Technical
Committee on Information
Systems for Design
and Marketing
Who
we are
TC Co-Chairs
University of Tokyo, Japan
Kansai University, Japan
Our
goals
In this technical committee, we discuss and study
information systems for activating and integrating two business phases,
i.e., design and marketing (D&M) to reinforce manufacturing/production
teams. We highlight designers and marketers as brains of enterprise
creativity, living on information circulation. We aim to establish information
system consisting of humans, computers, and their social environment,
and stimulate dynamic streams of information and data. In order to find
new horizons, we would like to encourage participations from various
domains -systems design, marketing science, knowledge/chance discovery,
decision making, communication analysis, business sciences, etc., and
ideas beyond existing disciplines.
What we are doing
Initiated and organized workshops and sessions on Chance
Discovery: KES International (2000-), European Conf. on
Artificial Intelligence (2005), and other 7 international
conferences. Each had 30 attendants.
Edited journal special issues on Chance Discovery: New
Generation Computing (2003), New Mathematics and Natural
Sciences (2005), Soft Computing (2006), and two journals
in Japan.
Edited books, "Chance Discovery" (Springer, 2003), and
"Chance Discoveries in Real World Decision Making" (2006).
Established Chance Discovery Consortium (CDC), where
business people and scientific researchers meet to collaborate
on design and marketing innovations, and started a European
branch.
Organized Scenario Emergence Workshops (in Japanese).
More than 100 of audience from academia and business come
each time, and discuss how scenarios for design and marketing
emerge from human-data interactions.
Organizing Data Mining Olympics since 2000, where competitors
analyze real data on sales and consumptions. People in
the audience from companies learn up-to-date techniques
of data based marketing.
Organizing International Workshop on Multi-data Mining,
supported by CODATA. This means to bring multiple datasets
and experts to perform high-level business/scientific
discovery (2006).
Conducting a project DISCUS (Distributed Innovation
and Scalable Collaboration in Uncertain Setting), where
on-line communication and data visualization aids in business
discovery for marketing and design.
Established the concept of Business Science, the root
of Graduate School of Business Science in University of
Tsukuba. This is the leading business school, receiving
the largest number of scientific grants and awards in
Japan.
Initiated the Japan-US Joint Workshop on Finance Engineering,
having Tsukuba University and Stanford University as the
organization base. He ico-edits "Management of Chance
and Risk" (Asakura, 2006, in Japanese).
Why don't
you join us?
We would like to invite you
to the TC of Information Systems for Design and Marketing. We discuss
and study information systems to reinforce the activities and the interactions
of, designers, marketers, and their business environment including the
users of their products. Two of our core questions are:
Can a designer or a marketer survive without each other?
Is it only a manufacturing company that should understand design
and marketing methodologies?
We need interdisciplinary approaches, for the design and marketing of
products, including service and social systems. We need your expertise
for our challenge.
Members
, Yonsei University, Korea
, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, USA
, The University of Tokyo, Japan
, Illinois University, USA
, Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan
Larry Leifer , Center for Design
Research, Stanford University, USA
Proposed
ammendments to the SMCS Constitution
and Bylaws
The IEEE Technical
Activities Board has approved proposed ammendments to the SMCS Constitution
and Bylaws. These changes become effective on February 1, 2009, unless
there are objections as stated in Article XI of the Constitution.
[more]
Welcome
new senior members
The SMC Society welcomes
40 new senior members ... [more]
Congratulations
to the SMC Society members who were elected IEEE Fellows for 2009
Paolo Fiorin
Jong-Hwan Kim
Sebastiano Serpico
Munidar Singh
Satoshi Tadokoro
Shinichi Tamura
Xiaoou Tang
Affiliations and citations of the newly elected IEEE Fellows can be
viewed at [more]
SMC Society Awards for 2009
At the Awards Ceremony
held at the 2008 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
outstanding volunteers were presented with awards to recognize their
outstanding achievements to the SMC Society. [more]
