New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence JSAI 2006 Conference and Wo

The progress in information technology including arti?cial intelligence (AI) in the last few decades is remarkable, and has attracted many young researchers to this ?eld. This trend is now accelerated along with the recent rapid growth of computer communi

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

4384

Takashi Washio Ken Satoh Hideaki Takeda Akihiro Inokuchi (Eds.)

New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence JSAI 2006 Conference and Workshops Tokyo, Japan, June 5-9, 2006 Revised Selected Papers

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Takashi Washio Osaka University The Institute of Sientific and Industrial Research (ISIR) 8-1, Mihogaoka, Ibarakishi, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan E-mail: [email protected] Ken Satoh Hideaki Takeda National Institute of Informatics Foundations of Information Research Division Chiyoda-ku, 2-1-2, Hitotsubashi, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan E-mail: {ksatoh,takeda}@nii.ac.jp Akihiro Inokuchi Tokyo Research Laboratory (TRL), IBM Japan 1623-14 Shimotsuruma, Yamato-shi, Kanagawa, 242-8502, Japan E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006940650

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.2.8, H.3, F.1, H.4, H.5.2, I.5, J.1, J.3, K.4.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

The progress in information technology including artificial intelligence (AI) in the last few decades is remarkable, and has attracted many young researchers to this field. This trend is now accelerated along with the recent rapid growth of computer communication networks and the worldwide increase in researchers. In this context, we have observed many outstanding AI studies in Japanese domestic conferences. They have high technical originality, quality and significance. The annual conference of JSAI (Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence) is one of the key and representative domestic meetings in the field of intelligent information technology. Award papers in this conference have an excellent quality of international standards. The annual conference of JSAI also organizes co-located international workshops to provide excellent study reports. The objectives of this book are to present the award papers of the 20th annua