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The International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS) aims to facilitate technology and knowledge exchange between international researchers/scholars in the field of knowledge science, information systems, and system science and creativity support systems intensively. The conference will cover a broad range of research topics in the fields of knowledge engineering and science, information technology, creativity support systems and complex system modeling.

Main organizer: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)

Associated Conferences:

• Knowledge Creation Support System Symposium** (2004-2011; 知識創造支援システム・シンポジウムを; successor: Forum for Knowledge Co-Creation (FoKCs; 回知識共創フォーラム))
  (Co-organizer: JAIST Knowledge Science Education and Research Center; Japan Creativity Society)

Conference History:

20th KICSS 2025, December 3-5, 2025, Nagaoka City, Japan

Conference Theme: Knowledge, Information, and Creativity for a Sustainable Society
(Organizer: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE); Knowledge Media Laboratory, Department of Information and Management Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology)

Conference program TBD

Invited Sessions:
Information Technology for Creativity (CANCELLED?)

Invited Talks:
A Personal Perspective of The Original KJ Method: Creative Technique, Creative Problem-Solving Process, and its Potential in the 21st Learning
AI for Inclusive Public Deliberation and Social Cohesion

Sessions:
Creativity Research and Human-AI Collaboration
LLM Foundation Technology and Evaluation
LLM Applications and AI Dialogue
Educational Systems and Learning Support
Mental Health and Well-being
Collaborative Learning and Groupwork
Data Analysis and Machine Learning Applications
Business and Creativity
Social Systems, Policy and Dialogue

Poster Session

19th KICSS 2024, December 5-7, 2024, Bali, Indonesia

(Organizer: School of Computer Science, Bina Nusantara University; STIKOM Bali, Institut Teknologi Dan Bisnis)

Keynotes:
The Gravity of Social Interactions: Understanding Personality Shifts via Temporal Graphs and Deep Learning
Beyond Tacit Knowledge: Uncovering the True Essence of Expert Excellence
Advances in Human Activity Recognition: Intelligent Systems and Real-World Applications

Invited Talks:
Synergizing Finance and Technology: Machine Learning, Blockchain, and Risk Management in Banking
Paradigm Shift – Virtual Commodities in the Virtual World

Technical Sessions: (3)
Titles n.a.

Sessions: (2)
Titles n.a.

Panel Discussion: (1)
CANCELLED

18th KICSS 2023, September 20-22, 2023, Kitakyushu, Japan

(Organizer: Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University; Graduate School of Engineering, Mie University)

Keynotes:
Enhancing Human Creativity Through the Synergy of Cognitive and Connectionist Models
Data quality as a prerequisite for the success and sustainability of emerging technologies, business, and society: no data quality, no party
Toward Care Forecasting Services in JST Future Society Creation Project

Invited Talks:
The Challenge and Opportunity of Artificial Intelligence in Health care Industries: The Hope, The Hype and the Real world impact
International Research Collaborations with the Third World

Conference Sessions:
Social media, Network and Systems
Automatic Recognition Tools
Educational Support Tools & Technologies
AI, NLP, and NLG Technologies

17th KICSS 2022, November 23-25, 2022, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

(Host: Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University)

Keynotes:
Innovation as History Making: From the Humanities Perspective
Building a Smart Society Using Open-Source Hardware and Co-Creation
Opinion Informatics

Conference Sessions:
Natural Language Processing
Learning Support
Decision Support Systems
Creative Support and Collaboration
Machine Learning and Data Science
Research Abstracts
Student Abstracts

16th KICSS 2021, November 24-26, 2021, Bangkok, Thailand / Virtual venue

(Host: Thammasat University, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology; Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand; National Electronics and Computer Technology Center; Chulalongkorn University)

Note: The conference was originally scheduled for November 10-12, 2021, no program for Nov 26 available.

Keynotes:
Artificial Intelligent Robots
Towards AI-based Participatory Planning Deliberation: Empowering Crowd Identify Neighborhood Issues and Its Solutions for Policy Makers in Kabul City
New Trends of Polarization Detection Techniques in Online Discussions
Toward Developing Agents Supporting Evidence-based Consensus Building
A framework for Thai real-time verbal human-robot interactive communication

Conference Sessions:
Creativity Support and Collaborative, Decision Support Systems; Knowledge and Ontology, Machine Learning, Natural Language processing

Special Conference Sessions: (CANCELLED)
Urban Computing
Big Data Analytics

Co-located Conferences:
IEEE International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE), Nov 10-12

15th KICSS 2020, 25 – 27 November 2020, Hobart, TAS, Australia Virtual venue

(Host: University of Tasmania, School of Technology, Environments and Design, Information & Communication Technology discipline)

Invited Talks:
AI in medicine
D-Agree: Crowd-scale Consensus Support System based on Automated Facilitation agent

Conference Sessions:
Machine learning and creativity
Idea evaluation and innovation

14th KICSS 2019, 21 – 23 November 2019, Hoa Sen University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

(Host: Hoa Sen University)

Keynotes:
Human Resource in Digital Transformation
Augmented classrooms and creative thinking workspaces: Introducing digital pens for realizing instant communication and collaborations
Machine Learning-Based Knowledge Discovery on Topic Modeling

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.

13th KICSS 2018, 15 – 17 November 2018, Pattaya, Thailand

(Host: Burapha University)

Conference program n.a.

Topics:
Cognitive foundations of knowledge
Commonsense knowledge
Data mining and knowledge discovery
E-learning, E-content, E-knowledge
Game-theoretical aspects of knowledge
Knowledge in multi-agent systems
Implementation issues in KBS
Knowledge extraction
Information extraction
Knowledge complexity
Knowledge metrics
Knowledge creation and acquisition
Knowledge dissemination
Knowledge in complex systems
Knowledge integration
Knowledge management applications Knowledge management strategies/practices
Knowledge management support systems
Knowledge management systems
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Knowledge sciences and technologies
Knowledge verification and validation
Knowledge-based e-commerce
Knowledge-based software engineering
Knowledge-based systems in life sciences
Logics of knowledge
Formal analysis of knowledge
Reasoning about knowledge
Uncertainty in knowledge
…

Keynote/Invited Talks:
n.a.

Guest Talks:
n.a.

Special Sessions: (TBC)
Urban Computing
Big Data Analytics

Conference Sessions:
n.a.

Co-located conferencees:
13th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2018)

12th KICSS 2017, 9 – 11 November 2017, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan

(Host: Takayuki Ito Laboratory, Nagoya Institute of Technology)

Keynotes:
Building Safe Smart Environment using the DynaCollect Service-Oriented Things Framework
Enhancing Creativity through Innovative Design Thinking

Special Invited Talks:
Multi-agent Solutions for Complex Systems

Conference Sessions:
AI and Multiagent Systems
Knowledge Creation and Sharing, and Management
Emerging Technologies
E-Activities and Systems
Work-in-progress Papers

11th KICSS 2016, November 10-12, 2016, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

(Host: Bina Nusantara University)

Conference program n.a.

Topics:
Cognitive foundations of knowledge
Collaborative knowledge creation
Future Internet and knowledge-based society
Future perspectives of knowledge, information, and creativity support
Game-theoretical aspects of knowledge
Creative visualisation of data and knowledge
Knowledge extraction, creation, and acquisition
Knowledge in multi-agent systems
Knowledge integration
Knowledge management in business, industry, and administration
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Knowledge verification and validation
Reasoning about knowledge
…

10th KICSS 2015, November 12-14, 2015, Phuket, Thailand

(Host: Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University)

Keynotes:
Harnessing Online Large-scale Discussion based on Facilitation and Incentive Mechanisms
Natural Language Processing and Its application to Creativity Support Systems

Invited Talks:
Morphological Control – Applied Embodied Intelligence in Mechanical and Biological Systems
Theoretical Computer Science for Big Data Analysis: Recent Activities in Japan.
Challenges of Mobile Big Data: Methodologies and Applications

Special Sessions:
Creativity Support Systems
Software Engineering

Conference Sessions:
Decision Support Systems
Geographical Information Systems
Natural Language Processing
Creativity Support and Collaborative
Knowledge and Ontology

Workshops:
Collective intelligence and crowd/social computing
Big Data Mining and Internet of Things

9th KICSS 2014, November 6-8, 2014, Limassol, Cyprus

(Host: Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus)

Keynotes:
From Fighting Creative Wars to Making Ordinary Discoveries
The Art of Anticipatory Decision Making

Special Sessions:
Intelligent Network Application

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.

Tutorials:
Discovering the Discovery of the No-Search Approach

8th KICSS 2013, November 7-9, 2013, Kraków & Wieliczka, Poland

Special Conference Theme: Looking into the Future of Creativity and Decision Support Systems
(Host: AGH University of Science and Technology)

Invited Plenary Lectures:
A Japanese problem solving approach: the KJ Ho method

Special Sessions: (TBC)
Creative Thinking about the Future
Modelling Trends and Building Scenarios of IT Future
Multicriteria Analysis vs. Creative Decision Making

Conference Sessions:
Knowledge
Information
Creativity
Creative Decisions
Feature Engineering and Classification
Music and Video

Poster Session

Co-located Events:
Polish Artificial Intelligence Society (PAIS) Annual Assembly

7th KICSS 2012, November 8-10, 2012, Melbourne, Australia

(Host: School of Information and Business Analytics, Deakin University; Clayton School of IT, Monash University)

Keynotes:
Computers and Creativity: Past, Present and Future
Idea-Marathon System
More Things in Heaven and Earth – Complexity, Castrophie and Creativity

Conference Tracks:
Main Conference Track
Intelligent Network Applications
Creativity Mining for Innovative Lifestyle Design

6th KICSS 2011, October 22-24, 2011, Beijing, China

Conference Theme: Creative Economy and Creativity Support
(Host: Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Invited Plenary Talks:
An e-Health Service Framework for Data Integration, Data Mining, and Knowledge Management in Health Informatics
Designing Life Worth Living: Knowledge Creation Media Will Bring Innovative Lifestyle
Wisdom Web of Things (W2T): Fundamental Issues, Challenges and Potential Applications
An Introduction to Process and Mind Innovation by The KJ Method (Innovation Lecture)

Plenary Talks:
On Phronesis and Master-Disciple Education Method in TCM
A Linked Data Model for Semantic E-books
Information Extraction and Text Summarization in Thai Language

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.

Pre-conference Workshops:
Mind and Service Innovation

5th KICSS 2010, November 25-27, 2010, Chiang Mai, Thailand

(Host: Chiang Mai University)

Invited Talks
Deep Knowledge Discovery from Microblogging
Serendipity and Idea-Marathon System (IMS)
Societal Stabilization and Evolution using Linked Open Data
Support for qualitative study of social risk cognition

Conference Sessions:
Knowledge Technology
Human Language Technology
Knowledge Management
Intelligent Systems
Ontological Engineering
Intelligent Systems and Data Mining
Creativity Support Systems
Human Language and Knowledge Technology
E-learning Systems

4th KICSS 2009, November 25-27, 2009, Seoul, Korea

(Host: Korea University)

Invited Talks:
Development of Soundless Olfactory Display for Multimodal Communication

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.

3rd KICSS 2008, December 22-23, 2008, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam

(Host: Hanoi National University of Education)

Invited Talks:
Named Entity-Centred Information Processing
Semantic Data Mining for Creative Knowledge Discovery
Analysis of Effect and Mechanism of “Group Idea-Marathon System” with the Addendum of Creativity Proposal for Vietnam
Fast Behavioral Learning Model for Functional Approximation and Pattern Recognition

Conference Sessions:
Titles n.a.

2nd KICSS 2007, November 5-7, 2007, Nuomi, Japan

(Host: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Note: KICSS 2007 is held jointly with the 8th International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences (KSS2007), branded as International Joint Conference on Knowledge Science (IJCKS 2007)

Invited Talks: (IJCKS)
The Episteme of Knowledge Civilisation
Enabling Knowledge: Is Liberty a Daughter of Knowledge?
Knowledge Science and Creative Management
KJ Method as Field Science
Knowledge Science and Knowledge Management in Thailand
Discovering Comprehensible Knowledge from Data using Ensemble Learning Techniques
Idea-Marathon System (IMS) Supporting a Creative Infrastructure for Group Activity (KICSS Invited Session)

Conference Sessions: (KICSS)
Knowledge Management
Human Factors for Creativity
Knowledge Discovery
Creative Lifelong HealthCare
Organizational Knowledge
Creative Thinking Support
Novel Interaction for Creativity
Creative Thinking Process
Collaborative Working and Learning
Negotiation
Data Mining Techniques

Co-located Conferences:
International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences (KSS2007)

1st KICSS 2006, August 1-4, 2006, Ayutthaya, Thailand

(Host: Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University; Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

Invited Talks:
Idea-Marathon System – Creative Method Through Continuity Effort
Ontology Engineering and Its Applications
Natural Language Processing Based on Knowledge with Degrees of Abstraction

Guest Talks:
Verification of Automatically Constructed Hierarchies of Concepts Categorizing Adjectives – Comparison with Handcrafted Hierarchies
Learner Language Processing for Active Language E-learning

Conference Sessions:
Machine Learning
Knowledge Management
Creativity Support System
Human Language Technology
Machine Learning and Applications