Complexity International - Introduction

COMPLEXITY INTERNATIONAL

A Hypermedia Journal of Complex Systems Research

Introduction and Call for Papers

Papers of original, previously unpublished work in the field of complex systems are invited for the new electronic journal, COMPLEXITY INTERNATIONAL, ISSN 1320-0682. Complexity International is a refereed journal for scientific papers dealing with any area of complex systems research.

Being accessible through Internet, Complexity International has several advantages over existing paper journals:

for authors it provides rapid publication, and instant world-wide distribution of their work;
subscription is free to anyone with access to the Internet;
all papers will be available on-line in hypermedia format (via World Wide Web), allowing rapid browsing and thematic searching.
papers may exploit the advantages of multi-media, including graphics, animation or audio, and of hypertext, including live links to related electronic information.

Papers may either be of conventional form or else written as hypertext documents conforming to the World Wide Web standards. The accepted papers will be available via the Complex Systems Hypermedia Service at the Australian National University.

AIMS AND SCOPE

The theme of the journal is the field of complex systems, the generation of complex behaviour from the interaction of multiple parallel processes. Relevant topics include (but are not restricted to): artificial life, cellular automata, chaos theory, control theory, evolutionary programming, fractals, genetic algorithms, information systems, neural networks, non-linear dynamics, and parallel computation. Papers dealing with applications of these topics (e.g. to biology, economics, epidemiology, sociology) are also encouraged.

CATEGORIES OF CONTRIBUTION

Several types of article are acceptable. See the Instructions for Authors for further details.

Original Papers (max. 5000 words);
Reviews (max. 10,000 words);
Educational overviews (max. 10,000 words);
News and Ideas (max. 3000 words);
Algorithms;
Technical Notes (max. 2000 words). The intention of the journal is to publish only material of high quality. The refereeing process will have the same rigour as any conventional journal. Original papers and news items will receive at least three international referee reports. Proposals for reviews will be assessed on the basis of a detailed outline submitted to referees. Technical notes will be assessed by two referees, but such a submission may include working software as well as multi-media presentation material.
EDITORS
```
Executive Editor:   Terry Bossomaier 
Co-editor       :   David Green   
 
Editorial Address:  The Editors
                    Complexity International
                    Computer Science Laboratory 
                    Research School of Physical Sciences & Engineering
                    The Australian National University
                    Canberra  0200  AUSTRALIA
               
Email:              ci-editor@life.anu.edu.au
```
ADVISORY BOARD
- Ah Chung Tsoi (University of Queensland)
- Roger Bradbury (National Resource Information Centre, Canberra)
- Richard Brent (Australian National University, Canberra)
- Terry Caelli (University of Melbourne)
- Kit Dampney (Macquarie University)
- Geoffrey Fox (University of Syracuse)
- Walter Freeman (University of California, Berkeley)
- Paulien Hogeweg (University of Utrecht)
- Doug Seeley (University of Adelaide)
ACCEPTANCE AND PUBLICATION PROCEDURE
Papers should be submitted by email to the editors in an approved format. See the Instructions for Authors for details. The target will be for a paper to be refereed within the required time and requiring no amendments to be published in the journal within six weeks of submission.
Newly accepted papers are added to the current issue of the journal immediately. Current and past volumes and issues will be accessible at all times via the Journal Contents Page.
Initially the frequency of issues of Complexity International will depend on the rate of contributions. When each issue of the journal is complete, a hypertext table of contents, plus abstracts, will be mailed to subscribers. A list of the contents will also be announced on computer news networks, including the Complex Systems Open Forum. Readers should use the Forum for general discussion of issues arising from papers published in the journal.
FORMAT
Papers will ultimately appear in HTML format (Hypertext Markup Language) for distribution via World Wide Web, to which links may be included, but initially alternative submission formats are acceptable. Detailed instructions for authors, including format options, and a technical report describing the selection of these alternatives, may be obtained from the journal network server (see below).
COPYRIGHT POLICY
Anyone with access to Internet may subscribe to Complexity International free of charge. By subscribing to the journal, readers agree to acknowledge both authors and the journal for any use they make of material published in Complexity International. As a condition of publication, authors agree to make their material freely available to all subscribers for an indefinite period. Authors are solely responsible for the accuracy and correctness of their contributions. However, neither the authors, editors, nor the Australian National University shall be held in any way liable for any use that may is made of information obtained from the journal.
ACCESS
Any browser for WWW can be used to access papers in the journal. See below for network addresses. Subscribers will receive a hypertext table of contents for each issue. Some of the available browsers include ...
- UNIX/X11 systems
  - Xmosaic (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu)
  - tkWWW (export.lcs.mit.edu) - includes WYSIWYG HTML editor
  - Viola (info.cern.ch)
- DOS Windows
  - Cello (fatty.law.cornell.edu)
  - WinMosaic (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu)
- Macintosh
  - MacMosaic (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu)
  - MacWWW (info.cern.ch)
Many of these, and various other browsers, are available from CERN (info.cern.ch). Some of the above browsers and various utilities (e.g. converters for HTML to and from LaTeX and RTF to HTML) are available by anonymous FTP from the journal server (life.anu.edu.au) in the directory /pub/netkit.
EMAIL
Submission of manuscripts
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       ci-submissions@life.anu.edu.au
```
Editorial correspondance
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       ci-editor@life.anu.edu.au
```
Subscription ...
```
       ci-subscribe@life.anu.edu
```
Your message should include the lines
```
       CI subscription:   subscribe ci      "your name"  
       Readers' forum:    subscribe complex "your name"  

       e.g.    subscribe ci Joe Bloggs
```
The Complex Systems Open Forum provides a venue for general discussion of any and all issues concerning complex systems. Readers are encouraged to use the Forum for comments and discussion arising from papers published in Complexity International.
To send comments to the Open Forum, use the address:
```
       complex@life.anu.edu.au
```
ANONYMOUS FTP
```
command line       ftp  life.anu.edu.au
login name         anonymous 
password           your electronic mail address
path               /pub/complex_systems/ci
```
GOPHER PROTOCOL
```
Name=Complexity International
Host=life.anu.edu.au
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/complex_systems/ci
```
WORLD WIDE WEB PROTOCOL
```
http://life.anu.edu.au:80/ci/ci.html
```
For information about the above services contact david.green@anu.edu.au See also the following documents ...

AIMS AND SCOPE

CATEGORIES OF CONTRIBUTION

EDITORS

ADVISORY BOARD

ACCEPTANCE AND PUBLICATION PROCEDURE

FORMAT

COPYRIGHT POLICY

ACCESS