Mikifumi Shikida Professor
Research Center For Advanced Computing Infrastructure

■Degrees

Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology (1995)

■Professional Career

Associate of Center for Information Science at JAIST (1995-2001)

■Specialties

Large-scale Information System, Groupware

■Research Keywords

Large-scale Information System, Groupware

■Research Interests

1. Efficient management for large-scale distributed systems:
Recently a number of machines on a network are rapidly increasing, and many sites have a large number of client machines and a lot of large-scale high performance servers. However it requires high cost to manage these large-scale distributed systems. Towards this problem, we proposed some approaches and techniques to control these systems efficiently. We also implement systems based on these approaches on our campus network.
2. Real-world oriented workflow systems:
Current commercial workflow systems handle only information that is in digital format. However, when they are applied to actual business in an office, we sometimes want to manage not only digital information but also human activities and documents. In this study, a workflow that handles information found in the real world as well as digital information in the system is called a ``Real-world Oriented Workflow''. To study the workflow, we implemented a prototype workflow system for research budget management in a national facility as a case study.

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■Extramural Activities