Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Takayuki ITO, Kyoto University, Japan
Biography: Dr. Takayuki ITO is Professor of
Kyoto University. He received the B.E., M.E, and
Doctor of Engineering from the Nagoya Institute
of Technology in 1995, 1997, and 2000,
respectively. From 1999 to 2001, he was a
research fellow of the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science (JSPS). From 2000 to 2001,
he was a visiting researcher at USC/ISI
(University of Southern California/Information
Sciences Institute). From April 2001 to March
2003, he was an associate professor of Japan
Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(JAIST). From April 2004 to March 2013, he was
an associate professor of Nagoya Institute of
Technology. From April 2014 to September 2020,
he was a professor of Nagoya Institute of
Technology. From October 2020, he is a professor
of Kyoto University.
From 2005 to 2006, he is a visiting researcher
at Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Harvard University and a visiting researcher at
the Center for Coordination Science, MIT Sloan
School of Management. From 2008 to 2010, he was
a visiting researcher at the Center for
Collective Intelligence, MIT Sloan School of
Management. From 2017 to 2018, he is a invited
researcher of Artificial Intelligence Center of
AIST, JAPAN. From March 5, 2019, he is the CTO
of AgreeBit, inc.
He was a board member of IFAAMAS, Steering
Committee Chair of PRIMA, Steering Committee
Member of PRICAI, Executive Committee Member of
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Intelligent Informatics, the PC-chair of
AAMAS2013, PRIMA2009, the Local Arrangements
Chair of IJCAI-PRICAI2020, General-Chair of
PRICAI2024, PRIMA2024, PRIMA2020, PRIMA2014, and
was a SPC/PC member in many top-level
conferences (IJCAI, AAMAS, ECAI, AAAI, etc). He
received the JSAI (Japan Society for Artificial
Intelligence) Contribution Award, the JSAI
Achievement Award, the JSPS Prize, 2014, the
Prize for Science and Technology (Research
Category), The Commendation for Science and
Technology by the Minister of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, 2013,
the Young Scientists' Prize, The Commendation
for Science and Technology by the Minister of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and
Technology, 2007, the Nagao Special Research
Award of the Information Processing Society of
Japan, 2007, the Best Paper Award of AAMAS2006,
the 2005 Best Paper Award from Japan Society for
Software Science and Technology, the Best Paper
Award in the 66th annual conference of 66th
Information Processing Society of Japan, and the
Super Creator Award of 2004 IPA Exploratory
Software Creation Projects. He is the principal
investigator of the Japan Cabinet Funding
Program for Next Generation World-Leading
Researchers (NEXT Program). Further, he has
several companies that are handling web-based
systems and enterprise-distributed systems. His
main research interests include multi-agent
systems, intelligent agents, collective
intelligence, group decision support systems,
etc.
Title: Towards Hyperdemocracy: AI-empowered Crowd-scale Discussion Support Platform
Online discussion among civilian is important and essential for next-generation democracy. Providing good support is critical for establishing and maintaining coherent discussions. Large-scale online discussion platforms are receiving great attention as potential next-generation methods for smart democratic citizen platforms. Such platforms require support functions that can efficiently achieve a consensus, reasonably integrate ideas, and discourage flaming. Researchers are developing several crowd-scale discussion platforms and conducting social experiments with a local government. One of these studies employed human facilitators in order to achieve good discussion. However, they clarified the critical problem faced by human facilitators caused by the difficulty of facilitating large-scale online discussions. In this work, we propose an automated facilitation agent to manage crowd-scale online discussions. An automated facilitator agent extracts the discussion structure from the texts posted in discussions by people. We conducted a large-scale social experiment with Nagoya City's local government.