CONTENTS
Commentary
From the Dream……………………………………….. Hidenori Itoh 1
Special Issue: “AI Challenge”
Editors’ Introduction to “AI Challenge”
……………………Hideki Yamamoto and Toshiyasu Matsushima 2
Construction of Intelligence as a Complex System………Hideyuki Nakashima 3
Agent Society as Complex System……………………………..Jun Arima 5
Active AI and Its Control……………………………….Kazuhiro Iida 7
Towards Ontology Engineering………………………..Riichiro Mizoguchi 9
Ontology as Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge
Engineering…………………………………………Mitsuru Ikeda 11
Emergence of Intelligence Based on Physical Embodiment……..Minoru Asada 14
The Significance and Some Technical Challenges of RoboCup….Eiichi Ohsawa 16
Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Social Information
Systems………………………………………………Toru Ishida 19
Intelligence Mining and Communication Amprification………. Koiti Hasida 21
Encoding of Very Large Corpora and Its Relation to AI……Jun-ichi Tsujii 23
Knowledge Creating Process and Its Support Environment…. Susumu Kunifuji 26
Observing Creative Design Processes:The Cognitive Science
Approach……………………………………………. Masaki Suwa 28
Towards AI Embedding in Human Society………………….Toyoaki Nishida 30
AI That Connects the Real World with Cyberspace…………..Katashi Nagao 32
Use of Character in Software………………………. Katsuhiko Tsujino 35
Artificial Intelligence for Genetic Information Processing
…………………………………………Akihiko Konagaya 38
Distributed Vision as a Perceptual Information
Infrastructure……………………………………Hiroshi Ishiguro 41
Building the Auditory Brain…………………………..Hideki Kawahara 43
Invitation to Computational Auditory Scene Analysis……..Hiroshi G.Okuno 45
Gap between AI Research and Realization………………….Hideo Shimazu 47
Artificial Intelligence and Representation………………….Yukito Iba 49
Reports
The Proposal of the Research Program of Advanced Science and Technology…. 51
Serial Survey Papers:Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Technologies(1)
Editor’s Introduction to “Industrial Applications of Artificial
Intelligence Technologies”………………………… Takeshi Yokota 56
In House Tutoring and Training System.. Takeshi Yokota and Yoshio Nakatani 57
Technical Papers
Image Analysis Using Natural Language Information Extracted from
Explanation Text………………….Yasuhiko Watanabe and Makoto Nagao 66
Acquisition of Quantitative and Qualitative Models of 3D Objects
Using Superquadrics……………. Yoshiaki Yasumura,Katsunori Orimoto,
Noboru Babaguchi,and Tadahiro Kitahashi 75
Formal Verification Method Based on Binary Decision Diagrams for
Distributed/Concurrent Systems…………………….. Satoshi Yamane 83
Automatic Generation of Sequencing Teaching Items Using
Genetic Algorithm………………Toshio Okamoto and Tsuyoshi Matsumoto 91
An Open System Architecture for the Integration of Multiple
Microworlds and Multiple Tutoring Systems
…………………………Takafumi Noguchi and Yuzuru Tanaka 100
A Framework of Program Comprehension Based on Simulation on
Domain World Model……….. Tomoya Ohta,Ryouji Itoh,and Yukihiro Itoh 112
A New Regularization Based on the MDL Principle
……………………………Kazumi Saito and Ryohei Nakano 123
Changing Knowledge Representation Systems by Expanding
Specialization Systems
………… Kiyoshi Akama,Yoshinori Shigeta,and Eiichi Miyamoto 131
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