AITEC NEWS No.22
March 4, 1999
Issue #22
(issued on March 1, 1999 in Japanese)


-- Special Issue for the WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH FUNDING PROGRAM FY 1998 --
Due to the schedule of the workshop, No.22 was published before No.21.

Introduction

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This issue describes the "Workshop on Research Funding Program FY 1998".

Since 1995, AITEC has been conducting the "Research Funding Program" to develop and promote IFS (ICOT Free Software - FGCS products). This is the 4th workshop since this program started, but since the FGCS technology promotion project will be ended in March 1999, this workshop will be the last one.

Under this year's program, we made important brushups to the IFS and extended IFS. The aim of this was to improve the accessibility of the software which is used as a tool for knowledge processing and parallel processing as well as for education, and to encourage its use.

At the workshop, 19 projects (6 projects continued from last year and 13 new projects) will be presented. As we have extended the program to overseas researchers since last year, they will also come to Japan to join in this workshop. Be prepared for lively discussions and exchanges of information!

The workshop schedule is as follows (For further details, see the following article):

**** Workshop on Research Funding Program FY 1998 ****
Date: March 11 - 12, 1999
Place: Shiba Park Hotel
(1-5-10, Shiba-koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo)

 If you would like to participate in the workshop, please fill in the following application form and send it by E-mail to:
moro@icot.or.jp, ayako@icot.or.jp

We are pleased to announce the establishment of the "KLIC Association." As a result of discussions among a group that is working on maintaining and improving KLIC, we have decided to set up this association as the core of the KLIC researcher's and users' community and voluntary work, all for the purpose of maintaining and improving KLIC and its related software.

The general meeting for the establishment of the "KLIC Association" will be held on the same day as the "Workshop on Research Funding Program FY 1998" as follows:
**** General Meeting for Establishment of "KLIC Association" ****
Date: 17:00 p.m., March 12 (Fri), 1999
Place: Shiba Park Hotel
(1-5-10, Shiba-koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
Iris Room (2nd floor of the Annex Building)
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop and the KLIC Association establishment meeting.

Application Form for the workshop

(please send mail including items below)
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1. Participants:
       Name:
       Job position:
       E-mail address:

2. Date: Please check the date you will participate in the workshop.

             March 11 (Thur)  (  )     March 12 (Fri)  (  )

3. Comments & Inquiries:

Articles In This Issue

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--"WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH FUNDING PROGRAM FY 1998"--

   Date:    March 11 - 12, 1999 (Registration Starts at 9:20 a.m.)
   Place:   Shiba Park Hotel (1-5-10, Shiba-koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo
                              TEL: 03-3433-4141  FAX: 03-5470-7529)
	              Symposium site: Botan-no-ma (Peony Room)
                              (3rd floor of the main building)
              Reception site: Sakura-no-ma (Cherry Blossom Room)
                              (2nd floor of the main building)

            Access: 8 min. walk from north exit of Hamamatsu-cho Station
                    (Japan Railways)
                    2 min. walk from Onarimon Station (Subway Mita Line)
                    4 min. walk from Daimon Station (Subway Asakusa Line)

    Program: March 11 (Thur)   Session 1 - Session 3 : 10:20 - 16:15
			       Reception             : 17:00 - 19:30

	     March 12 (Fri)    Session 4 - Session 6 : 10:20 - 15:50


 

  * Opening Session (10:00 - 10:20)

      10:00-10:10   Opening Address:
        	      Kazuhiro FUCHI (Evaluation Committee Chairperson)

      10:10-10:20   Presentation of Program Objectives:
       	              Shunichi UCHIDA (AITEC Director)


  * Session 1 (10:20 - 11:35)

  (1) 10:20-10:45   Enhancing and Porting an Efficient Constraint Solver 
		    for Hierarchical Linear Systems
		      Satoshi MATSUOKA (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

  (2) 10:45-11:10   Improving Usability of the Parallel Visual Programming
		    Environment KLIEG
		      Etsuya SHIBAYAMA (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

  (3) 11:10-11:35   Visual Interface of klic (Klitcl) and Message Interface 
		    of klic and Java (Javaklic)
		      Jiro TANAKA (Tsukuba University)


  * Session 2 (13:00 - 14:40)

  (4) 13:00-13:25   Application of Parallel Logic Programming for 
		    Reconstruction of Molecular Phylogenetic Trees 
		    using the Maximum Likelihood Method
	              Naruya SAITOU (National Institute of Genetics)

  (5) 13:25-13:50   Distribution Project of IFS Japanese Morphological 
		    Grammar
		      Hiroshi SANO (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  (6) 13:50-14:15   Development of a Legal Reasoning System Based on
		    Goal-Dependent Abstraction
		      Tokuyasu KAKUTA (Hokkaido University)

  (7) 14:15-14:40   Development of Cooperative Robot Programming Language 
		    System
		      Fumio MIZOGUCHI (Science University of Tokyo)


      14:40-15:00        Coffee Break


  * Session 3 (15:00 - 16:15)

  (8) 15:00-15:25   Distributed Constraint Solving for Functional Logic
		    Programming
		      Bruno BUCHBERGER(RISC Linz, Austria)

  (9) 15:25-15:50   WEB-KLIC: A Concurrent Logic-based Unified Framework
		    for Internet Programming
		      Enrico PONTELLI(New Mexico State University, U.S.A.)

  (10)15:50-16:15   Applying Constraint Logic Programming Languages for
		    Modelling Multi-objective Decision Making under 
                    Uncertainty
	              John DARLINGTON(Imperial College, U.K.)

      17:00-19:30        Reception


 

  * Session 4 (10:20 - 11:35)

  (11)10:20-10:45   DJ: A Java-based Constraint Language and System
		      Neng-Fa ZHOU (Kyushu Institute of Technology)

  (12)10:45-11:10   Set Constraint Solvers
		      Yosuke SATO (Ritsumeikan University)

  (13)11:10-11:35   Development of a Java-MGTP System and Advanced Inference 
		    Mechanism
		      Ryuzo HASEGAWA (Kyushu University)


  * Session 5 (13:00 - 14:40)

  (14)13:00-13:25   An Improved Threading of KL1
		      Hiroshi NAKASHIMA (Toyohashi University of Technology)

  (15)13:25-13:50   Research and Development of a Data Mining Engine DATAGOL 
		    by Inductive Logic Programming
		      Kouichi FURUKAWA (KEIO University)

  (16)13:50-14:15   A Programming System for Statistical Modeling: PRISM
		      Taisuke SATO (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

  (17)14:15-14:40   A Drawing Editor Based on Constraint Solving
		      Takeo IGARASHI (University of Tokyo)


      14:40-15:00        Coffee Break


  * Session 6 (15:00 - 15:50)

  (18)15:00-15:25   Static Analyzer of KL1 Programs
		      Kazunori UEDA (Waseda University)

  (19)15:25-15:50   KLIC version 3: Introduction of Generational Garbage 
		    Collector
		      Takashi CHIKAYAMA (University of Tokyo)


  * Closing Session (15:50 - 16:20)

      15:50-16:10   The FGCS Digital Archive
		      Akira AIBA (AITEC)

      16:10-16:20   Closing Address  - At the end of the FGCS Technology 
                    Dissemination Project -
		      Shunichi UCHIDA (AITEC Director)

Message From The Editorial Desk

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This issue introduced the "Workshop on Research Funding Program FY 1998".

Although this will be the last such workshop, it is our pleasure to inform you that the new "KLIC Association" will be established as the core of research exchange.

Although this is a busy time of year as the fiscal year comes to a close, please take this chance to participate in the workshop and hear exciting presentations by the researchers of the Research Funding Program.

Again, we very much look forward to meeting you at the workshop.
                
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*      A I T E C   N E W S Issue #22                                 *
*         AITEC NEWS Editorial Team:                                 *
*           Makiko Sato, Chie Takahashi, Akira Aiba                  *
*	    Kazumi Kasai, Kouichi Takeda, Yoshiharu Torii            *
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*        Issued on: March 1, 1999 (Japanese Version)                 *
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