Publications

# 日本語版の発表論文リストはこちら (The publication list in Japanese is here. )

REVIEWED PAPERS

  1. F. Akasaka and K. Watanabe: Towards Building Infrastructure for Living Lab Practices. The Transactions of Human Interface Society, Vol. 24, No.1, in-printing, 2022.
  2. F. Akasaka, M. Nakatani, M. Ihara and M. Motoe: How to Promote Co-creation with Citizens in Living Labs - Analysis based on a Living Lab Practice in a Disaster Public Housing for the Great East Japan Earthquake. Bulletin of Japanese Society for Science of Design, Vol. 67, No. 3, 19-28, 2021. (in Japanese)
  3. F. Akasaka and M. Nakatani: Living Lab Pattern Cards: Cards and Workshop for Sharing Living Lab Know-how among Practitioners. Japanese Journal of Servicelogy, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 1-12, 2020. (in Japanese) [PDF]
  4. F. Akasaka, M. Yasuoka, M. Nakatani, A. Kimura and M. Ihara: Patterns for Living Lab Practice: Describing Key Know-how to Promote Service Co-creation with users. International Journal of Automation Technology, Special issue on Value Creation in Production, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 769-778, 2020. https://doi.org/10.20965/ijat.2020.p0769 [PDF]
  5. F. Akasaka, M. Nakatani and A. Kimura: Visualization of diverse research approaches on service design and discussions on their collaborations. Japanese Journal of Servicelogy, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 10-17, 2020. (in Japanese) [PDF]
  6. M. Nakatani, Ai Nakane, F. Akasaka, Yoko Ishii and Masahiro Watanabe: Potential of the dialogue in the living lab: Case study on "Service Lab for Nurturing". The Transactions of Human Interface Society, Vol.21, No.4, pp.391-404, 2019. (in Japanese) https://doi.org/10.11184/his.21.4_391 [PDF]
  7. G. Pezzotta, F. Pirola, R. Pinto, F. Akasaka and Y. Shimomura: A Service Engineering framework to design and assess an integrated Product-Service. Mechatronics, Special issue on the 11th IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 31, pp. 169-179, Elsevier, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2015.05.010
  8. Y. Nemoto, F. Akasaka and Y. Shimomura: A Framework for Managing and Utilizing Product-Service System Design Knowledge. Production Planning & Control, Special issue on Organisational Transformation in Servitization, Vol. 26, Issue 3, Taylor & Francis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2015.1033493
  9. Y. Shimomura, Y. Nemoto, F. Akasaka, R. Chiba and K. Kimita: A Method for Designing Customer-Oriented Demand Response Aggregation Service. CIRP Annals -Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 63, No.1, pp. 413-416, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2014.03.117
  10. S. Hosono, F. Akasaka, K. Kimita and Y. Shimomura:Design Method and Lifecycle Management for Cloud-Compliant Web Services. Transactions of the JSME - C, Vol. 79, No. 808, pp. 504-519, 2013. (in Japanese) https://doi.org/10.1299/kikaic.79.5029 [PDF]
  11. R. Chiba, F. Akasaka, T. Tateyama and Y. Shimomura: Resource Allocation Design using Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization for Service Improvement. Journal of JIMA, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp.377-385, 2013. (in Japanese) https://doi.org/10.11221/jima.64.377 [PDF]
  12. Y. Shimomura, Y. Nemoto, F. Akasaka and K. Kimita: A Method for Negotiating Various Customer Requirements for Public Service Design. Axioms, Special issue on Axioms of Decision Support System, Vol. 3, No.1, pp. 1-9, 2013. https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms3010001 [PDF]
  13. Y. Shimomura, K. Kimita, T. Tateyama, F. Akasaka and Y. Nemoto: A method for human resource evaluation to realize high-quality PSSs. CIRP Annals -Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 62, No.1, pp. 471-474, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2013.03.061
  14. K. Fujita, F. Akasaka, K. Kimita, Y. Nemoto, Y. Kurita and Y. Shimomura: Supporting Idea Generation in Business Design in Manufacturing Industries. International Journal of CAD/CAM, Vol.13, No.2, pp. 63-71, Paper Number 6, 2013.
  15. F. Akasaka, R. Chiba and Y. Shimomura: Methods for Receiver-oriented Service Improvement Design - Through an Improvement of a Construction / Maintenance Service for Utility Facilities. Journal of JIMA, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 94-105, 2013. (in Japanese) https://doi.org/10.11221/jima.64.94 [PDF]
  16. K. Kimita, F. Akasaka, T. Ohta, S. Hosono and Y. Shimomura: Dependency Analysis for Service Modular Design. Journal of JSPE, Vol.78, No.5, pp. 395-400, 2012. (in Japanese) https://doi.org/10.2493/jjspe.78.395 [PDF]
  17. Y. Nemoto, F. Akasaka, R. Chiba and Y. Shimomura: Establishment of a Function Embodiment Knowledge Base for Supporting Service Design. Science China Information Sciences, Special Focus on: Design and Digital Engineering, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 1008-1018, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-012-4561-3
  18. F. Akasaka, Y. Nemoto, K. Kimita and Y. Shimomura: Development of a Knowledge-Based Design Support System for Product-Service Systems. Computers in Industry, Special issue on: Product Service System Engineering - From Theory to Industrial Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 309-318, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2012.02.009
  19. F. Akasaka, Y. Nemoto, K. Kimita and Y. Shimomura: Service Design Knowledge Management based on Input-Output Function Representation. Journal of JSPE, Vol.77, No.11, pp. 1050-1056, 2011. (in Japanese) https://doi.org/10.2493/jjspe.77.1050 [PDF]
  20. K. Watanabe, M. Yamagishi, F. Akasaka and Y. Shimomura: Proposal of the unified methodology of revenue management and service design. The Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, Special issue on: Pricing and revenue Models in the New Service Economy, Vol. 9. No. 3, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1057/rpm.2010.9
  21. F. Akasaka, K. Kimita and Y. Shimomura: Development of a Tool to Analyze Customer Values for B2B Service Design. Transactions of the JSME - C, Vol. 76, No. 771, pp. 2782-2790, 2010. (in Japanese) https://doi.org/10.1299/kikaic.76.2782 [PDF]
  22. K. Kimita, F. Akasaka, A. Öhrwall Rönnbäck, T. Sakao and Y. Shimomura: Requirement Analysis for User-Oriented Service Design. Asian International Journal of Science and Technology – Production and Manufacturing Engineering, Vol. 2, No.3, pp. 11-23, 2009.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS (REFEREED)

  1. F. Akasaka and M. Nakatani: Citizen Involvement in Service Co-creation in Urban Living Labs. In Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS2021), 10 pages, 1/2021 (*Online Presentation).
  2. A. Kimura, M. Hayashi, F. Akasaka and M. Ihara: Sustainable regional management model with person-centred Living Lab. In Proceedings of the Open Living Lab Days 2019.
  3. M. Ihara, M. Hayashi, F. Akasaka, A. Kimura and H. Watanabe: How to co-design with citizens for successful living lab?. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference in Human-Computer Interaction (HCII2019), pp. 237-252, Florida, U.S.A., 2019.
  4. F. Akasaka, A. Kimura, M. Ihara and M. Yasuoka: How to make successful Living Labs? : Extraction and description of key know-hows for Living Lab projects. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Serviceology (ICServ2018), Society for Serviceology, Taichung, Taiwan, 11/2018.
  5. A. Kimura, F. Akasaka, K. Kusano, H. Watanabe, and M. Ihara: Feature analysis of hypothesis-search and hypothesis-verification type Living Labs. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Serviceology (ICServ2018), Society for Serviceology, Taichung, Taiwan, 11/2018.
  6. M. Yasuoka, A. Kimura, F. Akasaka and M. Ihara: From Closed to Open: living lab as eco system for supporting people with Dementia Dementia, Dementia Lab Workshop, Newcastle, UK, 8/2018.
  7. M. Yasuoka, F. Akasaka, A. Kimura and M. Ihara: LIVING LABS AS A METHODOLOGY FOR SERVICE DESIGN - AN ANALYSIS BASED ON CASES AND DISCUSSIONS FROM A SYSTEMS APPROACH VIEWPOINT. In Proceedings of the 15th International Design Conference, pp. 127-136, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 5/2018.
  8. F. Akasaka, T. Ohno, and M. Yasuoka: Challenges to Deploy Service Design in Organizations: Analysis through “Scaling Up” Workshops, In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Serviceology (ICServ2015), Society for Serviceology, San Jose, USA, 7/2015.
  9. Y. Nemoto, K. Uei, H. Tanaka, F. Akasaka, K. Kimita K. Sato and Y. Shimomura: Visualizing Common and Collision Requirements of Multiple Stakeholders for Service Improvement. In Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Precision Engineering (ICPE), pp. 843-844, the Japan Society of Precision Engineering, Ishikawa, Japan, 2014.
  10. K. Kawase, J. Shindo, Y. Nemoto, F. Akasaka and Y. Shimomura: A Method for Visualizing Service Values Using Monte Carlo Simulation. In Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Precision Engineering (ICPE), pp. 317-320, the Japan Society of Precision Engineering, Ishikawa, Japan, 2014.
  11. G. Pezzotta, R. Pinto, F. Pirola, S. Cavalieri, F. Akasaka and Y. Shimomura: Service Engineering and Reengineering Framework: an application in a PSS context. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems 2013 (APMS 2013), Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 8/2013.
  12. J. Saito, Y. Kurita, F. Akasaka and Y. Shimomura: A Method for Structuring Service Failure Factors to Realize Highly Reliable Services, In Proceedings of 2013 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering (ACDDE 2013), Vol.1, pp. 509-518, CD-ROM, Seoul, Korea, 8/2013.
  13. Y. Nemoto, F. Akasaka and Y. Shimomura: A Knowledge Management Method for Supporting Conceptual Design of Product-Service Systems. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conference - IDETC2013 -, CD-ROM, The American Society for Mechanical Engineering (ASME), Portland, U.S.A., 8/2013.
  14. Y. Nemoto, F. Akasaka and Y. Shimomura: Model-based Framework for Management of PSS Design Knowledge. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design -ICED13-, CD-ROM, Seoul, Korea, 8/2013.
  15. F. Akasaka, Y. Nemoto and Y. Shimomura: Product-Service Systems Design focusing on System Aspect: Total Value Creation for Various Stakeholders. In Proceedings of CIRP, IPS2 Conference 2013, pp. 371-382, CIRP, Bochum, Germany, 3/2013
  16. K. Kimita, F. Akasaka and Y. Shimomura: A Method for Exploring PSS Technologies Based on Customer Needs. In Proceedings of CIRP, IPS2 Conference 2013, pp. 215-225, CIRP, Bochum, Germany, 3/2013.
  17. Y. Nemoto, F. Akasaka and Y. Shimomura: Knowledge-Based Design Support System for Conceptual Design of Product-Service Systems. In Proceedings of CIRP, IPS2 Conference 2013, pp. 41-52, CIRP, Bochum, Germany, 3/2013.
  18. K. Ota, Y. Kurita, F. Akasaka, K. Kimita and Y. Shimomura: Extraction of Customers’ Potential Requirements using Service Scenario Planning. In Proceedings of CIRP, IPS2 Conference 2013, pp. 63-74, CIRP, Bochum, Germany, 3/2013.
  19. K. Fujita, F. Akasaka, K. Kimita, Y. Nemoto, Y. Kurita and Y. Shimomura: Supporting Idea Generation in Business Design in Manufacturing Industries, In Proceedings of 2012 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering (ACDDE 2012), Vol.1, CD-ROM, Niseko, Japan, 12/2012.
  20. F. Akasaka, N. H. Nguyen, Y. Nemoto, B. Lenz, Y. Shimomura and R. Stark: Adaptation of the Service Self Checklist for Industrial Product-Service Systems. In Proceedings of CIRP, IPS2 Conference 2012, pp. 499-504, CIRP, Tokyo, Japan, 11/2012.
  21. Y. Nemoto, F. Akasaka and Y. Shimomura: A Knowledge-Based Design Support Method for Product-Service Contents Design. In Proceedings of CIRP, IPS2 Conference 2012, pp. 49-54, CIRP, Tokyo, Japan, 11/2012.
  22. F. Akasaka, K. Fujita and Y. Shimomura: PSS Business Case Map: Supporting Idea Generation in PSS Design. In Proceedings of the 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conference - IDETC2012 -, CD-ROM, The American Society for Mechanical Engineering (ASME), Chicago, U.S.A., 8/2012.
  23. F. Akasaka, Y. Nemoto, R. Chiba, and Y. Shimomura: Development of PSS Design Support System: Knowledge-based Design Support and Qualitative Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 45th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, pp. 271-278, CIRP, Athens, Greece, 5/2012.
  24. Y. Nemoto, F. Akasaka, and Y. Shimomura: Development of a System for Knowledge-based Product-Service System Design Support. In Proceeding of the 12th International Design Conference, pp. 259-268, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 5/2012.
  25. Y. Nemoto, F. Akasaka, and Y. Shimomura: Establishment of a Function Embodiment Knowledge Base for Supporting Service Design. In Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering 2011, CD-ROM, Shanghai, China, 8/2011.
  26. S. Hosono, H. Huang, K. Kimita, F. Akasaka, Y. Shimomura, T. Hara, and T. Arai: Architecture Design and Assessment with Design Matrix. In Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Service - IEEE SERVICES 2011 -, CD-ROM, IEEE, Washington DC, U.S.A., 7/2011.
  27. R. Chiba, F. Akasaka, T. Tateyama, K. Watanabe, and Y. Shimomura: Contents Parameter Design using Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization for Service Improvement. In Proceedings of the 44th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, CIRP, CD-ROM, Madison, U.S.A., 6/2011.
  28. F. Akasaka, R. Chiba, and Y. Shimomura: An Engineering Method to Support Customer-Oriented Service Improvement. In Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP IPS2 Conference, pp. 87-92, CIRP, Braunschweig, Germany, 5/2011.
  29. S. Hosono, K. Kimita, F. Akasaka, T. Hara, Y. Shimomura and T. Arai: Toward Establishing Design Methods for Cloud-based Systems. In Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP IPS2 Conference, pp. 195-200, CIRP, Braunschweig, Germany, 5/2011.
  30. Y. Shimomura, K. Watanabe, F. Akasaka, and K. Kimita: Fan Out of Japanese Service Engineering –the State of the Art-. In Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP IPS2 Conference, pp. 15-20, CIRP, Braunschweig, Germany, 5/2011.
  31. F. Akasaka, S. Hosono, M. Nakajima, K. Kimita, and Y. Shimomura: Requirement Analysis for Improvement of Product-Service Systems. In Proceedings of the 11th International Design Conference, CD-ROM, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 5/2010.
  32. K. Kimita, F. Akasaka, S. Hosono, and Y., Shimomura: Design Method for Life Cycle Oriented Product-Service Systems Development Design. In Proceedings of the 43rd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, CD-ROM, Vienna, Austria, 5/2010.
  33. R. Chiba, F. Akasaka, Y. Shimomura, T. Tateyama, and T. Arai: Contents Quality Design Considering Corporate Resource with Service Engineering. In Proceedings of the 11th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, CD-ROM, 5/2010.
  34. F. Akasaka, S. Hosono, K. Kimita, M. Nakajima, and Y. Shimomura: Requirement Analysis for Strategic Improvement of a B2B Service. In Proceedings of the 2nd CIRP IPS2 Conference, pp. 117-124, Linköping, Sweden, 4/2010.
  35. K. Watanabe, K. Kimita, F. Akasaka and Y. Shimomura: Requirements Analysis and Negotiation for Feasible Service Development. In Proceedings of the 35th Design Automation Conference, The American Society for Mechanical Engineering (ASME), DETC2009-87698, San Diego, U.S.A., 8/2009.
  36. K. Kimita, F. Akasaka, S. Hosono and Y. Shimomura: Design Method for Concurrent PSS Development. In Proceedings of the 2nd CIRP IPS2 Conference, pp. 283-290, Linköping, Sweden, 4/2010.
  37. F. Akasaka, S. Hosono, K. Yamamura, Y. Shimomura and T. Arai: A Method for Analyzing Customer Requirements in a B2B Service. In Proceedings of the 9th Japan Korea Design Engineering Workshop, pp. 7-12, Okinawa, Japan, 10/2009.
  38. K. Kimita, F. Akasaka, A. Öhrwall Rönnbäck, T. Sakao, and Y. Shimomura: Requirement Analysis for User-Oriented Service Design. In Proceedings of the 42nd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, CD-ROM, Grenoble, France, 6/2009.

BOOKS

  1. Y. Shimomura, K. Kimita and F. Akasaka: Advanced Japanese Service Design: From Elements to Relations. In Handbook of Sustainable Engineering, pp. 549-574, Joanne Kauffman, Kun-Mo Lee (eds.), Springer, ISBN-978-1-4020-8938-1, 2013.

INVITED PAPERS, TALKS, LECTURES (INTERNATIONAL)

  1. Y. Shimomura and F. Akasaka: Toward Product-Service System Engineering: New system engineering for PSS utilization. Keynote paper and talk, CIRP IPS2 Conference 2013, pp. 27-40, CIRP, Bochum, Germany, 3/2013.
  2. F. Akasaka: Japanese Service Engineering. Keynote talk (Video), The XVII Summer School "Francesco Turco" -2012, Naples, Italy, 9/2012.
  3. F. Akasaka: Japanese Service Engineering and Product-Service Systems. Invited Special Lecture at University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy, 5/2012.
  4. F. Akasaka: Service Engineering and Service Explorer. Invited Special Lecture at Fraunhofer IPK and Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 9/2011.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, POSTERS, WORKSHOPS (INTERNATIONAL)

  1. IRIDeS and NTT: New Horizon of IRIDeS-NTT Innovative Research. The 2nd World Bosai Forum, Sendai, Japan, 11/2019.
  2. G. Pezzotta, F. Pirola, F. Akasaka, S. Cavalieri and Y. Shimomura: P. Gaiardelli: A Service Engineering framework to design and configure a Product-Service Systems, The 11th IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 8/2013.
  3. G. Pezzotta, F. Akasaka, S. Cavalieri, Y. Shimomura and P. Gaiardelli: A Method to Extract Uncertainty Elements for Service Design, The XVII Summer School "Francesco Turco" -2012, Naples, Italy, 9/2012.