Shinsuke TamuraShinsuke Tamura received the B.S., M.S. and Dr.(Eng.) degrees in Control Engineering from Osaka University in 1970, 1972 and 1991, respectively. During 1972 to 2001 he worked for Toshiba Corporation, and had been developing information systems for vaious applications including mechanical CAD systems, system engineering tools, manufacturing systems, power systems, railway control systems, and building, factory and office automation systems. He is currently a professor of Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui. His current research interests include distributed system architecture, system development methods, information security, path planning algorithms (for manipulators), and manufacturing scheduling algorithms. Read More Read Less