Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.11 No.5(Sep. 1996)

                                CONTENTS

Greetings from the New President
  JSAI as a Pioneer of 21st Century........................Hidehiko Tanaka  677
  Message from Editor-in-Chief............................ Yoshiaki Shirai  678

Special Issue : "AI Techniques in Internet"
  Editor's Introduction to "AI Techniques in Internet"...Hitoshi Matsubara  679
  Network Enhanced Intelligent Information Integration......Hideaki Takeda  680
  Collaboration and Internet................................Akihiro Kubota  689

Survey Papers
  Researches on Soccer Agents............Itsuki Noda and Hitoshi Matsubara  694
  Survey on the Current Trend in Character Recognition and Document
    Understanding(1)........................................Yasuaki Nakano  702

Essays: "Expectation of IJCAI-97 in Nagoya"(1)
  AI and Daily Lives........................................Teruo Fukumura  710

Special Article for IJCAI-97 in Nagoya
  Future AI Research Direction..Hideyuki Nakashima,Jun Arima,Satoshi Satoh,
                                 Masaki Suwa,Koiti Hasida,and Minoru Asada  713

Technical Papers
  Generating a Set of Pareto Optimal Decision Trees by Genetic 
  Algorithms........Shigenobu Kobayashi,Koji Yoshida,and Masayuki Yamamura  725
  Experiments for SIP in the Simplified Tile World
            ..............Seiji Yamada,Yoshinori Isoda,and Jun'ichi Toyoda  733
  Integration of Knowledge Discovery and Active Database Technologies
            .............................. Hiroyuki Kawano,Shojiro Nishio,
                                         Jiawei Han,and Toshiharu Hasegawa  741
  The Study of Feature Extraction and Concept Formation Method 
    Based on the Relational Cohesiveness:The Verification was Made to 
    Apply This Method to the Properties of Normal Alcohol Compounds
    as an Example.... Toshiyuki Fujikura,Sumio Tokita,and John T.Shimozawa  750
  Design and Implementation of a Mail Distribution System
    Using Reasoning Mechanism for Dynamic Group Construction
            .......................... Masahiko Tsukamoto,Motonori Iwamuro,
                                      Rieko Kadobayashi,and Shojiro Nishio  759
 Construction of Bayesian Belief Network by Decision Theoretic 
    Approach....................................................Maomi Ueno  768
  Computing Prioritized Circumscription via Compilation into 
    Logic Programs............................Toshiko Wakaki and Ken Satoh  778
  Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observable Markov Decision
    Processes:A Stochastic Gradient Method
            ...... Hajime Kimura,Masayuki Yamamura,and Shigenobu Kobayashi  787

Research Notes
  Preference of Hypotheses for Hypothetical Reasoning with Observation
            ............................ Seiji Yamada and Noboru Babaguchi  795
  Improvement of the Consistency Check on Hypotheses Synthesis Using
    Inference-Path Network..................Haruhiko Kimura,Hideaki Nobata,
                                            Sadaki Hirose,and Takehiko Abe  799
  l-Certainty Exploration Method:An Action Selector to Identify the
    Environment by an Agent
    -An Extension of k-Certainty Exploration Method to Stochastic MDPs-
            .. Kazuteru Miyazaki,Masayuki Yamamura,and Shigenobu Kobayashi  804


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