Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.13 No.3(May 1998)

                          CONTENTS

Commentary
  Promising Investment in AI Technology......................Hideyuki Tamura  337

Special Issue: "Intelligent Support for Human-System Interactions" 
  Editor's Introduction to  "Intelligent Support for
    Human-System Interactions" ..............................Tetsuo Sawaragi  338
  Human-System Interactions and Intelligent Support-A Tutorial-..Osamu Katai  339
  Modeling of function and Structure of Man-machine Systems......Akio Gofuku  347
  An Overview of Human Modelin................................. Kazuo Furuta  356
  Collaboration Support Environment for Continuous Design...Takashi Kiriyama  364
  design of Human-Artifacts Symbiotic Systems under
    Resource-Boundedness.................................... Tetuso Sawaragi  371

Serial Survey Papers:Industrial Applications of Artificial
  Intelligence Technologies(3)
  Application of Constrained Optimization for Practial
    Scheduling Problems.................................. Masazumi Yoshikawa  379

Techinical Papers
  The Strong Relevance Princeple in Relevant Logic
              .. Takahiro Tagawa,Junya Ohori,Jingde Cheng,and Kazuo Ushijima  387
  Equivalent Transformation for Equality Constraints on
    Multiset Domains..Kiyoshi Akama,Yuichi Kawaguchi,and Eiichi Miyamoto....  395
  A Model Based Approach to Reinforcement Learning in Partially
    Observable Environments:Bayesian Learning of Models with
    Variable Memory Length.. Nobuo Suematsu,Akira Hayashi,and Shigang Li....  404
  A New Sufficient Condition for Polynomial Solvability of
    Cost-Based Abduction.................. Yukio Ohsawa and Masahiko Yachida  415
  Information Retrieval Using Rough Sets......Tu Bao Ho and Kaname Funakoshi  424
  Acquisition of Optimal Internal Representation in Neural Netwaoks
    by using Information Criteria............................. Takashi Onoda  434
  A Policy Description Language for Automatic Software Operations
                ..........Kazuo Takada,Masahiko Tsukamoto,and Shojiro Nishio  444
  Automatic Composition of Tsume-Shogi by Reverse Method
                ............ Masayuki Hirose,Takumi Ito,andHitoshi Matsubara  452
An Index Navigator:Underatanding and Expressing User's
         Changing Interest..Yukio Ohsawa,Atsushi Sugawa,and Masahiko Yachida  461
  Optimal Realization of a Large Scale Knowledge Base for
    Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words
            ..............................Tsutomu Ishikawa,Jyunjiro Izawa,
                                           NguyenViet Ha,and Kaname Kasahara  470

Technical Reports
  BACCS:Graphical Sentence-Level Aligned Corpora Construction environment
                ...................... Takefumi Yamazaki and Masahiko Haruno  480


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