• Theoretical Computer Science (Automata, formal languages, complexity theory, logic)
• Artificial Intelligence (natural language processing, speech processing, computer vision)
• Operations Research (combinatorial optimization, global optimization)

The journal provides international dissemination of contributions on the art, discipline and science of informatics. Its scope covers design, description, presentation and analysis of programs, information structures, computing systems and interaction between components thereof.

Adaptive Behavior is a highly ranked, international peer reviewed journal that publishes original research and review articles on adaptive behavior in living organisms and autonomous artificial systems.

For over 17 years it has offered ethologists, psychologists, behavioral ecologists, computer scientists, neuroscientists and robotics researchers a forum for discussing new findings and comparing insights and approaches across disciplines. The journal explores mechanisms, organizational principles, and architectures that can be expressed in computational, physical, or mathematical models related to the both the functions and dysfunctions of adaptive behavior.

The journal publishes articles, reviews, short communications, target articles and commentaries addressing challenges in the cognitive and behavioral sciences and including topics such as perception and motor control, embodied cognition, learning and evolution, neural mechanisms, action selection and behavioral sequences, motivation and emotion, characterization of environments, decision making, collective and social behavior, navigation, foraging, communication and signalling.

Artificial Life is intended to be the primary vehicle for the dissemination of original scientific and engineering research involving the synthesis of life and life-like phenomena in wetware, hardware, and software, and the application of such techniques toward the enhancement of our theoretical understanding of life and life-like phenomena. It is also intended to serve as a forum for the discussion and evaluation of the many technological, philosophical, social, and ethical issues involved in our attempts to synthesize vital phenomena artificially.

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Artificial Life and Robotics is an international journal publishing original technical papers and authoritative state-of-the-art reviews on the development of new technologies concerning artificial life and robotics, especially computer-based simulation and hardware for the twenty-first century. This journal covers a broad multidisciplinary field, including areas such as artificial brain research, artificial intelligence, artificial life, artificial living, artificial mind research, brain science, chaos, cognitive science, complexity, computer graphics, evolutionary computations, fuzzy control, genetic algorithms, innovative computations, intelligent control and modelling, micromachines, micro-robot world cup soccer tournament, mobile vehicles, neural networks, neurocomputers, neurocomputing technologies and applications, robotics, robus virtual engineering, and virtual reality. Hardware-oriented submissions are particularly welcome.

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Asia Pacific Journal of Life Sciences' is an international journal which presents the latest original research papers in the areas of information and life science. The interaction and interdependence between information science and life science is expected to grow exponentially in the 21st century. The development of life sciences on the basis of information science and computation will reveal many significant problems in life sciences and will also lead to many new and important discoveries including targeted and break-through drugs. The application fields include biotechnology, genomics, proteomics, e-health, pharmaceutical, agricultural sciences. The journal will focus on applied mathematics, information science, parallel processing, computational biology, electronic communications, bioscience, medical engineering, and pharmaceutical science. Contributions to 'Asian Information-Science-Life' are welcome in the following formats : original research papers, surveys, book and paper reviews, etc. Papers, and contributions are welcome on all subjects of information science and life science. Especially welcome are papers, articles and material that pioneer new research directions, raise new questions and new possibilities, or examine old problems from a new angle. Asian Information-Science-Life also publishes special issues for summaries of scientific and technical progress in selected frontier fields in information science and life science.

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The journal will publish research involving the study and distillation of principles and functions found in biological systems that have been developed through evolution, and application of this knowledge to produce novel and exciting basic technologies and new approaches to solving scientific problems. It will provide a forum for interdisciplinary research which will act as a conduit to facilitate the two-way flow of ideas and understanding between the extensive bodies of knowledge of the different disciplines. It has two principal aims: to draw on biology to enrich engineering and to draw from engineering to enrich biology.

The journal aims to include input from across all intersecting areas of both fields. In biology, this would include work in all fields from physiology to ecology, with either zoological or botanical focus. In engineering, this would include both design and practical application of biomimetic or bioinspired devices and systems.

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Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition is devoted to theoretical advances in the biological and cognitive sciences, with an emphasis on the conceptual integration afforded by evolutionary and developmental approaches. The journal appeals to a wide audience of scientists, social scientists, philosophers and historians of biology.

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This journal is the successor to the Journal of Visualisation and Computer Animation

AIMS AND SCOPE

With the advent of very powerful PCs and high-end graphics cards, there has been an incredible development in Virtual Worlds, real-time computer animation and simulation, games. But at the same time, new and cheaper Virtual Reality devices have appeared allowing an interaction with these real-time Virtual Worlds and even with real worlds through Augmented Reality. Three-dimensional characters, especially Virtual Humans are now of an exceptional quality, which allows to use them in the movie industry. But this is only a beginning, as with the development of Artificial Intelligence and Agent technology, these characters will become more and more autonomous and even intelligent. They will inhabit the Virtual Worlds in a Virtual Life together with animals and plants.

Computer Animation & Virtual Worlds is the first journal to address this global thematic of the Virtual Worlds. This thematic has been subdivided into 6 areas:

• Computer animation
• Embodied agents
• Virtual Environments
• Augmented Reality
• Virtual Life
• Visualization

Computer Animation & Virtual Worlds seeks papers in all fields of Virtual Worlds. Contributions are solicited describing original research results, applications, and experience in the following topics:

Computer Animation

• 2D animation
• Keyframe animation
• Inverse kinematics
• Biomechanics models
• Motion capture and motion retargeting
• Physical-based animation
• Facial and body animation
• Path planning
• Cloth and hair animation
• LOD and impostors
• Real-time rendering

Augmented Reality

• Tracking
• Mobile AR systems
• Virtual Heritage

Embodied Agents

• Perceptual models
• Virtual Sensors
• Interagent communication
• Modelling of groups and crowds
• Conversational agents
• Goal driven behavior
• Interaction with Virtual Humans
• Intelligent virtual actors
• Social behavior
• Emotions and personality
• Autonomous Virtual Human architectures
• Simulation involving Virtual Humans
• Autonomous Virtual Humans in games

Virtual Environments

• Gesture and action recognition
• Haptic interfaces
• Audiospace
• Simulators (flight, car drive etc…)
• VR for emergency
• VR for psychiatry
• VR for rehabilitation
• Virtual surgery

Virtual Life

• Plant development and growing
• L-systems
• Artificial animals and animats
• Population generation
• Virtual cities
• Persistent worlds

Visualization

• Medical imaging and reconstruction
• Molecular graphics
• Fluid visualization
• Visualization of physical phenomena
• Volume rendering

Evolutionary Computation provides an international forum for facilitating and enhancing the exchange of information among researchers involved in both the theoretical and practical aspects of computational systems of an evolutionary nature.

The journal publishes both theoretical and practical developments of computational systems drawing their inspiration from nature, with particular emphasis on evolutionary algorithms (EAs), including, but not limited to, genetic algorithms (GAs), evolution strategies (ESs), evolutionary programming (EP), genetic programming (GP), classifier systems (CSs), and other natural computation techniques.

Evolutionary Ecology is a conceptually oriented journal of basic biology at the interface of ecology and evolution. The journal publishes original research, reviews and discussion papers dealing with evolutionary ecology, including evolutionary aspects of behavioral and population ecology. The objective is to promote the conceptual, theoretical and empirical development of ecology and evolutionary biology; the scope extends to all organisms and systems.

Research papers present the results of empirical and theoretical investigations, testing current theories in evolutionary ecology.

Additional offerings include Ideas & Perspectives presenting new points of view and novel hypotheses, Review Articles surveying recent developments and major advances, and Comments on articles recently published in Evolutionary Ecology.

Section A: Computer Systems: Theory

This section contains work concerning research and development in computer systems and the theory of computing in general. Papers relating directly or indirectly to all aspects of these fields are welcome. Of great interest is work in computer systems architectures and organization, computer software and hardware, analysis of algorithms, artificial intelligence, automata, bio-informatics, computational complexity, computational aspects of combinatorics and graph theory, computational geometry, computer graphics, computer security, concurrency and parallelism, cryptography, data structures, formal languages, haptics, knowledge discovery, mathematical logic, networks, novel models of computation such as DNA and quantum computing, randomization, semantics, symbol manipulation and the Internet. The Journal is intended to provide a forum for the expression of new ideas, as well as a place for exposition of these areas of knowledge.

Section B: Computational Methods: Application

Aims and Scope

Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications aims at being a reference for all researchers and practitioners who study the theory and application of methodologies pertaining to Evolutionary Computation and related fields.

Original contributions are sought describing recent achievements in Evolutionary Computation research, with particular, but not exclusive, regard to:

• Genetic Algorithms
• Genetic Programming
• Evolutionary Programming
• Evolution Strategies
• Swarm Intelligence
• Learning Classifier Systems
• Artificial Immune Systems
• Co-evolution
• Interactive Evolution
• Evolvable Hardware
• Hybrid approaches relying on the joint use of Evolutionary Computation methods and other Computational Intelligence and optimization methods

Previously unpublished reports on applications of Evolutionary Computation techniques to problems of industrial, technological and social relevance are particularly solicited, including, but not limited to:

• Combinatorial and Stochastic Optimization of Industrial Processes
• Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering
• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
• Communication and Networking Technologies
• Transportation and Logistics

In-depth reviews of the state of the art in any of the theoretical or application fields listed above are also accepted.

"Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics" is a forum for research in all areas of the field, from theory to applications and relations to other subjects. Particular attention is given to grammatical methods for generation of sets of words, graphs, arrays, pictures, higher dimensional and infinite objects, etc. (including the classical grammars of the Chomsky hierarchy, Lindenmayer systems and their variations, graph grammars, etc.); automata as acceptors of languages of words, graphs, etc.; decision problems; efficient algorithms for solving problems concerning languages, grammars and automata; algebraic properties of automata and languages; combinatorial properties of words, sequences of words, sets of words, etc.; codes as languages; estimations of parameters of codes; relations of languages and automata to complexity theory, logics, etc.; trace languages; Petri net languages; formal models for concurrent processes; applications of formal languages and automata to programming languages, natural languages, biology, etc.; combinatorics, graph theory, discrete mathematics in relation with problems of theoretical computer science.

"Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics" publishes original articles as well as special issues with selected papers of conferences in the field. Occasionally special issues will be dedicated to a particular topic.

Journal of Computational Biology is the leading journal covering the analysis, management, and visualization of cellular information at the molecular level. The Journal publishes peer-reviewed papers focusing on novel, cutting-edge methods in computational biology and bioinformatics.

Topics include:
• Genomics
• Mathematical modeling and simulation
• Distributed and parallel biological computing
• Designing biological databases
• Pattern matching and pattern detection
• Linking disparate databases and data
• New tools for computational biology
• Relational and object-oriented database technology for bioinformatics
• Biological expert system design and use
• Reasoning by analogy, hypothesis formation, and testing by machine
• Management of biological databases

To meet the expectations of J.UCS readers, highly sophisticated features such as automatic reference analysis, similarity search between documents and other features using knowledge management technology are being developed. We aim to provide a rich personalized experience for users of the journal. Facilities are now underway to allow readers and editors to ask questions such as: 'Which other resources should be read to understand this article?' and 'Who are the real experts on this topic?'. We will now focus on the unique features of J.UCS:

• J.UCS covers all areas of computer science. Since papers are structured by topics, only papers in particular areas of interest need to be examined by readers, the rest can be ignored. Just use the navigational button "Articles by Topics"!

• J.UCS has a reviewing system that assures rapid turn-around of papers submitted. With its current strength of over 300 high profile editors, and the number still growing, there are few areas of computer science that are not covered by some expert editors.

• J.UCS was probably the first journal to allow interactivity, by posting comments on any paper. This feature which is now considered one of the basic features of Web 2.0 has been available in J.UCS already ten years before the term Web 2.0 was even coined. We encourage you to use this feature for comments and discussion: when you read an abstract, just click on the "Write a Comment" button to leave interesting information for others!

• J.UCS has introduced and will continue to introduce innovative features. One of them, the "Link into the Future" provides two important types of information: (a) has one of the authors of the paper at hand published other papers in J.UCS at a later stage? (b) has the paper at issue been cited by other papers in J.UCS? Try it out! Clearly you will have a better chance to find such "Links into the Future" with papers that have been published some time back. Try for example the paper at http://www.jucs.org/jucs_2_3/government_cryptography_and_the and click here at the "Links into Future" button. You find out this way (note that the result screen may be hidden if you have several open windows)  that this paper was quoted twice later in J.UCS and one of the original authors contributed two further papers to J.UCS, later. Finding future papers and citations will be extended in 2008 to include sources beyond J.UCS.

Overall, many other new features for J.UCS are under development: we will report on them in a year's time!

Leonardo Music Journal is an annual multimedia publication (print and audio CD) of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology and the MIT Press. It publishes the work of artists who are inventing media, implementing developing technologies and expanding the boundaries of radical and experimental aesthetics.

A companion volume to Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, LMJ is a sonic extension of Leonardo's dedication to fostering connections between the contemporary arts, sciences and new technologies. LMJ provides a scholarly, international, peer-reviewed forum for musicians, composers, sound artists, scientists, researchers, theoreticians, technicians and instrument builders to discuss and present their work in a context of mutual influence and exchange.

Broader social contexts form a background for much of the discussion published in the journal, making LMJ an important resource for anyone interested in the relations between music and the audio arts and the cultural implications of new technological and scientific developments.

Leonardo and LMJ are committed to exploring new venues for the exposure of artists' work. The inclusion of a compact disc with each issue addresses the need for a means of presenting sound material in conjunction with print publication. The LMJ CDs are guest-curated compilations of provocative new works, discussed in depth in a special section of the journal.

PLoS Computational Biology is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published monthly by the Public Library of Science (PLoS) as the official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

 PLoS Computational Biology features works of exceptional significance that further our understanding of living systems at all scales—from molecules and cells, to patient populations and ecosystems—through the application of computational methods. Readers include life and computational scientists, who can take the important findings presented here to the next level of discovery.

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An international journal exploring theoretical computer science and its applications.

Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology (ROMJIST) is an academic journal with a very broad scope.As its name suggests (and as it also follows from the fact that the journal is edited by the Information Science and Technology Section of the Romanian Academy), the journal is devoted to papers in all domains related to information processing, from mathematical theories related to this subject to technological areas in the full meaning of the term (from the mathematical theory of information, automata and formal language theory, mathematical and computational linguistics, through general systems theory, to practical computer science - programming languages and techniques, information systems of various types, artificial intelligence, software engineering, etc.) to engineering-technological areas, such as electronics, telecommunications, hardware, and so on and so forth. One deals both with traditional developments and with very modern new areas (such as molecular computing). According to the instructions to authors, the main criterion for accepting a paper is not necessarily its subject, but its quality.
The journal is of a usual research type, devoted to original research papers, unpublished elsewhere. Exceptionally, also survey papers of a high quality, PhD theses or conference volumes are published. Each paper is refereed by two reviewers (when any difficulty appears, a third referee report is asked for).
In the three years since ROMJIST appeared, the journal has published papers by authors from more than twenty countries. On the one hand, this proves the efficiency of the editorial board, and on the other hand, this convincingly shows that the domain is a well developed and an active one, that the journal is viable, necessary and successful.

IMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles devoted to theory and applications, all with clear relevance to general modeling and simulation issues.

In addition to building the knowledge base in theory, methodology and technology, the journal also aims to help professionals and researchers (particularly those involved in multidisciplinary projects) apply advances in modeling and simulation to their application areas.

The HFSP Journal publishes high quality, innovative research at the frontier of biology with an emphasis on interdisciplinary research at the interface between the life sciences and the more quantitative sciences.

The goal of the HFSP Journal is to further the mission of the Human Frontier Science Program. It should be stressed, however, that theHFSP Journal is independent from the Human Frontier Science Program Organization and that submission to the HFSP Journal is open to all and that it is not restricted to awardees of HFSP grants and fellowships.

A truly interdisciplinary reviewing process: 'the reviewers' comments were unusually insightful and useful - spanning from mistakes in equations and other typos, to interesting suggestions for discussion. As an author I can say that this is really a very encouraging start for a new journal', Prof. Dan S. Tawfik from the Weizmann Institute of Science's department of Biological Chemistry in Rehovot, Israel explains.

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