Electronic Journal Announcement

[Arun Jagota]

Dear Connectionists:

This is a first announcement and CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Manuscripts
are invited, beginning now.
 
Arun Jagota
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			NEURAL COMPUTING SURVEYS 
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     		      A refereed electronic journal 
		     published on the World Wide Web
 
		http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~jagota/NCS

				MISSION 

One way to cope with the exponential increase in the number of articles 
published in recent years is to ignore most of them. A second, perhaps 
more satisfying, approach is to provide a forum that encourages the 
regular production -- and perusal -- of high-quality survey articles. 
This is especially useful in an inter-disciplinary, evolving field such 
as Neural Computing.

This journal aims to bring the second approach to bear. It is intended to

  + encourage researchers to write good survey papers. 

  + provides an efficiently searchable repository -- perhaps the first 
    that comes to mind -- for researchers to look at in times of need.

			    TOPICS COVERED 

All aspects of Neural Computing. See the web site for details.

			  BOARD OF ADVISORS 
			     (to expand)

		Yaser Abu-Mostafa	Caltech
		Michael Arbib		USC
		Eric Baum		NEC Research Institute
		Jeff Elman		UCSD
		Scott Fahlman		CMU
		Lee C. Giles		NEC Research Institute
		Michael Jordan		MIT
		Wolfgang Maass 		TU-Graz, Austria
		Eric Mjolsness		UCSD
		Michael Mozer 		Colorado U.
		Eduardo Sontag		Rutgers U.
		Lei Xu			CUHK
	
			 MANAGING EDITOR

        	Arun Jagota		UCSC & ICSI-Berkeley (vis)

                    jagota at icsi.berkeley.edu

			 EDITORIAL BOARD
		       (to expand somewhat)

		Suzanna Becker		McMaster U.
		Yoshua Bengio 		bengioy at iro.umontreal.ca 
		Wray Buntine		wray at buntine.brainstorm.net
		Joydeep Ghosh		ghosh at ece.utexas.edu
		Zoubin Ghahramani	zoubin at cs.toronto.edu
		Arun Jagota		jagota at icsi.berkeley.edu
		Pascal Koiran		koiran at lip.ens-lyon.fr
		Barak Pearlmutter	barak.pearlmutter at alumni.cs.cmu.edu
		Michael Perrone		mpp at watson.ibm.com
		Anand Rangarajan	rangarajan-anand at cs.yale.edu
		Hava Siegelmann		iehava at ie.technion.ac.il
		Yoram Singer		singer at research.att.com
		Ron Sun			rsun at cs.ua.edu
		John-Shawe Taylor	john at dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk
		Sebastian Thrun		thrun+ at cs.cmu.edu
		Xin Wang		xwang at cs.ucla.edu
		Lei Xu			Chinese U. of Hong Kong
	
		      FEATURES AT A GLANCE

	Survey-only	Postscript & Hypertext 	Attachments allowed 
	Peer-reviewed	No length restrictions	No delays upon acceptance 
	Free

		      FORMS & ATTACHMENTS

Survey papers may take the form of an ESSAY or a COMPENDIUM. ATTACHMENTS to 
an accepted paper -- optional to the authors -- allow use of the 
capabilities of the web to connect to several kinds of material closely 
related to the original paper. A clear separation is made between 
attachments (which are unrefereed and changable) and the main paper (which 
is refereed and not changable). See the web site for more details.

			HOW TO SUBMIT

Electronic submissions (in postscript format) are strongly encouraged, to 
any one of the editors based on matching area (see web site for listing of 
areas of editors). A Latex style file will be available for the NCS format. 
See the web site for details.

			PRINT VERSION

A print version, published by some well-known publisher as a "backup" to the 
electronic version, is being strongly considered.

			FTP ACCESS

Those without convenient access to the World Wide Web might use anonymous 
ftp as follows (see the README file there):

	ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/ai/jagota

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