[Name]   Hayato YAMANA [ My ACM Author Profile Page ][ DBLP ][ My personal History ]

[Date of birth]  1964

[Affiliation / Position]  

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
How to reach Yamana-Lab. (FROM NARITA airport)

[Telephone]   +81-3-5286-3503

[Facsimile]     +81-3-5286-3503

[E-mail]           yamana at yama.info.waseda.ac.jp 

[Personal home page]   http://www.yama.info.waseda.ac.jp/~yamana/ (Japanese)

[Research fields]        

• Massive Data Analysis and Data Mining
• Search Engine Trustworthiness
• Information Retrieval & Distributed Computing

[Project]
Technologies for the Knowledge Discovery from the Internet

[Educational history] 

•  1987 B.S. Science and Technology, Waseda University
   1989 M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Waseda University
   1993 Dr.Eng., Waseda University
  

[Career history] 

• 1989-1993        Assistant Professor, Waseda University
  1993-2000        Electrotechnical Laboratory, AIST, MITI
  1998-1999        Ministry of Industry of International Trade and Industry(MITI)
  2000.4-2005.3  Associate Professor, Computer Science, Waseda University
  2004.4-2005.3  Visiting Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics
  2005.4-present Professor, Computer Science, Waseda University
  2005.4-present  Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics　

[Awards]

• 1993 IPSJ(Information Processing Society of Japan) Young Researcher Award
• 1995 IPSJ Yamashita Memorial Research Award
• 2000 IPSJ Best Author Award
• 2003 ITE Best Author Award2008 DBSJ Paper Award
• 2009 IBM Faculty Award

[Academic Activities]

• 1998-2002          IPSJ Journal Editorial Boards
• 2002-present      IEICE Journal Editorial Boards
• 2002-2004          IEEE Japan Tokyo Chapter Committee
  2002-2004          IEEE Computer Society Japan Chapter Chair
  2004                   HPCAsia2004 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
  2006 PC Member of IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing
  2007 PC Member of The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Data Mining and Information Retrieval PC Member
  2007 PC Member of The 12th International Conf. on Database Systems and Advanced Applications
  2007 PC Member of THE 2007 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL PROCESSING (ICPP-07)
  2008 Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Mining and Web
  2009 Program Chair of The 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Mining and Web
  2009 General Chair of The 2009 IEEE International Workshop on Quantitative Evaluation of large-scale Systems and Technologies

[Papers and Books (selected from 2003-2010) ]

• Naoyoshi AIKAWA, Tetsuya SAKAI, Hayato YAMANA:"Community QA Question Classification: Is the Asker Looking for Subjective Answers or Not?", WebDBForum2011 (2010.11.11-12)
  
• Bundit Manaskasemsak, Arnon Rungsawang, Hayato Yamana:"Time-weighted web authoritative ranking," Information Retrieval, Vol.13, No.4 (2010.6)
• Hayato YAMANA:"Search Engines’ Trustworthiness-Current Status", Proc. of the 5th Korea-Japan Database Workshop, pp.219-240 (2010.5)
• Takuya FUNAHASHI, Hayato YAMANA:"Reliability Verification of Search Engines’ Hit Counts:How to Select a Reliable Hit Count for a Query," Proc. of 1st International Workshop on Quality in Web Engineering (2010.7
• Sayaka Akioka, Hayato Yamana, Yoichi Muraoka:"Data Access Pattern Analysis on Stream Mining Algorithms for Cloud Computation," Proc. of the 2010 Int'll Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (2010.7
• Shan-Bin Chan and Hayato Yamana:"The Method of Improving the Specific Language Focused Crawler," Proc. of the 1st CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conf. on Chinese Language Processing(CLP2010) (2010.8)
• Makoto Yui, Jun Miyazaki, Shunsuke Uemura, Hayato Yamana:"Nb-GCLOCK: A Non-blocking Buffer Management Based on the Generalized CLOCK", Proc . of ICDE 2010 (2010.3)
  
• Hayato YAMANA:"Toward the Analysis of over 10 billion Web pages", Proc. of the 4th Korea-Japan Int'l Database Workshop 2008(KJDB 2008), pp.239-255 (2008.9)
• T.UEDA, Y.HIRATE, H.YAMANA:"Exploiting Idle CPU Cores to Improve File Access Performance", Proc. of The 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (2009.1.15-16)
• T. Tashiro(M1), T. Ueda, T. Hori, Y. Hirate, H. Yamana:"EPCI: Extracting Potentially Copyright Infringement Texts from the Web ", Proc. of 16th Int. World Wide Web Conf., pp.1151-1152 (2007.5)
• Shinsuke Yamada, Osamu Gotoh, Hayato Yamana:PRIME: multiple sequence alignment program based on group-to-group sequence alignment algorithm with piecewise linear gap cost, ISMB/ECCB2007, Austria Center Vienna(2007.7.21-25)
• Hiroshi HORII(D1) and Hayato YAMANA:"Transactional Optimistic Active Replication", Proc. of The Second International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, , pp.111-117, Korea (2008.1.31-2.1)
• Takanori UEDA(M1), Yu HIRATE and Hayato YAMANA:"EReM-DiCE: Exploiting Remote Memory for Disk Cache Extension", Proc. of 1st International Workshop on Storage and I/O Virtualization, Performance, Energy, Evaluation and Dependability (SPEED2008), Salt Lake City, UT (2008.2)
• Yasuaki Yoshida(M1), Takanori Ueda, Takashi Tashiro, Yu Hirate, Hayato Yamana:"What's going on in search engine rankings?", Proc. of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Mining and Web (2008.3.25-28)
• Y.Hirate(D3), A.Aiyoshizawa, S.O, Y.Ioku, F.Kido and H.Yamana:"System for Detecting Auction Fraud Communities in Internet Auctions", Proc. of the 2nd International Conf. on Information Systems, Technology and Management(ICISTM-08) (2008.3)
• Yu Hirate(D2) and Hayato Yamana, "Generalized Sequential Pattern Mining with Item Intervals," Academy Publisher, Journal of Computers(JCP), Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 51-60 (2006)
• Shinsuke Yamada(D3) Osamu Gotoh, Hayato Yamana,"Improvement in accuracy of multiple sequence alignment using novelgroup-to-group sequence alignment algorithm with piecewise linear gap cost",BMC Bioinformatics, Vol.7, Article No. 524 (2006.12)
• Yu Hirate(D2) and Hayato Yamana, "Web Structure in 2005," Proc. of the 4 th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph(WAW2006), Springer-Verlag, LNCS 4936, pp.36-46 (2008)
• Shinsuke Yamada(D3), Kouratou Yamada, Hayato Yamana, Tamotsu Noguchi,"Automatic extraction of conserved region from alignment based on protein structure",EABS & BSJ 2006, Poster No. 1P474 (2006.11)
• Masatoshi Takizawa(M2), Naoko Inoue, Kentaro Tomii, Hayato Yamana, Tamotsu Noguchi："Prediction of domain and disordered regions in proteins by fold recognition and secondary structure prediction", Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction Seventh Meeting, Poster No.9 (2006.12)
• Yuji KASUYA(M2) and Hayato YAMANA:"Interactive Pen-based Interface for Inputting Mathematical Expressions", Proc. of 2007 International Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces (2007.1)
• Yu Hirate(D1) and Hayato Yamana:"Sequential Pattern Mining with Time Interval", Proc. of PAKDD2006, accepted
• Issei SATO(B4), Yu HIRATE and Hayato YAMANA:"Text Mining using PrefixSpan constrained by Item Interval and Item Attribute", Proc. of International Special Workshop on Databases For Next Generation Researchers (2006.4)
• N.Saida，A.Umezawa and H.Yamana："PlusDBG : A Web Community Extraction Scheme Improving both Precision and Pseudo-Recall," Proc. of The Seventh Asia Pacific Web Conference (2005.3) (accepted)
• S.Yamada,O.Goto and H.Yamana："Extension of Prrn: implementation of a doubly nested randomized iterative refinement strategy under a piecewise linear gap cost," Proc. of the Fifteenth International Conference on Genome Informatics , Pacifico Yokohama, Japan (2004.12)
• Y.Hirate, E.Iwahashi and H.Yamana："TF^2P-growth: An Efficient Algorithm for Mining Frequent Patterns without any Thresholds," Proc. of IEEE ICDM'04 Workshop on Alternatives Techniques for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2004.11)
• F.Saito and H.Yamana:” The Branch Predictor referring a BTB Entry Existence,” Trans. of IPSJ Vol.45,No.7,pp.71-79 (2004.10) (in Japanese)
• H.Oshika, M.Sato, S.Ando and H.Yamana: “A Translation Support System using Search Engines",IPSJ Tech. Report(DBWS2004) (2004.7)(in Japanese)
• D.Honda, F.Saito and H.Yamana:" An Efficient Caching Technique using Speculative Threads on Hyper-Threading Technology,” Summer Workshop on Parallel Processing 2004 in Japan (2004.7) (in Japanese)
• S.Yamada, O.Goto and H.Yamana："The extension of group-to-group sequence alignment algorithm under a piecewise linear gap cost," Proc. of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2004 (2004.7)
• Takashi Ohtsuka, Koji Eguchi and Hayato Yamana:"An Evaluation Method of Web Search Engines based on User's Sense", NTCIR Workshop 4 Meeting Working Notes, Supplement Volume 1 : WEB Task (2004.6)
• Y.Hirate, E.Iwahashi and H.Yamana:”An Efficient Algorithm for Mining Top-k Frequent Patterns with a Small Response Time,” 2004 CORS/INFORMS International Meeting (2004.5)
• H.Yamana :”A Challenge to Gather 10 billion of Web Pages,” 2004 CORS/INFORMS International Meeting (2004.5)
• S.Kato, Y.Hirate, E.Iwahashi and H.Yamana :”Reducing the Data Transfer Overhead for Frequent Pattern Mining on the Grid," Proc. of Symposium on Advanced Computing Systems and Infrastructures 2004,pp.165-166 (2004.5)(in Japanese)
• H.Yamana :”Toward the Exploitation of New Applications based on Web Data,",IPSJ Tech. Report(DBS),Vol.2004, No.45,pp.107-110 (2004.5)(in Japanese)
• H.YAMANA(Transrator), Tara Calishain, RaelDornfest and DJ Adams:"Google Pocket Guide,” Oreilly Japan,ISBN4-87311-153-6(2003.10)
• Hayato YAMANA(Supervisor for Translation),Y.Tanaka(Translator),Tara Calishain and　Rael Dornfest：Google Hacks," Oreilly Japan,ISBN4-87311-136-6 (2003.8)