Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.13 No.1(Nov. 1998)

                                CONTENTS

Commentary
  From the Dream............................................... Hidenori Itoh 1

Special Issue: "AI Challenge"
 Editors' Introduction to  "AI Challenge"
             ........................Hideki Yamamoto and Toshiyasu Matsushima 2
  Construction of Intelligence as a Complex System.........Hideyuki Nakashima 3
  Agent Society as Complex System...................................Jun Arima 5
  Active AI and Its Control.....................................Kazuhiro Iida 7
  Towards Ontology Engineering.............................Riichiro Mizoguchi 9
  Ontology as Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge
    Engineering................................................Mitsuru Ikeda 11
  Emergence of Intelligence Based on Physical Embodiment........Minoru Asada 14
  The Significance and Some Technical Challenges of RoboCup....Eiichi Ohsawa 16
  Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Social Information 
    Systems......................................................Toru Ishida 19
  Intelligence Mining and Communication Amprification.......... Koiti Hasida 21
  Encoding of Very Large Corpora and Its Relation to AI......Jun-ichi Tsujii 23
  Knowledge Creating Process and Its Support Environment.... Susumu Kunifuji 26
  Observing Creative Design Processes:The Cognitive Science 
    Approach.................................................... Masaki Suwa 28
  Towards AI Embedding in Human Society......................Toyoaki Nishida 30
  AI That Connects the Real World with Cyberspace..............Katashi Nagao 32
  Use of Character in Software............................ Katsuhiko Tsujino 35
  Artificial Intelligence for Genetic Information Processing
            ................................................Akihiko Konagaya 38
  Distributed Vision as a Perceptual Information
    Infrastructure..........................................Hiroshi Ishiguro 41
  Building the Auditory Brain................................Hideki Kawahara 43
  Invitation to Computational Auditory Scene Analysis........Hiroshi G.Okuno 45
  Gap between AI Research and Realization......................Hideo Shimazu 47
  Artificial Intelligence and Representation......................Yukito Iba 49

Reports
 The Proposal of the Research Program of Advanced Science and Technology.... 51

Serial Survey Papers:Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  Technologies(1)
  Editor's Introduction to  "Industrial Applications of Artificial
    Intelligence Technologies".............................. Takeshi Yokota  56
 In House Tutoring and Training System.. Takeshi Yokota and Yoshio Nakatani  57

Technical Papers
  Image Analysis Using Natural Language Information Extracted from
    Explanation Text......................Yasuhiko Watanabe and Makoto Nagao 66
  Acquisition of Quantitative and Qualitative Models of 3D Objects
    Using Superquadrics................ Yoshiaki Yasumura,Katsunori Orimoto,
                                     Noboru Babaguchi,and Tadahiro Kitahashi 75
  Formal Verification Method Based on Binary Decision Diagrams for
    Distributed/Concurrent Systems.......................... Satoshi Yamane  83
 Automatic Generation of Sequencing Teaching Items Using
    Genetic Algorithm..................Toshio Okamoto and Tsuyoshi Matsumoto 91
  An Open System Architecture for the Integration of Multiple
    Microworlds and Multiple Tutoring Systems
           ..............................Takafumi Noguchi and Yuzuru Tanaka 100
  A Framework of Program Comprehension Based on Simulation on
    Domain World Model........... Tomoya Ohta,Ryouji Itoh,and Yukihiro Itoh 112
  A New Regularization Based on the MDL Principle
            .................................Kazumi Saito and Ryohei Nakano 123
  Changing Knowledge Representation Systems by Expanding
    Specialization Systems
           ............ Kiyoshi Akama,Yoshinori Shigeta,and Eiichi Miyamoto 131

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