wah@AQUINAS.CSL.UIUC.EDU (Benjamin W. Wah) (08/25/88)
ANNOUNCING THE NEW IEEE TRANSACTIONS
ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING
AIM
The new Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering aims
to provide an international and interdisciplinary forum to pub-
lish results on the research, design, and development of
knowledge and data engineering methodologies, strategies and
systems.
FOCUS
This Transactions will focus on knowledge and data
engineering. The key technical issues it will address are
related to (a) the acquisition and management of knowledge and
data in the development and utilization of information systems;
(b) strategies to capture and store new knowledge and data; (c)
methods to lessen the burden of software and hardware develop-
ment and maintenance; (d) mechanisms to provide system modeling,
design, access, and security and integrity control; (e) archi-
tectures, systems, and components to provide knowledge and data
services within centralized and distributed information systems;
(f) designs to provide increased intelligence and ease of use
through speech, voice, graphics, images and documents; (g) tech-
niques to provide improved overall functions and performance to
meet new social needs; and (h) the development of ways to pro-
long the useful life of knowledge and data and its graceful
degradation.
SOME PERTINENT AREAS TO BE COVERED
(a) Knowledge and data engineering aspects of knowledge based
and expert systems
(b) Artificial Intelligence techniques relating to knowledge
and data management
(c) Knowledge and data engineering tools and techniques
(d) Parallel and distributed knowledge base and database
processing
(e) Real-time knowledge bases and databases
(f) Architectures for knowledge and data based systems
(g) Data management methodologies
(h) Database design and modeling
(i) Query, design, and implementation languages
(j) Integrity, security, and fault tolerance
(k) Distributed database control
(l) Statistical databases
(m) System integration and modeling of data and knowledge
engineering systems
(n) Algorithms for data and knowledge management
(o) Performance evaluation of data and knowledge engineering
algorithms
(p) Data communications aspects of data and knowledge
engineering systems
(q) Applications of data and knowledge engineering systems
(r) Experience in knowledge and data engineering
FREQUENCY OF PUBLICATION
Quarterly. The first issue is scheduled to appear in March
1989.
SUBSCRIBERS
Researchers, developers, managers, strategic planners,
users, and others interested in state-of-the-art and state-of-
the-practice activities in the knowledge and data engineering
area.
ARTICLE SELECTION PROCEDURES
This new periodical is at the Transactions level. The
selection of articles for publication will follow the guidelines
used by other IEEE Computer Society Transactions, such as the
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and the IEEE Transac-
tions on Computers. A minimum of three reviews will be required
for a decision to be made on each submitted or solicited paper.
TYPE OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED
The proposed periodical is a Transactions intended to pub-
lish original results in research and development in areas
relevant to knowledge and data engineering.
Papers that can be submitted for consideration include
those that have not previously been published in another jour-
nal, or are not currently being published, as well as those that
have been published in Conference Proceedings, Digests, and
Records and that have undergone substantial revision. Invited
papers from leading authorities in the knowledge and data
engineering area will also be published.
Three types of papers will be published:
(1) Regular technical articles (25-35 double spaced pages,
including figures, tables, and references): (a) papers with
extensive original results and (b) in-depth surveys, which
contribute to the understanding and advances in the
knowledge and data engineering area;
(2) Concise short articles (maximum 12 double spaced pages):
papers with results that are important and original and are
presented in a concise form;
(3) Correspondence articles (maximum 3 double spaced pages):
comments on previously published articles, short extensions
to current results, critiques on previous results, responses
from authors, and corrections to previously published arti-
cles.
An effort will be made to shorten the turnaround time for con-
cise papers and correspondence articles.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS AND PROPOSALS ON SPECIAL ISSUES
(1) For invited papers and proposals for special issues, send 6
copies to
C. V. Ramamoorthy, Editor-in-Chief
Computer Science Division
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
ram@ernie.berkeley.edu
(2) For all other submissions, including regular articles, con-
cise articles, and correspondence articles, send 6 copies of
manuscript, complete with illustrations, abstract, and index
terms, to
Benjamin W. Wah, Associate Editor-in-Chief
Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1101 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-3516, (217) 244-7175
wah%aquinas@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
IEEE copyright transfer form and similar guidelines for sub-
missions can be found in the January 1988 issue of IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Any questions regarding the journal can be directed to either
the Editor-in-Chief or the Associate Editor-in-Chief.