The Machine Intelligence 14 workshop was generously supported by the
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation under an agreement concluded in 1991
between the Turing Institute, UK and the Japan Society for Artificial
Intelligence, Tokyo. The Foundation provided funding, covering Workshops
13 and 14, to defray travel and attendance costs for six Japanese and
six British scientists nominated by the respective parties. The Daiwa
Anglo-Japanese Foundation has recently announced its intention to extend
its support to Workshop 15, which will be held in July 1995 at St.
Catherine's College Oxford. Hitachi kindly provided support and
facilities by allowing the Machine Intelligence 14 workshop to be held
at its spacious Advanced Research Laboratory near Tokyo. Like its
predecessor, Machine Intelligence 13, this volume reflects the vigour
with which the subject is being advanced in Japan.

Thanks are also due to the Oxford University Computing Laboratory for
kindly allowing use of printing and document preparation facilities in
the production of this volume.