Atsuyuki Morishima

Associate Professor
Research Center for Knowledge Communities
Graduate School of Library, Information, and Media Studies
University of Tsukuba, Japan

Profile

Atsuyuki Morishima received his B.S., M.E. and Ph. D degrees in computer science from University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 1993, 1995 and 1998, respectively. His research interests include data integration, Web data management, and integration of data-centric human/machine computations. His SIGMOD 2001 paper, co-authored by Dr. Mary Fernandez and Dr. Dan Suciu, was the second runner-up for the best paper award. In 2009, he received the Kanbayashi Award from the Database Society of Japan. Currently, he is the vice-chair of IEICE Data Engineering Technical Group. In the past, he served as a steearing committee member of IPSJ-DBS and as a steering committee member of ACM SIGMOD Japan Chapter. He is a member of ACM, IEEE-CS, IEICE, IPSJ, and DBSJ.

Contact Information

Research Center for Knowledge Communities
University of Tsukuba
1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8550, Japan
Phone: + 81-29-859-1306
amorishima@acm.org
mori@slis.tsukuba.ac.jp

Research Interests

• Integration of Data-centric Human/Machine Computations
• Governance in Information Spaces
• Data Adaptability, Data Maintenance, Data Reusability
• Community Information Management
• Information Integration Technologies
• XML and Databases
• Web Integrity/Archive

Selected (Projects | Publications | Talks)

1. The FusionCOMP Project (2009-): Fusion of Data-centric Human/Machine Computations [Project Page]

   This is joint work with: Norihide Shinagawa, Tomomi Mitsuishi, Hideto Aoki, Shoji Mochizuki, Noriaki Anzai
   
   
   • Atsuyuki Morishima, Norihide Shinagawa, Shoji Mochizuki. The Power of Data-Centric Abstraction for Human/Machine Computations.
     First International Workshop on Searching and Integrating New Web Data Sources (VLDS2011) Co-located with VLDB 2011, September, 2011. [pdf here]
     (NEW!)
   • Atsuyuki Morishima. A Database Abstraction for Data-intensive Social Applications.
     The 5th Korea-Japan Database Workshop 2010 (KJDB2010), May 28-29, 2010. Jeju Province, Korea. [Slides here]




2. InfoSpace Governor Project (2005-): Govern Your Community Information Spaces!

   This is joint work with: Ken'ichi Ishikawa, Keishi Tajima, Shoji Mochizuki, Isamu Suzuki, Mariko Kodama, Masateru Tadaishi
   
   
   • Atsuyuki Morishima, Keishi Tajima, Masateru Tadaishi. Optimal Tree Node Ordering for Child/Descendant Navigations. The 26th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010), pp. 840-843, Long Beach, California, USA, March 1-6, 2010.(short)
     [Bug-fixed version here]
   
   
   

3. SMART: (2003-): A "divide and conquer" approach to the development of complex XML mappings.

   This is joint work with: Natsuko Furukawa, Tadatoshi Kamimura, Toshiaki Okawara, Jyun'ichi Tanaka, Ken'ichi Ishikawa.
   
   
   • Atsuyuki Morishima. A Semantic-Driven Approach to the Creation of Complex XML Mappings.
     IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA, July 13, 2005.
   • Atsuyuki Morishima, Toshiaki Okawara, Jun'ichi Tanaka, and Ken'ichi Ishikawa. SMART: A Tool for Semantic-Driven Creation of Complex XML Mappings. SIGMOD Conference 2005 (demo), pp. 909-911 June 2005.
   
   
   

4. The WISH Project (2003-): Web Integrity management by Self-Healing mechanisms.

   This is joint work with: Akiyoshi Nakamizo, Tomohiro Ariyama, Toshinari Iida, Shigeo Sugimoto, Hiroyuki Kitagawa.
   
   
   • Atsuyuki Morishima, Akiyoshi Nakamizo, Toshinari Iida, Shigeo Sugimoto, Hiroyuki Kitagawa. Bringing Your Dead Links Back to Life: A Comprehensive Approach and Lessons Learned. The 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Multimedia (ACM Hypertext 2009), pp. 15-24, Torino, Italy, June 29th -July 1st, 2009.
   • Atsuyuki Morishima, Akiyoshi Nakamizo, Toshinari Iida, Shigeo Sugimoto, Hiroyuki Kitagawa. Why are Moved Web Pages Difficult to Find? The WISH Approach. The 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), pp. 1117-1118, Madrid, Spain, April 20-24, 2009 (poster)
   • Atsuyuki Morishima, Akiyoshi Nakamizo, Toshinari Iida, Shigeo Sugimoto, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, "PageChaser: A Tool for the Automatic Correction of Broken Web Links", The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2008), pp. 1486-1488, Cancun, Mexico, April 7-12, 2008, (poster)
   
   
   

5. XLearner (2001-): A rapid development tool for XML mapping queries, powered by the active learning framework.

   This is joint work with: Akira Matsumoto, Akiyoshi Nakamizo, Hiroyuki Kitagawa.
   
   
   • Atsuyuki Morishima, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, and Akira Matsumoto. A Machine Learning Approach to Rapid Development of XML Mapping Queries. ICDE 2004, pp. 276-287, March 2004.
   
   
   

6. SilkRoute (1999-2002): A general, efficient, and dynamic architecture for viewing and querying relational data in XML.

   This is joint work with: Mary Fernandez, Yana Kadiyska, Dan Suciu, Wang-Chiew Tan.
   
   
   • Mary F. Fernandez, Yana Kadiyska, Atsuyuki Morishima, Dan Suciu, Wang-Chiew Tan. SilkRoute : A Framework for Publishing Relational Data in XML. ACM TODS 27(4): 438-493 (2002)
   • Mary F. Fernandez, Atsuyuki Morishima, Dan Suciu, Wang Chiew Tan. Publishing Relational Data in XML: the SilkRoute Approach. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 24(2): 12-19 (2001)
   • Mary F. Fernandez, Atsuyuki Morishima, Dan Suciu. Efficient Evaluation of XML Middle-ware Queries. SIGMOD Conference 2001 (A letter from the chair of the program committee)
   
   
   

7. AQUA (1999-2002): A web-site construction tool in a drag-and-drop style for data-intensive web-sites.

   This is joint work with: Seiichi Koizumi, Satoshi Takano, Akira Sato, Takanori Mouri, Hiroyuki Kitagawa
   
   
   • Atsuyuki Morishima, Takanori Mouri, Hiroyuki Kitagawa: An Example-based Web-site Construction Tool and Its Implementation. Proc. IASTED International Conference on Information Systems and Databases (ISDB 2002): 136-141, Sept. 2002
   • Atsuyuki Morishima, Seiichi Koizumi, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Satoshi Takano: Enabling End-users to Construct Data-intensive Web-sites from XML Repositories: An Example-based Approach. VLDB 2001: 703-704
   • Atsuyuki Morishima, Seiichi Koizumi, Hiroyuki Kitagawa: Drag and Drop: Amalgamation of Authoring, Querying, and Restructuring for Multimedia View Construction. VDB 2000
   
   
   

8. InfoWeaver (1996-2000): An information integration system for the Web, structured documents, and databases, based on ADT technologies.

   This is joint work with: Kazunori katoh, Tsuyoshi Nemoto, Shan Lin, Hironori Mizuguchi, Kumiko Kaimasu, Tomoyuki Kajino, Hiroyuki Kitagawa
   
   
   • Atsuyuki Morishima, Hiroyuki Kitagawa: InfoWeaver: Dynamic and Tailor-made Integration of Structured Documents, Web, and Databases. ACM DL 1999: 235-236
   • Kazunori Katoh, Atsuyuki Morishima, Hiroyuki Kitagawa: Navigator-based Query Processing in the World Wide Web Wrapper. FODO 1998: 191-199
   • Atsuyuki Morishima, Hiroyuki Kitagawa: A Data Modelling and Query Processing Scheme for Integration of Structured Document Repositories and Relational Databases. DASFAA 1997: 145-154

Experiences and Professional Activities

• 1998-2001: Research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 1999-2000: Visitor, AT&T Labs-Research
• 2001-2003: Assistant Professor, Shibaura Institute of Technology
• 2003-: Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba
• 2002-2006: Editorial Board Member, IPSJ Transactions on Databases
• 2002-: Editorial Board Member, DBSJ Letters
• July 2003-2007: ACM SIGMOD Japan Chapter Steering Committee Member
• March 2004: International Symposium on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Communities in Networked Information Society (DLKC'04) Program Committee Member
• March 2004: DLKC'04 Publications Chair
• 2003, 2004: IEICE Data Engineering Workshop Program Committee Member
• March 2005: IEICE Data Engineering Workshop Program Committee Co-organizer
• March 2005: APWeb 2005 Program Committee Member
• April 2005: ICDE 2005 Publicity Committee Member
• April 2006: DASFAA 2006 Program Committee Member
• 2006: XSym 2006 Program Committee Member
• 2006: ICADL 2006 Publication Chair
• 2006: ICADL 2006 Program Committee Member
• 2007: DASFAA 2007 Program Committee Member
• April 2007: DASFAA 2007 Program Committee Member
• September 2007: VLDB 2007 PhD Workshop Program Committee Member
• November 2007: IPSJ DBWeb 2007 Program Co-Chair
• April 2008: DASFAA 2008 Program Committee Member
• October 2008: ACM CIKM 2008 Track Chair (Data Maintenance, Quality, Reusability, and Adaptability)
• September 2008: KJDB2008 Program Co-Chair
• December 2008: IPSJ WebDB Forum 2008 General Chair
• August 2009: PersDB 2009 Program Committee Member
• October 2009: CIKM 2009 Demo Program Committee Member
• November 2009: IPSJ WebDB Forum 2009 Program Co-Chair
• April 2010: DASFAA2010 Finance Chair
• September 2010: XSym 2010 Program Committee Member
• September 2010: ECDL 2010 Program Committee Member
• November 2010: 3PGCIC 2010 Program Committee Member

Awards (to appear)

Courses (under construction)

2002

• Introduction to Programming 1
• Data Structure and Algorithms 2
• Introduction to Database Systems
• Principles of Programming Languages 2
• Advanced Topics in Data Engineering

2001

• Introduction to Programming 1
• Data Structure and Algorithms 2
• Principles of Programming Languages 2

Students (under construction)

• AY2006
  Master's Students: Toshinari Iida, Ken'ichi Ishikawa, Natsumi Sawa
  Undergraduate Students: Mariko Kodama, Ayumi Sugaya, Chika Mizoguchi, Yuichiro Mitsumori
  
• AY2005
  Master's Students: Tshiaki Okawara, Toshinari Iida, Ken'ichi Ishikawa
  Undergraduate Students: Yuya Ito, Ayako Eiju, Natsumi Sawa, Isamu Suzuki
  Continue to work with: Tadatoshi Kamimura, Akira Kojima, Akiyoshi Nakamizo, Jun'ishi Tanaka
  
• AY2004
  Master's Students: Akiyoshi Nakamizo, Toshiaki Okawara
  Undergraduate Students: Toshinari Iida, Ken'ichi Ishikawa, Chiharu Kurosaki, Jun'ichi Tanaka, Yasuaki Nagano
  Continue to work with: Tadatoshi Kamimura, Akira Kojima
  
• AY2003
  Master's Students: Natsuko Furukawa, Akiyoshi Nakamizo, Tomohiro Ariyama
  Research Student: Tadatoshi Kamimura
  Undergraduate Students: Toshiaki Okawara, Akmar Farwiz Bin Bakar
  Continue to work with: Akira Kojima, Makoto Yui
  
• AY2002(Photo (members including me) (WARNING: Huge))
  Master's Students: Natsuko Furukawa
  Undergraduate Students: Atsushi Arai, Hayato Ito, Ryuusuke Ito, Kei Ueda, Natsuko Ohno, Akira Kojima, Yukio Suzuki, Kennichi Sekiguchi, Akiyoshi Nakamizo, Jyunji Hagio, Yujiro Miyoshi, Makoto Yui
  
• 2001 (Photo (members including me) (WARNING: Huge))
  Undergraduate Students: Megumi Arakawa, Natsuko Furukawa, Manabu Hashigami, Tetsu Kato, Hiroshi Odagawa, Keiichi Oka, Kozue Ono, Takanori Tominaga
  

Misc

• My old page (obsolete and incomplete)
• The happiest place on earth ( [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] )

Last updated May 9, 2006.