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Report : Knowledge for interdisciplinary consilience−183−Synthesiology - English edition Vol.3 No.2 (2010) factors, the evaluation in the market cannot be fixed without the test of time. Therefore, measuring usefulness according to the impact on the market is not necessarily appropriate.When the result is sent out to society by conducting synthetic research, there may be some cases where the elemental technologies are put together without a definite aim, and there may be other cases where the elemental technologies are synthesized with thorough think-through. The ones that are synthesized without a definite aim might sometimes work very well, but most of them will probably not yield good results. A good think-through is mandatory to produce usefulness and other values. The way or process on which research is done is called “scenario” in Synthesiology, which we ask the authors to describe in the papers. However, how to consider usefulness or what the scenario should be to realize such usefulness has not yet been very clear to us.As a joint project of the Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, we invited Dr. Yoshiyasu Tamura (ISM), Dr. Tatsuji Hara (The University of Tokyo), Dr. Atsuo Kishimoto (AIST), and Dr. Naoto Kobayashi (Waseda University) as panel members to have a general discussion on this subject. First, Dr. Kishimoto will explain the risk assessment of chemical substances as a specific example of synthetic research, to introduce to the audience and panel members a Synthesiology paper. Dr. Hara will speak on “synthesiology” from the perspective of knowledge integration. Next, we discuss about what the usefulness of research is and how usefulness is described, and how to evaluate the scenario to link scientific research to societal values. Dr. Tamura will speak about the modeling and simulation technology as tools for scenario building and usefulness evaluation. Dr. Kobayashi will propose an idea on what types of scenarios were put to practice with the papers published in Synthesiology, and the categorization of scenarios will be discussed. Based on these discussions, the meaning of describing interdisciplinary integration of knowledge as activities of researchers, and the future direction of the activities for giving values to research in society will be investigated.References1) H. Yoshikawa and K. Naito: Sangyo Kagaku Gijutsu No Tetsugaku (The Philosophy of Industrial Science and Technology), The University of Tokyo Press (2005) (in Japanese).2) http://www.aist.go.jp/synthesiology/3) H. Yoshikawa: A journal of original papers of Type 2 Basic Research, Synthesiology, 1 (1), 1-6 (2008).4) Synthesiology, 1 (1) (2008).5) M. Akamatsu and H. Iyama: Science and society, or research institution and journal: A historical retrospection, Synthesiology, 1 (1), 59-65 (2008)(in Japanese) (Synthesiology English edition, 1 (1), 61-67 (2008)).

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