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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Connectionist Symbol Processing For the journal: Expert Systems: The International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Neural Networks The processing of symbols and symbolic structures has long been a challenge to connectionists. This special issue will bring together a broad range of contributed articles that explore the areas of representation, variable binding and inference. Papers are sought which present recent results in this field, or discuss fundamental theoretical concepts related to the performance of symbolic processing with connectionist networks. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Special Issue Editor: Antony Browne Submission Details: Deadline for Submission: 30th April 1999 Notification of Acceptance: 31st July 1999 Format: As for normal papers to the journal (Please see attachment to this message for instructions to authors) Length: No longer than 10000 words Address for Papers: Dr. Antony Browne School of Information Systems University College Northampton Northampton NN2 7AL UK Further questions should be addressed to Tony Browne at: [log in to unmask] NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS Expert Systems: The International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Neural Networks is a quarterly technical journal devoted to all aspects of the development and use of advanced computing. Papers are published on the condition that authors are prepared to assign the copyright to Blackwell Publishers Ltd. The journal is not equipped to deal with LaTeX, so please write papers using a commonly used Microsoft Windows based word-processing package such as 'Word' or 'Wordperfect' Three hard copies of the paper and figures should be supplied. The paper should be laser printed double spaced, on white A4 or white US equivalent paper. If your submission is accepted, you will be asked to submit a disk with the soft version. Each page should be numbered. The first page of the manuscript should bear only the names, titles and full addresses of the authors. Where there is more than one author, please indicate to whom correspondence should be sent, as well as contact address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. Illustrations should be on separate pages, attached to the end of the manuscript. Figures should be neatly printed in black on a good white base on separate pages. Screen dumps do not always reproduce well; please make screen dumps as clear as possible. Each figure should be clearly identified for the printer (e.g. Figure 1). The position of each figure should be clearly marked and referred to in the text (e.g. Figure 1 about here). Each diagram or table should be clearly captioned (e.g. Figure 1: the system architecture.). Lettering and numbering should be large enough to be legible if reduced, which may be by up to 50%. Figures should not be marked in any way as we may reproduce them directly. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to use figures borrowed from other works. Papers should always begin with an abstract and an introduction, and end with a conclusion and bibliography. Appendices may be used if appropriate. Papers and articles should be written in gender-free language Heading structure: Usually three levels:1. Main heading, 1.1. Subheading, 1.1.1. Sub-subheading. Every reference in the text should be given in full in the bibliography. References should be complete and correct - this is the author's responsibility. References in the text should give, in parentheses, the author's name and year of publication: for example: (Browne et. al., 1996; Niklasson & Boden, 1997; Browne, 1998). References in the bibliography at the end of the text should use the appropriate format, described below (the Harvard system). Books/Book Chapters: author name, author initials, date of publication, title of chapter (where applicable), full name of editor (where applicable), full title of book, page numbers, publisher, publisher's location. For example: NIKLASSON, L and BODEN, M. (1997). Representing structure and structured representations in connectionist networks, in A. Browne (Ed.), Neural Network Perspectives on Cognition and Adaptive Robotics, pp. 20-50. Institute of Physics Press, Bristol, UK. Journal Papers: author name, author initials, date of publication, full title of paper, full title of journal, journal volume number, journal issue number, page numbers of paper. For example: BROWNE, A. (1998). Detecting systematic structure in distributed representations. Neural Networks 11(5), 815-824. Conference proceedings, similar to the format above. If the proceedings have been published externally, please give name of publisher and publisher's location. BROWNE, A. PASCALIS, R. and AMIN, S. (1996). Signal and image processing with neural networks. Proceedings of Circuits, Systems and Computers 96, Vol. 1, 335-339. References not mentioned in the text should be listed separately as 'Further reading.' %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%