DM: Knowledge and Information Systems: Journal Announcement and CFP

[Xindong Wu]

 Dear Colleague,  
 Starting early in 1999, Springer-Verlag will publish a new 
quarterly 
 journal called "Knowledge and Information Systems: An 
International 
 Journal."  This journal has grown out of increasing 
demands of such a 
 rapidly growing field in Asia, Europe, and North 
America.  
 Please find attached the instructions for authors and the aims 
and  scope of the journal. 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 will 
emphasize 
 minimal delay in processing and publication, and plan to 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).  

Best regards,
  
Benjamin W. Wah
Xindong Wu
Ian Shelley 
 Honorary Editor-in-Chief  Executive Editor Springer-Verlag 
 University of Illinois,     Monash University 
 Urbana-Champaign  
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 Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal 
 ===========================================================  
 Home Page:
 
http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/kais/
 Aims and Scope: 
 ---------------  
 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). 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 
    School of Computer Science and Software 
Engineering 
    Monash University 
    900 Dandenong Road 
    Caulfield East, Melbourne 3145 
    Australia 
    Phone: +61-3-9903-1025 
    Fax: +61-3-9903-1077 
    Email: Xindong.Wu@fcit.monash.edu.au 
    URL: 
http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/~xindong/
 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)  
    Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA 
    Ivan Bratko, Ljubljana University, Slovenia 
    Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada 
    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 
    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 
    Niki Pissinou, University of Southwestern 
Louisiana, USA 
    Dave Robertson, Edinburgh University, UK 
    Heinz Schmidt, Monash University, Australia 
    Stephen F. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
    Lipo Wang, Deakin University, Australia 
    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: 
 ------------------------  
 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 insect.sd.monash.edu.au 
            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.