Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence

Volume 3 - 1999, Overview of sections

Editor:	Erik Sandewall
ISSN:	*1403-3534 (Printed version)*
	*1403-3526 (Electronic version)*
ETAI homepage:	http://www.etaij.org/
1997 Volume:	http://www.ep.liu.se/ej/etai/1997/
1998 Volume:	http://www.ep.liu.se/ej/etai/1998/

Annual Volume Lifecycle in the ETAI

As a consequence of ETAI's open reviewing system, accepted articles are normally placed in the volume for the year when the article was submitted to the ETAI and advertised to the peer community. This is necessary in order to obtain a fair date assignment system: the ETAI publication context corresponds to when the result was made publicly known among peers. It is also the reason for the apparent timelag in ETAI publication: we are presently completing Volume 3 (1999) and we the contributions for Volume 4 (2000) are just beginning to clear the reviewing process.

Section structure of the ETAI Volume for 1999

The contents of ETAI Volume 3, for 1999, are being built up gradually as articles are accepted. This process will continue into the year 2000 since by ETAI policy explained above, this volume will mostly consist of articles that were first submitted in 1999. The table below contains those sections that have been completed so far, that is, all the articles in the section are in.

A large part of the 1999 submissions were selections of articles from workshops, and we plan to have one section for each of those workshops, plus one section for articles that were individually submitted and not workshop based. The following sections are planned:

A: Individually submitted articles (incomplete at present)

B: Selected Articles from the Machine Intelligence 16 Workshop (completed section)

C: Special Section on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, Actions and Change (completed section)

D: Special Section on Intelligent Dialogue Systems (incomplete at present)

Each section may consist of one or more issues. For 1999 we plan for section D to consist of two issues; the others of one issue each. With respect to formalities, all sections share the same ISSN number. Each section has its own page numbering starting from page 1, and then the numbering is consecutive within each section. An article is therefore uniquely identified by volume number, section letter, and page number.