Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.14 No.5(Sep. 1999)

CONTENTS

Commentary
  AI Society$B!G(Bs Mission in the New Century:
  --Elucidate the Abstruse, Disseminate among the Masses--.....Norio Shiratori  761


Special Issue:
   "Recent Developments in the Theory and Applications of Machine Learning"
    Editor$B!G(Bs Introduction to
   "Recent Developments in the Theory and Applications of Machine Learning"
         ............................................................Naoki Abe  762

  Some Topics in On-Line Prediction............Akira Maruoka and Eiji Takimoto  763

  A Short Introduction to Boosting
         .............Yoav Freund and Robert Schapire (Translation: Naoki Abe)  771

  Inductive Inference of Formal Languages
         .............................Naofumi Sakakibara and Satoshi Kobayashi  781

  Learning of First-Order Formulas and Inductive Logic Programming
         ..................................Hironori Arimura and Kouichi Hirata  790

  Theory and Applications of Reinforcement Learning Based on Profit Sharing
         .............Kazuteru Miyazaki, Hajime Kimura and Shigenobu Kobayashi  800


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  Comments on "Fascinated by Explicit Understanding" and Their Answers
        Satoru Miyano, Yoshiyuki Koseki, Osamu Katai, Sigenobu Kobayashi and 
         .......................................................Hiroshi Motoda  808


Technical Papers
  Decidability of Relevant Logic ER........Noriaki Yoshiura and Naoki Yonezaki  819

  An Ontology of Faults --Articulation and Organization--
         ............................Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi  828

  Fault Diagnosis Based on Ontological Consideration of Faults
   --Exhaustive Fault Hypotheses Generation--
        Yoshinobu Kitamura, Toshihito Nishihara, Masahiko Ueda, Mitsuru Ikeda,
         .................Satoshi Kobori, Osamu Kakusho and Riichiro Mizoguchi  838

  The Proposal and Evaluation of a Crossover for Traveling Salesman Problems: 
   Edge Assembly Crossover...............Yuichi Nagata and Shigenobu Kobayashi  848

  Multi-State Commitment Search and Its Evaluation
         ...Yasuhiko Kitamura, Makoto Yokoo, Tomohisa Miyaji and Shoji Tatsumi  860

  Evolutionary Learning of Behaviors for Action-Based Environment Modeling
         .........................................................Seiji Yamada  870

  A Logarithmic-Time Updating Algorithm for TD ($B&K(B) Learning
         ..............................Susumu Katayama and Shigenobu Kobayashi  878

  A Causal Explanation System wiht Abduction Procedure for Failure in 
   Applying Loop Transformation................................Mariko Sasakura  891


Technical Reports
  Identification of Lubricant Words in Problem Solving Dialogues
          Shu Nakazato, Masafumi Tamoto, Hideaki Kikuchi and Takashi Yoshimura  900


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