Publications and Contributions
Journal Papers
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- Naohiro Matsumura, Yutaka Matsuo, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Discovering Emerging Topics from WWW, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 73--81, 2002. [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: PAI: Automatic Indexing for Extracting Asserted Keywords from a Document, New Generation Computing, Springer Verlag and Ohmsha, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 37--47, 2002. [Web]
- Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Sentence Extraction by Spreading Activation with Refined Similarity Measure, IEICE Tran. on Information and Systems, Vol E86-D, No. 9, pp. 1686--1694, 2003. [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura, Asako Miura, Yasufumi Shibanai, Yukio Ohsawa, and Toyoaki Nishida: The Dynamism of 2channel, AI & Society, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 84--92, Springer Verlag, 2005. [Web]
- Renate Fruchter, Yukio Ohsawa, Naohiro Matsumura: Knowledge Reuse through Chance Discovery from an Enterprise Design-Build Enterprise Data Store, New Mathematics and Natural Computation, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 393--406, 2005. [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Combination Retrieval for Creating Knowledge from Sparse Document Collections, Knowledge-Based Systems, Volule 18, Issue 7, pp. 327--333, 2005.[Web]
- Xavier Llorà, David E. Goldberg, Yukio Ohsawa, Naohiro Matsumura, Yuichi Washida, Horoshi Tamura, Masataka Yoshikawa, Michael Welge, Loretta Auvil, Duanne Searsmith, Kei Ohnishi, and Chen-Ju Chao: Innovation and Creativity support via Chance Discovery, Genetic Algorithms, and Data Mining, New Mathematics and Natural Computation, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 85--100, March 2006.[Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura, David E. Goldberg, Xavier Llorà: Communication Gap Management for Fertile Community, Soft Computing, Springer Verlag, Vol.11, No.8, pp. 791--798, 2007. [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura and Yoshihiro Sasaki: Multi-data Mining for Understanding Leadership Behavior, Data Science Journal, Vol.6, S61--S69 (28-Mar-2007) [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yoshihiro Sasaki: Human Influence Network for Understanding Leadership Behavior, International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, Vol.11, No.5, pp. 291--300 (2007) [Web]
Book Chapters
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- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa, Mitsuru Ishizuka: Future Directions of Communities on the Web, Takao Terano et al. (eds.), New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 2253, Springer Verlag, pp. 435--443, 2001. [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura: Topic Diffusion in a Community, Yukio Ohsawa and Peter McBurney (eds.), Chance Discovery, ISBN: 3540005498, Hardcover, 400pp, Springer Verlag, pp. 84--97, 2003. [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura and Yukio Ohsawa: Chance Discovery from the WWW, Yukio Ohsawa and Peter McBurney (eds.), Chance Discovery, ISBN: 3540005498, Hardcover, 400pp, Springer Verlag, pp. 325--338, 2003. [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura and Yukio Ohsawa: The Dynamism of Ni-channel, Akinori Abe and Yukio Ohsawa (eds.), Readings in Chance Discovery, ISBN: 0-9751004-8-3, Advanced Knowledge International, pp. 101--107, March 2005. [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa, Mitsuru Ishizuka: PAI: Assertion Extraction from Context-Transition in a Document, Akinori Abe and Yukio Ohsawa (eds.), Readings in Chance Discovery, ISBN: 0-9751004-8-3, Advanced Knowledge International, pp. 261--267, March 2005. [Web]
- Yukio Ohsawa, Naohiro Matsumura, Naoaki Okazaki, Akio Saiura, and Hajime Fujie: Mining Scenarios for Hepatitis B and C, Paton, R. (ed), Multidisciplinary Approaches to Theory in Medicine, Elsevier, pp. 209-231 (2006) [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yoshihiro Sasaki: Leader Qualification in Managing Nonprofit Organization, T. Washio et al. (Eds.): New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop Post-Proceedings, LNAI 4012, pp. 411-419, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura: Modeling Influence Diffusions in Human Society,
Yukio Ohsawa and Shusaku Tsumoto (eds.), Chance Discoveries in Real World Decision Making: Data-based Interaction of Human intelligence and Artificial Intelligence (Studies in Computational Intelligence) (Hardcover), Springer Hardcover: 404 pages, Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 2006), Language: English, ISBN: 3540343520 [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura: Analysis of Interaction Mechanism in Online Communities, Nishida, Toyoaki (ed.), Engineering Approaches to Conversational Informatics, John Wiley & Sons (January 2008) [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura: Communication Gap Management Towards Fertile Community, Hiroe Tsubaki, Ken Nishina and Shu Yamada (eds.), Grammar of Technology Development, Springer Verlag, pp. 61--70 (February 2008) [Web]
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yoshihiro Sasaki: Multi-Data Mining for Understanding Leadership Behavior, Iwata, S.; Ohsawa, Y.; Tsumoto, S.; Zhong, N.; Shi, Y.; Magnani, L. (Eds.) Communications and Discoveries from Multidisciplinary Data, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 123, pp. 81--94, Springer Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-540-78732-7 (August 21, 2008) [Web]
Conference Papers
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- Yukio Ohswa and Naohiro Matsumura: Combination Retrieval for Supplying Novel Knowledge, Workshop Notes on Web KDD, Proc. Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Workshop(PAKDD2000), pp. 7--13, Kyoto, Japan, April 18-20, 2000.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Discovering Promising New Topics from the WWW, Proc. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies(KES2000), pp. 804--807, Brighton, U.K., August 30, 31, September 1, 2000.
- Naohiro Matsumura and Yukio Ohsawa: Combination Retrieval for Creating Knowledge from Sparse Document Collection, Proc. Discovery Science(DS2000), pp. 320--324, LNAI 1967, Springer Verlag, Kyoto, Japan, December 4-6, 2000.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Future Directions of Communities on the Web, Proc. JSAI workshop on Chance Discovery session, pp. 17--20, Shimame Pref., May 22, 2001.
- Yukio Ohsawa, Naohiro Matsumura and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Discovering Topics to Enhance Communities' Creation from Links to the Future, Proc. International World Wide Web Conference (WWW10), Hong Kong, May 1-5, 2001.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Future Directions of Communities on the Web, The World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI2001), Invited session on ``Chance Discovery'', Vol. 8, pp. 406--409, Orland, Florida, USA, July 22-25, 2001. selected as the best paper
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Discovery of Emerging Topics between Communities on WWW, The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2001), LNAI 2198, pp. 473--482, Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan, October 23-26, 2001.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Discovering Seeds of New Interest Spread from Premature Pages Cited by Multiple Communities, The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2001), LNAI 2198, pp. 195--199, Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan, October 23-26, 2001.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Discovery of Emerging Topics by Co-citation Graph on the Web, Proc. of the Fifth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies(KES2001), IOS press, Osaka, Japan, September 6-8, 2001.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Knowledge Navigation on Visualizing Complementary Documents, Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Discovery Science(DS2001), Springer Verlag(LNAI2226), pp. 258--280, 2001.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Influence Diffusion Model in Text-based Communication, Poster, Proc. 11th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW02), 2002.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Mining Mailing List Archives, Poster, Proc. 11th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW02), 2002.
- Ohsawa, Y., Soma, H., Matsuo, Y., Matsumura, N. and Usui, M.: Featuring Web Communities based on Word Co-occurrence Structure of Communications, Proc. 11th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW02), 2002.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa, Mitsuru Ishizuka: Profiling of Participants in Online-Community, Chance Discovery Session on the Seventh Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-2002), 2002.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yuko Ohsawa, Mitsuru Ishizuka: Automatic Indexing Based on Term Activities, Poster, Proc. The Seventh Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-2002), 2002.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Mining and Characterizing Opinion Leaders from Threaded Online Discussions, Proc. 6th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies(KES2002), IOS Press, Ohmsha (ISSN:0922-6389), Crema, Italy, pp. 1267--1270, 2002.
- Makoto Mizuno, Hiroko Shoji, Yukio Osawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura, Yuzo Miyake: Toward a Chance Discovery-Oriented Recomemender System: A Prototype, Proc. 6th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies(KES2002), IOS Press, Ohmsha (ISSN:0922-6389), Crema, Italy, 2002.
- Naoki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura, Hironori Tomobe, and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Extracting Characteristic Sentences from Related Documents, Proc. 6th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies(KES2002), IOS Press, Ohmsha (ISSN:0922-6389), Crema, Italy, pp. 1257--1261, 2002.
- Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura, Hironori Tomobe, Mitsuru Ishizuka: Two Different Summarization Method at NTCIR3-TSC2: Coverage Oriented and Focus Oriented, Working Notes of the Third NTCIR Workshop Meeting, NTCIR Workshop 3 Meeting TSC2, pp. 39--46, 2002.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa, Mitsuru Ishizuka: PAI: Automatic Indexing for Extracting Asserted Keywords from a Document, AAAI Fall Symposium on Chance Discovery, Technical Report FS-02-01, ISBN 1-57735-172-x, 2002.
- Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura and Mitsuru Ishizuka: Sentence Extraction by Spreading Activation with Refined Similarity Measure, Proc. 16th Int'l FLAIRS Conf., pp. 407--411, 2003.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Asako Miura, Yasufumi Shibanai, and Yukio Ohsawa: The Dynamism of Online Community, 3rd International Workshop on Chance Discovery and Its Management, A Full-day Workshop in HCI International 2003, Crete, Greece, pp. 69--77, June 27, 2003.
- Takaharu Araki, Saori Hamada, Naohiro Matsumura, Seiko Niwase, Yukio Ohsawa, and Katsutoshi Yada: Chance Discovery from Consumer Research Using KeyGraph, A Full-day Workshop in HCI International 2003, Crete, Greece, pp. 45--54, June 27, 2003.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Asako Miura, Yasufumi Shibanai, Yukio Ohsawa, and Toyoaki Nishida: The Dynamism of 2channel, SID-2003:Social Intelligence Design, Royal Holloway University of London at Egham, Surrey, July 6-8, 2003.
- Yukio Ohsawa, Naoaki Okazaki, Naohiro Matsumura, Akio Saiura, and Hajime Fujie: A Scenario Development on Hepatitis B and C, Second International Workshop on Active Mining (AM-2003), Maebachi, Japan, October 28, 2003.
- Yukio Ohsawa, Hajime Fujie, Akio Saiura, Naoaki Okazaki, Naohiro Matsumura: Process to Discovering Iron Decrease as Chance to Use Interferon to Hepatitis B, Third International Workshop on Active Mining (AM-2004), Kanazawa, Japan, June 1, 2004.
- Koichi Takahashi, Yukio Ohsawa, Naohiro Matsumura: Emergence of Product Value from On-line Communications, KES2004, 2004.
- Renate Fruchter, Yukio Ohsawa, Naohiro Matsumura: Knowledge Reuse through Chance Discovery from an Enterprise Design-Build Enterprise Data Store, The First European Workshop on Chance Discovery, ECAI2004, 2004.
- Xavier Llorà, Naohiro Matsumura, David E. Goldberg, Yukio Ohsawa, Kei Ohnishi, and Antonio Gonzales: Discovering Chance Scenarios using Small-World KeyGraph and Evolutionary Computation, The First International Workshop on Chance Discovery, ECAI2004, 2004.
- Xavier Llorà, Naohiro Matsumura, David E. Goldberg, Yukio Ohsawa, Kei Ohnishi, Antonio Gonzales, Discovering Chance Scenarios using Small-World KeyGraphs and Evolutionary Computation, IlliGAL Technical Report 2004026, Illinois Genetic Algorithms Lab. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.
- Naohiro Matsumura, David E. Goldberg, Llorà, X. :Mining Social Networks in Message Boards, IlliGAL Technical Report 2005001, Illinois Genetic Algorithms Lab. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.
- Naohiro Matsumura: Community Management for Fertile Community, International Workshop on The Grammar of Technology Development - Accelerating New Technology Development by Statistical Thinking -, Tokyo, Japan, January 17-18, 2005.
- Naohiro Matsumura: Collaborative Communication Strategies in Online Community, Social Intelligence Design 2005 (SID2005), March 24-26, Stanford, CA, USA, 2005.
- Yukio Ohsawa, Naohiro Matsumura, Koichi Takahashi: Resonance without Response: The Way of Topic Growth in Communication, Social Intelligence Design 2005 (SID2005), March 24-26, Stanford, CA, USA, 2005.
- Naohiro Matsumura, David E. Goldberg, Xavier Llorà: Mining Social Networks in Message Boards, AISB 2005 Symposium on Conversational Informatics for Supporting Social Intelligence & Interaction, England, April 12-13, 2005.
- Naohiro Matsumura, David E. Goldberg, Xavier Llorà: Mining Directed Social Network from Message Board, Proc. 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005), Poster, pp. 1092--1093, May 10-14, Chiba, Japan, 2005.
- Naohiro Matsumura, David E. Goldberg, Xavier Llorà: Communication Gaps in Social Networks, The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology(WSTST'05), pp. 543--552, Muroran, Japan, May 22-27, 2005.
- Yukio Ohsawa, Naohiro Matsumura, Naoaki Okazaki: Understanding Scenarios of Individual Patients of Hepatitis in Double Helical Process Involving KeyGraph and DSV, The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology(WSTST'05), pp. 456--469, Muroran, Japan, May 22-27, 2005.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yoshihiro Sasaki: Leader Qualification in Managing Nonprofit Organization, International Workshop on Conversational Informatics, pp. 63--68, 13-14 June 2005, Kita-Kyushu, Japan.
- Daigo Naito, Kohei Yamamoto, Katsutoshi Yada, Naohiro Matsumura, Kosuke Ohno, Hiroshi Tamura: Does WEB Log Data Reveal Consumer Behavior?, ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge 2005, October 3-10, Porto, Portugal, pp. 43--54, 2005.
- Katsutoshi Yada, Naohiro Matsumura, Daigo Naito, Kosuke Ohno, Hiroshi Tamura, Kohei Yamamoto: Does WEB Log Data Reveal Consumer Behavior by Integrating Data Mining Techniques, Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference, 2006.
- Katsutoshi Yada, Naohiro Matsumura: Knowledge discovery from the structure of persuasive communication, IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 8-11, 2006, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1741--1746, 2006.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yoshihiro Sasaki: Reliable Leadership Behaviors in Online Communication, IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 8-11, 2006, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1735--1740, 2006.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yoshihiro Sasaki: Multi-Data Mining for Understanding Leadership Behavior, CODATA2006 Discovery Workshop on Interdisciplinary Communication for Risk Management with Multi-Data Mining
- Naohiro Matsumura, Yoshihiro Sasaki: Understanding Leadership Behavior in Human Influence Network, 2006 IEEE /WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2006), pp. 95--102, 18-22 December 2006, Hong Kong, China.
- Daisuke Kobayashi, Naohiro Matsumura: Automatic Gender Estimation of Bloggers' Gender, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), pp. 279--280, March 26-28, 2007, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
- Naohiro Matsumura: Field Mining: Reconstructing Relations between Human, Objects, and Environment, Proc. First International Symposium on Universal Communication, p. 153--156, June 14 (Thu) - 15 (Fri), 2007 (Invited)
- Naohiro Matsumura, Toshio Shimizu, Masahiko Yachida: Capturing Entrainment-based Interpersonal Communication Using Omni-directional Camera, Proc. SID2007, pp. 217--226, Trento, Italy, July 2-4, 2007.
- R. Fruchter, S. Swaminathan, N. Matsumura, Y. Ohsawa: Influence Leaders in Global Teamwork, Proc. SID2007, pp. 179--189, Trento, Italy, July 2-4, 2007.
- Naohiro Matsumura, Hikaru Yamamoto, Daisuke Tomozawa: Finding Influencers and Consumer Insights in the Blogosphere, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-08), Seattle, WA, March 31-April 2, pp. 76--83, 2008. [PDF]
- Renate Fruchter, Shubashri Swaminathan, Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa: Interaction Dynamics in AEC Global Teamwork, The 12th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering & 2008 International Conference on Information Technology in Construction (ICCCBE-XII & INCITE 2008) (Oct. 16-18, 2008)
- Hikaru Yamamoto, Naohiro Matsumura: Optimal Heterophily for Word-of-Mouth Diffusion, International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-09), pp. 350--353 (2009)
- Hikaru Yamamoto, Naohiro Matsumura: The Power of Grassroots Influentials, The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2009), pp. 456-462 (2009)
- Naohiro Matsumura, Hikaru Yamamoto: Monetary Value of Customer Networks in Mobile Social Networking Services, International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM2010), pp. 287--290 (2010.5)
- Hikaru Yamamoto, Naohiro Matsumura: Measuring the Value of Customer in Mobile Social Networking Services, The 2010 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference (2010.6)
- Hikaru Yamamoto, Naohiro Matsumura: Marketing Ecosystem: The Dynamics of Twitter, TV Advertising, and Customer Acquisition, Social Mobile Web (SMW'11), pp. 45--52 (2011.7)
- Hikaru Yamamoto, Naohiro Matsumura: The Effect of Relational Context on Personal Influence, Workshop on Social Behavioral Analysis and Behavioral Change (SBABC2011), The Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2011), pp. 1480--1485 (2011.10)
- Hikaru Yamamoto, Naohiro Matsumura: The Effect of Earned and Paid Media on Customer Acquisition, 2012 Global Marketing Conference, pp. 1034--1052 (Seoul, 2012/7/19-22)
- Masashi Komori, Naohiro Matsumura, Asako Miura, Chika Nagaoka: Relationships between periodic behaviors in micro-blogging and the users' baseline mood, Proc. 13th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD), pp. 405-410 (2012.8)
- Shoko Yamane, Naohiro Matsumura: The Clock Effect on the Task Performance, Proc. SCIS-ISIS2012, pp. 695--700. (2012.11)
- Naohiro Matsumura: Shikake as an Embodied Trigger for Behavior Change, AAAI 2013 Spring Symposium (2013) (to appear)
- Naohiro Matsumura, Renate Fruchter: Shikake Trigger Categories, AAAI 2013 Spring Symposium (2013) (to appear)
- Shunichiro Oka, Shoko Yamane, and Naohiro Matsumura: Boiled Pumpkin as a Nudge: Evidence from a University Cafeteria, AAAI 2013 Spring Symposium (2013) (to appear)
- Shoko Yamane, Naohiro Matsumura: The Clock Ticking Changes Our Performance, AAAI 2013 Spring Symposium (2013) (to appear)
Journal Editors
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- Editorial board member, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) (2006-2010)
- Editorial board member, Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) (2010-2012)
- IEEE-SMC technical committee, Information Systems for Design and Marketing (2006-present)
- Council member, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) (2010-present)
Conference Committees
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- Program committee, The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI2004)
- Program committee, The International Workshop on Conversational Informatics (2005)
- Co-chair, Social Intelligence Design 2006 (SID2006)
- Program committee, Social Intelligence Design (SID2007)
- Program committee, Social Intelligence Design (SID2009)
- Program committee, Social Intelligence Design (SID2010)
- Program committee, Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM2008)
- Program committee, Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM2009)
- Co-Chair, Organized Session on Influential Medium, SCIS-ISIS2012 (2012)
- Organizer, Shikakeology: Designing Triggers for Behavior Change, AAAI 2013 Spring Symposium Series (2013)
Research Grants
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- (May 2005 – February 2006) Information Technology Promotion Agency of Japan (IPA) grant on explorative software development (Mito Project), "Idea-Sparking Discussion System", Principal Creator.
- (April 2006 - March 2007) Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), "Communication Environment Design for Sparking Inspiration", Principal Investigator.
- (April 2006 - March 2008) Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), "Studies for Strategic Environmental Management -Supply Chain Management Approach-", with Takayuki Asada (Principal Investigator).
- (April 2007 - March 2009) Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), "Study for Medical Risk Management using Mobile Equipment at Health Care Facility", with Toshiyuki Maeda (Principal Investigator).
- (April 2009 - March 2012) Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), "Influence Diffusion on the Internet", Principal Investigator.
- (Apri 2012 – March 2015) Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), "Empirical Research on Open Innovation: Products, Markets, Industries, and Management Points of View", Principal Investigator.”, with Toshio Kobayashi (Principal Investigator)
- (April 2012 - March 2015) Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), "Influence Diffusion in the Real World", Principal Investigator.