In this special issue, we selected six of the papers, including one of the invited talks, and asked the authors to expand their conference presentations to provide more explanatory material. We believe these articles are representative of the current state of the art in innovative applications of AI.

Deployed applications are three-dimensional scenes, speech input Rapid Development of a systems that have been in use for at for information access, multimodal Course-of-Action Critiquer," by Gheorghe least several months by individuals or dialog, machine learning in engineering Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Mike Bowman, organizations other than their developers, design, ontologies, agent models, and Dorin Marcu, describes a critiquing have measurable benefits, and and case-based reasoning.

Representatives of universities and businesses were chosen by the Japan Technology Evaluation Center to investigate the state of the technology in Japan relative to the United States. The panel's report focused on applications, tools, and research and development in universities and industry and on major national projects.

This article summarizes the findings of a 1992 study of knowledge-based systems research and applications in Japan. Representatives of universities and businesses were chosen by the Japan Technology Evaluation Center to investigate the state of the technology in Japan relative to the United States. The panel's report focused on applications, tools, and research and development in universities and industry and on major national projects.

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AAAI Officials In the lead article, Paul Cohen analyzes over 1.50 papers that were I am pleased to welcome two new members of our editorial staff. Elaine Rich and Ramesh Patil are associate editors and will Ramesh received his Ph.D. at the I look forward to working closely with Elaine and Ramesh.

As you can see from direct inspection of the magazine, it's a little different I hope you enjoy this special issue.

In this issue, Luc Steels takes a new Clay Carr, Homer Chin, Aaron Cohn, overly commercial tone, for example, and insightful look at knowledgebased Michael Compton, Ajit Dingankar, an article that serves mainly to extol systems and provides a synthesis Lance Eliot, David Fogel, Tom the virtues of a commercial product. of several different approaches to Gruber, Uma Gupta, Larry Hall, Jim Second, the article should be well analyzing expertise. It's a long article Hightower, Dwight Johnson, Bob written. We don't have the editorial but, in my opinion, an important Joyce, Murali Krishnamurthi, John staff to do extensive rewriting. I recommend it to anyone with Kunz, Douglas Leyh, Jim MacDonald, and perhaps, unfortunately, an interest in knowledge-level analysis Brigitte Maitre, Robert Newstadt, we rarely publish manuscripts of expert systems. On the same Matthew Realff, Jeff Schlimmer, Allen submitted by non-English-speaking general topic of expert systems but Sherzer, Bob Smith, Scott Staley, Lynn authors.

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