Statement of Interest 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.
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Sole Publication and the Review Process Papers submitted for publication must
be original. Manuscripts are accepted for review on the strict understanding that the same work is not pending publication, or under
review, by another periodical journal; that it will not appear subsequently in another periodical journal without the permission of the
journal Artificial Intelligence; and that its submission for publication is approved by all of its authors and by the institution were
the work was carried out. 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.
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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.
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Reviews
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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)
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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 this paper. Don't
say "this contributes to nonmonotonic logic"; rather say, "this paper enables rapid proofs through use of systematic defaults ...".
Full-length manuscripts and Research Notes should be submitted to aij@ida.liu.se.
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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