

  • Co-organizer of the Fourth Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop: PKAW02 (2002)

  • Co-organizer of the First International Workshop on Data Mining Lessons Learned: DMLL-2002, Workshop at ICML2002 (2002)

  • Organizer of the panel ``Innovative Projects for Intelligent Systems in the New Century'' for 13th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems: ISMIS02 (2002)

  • Co-organizer of the Third Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop: PKAW00 (2000)

  • Co-Organizer of the Fourth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery \& Data Mining: PAKDD2000 (2000)

  • Program chair of the First International Workshop on Discovery Science: DS98 (1998)

  • Co-organizer of the Second Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop: PKAW98 (1998)

  • Co-program chair of the Fifth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: PRICAI98 (1998)

  • Co-program chair of the First Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery \& Data Mining: PAKDD97 (1997)

  • Co-organizer of the First Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop: PKAW96 (1996)

  • Co-organizer of the Third Japanese Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop: JKAW94 (1994)

  • Co-organizer of International Workshop on Machine Intelligence 1995: MI95 (1993)

  • Co-organizer of International Workshop on Machine Intelligence 1993: MI93 (1993)

  • Co-organizer of the Second Japanese Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop: JKAW92 (1992)

  • Co-organizer of the First Japanese Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop: JKAW90 (1990)

  • Vice Chairman of the 5th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (1990)

• Personal History

  • Scientific Advisor, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (May, 2006 to April, 2018)

  • Professor, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka Universtiy (January, 1996 to March, 2006))

  • Senior Chief Research Scientist, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. (August, 1994 to December, 1995)

  • Chief Research Scientist, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. (April, 1987 to July, 1994)

  • Senior Research Scientist, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. (April, 1985 to March, 1987)

  • Senior Research Scientist, Energy Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. (April, 1978 to March, 1985)

  • Senior Research Scientist, Atomic Energy Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. (August, 1976 to March, 1978)

  • Visiting Scholar, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, (September, 1972 to August, 1973)

  • Research Scientist, Atomic Energy Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. (April, 1971 to July, 1976)

  • Research Scientist, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. (April, 1967 to March, 1971)

  • Graduate School, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tokyo (April, 1965 to March, 1967)

  • Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tokyo (April, 1963 to March, 1965)

  • College of General Education, University of Tokyo (April, 1961 to March, 1963)

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