Modus Operandi

• The Scientific Editor-in-Chief, who coordinates the work of the Scientific Area Editors for the various ETAI scientific areas;
• The General Editor, working together with the ETAI secretariat.

Scientific Editors

The Scientific Area Editors receive articles, organize their open reviewing and confidential refereeing, and set up the communication channels that are needed for this to work. This includes, in particular, the use of News Journals or Newsletters. In this process, submitted articles constitute the input, and the outputs are:

• Improvements to the article.
• Accept or decline decisions for the article to the ETAI as a Journal.
• A discussion about the article that is posted on the web and has been conducted in cooperation between peers.

In addition, the Scientific Area Editors may choose to use the same communication channels (web pages, news journals, etc) for other and related, academic purposes, such as to organize "panel" discussions on timely topics, or to set up a calendarium for the benefit of researchers in the field.

The Scientific Editor-in-Chief coordinates the work of the Scientific Area Editors, proposes and interprets the scientific quality and acceptance policy of the Journal, and makes the final decision in case the acceptance decision of an Area Editor should be challenged.

General Editor and Secretariat

The General Editor is in charge of the proper functioning of the communication and publication facilities of the Journal, and the actual work in these respects is carried out in the ETAI secretariat. With respect to the flow of results specified above, they shall

• Administrate the flow of articles, in their successive generations after revision
• Facilitate and further develop the Journal's system for open discussion about articles
• Coordinate and extend the information services that are an intrinsic part of the Journal's offerings
• Implement the accept or decline decisions and administrate the assembly of accepted articles to form successive issues of the ETAI in the sense of a journal
• Ensure that the resulting information from the scientific editors' activities (itemized list above) is presented in a coherent and effective fashion to the AI research community.