Intorduction
| FAQ | Origin of Iijima Lab. | About IS-FMG |
| About SYSTEM FAMILY | Academic Membership |
What is the condition for joining Iijima laboratory as a master candidate?
Students, who show positive attitudes and great curiosity with a sense of purpose, are welcome. The quality of your research plan will be a significant factor on our decision about whether you can join us or not. Other indispensable conditions include:
- Pass the entrance examination of TITECH.
- Have no difficulty to understand lectures and to discuss in Japanese or English.
Where can I find information on necessary procedures for entrance examinations and scholarships?
Please contact the International Student Division of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tel: +81(3)5734-2503) to get detailed instructions on necessary procedures for entrance examinations, scholarships and so on. Here are some useful links.</ br>
- International Student Division of TITECH
- Prospectus for International Students
- Guide to Graduate Education and International Graduate Course
Which is the definition of Iijima Lab in few words??
Our
lemma is "hard study and joyful live" (yoku benkyou, yoku asobu). We give
special importance to the recreation as part of our continuous education,
we have many activities
that you can check at our HP. It is even mor important for us your assistance
to our recreation activities than anything, here we can know each other
and exchange ideas, concerns and experiences.
I would add something else, "freedom", in Iijima Lab. we can have freedom
of ideas and possibilities to develop them in the academic ambit of the
science and technology, we can always count with the support of our professors.
What are you studying at Iijima Lab.?
Our laboratory's backbone is Systems Theory. This is in few words, logico-mathematical approach to structure, and their relationship behind the phenomena. This logico-mathematical approach is based on strong studies of abstract algebra, topology and simbolic logic during our seminars.
What other interests does Iijima Lab. have?
In addition to above strong theoretical background, our laboratory is currently following these lines of research:
- Business Process Modeling
- Systems Integration based on Business Architecture
- Component based Development
- Application of Text mining & Data mining
- e-Business, m-Commerce
- Web Engineering
- Knowledge ManagementCEvaluation of Information Systems
- Strategic Alliance
- Systems Theory
What about doctoral courses, what are you doing?
Our doctor students are related to following subjects:
- Business Process Modeling
- Systems Integration based on Business Architecture
- Component based Development
- e-Business, m-Commerce
- Web Engineering
- Strategic Alliance
I am foreigner, how could I enter to your program? Is there any scholarship or financial aid to study in Japan?
There are many ways to come to Japan to study with us. The most recommended one
which may count with our full support, is that one sponsored by the Ministry
of Education of Japan, so called "Monbusho Scholarship". If you don't know
about it, please contact you nearest Japanese consulate.
We are eager to receive foreign students to participate in our projects,
so please do not hesitate to contact us in case you have any doubt about
our programs or studies in order to know if it best fits wiht your ideals.
We have also some foreign students that you may address your e-mail
to ask any particular detail, they would reply you on their earliest convenience.
And needless to say, our Prof. Iijima is an open minded profesor with large
experience abroad interested to get in touch with scientifics, students
or profesionals of different nations who share same academic motivations,
please fill free to write him too.
Iijima Laboratory is a member of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, TOKYO TECH. The topics of our research are Systems Theory and Information Systems. The laboratory inherited and works on the research tradition of two famous professors and researches: Dr. Takehiko Matsuda and Dr. Yasuhiko Takahara. Dr. Matsuda was a former student of the Economics Nobel Prize Winner H. A. Simon, while Dr. Takahara was under the wing of one of the founders of the Mathematical Theory of Systems, M. D. Mesarovic.
The tools we use as our instruments of discussion are concepts that belong to the fields of mathematics, such as Set Theory, Abstract Algebra, Topology, Symbolic Logic, etc. The philosophical background we are based on is Structuralism.
We use the concepts of formal theory to represent the structure of some phenomena from the real world, in order to describe it as a system and create a model of it so we can analyze it. </ br>
We call this approach Information Systems Formal Methods Group (IS-FMG). Visually, it can be described in the following way:The System Family is a group whose members are four laboratories from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. They are:
- KIJIMA LABORATORY (Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Department of Value and Decision Science)
- DEGUCHI LABORATORY (Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science)
- IIJIMA LABORATORY (Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management)
- INOHARA LABORATORY (Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Department of Value and Decision Science)
- Japan Society for Management Information (JASMIN) [President: 2006-2007]
- Japan Association for Management Systems
- Japan Society for the Study of Office Automation (JSSOA)
- the Operations Research Society of Japan
- Japan Industrial Management Association (JIMA)