Open Technologies Research Laboratory

Introduction

OpenTech now has a dedicated research department, Open technologies Research Laboratory (OTRL).
OTRL is staffed with specialists from a variety of disciplines, including engineers with advanced academic degrees in information technology. Our specialized staff is capable of conducting innovative research in the IT field and providing solutions for the increasingly complex interdisciplinary engineering challenges of opensource software engineering and messaging technology. We regularly hold informative seminars and publish books on information technology and software engineering. OTRL is interested in developing partnerships and collaborating with universities, academic institutions, standardization bodies, and NPOs.

Fields of Research

• Informatics, systems theory
• Linguistics, cognitive science, knowledge science
• Information science, computer science, information engineering, software engineering
• Free software, opensource software
• Information security
• Design studies, information design studies
• Mechanical engineering, control engineering, measurement engineering, robotics, transport engineering
• Energy studies, atomic energy studies, environmental engineering
• Applied mathematics, mathematical statistics
• Safety, environmental studies, medicine, pharmacy
• Intellectual property of software, software license
• Business model, business process

Stuff

• Director: Morihisa MITA, CEO
• Senior Adviser: Shinichi KONDO, Ph.D.
• Chief Researcher: Motoyuki Mos SANO, Ph.D.
• Chief Researcher: Takaaki HIGUCHI
• Visiting Chief Researcher: Akira KURAHONE, Ph.D.
• Senior Researcher: Yasutaka SAKAYORI
• Senior Researcher: Keisuke HONDA, Ph.D.
• Researcher: All tecnical engineers

Project Types

• Whole-company projects
• In house group projects
• Indivisual projects
• Collaboration projects with external groups

Rchievements

Publications

Selected Publications (after 2000)

Opensource Projects (sponsored by IPA)

• IIOSS Project
  Object-oriented design tool, development environment of prototyping and support tools for components building
• OpenMDA Project
  A real-time system software development environment on opensource using object-oriented development methods and language
• OpenDesktop Project
  R&D of tools to facilitate the use of OpenOffice.org
• HOOP Project
  R&D of opensource ERP system

Collaboration with universities, academic institutions, standardization bodies, and NPOs

R&D Projects
• Contents management system for digital contents to promote 2nd use: Waseda University
• Learning support system: Research and Development Center for Higher Education, Hitotsubashi University

Individual research projects
• Motoyuki mos Sano, "A Global Behavior Analyzer for UML Models", a doctoral dissertation, School of Science and Technology, Meiji Univ. (Kanagawa, Japan), 2006/3/26.