Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.12 No.6(Nov. 1997)

                                CONTENTS

Commentary
  Research and Business...................................... Ryohei Nakatsu  809

Special Issue: "Reinforcement Learning"
  Editor's Introduction to  "Reinforcement Learning".....Shigenobu Kobayashi  810
  Reinforcement Learning Systems for Discrete Markov Decision Processes
            ...................... Kazuteru Miyazaki and Shigenobu Kobayashi  811
  Reinforcement Learning for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
            ........................ Hajime Kimura and Leslie Pack Kaelbling  822
  Research Issues on Real Robot Reinforcement Learning..........Minoru Asada  831
  Reinforcement Learning Applied to Power Plant Start-Up Scheduling
            ..................................................Akimoto Kamiya  837
  Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Systems............Sadayoshi Mikami  845

Survey Papers
  An Overview of Agent Technology and Its Applications..........Yeun-Bae Kim  850

Technical Papers
  Improvement of Knowledge Processing Systems by Adding Equivalent
    Transformation Rules.. Mamiko Hatayama,Kiyoshi Akama,and Eiichi Miyamoto  861
  Isomorphism of Actions Based Reinforcement Learning
           ..................................Tomohiro Yamaguchi,Yuji Nomura,
                                        Yasuhiro Tanaka,and Masahiko Yachida  870
  Emergence of Cooperative Behavior by Using a Look Ahead Method for
    Selecting Actions in an Iterated Game..Shigeo Matsubara and Makoto Yokoo  881
  Navigation Strategy Learning in Constraint Programming
            ..................................Megumi Ishii and Shigeo Kaneda  891
  Implementing Dynamic Similarity in Case-Based Reasoning by Abductive
    Logic Programming..............................................Ken Satoh  901
  Stand-Alone and Open-Ended Collection of Papers with Retrieval Capability
    -Experience with JSAI 10th Anniversary Commemorative CD-ROM-
            ................ Hiroshi G.Okuno,Katashi Nagao,Yoshiyuki Koseki,
                                       Hiroshi Yasuhara,and Ken'ichi Yoshida  911
  Aligning Articles in TV Newscasts and Newspapers
            ..............................Yasuhiko Watanabe,Yoshihiro Okada,
                                          Tatsuhiko Tsunoda,and Makoto Nagao  921
  Solid Generation from Incorrect Orthographic Projections
            .............................. Hiroshi Masuda and Masayuki Numao  928

Technical Reports
  A Comparison of the Efficiency of Three Kinds of the Expression
    Method of the Direct-Product Instantiation
            ..................Hidetaka Nambo,Haruhiko Kimura,Masakazu Miura,
                                       Shigeki Hirobayashi,and Sadaki Hirose  936

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