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Editors in Chief:Professor H. FujitaFaculty of Software and Information Science,Iwate Prefectural University, 020-0193 Iwate, JapanE-mail: [email protected]
Professor J. LuFaculty of Engineering and Information Technology,Building 2, Level 7 CB02.07.037, University ofTechnology Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Sydney, NSW 2007,AustraliaE-mail: [email protected]
Founding Editor:Professor E.A. EdmondsDe Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Specialist Editor:Professor E. Herrera-ViedmaUniversidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Editorial Advisory Board:Professor D. BenyonEdinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Professor E. BonjourUniversite de Lorraine, Nancy Cedex, France
Professor M.A. BramerUniversity of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Dr. L. CandyUniversity of Technology Sydney, Sydney,NSW, Australia
Professor F. ChiclanaDe Montfort University, Leicester, England, UK
Dr. M. DyerUniversity of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles,CA, USA
Dr. M. EisenbergUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Professor G. FischerUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Professor B.R. GainesCobble Hill, BC, Canada
Professor J.S. GeroUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte,NC, USA
Professor F. HerreraUniversidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Professor L. JohnsonUniversity of Greenwich, London, UK
Professor C. KahramanIstanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Professor T. LiSouthwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Dr. H. LiebermanMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,MA, USA
Dr. M.T. MayburyThe Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA
Dr. C.A. MillerSMArt Information Flow Technologies, Minneapolis,MN, USA
Dr. D. RieckenIBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, YorktownHeights, NY, USA
Dr. L.G. TerveenUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Dr. E. TsuiThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon,Hong Kong
Professor E. TyuguInstitute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University ofTechnology, Tallinn, Estonia
Aims and scopeKnowledge-Based Systems is the internationalinter-disciplinary journal for the publication oforiginal research on knowledge work andknowledge support systems. Knowledge workmay be defined as the discovery, structuring andmanagement of human knowledge which maytake the form of high level strategies, domainspecific expertise and contextual information.Knowledge support systems employ knowledge-based techniques in the creation of intelligentuser interfaces, multi-media and multi-modelsystems, distributed knowledge systems andcomputer supported co-operative systems.
Knowledge-Based Systems focuses on the role ofcomputer systems that support knowledgeworkers in problem formulation, conceptdefinition, design, decision-making and learning.Knowledge Support Systems must be capable ofco-operating with human users in such a way asto provide high quality support in the structuring,management and discovery of human knowledge.Examples of tasks that must be supported arelearning, decision making and the visualisation ofknowledge. This has implications for the meetingof requirements and the design of the systems aswell as the social and psychological dimensions,including, for example, the organisationalimplications of introducing such technologyinto the workplace and public life. Thus, thefollowing topics all fall within the scope ofthe Journal: the application of knowledge-based methods, intelligent agents, intelligentuser interfaces, knowledge management,integration with conventional and non-symbolic
technologies, software tools for systemconstruction, decision-support mechanisms,user system interaction, organisational issues,knowledge acquisition, knowledge representa-tion, languages and programming environments,knowledge-based implementation techniques andarchitectures. Research results relating torelevant systems in commercial or industrial useare also welcome.The Journal publishes high quality fully refereedpapers and short communications limited to 2000words for the announcement of significant newresults. This provides an opportunity for fasttrack publication of late breaking work. Thepublication of a paper in which the same topic isdeveloped further is encouraged. In addition tothe printed Journal, Knowledge-Based Systemsruns an associated www.elsevier.com/locate/knosys on which animated abstracts andsupplementary material is held. Authors mayput material on this site subject to the standardrefereeing process. The site is available for publicaccess. The www.elsevier.com/locate/knosys foreach volume is archived according to the evolvingstandard Elsevier procedures. Some of theapplications covered in the journal are:aerospace, education and training, finance,defence, engineering, geological exploration,manufacturing, marketing, medicine, navigation,robotics, strategic planning.
Reviewing policyKnowledge-Based Systems' review policy is basedon the following principles:
• Papers are invited on the understanding thatthe same work has not been published and isnot under consideration for publicationelsewhere.
• All full papers will be subject to a wellestablished, fair, unbiased peer review andrefereeing procedure. KBS Letters will beaccepted on a recommendation from amember of the Advisory Editorial Board,and, if accepted, will be guaranteed speedypublication.
• Authors may be asked to revise parts of apaper.
• The reviewing structure will always ensure theanonymity of the referees.
• The Editor reserves the right to reject a paper ifit does not meet the aims and scope of thejournal, it is not technically sound, it is notrevised satisfactorily, or it is inadequate inpresentation.
Notes for authorsFurther guidance on how to present your paperfor potential publication is given in the Notes forAuthors. These can also be obtained from theGeneral Editor or the publishers. Papers to beconsidered for publication should be uploadedthrough the EES submission site: http://ees.elsevier.com/knosys/. For regular papers witharticle type like "Full Length Article", "ShortCommunication" select any of the Editor-in-Chief Hamido Fujita or Jie Lu who wouldhandle your manuscript.
