Special Issue on 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence

On August 31st 1955 , J. McCarthy ( Dartmouth College , New Hampshire ), M. L. Minsky ( Harvard University ), N. Rochester (I.B.M. Corporation) and C.E. Shannon (Bell Telephone Laboratories) proposed to hold a meeting during the successive summer. The aim of the meeting was to gather a group of researchers to provide ideas on all aspects of learning and intelligence that could be simulated on machines. During that meeting, now known as the Dartmouth Conference, the term Artificial Intelligence was coined. In 2006, the 50th anniversary of the Dartmouth Conference will be celebrated worldwide. Albacete (Spain) will be the most important place for this international event in Spanish language.

The Neurocomputing special issue on “50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence” will contain the best revised papers related to neural computation introduced at the International Conference called "CMPI-2006, Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence", as well as some invited papers.

Important Dates:

• Paper Submission deadline: 1st December 2006
• Decision Notification (1st round of the reviewing process): 28th February 2007
• Revised Paper Submission (if applicable): 31st May 2007
• Final Decision Notification: 31st July 2007
• Final Paper Submission: 30th October 2007

Method of Review:

Invited contributions should be around 10 journal pages long (approximately 5000 words, plus a reasonable number of Figures/Tables). Submissions will be handled electronically through the EES (Elsevier Editorial System). When uploading a paper, the corresponding author has to choose the so-called Article Type: "Special Issue: CMPI-2006" (drop down menu) in the EES system. It is also wise to type in the paper comment field: This submission is part of the special issue "50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence".

The Guest Editors will first evaluate all manuscripts. Those manuscripts that meet the minimum criteria are passed on for peer review by two external experts. The method of review in this special issue will employ single blind review, where the referee remains anonymous throughout the process. The Guest Editors board is responsible for the final decision to accept or to reject the article, based on the recommendations of the reviewers. Accepted papers will have to be sent to the Guest Editors electronically, both as source files (LaTex, MS Word, including all original Figures/Tables and References) and in printable version (PDF).

Guest Editors:

• Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos and Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete (I3A), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (caballer@dsi.uclm.es)
• José Mira, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
• Gustavo Deco, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Departament de Tecnologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Related Link:

50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence, CMPI-2006