Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.14 No.3(May 1999)

CONTENTS
Commentary
Electric Power Systems & AI....................................Moritoshi Kato  387

Special Issue: "Applications to Engineering: Overcoming the Gap between
Research and Industry" Editor$B!G(Bs Introduction to
 "Applications to Engineering: Overcoming the Gap between Research and Industry" 
      ..........................................................Tetsuo Touama  388
Survey Papers
  Realities of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Applications
      ..........................................................Osamu Dairiki  389
  Research and Development for Practical Systems ..............Naomichi Sueda  393
  Application-oriented Fundamental Research in Artificial Intelligence
      ........................................................Nishida Toyoaki  398
E-mail Discussions
   "Applications to Engineering: Overcoming the Gap between Research and Industry" 
      ............Osamu Dairiki, Naomichi Sueda, Toyoaki Nishida,Yuichi Miyamoto,
                         Katsuhiko Tsujino,Takashi Washio and Tetsuo Tomiyama  402

Survey Papers
Quantum Theory and Mind ......Kunio Yasue, Masato Ishikawa, Hitoshi Matsubara  413

AI map
Comments on "How AI Treats Nonlogical Information Involved in Human Communications" 
  and Their Answers............................................Mitsuru Ishizuka, 
                        Hirotada  Ueda, Yoichi Takebayashi and Ryohei Nakatsu  425

Technical Papers
Learning Default Rules Extended Logic Programs
      ....................Katsumi Inoue, Yoshimitsu Kudoh and Hiromasa Haneda  437
Dynamic Position Arrangements of Soccer Agents with Genetic Algorithms
      ..........................Tetsuya Murata, Keiji Suzuki and Azuma Ohuchi  446
Generation of Interactive Multimodal Explanation
$B!=(BTwo frameworks of explanation and interactivity$B!=(B
      ......................................Tsuneaki Kato and Yukiko I.Nakano  455
Computing Prioritized Circumscription by Compiling into Extended Logic Programs 
Based on the Semantic Relationship ..............Toshiko Wakaki and Ken Satoh  466
Evolution of n-BDD Using Genetic Programming Method 
--A Food Chain Simulation of Evolutional Agents--............Kousuke Moriwaki, 
                            Daisuke Yokoi, Nobuhiro Inuzuka and Hidenori Itoh  477
Knowledge-Base Reconstruction by Means of Changing the Viewpoint of Exceptions
  within Incomplete Knowledge ........Kouichi Katsurada, Kouzou Ohara, 
                                      Noboru Babaguchi and Tadahiro Kitahashi  485
A Thinking Support System for Idea Inspiration Using Spring Model
      ....................................Koichi Takasugi and Susumu Kunifuji  495
A Computer-Assisted Music Analysis System for Sharing Music Knowledge
       ..........................Rumi Hiraga, JianLi Liu and Shigeru Igarashi  504
Inference of Equational Programs by Inverse Reduction
      ......................................Akira Ishino and Akihiro Yamamoto  512
Integrity Constraint and Semantics of Three-Valued Abduction Frameworks
       ..................................Yoshinori Kurose and Susumu Yamasaki  520
An Automated Reasoning System for Multi-Agent Environments..........Lifeng He, 
               Yuyan Chao, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Hirohisa Seki and Hidenori Itoh  529
GLS: A Hybrid Classifier System Based on POMDP Research
       ......................................Akira Hayashi and Nobuo Suematsu  538

Research Notes
An Accelerated k-Certainty Exploration Method
       ..............................Gang Zhao, Shoji Tatsumi and Ruoying Sun  547
A Propositional Model Elimination Tableau Based on Genetic Programming
      ......................................Koji Iwanuma and Takeshi Yagasaki  553

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