DM: Knowledge & Information Systems: Call for Subscriptions & Papers

[Xindong Wu]

     Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal
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                            ISSN 0219-1377
                          by Springer-Verlag

                Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/
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Notes (incl. Changes since Last Announcement):
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 1. The Executive Editor Dr. Xindong Wu  has moved to  Colorado School
    of Mines in the USA,  and the journal's anonymous FTP site  is now
                "ftp://kais.mines.edu/pub/kais/incoming"
 2. The journal publishes critical reviews and short papers on visions
    and directions,  as well as  state-of-the-art research reports and
    significant on-going research.   Please take a look at the journal
    home page for the instructions for authors.
 3. We   strongly   encourage   electronic  submissions   to  expedite
    processing,  and  Springer-Verlag  will offer  the journal in both
    electronic  as well as  print form.  The editors emphasize minimal
    delay in processing and publication, and review papers quickly and
    advise authors of their paper status with a target turnaround time
    of 3 months from submission (4 to 6 weeks for short papers).
 4. A  subscription form  and  a  list  of  accepted papers  are  also
    available on the the journal home page.

Aims and Scope:
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Knowledge  and  Information  Systems (KAIS)  provides an international
forum for researchers and professionals  to share their knowledge  and
report  new advances  on all topics  related to  knowledge systems and
advanced  information  systems.  This quarterly peer-reviewed  journal
publishes  state-of-the-art  research reports  on emerging  topics  in
KAIS,   reviews  of  important  techniques   in  related  areas,   and
application papers of interest to a general readership.

The journal  focuses  on  knowledge systems  and  advanced information
systems,  including their theoretical foundations,  infrastructure and
enabling technologies.  We solicit  submissions of  original research,
and  experience and vision papers that address  this theme.  Suggested
topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  - Knowledge and Information Processing: Theory, Techniques and
    Systems

     o knowledge and data engineering
     o decision support
     o active and dynamic systems

     o data sharing and warehousing
     o temporal and spatial database processing
     o intelligent information retrieval

     o learning and adaptation
     o knowledge discovery and data mining
     o artificial life

     o modelling and object orientation
     o software re-engineering
     o co-operativeness, interoperability and software re-usability

     o human-computer interaction
     o hypertext, hypermedia and multimedia
     o data and knowledge visualization

  - Underlying Computational Techniques

     o soft computing (including neural nets, fuzzy logic,
       probabilistic reasoning, and rough set theory)
     o evolutionary computing
     o hybrid computing
     o uncertainty management
     o agent architectures and systems (including multi-agent
       scenarios)

  - Platforms

     o high performance computing systems
     o distributed intelligent systems
     o mobile systems

  - Application to Specific Problem Domains

    for example:

     o biomedical systems
     o geographical systems
     o software information systems
     o emerging applications
          (such as Internet technologies and digital libraries)

We  publish  critical  review papers  in  each issue of the journal to
discuss  the  state of  the art  in  particular  areas,   as  well  as
state-of-the-art research  reports.  Accepted papers are  grouped  for
publication so that individual issues focus on a small number of theme
areas.   In addition to archival  papers,   the journal also publishes
significant on-going research  in the form of Short Papers (limited to
3000 words), and  very short  papers on  "visions and directions"  (no
more than 1000 words, excluding bibliography). We conduct reviews in a
timely  fashion  and  inform  authors  of  decisions   with  a  target
turnaround time of 3 months (4 to 6 weeks for short papers).

Special  issues  devoted to  relevant  conferences are  welcome.  Good
papers  with  high quality  reviews  from  relevant conferences can be
accepted after the expansion and  revision is verified by an Associate
Editor of the Editorial  Board.  Conference organizers are  invited to
contact the Executive Editor for further information.

Editorial Structure:
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Honorary Editor-in-Chief

   Benjamin W. Wah
   Coordinated Science Laboratory, MC228
   University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   1308 West Main Street
   Urbana, IL 61801-2307
   USA
   Phone: +1-217-333-3516
   Fax: +1-217-244-7175
   Email: b-wah@uiuc.edu
   URL: http://manip.crhc.uiuc.edu/

Executive Editor

   Xindong Wu
   Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
   Colorado School of Mines
   1500 Illinois Street
   Golden, Colorado 80401
   USA
   Phone: +1-303-273-3874
   Fax: +1-303-273-3875
   Email: xindong@computer.org
   URL: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/

Editors

   Nabil R. Adam
   CIMIC (Center for Information Management, Integration and
       Connectivity)
   Rutgers University
   180 University Avenue
   Newark, New Jersey 07102
   USA
   Phone: +1-973-353-5239
   Fax: +1-973-353-5003
   Email: adam@adam.rutgers.edu
   URL: http://cimic3.rutgers.edu/~adam/

   John A. Barnden
   School of Computer Science
   The University of Birmingham
   Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
   United Kingdom
   Phone: +44-121-414-3816
   Fax: +44-121-414-4281
   Email: J.A.Barnden@cs.bham.ac.uk
   URL: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab/

   Ning Zhong
   Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering
   Yamaguchi University
   Tokiwa-Dai, 2557, Ube 755
   Japan
   Phone and Fax: +81-836-35-9949
   Email: zhong@ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
   URL: http://ain2.ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/~zhong/

Editorial Board (Associate Editors)

   Ivan Bratko, Ljubljana University, Slovenia
   Francisco Cantu, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico
   Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada
   B. Chandrasekaran, The Ohio State University, USA
   John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
   Norman Foo, University of New South Wales, Australia
   Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
   Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
   Deyi Li, Beijing System Engineering Institute, China
   T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
   Hongjun Lu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
   Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany
   Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
   Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
   Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan
   Michael Papazoglou, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
   E.K. Park, University of Missouri, USA
   Dave Robertson, Edinburgh University, UK
   Heinz Schmidt, Monash University, Australia
   Stephen F. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
   Walter Van de Velde, Riverland Next Generation, Belgium
   Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
   Joe Wigglesworth, IBM Toronto Lab, Canada
   Xin Yao, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia
   Yiyu Yao, Lakehead University, Canada
   Philip Yu, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
   Chengqi Zhang, University of New England, Australia

Information for Authors:
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Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers, which have
not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration
for another journal or conference. All submitted papers are thoroughly
reviewed for originality,  soundness, significance,  presentation, and
relevance.  Manuscripts  must  include  an  abstract  and  a  list  of
keywords,  and should be limited to  8000 words (3000  words for short
papers).

The journal  emphasizes timely processing  of  submissions and minimal
backlogs in publication time.  We review papers and advise authors  of
their paper status  with  a target turnaround time of 3 months (4 to 6
weeks for short papers).  We strongly encourage electronic submissions
in the form of postscript files.  Authors can submit a postscript file
of  their manuscript,  including  figures and  tables,  by ftp  to the
following site:

           ftp kais.mines.edu
           login as anonymous
           cd pub/kais/incoming
           put FileName.ps

If  electronic  submissions  are  not  possible,  authors  can  submit
hardcopy papers by sending 5 copies to any one of the 3 Editors or the
Executive Editor.

In addition,  an e-mail message  must be sent to  xindong@computer.org
(and  copied to  the chosen  Editor  if you  are sending  hardcopies),
containing the title, authors (names, postal and e-mail addresses, and
a fax number of the corresponding author),  a 200-word abstract and up
to 5 keywords.

The journal is published quarterly, with the first volume published in
early  1999  by  Springer-Verlag.   An  electronic  server  containing
accepted articles will be made available by Springer-Verlag,  and will
be accessible by subscribers to the journal.