Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.12 No.1(Jan. 1997)

                                CONTENTS

Commentary
  Conflict and Conquest.................................................Akira Ichikawa  1

Special Issue: "Spoken Dialogue"
  Editor's Introduction to  "Spoken Dialogue".........................Katsuhiko Shirai  2
  Understanding and Generating Dialogue by Integrated Processing of 
     Speech,Language and Concept........................................ Shuji Doshita  3
  Recognition and Synthesis on Dialogue Speech..........................Yasuhisa Niimi  13
  Technologies of Spoken Dialogue Processing............................ Hozumi Tanaka  18
  Concepetual Information Processing in Spoken Dialogue Understanding
                        ............................................Riichiro Mizoguchi  24
 Corpus of Spoken-Dialogue and Dialogue Models....................... Katsuhiko Shirai  30

Survey Papers
  Good Books in Artificial Intelligence............................. Hitoshi Matsubara  36

Essays: "Expectation of IJCAI-97 in Nagoya"(3)
  Expectation of IJCAI-97............................................. Yoshiaki Shirai  44
  Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition........................ Kenichi Mori  46

Technical Papers
  Representation and Calculation of Objects with Classes and Substructures
    -A Simple Computational Framework Based on Logic-
                       ............Yuuichi Kawaguchi,Kiyoshi Akama,and Eiichi Miyamoto  48
  Inductive Inference by Stepwise Pair Expansion..Kenichi Yoshida and Hiroshi Motoda    58
  Intelligent Support for Construction and Exploration of Advanced Technological 
    Information Space from Technical Papers in Metallurgy
                   ..........Toshiyuki Matsuo,Toyoaki Nishida,and Ken'ichi Hoshimoto    68
  MarcoPolo:A Reinforcement Learning System Considering Tradeoff Exploitation
    and Exploration under Markovian Environments
                    .... Kazuteru Miyazaki,Masayuki Yamamura,and Shigenobu Kobayashi    78
  Real-Time Planning by Interleaving Real-Time Search with Flexible Subgoaling
                      ..............................Shigeo Matsubara and Toru Ishida    90
  Thermal Power Plant Start-Up Scheduling with Evolutionary Computation by 
    Using an Enforcement Operator and Tabu Strategy
              ................ Akimoto Kamiya,Isao Ono,Masayuki
                                                     Yamamura,and Shigenobu Kobayashi   100
  Residue-Driven Architecture and Its Application to Sound Stream Segregation
       ............Tomohiro Nakatani,Masataka Goto,Takeshi Kawabata,and 
                                                                      Hiroshi G.Okuno   111
  Marketing Data Analysis Using Simulated Breeding and Inductive 
            Learning Techniques..........................Yoko Ishino and Takao Terano   121
  Ontology Design of Fluid Systems and Time for Model-Based Problem Solving
        and Its Evaluation........Yoshinobu Kitamura,Munehiko Sasajima,Mitsuru Ikeda,   132
                              Shinji Yoshikawa,Kenji Ozawa,and Riichiro Mizoguchi
  Forgetting Cases by Restricting Memory...........Hiroyoshi Watanabe and Kenzo Okuda   144
  Emergent Organizations of Multiple Agents with Behavior Network Iintroduced
         Fatigue Parameters............Keiji Suzuki,Jun Yoshimura,and Yukinori Kakazu   152

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