Guide for Authors
An International Journal
The journal Artificial Intelligence welcomes basic and applied papers describing mature
work involving computational accounts of aspects of intelligence. Specifically, it welcomes papers on automated reasoning; computational
theories of learning; heuristic search; knowledge representation; qualitative physics; signal, image, and speech understanding; robotics;
natural language understanding; and software and hardware architectures for AI. The Journal reports results achieved; proposals for new
ways of looking at AI problems must include demonstrations of effectiveness. From time to time the Journal publishes survey articles.
Artificial Intelligence caters to a broad readership. Papers that are heavily mathematical in content are welcome but should be preceded
by a less technical introductory section that is accessible to a wide audience. Papers that are only mathematics, without demonstrated
applicability to Artificial Intelligence problems maybe returned.
Types of Paper
Manuscript Length
There is no restriction on the length of submitted manuscripts. However, authors should note that publication
of lengthy papers, typically greater than forty pages, is often significantly delayed, as the length of the paper acts as a disincentive
to the reviewer to undertake the review process. Unedited theses are acceptable only in exceptional circumstances. Editing a thesis into
a journal article is the author's responsibility, not the reviewer's.
Research Notes
The Research Notes section of the journal
Artificial Intelligence will provide a forum for short communications with a quick turnaround for publication. The maximum length should
not exceed 4500 words (typically a paper with 5 to 14 pages). The intention is that a note, if accepted, will have a guaranteed publication
within one year of submission, aiming for 6-9 months. Some examples of suitable Research Notes include, but are not limited to the following:
crisp technical research aimed at
other specialists, e.g. a theorem or an experimental result; short position papers on AI methodologies
or technologies;
a critique of a position or claim made in the literature;
an extension or addendum to an earlier published
paper that presents additional experimental or theoretical results.
Communications, however, that merely report about ongoing or
completed work rather than present technical content will not be considered for publication.
Reviews
The following types of
contributions are currently published---under the supervision of the Review Editors---in a Special Review Issue at the end of each year:
1. refereed book reviews;
2. refereed research field reviews;
3. refereed position papers (in the "Turing Tapes" section)
Contact Details for Submission
Full-length manuscripts and Research Notes should be submitted to
aij@ida.liu.se.
Correspondence about book reviews should be sent to Donald Perlis at
perlis@cs.umd.edu or Mary-Anne Williams at
Mary-Anne@it.uts.edu.au.
Ethics in Publishing
For information
on Ethics in Publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication see
http://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics and
http://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.
Conflict of interest
All
authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships
with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived
to influence, their work. See also
http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Plagiarism
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the
form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere,
that no article with substantially the same content will be submitted for publication elsewhere while it is under review by AIJ, that
its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and
that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent
of the copyright-holder.
Contributors
Each author is required to declare
his or her individual contribution to the article: all authors must have materially participated in the research and/or article preparation,
so roles for all authors should be described. The statement that all authors have approved the final article should be true and included
in the disclosure.
Copyright
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will
be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright see
http://www.elsevier.com/copyright).
Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding
author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this
agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation
within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other
derivative works, including compilations and translations (please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions). If excerpts
from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s)
in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.
Retained author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details
you are referred to:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Role of the
funding source
You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation
of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation
of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such
involvement then this should be stated. Please see
http://www.elsevier.com/funding.
Funding body agreements and policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors whose
articles appear in journals published by Elsevier, to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions
of their grant awards. To learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies.
Language and language services
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted,
but not a mixture of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission
please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/languagepolishing or our customer support site at
http://epsupport.elsevier.com
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vendors through our services or in any advertising. For more information please refer to our Terms & Conditions:
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Submission
All manuscripts must be submitted in English. Papers must be submitted electronically,
either as PostScript files or by informing the Editors of an Internet address from which papers can be read/downloaded. Full-length manuscripts
and Research Notes should be submitted to
aij@ida.liu.se. Correspondence about book reviews should be sent to Randy Goebel
at
goebel@cs.ualberta.ca or Mary-Anne Williams at
Mary-Anne@it.uts.edu.au.
In order to facilitate finding
appropriate referees for the submission, all papers should be accompanied by a separate single-page description. This description should
answer the following questions specifically enough that a potential referee or very knowledgeable reader could understand the contribution
of the paper, and whether it was interesting to them. The description should also contain title and abstract. Please send it electronically
in plain text to the editor in question.
1. What is the original contribution of this work?
2. Why should this contribution be
considered important?
3. What is the most closely related work by others and how does this work differ?
4. How can other researchers
make use of the results of this work?
5. If any part of this work has been submitted elsewhere, please state where it has been submitted
and how it differs from the paper submitted here.
6. Do you agree not t submit the paper elsewhere during the review period? (We will
not review papers without an affirmative answer.)
Referees
The editors
of the journal Artificial Intelligence notify reviewers in advance that by accepting a manuscript for review they also accept an obligation
to maintain confidentiality of the manuscript's contents; this obligation ends only when the manuscript becomes lawfully available to
them through another channel without an obligation of confidentiality.
Additional
Information
Revisions
It is the Journal's policy that, except in extenuating circumstances, only one revision of a submitted
manuscript will be considered for publication in the Journal.
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Use of wordprocessing
software
It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the wordprocessor used. The text should be in single-column
format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article.
In particular, do not use the wordprocessor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts,
superscripts etc. Do not embed "graphically designed" equations or tables, but prepare these using the wordprocessor's facility. When
preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid
is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text should be prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional
manuscripts (see also the Guide to Publishing with Elsevier:
http://www.elsevier.com/guidepublication). Do not import the
figures into the text file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text and on the manuscript.
See also the section on Electronic illustrations.
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the "spell-check" and
"grammar-check" functions of your wordprocessor.
LaTeX
If the LaTeX file
is suitable, proofs will be produced without rekeying the text. The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class
"elsarticle", or alternatively the standard document class "article".
The Elsevier LaTeX stylefile package (including detailed instructions
for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained from the Quickguide:
http://www.elsevier.com/latex or from the Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network (CTAN): see below, in the directory /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/elsarticle. It consists of the files:
elsarticle.cls, complete user documentation for the class file, bibliographic style files in various styles, and template files for a
quick start.guidelines for users of elsart, a template file for quick start.
CTAN is an archive with up-to-date copies of all the
public-domain versions of TeX, LaTeX, Metafont and ancillary programs, which is made available via a mirrored network of FTP servers.
You can enter the CTAN archive via a web interface in the UK (
http://www.tex.ac.uk), in the USA
http://www.ctan.org),
or in Germany (
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http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/ctan/.
You can also enter the archive via FTP at
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Figures may be inserted in the usual way using an \includegraphics command, at the position
in the article where they are cited.
Your LaTeX file will be most useful as input for the printed article if you obey the following
rules of thumb:
1. Be consistent. If you use a macro for a phrase, use it throughout.
2. Use standard LaTeX mark-up. Do not hardcode
your own layout for e.g. section headings, but use the usual LaTeX macro for this purpose.
3. Keep it simple. Do not define macros
that accomplish complicated layout. They will also make the input process complicated.
Article structure
Subdivision - numbered sections
Divide
your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the
abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to "the text".
Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature
survey or a summary of the results.
Material and methods
Provide
sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications
should be described.
Theory/calculation
A Theory section should extend,
not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the Introduction and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast,
a Calculation section represents a practical development from a theoretical basis.
Results
Results should be clear and concise.
Discussion
This should explore
the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive
citations and discussion of published literature.
Conclusions
The
main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion
or Results and Discussion section.
Appendices
If there is more than
one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1),
Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on.
Vitae
Include in the manuscript a short (maximum 100 words) biography of each author, along with a passport-type photograph accompanying
the other figures.
Essential title page information
•
Title.
Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
•
Author names and affiliations.
Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly.
Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case
superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each
affiliation, including the country name, and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
•
Corresponding author.
Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication.
Ensure that telephone
and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.
•
Present/permanent address.
If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at
the time, a "Present address" (or "Permanent address") may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the
author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
Abstract
A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the
research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able
to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard
or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 10 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms
and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, "and", "of"). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the
field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Abbreviations
Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed on the first page of the article. Such abbreviations
that are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their first mention there, as well as in the footnote. Ensure consistency of
abbreviations throughout the article.
Acknowledgements
Collate acknowledgements
in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote
to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing
assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).
Math formulae
Present
simple formulae in the line of normal text where possible and use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms,
e.g., X/Y. In principle, variables are to be presented in italics. Powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp. Number consecutively
any equations that have to be displayed separately from the text (if referred to explicitly in the text).
Footnotes
Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article, using superscript
Arabic numbers. Many wordprocessors build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. Should this not be the case, indicate
the position of footnotes in the text and present the footnotes themselves separately at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes
in the Reference list.
Table footnotes
Indicate each footnote in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.
Artwork
Electronic artwork
General points
• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Save text in illustrations as "graphics"
or enclose the font.
• Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Times, Symbol.
• Number
the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
•
Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.
• Submit
each figure as a separate file.
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website:
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless
of the application used, when your electronic artwork is finalised, please "save as" or convert the images to one of the following formats
(note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS: Vector drawings.
Embed the font or save the text as "graphics".
TIFF: color or grayscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale): a
minimum of 500 dpi is required.
DOC, XLS or PPT: If your electronic artwork is created in any of these Microsoft Office applications
please supply "as is".
Please do not:
• Supply embedded graphics in your wordprocessor (spreadsheet, presentation)
document;
• Supply files that are optimised for screen use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
•
Supply files that are too low in resolution;
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Color Artwork
Submit colour illustrations as original photographs, high-quality computer prints or transparencies,
close to the size expected in publication, or as 35 mm slides. Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF,
EPS or MS Office files) and with the correct resolution. Polaroid colour prints are not suitable. If, together with your accepted article,
you submit usable figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g.,
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Because of technical complications which can arise by converting colour figures to "grey scale" (for the printed version should you not
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Figure captions
Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached
to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (
not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep
text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.
Tables
Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the
table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that
the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.
Citation in text
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and
vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended
in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the
standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either "Unpublished results" or
"Personal communication" Citation of a reference as "in press" implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
Web references
As a minimum, the full URL should be given. Any further information, if known (DOI,
author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after
the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.
References in a special issue
Please ensure that the words 'this issue' are added to any references
in the list (and any citations in the text) to other articles in the same Special Issue.
Reference Style
All references are to be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order under the first author's
name and numbered consecutively by arabic numbers. Chronological order is used if there is more than one publication by the same author
or team of authors.
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa).
Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the
reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard
reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either "Unpublished results" or "Personal
communication" Citation of a reference as "in press" implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
The information provided
under References must include:
• Journal papers: Names and initials of all authors, title of paper, journal name, volume number,
issue number, year of publication, and first and last page numbers of the paper.
Example: W. Stallings, Local networks, ACM Comput.
Surveys 16 (1) (1984) 3-41.
• Monographs: Names and initials of all authors, title of the monograph, publisher, publisher's
residence, year of publication.
Example: A.S. Troelstra, D. van Dalen, Constructivism in Mathematics, North-Holland, Amsterdam,
1988.
• Edited volume papers: Names and initials of all authors, title of paper, names and initials of the volume editors,
title of the edited volume, publisher, publisher's residence, year of publication, and first and last page numbers of the paper.
Example: K. Eda, T. Kiyosawa, H.Ohta, N-compactness and its applications, in: K. Morita, J. Nagata, (Eds.), Topics in General Topology,
North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1989, pp. 65-78.
• Conference proceedings papers: Names and initials of all authors, title of paper,
name of the conference, conference site and country (publisher, publisher's residence), year of publication, and first and last page
numbers of the paper.
Example: E. Katona, Assembly-level programming of cellular processors, in: Proceedings 3rd Workshop on Parallel
Processing by Cellular Automata and Arrays, Berlin, Germany, 1986, pp. 94-100.
• Unpublished papers: Names and initials of
all authors, title of the article, and all other relevant information needed to identify the article (e.g., technical report, Ph.D. thesis,
institute, year of compilation, etc.).
Example: J. Goldstine, Abstract families of languages generated by bounded languages, Ph.D.
Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1970.
Journal abbreviations
source
Journal names should be abbreviated according to
Index Medicus journal abbreviations:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html;
List of serial title word abbreviations:
http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php;
CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service):
http://www.cas.org/sent.html.
Supplementary material
Elsevier
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http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Submission checklist
It is hoped that this list will be useful during the final checking of an article
prior to sending it to the journal's Editor for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
Ensure
that the following items are present:
One Author designated as corresponding Author:
• E-mail address
• Full
postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
All necessary files have been uploaded
• Keywords
• All figure
captions
• All tables (including title, description, footnotes)
Further considerations
• Manuscript has been "spellchecked"
and "grammar-checked"
• References are in the correct format for this journal
• All references mentioned in the Reference
list are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources
(including the Web)
• Color figures are clearly marked as being intended for color reproduction on the Web (free of charge)
and in print or to be reproduced in color on the Web (free of charge) and in black-and-white in print
• If only color on the
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Use of the Digital Object Identifier
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
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a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication. The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an ideal medium
for citing a document, particularly 'Articles in press' because they have not yet received their full bibliographic information. The
correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows (example taken from a document in the journal
Physics Letters B):
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.071
When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed never to change.
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