Mathematical Foundation of Computer Science Laboratory

/ Yasuhiko Ikebe / Professor
/ Adam Kapralski / Associate Professor
/ Zbigniew Kokosinski / Assistant Professor

Professor Ikebe, the lab head, continued his research in computational mathematics and language instruction reform through dictionary reform. Besides his academic activities he served as Student Dean (95.10-96.4) and Vice President (96.5-97.3). He enjoyed numerous speaking engagements and interviews. He conducted the undergraduate thesis supervision jointly with Asst. Prof. Y. Kikuchi of Multimedia System Lab.

Asst. Prof. Kokosinski continued to pursue his main research topic in applied combinatorics; one central issue is the theoretical and practical aspect of combinatorial object generation and parallelism. He has been qualified as a graduate faculty member for the next academic year when Graduate School opens its door.

Prof. Ikebe continued his research in numerical analysis and started research into "Virtual University on Internet" with his colleagues. Two joint papers appeared, one in a leading international journal and another in Japanese in a representative journal in Japan. See papers (1) and (2) below.

A Monbusho research grant with him serving as principal investigator enabled him to work with his colleagues on campus and his former colleagues at the U. of Tsukuba. The grant supported the proposed project of his ``The compilation of hyperdictionary for the study of English words", that formed part of the "Humanity and Computers" project, a joint project organized around several research teams. The final research report has been submitted to Monbusho.

A related paper, written in Japanese and supported in part by the said grant, was published in a representative journal in Japan. This is an invited paper. See paper (3) in the below. He taught undergraduate mathematical courses -- Math I & II and offered an SCCP project. Administrative duties of his during the academic year 96-97 include Student Dean till April 30, 1996, and Vice President May 1, 1996- March 31, 1997.

Refereed Journal Papers

1. Y. Ikebe, N. Asai, Y. Miyazaki and D. S. Cai, The Eigenvalue Problem for Infinite Complex Symmetric Tridiagonal Matrices with Application, Linear Algebra and Its Applications. p. 241-243 (combined volume), p. 599-618, 1996.

2. N. Asai, Y. Miyazaki, D. S. Cai, K. Hirasawa and Y. Ikebe, A Matrix Method for the Numerical Solution of zJ '(z) + HJ(z) = 0. Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, J79-A, p. 1256-1265, In Japanese, 1996.

   Note: An English translation of this paper will appear in ``Electronics and Communication in Japan", a John-Wiley publication.

3. Y. Ikebe, How to Write Technical Documents in English, Journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers , Vol. 80, p. 14-19, In Japanese, 1997.

1. Kokosinski, Z., Unranking combinations in parallel. Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications PDPTA'96, H. R. Arabnia, p. 79-82, CSREA, August 1996.

2. Kokosinski, Z., Generation of Integer Compositions on a Linear Array of Processors. Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications PDPTA' 96, H. R. Arabnia, p. 56-64, CSREA, August 1996.

1. Zbigniew Kokosinski, On parallel generation of combinatons in associative processor architectures. University of Aizu, Technical Report No. 96-1-007, June 1996.

2. Zbigniew Kokosinski, An associative processor for multi-comparand parallel searching and its selected applications. University of Aizu, Technical Report No. 96-1-013, September 1996.

1. Y. Ikebe, Numerous other publications including the final Monbusho project report, unrefereed proceedings papers, articles that have appeared in newspapers, memoirs, trade journals, and others.

2. Zbigniew Kokosinski, Referee for IPPS'97, ICEC'97.

3. Zbigniew Kokosinski, Member of ACM, IEEE Computer Society and IASTED.