Takashi KOBAYASHI is a designated associate professor of Center for Embedded Computing Systems(NCES), Nagoya University. His research interests include software patterns and architecture, software development method, software configuration mamnagement, Web-services compositions, workflow, multimedia information retrieval and data mining. He received a B.Eng, M.Eng. and Dr.Eng degrees in computer science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1997, 1999 and 2004 respectively. He's a member of the ACM, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Japan Society for Software Science and Technology(JSSST), Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers(IEICE) and The Database Society of Japan(DBSJ).

My research interests include following research area in Software Engineering and Data Engineering:

• Software Reuse Technology (Pattern, Component, Framework, Architecture)
• Analysis/Design Method
• Software Configuration Management
• Web-Services Compositions / Workflow
• Multimedia Information Retrieval
• Link Analysis / Data Mining

My recent publications are as follows:

• To appear
  • Takashi Kobayashi, Wataru Nakano, Haruo Yokota, Koichi Shinoda, Sadaoki Furui: Presentation Scene Retrieval Exploiting Features in Videos Including Pointing and Speech Information, Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources(LKR2007), Mar. 1-3 2007.
• 2006
  • Wataru Nakano, Takashi Kobayashi, Yutaka Katsuyama, Satoshi Naoi, Haruo Yokota: Treatment of Laser Pointer and Speech Information in Lecture Scene Retrieval, Proc. Eighth IEEE Intl Symp. on Multimedia(ISM2006), pp.927-932 (MTEL:Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning), San Diego USA, Dec. 2006.
  • Neila Ben LAKHAL, Takashi Kobayashi, Haruo Yokota: Dependability and Flexibility Centered Approach for Composite Web Services Modeling, 14th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS2006), Montpellier, France, Nov 1 - Nov 3, 2006.
  • Shin'ichi Konomi, Masashi Tsuchida, Takashi Kobayashi, Sozo Inoue, and Masaru Kitsuregawa: Supporting Colocated Interactions using RFID and Social Network Displays, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol.5, No.3, pp.48-56, IEEE Computer Society, Jul-Sep, 2006. [IEEE-CS DL]
  • Shin'ichi Konomi, Sozo Inoue, Takashi Kobayashi, Masashi Tsuchida, Masaru Kitsuregawa: DeaiExplorer: a social network display for academic conferences, Invited Demo, the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06) Nara Japan, May 10-12, 2006
  • Hideyuki Kato, Takashi Kobayashi, Haruo Yokota: Activity Scheduling in Web-Service Based Workflow Management for Balancing Load and Handling Failures, Proc. Intl. Workshop on Future Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Technologies (FMUIT'06) in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06) pp. 245-248, Nara Japan, May 9-12, 2006 (to appear).
  • Teruyoshi Zenmyo, Takashi Kobayashi, Motoshi Saeki: Supporting Application Framework Selection based on Labeled Transition Systems, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E89-D No.4 pp.1378-1389, Apr. 2006 [PDF@IEICE]
  • Kensuke Ohta, Dai Kobayashi, Takashi Kobayashi, Ryo Taguchi, Haruo Yokota: Treatment of rules in individual metadata of flexible contents management, Proc. 2nd Intl. Special Workshop on Databases for Next Generation Researchers ( SWOD2006) in conjunction with ICDE2006, pp.77-82, Atlanta GA USA, 8th Apr. 2006.
  • Makoto Kataigi, Dai Kobayashi, Tomohiro Yoshihara, Takashi Kobayashi, Ryo Taguchi, and Haruo Yokota: Evaluation of placement and access asignment for replicated object striping, Proc. 2nd Intl. Special Workshop on Databases for Next Generation Researchers ( SWOD2006) in conjunction with ICDE2006, pp.100-105, Atlanta GA USA, 8th Apr. 2006..
  • Hideyuki Katoh, Neila Ben Lakhal, Takashi Kobayashi and Haruo Yokota: OXTHAS: A Method for Balancing Loads in Workflow Management Systems with Web Services: Technical Report No.TR06-0005, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Tokyo Institute of Technology. Mar 2006 [PDF]
  • Haruo Yokota, Takashi Kobayashi, Hiroaki Okamoto, Wataru Nakano: Unified Contents Retrieval from an Academic Repository, International Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources:LKR2006, Mar 1-3, 2006

• Nagoya University
  • Graduate School of Information Science
    • Center for Embedded Computing systems (NCES)
    • Department of Information Engineering
      • Kiyoshi Agusa Laboratory
• Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Graduate school of Information Science and Engineering
    • Department of Computer Science
      • Haruo YOKOTA Laboratory (Data Engineering)
      • Motoshi SAEKI Laboratory (Software Engineering)
  • Global Scientific Information and Computing Center