Kyoichi Jim Kijima (木嶋 恭一, born 1951) is a Japanese
systems scientist and professor of Decision Systems Science at the
Tokyo Institute of Technology
is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, one of first five Designated National University and selected as ...
.
Biography
Jim Kijima received an M.A. from
Tokyo Institute of Technology
is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, one of first five Designated National University and selected as ...
in 1976 and a PhD in 1980. Later, in 1988, he spent a year in England to familiarize himself with
soft systems engineering. In 1997 he spent another four months in England in collaboration with members of the United Kingdom Systems Society (UKSS) to further familiarize himself with the soft systems approach.
In 1980 Jim Kijima started working as an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at the
Tokyo Institute of Technology
is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, one of first five Designated National University and selected as ...
. After he returned from England in 1988 he was appointed associate professor of Management Systems in the same department. In 1996 he became professor of Decision Systems Sciences in a new "Department of Value and Decision Science" and in the "Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology".
Since 2006 he has been a visiting professor at the
Hull University
, mottoeng = Bearing the Torch f learning, established = 1927 – University College Hull1954 – university status
, type = Public
, endowment = £18.8 million (2016)
, budget = £190 million ...
Business School.
He is a member of the UK Society for Systems Sciences and the
International Society for the Systems Sciences
The International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) is a worldwide organization for systems sciences. The overall purpose of the ISSS is:
:"to promote the development of conceptual frameworks based on general system theory, as well as their ...
, where he served as president of the society in 2007. He is also vice president of International Society for Knowledge and Systems Sciences. He further has served as a member of the international editorial board of
Systems Research and Behavioral Science
''Systems Research and Behavioral Science'' is a scientific journal for theory and research in the fields of systems sciences. It is the official publication of the International Federation for Systems Research.
''Systems Research and Behavioral ...
, the official journal of the
International Federation of Systems Research. He was the editor-in-chief of ''Journal of Japan Society for Management Information'' in 2003–04.
Work
Kijima's research interests are in systems-science-based approach to
decision making
In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options. It could be either rati ...
and
information
Information is an abstract concept that refers to that which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level information pertains to the interpretation of that which may be sensed. Any natural process that is not completely random ...
. In particular, recently, he proposed a new paradigm called "poly-agent systems". It tries to deal with
complexity
Complexity characterises the behaviour of a system or model whose components interaction, interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to nonlinearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence.
The term is generall ...
involved in decision situations consisting of plural and autonomous decision makers.
He is interested in integrating what we call
hard
Hard may refer to:
* Hardness, resistance of physical materials to deformation or fracture
* Hard water, water with high mineral content
Arts and entertainment
* ''Hard'' (TV series), a French TV series
* Hard (band), a Hungarian hard rock supe ...
and
soft systems approaches to decision-making and management, by advocating Decision Systems Sciences. In 2006 he received a major grant from the government on
agent-based modelling
An agent-based model (ABM) is a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous agents (both individual or collective entities such as organizations or groups) in order to understand the behavior of a system and wha ...
and
systems research.
"New Directions of Systems Research in Japan"
Kyoichi Jim Kijima, 49th Annual Meeting of the ISSS, July 5, 2005.
Publications
Kijima has written some books and has published more than fifty refereed papers in high-quality international journals.
Books
* 1996. ''Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science''. Kluwer Academic Publications.
* 2003. ''Applied General Systems Research on Organizations''. With Shingo Takahashi and Ryo Sato. Springer Verlag.
* 2007. ''Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems''. With T. Terano, Hajime Kita and Hiroshi Deguchi. Post Proceedings of the AESCS International Workshop 2005, No. 4. Springer Series on Agent Based Social Systems.
Articles, a selection:
* 1993. "Develop or Copy Decision of New Information Technology".
* 1995. "SOFT Science and Technology: Its Aims, Scope and Implementation".
* 1997. "Internet-Based Entrepreneurial Networking To Evolve The Japanese Industrial", with Hikari Akizawa.
* 1997. "Truth-telling Problems in Virtual Society: Higher Order Hypergame".
* 2000. "Why Does IT-based Entrepreneurs Society Emerge Hierarchy of the Networks?".
* 2001. "Enterprise Science for Technology-intensive Company and its Elaboration by Systems Thinking". With Hugo Tschirky
Hugo Tschirky (20 January 1938 – 10 October 2020) was a Swiss scientist in the field of management science. He contributed mainly to the emerging disciplines of technology management and innovation study. Tschirky's activities in research and i ...
.
* 2003. "Agent-based Simulation of Alliance Formation and its Stability Analysis: Application to Aviation Industry".
* 2004. "Beyond Needs Analysis: Soft Systems Methodology for Meaningful Collaboration in EAP Course Design". In: ''Journal of English for Academic Purpose'', Vol 4, no 1, pp. 27-42.
* 2004. "Project Management Methodology for Stimulating Strategic Communication in Japan: Soft Systems Approach for Knowledge Creation", in: ''Systems Research and Behavioral Science'', Vol 21 pp. 1-13.
* 2005. "Contingent Framework for Supporting Participatory Decision Making". In: ''International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Sciences''. Vol 1, pp. 19-24.
* 2006. "Misrepresentation-proof Strategies". In: ''European Journal of Operational Research''. Vol 172, pp. 574-587.
* 2006. "Soft Systems Approach to Project-based Education and its Practice in a Japanese University". In: ''Systems Research and Behavioral Science''. Vol 23, pp. 89-105.
* 2007.
Systems of system failures: Meta system methodology to prevent system failures
. With Takafumi Nakamura, Paper ISSS SIG on Systems Applications in Business and Industry at Tokyo 2007.
References
External links
Website
in Japanese
profile
Articles by Kyoichi Kijima
Association for Information Systems, 2007
Creation of Agent-Based Social Systems Sciences
21st-Century COE Program, 2007
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1951 births
Living people
Systems scientists
Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo Institute of Technology alumni
Presidents of the International Society for the Systems Sciences