Yoshiteru Ishida Affiliation Department of Knowledge-based Information Engineering Title Professor Fields of Research Immunity-Based Systems and Other Biologically Inspired Information Systems Systems Science, Complex System Theory Qualitative System Theory and Human Reasoning Degree Dr. Eng. (Kyoto University) Academic Societies KES IEEE IEICE IPSJ SICE ISCIE E-mail ishida@tutkie (Please append ".tut.ac.jp" to the end of the address above.) Research Outline * Immunity-Based Systems and Other Biologically Inspired Information Systems Sensor networks inspired from the immune network Adaptive system based on the immune systems Propagation, diagnosis and self-repair of networks * Diagnostic Theory Based on Qualitative and Graphical Models Stability analysis by signed directed graphs Sign simulation and diagnosis on signed directed graphs and its application to process diagnosis Systems analysis by symmetry-based reasoning * Qualitative System Theory and Human Reasoning Symmetry-based reasoning Diagrammatic reasoning Qualitative reasoning Laboratory's Web Site: http://www.sys.tutkie.tut.ac.jp/en/ Subject Title(Subject Code) Systems Sciences ( 272031)