Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.11 No.6(Nov. 1996)

                                CONTENTS

Commentary
  Automobile and AI Techbology................................Tokuta Inoue  831

Invited Talks
  Past,Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence.... Takashi Tachibana  832

Survey Papers
  Kana-to-Kanji Conversion Technology
            .......................... Hiroyasu Nogami and Hiroyoshi Saito  845
  Technological Issues for Practical Use to
    Kana-to-Kanji Conversion................Hatsuko Ukigawa and Hiroki Amo  852
  Survey on the Current Trend in Character Recognition and Document
    Understanding(2)........................................Yasuaki Nakano  859

AI map
  Our Studies on Machine Learning and Machine Discovery ....Setsuo Arikawa  865

Essays: "Expectation of IJCAI-97 in Nagoya"(2)
  Looking forward to IJCAI-97............................ Yoshiyuki Koseki  874

Technical Papers
 Effective Heuristics for Hypothesis Testing:An Empirical 
    Discussion Using a Computer Simulation Method
            .............................. Kazuhisa Miwa and Takeshi Okada  877
  Diagram Understanding for Pictorial Book of Flora Using 
    Integration of Pattern Information and Natural Language
      Information...................... Yasuhiko Watanabe and Makoto Nagao  888
  A Method to Retrieve Information Having Different Relevance
    for Supporting Human Divergent Thinking
            ..................................Kazushi Nishimoto,Shinji Abe,
                                        Tsutomu Miyasato,and Fumio Kishino  896
  Motion Sketch:Acquisition of Visual Motion Guided Behaviors
            ............................Takayuki Nakamura and Minoru Asada  905
  Timing Verification Method of Communication Protocol by 
    Formal Language Theory..................................Satoshi Yamane  916
  Decision Making Model Based on Conformity to Majority's Opinion
            ............ Masakatsu Ohta,Toshiyuki Iida,and Tsukasa Kawaoka  927
 A Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Algorithm Based on Flexible and
    Dynamic Agent Organization Structure......................Makoto Yokoo  933
  Robust Method of Discourse Processing
    -New Approach to Use Discourse Information in Practical 
     Natural Language Processing-........................ Tetsuya Nasukawa  941
  Optimizing Nearest Neighbor Retrieval by Similarity Calculation 
    Template and Retrieval Query Generation................Takehito Utsuro  950
  A Method of Machine Discovery Based on Geometric Constraints
            ........................ Tsuyoshi Murata and Masamichi Shimura  960
  

 
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