Yoshinobu Kitamura is an associate professor, the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Osaka Japan. He received his Bachelor, Master and Doctoral degrees of Engineering in 1991, 1993 and 2000 from Osaka University, respectively. He has worked in the same institute as a technical official (1993-1994), a research associate (1994-2003) and then an associate professor (2003-present). He had done visiting research as a senior research fellow at Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands (2002) and as an visiting associate professor at Stanford University, CA, U.S.A. (2007-2008).
His research interest includes ontology-based modeling of artifacts, engineering
knowledge management, and conceptual design support. He has been active in the
engineering knowledge research field since 1995, developing a strongly interdisciplinary
approach that combines together Ontological Engineering in Artificial Intelligence
in Computer Science and Engineering Design (in addition, Philosophy recently).
He has published 31 journal papers and 53 papers in international conferences/workshops
(reviewed). He has regularly presented papers and talks in the major conferences
in the Engineering Design field such as ICED and ASME/IDETC and the Ontological
Engineering field.
His best-successful result is an ontology-based modeling framework of functionality of artifact. The functional ontologies for representing functions have been established and knowledge management systems based on the ontologies have been developed. One of those systems has been successfully deployed in industry and engineers have gotten many practical benefits including efficient design review, speed-up of patent writing, solving difficult manufacturing problems and good redesign by describing functional knowledge based on the ontological framework and by sharing it.
He has served as an associate editor of the ASME Transactions - Journal of
Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE) and members of the
Editorial Board of Advanced Engineering Informatics and that of the Journal
and transaction of the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence and as reviewers
for many major international journals and international conferences in both
engineering informatics and computer science fields.
Last modified at Dec 27, 2009 by Yoshinobu Kitamura