Yohei Murakami received the Ph.D. degree in informatics from Kyoto University in 2006. He is currently a professor at Ritsumeikan University. He founded IEICE technical committee on services computing in 2009 and served as the first chair of the committee. He has been working on the multilingual service platform called Language Grid for fifteen years. His research interests lie in services computing and multiagent systems.
Kosaku Kimura received the D.Eng. degree from Kyushu University in 2010. He is a Senior Research Manager at Fujitsu Research, Fujitsu Limited (formerly Fujitsu Labs.) After joining Fujitsu Labs in 2010, he had been working on the research and development of software development technologies on cloud services. His research interests are software engineering, model-driven engineering, and services computing. He is now working on a code generation-based automated machine learning (AutoML) technology.