"New Directions of Systems Research in Japan", Kyoichi Jim Kijima, 49th Annual Meeting of the ISSS, Westin Cancun, July 5, 2005, 10:50 a.m.

Enrique Herrscher, ISSS president; Gary Metcalf, conference co-chair

49th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, Westin Cancun, July 5, 2005

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Introduction by Mike Jackson

Jim studied in the UK

• At Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Just got a major grant from the government, on agent-based modelling and systems research
• Involved in IFSR Kobe this September

[Jim Kijima]

Research so far, "learn from overseas and examine them"

• Little outgoing research results: Nonaka, knowledge management

Agent-Based Social Systems Science Research Program:  http://www.dis.titech.ac.jp/coe/index_eng.htm