[mod.ai] Journal Issue - Financial Applications, IEEE Expert

APTE@IBM.COM.UUCP (02/26/87)

                            CALL FOR PAPERS
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                              IEEE EXPERT
                       Special Issue - Fall 1987
               AI Applications in Financial Expert Systems


The Fall 1987 issue of IEEE EXPERT will be devoted to papers that
discuss the technical requirements imposed upon AI techniques for
building intelligent systems for financial applications and the
methodologies employed for the construction of such systems.

                   Requirements for submission of papers
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Authors should submit their papers to the guest editors no later than
APRIL 1, 1987. Each submission should include one cover page and five
copies of the complete manuscript. The one cover page should include
Name(s), affiliation(s), complete address(es), identification of
principal author and telephone number. The five copies of the complete
manuscript should each include: Title and abstract page: title of paper,
100 word abstract indicating significance of contribution, and The
complete text of the paper in English, including illustrations and
references, not exceeding 5000 words.

                             Topics of interest
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Authors are invited to submit papers describing recent and novel
applications of AI techniques in the research and development of
financial expert systems. Topics (in the context of the domain) include,
but are not limited to: Automated Reasoning, Knowledge Representations,
Inference Techniques, Problem Solving Control Mechanisms, Natural
Language Front Ends, User Modeling, Explanation Methodologies, Knowledge
Base Debugging, Validation, and Maintenance, and System Issues in
Development and Deployment.

                                Guest Editors
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                 Chidanand Apte  (914-945-1024, Arpa: apte@ibm.com)
                 John Kastner    (914-945-3821, Arpa: kastner@ibm.com)
                 IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
                 P.O. Box 218
                 Yorktown Heights, New York 10598