[English / Japanese]

UEMURA Shunsuke

Contact address: 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Graduate School of Information Science
Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics
Database Laboratory

Room: A714

Telephone: +81-743-72-5330

Facsimile: +81-743-72-5339

E-mail: uemura@is.naist.jp

URL: http://db-www.naist.jp/~uemura/(This page.)

At the Singapore zoo, 1999 (a propo in Japanese)

Professor,

Graduate School of Information Science,

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

1. BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Shunsuke Uemura is a professor at the Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. He has been a member of the research staff at MITI's Electrotechnical Laboratory, a visiting researcher at MIT's Electronic Systems Laboratory, and a professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. He received a BE, an ME, and a Dr. Eng. from Kyoto University in 1944, 1946 and 1975 respectively. His research interests include database systems and bioinformatics. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and the fellow of the IEICE and the Information Processing Society of Japan.

2. EDUCATION

Educational institution	Location	Degrees	Year
Kyoto University	Kyoto, Japan	Dr. Eng.,	1975
Kyoto University	Kyoto, Japan	M. Eng.,	1966
Kyoto University	Kyoto, Japan	B. Eng.,	1964

3. PERSONAL HISTORY

1999-2001	Nara Institute of Science and Technology Dean, Graduate School of Information Science
1993-present	Nara Institute of Science and Technology Professor, Graduate School of Information Science
1988-1993	Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Professor, Faculty of Engineering
1981-1988	Electrotechnical Laboratory, MITI Chief, Programming Language Section
1970-1971	Electronic Systems Laboratory, MIT, Visiting Scientist
1966-1980	Electrotechnical Laboratory, MITI, Researcher

4. List of Major Publications [For complete list of publications including many articles in Japanese, click here.]

Database engineering

[1] S. Uemura, An Introduction to Database Systems, 237 pages, OHMsha-press, 1979. This book is one of the first technical contributions to the field of database engineering in Japan. It has been widely accepted and used for courses at many universities.

[2] S. Uemura, T. Yuba, A. Kokubu, R. Ooomote and Y. Sugawara, The Design and Implementation of a Magnetic Bubble Database Machine, Information Processing 80, pp. 433 - 438, Oct. 1980. This paper describes the national project the candidate headed. It discusses an architecture of a database machine using magnetic bubble memory. The experimental machine was demonstrated at the IFIP World Congress 80 held in Tokyo, Japan, where the paper was also presented. (Principal author and leader of group).

[3] S. Uemura, INTREX Subject/Title Inverted File Characteristics, M.I.T. ESL-TM-454, vii + 89 pages, Oct. 1971.

[4] S. Uemura, An Introduction to Database Systems, 237 pages, OHMsha-press, 1979. This book is one of the first technical contributions to the field of database engineering in Japan. It has been widely accepted and used for courses at many universities.

[5] S. Uemura, T. Yuba, A. Kokubu, R. Ooomote and Y. Sugawara, ?gThe Design and Implementation of a Magnetic Bubble Database Machine,?h Information Processing 80, pp. 433 - 438, Oct. 1980. This paper describes the national project the candidate headed. It discusses an architecture of a database machine using magnetic bubble memory. The experimental machine was demonstrated at the IFIP World Congress ‘80 held in Tokyo, Japan, where the paper was also presented. (Principal author and leader of group).

[6] S. Uemura and M. Maekawa, Database Machine, 158 pages, Information Processing Society of Japan/OHMsha-press, 1980. This technical book introduces and discusses the research trends on database machines. It was published as a series of books commemorating the 20th anniversary of the IPSJ. (Principal author).

[7]T. Yuba, R. Ooomote, S. Uemura, A. Kokubu and Y. Sugawara, Control System and its Behavior in ETL Database Computer (EDC), Systems\Computers\Controls Vol.13, No. 1, pp. 1-9, April 1982. (Leader of group).

[8] M. Yoshikawa, O. Ichikawa and S. Uemura, Amalgamating SGML Documents and Databases, Proc. of EDBT'96 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1057, pp. 259-274), 1996. (Leader of group).

[9]S. Uemura, H. Arisawa, M. Arikawa and Y. Kiyoki, Digital Media Information Base, IEICE Trans., Vol. E82-D, No. 1, pp. 22-33, Jan. 1999. (Principal author and leader of group).

[10] T. Shimura, M. Yoshikawa and S. Uemura, Storage and Retrieval of XML Documents using Object-Relational Databases, Proc. DEXA'99 (LNCS Vol.1677, pp. 206-217), 1999. (Leader of group).

[11] K. Munakata, M. Yoshikawa and S. Uemura, Integrating Periodic Data Sequences Based on Freshness and Synchronousness, Proc. 10th IEEE Workshop RIDE, Feb. 2000. (Leader of group).

[12] M. Yoshikawa, H. Kinutani, Y. Yamamoto, H. Kato and S. Uemura, Identification of Query Result Subdocuments and Reverse Indices in XML Databases, in Advances in Databases and Multimedia for the New Century - A Swiss/ Japanese Perspective -, World Scientific Publishing, ISBN 981-02-4310-3, April 2000. (Leader of group).

[13] Y.Sakurai, M.Yoshikawa, S.Uemura and H. Kojima, The A-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Spaces Using Relative Approximation, Proc. 26th Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB2000), pp.516-526, Sept. 2000. (Leader of group).

[14] Dao Dinh Kha, M. Yoshikawa and S. Uemura, An XML Indexing Structure with Relative Region Coordinate, Proc. 17th IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE2001), pp.313-320, April 2001.(Leader of group).

[15] M. Yoshikawa, T. Amagasa, T. Shimura and S. Uemura, XRel: A Path-Based Approach to Storage and Retrieval of XML Documents using Relational Databases, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 110-141, June 2001. (Leader of group).

[16] Y. Sakurai, M. Yoshikawa, R. Kataoka and S. Uemura, Similarity Search for Adaptive Ellipsoid Queries Using Spatial Transformation, Proc. 27th Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB2001), pp. 231-240, Sept. 2001. (leader of group).

[17] S. Uemura, T. Amagasa and M. Yoshikawa, Heijo -- A Video Database System for Retrieving Semantically Coherent Video Information, in Nontraditional Database Systems - Results from the Japanese Project on Advanced Databases, IPSJ and Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, 2002. (Principal author and leader of group, to appear)

Internationalization of Database Systems

[18] A. Maeda, M. Yoshikawa and S. Uemura, A Query Disambiguation Method for Cross Language Information Retrieval using Web Documents, IPSJ Trans., Vol. 41, No. SIG6 (TOD7), pp. 12-21, October 2000. (Leader of group).

[19] A. Maeda, Q.Y. Guan, M. Yoshikawa and S. Uemura, Automatic Identification of Coding Systems and Languages of Web Documents, IEICE Trans., D-II, pp. 150-158, January 2001. (Leader of group).

Programming Languages and Standardization

[20] H. Nishimura and S. Uemura, COBOL primer, 326 pages, OHMsha-press, Japan (First edition, 1969, New Edition 1990). (Co-author).

5. Academic Activities, Committee membership, Awards

1985, 1986	PC member, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
1986-1988	Director, Information Processing Society of Japan
1987	Organizing Committee member, 5th International Workshop on Database Machines (IWDM87)
1992-present	Councilor, Database Promotion Center, Japan
1990-present	Advisory Committee Member, TC on Data Engineering, IEICE Japan
1997-2001	Area editor for multi-media and databases, IEEE Computer magazine

1998-present	Editorial Advisor, Trans. on Databases, IPSJ Japan
1998-present	Advisory Committee Member, ACM/SIGMOD Japan
1999-	Area advisor to JST CREST program Information Technology for daily life

1999	IPSJ/ITSCJ Standardization Contribution Award
2000	Ministry of International Trade and Industry Award for Individuals, MITI
2000	Contribution award from the Japan Society of Arcaeological Information
2001	Fellow awarded from the Information Processing Society of Japan
2002	Fellow awarded from the Institute of Electronics, Information, Communications Engineers of Japan
2003	Fellow awarded from The Institute for Electric and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)