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Takuya Funatomi Editor

Takuya Funatomi is an associate professor in Division of Information Science at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan. He has received a bachelor's degree in Engineering and a master’s degree and PhD in Informatics from Kyoto University in 2002, 2004 and 2007, respectively.

Takahiro Okabe is a professor at Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan. He received a bachelor's and a master's degree in Physics and a PhD in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo in 1997, 1999 and 2011, respectively.