Toshihide Ibaraki (Japanese: 茨木 俊秀, born 1940)[1] is a Japanese computer scientist and operations researcher known for his research on graph algorithms, databases, resource allocation, fractional programming, and metaheuristics.
[3] He eventually became dean of informatics at Kyoto University before retiring as professor emeritus.
[6] Ibaraki is the author or coauthor of books including: Ibaraki was listed as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1999, "for contributions to the theory and algorithms of discrete optimization, graphs and networks, and logical analysis of data with Boolean functions, as well as their applications".
[9] In 2000 he was named as a Fellow of the Information Processing Society of Japan,[10] and of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Engineering Sciences Society.
Selected papers from the conference were published in 2006 in a special issue of the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics, also dedicated to Ibaraki.