Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.14 No.1(Jan. 1999)

CONTENTS

Commentary
  Interfaces between Humans, and between Artifacts....................Kazuyo Tanaka   1

Special Issue: "User Modeling and User-Adaptive Interaction"
  Editor's Introduction to$B!H(BUser Modeling and User-Adaptive Interaction"
						            ......Tsukasa Hirashima   2
  Cooperative Responses from Natural Language Dialogue Systems
					            ..............Tadahiko Kumamoto   3
  User Modeling Methods for Intelligent Interface Systems ..........Kenichi Yoshida  11
  Student Modeling and Adaptive Interaction  ........................kasa Hirashima  17
  User Modeling and Adaptive Interaction in Information Gathering Systems
					..........................Masanori Sugimoto  25
  Adaptive Interaction in Information Visualization Systems ..........Yasuyuki Sumi  33

AI map
  Comments on "AI Technology and Research Reorganizing Based on Media
  Science and Technology"and Their Answers
            ........................Syun Tsuchiya, Hideyuki Tamura and Toshio Yokoi  41

Technical Papers: "Creativity Support Tools for Our Offices"
  Editor's Introduction to "Creativity Support Tools for Our Offices"
					      ......................Susumu Kunifuji  49
  Survey Papers
    Knowledge Creating Methodology and Knowledge Creativity Support 
	Tools for Our Offices ......................................Susumu Kunifuji  50
  Technical Papers
    How an Autonomous Information Retrieval Agent Affects Divergent Thinking by a Group
	 ..........................Kazushi Nishimoto, Kenji Mase and Ryohei Nakatsu  58
    A Flexible and Dynamically Extensible Architecture for Supporting Idea Creation
                 ............................Kiyoshi Nitta, Tao Lin and Kazuo Misue  71
    Support for Collage-Style Writing by Amplifying Representational Talkback
                 ..............Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Shingo Takada and Kumiyo Nakakoji  82
    Fish-Eye Matching: A Document Organizing Function Based on the
	Extraction of User's Viewpoint Using Concept Structure
                 ..............................Yasufumi Takama and Mitsuru Ishizuka  93
    Supporting the Modeling of Requirements in System Design
                 ......................Yasuyuki Sumi, Koichi Hori and Setsuo Ohsuga 102
    The Method of Promoting Organizational Information Sharing Based on
 	 "Information Acquisition Awareness"
                ..............Chie Kadowaki, Tomohiro Kokogawa, Toshihiko Yamakami, 
						 Keizo Sugita and Susumu Kunifuji   111

  Technical Papers
  Reinforcement Learning for Crawling Robot Motion Using Stochastic Gradient Ascent
                 ............................Hajime Kimura and Shigenobu Kobayashi  122
  An Interactive-Graphic System for  Decision Tree Induction
                 ..................................Trong Dung Nguyen and Tu Bao Ho  131
  Simultaneous Reliability Evaluation of Generality and Accuracy for
 	Characteristic Rule Discovery in Databases ................Einoshin Suzuki  139
  Learning Deterministic Policies in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
                  ..........Kazuteru Miyazaki, Sachiyo Arai and Sigenobu Kobayashi  148
  Incremental Multistrategy Relational Conceptual Clustering and Ordering Effects
                   ............Raymund Sison, Masayuki Numao and Masamichi Shimura  157

Technical Reports
  Direct-Match Algorithm Using Alpha Memories of High Order
   ........Takahiro Hayashi, Haruhiko Kimura, Sadaki Hirose and Sigeki Hirobayashi  166