Kiyoshi Yoneda

Kiyoshi Yoneda
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+81-90-1977-8725, kiyoneda@ezweb.ne.jp
Faculty of Economics, Fukuoka University
Nanakuma, Jounan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180 Japan
4-17-25-403 Katae, Jounan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0142 Japan
Mr.
Japanese. Holds a Brazilian permanent visa.
Japanese (native), English (fluent), Portuguese (fluent),
Spanish (conversation and reading), French (reading).
Paper submitted for publication Positive Regression with a Semilogarithmic
Loss Function
Research
Teaching
Consulting
Hobbies
Production and project scheduling; inverse problems;
system design.
Operations research, statistics, high level computer languages
such as MuPAD and R.
Operations research, statistics, system design.
Sailing and traveling.
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Employment
4/1999 – present Professor of Operations Research, Department of Industrial
Economics, Faculty of Economics and Graduate
School of Economics, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka,
Japan
4/1974 – 3/1999 Toshiba Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Final position: Senior
Research Scientist, Systems and Software Engineering
Laboratory
Qualifications
10/15/1998 Dr.Eng. in Operations Research, Waseda University
2697.
7/15/1986 Registered Engineer under Brazilian regulations, CREA
140057, Sao Paulo.
5/15/1980 M.Sc. in Systems Anlysis, Brazilian Space Research Institute
(Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE),
INPE 98558.
3/1974 M.Sc. in Mathematics, Waseda University.
3/1972 B.Eng. in Industrial Engineering, Waseda University.
Theses
Dr.Eng. in Operations Research A Study on Mathematical Models for System
Design: Approaches with Inverse Problems. Waseda
University, Japan, 10/1998 (in Japanese).
M.Sc. in Systems Analysis Análise Retrospectiva de Sistemas Térmicos para
Satélites (Backward Analysis of Thermal Systems for
Satellites). Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil,
5/1980 (in Portuguese).
M.Sc. in Mathematics A Study of Keyword Type Filing Systems. Waseda
University, 1974.
B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering A Combinatorial Approach to Order Statistics.
Waseda University, 1972.
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Papers published in refereed journals
Mixed-model Assembly Line Scheduling Using the Lagrangian RelaxationTechnique.
IIE Transactions (IIE: Institute of Industrial Engineering)
32 (2): 125-134, 2/2000. Kluwer Academic Publishers (with
Yuanhui Zhang, et al.).
Job Shop Scheduling with Group-Dependent Setups, Finite Buffers,
and Long Time Horizon. Annals of Operations Research, 76, 233-259,
1998 (with Peter B. Luh, et al.)
Optimal Number of Digits to Report. Journal of the Operations Research
Society of Japan, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 428–434, September 1996.
Integer Estimation of Origin-Destination Tables. Trans. Institute of
Electric Engineers of Japan, Vol. 114-C, No.4, pp. 483–490, 1994.
An Equipment Planning Method for Production Systems Formulated
in Queueing Networks and Probabilistic Optimization. IECE Trans.,
(IECE: the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of
Japan); Vol. 112-C, No. 5, 309-314, 5/1992 (with Isaku Wada and
Kazuhito Haruki) (In Japanese).
On a Preamble Size for FDDI-II Network Distributed Clocking. Letter,
IECE Trans. (IECE: the Institute of Electronics and Communication
Engineers of Japan), E69, 11, 1157-1160, November 1986 (with Tatsuo
Kaji).
A Comparison of Mean Value Analysis Approximation Algorithms.
Letter, IECE Trans., E69, 5, 593-596, May 1986 (with Shoichi Kojima).
Percentile Delay Calculation for the Infinite Population Nonpersistent
CSMA/CD. IECE Trans., E68, 6, 371-375, June 1985.
Statistical Identification of Satellites’ Heat Transfer Characteristics.
AIAA-79-1104R, AIAA Journal (AIAA: The American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics), Vol. 19, No. 4, 509-510; April 1981
(with Kojiro Shoda).
Registered patents
JP 1976599
A packet communication method. 10/17/1995 (with Kimio
Oguchi).
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JP 1859855
JP 1813833
JP 1664986
JP 1534388
JP 1533357
Equipment for prediction of elevator passengers’ traffic
demand. 7/27/1994 (with Hiroshi Takeuchi).
Equipment for prediction of elevator passengers’ traffic
demand. 1/18/1994
With Mutsumi Fujihara and Kimio Oguchi, A packet
communication method. 5/19/1995 (with Hiroshi Takeuchi).
Equipment for measurement of elevator passengers’ loading
and unloading. 12/12/1989 (with Hiroshi Takeuchi).
Equipment for measurement of elevators’ interfloor traffic.
12/12/1989 (with Hiroshi Takeuchi).
JP 1416225 Equipment for recording elevators’ interfloor traffic. 12/22/1987,
(with Hiroshi Takeuchi).
JP 1416224 Equipment for recording elevators’ interfloor traffic. 12/22/1987
(with Hiroshi Takeuchi,).
EP 0 090 642
EP 0 125 095
JP 1342874
USP 4,536,842
System for measuring interfloor traffic for group control
of elevator cars. 9/23/1987 (with Hiroshi Takeuchi)
Packet communication system. 1/ 28/1987 (with Mutsumi
Fujihara).
Equipment for elevator door control. 10/14/1986 (with
Masumi Tanaka)
System for measuring interfloor traffic for group control
of elevator cars. 8/20/1985 (with Hiroshi Takeuchi,
Tetsuo Yamatani, Toyoto Hijiya, Hideo Takeda, Koji
Shibuya, and Kiichiro Tanaka).
International conferences with proceedings
An Inverse Problem Approach to Personnel Scheduling. Paper 4B2,
Proc. International Symposium on Scheduling 2004, pp. 164–167, Awaji,
Japan, May 24–26, 2004 (with Satsuki Maruta, Yasufumi Igarashi, and
Alberto Matsuda).
Scheduling as an Inverse Problem. Paper 2-A-3, Proc. Interenational
Symposium on Scheduling 2002, pp. 33–36, Hamamatsu, Japan, June
4-6, 2002.
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A Flexible Framework for Scheduling by Mathematical Programming.
Paper 4603, INFORMS/KORMS (INFORMS: Institute for Operations
Research and Management Sciences; KORMS: Korean Operations Research
and Management Science Society), Seoul, Korea, June 18–21,
2000 (with Jay R. Rajasekera).
Mixed-model Assembly Line Scheduling Using the Lagrangian Relaxation
Technique. The 6th IEEE Conference on Control Applications,
Hartford, October 5–7, 1997 (with Yuanhui Zhang, Peter B. Luh,
Toshiyuki Kano, and Yuji Kyoya)
An Optimization-Based Production Scheduling System: Progress Report.
Proc. the 35th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, TM12-
6, pp. 2387–2388, Kobe, 12/1996 (with T. Nagahora, P. B. Luh, T.
Hasegawa, T. Kano, Y. Kyoya, M. Tsuji, L. Gou, and Y. Zhang).
Embedding a Mathematical Scheduling System to a Traditional Works.
in K. Okino, H. Tamura, and S. Fujii, eds.; Proc. Advances in Production
Management Systems, pp. 489–494, Kyoto, 11/1996 (with P.
B. Luh, T. Nagahora, T. Hasegawa, L. Gou, T. Kano, Y. Kyoya, Y.
Zhang, and M. Tsuji).
Job Shop Scheduling with Feature-Dependent Setups, Finite Buffers,
and Long Time Horizon. Proc. the 34th IEEE Conference on Decision
and Control, pp. 4184–4189, New Orleans, 12/1995 (with P. B. Luh,
L. Gou, T. Odahara, M. Tsuji, T. Hasegawa, and Y. Kyoya).
An O(log n) Job Shop Simulator for Wafer Fabs. In S. Morito, H.
Sakasegawa, K. Yoneda, M. Fushimi, and K. Nakano, eds., Proc. New
Directions in Simulation for Manufacturing and Communications, Operations
Research Society of Japan, pp. 413–418, Tokyo, 8/1994 (with
S. Kamimura, M. Fujihara, H. Sakamoto, and T. Kano).
Simulation Through Explicit State Description and Its Application to
Semiconductor Fab Operation. Proc. 1992 Winter Simulation Conference,
pp. 899–907, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 1992 (with Mutsumi
Fujihara).
Realtime Simulation for Semiconductor Fab Operation. Proc. Pacific
Conference on Manufacturing, 11/3-6, Sakai, Japan, 1992 (with S.
Kamimura and M. Fujihara).
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Job Shop Configuration with Queueing Networks and Simulated Annealing.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Systems Engineering,
9/17-19, Kobe, Japan, 1992 (with Isaku Wada and Kazuhito
Haruki).
VLSI Production Analysis Using Queueing Network Model. Proc. the
176th Meeting, The Electrochemical Society, Hollywood, FL, 10/1989
(with Giichi Inoue).
Evaluation of a Queueing Network Package. Proc. 1988 Summer Computer
Simulation Conference, 694-699, 1988 (with Mitsuru Kuroda).
Ethernet Transmission Delay Distribution: An Analytic Model. Proc.
11th International Teletraffic Congress, Elsevier North-Holland, November
1985.
On-Orbit Evaluation of Satellite Characteristics Change. American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIAA-81-1187; AIAA 16th
Thermophysics Conference, Palo Alto, CA, June 23-25, 1981 (with
Kojiro Shoda).
A Method to Identify Satellites’ Heat Transfer Characteristics from
Insufficient Data. AIAA-80-1537, AIAA 15th Thermophysics Conference,
Snowmass, CO, July 14-16, l980 (with K. Shoda).
Statistical Identification of Satellites’ Heat Transfer Characteristics.
AIAA-79-1104, AIAA 14th Thermophysics Conference, Orlando, FL,
1979 (with Kojiro Shoda).
Papers and articles without formal referees
Generation of Standard Size Error Variates; pdf ∝ x 1−x , 0 < x.
Fukuoka University Review of Economics, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 1–13,
6/2004 (with Yasufumi Igarashi and Satsuki Maruta).
Simulation of auction is what Lagrangean Relaxation is. Comm. Operations
Ressearch Society of Japan (CORSJ), Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 257–
262, 6/2000 (in Japanese).
An infinitesimal understanding of infinitesimal calculus (I and II);
Fukuoka Univ. Research, No. 13 pp. 2–3, No. 14 pp. 2–3, 1999 (in
Japanese).
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Trace-driven simulation of elevator groups. CORSJ, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp.
371–374, 5/1997 (with Yasuko Nakayama and Toshiaki Matsumoto)
(in Japanese).
Scheduling by Lagrangean Relaxation. Comm. The Institute of System,
Control, and Information Engineers, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 130–138,
1997 (in Japanese).
A toolbox of a computer gypsy: ThisForth. Comm. Information Processing
Society of Japan, Vol. 36, No. 7, pp. 653–655, 7/1995 (in
Japanese).
Engineering trends in discrete event simulation. Toshiba Review, Vol.
50, No. 7, pp. 524–526, 7/1995 (with Shinsuke Tamura) (in Japanese).
Simulation of semiconductor production processes. CORSJ, Vol. 38,
No. 11, pp. 578–582, 11/1993 (with Mutsumi Fujihara) (in Japanese).
Simulated annealing (I–III). Industrial Engineering Review: Vol. 32,
No. 10, pp. 63–68, 10/1991, Vol. 32, No. 11, pp. 76–71, 12/1991, Vol.
33 No. 1, pp. 57–62, 3/1992 (in Japanese).
Queueing network models for material and information flow. CORSJ,
Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 135–140, 3/1991 (in Japanese).
When to use discrete event simulation and other tools for system performance
evaluation. Measurement and Control, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp.
128–133, 2/1991 (in Japanese).
Queueing network analysis (I and II). Industrial Engineering Review:
Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 59–66, 1989; Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 67–76, 1989 (with
Mitsuru Kuroda) (in Japanese).
Performance evaluation of distributed systems. Toshiba Review, Vol.
40, No. 5, pp. 400–402, 1985 (with Kazuhito Haruki and Matohi Iizuka)
(in Japanese).
Performance prediction of information networks. Toshiba Review, Vol.
39, No. 10, pp. 849–852, 1984 (with Kazuhito Haruki and Matohi
Iizuka) (in Japanese).
Combinatorial filing systems (1–3). Bit, Vol. 6, Nos. 9–11, 1974 (with
Ryoh Fujihara) (in Japanese).
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Cyclic Claw Designs. Waseda University Institute for Systems Science,
No. 28, pp. 65–78, 1974 (with Ryoh Fujihara).
A Filing System with Overlapped Physical Buckets. Waseda University
Institute for Systems Science, No. 28, pp. 19–27, 1974 (with Ryoh
Fuji-Hara, and Ichiro Kato).
Books
Lagrangean Relaxation and Production Scheduling (Chapter 11, pp.
140–161) in Mitsuru Kuroda and Kenji Muramatsu, ed., Production
Scheduling, Asakura, 2/2002 (in Japanese).
Scheduling by Mathematical Programming (Part 3, 5.2, pp. 503–508)
in The Japan Society of Production Management. ed., Production
Management Handbook, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun 3/1999 (in Japanese).
Proc. New Directions in Simulation for Manufacturing and Communications;
Operations Research Society of Japan (ORSJ), (Coeditor
with Susumu Morito, et. al) (in Japanese).
On a Preamble Size for FDDI-II Distributed Clocking (with Tatsuo
Kaji, L-20, p. 137) and Performance Evaluation of Queueing Network
Analysis Packages (with Mitsuru Kuroda, C-12, p. 39) in Collected
Case Studies in Operations Research; ORSJ, 1991 (in Japanese).
Throughput Comparison of Three Ethernet Models (with Mutsumi Fujihara,
L-22, p. 107) and Performance Analysis of the Ethernet (With
Mutsumi Fujihara and Tasuo Kaji, L-21, p. 107) and An Analytic
Model for a Realtime Application of the Ethernet (L-16, p. 104) in Collected
Case Studies in Operations Research; ORSJ, 1983 (in Japanese).
Probability and Statistics (Part 1, Chapter 6, pp. 101–114) in Gengo
Matsui, ed., Mathematics for Architects; Shoukakusha, 1/101974 (in
Japanese).
International conferences without proceedings
Deployment of the Lagrangian Relaxation Scheduling Methodology
to Traditional Factories. IFORS99 (The International Federation of
Operations Research Societies), Beijing, August 16-20, 1999 (with T.
Kano, Y. Kyoya, P. B. Luh, and Y. Zhang).
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Integer Estimation of Origin-Destination Tables. SIAM Conference on
Optimization, 1996 (with Yasuko Nakayama).
Integer Estimation of Origin-Destination Tables. IEEE Teletraffic
Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, 1994 (with Isaku Wada).
Towards Realtime Semiconductor Fab Simulation. IFORS93, Lisbon,
Portugal, 1993 (with Mutsumi Fujihara).
Queueing Network Analysis of Large-Scale Production Lines for Semiconductors.
TIMS (The Institute for Management Science) XXIX,
Osaka, July 23-26, 1989 (with G. Inoue, H. Nanami, and K. Y. Tee)
Domestic conferences and seminars
A Solution Method for Positive Inverse Problems. Proc. JORS 1-B-3,
pp. 33–39, Toyama, 3/27–29, 2002 (in Japanese).
A Realtime Judgment Method for Contests. Proc. Japan Society for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics, pp. 242–243, Fukuoka, 10/7–9,
2001 (with Satsuki Maruta, Masahiro Abiru, and Yoichi Takeda) (in
Japanese).
Contest Judgment Procedure as a Part of the Show. Proc. JORS
2-E-2, pp. 240-241, Okayama, 9/12–13, 2001 (with Satsuki Maruta,
Masahiro Abiru, and Yoichi Takeda) (in Japanese).
Principles of Scheduling by Lagrangean Relaxation. Invited lecture in
Proc. Scheduling Symposium 2000, pp. 17-25, Hamamatsu, 10/13/2000
(in Japanese).
Lagrangean Relaxation as an Algorithm that Mimics Auction. Invited
lecture in the First Seminar of Scheduling Society of Japan, 9/18/2000
(in Japanese).
Lagrangean Relaxation and Scheduling. Invited lecture in the Iron
and Steel Institute of Japan, Osaka, 1/28/2000. (in Japanese).
Scheduling by Lagrangean Relaxation. Invited lecture in the 100th
Memorial Meeting of the Scheduling Special Interest Group, Operations
Research Society of Japan and Japan Industrial Management
Association, Tokyo, 11/12/1999.
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About 40 more presentations in various associations, the most
frequent being with Operations Research Society of Japan.
Professional memberships
INFORMS
SIAM
JSIAM
ORSJ
JIMA
SSJ
Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Japanese SIAM
Operations Research Society of Japan
Japan Industrial Management Association
Scheduling Society of Japan
Professional activities
9/2003 – 5/2004 Member, Program Committee, International Scheduling
Symposium 2004.
5/1998 – present Councilor, SSJ.
4/1998 Founding member, SSJ.
6/1996 – 11/1996 Member, Organizing Committee, Scheduling Symposium
1996.
4/1996 – 3/1999 Councilor, ORSJ.
4/1996 – 3/1997 Director of Research and Dissemination, ORSJ.
7/1995 – 11/1995 Member, Execution Committee, ORSJ Meeting, Fall
1995.
6/1994 – 10/1994 Member, Execution Committee, Production Scheduling
Symposium 1994.
4/1994 – 3/1996 Associate Editor, Journal of ORSJ.
1/1994 – 12/1995 Associate Editor, Mathematics of Industrial Systems.
6/1993 – 12/1993 Member, Program and Execution Committees, New Directions
in Simulation for Manufacturing and Communications
(SIM94).
4/1990 Founding Member, JSIAM.
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3/1990 – 2/1992 Member, Committee for Research and Dissemination,
ORSJ.
Courses taught
Operations Research A
Operations Research B
System Analysis III A
System Analysis III B
Symbolic and visual computation using Mathe-
Multimedia Programming
matica.
Economics B
Elementary optimization.
Scheduling by Lagrangean Relaxation.
Queueing network performance analysis.
Elementary linear inverse problems.
Elementary monetary economics.
Economics in English Textbook: Bruce Champ and Scott Freeman; Modeling
Monetary Economies, 2ed.; Cambridge Univ. Press,
2001.
Environmental data processing with R lan-
Data Analysis (graduate level)
guage.
Operations Research (graduate level)
English Overseas
Scheduling as inverse problem.
Chaperon to Griffith University, Australia (2000) and
Washburn University, USA (2001, 2003).
Lectures
Waseda Uiversity
University of Tsukuba
International University of Japan
University of Japan
Japan Operations Research Society
Japan Industrial Management Association
The Institute of System, Control, and Information Engineers
The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
Nippon Steel Corporation
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The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
Toshiba Corporation
Ueno Seiki, Co. Ltd.
References
Dr. Susumu Morito Waseda University
Deaprtment of Management Systems
morito@morito.mgmt.waseda.ac.jp
http://www.morito.mgmt.waseda.ac.jp/index-e.html
Dr. Peter B. Luh
University of Connecticut
Depatment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
luh@engr.uconn.edu
http://www.engr.uconn.edu/ece/ece facu luh.htm
Fukuoka, Japan, April 6, 2004
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