253 About the Contributors Tokuro Matsuo (Ph.D., M.S., and B.Edu.) is an associate professor at Graduate School of Science and Engineering in Yamagata University since 2006. He graduated from School of Culture and Educa- tion of Saga University in 2001 and from School of Knowledge Science of Japan Advanced Institute of Technology in 2003. He received his Ph.D. from Department of Computer Science at Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2006. He is a visiting researcher in University California, Irvine (2010-2011) and a research fellow of Software Engineering and Information Technology Institute of Central Michigan University (2010-2012). His current research interests include career service system, safety service for disaster recovery, designs on secure electronic commerce systems and robust e-auction protocols, qualitative reasoning and simulations, polymer chemical material design system, and travel support systems. Some of his researches are presented in top-leveled international conference including AAAI, IEEE CEC, AAMAS, and WWW. He created and organized 26 international conferences and workshops including Pacific Rim International Workshop on E-Commerce 2006, Conference on Software Engineer- ing, Network, Parallel and Distributed Computing 2009, IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science 2010, IEEE International Workshop on e-Activity 2007-2011, and International Workshop on Automated Complex Agent-based Negotiation 2005-2011. He received over 40 awards and research grants from research foundations, company, and government. He is commis- sioned as Adviser of Information Promotion from the Japanese Government. He also is a chairperson of the Investigation Committee on Tourist Information System in the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan from 2011. Takayuki Fujimoto (Ph.D., M.S., B.Edu.) received the Doctor degree of Informatics (Ph.D.) from Graduate School of Science and Engineering in Yamagata University in 2007. He also received Master degree of Science in Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2003 and Bachelor degree of Education in Waseda University in 2001. Currently, he is a lecturer of Dep. of Computational Science and Engineering, Toyo University. His main area of study includes information design, artificial intel- ligence, and electronic education, e-learning support systems, university information support systems based on information reuse and integrations, and e-activity. He is a member of IEEE, and several others. He is a conference organizing IEEE IWEA 2007. * * * Takayuki Asada is a professor of Accounting in Graduate school of Economics at Osaka University in Japan since September 1st 1995. Prior to this he had a position of Associate Professor of Accounting in University of Tsukuba. He belongs to several academic associations, The Accounting Association About the Contributors of Japan, Japanese Management Accounting Association, The International Association of Project and Program and American Accounting Association. He also has worked with Osaka Gus Company and also has teaching and consultancy experience in Japanese service and manufacturing companies. He is a regular speaker at some international conferences and holds visiting lecturer’s experience in UK and France. Also, he got a distinguished research funds from Fulbright Committee and Japanese Foundation in 1985 and 1999 and got a paper award from IMA in 1999. Ran-Fun Chiu has his BS degree from national Taiwan University, and MS, PhD degrees from Uni- versity of Houston, all in electrical engineering. From 1970 to 1981, he was with Racal-Milgo designing high-speed modems and other digital transmission equipment. He joined Hewlett Packard Laboratories to work on network products and systems in 1981. Currently he is a distinguished technologist. His works include LANs, IP routers, network management, HFC data delivery systems (cable modem), LMDS, VoIP, and network security. In the past 10 years he has been working on large scale mobile networks, including the M-Taipei, and the M-Taiwan projects. Ricardo Colomo-Palacios is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His research interests include applied research in Information Systems, software project management, people in software projects and social and Semantic Web. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid. He also holds a MBA from the Instituto de Empresa. He has been working as software engineer, project manager, and software en- gineering consultant in several companies, including Spanish IT leader, INDRA. He is also an Editorial Board Member and Associate Editor for several international journals and conferences and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals. Nashwan Dawood, BEng, MPhil, PhD is currently the director of Technology Future Institute (TFI) and director and creator of the Centre for Construction Innovation & Research (CCIR) at Teesside Uni- versity, UK. He has spent many years as an academic, practitioner, and a researcher within the field of project and construction management and the application of IT/VR in the construction process. This has ranged across a number of research topics including sustainability, ICT for energy efficient buildings, Information Technologies and Systems (nD, VR, Integrated databases), planning and management of off-site production, risk management, and intelligent decision support systems. This has resulted in over 200 published papers in refereed international journals and conferences, research grants from European Union FP7, British Council, Industry, Engineering Academy, EPSRC, DTI UK Department Trade and Industry, construction industry companies and knowledge transfer partnership, totalling about 4,500,000 in cash. Prof. Dawood has been invited for keynote presentations around the world, and he is the creator of CONVR (Construction Application of VR) conference series. He is a major contributor to BIM imple- mentation strategies in the UK. Prof. Dawood’s research projects are multi-disciplinary in nature and complementary knowledge and expertise within his research centre, national and international research institutions, and collaboration with the UK and EU construction industry has led to successful research bids and exciting research projects. Yasuo Ebara received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Graduate School of Information Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1997 and 2000. Since 2000, he has been with Kyoto University, where he is an assistant professor. Since 2008, he has been with Central Office for Information Infrastructure 254 About the Contributors at Osaka University, where he is an associate professor. His research interests include tele-immersion technology, network computing, and application of information communication system. He is a member of IEEE Computer Society. Yae Fukushige is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Commerce at Otaru University of Commerce, Japan. She received Bachelor of Law from Shimane University, Master of Law from Osaka Gakuin University, Master of Economics and Ph.D in Economics from Osaka University. After being a part-time lecturer and a research assistant at Hannan University, since 2010 she is an Associate Professor at Otaru University of Commerce. She is a member of Japan Society for Intellectual Produc- tion, Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education, Japan Academic Society of Ventures and Entrepreneurs. Huiwei Guan received PhD degree in computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University of China in 1993. He was an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering & Science School of Shanghai University in China. From 1995, he worked as a research fellow in Department of Electronic Engineer- ing of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and from 1996 to 1997 he worked as a senior research fel- low in Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. From 1998 to 1999, he joined German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD-IPSI) in Germany as a senior international scientist. From 1999 to 2001, he was the principal researcher and the director of Advanced Technology Department of Primeon Inc., USA. From 2001, he joined the faculty of Computer Science, North Shore Community College, USA and presently he is a tenured full professor there. He is also a certified national IT professional in USA. Dr. Guan is the author of more than 80 research contributions to international journals and international conferences. He is a referee of IEE International Computing & Control Engineering Journal, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, International Journal of Computing and Informatics, International Journal of Advanced Technology for Learning, and Journal of China Science. He is a PC member and referee of IEEE International Conference on Algorithms & Architectures for Parallel Processing, IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing, IEEE Real-Time Systems Sym- posium, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, International Symposium on Database, Web and Cooperative Systems, and International Symposium on Cooperative Database Systems for Advanced Applications. His current research topics are parallel processing system and parallel algorithms, and network security and network applications. Hidehiko Hayashi is currently an associate professor