CONTENTS
Commentary
Some Aspects of Creative Activity…………………………….Ryuichi Oka 495
Special Issue: “Knowledge Discovery in Very Large Databases”
Editor’s Introduction to “Knowledge Discovery in Very Large Databases”
……………………………………….. Masayuki Numao 496
An Overview of Knowledge Discovery in Databases……………..Hiroyuki Kawano 497
Machine Learning and Data Mining…………..Hiroshi Motoda and Takashi Washio 505
Mining Algorithms for Association Rules…………………..Masaru Kitsuregawa 513
Perspectives on KDD and Data Mining Tools……………………..Takao Terano 521
Data Mining for Distribution Industry……..Masayuki Numao and Shuichi Shimizu 528
Medical Application of Data Mining………..Shusaku Tsumoto and Hiroshi Tanaka 536
What does Manufacturing Industry Expect from Data Mining?
…………Miki Ochida,Toru Yukimatsu,Satoshi Hori,and Hirokazu Taki 544
Survey Papers
AI Technology in Next Day Electric Peak Load Forecast………….Takashi Onoda 550
Technical Papers
Ontology Engineering
-Towards the Basic Theory and Technology for Content-Oriented Research-
…………………………Riichiro Mizoguchi and Mitsuru Ikeda 559
Propagating Learned Behaviors from a Virtual Agent to a Physical Robot
in Exploitation-Oriented Reinforcement Learning
……………………..Tomohiro Yamaguchi,Moto’omi Masubuchi, 570
Yasuhiro Tanaka,and Masahiko Yachida
MPL-Core:An Efficient Multiple Predicate Learner Based on
Fast Failure Mechanism………………..Xiaolong Zhang and Masayuki Numao 582
Understanding Sequential Events by Cost-Based Cooperation of
Multiple Abducers……………………Yukio Ohsawa and Masahiko Yachida 591
Learning Dynamic Similarity Metric Based on Relative Distance
Information and Estimates of Its Retrieval Error
………………………………Ken Satoh and Seishi Okamoto 600
Inference Rules for Declarative Programs
……………… Kiyoshi Akama,Koichi Okada,and Eiichi Miyamoto 608
A Systematic Construction Method of an Expert System Used for
Automatic Software Design
-Acquisition and Reproduction of Design Knowledge from Design Process-
…………………… Hui Chen,Behrouz H.Far,and Zenya Koono 616
Referring Actions in Multi-Modal Dialogues…. Tsuneaki Kato and Yukiko I.Nakano 627
Research Notes
Improvement of the Subsumption Process on Hypothese Synthesis Using
Inference-Path Network
..Haruhiko Kimura,Kuniyasu Tajima,Hidetaka Nanbo,and Sadaki Hirose 635
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