On October 23, 2026, Hiroyasu Inoue presented at the Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance 2026 (VSBF 2026) in Hanoi, Vietnam. The presentation, “News Sentiment and Stock-Price Comovement across Global Customer–Supplier Relationships,” is joint work with Yasuyuki Todo. News about a company may matter not only for that company but also for its suppliers and...
On October 21, 2026, Hiroyasu Inoue presented research results at a reporting meeting for projects supported by the Watanabe Memorial Foundation for the Advancement of New Technology, held at Hosokai Kaikan in Tokyo. The presentation was titled “Analysis of Urban Development Based on Technological Complexity Using Long-Term Patent Data.” Supported by the foundation’s research grant,...
The paper by Arai Takao and Hiroyasu Inoue was published in PLOS One on September 9, 2026. Finding commercially promising inventions among the many patents held by companies and universities requires costly expert review. Licensing provides evidence of commercial value. Predicting which patents are likely to be licensed can help prioritize candidates for closer assessment...
Student report On September 3, 2026, Rikuto Ito, a second-year master’s student in our laboratory, attended the 25th Forum on Information Technology (FIT2026) in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan.
Hiroyasu Inoue contributed an article, “Can Japan’s Economy Withstand a Major Disaster?” (a translation of the Japanese title 「大災害に日本経済は耐えられるか」), to the October 2026 issue of Voice, published by PHP Institute and released on September 4, 2026. The article appears in the issue’s special feature on responding to disasters. Issue information and table of contents (in...
On July 28, 2026, Hiroyasu Inoue gave a poster presentation at the Asahi Glass Foundation’s 2026 Seminar on Grant-Supported Research Findings at Hotel Grand Hill Ichigaya in Tokyo. The presentation was titled “Simulations on Large-scale Firm-trade Networks to Study Resilience under Pandemic.” Supported by the foundation, the study uses simulations of interfirm transaction networks to...
Student report Rikuto Ito, a second-year master’s student in our laboratory, attended the 40th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, held on June 8–12, 2026. The conference took place in a hybrid format at G Messe Gunma in Takasaki, Gunma, and online.
On March 26, 2026, the University of Hyogo held its degree conferral ceremony. We look forward to our graduates’ future achievements. Commemorative photo for the degree conferral ceremony (March 26, 2026)
Student report Rikuto Ito, a first-year master’s student in our laboratory, attended the 38th Symposium on Decentralized Autonomous Systems at Shizuoka University’s Hamamatsu Campus on February 18–19, 2026.
