CONTENTS
Commentary
Promising Investment in AI Technology………………….Hideyuki Tamura 337
Special Issue: “Intelligent Support for Human-System Interactions”
Editor’s Introduction to “Intelligent Support for
Human-System Interactions” …………………………Tetsuo Sawaragi 338
Human-System Interactions and Intelligent Support-A Tutorial-..Osamu Katai 339
Modeling of function and Structure of Man-machine Systems……Akio Gofuku 347
An Overview of Human Modelin…………………………… Kazuo Furuta 356
Collaboration Support Environment for Continuous Design…Takashi Kiriyama 364
design of Human-Artifacts Symbiotic Systems under
Resource-Boundedness……………………………… Tetuso Sawaragi 371
Serial Survey Papers:Industrial Applications of Artificial
Intelligence Technologies(3)
Application of Constrained Optimization for Practial
Scheduling Problems……………………………. Masazumi Yoshikawa 379
Techinical Papers
The Strong Relevance Princeple in Relevant Logic
.. Takahiro Tagawa,Junya Ohori,Jingde Cheng,and Kazuo Ushijima 387
Equivalent Transformation for Equality Constraints on
Multiset Domains..Kiyoshi Akama,Yuichi Kawaguchi,and Eiichi Miyamoto…. 395
A Model Based Approach to Reinforcement Learning in Partially
Observable Environments:Bayesian Learning of Models with
Variable Memory Length.. Nobuo Suematsu,Akira Hayashi,and Shigang Li…. 404
A New Sufficient Condition for Polynomial Solvability of
Cost-Based Abduction……………… Yukio Ohsawa and Masahiko Yachida 415
Information Retrieval Using Rough Sets……Tu Bao Ho and Kaname Funakoshi 424
Acquisition of Optimal Internal Representation in Neural Netwaoks
by using Information Criteria……………………….. Takashi Onoda 434
A Policy Description Language for Automatic Software Operations
……….Kazuo Takada,Masahiko Tsukamoto,and Shojiro Nishio 444
Automatic Composition of Tsume-Shogi by Reverse Method
………… Masayuki Hirose,Takumi Ito,andHitoshi Matsubara 452
An Index Navigator:Underatanding and Expressing User’s
Changing Interest..Yukio Ohsawa,Atsushi Sugawa,and Masahiko Yachida 461
Optimal Realization of a Large Scale Knowledge Base for
Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words
…………………………Tsutomu Ishikawa,Jyunjiro Izawa,
NguyenViet Ha,and Kaname Kasahara 470
Technical Reports
BACCS:Graphical Sentence-Level Aligned Corpora Construction environment
…………………. Takefumi Yamazaki and Masahiko Haruno 480
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