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Innovative Systems Approach for Designing Smarter World

Innovative Systems Approach for Designing Smarter World

Toshiya Kaihara Hajime Kita Shingo Takahashi •

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Innovative Systems Approach for Designing Smarter World

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Editors Toshiya Kaihara Graduate School of System Informatics Kobe University Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Hajime Kita Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan

Shingo Takahashi Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Waseda University Tokyo, Japan

ISBN 978-981-15-6650-9 ISBN 978-981-15-6651-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6651-6

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Preface

“Society 5.0” has been proposed in the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan as a future society that Japan should aspire to. The concept of Society 5.0 is “A human-centered society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space.” For the realization of Society 5.0, it is necessary to integrate several social systems smartly so as to emerge sustainable social value, and innovative systems approach is expected to play an important role as a key methodology for the realization. This book presents an innovative systems approach toward a new concept of a “Smarter World,” i.e., a society with advanced and sustainable social infrastructures for autonomous and dynamic value network creation. These infrastructures encompass a wide range of facilities and services, such as transportation, energy, communication, water, sewerage, logistics, education, disaster prevention, med