Description:
This book consists of award papers from the 22nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, held in Asahikawa, Japan, in June 2008 and selected papers from three co-located international workshops.
The volume starts with 8 award winning papers of the JSAI 2008 main conference that were selected among more than 400 presentations. They are accompanied by 18 revised full workshop papers, carefully reviewed and selected from 34 presentations at the following three co-located international workshops: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 2008), the 2nd International Workshop on Juris-Informatics (JURISIN 2008), and the 1st International Workshop on Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement (LIBM 2008).