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Cubes for Innovation: Information Systems for Design and Marketing
(The presentation titles below are tentative)
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DATE: 3 March (Saturday), 2007
VENUE:
  Lecture Hall 212, Engineering Building 2, The University of Tokyo
    See http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/etpage/access/inside.html
Sponsors:
 School of Business Sciences The University of Tsukuba,
 IEEE SMC Society, Japan Section
 Technical Committee on Information Technologies for
       Design and Marketing, IEEE SMC Society

Scope: Three cubic building blocks of systems innovation in business
will be discussed. The I-cube is focused on the cognitive aspect of
group-thinking in successful enterprize. The D-cube is focused on
data-based decision methods applied to marketing and design. Data
visualization techniques may relate the D-cube to the I-cube. Finally,
the C-cube is concerned about communication in a creative human
group. We present each speaker's study and exchange informal ideas
about the three cubes, and systematic process of innovation on the
combination of the I, D, and C cubes.

*** Titles are tentative *****

10:00  INTRODUCTION AND WORKSHOP SCOPE
Tri-Cube Building Blocks for Systems Innnovation
 Yukio Ohsawa, The University of Tokyo

Sessin 1) 10:30-12:30 I-CUBE  : INSIGHT, INVENTION, and INNOVATION

Innovation and Systems Thinking
 Matjaz Mulej, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Chance Discovery for Cognition in Design
 Yukio Ohsawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Session 2) 13:30-15:30 D-CUBE: DISCOVERY, DECISION, and DESIGN

Data Crystallization and Applications to Design and Art
 Yoshiharu Maeno, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo

Discovery of Anticipatory Events
 Chang Kuiyu, Nanyang Technological University, Signapore

Session 3) 15:40 - 18:40 C-CUBE: COMMUNITY, CONSENSUS, and CREATIVITY)

Metasynthesis and Community
 Xijin Tang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Consensus Supports in Decision Making Group
 Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan

Information Technologies for Supporting Human Innovation and
Creativity: The Evolutionary Path
 Xavier Llora, University of Illinois, USA

Contact Organizer:
 Yukio Ohsawa,
The Chair of IEEE SMC Technical Commitee on
Information Systems for Design and Marketing
http://www.ieeesmc.org/technicalcommittess/tc_isdm.html
e-mail: ohsawa@q.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp