Call for Articles for
Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
Editors: Juan R. Rabuñal, Julián Dorado & Alejandro Pazos
tic.encyclopedia.ai@udc.es
http://sabia.tic.udc.es/encyclopediaAI/
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:
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Artificial Intelligence Overview
Theory
Artificial Neural Networks
Knowledge Engineering (Expert Systems)
Intelligent Knowledge Management
Evolutionary Computation
Agents
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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@udc.es. This book is tentatively scheduled for publishing
by Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), www.ideagroup.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
June 5, 2007 – Full articles due
September, 30, 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@udc.es
Dept. of Information & Communications Technologies
University of A Coruña
Spain