Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Vol. 23 No. 4 (July 2008)


CONTENTS

Greetings from the New President
A Few Words for Greeting as a New President …………………………………………………… Koichi Hori 443
Greetings from the New Editor-in-Chief ………………………………………………… Takahira Yamaguchi 444
Special Issue:“Sensing Network: Application Edition”
Editors’ Introduction to“Sensing Network: Application Edition” …… Takuichi Nishimura and Satoshi Kurihara 445
Ubiquitous Services Using Sensor Networks
 ― Making Objects Smart and Visualization of Environment ―
…………………………………………………… Hideyuki Tokuda, Takuro Yonezawa and Masaki Ito 447
Experience Medium
 ― Towards Knowledge Creation Enhanced by Experience Sharing ― …………………… Yasuyuki Sumi 453
Information Technologies on Encounter
 ― Augmentation of Event Space ―
………………………… Hideaki Takeda, Takuichi Nishimura, Yutaka Matsuo and Masahiro Hamasaki 461
Sensing Nursing Activities ………………………………………………………………………Kiyoshi Kogure 468
Toward Urban Sensing Infrastructure
Yoshito Tobe, Koichi Yamada, Yoh Shiraishi, Kazunori Takashio, Kazunori Umeda and Yosuke Tamura 474
Research on Ubiquitous Network Technology for Information Acquiring in Disaster
……………… Yasushi Hada, Osamu Takizawa, Akihiro Shibayama, Koichi Gyoda, Tsuyoshi Suzuki,
Kuniaki Kawabata, Hayato Kaetsu and Hajime Asama 480
Ubiquitous Environment and Sensor Network Constructed by Field Servers
………………………………………………………………… Masayuki Hirafuji and Tokihiro Fukatsu 486
Personal Positioning and Interface Technologies for Supporting Remote Collaborative Works
……………………………………………… Takeshi Kurata, Masakatsu Kourogi and Takashi Okuma 492
Special Issue:“Bleeding Edge of Legal Informatics”
Editors’Introduction to“Bleeding Edge of Legal Informatics” …………Katsumi Nitta and Seiichiro Sakurai 498
Legal Informatics and Artificial Intelligence …………………………………………………… Katsumi Nitta 499
Supporting Tools for Legal Education ……………………………………………………… Tokuyasu Kakuta 505
Cybercourt
 ― ICT as Court Technology ― ………………………………………………………… Takehiko Kasahara 513
Trasnlation Support for Japanese Statutes with Natural Language Processing Technologies
………………………………………………………………… Katsuhiko Toyama and Yasuhiro Ogawa 521
e-Society and Legal Engineering …………………………… Takuya Katayama, Akira Simazu, Satoshi Tojo,
Kokichi Futatsugi and Koichiro Ochimizu 529
Commentary Series:“Methodology for Analyzing Multi-Party Interaction”(6)
Issues on Methodology for Analyzing Multi-Party Interaction(6) …… Katsuya Takanashi and Mayumi Bono 537
Units of Analysis for Understanding Conversational Structure
 ― Participation Structure ― ………………………………………………………………Katsuya Takanashi 538
Units of Analysis for Understanding Conversational Structure
 ― F-Formation ― …………………………………………………………………………… Mayumi Bono 545
Units of Analysis for Understanding Conversational Structure
 ― A Case Study: Multimodal Analysis of Manzai Dialogues ― ………………………… Masashi Okamoto 552
Lecture Series:“Intelligent Computing and Related Issues”(9)
Evolutionary Computing ……………………………………………………………………………Hitoshi Iba 559
Technical Papers
Abstract ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 569
My Bookmark
Resources for Building and Applying Ontologies ………………………………………… Munehiko Sasajima 572

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