Extended deadline - Call for articles for Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence

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"Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence".

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

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

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          IMPORTANT EXTENDED DEADLINE                                 
          January 30, 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 to
reach 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 as
Biomedical 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 following topics:

    -- Artificial Intelligence Overview
    -- Theory
    -- Artificial Neural Networks
    -- Knowledge Engineering (Expert Systems)
    -- Intelligent Knowledge Management
    -- Evolutionary Computation
    -- Agents
    -- Ontologies
    -- Fuzzy Logic and systems
    -- Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous
    -- Knowledge Discovery & DataMining
    -- Natural Language Processing
    -- Bioinspired Computation
    -- Bioinformatics
    -- Emergent Technologies: NBIC
    -- Robotics
    -- Computer Games
    -- Artificial Vision
    -- Hybrid Systems
    -- Applications in Real-Life

A more detailed list of topics may be found at
http://sabia.tic.udc.es/encyclopediaAI/

  ** 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 December
15, 2006. You will then have until March 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 invite you also 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 Idea Group Reference,
www.idea-group.com/reference, (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.) in 2008.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
January 30, 2007 – Receive proposals for articles
February 15, 2007 – Notification of accepted proposals
March 31, 2007 – Full articles due
July, 31, 2007 – Full article final acceptance

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