The 11th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (IEEE ICCSE 2016) was held in August 2016 at Nagoya University. As a whole, the conference provides an international forum for presenting the most recent advances in the fields of computer science and education and the related areas of engineering and advanced technologies. In addition, the conference facilitates and promotes information exchange among participants from industries, research laboratories, government organizations, and academia. The conference reflected ever-growing interest in computer science and education. Of the 442 initial paper submissions, after a rigorous full-paper review, 175 papers representing 13 countries and regions have been accepted for presentation at the conference. This corresponds to an acceptance rate of 39.59%. These papers reflected the dynamism of research activities in information, computing, automation, advanced technologies, and education, as well as the emergence of innovative topics in research and education that address the ever-increasing challenges stemming from related educational, industrial, and societal needs. We focused on innovative technologies that are related to information technology (IT) and aimed to reach the scope of social applications with a spotlight on educational applications. We invited famous professors to be keynote speakers, including Professor Fukuda, an expert in robotics and mechatronics based on IT, and Professor Li, one of the leading professors in the field of environmental IT. We also invited several other important speakers to this conference.

On the day before the event, a satellite symposium was held at the University of Fukui. This symposium was co-organized with the Society for Science on Form. A special issue titled "Special Issue: Forms and Fundamental Fields," a collection of papers presented at the symposium as well as newly contributed papers related to the symposium theme, has been published. In particular, this issue is comprised of an original paper, a letter, and three forums. It is our hope that this issue will contribute to future advancements in the Society for Science on Form.

We wish to express our gratitude to all of our sponsoring societies and organizations, in particular, the National Research Council of Computer Education in Colleges & Universities, China (CRC-CE), Nagoya University, and the University of Fukui. We would like to thank all the participants from the 13 countries and regions for their support and participation in making this conference a great success.

To investigate the universality and diversity of spatiotemporal chaos, information reduction, which describes phenomena using generalized quantities such as amplitude and phase, is an important technique. Several methods of image analysis are presented for information reduction of experimental image data of spatiotemporal chaos.

As an example of "automatic algorithms" imitating human discrimination by persons with specialized knowledge and skills based on their sensory information in accordance with the empirical rule not clearly written, we developed algorithms imitating visual assessments to evaluate REM sleep not accompanied by a decrease in muscle activity.

Educational effect of STEM education especially a design competition for students in the field of nanotechnology is discussed in this paper. Molecular design competition BIOMOD is founded in 2011, now becomes an influential competition attracting many young generations to DNA nanotechnology. The background of the competition, its structure and an example of awarded project is introduced to demonstrate educational effects of the competition.

Determination of the longitude is the unification of space and time. The course note is presented to understand the points in the longitude problem within the framework of 16-8 Centuries. Establishing local time is difficult, because there are leads and lags of the Sun's culminations, known as 'Equation of Time.' The Sun's motion in the celestial sphere is nonlinear because of geometrical and gravitational reasons. The novel algorithm is proposed to get the rigorous Equation of Time. Three brilliant astronomers had stayed in St Helena. They themselves determined the longitude of the island by different methods. By use of their and other observations of astronomical events the new calculations are available. These are the sources of the exercises. Edmond Halley states the island in 7 degrees west of London. There are three observations of the Transit of Mercury on 7th November 1677: 5°53'21''W by Towneley data and 6°26'44''W by Avignon data. Nevil Maskelyne determined the longitude to be 5°49'W based on eclipses of Jupiter's satellites in 1761. Using observations of the total lunar eclipse on 18th May 1761 at the island, Cape and Stockholm, one obtains 5°49'05''W. Manuel John Johnson reached the conclusion of 5°43'39''W by the lunar distance method (1830-33). Using observations of the total solar eclipse on 27th July 1832 at the island, one obtains 5°27'51''W.

This study attempts to construct a dialog system to retrieve information from an online learning system. It uses a humanoid robot, NAO, as an interface to convey information.

The learning system was built based on a Topic Maps ontology (ISO/IEC 13250:2002). The dialog model was constructed using the development environment of Choregraphe 2.1.4. The utterance-response interaction between the human and the robot was constructed based on a three-step model comprising (1) human utterance, (2) information retrieval and talking, and (3) updating the list of words recognizable by the robot.

To reduce the misrecognition of the human utterance and allow the theme to be changed flexibly, we introduced a focus interest model that restricted the list of words that could be recognized within a focus of interest. In this model, the theme of the dialog was defined by a topic type, and the members of the theme were determined as its instance topics, which include the focus topic. The list of recognizable words, which is the theme of the dialog, is updated by a transition in the focus topic or the theme.

These two models enabled an efficient dialog for retrieving information from the online learning system. However, the fluency of the dialog depends on how well the user knows the topic map ontology.