A new journal

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          A  D  A  P  T  I  V  E     B  E  H  A  V  I  O  R
 
 
    An international journal devoted to experimental and theoretical
    research on adaptive behavior in animals and in autonomous artificial
    systems, with emphasis on mechanisms, organizational principles,
    and architectures that can be expressed in computational, physical,
    or mathematical models.
 
 
    Broadly, behavior is adaptive if it deals successfully with changed
    circumstances.  The adapting entities may be individuals or populations,
    over short or long time scales.
 
    The journal will publish articles, reviews, and short communications
    that treat the following topics, among others, from the perspective of
    adaptive behavior.
 
        Perception and motor control
        Ontogeny, learning and evolution
        Motivation and emotion
        Action selection and behavioral sequences
        Internal world models and cognitive processes
        Architectures, organizational principles, and
          functional approaches
        Collective behavior
        Characterization of environments
 
 
     Among its scientific objectives, the Journal aims to emphasize an
     approach complementary to traditional AI, in which basic abilities
     that allow animals to survive, or robots to perform their mission in
     unpredictable environments, will be studied in preference to more
     elaborated and human-specific abilities.  The Journal also aims to
     investigate which new insights into intelligence or cognition can
     be achieved by explicitly taking into account the environmental feedback
     --mediated by behavior--that an animal or a robot receives, instead
     of studying components of intelligence in isolation.
 
     The journal will be published quarterly, beginning with the Summer issue
     of 1992.
 
 
     EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
 
          Jean-Arcady Meyer (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
                   email: meyer at wotan.ens.fr
                          meyer at frulm63.bitnet
                   tel: (1) 43 29 12 25 ext 3623
                   fax: (1) 43 29 70 85
 
 
      ASSOCIATE EDITORS
 
           Randall Beer (Case Western Reserve Univ., USA)
           Lashon Booker (MITRE Corp., USA)
           Jean-Louis Deneubourg (Univ. of Bruxelles, Belgium)
           Janet Halperin (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
           Pattie Maes (MIT Media Lab., USA)
           Herbert Roitblat (Univ. of Hawaii, USA)
           Ronald Williams (Northeastern University, USA)
           Stewart Wilson (The Rowland Institute for Science, USA).
 
 
      EDITORIAL BOARD
 
           David Ackley (Bellcore, USA)
           Michael Arbib (Univ. South. California, USA)
           Andrew Barto (Univ. of Massachusetts, USA)
           Richard Belew (Univ. of California, USA)
           Rodney Brooks (MIT AI Lab., USA)
           Patrick Colgan (Canadian Museum of Nature, Canada)
           Holk Cruse (Univ. Bielefeld, Germany)
           Daniel Dennett (Tufts Univ., USA)
           Jorg-Peter Ewert (Univ. Kassel, Germany)
           Nicolas Franceschini (Univ. Marseille, France)
           David Goldberg (Univ. of Illinois, USA)
           John Greffenstette (Naval Research Lab., USA)
           Patrick Greussay (Univ. Paris 8, France)
           Stephen Grossberg (Center for Adaptive Systems, USA)
           John Holland (Univ. Michigan, USA)
           Keith Holyoak (Univ. California, USA)
           Christopher Langton (Los Alamos National Lab., USA)
           David McFarland (Univ. of Oxford, UK)
           Thomas Miller (Univ. of New Hampshire, USA)
           Norman Packard (Univ. of Illinois, USA)
           Tim Smithers (Edinburgh Univ., UK)
           Luc Steels (VUB AI Lab., Belgium)
           Richard Sutton (GTE Labs., USA)
           Frederick Toates (The Open University, UK)
           David Waltz (Thinking  Machines Corp., USA)
 
 
 
    To be published, an article should report substantive new results that
    significantly advance understanding of adaptive behavior.  Critical
    reviews of existing work will also be considered.  Contributions will
    originate from a range of disciplines including robotics, artificial
    intelligence, connectionism, classifier systems and genetic algorithms,
    psychology and cognitive science, behavioral ecology, and ethology among
    others.
 
    Ideally, an article will suggest implications for both natural and
    artificial systems.  Authors should aim to make their results, and the
    results' significance, clear and understandable to the Journal's multi-
    disciplinary readership. Very general, speculative, or narrowly specialized
    papers, papers with substantially incomplete conceptual, experimental,
    or computational results, or papers irrelevant to the subject of adaptive
    behavior may be returned to authors without formal review.
 
 
 
    Submissions should be sent to:
 
                Dr. Jean-Arcady Meyer, Editor
                    Adaptive Behavior
                    Groupe de BioInformatique
                    Ecole Normale Superieure
                    46 rue d'Ulm
                    75230 Paris Cedex05
                    FRANCE
 
    Please send five (5) copies of all materials.
 
    Manuscripts must be in English, with American spelling preferred.
    Please briefly define terms that may not be familiar outside your
    specialty.  Avoid jargon and non-standard abbreviations.  Make every
    attempt to employ technical terms that are already in use before making
    up new ones.
 
    The following guidelines should be adhered to, or papers may be
    returned for reformatting prior to review.
 
    Double-space all materials.  Manuscripts should be typed (or laser
    printed) on 8 1/2 x 11 inch or A4 paper, one side only, with one-inch
    margins all around.  Every page should be numbered in the upper right
    hand corner starting with the title page. Manuscript length should not
    normally exceed the equivalent of twenty journal pages.
 
    The title page (page 1) should have:
        - the paper's title, preferably not too long
        - the names, affiliations, and complete addresses of the authors,
          including electronic mail addresses if available
        - a daytime telephone number for the author with whom the editors
          should correspond.
 
    The second page should contain an abstract of 200 words or less, a list
    of six or fewer key words, and a shortened title for use as a running head.
 
    Begin the text of the article on page 3.  Aid the reader by dividing
    the text into logical sections and subsections.  Footnotes may be
    used sparingly.
 
    Follow the text with acknowledgements on a separate page.
 
    Begin the reference list on a new page following the acknowledgements
    page.  References and citations should conform to the APA Publication
    Manual except: (1) do not cite page numbers of any book; (2) use the
    same format for unpublished references as for published ones.  Please
    carefully check citations and references to be sure thay are correct
    and consistent. Note that the names of all authors of a publication
    should be given in the reference list and the first time it is cited
    in the text; after that "et al." may be used in citations.  If a
    publication has 3 or more authors, "et al." may also be used in the
    first citation unless ambiguity would result.
 
    Include figures and tables at the end of the manuscript.  Number them
    consecutively using Arabic numerals.  Include a brief title above each
    table and a caption below each figure.  Indicate in the text an
    approximate position for each figure and table.  Besides graphical
    material, figures consisting of high quality black and white photographs
    are acceptable.
 
    Submit only clear reproductions of artwork.  Authors should retain
    original artwork until the final version of the manuscript has been
    accepted.
 
    No page charges will be levied.  Authors may order reprints when
    corrected proofs are returned.
 
 
 
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