Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.15 No.5(Sep. 2000)

CONTENTS

Commentary
  AI Attacks Back.......................................Koichi Hori   749

Special Issue:
``Comparison and Evaluation of KDD Methods with Common Medical Datasets"

Editor's Introduction to 
``Comparison and Evaluation of KDD Methods with Common Medical Datasets" 
      ...........................................Takahira Yamaguchi   750

  The Common Medical Data Sets to Compare and Evaluate KDD Methods
      ..............................................Shusaku Tsumoto   751

  Extention of Association Rule Mining for Structured and Numerical Data
      ............................Takashi Washio and Hiroshi Motoda   759

  Knowledge Discovery from Common Data Sets Using an Automatic
    Composition Tool for Inductive Applications
      ...........................................Takahira Yamaguchi   768

  Rule Discovery in Medical Data by GDT-RS
      ....................Ning Zhong, Juzhen Dong and Setsuo Ohsuga   774

  Hypothesis-Driven Exception-Rule Discovery from Common Data Sets
      ..............................................Einoshin Suzuki   782

  Comparison and Evaluation of Knowledge Obtained by KDD Methods
      ....................Shusaku Tsumoto and Katsuhiko Takabayashi   790


Survey Papers
  The RoboCup-Rescue Project...Satoshi Tadokoro, Tomoichi Takahashi,
      Hironao Takahashi, Michinori Hatayama, Fumitoshi Matsuno, 
      Masayuki Ohta, Tetsuhiko Koto, Ikuo Takeuchi, Takeshi Matsui, 
      Yoshitaka Kuwata, Toshiyuki Kaneda, Masayasu Atsumi, 
                                        Jun Nobe and Hiroaki Kitano   798

RoboCup-Rescue: Challenge to Rescue in Large-Scale Disasters
      ..........Satoshi Tadokoro, Hisanori Amano, Yoshitaka Kuwata,
               Hiroaki Kitano, Ikuo Takeuchi and Tomoichi Takahashi   807

Serial Survey Papers: 
  Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence Technology (10)
    Field Quality Watchdog System --- A Data Mining Application ---
     .....................................Satoshi Hori, Miki Ochida,
                               Yoshihiro Hamada and Kazushige Imura   813

AI map
  Understanding Natural Language --- Beyond SHRDLU ---
      ................................................Hozumi Tanaka   821


Technical Papers
  Macro-Model Generation for Emergent Cooperative Behaviors
    in Ant Colony's Foraging (1) --- A Simple Model Case ---
      ............................................Koichi Kurumatani   829

  Macro-Model Generation for Emergent Cooperative Behaviors
    in Ant Colony's Foraging (2)
$B!!(B  --- Decentralized Control by Desensitization Mechanism ---
      ............................................Koichi Kurumatani   837

  Analog Evolvable Hardware Using Variable Length Chromosomes
      ..................Shin Ando, Mitsuru Ishizuka and Hitoshi Iba   844

  Effects of Degree of Shared Cognitive Space 
    on Collaborative Discovery Processes..............Kazuhisa Miwa   854

  Knowledge Acquisition in Database by Generating Negative Instances
    Based on Similarity between Instances in Database
      ..................................Yuu Morinaka, Kouzou Ohara, 
                            Noboru Babaguchi and Tadahiro Kitahashi   862

  Distance Calculation Method for Speakers
    Based on a Structure of Hidden Markov Network
      .............................Motoyuki Suzuki and Shozo Makino   871

  Extraction of Primitive Motions by Using Clustering and 
    Segmentation of Motion-Captured Data
      .............Ryuta Osaki, Mitsuomi Shimada and Kuniaki Uehara   878

  A Study of a Probabilistic Model for a Figure Detection System to
    Construct Image Processing Procedures Automatically
      .............................Toshihiro Hamada, Akinobu Shimizu,
	  Toyofumi Saito, Jun-ichi Hasegawa and Jun-ichiro Toriwaki   887

  Emergence of Norms of Behavior in a Competitive Social Model
       ...........Takashi Ishida, Hiroshi Yokoi and Yukinori Kakazu   896

  An Intelligent System for Reconstruction
    of Curved-Surfaced Solids from Inconsistent Three Views
       .............................Yuyan Chao and Takashi Watanabe   907

  Fraud-Free Exchange Mechanisms in Electronic Commerce
      ............................Shigeo Matsubara and Makoto Yokoo   915


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