I opened my mailbox and found an email from IEEE Press that included the full name of the contact person for the first time. I've just replied to her with a PDF file, along with the other necessary files for the publication process. Anyway, I am rushing to see a dentist now. I will check the email again soon. 

Today I found the reason why some dentists have closed down their practices since last December. Every month I record medical expenses for tax return documentation. A comparison of last year's records with this year's shows a significant decrease in expenses. 

Actually, the Japanese gov't decided to raise the standard fees for medical and dental services by 0.57%, but while drug prices were adjusted in April, the fee hike for medical and dental services was delayed until June. 

Before the new rates took effect, small dental clinics had already been facing a severe decrease in profits. Ultimately, reimbursements failed to offset soaring utility and material costs, choking the clinics' daily cash flow. I hadn't noticed it until now. What an awful policy it is!

I confess to a profound respect—tinged with a necessary measure of sympathy—for whoever is charged with the unenviable task of managing an incorrigibly dogmatic scientist and fierce advocate like myself, particularly whilst steering them through the labyrinthine, bureaucrat-bound corridors of a profoundly historic, traditional Far East Asian island state like Japan.

I have just updated my LinkedIn to reflect the current experience in the ICT Testbed R&D Promotion Center in NICT, Tokyo, Japan. It clearly shares my core belief as a computer scientist and researcher in the field of swarm intelligence. Some may say it sounds naive—but it is my belief. 

The reason I finally bought a smartphone is simple: I couldn't successfully emulate the smartphone environment on my Windows 10 laptop (Here you laugh at my pains).

Once, I tried installing several apps on some emulators, but modern apps are designed around direct device-to-device communication. You’ve got to tell me that even a professional would struggle with this. I'm an amateur, I confess. Or at least, I pretended to be one.

Anyway, I use it now. Hmmm... I've gotten bored of it already. I changed my wallpaper to my dog's face, transferred several songs and streams from my laptop, and I'm now able to read my Gmail. 

So what? I still type on my laptop. You see. Nothing has changed in my life. People would never count me as Gen Z. Were you expecting a proverb? Nothing came to my mind.

I forgot to share some very important news: Last week, there was a breakthrough in my communication technology. What was it? 

I finally got a smartphone! You might ask, 'So what?' 

But, here is the thing: it was my very first time buying one. Can you believe it? People would call me a Gen Z.

I emailed to IEEE Press and CSAIA, as below:

"To Conference、 ieee-mce、 conferencepublishing、 idams-osc、 Heliu

Dear CSAIA and IEEE Press:

This is Hideyasu SASAKI, PhD.

I've not heard from anyone about article below.

> the replacement of 22 PDF in the proceedings of the 2025
   International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial
   Intelligence Applications (CSAIA 2025, Conference Record #65930).

Pls. let me know what is going on.
And, if it is not possible, what should I do?
Let's say, submit another format like MS Word or something.
I've been irritated since its publication.
If you were I, you may please imagine what you would feel as a contributor.
I hope you would understand that as a human being.
So God bless you.

Very truly yours,

Hideyasu Ma. R. Edward "Hide" Sasaki, Esq., Ph.D. in Comp. Sci.
Senior Research Scientist, Nat'l Inst. Comms. Tech., Tokyo, Japan


2026/8/17 11:01 CSAIA <info@iccsaia.org>:

>
> Dear Publishing Operations team,
>
> Hope you had a great weekend.
>
> We would like to request the replacement of 22 PDF in the proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Applications (CSAIA 2025, Conference Record #65930).
>
> The current PDF is incorrect. In particular, the PDF does not contain the mathematical formulas and does not show the algorithm. Please find the corrected PDF as attached. The paper details are as follows:
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> Title: Cohesive Performance Measurement of Optimization for Swarm Robots
> Author: Hideyasu Sasaki
> Affiliation: ICT Testbed R&D Promotion Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan
> Email: hsasaki@nict.go.jp
>
> Please review the attached file and replace the current 22 PDF with this correct version.
>
> Once the replacement has been completed, please kindly confirm by email.
>
> Thank you for your assistance.
>
> Best regards,
> CSAIA 2025 Organizing Committee
>
> --
>
> Bon View Publishing Conference Team
>
> Email: info@iccsaia.org
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> Website: https://www.iccsaia.org/
>