– Masato Ono (Hiroshima University) “Development of Decision Making with Value Function under Certainty,” Co-authored with Tomohiro Hayashida, Ichiro Nishizaki and Shinya Sekizaki
The Award Selection Committee, which is composed of five IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter Officers and two executive committee members of Young Researchers’ Workshop, chose the award winner of “IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter Young Researcher Award” from 37 candidates, whose papers have been submitted to “2018 IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter Young Researchers’ Workshop” held on July 28, 2018. The award winner must be students under 35 years old and be IEEE SMC Society Members.
– Yosuke Sakamoto (Tokyo Metropolitan University) “Proposal of Sentiment-based Tourist Spot Recommendation System Using RDF Database,” Co-authored with Yasufumi Takama
The Award Selection Committee in IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter chose the award winner of “IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter Best Presentation Award” from 14 candidates, whose papers have been submitted to “2017 IEEE 10th International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Applications” held on November 11-12, 2017. The candidates must be under 35 years old and be IEEE SMC Society Members.
– Hiroyuki Yamamoto (Hiroshima University) “Development of Interactive Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Considering Preference Structure of a Decision Maker,” Co-authored with Tomohiro Hayashida, Ichiro Nishizaki and Shinya Sekizaki
The Award Selection Committee in IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter chose the award winner of “IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter Young Researcher Award” from 35 candidates, whose papers have been submitted to “2017 IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter Young Researchers’ Workshop” held on July 22, 2017. The candidates must be students under 35 years old and be IEEE SMC Society Members.
The Award Selection Committee in IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter chose the award winner group of“IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter Contribution Award”from all the IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter (66) Members based on the achievements over the past 4 years. The 2013～2014 IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter Organizing Committee took the leadership for activating the SMC research fields by planning and conducting International Workshops (IEEE IWCIAs) and Special Sessions in IEEE SMC Conferences. In addition, the group serves Chapter members by conducting Young Researchers’ Workshops, a Software Contest, and Invited special lectures. These activities resulted in the rapid growth of the number of Chapter members. Based on these activities, SMC Hiroshima Chapter was awarded “IEEE Outstanding SMCS Chapter Award”by the SMC Society in 2015. As a result, the SMC Hiroshima Chapter has been globally recognized as an outstanding chapter. Thus, the group contributed greatly for the development of the SMC fields in Hiroshima.
– Shin Kamada (Hiroshima City University) “A Consideration of Knowledge Acquisition from Adaptive Learning Method of Deep Belief Network,” Co-authored with Takumi Ichimura
