Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.12 No.4(Jul. 1997)

                                CONTENTS

Commentary
   Some Aspects of Creative Activity..................................Ryuichi Oka  495

Special Issue: "Knowledge Discovery in Very Large Databases"
 Editor's Introduction to  "Knowledge Discovery in Very Large Databases"
                   ............................................... Masayuki Numao  496
  An Overview of Knowledge Discovery in Databases.................Hiroyuki Kawano  497
  Machine Learning and Data Mining..............Hiroshi Motoda and Takashi Washio  505
 Mining Algorithms for Association Rules.......................Masaru Kitsuregawa  513
  Perspectives on KDD and Data Mining Tools..........................Takao Terano  521
  Data Mining for Distribution Industry........Masayuki Numao and Shuichi Shimizu  528
  Medical Application of Data Mining...........Shusaku Tsumoto and Hiroshi Tanaka  536
  What does Manufacturing Industry Expect from Data Mining?
            ............Miki Ochida,Toru Yukimatsu,Satoshi Hori,and Hirokazu Taki  544

Survey Papers
  AI Technology in Next Day Electric Peak Load Forecast.............Takashi Onoda  550

Technical Papers
 Ontology Engineering
    -Towards the Basic Theory and Technology for Content-Oriented Research-
               ..............................Riichiro Mizoguchi and Mitsuru Ikeda  559
 Propagating Learned Behaviors from a Virtual Agent to a Physical Robot
    in Exploitation-Oriented Reinforcement Learning
                 ..........................Tomohiro Yamaguchi,Moto'omi Masubuchi,  570
                     Yasuhiro Tanaka,and Masahiko Yachida
 MPL-Core:An Efficient Multiple Predicate Learner Based on
      Fast Failure Mechanism....................Xiaolong Zhang and Masayuki Numao  582
 Understanding Sequential Events by Cost-Based Cooperation of
       Multiple Abducers........................Yukio Ohsawa and Masahiko Yachida  591
 Learning Dynamic Similarity Metric Based on Relative Distance
    Information and Estimates of Its Retrieval Error
                 ....................................Ken Satoh and Seishi Okamoto  600
 Inference Rules for Declarative Programs
                .................. Kiyoshi Akama,Koichi Okada,and Eiichi Miyamoto  608
 A Systematic Construction Method of an Expert System Used for
    Automatic Software Design
    -Acquisition and Reproduction of Design Knowledge from Design Process-
                  ........................ Hui Chen,Behrouz H.Far,and Zenya Koono  616
 Referring Actions in Multi-Modal Dialogues.... Tsuneaki Kato and Yukiko I.Nakano  627

Research Notes
  Improvement of the Subsumption Process on Hypothese Synthesis Using
    Inference-Path Network
               ..Haruhiko Kimura,Kuniyasu Tajima,Hidetaka Nanbo,and Sadaki Hirose  635

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