Research Area of Reasoning about Actions and Change
 
 
 

Modus Operandi - Newsletters and News Journals

This ETAI area communicates using a Newsletter that is produced and distributed by E-mail as soon as there are new debate contributions or other news. The Newsletter has appeared with about ten issues per month on the average since September, 1997. Back issues of the Newsletter can always be retrieved from the webpage structure, so there is no need for the subscriber to archive old issues.

Publication plan

Each Newsletter is produced in both a plaintext version (sent out by E-mail), an HTML version, and a postscript version produced using latex. These are intended for complementary ways of reading.

For those readers who wish to look back at what has been said on a topic over a longer period of time, we also offer:

  • News Journals, which are produced on a monthly basis, and contain what has been said during that month but organized by topic rather than by day. News Journals appear in latex/postscript and (with some delay) in HTML.

  • Web pages for the discussions about particular articles or panel topics.

How to contribute

Contributions are sent to the area editor by conventional E-mail and in plain text. Please, avoid attachments and do not send Word files. Contributions requiring considerable numbers of formulae are also welcome in latex source format, and will then be formatted to News Journal latex style and made available by links from the present webpage structure.

The software tools that are used for maintaining the present colloquium contain features for formulae (also in the HTML rendering) and for literature references (also as hot links). Usually these are edited into the contributions by the area editor staff, but if you wish to use them directly then please contact the area editor.

Other colloquium facilities

The area editor maintains the webpage structure for the area, called the Electronic Colloquium on Reasoning about Actions and Change. This structure contains calendar and bibliographic information in addition to the review protocols, the newsletters and the news journals.