# Research interests
Logic, Reasoning, Theoretical Biology, Complex Network

# Education

• 2010 March Ph.D. Dept. of Earth and planetary sciences, Kobe University

• 1996 March M.S. in Mathematics Dept. of Mathematics, Waseda University

• 1994 March B.S. in Mathematics Dept. of Mathematics, Waseda University

 

# Publications

• Sawa, K. (2015). Logic as a complex network. Preprint, arXiv:1507.00840.

• Sawa, K., & Gunji, Y.-P. (2014). An emergence of formal logic induced by an internal agent. BioSystems, 124, 39-45. doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2014.08.005

• Sawa, K., Yokokawa, J., & Takahashi, T. (2013). LOGICAL EQUIVALENCE: SYMMETRIC AND ASYMMETRIC FEATURES. Symmetry: Culture and Science, 24

• Sawa, K., Balaž, I., & Shirakawa, T. (2012). Cell Motility Viewed as Softness. International Journal of Artificial Life Research, 3(1), 1-9. doi:10.4018/jalr.2012010101

• Sawa, K., & Gunji, Y.-P. (2010). Dynamical Logic Driven by Classified Inferences Including Abduction. In COMPUTING ANTICIPATORY SYSTEMS: CASYS ‘09: Ninth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems, 1303, 52-59. AIP Publishing. doi:10.1063/1.3527185

• Sawa, K., & Gunji, Y.-P. (2008). Monologue and Dialogue Under Soft Object. Proceedings of CASYS'07, 8th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems

• Sawa, K., & Gunji, Y.-P. (2007). Dialogue and causality: Global description from local observations and vague communications. BioSystems, 90, 783–791

• Gunji, Y.P., Haruna, T., & Sawa, K. (2006). Principles of biological organization: Local–global negotiation based on “material cause”. Physica D, 219, 152–167

 

# Presentations

• Sawa, K., Yokokawa, J., & Takahashi, T., LOGICAL EQUIVALENCE: SYMMETRIC AND ASYMMETRIC FEATURES, Symmetry Festival 2013, Delft, The Netherlands, 2013 August.

• Sawa, K., Yokokawa, J., & Takahashi, T., Modeling biconditionals: Biconditional event or material equivalence?, The 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany, 2013 August. (Poster presentation).

• Sawa, K., Balaž, I., & Shirakawa, T., Cell Motility Viewed as Softness, The 15th International

• Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, Kanagawa, Japan, 2011 December.

• Sawa, K., & Gunji, Y.-P., An emergence of formal logic induced by an internal agent, The 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, Beijing, China, 2010 August.

• Sawa, K., & Gunji, Y.-P., Dynamical Logic Driven by Classified Inferences Including Abduction, The 9th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems, Liege, Belgium, 2009 August.

• Sawa, K., & Gunji, Y.-P., Monologue and Dialogue Under Soft Object, The 8th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems, Liege, Belgium, 2007 August.

 

# Honors &Awards

• SI2013 BEST PAPER AWARD, Hyogo, Japan
  “Mathematics, Concept, and Co-creation”

• CASYS’09 BEST PAPER AWARD, Liege, Belgium
  “Dynamical Logic Driven by Classified Inferences Including Abduction”

 

# Research support

• 2010 April – present
  Funding Agency: Research Institute of Electrical Communication Tohoku University

• 2009 April – 2011 March
  Funding Agency: The Research Institute of Japan Women’s University
  Project number: 41-200

 

# Professional experience

• 1996 April – present, Teacher
  Senior High School, Japan Women's University (Kanagawa, Japan)

• 2014 August – October, Visiting Researcher
  Dept. of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Prof. Abir U. Igamberdiev, NL, Canada)

• 2010 April – present, Cooperative Researcher
  Research Institute of Electrical Communication Tohoku University (Miyagi, Japan)

• 2009 April – 2011 March, Researcher
  The Research Institute of Japan Women’s University (Tokyo, Japan)

• 2005 April – 2006 March, Visiting Researcher
  Dept. of Earth and planetary sciences, Kobe University (Prof. Pegio-Yukio Gunji, Hyogo, Japan)

 

# Teaching experience

• 1996 April – present, Teacher
  Senior High School, Japan Women's University (Kanagawa, Japan)

• 1994 April – 1996 March, Lecturer
  Seijo High School (Tokyo, Japan)

 

# Service activities

• 2014 June – Present, Project Member and Editor
  Online Magazine “E!” www.eureka-project.jp (in Japanese)