APPLIED INTELLIGENCE: The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence,

Neutral Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies

INSTRUCTIONS FOR GUEST EDITORS & AUTHORS OF PAPERS FOR SPECIAL ISSUES

Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. The emphasis of the reported work will be on new and original research and technological developments covering methodologies as well as applications in the areas associated with artificial intelligence, knowledge-based expert systems, neural networks, intelligent distributed and parallel processing, and complex problem-solving technologies.

PROCESS FOR SUBMISSION

1.Authors should submit six hard copies of their final manuscript to:

Dr. Pauline M. Berry

SRI International

333 Ravenswood Avenue

Menlo Park

CA 94025

Tel: (650) 859 2159

Fax:(650) 859 3735

Email:

For prompt attention, all correspondence can be directed to this address.

2.Enclose with each manuscript, on a separate page, from three to five

key words. Some typical key word examples are: machine learning,

planning, scheduling, monitoring, diagnosis, modeling, design, agents,

robotics, and neural net architectures.

3.Enclose originals for the illustrations, see "Style for Illustrations", for

one copy of the manuscript. Photocopies of the figures may

accompany the remaining copies of the manuscript. Alternatively,

original illustrations may be submitted after the paper has been

accepted. Upon acceptance of the paper, authors must supply a brief

biographical sketch.

4.Enclose a separate page giving the preferred address of the contact

author for correspondence and return of proofs. Please include a

telephone number and a fax number.

5.The refereeing is done by anonymous reviewers.

6.Authors should try to keep the length of the paper (including figures)

under 36 double-spaced pages.

7.All papers should be written in English.

STYLE FOR MANUSCRIPT

1.Typeset, double or 1 1/2 space; use one side of sheet only (laser

printed, typewritten, and good quality duplication acceptable).

2.Use an informative title for the paper and include an abstract of 100

to 250 words at the head of the manuscript. The abstract should be a

carefully worded description of the problem addressed, the key

ideas introduced, and the results. Abstracts will be printed with the

article.

3.Provide a separate double-spaced sheet listing all footnotes,

beginning with "Affiliation of author" and continuing with numbered

footnotes. Acknowledgment of financial support may be given if

appropriate.

4.References should appear in a separate bibliography at the end of the

paper. References should be numbered in order of citation within the

paper. They should be referred to within the text by numerals in

square brackets, e.g. [12]. References should be complete, in the

following style:

Style for papers: Author(s) initials followed by last name for

each author, paper title, publication name, volume, inclusive

page numbers, month and year.

Style for books: Author(s), title, publisher, location, chapter

or page numbers (if desired), year.

Examples as follows:

Book

D. Marr, Vision, A Computational Investigation into the

Human Representation & Processing of Visual Information,

Freeman: San Francisco, CA, 1982.

Chapter in Book

D.J.Spiegelhalter, "Probabilistic reasoning in predictive expert

systems," in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, edited by

J.F.Lemmer, North Holland: Amsterdam, pp.47-67, 1986.

Journal Article

A. Rosenfeld and M. Thurston, "Edge and curve detection for

visual scene analysis," IEEE Trans. Comput., vol.C.-20,

pp.562-569, 1971.

Conference Proceedings

A. Witkin, "Scales space filtering," in Proc. Int. Joint Conf.

Artif. Intell., Karlsruhe, West Germany, 1983, pp. 1019-21.

Lab. memo, Technical Report, Dissertation

A.L. Yuille and T. Poggio, "Scaling theorems for zero

crossings," M.I.T. Artif. Intell. Lab., Massachusetts Inst.

Technol., Cambridge, MA, A.I. Memo, 722, 1983.

5.Type or mark mathematical expressions exactly as they should

appear in print. Journal style for letter symbols is as follows:

variables, italic type (indicated by an underline); constants, roman

text type; matrices and vectors, boldface type (indicated by wavy

underline). In word-processor manuscripts, use appropriate

typeface. It will be assumed that letters in displayed equations are to

be set in italic type unless you mark them otherwise. All letter

symbols in text discussion must be marked if they should be italic or

boldface. Indicate best breaks for equations in case they will not fit

on one line.

STYLE FOR ILLUSTRATIONS

1.Originals for illustrations should be sharp, noise-free, and of good

contrast. We regret that we cannot provide drafting or art service.

2.Line drawings should be in laser printer output or in India ink on

paper, or board. Use 8 1/2 by 11-inch (22 x 29 cm) size sheets if

possible to simplify handling of the manuscript.

3.Each figure should be mentioned in the text and numbered

consecutively using Arabic numerals. Specify the desired location of

each figure in the text, but place the figure itself on a separate page

following the text.

4.Number each table consecutively using Arabic numerals. Please label

any material that can be typeset as a table, reserving the term "figure"

for material that has been drawn. Specify the desired location of each

table in the text, but place the table itself on a separate page

following the text. Type a brief title above each table.

5.All lettering should be large enough to permit legible reduction.

6.Photographs should be glossy prints, of good contrast and gradation,

and any reasonable size.

7.Number each original on the back.

8.Provide a separate sheet listing all figure captions, in proper style for

the typesetter, e.g., "Fig. 3. Examples of the fault coverage of

random vectors in (a) combinational and (b) sequential\break

circuits."

ELECTRONIC DELIVERY

Please send only the electronic version (of ACCEPTED papers) via one of

the methods listed below. Note, in the event of minor discrepancies

between the electronic version and the hard copy, the electronic file will be

used as the final version.

Via electronic mail

1.Please e-mail electronic version to:

2.Recommended formats for sending files via e-mail:

Binary files - uuencode or binhex

Compressing files - compress, pkzip or gzip

Collecting files – tar

3.The e-mail message should include the author‘s last name, the name

of the journal to which the paper has been accepted, and the type of

file (e.g., LaTeX or ASCII).

Via anonymous FTP

ftp: ftp.wkap.com

cd: /incoming/production

Send e-mail to to inform Kluwer the electronic

version is at this FTP site.

Via disk

1.Label a 3.5 inch floppy disk with the operating system and word

processing program (e.g., DOS/WordPerfect5.0) along with the

authors‘ names, manuscript title, and name of journal to which the

paper has been accepted.

2.Mail disk to:

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Desktop Department

101 Philip Drive

Assinippi Park

Norwell, MA 02061, U.S.A.

Any questions about the above procedures please send e-mail to:

We hope that these electronic procedures will encourage the submission of

manuscripts to this journal as well as improve the publication schedule.

PROOFING

Page proofs for articles to be included in a journal issue will be sent to the

contact author for proofing, unless otherwise informed. The proofread copy

should be received back by the Publisher within 72 hours.

COPYRIGHT

It is the policy of Kluwer Academic Publishers to own the copyright of all

contributions it publishes. To comply with the U.S. Copyright Law, authors

are required to sign a copyright transfer form before publication. This form

returns to authors and their employers full rights to reuse their material for

their own purposes. Authors must submit a signed copy of this form with

their manuscript.

REPRINTS

First-named authors will be entitled to 25 free reprints of their paper.

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