Newsgroups: comp.ai.jair.announce From: minton@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov Subject: Welcome Approved: jair-ed@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research Welcome to comp.ai.jair.announce. This is a moderated newsgroup, which will primarily be used to announce the publication of papers in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). Below you will find an announcement describing JAIR. When a paper has been accepted to the journal, the abstract will be posted here. A PostScript version of the paper will be posted in comp.ai.jair.papers. Papers may be accompanied by "online appendices" containing data or source code and these will also be available via comp.ai.jair.papers. (Alternatively, papers and appendices can be accessed via anonymous ftp or automated email. Instructions for doing so will be posted in a few weeks.) As the announcement below mentions, we also hope to have an unmoderated newsgroup for discussing articles. Initially, we ask that you use the comp.ai newsgroup for this purpose. If there is enough interest, we will set something up specifically for JAIR. JAIR will commence publication in late August or September. Until that time, there will be very little traffic on this newsgroup. ------------------------------------------------ ANNOUNCEMENT and PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research The AI Access Foundation, a nonprofit corporation devoted to the electronic dissemination of scientific results in AI, is pleased to announce a new journal, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). JAIR is a refereed publication, covering all areas of AI, that will be distributed over the internet. In addition, each complete volume of JAIR will be published by Morgan Kaufmann. JAIR will offer AI researchers several advantages over existing journals: -- To promote rapid publication of research results, articles sent to JAIR will be reviewed and returned to the authors in approximately 5 weeks. Electronic publication will occur immediately after the editor receives the final version of an accepted article. -- Articles will be distributed free of charge over the internet via ftp, automated email, and a newsgroup. Articles will be available in postscript. (We are considering additional formats as well.) -- Subscribers will be able to take full advantage of the electronic medium. JAIR will support a variety of electronic services, including: A) an electronic newsgroup associated with the journal where published articles can be discussed, B) online appendices containing data/code, facilitating replication and reuse of results, and C) software for performing online text searches. JAIR will only publish articles of the highest quality. Submissions will be evaluated on their originality and significance. All claims should be clearly articulated and justified either empirically or theoretically. Papers should describe work that has both practical and theoretical significance. We encourage authors to be concise. Short, high-quality articles will be welcomed, in addition to the longer articles that traditionally appear in AI journals. JAIR will also publish technical notes -- very brief papers that extend or evaluate previous work. Submissions in all areas of AI are invited, including automated reasoning, cognitive modeling, knowledge representation, learning, natural language, perception, and robotics. For further information regarding submissions, send electronic mail to jair-ed@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov. An announcement containing subscription information will be available later this summer. EXECUTIVE EDITOR Steven Minton EDITORIAL BOARD Jan Aikins David Haussler Martha Pollack Yuichiro Anzai Julia Hirschberg Ross Quinlan Rodney Brooks Lawrence Hunter Edwina Rissland Murray Campbell Takeo Kanade Paul Rosenbloom Thomas Dean Hiroaki Kitano Stuart Russell Rina Dechter Richard Korf Erik Sandewall Gerald DeJong Pat Langley Bart Selman Johan de Kleer Wendy Lehnert Stuart Shieber Jon Doyle Ramon Lopez de Mantaras Douglas Smith Didier Dubois David McAllester Luc Steels Edmund Durfee Kathleen McKeown Anthony Stentz David Etherington Stephen Muggleton Peter Struss Oren Etzioni Hideyuki Nakashima Richard Sutton Kenneth Forbus Nils Nilsson Hozumi Tanaka Michael Georgeff Toyoaki Nishida Austin Tate Matthew Ginsberg Christos Papadimitriou David Touretzky Fausto Giunchiglia Judea Pearl Daniel Weld Walter Hamscher Tomaso Poggio Michael Wellman ADVISORY BOARD Jaime Carbonell Peter Friedland Paul Rosenbloom Thomas Dietterich Matthew Ginsberg Bart Selman Oren Etzioni Richard Korf Daniel Weld Kenneth Forbus