CONTENTS
Special Issue:“Editorial Board Members’Aspirations for 2007”
Editor’s Introduction to“Editorial Board Members’Aspirations for 2007” ………………………… Toyoaki Nishida 1
Ken Kaneiwa, Kimihito Ito, Fumikazu Konishi, Kazuhisa Miwa, Akihiro Kashihara, Toyoaki Nishida, Takanori
Komatsu, Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Hideaki Kikuchi, Masanori Sugimoto, Takayuki Yamaoka, Ryuichi Oka, Akiko
Aizawa, Masaharu Yoshioka, Yoshinori Hijikata, Takahira Yamaguchi, Satoshi Sato, Yoichi Tomiura, Manabu Okumura,
Ryutaro Ichise, Takashi Washio, Syusaku Tsumoto, Toshihiro Kamishima, Chie Morita, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro
Matsumura, Tatsuya Asai, Hideaki Takeda, Katsushi Matsuda, Seiichiro Sakurai, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Hiroko Shoji,
Ikuko Eguchi Yairi, Satoshi Kurihara, Fujio Tsutsumi, Ichiro Harashima, Yasushi Takama, Kazuteru Miyazaki, Akinori
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Special Issue:“New Interactions between Bioinformatics and AI”
Editors’Introduction to“New Interactions between Bioinformatics and AI”
……………………………………………………………………………… Tatsuya Akutsu and Yutaka Akiyama 41
Interactions between Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence ………………… Tatsuya Akutsu and Yutaka Akiyama 42
Evolution of Human Brain Function from Views of Genomic Science and
Neurodevelopmental Biology ……………………………………………………………………………Hiroyuki Nawa 49
Sequence and Structural Analyses for Functional Non-Coding RNAs ……………Yasubumi Sakakibara and Kengo Sato 54
Prediction of Epigenetics-Related Regions in DNA by Machine Learning ………………………………… Kenji Satou 63
Biomedical Ontologies and Their Applications …………………………………………………………… Ken I Fukuda 70
Algebraic Biology ― Biology Based on Computer Algebra …………………… Hirokazu Anai and Katsuhisa Horimoto 77
Special Issue:“A Software Toolbox for Research Activity”（5）
Editor’s Introduction to“A Software Toolbox for Research Activity”（5） …………………… Toshihiro Kamishima 85
Visualizing the Thinking with FreeMind, Open Source Mind Mapping Software …………………… Kazuo Fujimoto 86
Easy Achievement on Parallel Processing with GXP and Ibis ……………………………………… Daisaku Yokoyama 95
Bioconductor for the Analysis and Comprehension of Genomic Data …………………………………… Itoshi Nikaido 104
Maxima, a Computer Algebra System …………………………………………………………… Yoshiyuki Nakagawa 114
Special Issue:“AI in the World, AI in Japan”（3）
United Researchers and Isolated Japanese Researchers ………………………………………………… Hiromitsu Hattori 122
Special Issue:“Doctorial Theses on Aritifical Intelligence”
New Trends of Researches for Doctorial Theses …………………………………………………………Yoichi Tomiura 126
Foundations of AI ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 127
Learning and Discovery …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 128
Inflastructure of Knowledge/Information ………………………………………………………………………………… 129
Web Intelligence …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 131
Agents and Distributed AI ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 132
Emergent Systems ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 135
Natural Language Processing ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 137
Pattern Understanding …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 141
Cognition and Embodiment ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 142
Human Interfaces, Computer Assisted Instruction ………………………………………………………………………… 143
Bioinformatics …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 146
AI Applications …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 147
Technical Papers
Abstract …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 148
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