KOHDA, Youji Vice-President, Executive Dean of Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Professor, Director of Education for Working Professionals-Tokyo Satellite
Knowledge Science, Transformative Knowledge Management
◆Degrees
Dr of Engineering Tokyo University
◆Professional Experience
: Field-Innovator at FUJITSU RESEARCH INSTITUTE(2008), Field-Innovator at Fujitsu Limited(2009), Professor at JAIST(2011)
: Researcher at Fujitsu Limited(1986), Chief Researcher at FUJITSU LABORATORIES LIMITED(1999), Senior Researcher at FUJITSU LABORATORIES LIMITED(2002), Extraordinary Project Member of FI project at Fujitsu Limited(2007)
◆Specialties
Library/information science, humanistic/social informatics
◆Research Keywords
Knowledge Science, Sharing Economy, Internet Service, Knowledge Management, Service Science
◆Research Interests
Service coding framework
A service provider has to deal with complex business processes which may seem simple to the customers. This implies that service description should encompass the overall system from consumers to providers.We establish a framework that can describe the overall service system, based on various coding methods, including mathematical models, agent systems, service blueprints, and system dynamics. Once the overall service system is well coded, we are able to make predictions and simulations to improve the overall service system.
Development of a video tool for behavior observation research
(1) Develop a video tool for observing office work. The tool is characterized by the use of video. It enables comparative study between similar or consecutive tasks, by pair-wise replaying of video clips, which are cut out and paired based on the analysis of PC screens used by the worker subjects. (2) Conduct trials in business offices. Workshops are held with both observers and subjects attending. The difficulty with the use of video recording, “There are no opportunities to ask the worker subjects a question at the time of recording” is mitigated through collaborative watching of video clips in the workshop, because it helps the subjects recall the exact situations and the reasons for their actions at that time. (3) Model the way of office working. Data will be gathered from the statistical analysis of the video clips. 備考_alt
Identifying and implementing key drivers of successful sharing
(1) Examine sharing services. “Sharing” is a new, emerging economy from all-consuming to collaborative consumption, e.g., sharing, bartering, trading, renting, swapping. (2) Identify key drivers of successful sharing. People’s social nature, e.g., “mottainai”, “willing to help others”, “want to be recognized”, could be the answer. (3) Develop key service technologies for sharing services through supporting the key drivers. 備考_alt
Where does the Customer Value of Sharing Service come from?
The behavior of customers has changed from all-consumption to collaborative consumption in the past decade. Sharing service is now becoming a major trend in our daily lives. From the view of customers, it has both benefits and risks: it offers benefits such as money saving and environmental protection, but it also has non-negligible risks, such as a risk of stumbling into crime in a worst-case situation. Therefore, it would make sense for human beings not to choose sharing service, since human beings are risk averse by nature. But why do people recently choose sharing service? In this paper, we present a hypothesis to answer this question. We conjecture that “a successful service provider always covers its sharing risks that otherwise must be covered by the customers.” Thus the customers of the sharing service could coop the benefits of sharing solely and this explains the recent rise of sharing service popularization.
Research on Social Value Creation in Cases of Social Innovation
We plan to conduct research on social value creation, focusing on social innovation, social enterprises and social entrepreneurs. We will start a hypothesis that social values are created by making use of “temperature” difference between BOP (base of the pyramid) and developed countries
Research on Non-Economical values in Islamic Culture
We plan to conduct research on non-economic values under the influence of Islamic Culture. We will start to examine the Islamic banking system. It refers to a banking system that is based on the principles of Islamic law and guided by Islamic economics, whereby interest (riba) is prohibited.

■Publications

◆Published Papers
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Through Corporate Sustainability in a Private Banking Organization
Sharmin Taskin, Amna Javed, Youji Kohda
International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management, 15, 1, -, 2024
Promoting Entrepreneurial Mindset for Successful Entrepreneurship: An Innovative Approach in Entrepreneurship Education
Sharmin Taskin, Amna Javed, Youji Kohda
Journal Women's Entrepreneurship and Education, 2023, 3-4, 122-142, 2023
Solicited PWYW donations on social live streaming services through reciprocal actions between streamers and viewers
Hisayuki Kunigita, Amna Javed, Youji Kohda
Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 12, -, 2023
Creating Shared Value in Banking by Offering Entrepreneurship Education to Female Entrepreneurs
Sharmin Taskin, Amna Javed, Youji Kohda
Sustainability (Switzerland), 15, 19, -, 2023
◆Misc
Preface
Katsuhiro Honda, Bac Le, Van Nam Huynh, Masahiro Inuiguchi, Youji Kohda
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 14376 LNAI, v-vi, 2023
AIと弁理士の協働による特許評価-特許性の直感的把握力の熟達-
白坂 一, 神田陽治
月刊パテント, 74, 2, 10-20, 2021
The Preface of Special Issue "Robot Hospitality"
Masuda Hisashi, Kimita Koji, Hiramoto Takeshi, Kobayakawa Maiko, Kohda Youji, Fukuda Ken
Serviceology, 7, 4, 110-112, 2021
問う力の必要性、及び、問いに答えを出す一般化原理の解説
神田 陽治
翼 : 航空自衛隊連合幹部会機関誌, 44, 鷹狩, 136-141, 2020
ボーンアゲイングローバル企業の国際合弁会社設立の成功要因―物流企業エムケー社のミャンマーにおける事例の分析―
宮本健吾, 神田陽治
アジア経営学会第27回全国大会, -, 2020
◆Books
経営・事業戦略に貢献する 知財価値評価と効果的な活用法
分担執筆, 技術情報協会, 2021
ハラール産業のグローバル動向とイノベーションの機会 (ハラールサイエンスの展望、第3章)
18-25, シーエムシー出版, 2018
Strategic Relationships: A Service Science Perspective (Chapter 1) in Handbook of Research on Strategic Alliances and Value Co-Creation in the Service Industry
1-21, IGI Global, 2017
知識科学的方法論の全学展開によるイノベーション創出人材の育成, 『価値創出をになう人材の育成(横幹〈知の統合〉シリーズ)』 第5章
55-65, 東京電機大学出版局, 2016
◆Conference Activities & Talks
Theoretical concept of value creation and learning & teaching practices at JAIST
The 4th Global Conference on Creating Value, 2021
人工知能による特許評価や明細書作成の効率化と品質向上
技術情報協会セミナー「AIによる知財業務の効率的と効果的な使い方、運用のポイント」, 2021
AI時代における価値創造
日本海イノベーション会議[北陸先端科学技術大学院大学プログラム] 創立30周年記念講演, 2020
Knowledge management in the age of AI: exploring the productive collaboration between human and machine
1st International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (i-IKM), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2019
“Entanglement” of Knowledge Science and Service Science: a personal perspective
JAIST International Symposium on Knowledge Science, 金沢, 2016

■Teaching Experience

Next-Generation Management of Technology(E), Service Science, Servicing Business Trend in Information Industries, Methodology of Internet Service Development, Innovation Theory and Methodology for Total, Innovation Theory and Methodology for Social Competencies, Innovation Theory and Methodology for Creativity, 次世代技術経営特論(E), サービスサイエンス論, 情報産業サービス化論, インターネットサービスシステム論, 人間力・創出力イノベーション論, 人間力イノベーション論, 創出力イノベーション論

■Contributions to  Society

◆Academic Society Affiliations
Society for Serviceology, The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Japan Society for Software Science and Technology, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Information Processing Society of Japan
◆Academic Contribution
サービソロジー編集委員 , サービス学会 , 2014
Journal of Creating Value (Associate Editor) [SAGE] , 2020
JAPAN SOCIETY FOR HALAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (JAHAS) , 2018
◆Social Contribution
・ いしかわ技術経営(MOT)スクール(講師、1日分を担当) , 石川県IT総合人材育成センター 2017

■Academic  Awards

・ BEST PAPER AWARD , Amna Javed, Youji Kohda , The 12th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2021) and the Affili , 2021
・ BEST PAPER AWARD (6th place) , Youji Kohda , THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HUMAN SIDE OF SERVICE ENGINEERING (HSSE 2020) , 2020
・ 情報処理学会学術奨励賞 , 情報処理学会 , 1985