Refereed international journal papers

[1] Tatsushi Nishi, Akihiro Sakata, Shinji Hasebe and Iori Hashimoto, Autonomous Decentralized Scheduling System for Just-in-Time Production, Computers and Chemical Engineering, July 2000, Vol. 24, Nos. 2-7, pp. 345 - 351

[2] Tatsushi Nishi, Ken Sotobayashi, Masakazu Ando and Masami Konishi, An Agent-Based Transportation Route Planning Method for LED Fabricating Line and its Evaluation using Lagrangian Relaxation, JSME International Journal C, March 2003, Vol.146, No.1, pp.18-23

[3] Tatsushi Nishi and Masami Konishi, An Integrated Optimization of Production　Scheduling and Logistics by a Distributed Decision Making: Application to an Aluminum Rolling Processing Line, Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering, 15A, January 2003, pp. 570 - 575

[4] Tatsushi Nishi, Masami Konishi, and Shinji Hasebe, A Decentralized Scheduling Method for Flowshop Problems with Resource Constraints, Electrical Engineering in Japan, Vol. 149, Issue 1, October 2004, pp. 44-51, Wiley

[5] Kazuhiro Ishimaru, Masami Konishi, Jun Imai and Tatsushi Nishi, Application of Sequential Quadratic Programming Method to Temperature Distribution Control in Reactor Furnace, ISIJ International Journal, Vol. 45, No. 3, March 2005, pp. 347-355

[6] Tatsushi Nishi, Masami Konishi, An Augmented Lagrangian Approach to Scheduling Problems - Application to Total Weighted Tardiness Problems, JSME International Journal C Mechanical Systems, Machine Elements and Manufacturing,Vol. 48, No. 2, June 2005, pp. 299-304

[7] Tatsushi Nishi, Masami Konishi, Shinji Hasebe, An Autonomous Decentralized Supply Chain Planning System for Multi-Stage Production Processes, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Vol. 16, No. 3, June 2005, pp. 259-275, Springer

[8] Shuya Imajo, Masami Konishi, Tatsushi Nishi and Jun Imai, Application of Neural Network to Generation of Robot Arm Trajectory, Journal of Artificial Life and Robotics Vol.9, No. 3, July 2005, pp. 107-111, Springer

[9] Tatsushi Nishi, Masakazu Ando and Masami Konishi, Distributed Route Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots using an Augmented Lagrangian Decomposition Technique, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 1191-1200, 2005

[11] Tatsushi Nishi, An Autonomous Decentralized Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling System, Manufacturing the Future -Concepts - Technologies - Vision, pp. 801-828, July 2006

[12] Tatsushi Nishi, Masami Konishi and Masatoshi Ago, A Distributed Decision Making System for Integrated Optimization of Production Scheduling and Distribution for Aluminum Production Line, Computers and Chemical Engineering (to appear), Elsevier

[13] Tatsushi Nishi, Shoichiro Morinaka, Masami Konishi, A Distributed Routing Method for AGVs under Motion Delay Disturbance, Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (to appear), Elsevier

[14] Tatsushi Nishi, Ryuichi Shinozaki, Masami Konishi, An Augmented Lagrangian Approach for Distributed Supply Chain Planning for Multiple Companies, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (to appear), IEEE

[15] Tatsushi Nishi and Ryota Maeno, etri Net Modeling and Decomposition Method for Solving Production Scheduling Problems, Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 262-271, 2007, JSME

[16] Masatoshi Ago, Tatsushi Nishi, Masami Konishi, Simultaneous Optimization of Storage Allocation and Routing Problems for Belt-conveyor Transportation, Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 250-261, 2007, JSME

[17] Haruhiko Tominaga, Tatsushi Nishi, Masami Konishi, Effects of Inventory Control on Bullwhip in Supply Chain Planning for Multiple Companies, International Journal of Innovative Computing Information and Control (to appear).

[18] Satoshi Ikegami, Tatsushi Nishi, Masami Konishi, Force Display for Master Slave Manipulator with Different Configurations, International Journal of Innovative Computing Information and Control (to appear).

[19] Takahiro Furusho, Tatsushi Nishi, Masami Konishi, Distributed Optimization Method for Simultaneous Production Scheduling and Transportation Routing in Semiconductor Fabrication Bays, International Journal of Innovative Computing Information and Control (to appear).

[20] Tatsushi Nishi, Kenichi Shimatani, Masahiro Inuiguchi, Decomposition of Petri Nets and Lagrangian Relaxation for Solving Routing Problems for AGVs, International Journal of Production Research (to appear).

Refereed domestic journal papers

[1] Tatsushi Nishi, Akihiro Sakata, Shinji Hasebe, Iori Hashimoto, Autonomous Decentralized Scheduling System for Flowshop Problems with Storage and Due-date Penalties, Kagaku Kogaku Ronbunshu, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 661-668

[2] Tatsushi Nishi, Shinji Hasebe, Iori Hashimoto, Machine-oriented Decomposition of Flowshop Scheduling Problems Using Lagrangian Relaxation, Transaction of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, May 2001, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 244-251

[3] Tatsushi Nishi, Masami Konishi, Shinji Hasebe，A Decentralized Scheduling Method for Flowshop Problems with Resource Constraints, Transaction of the Institute of Electrical Engineers Japan, July 2003, Vol. 123, No. 7, pp. 1327-1333

[4] Masakazu Ando, Tatsushi Nishi, Masami Konishi, Jun Imai, An Autonomous Decentralized Route Planning Method for Multiple Mobile Robots, Transaction of the Society of Instruments and Control Engineers, August 2003, Vol.38, No. 8, pp. 759-766

[5] Tatsushi Nishi, Masami Konishi, Yutaka Hattori, Shinji Hasebe, A Decentralized Supply Chain Optimization Method for Single Stage Production Systems, Transaction of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, December2003, Vol. 16, No. 12, pp. 629 - 637

[6] Tatsushi Nishi, Shinichiro Yamamoto, Masami Konishi, An Improvement of a Beam Search Method for Warehouse Storage Allocation Planning Problems Minimizing the Number of Operations and the Aggregate Number of Products for Each Customer, Transaction of the Institite of Electrical Engineers Japan C, April 2004, Vol. 124, No. 4, pp. 1029-1035

[7] Masakazu Ando, Tatsushi Nishi, Masami Konishi, A Local Rescheduling Method by a Distributed and Parallel Route Planning System for Multiple AGVs in Dynamic Transportation, Transaction of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, July 2004, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 162- 169

[8] Tatsushi Nishi, Ryuichi Shinozaki, Masami Konishi, A Distributed Optimization System for Supply Chain Planning Among Multi-Companies Using an Augmented Lagrangian Decomposition Method, Transaction of the Society of Instruments and Control Engineers, Vol. 40, No. 6, June 2004, pp. 582-589

[9] Tatsushi Nishi, Distributed Optimization Technique for Supply Chain Management, Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 19, No. 5, September 2004, pp. 571-578

[10] Shuya Imajo, Masami Konishi, Jun Imai and Tatushi Nishi, Human Model for Gain Tuning of Looper Control in Hot Strip Rolling, Tetsu-to-Hagane, Vol. 90, No. 11, Nobember 2004, pp. 933-940

[11] Takayuki Miyama, Tatsushi Nishi and Masami Konishi, Optimization of Lotsizing and Scheduling by an Autonomous Decentralized Scheduling Method for Aluminum Production Line, Transaction of the Institite of Electrical Engineers Japan C, June 2006, Vol. 126, No. 6, pp. 771-779, 2006

[12] Shoichiro Morinaka, Tatsushi Nishi and Masami Konishi, A Distributed Routing Method for Multiple AGVs under Motion Delay Disturbance, Transaction of the Society of Instruments and Control Engineers, Vol. 42, No. 9, pp. 1042-1050, 2006

[13] Ryota Maeno, Tatsushi Nishi and Masami Konishi, An Optimization Method for Routing Problems for Multiple AGVs by Decomposition of Petri Nets, Transaction of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, Vol. 19, No. 11, pp. 427-435, 2006

[14] Tatsushi Nishi, Haruhiko Tominaga, Masami Konishi, An Inventory Control Method for Supply Chain Planning for Single Stage Production System under Uncertain Demand, Transaction of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 1-9, 2007

[15] Tatsushi Nishi, Ryota Maeno, Decomposition and Coordination of Timed Petri Nets for Solving Scheduling Problems, Transaction of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 338-345, 2007

[16] Yuichiro Hiranaka, Tatsushi Nishi, Masahiro Inuiguchi, A Decomposition Method for Production Scheduling and AGV Routing Problems by Lagrangian Relaxation with Cut Generation, Transaction of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, Vol. 20, No. 12, pp. 465-474, 2007