Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.14 No.6(Nov. 1999)

CONTENTS

Commentary
Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems................Hideyuki Nakashima   933

Special Issue: "Toward Creative Networked Information Environments" 
Editor's Introduction to  "Toward Creative Networked Information Environments" 
         ....................................................Mitsuru Ishizuka   934

Information Personalization and Its Description Format
         ...................Tomonari Kamba, Yuichi Koike and Yoshiyuki Koseki   936

Network Community Formation and Support Technologies..............Hideo Umeki   943

Intelligent Services Using E-Mail Communication
         ...................Takaaki Hasegawa, Hisako Asano and Motoyuki Horii   951

Empowered Computing and Intermediary Agent..................Fumihiro Maruyama   959

Creative Network Environment Using XML
  --Dynamic Information Sources and Distributed Agents--
         ...................Koichi Takeda Yuichi Nakamura and Naohiko Uramoto   967


Technical Papers: "Ontology: Foundations and Applications" 
Editor's Introduction to  "Ontology: Foundations and Applications" 
         ..................................................Takahira Yamaguchi   976

Survey Papers
  Ontology: Foundations and Applications...................Riichiro Mizoguchi   977

Technical Papers
  Construction of Plant Operators Knowledge Model by Behavior -Speech Anaysis
         ...................................Kazuo Furuta and Shinji Yoshikawa   989

  Two-Way Navigation System for the Information Space and
    the Real Space Using Extraction and Integration of Attribute Ontologies
         ..............Fumiaki Itoh, Noriko Otani, Takaya Ueda and Yuji Ikeda  1001

  Ontology-Driven Information Extraction
         .....................Keiichi Hirota, Yutaka Sasaki and Tsuneaki Kato  1010

  Foundation of Ontological Engineering
    --An Ontological Theory of Semantic Links, Classes, Relations and Roles--
         ............Riichiro Mizoguchi, Mitsuru Ikeda and Yoshinobu Kitamura  1019

  Application Ontology for Performance Rendering Based on a Deductive
    Object-Oriented Database Approach............Keiji Hirata and Rumi Hiraga  1033

  Organizing Problem-Solving Methods Based on a Domain Ontology
    --Application to Real-Life Environments and Empirical Evaluation--
         .......................................................Masahiro Hori  1041

  The Development of Knowledge Integrated Engineering Framework Based on Ontology
         ..............Takayuki Sekiya, Masaharu Yoshioka and Tetsuo Tomiyama  1051

  Design and Implementations of Reusable Method Library for Development of 
    Expert Systems........ Noriaki Izumi, Akira Maruyama, Atsuyuki Suzuki and
                                                          Takahira Yamaguchi   1061

  Sound Ontology Based Integration of Computational Auditory Scene 
    Analysis Systems...................Tomohiro Nakatani and Hiroshi G. Okuno  1072

  A Domain Ontology Development Environment Using a Machine Readable Dictionary
        ...................Takahira Yamaguchi, Masaki Kurematsu, Chizuru Aoki,
                          Rieko Sekiuchi, Shigeru Kagayama and Hajime Yoshino  1080


Technical Papers
Comparison of Relevant Logic R and ER
         .................................Noriaki Yoshiura and Naoki Yonezaki  1088

A Predicate-Logic-Version Method for Cost-Based Hypothetical Reasoning 
   Employing Efficient Propositional-Level Reasoning Mechanism
         ...............Kazuya Tanahashi, Shigeki Fukuta and Mitsuru Ishizuka  1100

A Method of Subgoaling for the Negotiation in a Distributed Cooperative 
  Scheduling System
         ..Naomichi Sueda, Takahiro Kawamura, Naoki Kase and Tsuyoshi Shimada  1108

Automatic Part-Of-Speech Tagging System --An Elastic Neuro Tagger--
         .......Qing Ma, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Masaki Murata and Hitoshi Isahara  1116

Navigation Planning to Guide Concept Understanding in the World Wide Web
         .......................................Seiji Yamada and Yukio Ohsawa  1125

Integrated Learning of Supervised and Unsupervised Learning :
  Psychological Experiments and Computational Model
         .................................Kentaro Shimizu and Einoshin Suzuki  1134

A Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm for Function Optimization Using the Unimodal 
  Normal Distribution Crossover
         .....................Isao Ono, Hiroshi Satoh and Shigenobu Kobayashi  1146

A Theory of Profit Sharing in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
         .............Kazuteru Miyazaki, Sachiyo Arai and Shigenobu Kobayashi  1156

Deductive and Inductive Ways of Investigation on Human Problem Solving
         .......................................................Kazuhisa Miwa  1165

AAS : Search System for Satisfying User$B!G(Bs Interest by Assembling Documents
  --An Application of Cost Based Abduction--
         ................Naohiro Matsumura, Yukio Ohsawa and Masahiko Yachida  1177


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