Call for articles - New Extended Deadline (Only 5 Topics)

[tic.encyclopedia.ai at udc.es]

"Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence".

Editors:  Juan R. Rabuñal, Julián Dorado & Alejandro Pazos.

tic.encyclopedia.ai at udc.es
http://sabia.tic.udc.es/encyclopediaAI/

We have received more than 200 proposals and we want to thank all contributors, for the work and for the confidence in the success of this project.

We have organized the received articles in 20 topics. We have not received enough submissions in 5 of these topics, for that reason we propose a new call of articles for these 5 topics:

   -- Knowledge Engineering (Expert Systems)
   -- Ontologies
   -- Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous
   -- Natural Language Processing
   -- Robotics

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         IMPORTANT NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE - ONLY 5 TOPICS
         April 4, 2007 - RECEIVE PROPOSALS FOR ARTICLES

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 ** Introduction
Nature has always been a source of inspiration for science problem solving.Areas such as Pharmacy, Physics or Aeronautics use biological concepts toreach beyond their current limits.

As far as Computing Science - and more specifically, Artificial Intelligence (AI) - is concerned, the use of biological concepts is highly reliable for achieving good results. At the early stages of AI (1950s), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) - quite successful as classification and pattern recognition systems - were developed by using the structure of the nervous system as a basis. After these systems, biology has inspired the development of other techniques - among which the evolutionary systems are the most promising ones when dealing with new problems that use a vast amount of data - such asBiomedical Computing or weather forecasting.

Both the techniques based in cell or natural organisms performance, as well as those based on evolutionary theories, have a wide success record when applied to real problems. These types of techniques currently represent a very active area of research, as not only a high number of companies use them, but also many related high level scientific congresses are being held annually on these techniques.

 ** Coverage
To meet this need, currently we are in the process of editing the "Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence " that will provide comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends and technologies in Artificial Intelligence. This important new publication will be distributed worldwide among academic and professional institutions and will be instrumental in providing researchers, scholars, students and professionals with access to the latest knowledge related to Artificial Intelligence techniques.

To ensure that this publication has the most current and relevant coverage of all topics related to Artificial Intelligence, we are asking scholars well-known for their particular area of research, to contribute short articles of 1,500-3,500 words on any of the above topics.

 ** Submission Procedure
We would like to invite you to consider submitting a proposal on any of the above topics for this upcoming encyclopedia by submitting a brief (75-100 words) description of your proposed topic to us by no later than April 4, 2007. You will then have until May 31, 2007 to prepare your full submission (1,500-3,500 words in length) and 7-10 related terms and their appropriate definitions. A copy of a sample article and terms with definitions can be found at http://sabia.tic.udc.es/encyclopediaAI/  All submitted articles will undergo a double-blind, peer-review process upon its receipt. 

We also invite you to visit the site http://sabia.tic.udc.es/encyclopediaAI/
for additional information about this publication.

Please forward your proposal to Juan R. Rabuñal, Julián Dorado & Alejandro Pazos, editors, at tic.encyclopedia.ai at udc.es. This book is tentatively scheduled for publishing by Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), www.idea-group.com/reference, (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.) in 2008.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
April 4,  2007 - Receive proposals for articles
April 12, 2007 - Notification of accepted proposals
May 31, 2007 - Full articles due

If you have any questions or concerns, or if we can be of any assistance, please let us know. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind Regards,

Juan R. Rabuñal, Julián Dorado & Alejandro Pazos
Editors of Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
tic.encyclopedia.ai at udc.es
Dept. of Information & Communications Technologies
University of A Coruña
Spain

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Jose María Barreiro. Dept. of Artificial Intelligence. Polytechnical University of Madrid. Spain
Dr. Stefano Cagnoni. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione. Università degli Studi di Parma. Italia
Dr. Paul M. Chapman. Dept. of Computer Science. University of Hull. England
Dr. Jose Crespo del Arco. Dept. of Artificial Intelligence. Polytechnical University of Madrid. Spain
Dr. Darryl Davis. Dept. of Computer Science. University of Hull. England
Dr. Anselmo del Moral. University of Deusto. Spain
Dr. Norberto Ezquerra. Georgia Institute of Technology. USA
Dr. Lluís Jofre. Polytechnical University of Catalunya. Spain
Dr. Daniel Manrique. Dept. of Artificial Intelligence. Polytechnical University of Madrid. Spain
Dr. Juan Pazos. Dept. of Artificial Intelligence. Polytechnical University of Madrid. Spain
Dr. Javier Pereira. University of A Coruña. Spain
Dr. Ana Belen Porto. Dept. of Information & Communications Technologies. University of A Coruña. Spain
Dr. Juan Ríos. Dept. of Artificial Intelligence. Polytechnical University of Madrid. Spain
Dr. Peter Smith. University of Sunderland. England