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Welcome to the Thirteenth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems
(ISADS) 2017 in Bangkok. The first ISADS was inaugurated 24 years ago in Kawasaki, Japan in
1993. The ADS technologies have been expanded in the past 24 years from the computing,
communication, and control technologies to the innovative integration of these technologies and
their applications, which are more closely related to our daily-life. The special topic for ISADS
2017 is “Technology and Business Innovation through Structure Change of Society and Life”,
which focus on technology and business interaction and their global applications. It offers a
forum for the discussions among the researchers, engineers, planners, strategists, and managers
from industries, business, governments, universities and research institutions worldwide.
ISADS 2017 and workshops received 75 submissions from 19 countries. Each paper is reviewed
by three program committee members. ISADS accepted 24 papers out of 43 submissions. In
addition, ISADS organized a panel session entitled "ADS concepts in emerging technologies",
three forums on technology, business, and life, with nine keynote-style presentations given by
Farokh Bastani (University of Texas, Dallas, USA), Toshiyuki Kanoh (NEC, Japan), Yinong
Chen (Arizona State University, USA), Atsushi Yokoyama and Takeshi Nakagawa (East Japan
Railway, Japan), Yutaka Saito (Hitachi Ltd., Japan), Radu Popescu-Zeletin (ICAM GmbH,
Germany), Colin Harrison (IBM, USA), and Doug McDavid (ISSIP, USA).