Michitaka KosakaMichitaka Kosaka received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics and physics from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1977 and 1984, respectively. He is currently a Dean and a Professor of the School of Knowledge Science in JAIST (Japan Advanced Istitute of Science and Technology). Before he joined JAIST in 2008, he had been with Hitachi Ltd. for 31 years, especially in Systems Development Laboratory. His researches cover guidance and control systems in space and defense system, financial information systems, decision support systems using Fuzzy logic or Neural network, Electronic commerce, service innovation, R&D management, fusion of system engineering and knowledge science, and stochastic control theory. He is a member of IEEE, a fellow of IEEJ (Japan), a fellow of SICE (Japan) and members of several institutes of Japan. Read More Read Less