Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Vol.17 No.6(Sept. 2002)

CONTENTS

Special Issue:``Human-Agent Interaction''
  Editors' Introduction to``Human-Agent Interaction''
	............................. Seiji Yamada, Koh Kakusho and Katsumi Nitta 657

  Human-Agent Interaction as Adaptation .......... Seiji Yamada and Koh Kakusho 658

  HAI in Community ............................................ Toyoaki Nishida 665

  Human-Agent Interaction 
    in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments
	............................ Hiroaki Ogata, Yoneo Yano and Kenji Matsuura 672

  Toward a Smooth Communication between Humans and Robots
	.......................... Takanori Komatsu, Kazuo Hiraki and Natsuki Oka 679

  Reality of Life-like Agent and Communication Gap in HAI
	........................................................ Shigeo Morishima 687

  Human-Agent Interaction with a Life-like Character Linked with WWW
	....................................... Hiroshi Dohi and Mitsuru Ishizuka 693

Special Issue:``RoboCup''
  Editor's Introduction to``RoboCup''........................ Hitoshi Matsubara 701

  A Report of RoboCup-2002 Fukuoka/Busan
	...................... Hitoshi Matsubara, Minoru Asada and Hiroaki Kitano 702

  The Tendency of RoboCupSoccer Simulation League ............ Hidehisa Akiyama 708

  RoboCupRescue Simulation ................... Takeshi Morimoto and Hiroki Endo 714

Survey Papers
  Computational Neuroscience of Cerebellar Internal Model and MOSAIC
	........................................................... Mitsuo Kawato 720

  Challenge toward Ultimate Safety
    --Machine Intelligence Collaborating with Humans--
	    ................................................... Toshiyuki Inagaki 732

Serial Survey Papers: AI Technologies for Practical Systems (6)
  Translation from Text Data to Numeric Data
  --Points for Attention in Text Mining Preparatory Processing 
      as Seen from the Analyst's Point of Reference--
	............................................................. Yuki Toyoda 738

AI map
  Comments on``Toward a New Media Architecture for Editing, Distributing, 
    and Managing Intellectual Assets''and Their Answers
	........ Kouichi Furukawa, Setsuo Arikawa, Makoto Nagao and Yuzuru Tanaka 744

Articles
  Trend of Protection of Software by Patent Law
	........................................ Shiro Terasaki and Katsumi Nitta 755

Lecture Series: Object Modeling in Philosophy and AI Research (5)
  Problems and a Composition of the Modern Semiotics ............ Tateki Sugeno 760

Special Issue:``Doctorial Theses on Aritifical Intelligence''
  New Trends of Researches for Doctorial Theses ............. Masayuki Yamamura 771

  Machine Learning, Data Mining ............................................... 772
  Ontology, Design Support Systems ............................................ 774
  Perception, Recognition ..................................................... 776
  Automated Reasoning, Logic Programming ...................................... 777
  Communication, e-Learning ................................................... 780

Technical Papers Abstract ..................................................... 783

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