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Hideyasu Sasaki is a graduate from the University of Tokyo (1994). He received an LLM from the University of Chicago Law School (1999), a MS (2001) and a PhD (2003) in cybernetic knowledge engineering (media and governance) with honors from Keio University. He is an associate professor in the Department of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan). He was an assistant professor at Keio University from 2003 to 2005. His research interests include knowledge management (decision making theory and strategic decision science decision) and organizational and collective intelligence computing (support systems and e-negotiation). He is an active co-chair at the ICIW-SLAECE Workshop program committee and a program committee member at ICADL, EJC, etc. He was granted with the ICIW/SLAECE Best Paper Award in 2008. He has published more than forty articles world-wide in the recent five years. Since 2000, he has been admitted to practice as an Attorney-and-Counselor at Law in the New York State Bar.