Shojiro Nishio

Shojiro NISHIO's Home Page

Professor Shojiro NISHIO
Department of Information Systems Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering
Osaka University
1-5 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
TEL: +81-6-6879-4510 (Office)
FAX: +81-6-6879-4514


Dr. Shojiro NISHIO received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Since August 1992, he has been a full professor at Osaka University, where he is currently the director of Multimedia Data Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Multimedia Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan. He served as the Founding Director of the Cybermedia Center of Osaka University from April 2000 to August 2003, and served as the Dean of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology of this university from August 2003 to August 2007. He also served as a Trustee and Vice President of Osaka University from August 2007 to August 2011. He acted as the Program Director in the Area of Information and Networking, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan from April 2001 and March 2008.

His areas of expertise in database systems include concurrency control, knowledge discovery, deductive and object-oriented databases, multimedia systems, and database system architectures for advanced networks such as broadband networks and mobile computing environment.

Dr. Nishio has co-authored or co-edited more than 55 books, and authored or co-authored more than 560 refereed journal or conference papers. His journal papers have been published in the Journal of Computer and System Sciences, International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences, Data & Knowledge Engineering, IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting, ACM Trans. on Internet Technology, and ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. His research works have been presented at VLDB, EDBT, WWW, IEEE ICDE, and IEEE ICDCS.

Dr. Nishio has served as a member of Program or Organizing Committees for more than 80 international conferences including VLDB (11 times), ACM SIGMOD (3 times), IEEE ICDE, EDBT, DOOD, DASFAA, IEEE ICDCS, and IEEE Infocom. He served as the Program Committee (PC) Co-Chairs for several international conferences including DOOD 1989, PNPM 1989, ISOTAS 1992, VLDB 1995, AMCP 1998, and IEEE ICDE 2005.

He has served as the General Co-Chair of Bio-ADIT 2004 and Bio-ADIT 2006, the Far East Conference Chair of VLDB 1993, the Area Coordinator of Japan for VLDB (1986-1994), the Asia and Australasia Area Coordinator of VLDB 2005, a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering (Asian Coordinator) (1992 - 1997), the Vice-Chair and PC Chair of Japan Chapter of ACM SIGMOD (1994 - 1995), a member of DOOD Steering Committee (1989 - 2000), a member of the Board of Directors of the VLDB Endowment (2002 -), and the Asia and Australasia Area Coordinator of ACM SIGMOD 2007.

He has served as an editor of "IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering", "VLDB Journal", "ACM Trans. on Internet Technology", and "Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery", and is currently serving as a member of the editorial boards of "Data & Knowledge Engineering" and "New Generation Computing".

He has conducted a large national project funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) under the theme of "Database Approach for Advanced Multimedia Content Processing (AMCP)" (1997-2001), "The 21st Century Center of Excellence Program" funded by the MEXT under the theme of "New Information Technologies for Building a Networked Symbiosis Environment" (2002-2007), and the CSTP (Council Program of Science and Technology Policy) Coordination Program of Science and Technology Projects funded by JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) under the theme of "Very Large Information Integration and Application Platform" (2007-2009).

Dr. Nishio has received the 2001 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) and the 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award from Funai Foundation for Information Technology (FFIT), and various best paper awards including the 1995 Best Paper Award from the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence, the 2003 Best Paper Award from IEICE, and the 2007 Best Paper Award from Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). He is a member of eight learned societies, including ACM, IEEE, IPSJ (Fellow and a member of the board of trustees: 1999-2000), and IEICE (Fellow).

Research Interests

Database Systems, Distributed Systems, Knowledge Systems, Multimedia Systems, Ambient Information Systems

Major Publications

Journal Papers (Selected 21 papers)

  1. T. Hara, K. Maeda, Y. Ishi, W. Uchida, and S. Nishio: Cooperative Caching by Clients Constructing a Peer-to-Peer Network for Push-based Broadcast, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 229-247, Feb. 2010.
  2. M. Erdmann, K. Nakayama, T. Hara, and S. Nishio: Improving the Extraction of Bilingual Terminology from Wikipedia, ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Vol. 5, No. 4, Article 31, pp. 31-1-31-17, Oct. 2009.
  3. T. Yoshihisa, M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nishio: A Scheduling Protocol for Continuous Media Data Broadcasting With Large-scale Data Segmentation, IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 780-788, Dec. 2007.
  4. T. Yoshihisa, M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nishio: A Broadcasting Scheme Considering Units to Play Continuous Media Data, IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting, Vol. 53, No, 3, pp. 628-636, Sept. 2007.
  5. J. Pei, J. Han, H. Lu, S. Nisho, T. Tang, and D. Yang: H-Mine: Fast and Space-Preserving Frequent Pattern Mining in Large Databases, IIE Transactions, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 593-695, June 2007.
  6. T. Yoshihisa, M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nishio: A Scheduling Scheme for Continuous Media Data Broadcasting with a Single Channel, IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 1-10, Mar. 2006.
  7. K. Harumoto, T. Nakano, S. Fukumura, S. Shimojo, S., and S. Nishio: Effective Web Browsing through Content Delivery Adaptation, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 571-600, Nov. 2005.
  8. H. Hayashi, T. Hara, and S. Nishio: Updated Data Dissemination for Updating Old Replicas in Ad Hoc Networks, ACM/Springer Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 273-283, Sept. 2005.
  9. T. Hara, N. Murakami, and S. Nishio: Replica Allocation for Correlated Data Items in Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks, ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 38-43, Mar. 2004.
  10. Budiarto, S. Nishio, and M. Tsukamoto: Data Management Issues in Mobile and Peer-to-Peer Environments, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 41, Nos. 2-3, pp. 183-204, June 2002.
  11. E. Yajima, T. Hara, T., M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nishio.: Scheduling and Caching Strategies for Correlated Data in Push-based Information Systems, ACM Applied Computing Review (ACM ACR), Vol. 9, No. 1, pp.22-28, July 2001.
  12. E. Yajima, E., T. Hara, M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nishio.: Scheduling Strategies of Correlated Data in Push-Based Systems, Information Systems and Operational Research (INFOR), Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 152-173, May 2001.
  13. S. Nishio: Opening up New Vistas on Advanced Multimedia Content Processing, New Generation Computing, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 295-303, Sept. 2000.
  14. J. Han, S. Nishio, H. Kawano, and W. Wang: Generalization-based Data Mining in Object-Oriented Databases Using an Object Cube Model, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 25, Nos. 1-2, pp. 55-97, March 1998.
  15. T. Hara, K. Harumoto, M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nishio: Database Migration: A New Architecture for Transaction Processing in Broadband Networks, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp.839-854, Sept.-Oct. 1998.
  16. M. Tsukamoto and S. Nishio: An Inheritance System with Regular Expressions and IS-A Relation, Journal of Systems Integration, Vol. 7, pp. 349-379, Sept. 1997.
  17. C.-L. Goh, M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nishio: Knowledge Discovery in Deductive Databases with Large Deduction Results: The First Step, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp.952-956, Dec. 1996.
  18. S. Masuyama, T. Ibaraki, S. Nishio, and T. Hasegawa: Shortest Semijoin Schedule for a Local Area Distributed Database Systems, IEEE Trans. on Software Eng., Vol. SE-13, No. 5, pp. 602-606, May 1987.
  19. J. A. Brzozowski and S. Nishio: On Serializability, Inter. J. of Comput. and Infor. Sciences, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 387-403, Dec. 1985.
  20. S. Nishio, T. Ibaraki, H. Miyajima, and T. Hasegawa: Evaluation of the File Redundancy in Distributed Database Systems, IEEE Trans. on Software Eng., Vol. SE-11, No. 2, pp. 199-205, Feb. 1985.
  21. S. Nishio, T. Kameda, and T. Minoura: Multi-version Concurrency Control Scheme for a Database System, J. of Comput. and Syst. Sciences, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 207-224, Oct. 1984.

International Conference Papers (Selected 15 papers)

  1. Y. Arase, X. Xie, M. Duan, T. Hara, and S. Nishio: A Game Based Approach to Assign Geographical Relevance to Web Images, Proc. of Int'l World Wide Web Conf. (WWW 2009), pp. 811-820 (Apr. 2009).
  2. M. Ito, K. Nakayama, T. Hara, and S. Nishio: Association Thesaurus Construction Methods based on Link Co-occurrence Analysis For Wikipedia, Proc. of ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), pp. 817-826 (Oct. 2008).
  3. K. Murao, T. Terada, T. Yoshinari, and S. Nishio: A Context-Aware System that Changes Sensor Combinations Considering Energy Consumption, Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2008), LNCS 5013, pp. 197-212 (May 2008).
  4. Y. Arase, T. Hara, T. Uemukai, and S. Nishio: OPA Browser: A Web Browser for Cellular Phone Users, Proc. of ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2007), pp. 71-80 (Oct. 2007).
  5. T. Maekawa, T. Hara, and S. Nishio: Image Classification for Mobile Web Browsing, Proc. of Int'l World Wide Web Conf. (WWW 2006), pp. 43-52 (May 2006).
  6. T. Maekawa, T. Hara, and S. Nishio: A Collaborative Web Browsing System for Multiple Mobile Users, Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2006), pp. 22-33 (Mar. 2006).
  7. T. Terada, M. Tsukamoto, K. Hayakawa, T. Yoshihisa, Y. Kishino, S. Nishio, and A. Kashitani: Ubiquitous Chip: a Rule-based I/O Control Device for Ubiquitous Computing, Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2004), pp. 238-253 (Apr. 2004).
  8. N.M. Su, Y. Sakane, M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nishio: Rajicon: Remorte PC GUI Operations via Constricted Mobile Interfaces, Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2002), pp. 251-262 (Sept. 2002).
  9. J. Pei, J. Han, H. Lu, S. Nishio, S. Tang, and D. Yang: H-Mine: Hyper-Structure Mining of Frequent Patterns in Large Databases, Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM 2001), pp.441-448 (Nov./Dec. 2001).
  10. R. Sawai, M. Tsukamoto, Y.-H. Loh, T. Terada, and S. Nishio: Functional Properties of Information Filtering, Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2001), pp. 511-520 (Sept. 2001).
  11. T. Hara, K. Harumoto, M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nishio: Dynamic Replica Allocation Using Database Migration in Broadband Networks, Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2000), pp. 376-384 (Apr. 2000).
  12. T. Hara, K. Harumoto, M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nishio: DB-MAN: A Distributed Database System based on Database Migration in ATM Networks, Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE 1998), pp. 522-531 (Feb. 1998).
  13. K. Fujikawa, S. Shimojo, T. Matsuura, S. Nishio, and H. Miyahara: Multimedia Presentation System Harmony with Temporal and Active Media, Proc. of USENIX Summer 1991 Conf., pp. 75-94 (June 1991).
  14. Y. Kusumi, S. Nishio, and T. Hasegawa: File Access Level Optimization Using Page Access Graph on Recursive Query Evaluation, Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 1990), pp. 136-152 (Mar. 1990).
  15. S. Nishio, T. Ibaraki, H. Miyajima, and T. Hasegawa: File Redundancy Issues in Distributed Database Systems, Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 1983), pp. 275-277 (Nov. 1983).

English Books (Selected 2 books)

  1. C.-L. Goh, M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nishio: Data Mining and Deductive Database (Chapter 14), in "Knowledge-Based Systems, Techniques and Applications (C. T. Leondes, Ed.)," Vol.2, pp. 410-433, Academic Press, July 2000.
  2. W. Kim, J.-M. Nicolas, and S. Nishio (Eds.): Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, North-Holland, 1990.
= Back to homepage