Call For Articles
    Crossroads, the Association for Computing Machinery Student Magazine
                Intelligent Agents (Summer 1999)

              DUE DATE:           November 9, 1998
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SPECIAL NOTE: If you are interested in being a Guest Editor for this issue,
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The Crossroads editorial staff invites authors to submit articles dealing with
topics drawn from several areas pertaining to Intelligent Agents.
The following partial list of topics is provided to give prospective authors
ideas for articles and is by no means exhaustive; other relevant topics will
be considered.

--Operational support & diagnosis; architectures, languages & techniques;
electronic commerce; manufacturing; information filtering & finding;
planning & resource allocation; process control; service integration

--Agents in multi-media services; business management; personal assistants;
agent-based simulation; multi-agent systems; cooperative information agents

--Approaches and methodologies; interaction capabilities, constraints and
preferences; reasoning about coordinated interactions; conceptual and
theoretical foundations; learning and adaptability; safety, security and
responsibility issues; social issues in agent societies; testbeds and
evaluations; user interface issues

Articles should include a basic description of the kinds of problems
being worked on, the state of the art of research, the state of the art
of commercial applications, open problems, or future research/commercial
development trends. Interviews with researchers; reviews of related books,
software, videos, or conferences; and opinion columns on related issues
are also welcome.  We especially encourage both undergraduate and graduate
students to submit articles.  However, articles written or coauthored by
professionals will also be considered.

Crossroads articles should be written for a broad audience.  They should
be easily understandable by someone who has had only the most basic
computer science instruction, and yet still be interesting to the
advanced computer enthusiast.  Articles longer than 6000 words will
generally not be considered for publication.  Feature articles should be
between 1500 and 6000 words; reviews should be between 800 and 2000
words; and opinion columns should be between 800 and 3000 words.
Articles should be written in a magazine style rather than a research
paper style.  In consideration of our diverse readership, authors should
try to use language that is inclusive of people regardless of their
gender, race, religion, nationality, or field of study.  Additional
writing guidelines and submission information are available online at
the Crossroads web site (http://www.acm.org/crossroads/).

Crossroads is published both online and in print.  We have a print
circulation of about 13,000.  All back issues are available for free on
our website.  Authors that have an article printed in Crossroads can receive
complementary copies of the issue they were published in.

All submissions should be formatted in HTML or plain text format and
emailed to [log in to unmask]  Please include your submission in the body
of your message: DO NOT include it as an attachment.  Submissions are
due November 9, 1998.  They will be reviewed shortly thereafter and
authors of accepted submissions will be notified within two to three weeks
of the deadline.

Prospective authors are invited to send email to the editors of Crossroads
([log in to unmask]) indicating their intention to submit an article.  In
this way we can keep everyone informed of any changes in deadlines or formats
and to make sure we have a good variety of articles.  General questions should
also be sent to the Crossroads editors.