Optimization special issue

[Arun Jagota]

                       CALL FOR PAPERS (please post)

                   JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

            SPECIAL ISSUE on NEURAL NETWORKS FOR OPTIMIZATION

                   Submission Deadline: 7 August 1995 **

                   JANN editor-in-chief: Omid M. Omidvar
                   Special issue editor: Arun Jagota

                      JANN is published by ABLEX

The aim of this special issue is to publish high-quality papers presenting 
original research in the evolving topic of neural network algorithms for
optimization problems. Papers may be theoretical or applied in nature.
Applications of neural networks to optimization, rather than of optimization 
to (learning in) neural networks, are prefered. Papers utilizing relevant
ideas from statistical physics, mathematical programming, or combinatorical
algorithms are welcome. Papers describing significant applications,
comparisons with conventional algorithms, or comparisons amongst neural
network algorithms are also welcome.

EXAMPLE PAPER TITLES: 

A Mean Field Annealing Network for the Traveling Salesman Problem
A New Energy Function for the Graph Bipartitioning Problem
Comparisons of the Hopfield and Elastic Nets
Solving N-queens: Neural Networks Versus Randomized Greedy Methods

FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS: Manuscripts may be FULL LENGTH or NOTE. Full length
manuscripts should range between eight (8) and sixteen (16) single column,
SINGLE spaced, 8.5 X 11 pages, in 11 pt, including figures, tables, and 
references. Figures and tables should be formatted IN text, as they would
appear in print. Do not have a separate title page, rather the first page
of text should begin with the paper title, authors, affiliations, and an
abstract, limited to two hundred and fifty (250) words. Notes should range 
between two (2) and seven (7) pages. Abstract should be limited to fifty 
(50) words. Other than these, notes should be formatted the same way as
full length manuscripts.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

** Apologies for the short notice. One reason for the submission deadline of 
7 August 1995 is that the journal editor needs the final accepted papers 
with him before the end of 1995. If all goes well, the special issue 
will be out soon thereafter. If you can't make the August 7 deadline, 
please contact me by email as soon as possible.

ELECTRONIC (much prefered):                          HARDCOPY

A SINGLE POSTSCRIPT file of                          Send THREE copies of
the manuscript, to the email                         the manuscript to the
address given below. Do not                          surface mail address 
follow-up with hardcopy.                             supplied below.
All materials (figures etc)
should be absorbed into this
single file.

Whether submitting electronic or hardcopy, send a cover letter by e-mail, 
containing the paper title, whether it is FULL LENGTH or NOTE, list 
of authors, and the corresponding author's address, especially e-mail and 
phone. (Correspondence with authors will be handled by email as much as 
possible.) If submitting hardcopy, send the email letter in advance; no 
hardcopy letter is needed. If submitting electronic, do not send the
cover letter in the same email message as the postscript file. 

SUBMIT TO:

                                Arun Jagota
                     Department of Mathematical Sciences
                            University of Memphis
                            Memphis TN 38152 USA
                            Phone: 901 678-3071  
                     E-mail: jagota at next1.msci.memst.edu

FINAL SUBMISSION: Authors of accepted papers might be asked to format final
versions in camera-ready format. The JANN formatting instructions would be
provided then. A JANN style file, for LaTeX users, will also be made 
available. LaTeX style files save considerable time in reformatting.