Forthcoming issue: MIND not equal COMPUTER

Forthcoming issue

Papers are being refereed for the special issue of INFORMATICA; An International Journal of Computing and Informatics on:

MIND not equal COMPUTER

In this special issue we want to reevaluate the soundness of current AI research positions (especially the heavily disputed strong-AI paradigm) as well as pursue new directions aimed at achieving true intelligence. This is a brainstorming special issue about core ideas that will shape future AI. We are interested in critical papers representing all positions on the issues.

The first part of this special issue will be a small number of invited papers, including papers by Winograd, Dreyfus, Michie, McDermott, Agre, Tecuci etc. Here we are soliciting additional papers on the topic.

TOPICS: Papers are invited in all subareas and on all aspects of the above topics, especially on:

• the current state, positions, and advancements achieved in the last 5-10 years in particular subfields of AI (as oposed to parametric improvements),
• the trends, perspectives and foundations of natural and artificial intelligence,
• strong AI vs. weak AI and the reality of most current "typical" publications in AI,
• new directions in AI.

TIME TABLE AND CONTACTS: Papers in 5 hard copies should have been received by May 15, 1995 at one of the following addresses (please, no e-mail/FAX submissions):

North & South America: Marcin Paprzycki, paprzycki_m@gusher.pb.utexas.edu, c/o Katarzyna Paprzycka, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 10010 Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

Asia, Australia: Xindong Wu, xindong@insect.sd.monash.edu.au, Department of Software Development, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3145, Australia

Europe, Africa: Matjaz Gams, matjaz.gams@ijs.si, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 61000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

E-mail information about the special issue is available from the above 3 contact editors.

The special issue will be published in late 1995.

FORMAT AND REVIEWING PROCESS: Papers should not exceed 8,000 words (including figures and tables but excluding references. A full page figure should be counted as 500 words). Ideally 5,000 words are desirable.

Each paper will be refereed by at least two anonymous referees outside the author's country and by an appropriate subset of the program committee.

When accepted, the authors will be asked to transform their manuscripts into the Informatica LaTeX style (available also from ftp.arnes.si; directory /magazines/informatica).

More information about Informatica and the Special Issue can be accessed through URL: ftp://ftp.arnes.si/magazines/informatica.