Professor

Tatsuo Unemi

Profile

Specialized field

Intelligent Informatics

Research theme
  1. Media art using artificial life technology
  2. Research on implementation technology for generative interactive art based on artificial society techniques
Subjects in charge

JSP Engineering and Natural Science, Network Experiments, General Information Systems, Case Studies I and II, First-Year Projects, Project Studies, Graduation Research I and II, Seminars I and II

Specialized field

Artificial life, genetic algorithms, reinforcement learning, simulated breeding, artificial society, media art

Research theme

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Subjects in charge

Fundamentals of Intelligent Systems I, Presentation Skills I, Presentation Skills II, Technical Writing Skills I, Technical Writing Skills II, Special Lectures on Intellectual Property, Design and Analysis of Algorithms B, Special Lectures on Information Processing Systems, Special Research on Information Processing Systems (Research Guidance), Special Seminars on Information Systems (Mathematics), Special Research (Mathematics)

Main career, work history, and academic background

Graduated from the Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1978.
In 1980, he completed his master's degree in systems science at the Graduate School Graduate School of Science and Engineering.
In 1981, he dropped out of the doctoral program and became a research assistant in the same department.
1987: Lecturer in Planning and Management, Faculty of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology.
1992 Lecturer, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University.
1995: Assistant Lecturer
1992-1995: Visiting researcher at the International Fuzzy Engineering Institute.
April-September 2000: Visiting Professor at the Department of Information Technology, Faculty Faculty of Economics University of Zurich.
2001 Director Faculty of Engineering
2002: Assistant Director of the Information Center
2004 Director
2009: Information Systems Science Major School of Engineering
2012 Director

Affiliated academic societies and organizations

Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Japanese Society for Software Science and Technology, Japanese Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Society of Arts and Sciences, International Society of Artificial Life, ACM SIGEVO, ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH

Main Papers and Publications

Books
Aizu Izumi, Sakura Osamu, et al. Artificial Life - The Intersection of Information, Life and CG, May 1994, Kyoritsu Shuppan.
Takanori Shibata, Toshio Fukuda, et al. The Near Future of Artificial Life - Technology for Creating New Life, October 1994, Jiji Press
Kanji Ueda, Katsunori Shimohara, et al. Methods of Artificial Life, October 1995, Industrial Research Association.
Haruo Takagi, Kyoichi Kijima, et al. Humans and Society in the Multimedia Era - Polyagent Society, 1995.11., JUSE Press.
Kaoru Hirota, Takashi Washio, et al. Introduction to Intelligent Systems Engineering, November 1996, Shokodo.
Simulated Breeding − a Framework of Breeding Artifacts on the Computer. A. Adamatzky and M. Komosinski eds., Artificial Life Models in Software, pp. 301−322. Springer, 2005.
Journal Articles
Tatsuo Unemi. Reinforcement Learning Based on Instances, Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 7, [4], 697-707, 1992. 7.
Tatsuo Unemi. A Simple Evolvable Development System in Euclidean Space, Lectures on Mathematics in the Life Science, American Mathematical Society, 26, 103-110, 1999. 4.
T. Unemi, SBART 2.4: an IEC Tool for Creating 2D Images, Movies, and Collage, Leonardo, 35, No. 2, pp. 171, 189-191, MIT Press, 2002.
T. Unemi, Simulated Breeding - a Framework of Breeding Artifacts on the Computer, Kybernetes, 32, No. 1/2, pp. 203-220, 2003.
T. Sasaki, I. Okada, and T. Unemi, Probabilistic participation in public goods games, Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 274, No. 1625, pp. 2639-U8, Oct. 22, 2007.
International Conference Proceedings
Tatsuo Unemi, Masahiro Nagayoshi, et al. Evolutionary Differentiation of Learning Abilities - a case study on optimizing parameter values in Q-learning by a genetic algorithm, A-LIFE IV, 331-336, Cambridge, MA, 1994.
Tatsuo Unemi and Takeshi Koike. Evolution of a Botanical Development System in 3D Euclidean Space, A-LIFE VI, 467-471, LA, CA. 1998.
Tatsuo Unemi. Should Seeds Fly or Not? A-LIFE VII, 253-259, Portland, OR. 2000.
Tatsuo Unemi, SBEAT3: A Tool for Multi-part Music Composition by Simulated Breeding, A-LIFE VIII, 410-413, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2002.
Tatsuo Unemi, Yoshiaki Kaneko and Ichiro Takahashi, War and Peace among Artificial Nations - a model and simulation based on a two-layered multi-agent system, ECAL 2003, Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI series, LNAI 2801, pp. 146-153 , 2003.
Tatsuo Unemi and Daniel Bisig, Playing Music by Conducting BOID Agents - A Style of Interaction in the Life with A-Life, A-LIFE IX, 546-550, Boston, MA, 2004.
Tatsuo Unemi and Daniel Bisig, Music by Interaction among Two Flocking Species and Human, Third Iteration, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 171-179, 2005.
Tatsuo Unemi and Daniel Bisig: Flocking Messengers, in C. Soddu ed. Proceedings of the 9th Generative Art Conference, Milan, Italy, pp. 272-280, 2006.
Tatsuo Unemi and Daniel Bisig: Identity SA - an interactive swarm-based animation with a deformed reflection. in C. Soddu ed. Proceedings of the 10th Generative Art Conference, Milan, Italy, pp. 269-279, 2007.
Tatsuo Unemi, Yoshiaki Matsui and Daniel Bisig: Identity SA 1.6 - An artistic software that produces a deformed audiovisual reflection based on a visually interactive swarm. in Proceedings of the ACE 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 297-300, 2008.
Tatsuo Unemi: SBArt4 - Breeding Abstract Animations in Realtime, Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010 - IEEE CEC 2010), 4004-4009, July 18-23, Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
Tatsuo Unemi: SBArt4 for an Automatic Evolutionary Art, Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012 - IEEE CEC 2012), 2014-2021, June 10-15, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2012.

Major awards, exhibitions and collaborative works

Awards
Flocking Messengers (Tatsuo Unemi / Daniel Bisig), Honorary Mention, Vida 9.0 Concurso Internacional sobre Arte y Vida Artificial, 2006.
MediaFlies (Daniel Bisig / Unemi Tatsuo), Excellence Award, 10th Japan Media Arts Festival Art Division, 2006.
Cycles (Daniel Bisig / Tatsuo Unemi), Audience Prize, Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 Alternative Now, 2011.
Exhibition
Flocking Orchestra (Tatsuo Unemi / Daniel Bisig) and MediaFlies (Daniel Bisig / Tatsuo Unemi), Lonardo II Art Show, in ACE 2006, Bel Age Hotel, West Holywood, CA, USA, June 14-16, 2006.
Flocking Messengers (Tatsuo Unemi / Daniel Bisig), Telefónica booth in ARCO 2007, IFEMA, Madrid, Spain, February 14-19, 2007.
MediaFlies (Daniel Bisig / Tatsuo Unemi), Japan Media Art Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, February 24-March 4, 2007.
Flocking Messengers (Tatsuo Unemi / Daniel Bisig) and MediaFlies (Daniel Bisig / Tatsuo Unemi), ArtEscapes, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, April 11-May 18, 2007.
Flocking Orchestra (Tatsuo Unemi / Daniel Bisig), Velocity Festival of Digital Culture, Lanternhouse, Ulverston, UK, October 11 - November 3, 2007.
ZugVoegel and Identity SA (Tatsuo Unemi / Daniel Bisig), Winter Fest, Hiroshima City University, November 26 - December 1, 2009.
Cycles (Daniel Bisig / Tatsuo Unemi), ISEA RUHR 2010 Exhibition, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund, Germany, August 20 - September 5, 2010.
--, lab30 Exhibition, Kulturhaus Abraxas, Augsburg, Germany, November 5-7, 2010.
--, Media Art Biennale WRO 2011, Pasaz Pokoyhof, Wroclav, Poland, May 10-June 19, 2011.

Specialized field

Intelligent Informatics

Research theme
  1. Media art using artificial life technology
  2. Research on implementation technology for generative interactive art based on artificial society techniques