Journal Guide

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) is a venue for high quality research contributions addressing foundational, engineering, and technological aspects of computing systems exhibiting emergent and adaptive behaviour. TAAS encourages contributions aimed at supporting the understanding, development, and control of such systems based on sound theoretical models, including but not limited to bio-inspired models. ACM TAAS spans complexity, self-adaptation, autonomic computing, and multi-agent systems. It addresses research being undertaken by an interdisciplinary research computing community -- and provide a common platform under which this work can be published and disseminated. Such a common view would consider macro-behavior of decentralized applications emerging from micro-behavior of its autonomous, possibly mobile components.

AI Communications is a journal on Artificial Intelligence (AI) which has a close relationship to ECCAI (the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence). It covers the whole AI community: scientific institutions as well as commercial and industrial companies. AI Communications aims to enhance contacts and information exchange between AI researchers and developers, and to provide supranational information to those concerned with AI and advanced information processing. AI Communications publishes refereed articles concerning scientific and technical AI procedures, provided they are of sufficient interest to a large readership of both scientific and practical background. In addition it contains high-level background material, both at the technical level as well as the level of opinions, policies and news. The Editorial and Advisory Board is appointed by the Editor-in-Chief.

This serial is an official publication of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. From these pages, you can access editorial, advertising, and subscriber information about the publication.Called the “journal of record for the AI community,” AI Magazine helps AAAI members stay abreast of significant new research and literature across the entire field of artificial intelligence. This quarterly publication features timely, feature-length articles, consistently crafted to be clear enough to permit specialists to review work outside their particular area of expertise.

AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, is an international journal, publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, short communications and reviews of books and other publications. Established in 1987, the journal focuses on the issues of policy, design and management of information, communications and new media technologies, with a particular emphasis on cultural, social, cognitive, economic, ethical and philosophical implications. AI & Society is broad based and strongly interdisciplinary. It welcomes contributions and participation from researchers and practitioners in a variety of fields including information technologies, social sciences, arts and humanities.''Technological innovations offer a great potential for a new social and economic renaissance, but also possess the risk of exclusion of people and their aspirations from shaping the post-industrial society. New technologies provide opportunities for the creation of new forms of employment, human services and living conditions, but at the same time there are dangers of decontextualising identity and thought, and of closing down human capacities for social innovation and sustainability'' (New Visions of the Post-Industrial Society, Int. Conf. July 1994).As the 21st Century dawns, a gap is emerging between the reality of the rapidly evolving 'information society' and the humanistic vision of developing socially useful technologies which deal with wider societal issues. AI & Society provides an international forum for analysis of these conflicts and dilemmas, and a focus for a growing community committed to the 'knowledge society' and to 'human-centered' technologies and systems.Rather than concentrate on technical aspects of information and communication systems, AI & Society emphasizes the need , to understand the potential and consequences of using these powerful tools.Anyone who cares about the policy, design and management of information, communication and media technologies, human-centered systems, and related sociotechnical developments should subscribe to AI & Society.

Adaptive Behavior is a highly ranked, international peer reviewed journal that publishes original research and review articles on adaptive behavior in living organisms and autonomous artificial systems.For over 17 years it has offered ethologists, psychologists, behavioral ecologists, computer scientists, neuroscientists and robotics researchers a forum for discussing new findings and comparing insights and approaches across disciplines. The journal explores mechanisms, organizational principles, and architectures that can be expressed in computational, physical, or mathematical models related to the both the functions and dysfunctions of adaptive behavior.The journal publishes articles, reviews, short communications, target articles and commentaries addressing challenges in the cognitive and behavioral sciences and including topics such as perception and motor control, embodied cognition, learning and evolution, neural mechanisms, action selection and behavioral sequences, motivation and emotion, characterization of environments, decision making, collective and social behavior, navigation, foraging, communication and signalling.

Advanced computing methods and related technologies are changing the way engineers interact with the information infrastructure. Explicit knowledge representation formalisms and new reasoning techniques are no longer the sole territory of computer science. For knowledge-intensive tasks in engineering, a new philosophy and body of knowledge called Engineering Informatics is emerging.Advanced Engineering Informatics solicits research papers with particular emphases both on 'knowledge' and 'engineering applications'. As an international Journal, original papers typically:• Report progress in the engineering discipline of applying methods of engineering informatics.• Have engineering relevance and help provide the scientific base to make engineering decision-making more reliable, spontaneous and creative.• Contain novel research that demonstrates the science of supporting knowledge-intensive engineering tasks.• Validate the generality, power and scalability of new methods through vigorous evaluation, preferably both qualitatively and quantitatively.In addition, the Journal welcomes high quality review articles that summarise, compare, and evaluate methodologies and representations that are proposed for the field of engineering informatics. Similarly, summaries and comparisons of full-scale applications are welcomed, particularly those where scientific shortcomings have hindered success. Typically, such papers have expanded literature reviews and discussion of findings that reflect mastery of the current body of knowledge and propose novel additions to contemporary research.Papers missing explicit representation and use of knowledge, such as those describing soft computing techniques, mathematical optimization methods, pattern recognition techniques, and numerical computation methods, do not normally qualify for publication in the Journal. Papers must illustrate contributions using examples of automating and supporting knowledge intensive tasks in artifacts-centered engineering fields such as mechanical, manufacturing, architecture, civil, electrical, transportation, environmental, and chemical engineering. Papers that report application of an established method to a new engineering subdomain will qualify only if they convincingly demonstrate noteworthy new power, generality or scalability in comparison with previously reported validation results. Finally, papers that discuss software engineering issues only are not in the scope of this journal.

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes theoretical and applied papers covering the broad spectrum of interactive systems. The journal is inherently interdisciplinary, publishing original research in the fields of computing, engineering, artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, and social and system organization, as applied to the design, implementation, application, analysis, and evaluation of interactive systems.Subject areas covered by the journal include (but are not limited to):Human-computer interactionInterface design and universal design/accessPredictive models and theories of interactionAdaptive and intelligent systemsSpeech, graphic, haptic, and multimodal interactionNatural language systems and methodsMobile, wearable, and ubiquitous computing systemsComputer mediated communication methods and systemsVirtual, mixed, and augmented reality interfaces and systemsAgent-based interfaces and systemsSystem and user evaluation studies.

Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893; CODEN: ALGOCH) is an open access journal of computer science, theory, methods and interdisciplinary applications, data and information systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, automation and control systems. It publishes reviews, regular research papers and short communications. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. There are, in addition, unique features of this journal:, , manuscripts regarding research proposals and research ideas will be particularly welcomed, electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculation and experimental procedure, if unable to be published in a normal way, can be deposited as supplementary material, we also accept manuscripts communicating to a broader audience with regard to research projects financed with public funds, copies of source codes might be deposited.

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence presents a range of topics of concern to scholars applying quantitative, combinatorial, logical, algebraic and algorithmic methods to diverse areas of Artificial Intelligence, from decision support, automated deduction, and reasoning, to knowledge-based systems, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and planning. The journal features collections of papers appearing either in volumes (400 pages) or in separate issues (100-300 pages), which focus on one topic and have one or more guest editors. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence hopes to influence the spawning of new areas of applied mathematics and strengthen the scientific underpinnings of Artificial Intelligence.

2009 Impact Factor: 0.580Ranking: 165/246 in Engineering, Electrical and Electronic;87/103 in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence2009 5-Year Impact Factor: 0.965169; 2010 Thomson Reuters, 2009 Journal Citation Reports174;Applied Artificial Intelligence addresses concerns in applied research and applications of artificial intelligence (AI). The journal also acts as a medium for exchanging ideas and thoughts about impacts of AI research. Articles highlight advances in uses of AI systems for solving tasks in management, industry, engineering, administration, and education; evaluations of existing AI systems and tools, emphasizing comparative studies and user experiences; and the economic, social, and cultural impacts of AI. Papers on key applications, highlighting methods, time schedules, person-months needed, and other relevant material are welcome.Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing will focus on the disciplines of computer science, engineering, and mathematics. The scope of the journal includes developing applications related to all aspects of natural and social sciences by employing the technologies of computational intelligence and soft computing. The new applications of using computational intelligence and soft computing are still in development. Although computational intelligence and soft computing are established fields, the new applications of using computational intelligence and soft computing can be regarded as an emerging field, which is the focus of this journal.The application areas of interest include, but are not limited to:Interval Analysis(Real Interval Arithmetics, Complex Interval Arithmetics, Interval Equations, etc.)Interval Mathematics(Metric Topology for Intervals, Interval Integrals, Interval Differential Equations, etc.)Interval Computation (Matrix Computation with Intervals, Systems of Interval Equations, etc.)Fuzzy Sets (Fuzzy Numbers, Extension Principle, Fuzzy Rough Sets, Fuzzy Competence Sets, etc.)Fuzzy Systems (Fuzzy Control, Fuzzy Neural Networks, Genetic Fuzzy Systems, Hybrid Intelligent Systems, etc.)Fuzzy Logics(Many-Valued Logics, Type-2 Fuzzy Logics, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Logics, etc.)Fuzzy Mathematics (Fuzzy Differential Equations, Fuzzy Real Analysis, Fuzzy Topology, Fuzzy Algebra, etc.)Fuzzy Optimization(Possibilistic Programming, Fuzzy Linear and Nonlinear Programming, Fuzzy Stochastic Optimization, etc.)Fuzzy Statistical Analysis (Fuzzy Random Variables, Fuzzy Regression Analysis, Fuzzy Reliability Analysis, Fuzzy Times Series, etc.)Operations Research (Fuzzy Games, Fuzzy Inventory Models, Fuzzy Queueing Theory, Fuzzy Scheduling Problems, etc.)Heuristics(Ant Colony Optimization, Artificial Immune Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Particle Swarm Intelligence, Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, etc.)Hybrid Systems (The fusion of Fuzzy Systems and Computational Intelligence)Approximate Reasoning(Possibility Theory, Mathematical Theory of Evidence, Fuzzy Common Knowledge, etc.)Miscellaneous (Fuzzy Data Mining, Fuzzy Biomedical Systems, Pattern Recognition, Fuzzy Clustering, Information Retrieval, Chaotic Systems, etc.).

With a focus on research in artificial intelligence and neural networks, this journal addresses issues involving solutions of real-life manufacturing, defense, management, government and industrial problems which are too complex to be solved through conventional approaches and require the simulation of intelligent thought processes, heuristics, applications of knowledge, and distributed and parallel processing. The integration of these multiple approaches in solving complex problems is of particular importance. The journal presents new and original research and technological developments, addressing real and complex issues applicable to difficult problems. It provides a medium for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements accomplished by the international community.

Applied Soft Computing is an international journal promoting an integrated view of soft computing to solve real life problems. Soft computing is a collection of methodologies, which aim to exploit tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth to achieve tractability, robustness and low solution cost. The focus is to publish the highest quality research in application and convergence of the areas of Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computing, Rough Sets and other similar techniques to address real world complexities.Applied Soft Computing is a rolling publication: articles are published as soon as the editor-in-chief has accepted them. Therefore, the web site will continuously be updated with new articles and the publication time will be short.Major Topics:The scope of this journal covers the following soft computing and related techniques, interactions between several soft computing techniques, and their industrial applications:• Ant Colony• Chaos Theory• Evolutionary Computing• Fuzzy Computing• Hybrid Methods• Immunological Computing• Morphic Computing• Neuro Computing• Particle Swarm• Probabilistic Computing• Rough Sets• WaveletThe application areas of interest include but are not limited to:• Agricultural Machinery and Produce• Autonomous Reasoning• Bio-inspired Systems• Biomedical Engineering• Condition Monitoring• Consumer Electronics• Data Mining• Data Visualisation• Decision Support • Engineering Design Optimisation• Fault Diagnosis• Human-Machine Interface• Industrial Electronics• Intelligent Agents• Intelligent Information Retrieval• Internet Tools• Manufacturing Systems• Motion Control and Power Electronics• Multi-objective Optimisation• Nano and Micro-systems• Power and Energy• Process and System Control• Process Optimisation• Reactive Distributed AI• Robotics• Signal or Image Processing• System Identification and Modelling • Systems Integration• Telecommunications• Time Series Prediction• Virtual Reality• Vision or Pattern Recognition

Argument and Computation aims to promote the interaction and cross-fertilisation between the fields of argumentation theory and computer science. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, computer science, logic, philosophy, argumentation theory, psychology, cognitive science, game theory and economics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Argumentation and cognitive architecturesArgumentation and computational game theoryArgumentation and defeasible reasoningArgumentation and nonmonotonic logicsArgumentation and Decision TheoryArgumentation and Logic ProgrammingArgumentation and game semanticsSoftware for teaching argumentation skillsArgumentation-based interaction protocolsArgumentation-based semantics of programsArgumentation in natural language processingArgumentation in human computer interactionArgumentation in multi-agent systemsComputational models of natural argumentDialogue games and conversation policiesDispute resolution and mediation systemsElectronic democracy and public deliberationLegal and medical applicationsModels of bargaining and economic interactionReasoning about action through argumentationComputational tools for argumentation support In order to distinguish itself from the competition, the new journal will not solicit papers that are wholly within the theory of argumentation without application (practical or theoretical) with in artificial intelligence or computer science, nor will it solicit computational work that fails to employ argumentation as a core focus.The journal will accept full articles, describing novel theoretical or applied research in any of the areas of interest; reviews, condensing and critiquing an appropriate subfield of research; system descriptions, focusing on implementations (typically offering online access or downloadable code) and letters, providing pithy polemic on burning issues. Disclaimer Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the 8220;Content8221;) contained in its publications. However, Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not the views of Taylor & Francis.