期刊名称：CONNECTION SCIENCE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Connection Science is an interdisciplinary scientific journal with a focus on the mechanisms of adaptation, cognition and intelligent behaviour in both living and artificial systems. The traditional scope of the journal has been broadened from connectionist research and neural computing to encompass work on other adaptive methods (e.g. evolutionary computing) as well as biologically inspired techniques and algorithms in applied domains. Papers should still be related either to the behaviour of humans or other animals or to the underlying mechanisms.
Papers submitted to the journal may be practical implementations, theoretical research or philosophical discussions. The submission of robotics research papers on issues raised by the interaction of agents with the environment or with other agents is particularly encouraged.
Instructions to Authors
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1. The scope of the journal
The International Journal, Connection Science is published four times a year in print and electronic editions.
The primary goal of Connection Science has established a clear niche within the world of neural computing, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. While the journal considers articles from any area of connectionist research, it differs from the other neural computing journals in its preference for papers related to issues within connectionist cognitive science and artificial intelligence. This relationship may either be direct, as in cognitive modelling, or indirect in that techniques are presented which are of interest to connectionist researchers working within cognitive science or AI. Connection Science also differs from other cognitive science and AI (or machine learning) journals in that it is purely connectionist; all of the articles are reviewed to a high standard by researchers in the field of neural computing.
1.1. Abstracting Information
Connection Science is indexed and abstracted in Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Ergonomics Abstracts, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, PASCAL, Psychological Abstracts/PsycINFO/PsycLIT, Social Policy/Planning & Development Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts and Turing Institute Abstracts.
2. The structure and organization of the Journal
The Journal is organized into the following: research papers, review articles, and technical notes, describing research with a theoretical grounding. Papers will typically be between 5000 and 8000 words, debating and exploring theoretical and methodological issues, methodological approaches, and substantive topics. However, there is not necessarily an upper limit on length, and authors of longer papers are encouraged to contact the Editors with a synopsis. Technical notes are designed as a medium for the publication of short communications that, however, do not require the fast-track publication route offered for Letters. Typically such notes are between 1000 and 2000 words. Review articles or essays are generally commissioned by invitation of the Editors.
All research papers, review articles, and technical notes will be subject to peer review.
2.1. Contact the Editor-in-Chief:
Dr Tom Ziemke - Department of Computer Science, University of Skovde, PO Box 408, SE-541 28 Skovde , Sweden
email: tom@ida.his.se
or contact the appropriate Associate Editor:
PHILOSOPHY & CONNECTIONISM
Professor A Clark,
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences,
University of Sussex,
Brighton,
BN1 9QH,
UK
CONNECTIONIST NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Dr G W Cottrell,
Computer Science and Engineering Department 0114,
University of California,
La Jolla,
CA 92093, USA.
THE ARTS
Dr N Griffith,
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems,
University of Limerick,
Limerick,
Ireland
AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND COGNITION
Dr Tom Ziemke,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Skovde,
PO Box 408,
SE-541 28 Skovde,
Sweden
email: tom@ida.his.se
HYBRID SYSTEMS AND NEURAL COMPUTING
Professor Stefan Wermter,
University of Sunderland,
UK
CONNECTIONIST PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELLING
Dr R Reilly,
Department of Computer Science,
University College Dublin,
Belfield,
Dublin 4, Ireland
3. Submitting a manuscript to Connection Science
3.1. General guidelines
Please read this Guide with care and attention: should you fail to follow it, your research paper, Letter, or technical note, may be delayed. Note especially the referencing conventions used by Connection Science and the requirement for gender-, race-, and creed-inclusive language, and for the adherence to the Système Internationale.
Connection Science considers all manuscripts on condition they are the property (copyright) of the submitting author(s) and that copyright will be transferred to Connection Science and Taylor & Francis Ltd if the manuscript is accepted.
Connection Science considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Connection Science, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication, nor in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged all costs which Connection Science incurs, and their manuscripts will not be published.
Opinions advanced in the papers published in Connection Science are to be understood as individual expressions of their authors and not those of the editorial board or Taylor & Francis.
- Please write clearly and concisely, stating your objectives clearly and defining your terms. Your arguments should be substantiated with well-reasoned supporting evidence.
- For all manuscripts, non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
- In writing your manuscript, you are encouraged to review articles in the area you are addressing which have been previously published in the journal, and where you feel appropriate, to reference them. This will enhance context, coherence, and continuity for our readers.
- Abstracts of not more than 200 words are required for all manuscripts submitted, and should precede the body text.
- Manuscripts should be typed on one single side of A4 or 8 x 11 inch white good quality paper, double-spaced throughout, including the reference section.
- Four copies of any manuscript must be submitted; five copies for Letters manuscripts.
- Authors should include telephone and fax numbers as well as e-mail addresses on the cover page of manuscripts.
- Accepted manuscripts in their final, revised versions, must also be submitted as electronic word processing files on disk or via file transfer protocol; see 'A Guide to Electronic Processing'.
- Connection Science has no allocation of free colour pages within its annual page allowance. Authors who propose publishing figures in colour should consult Taylor & Francis to agree a financial contribution to additional colour reproduction costs. Figures which appear in black-and-white in the print edition of Connection Science will appear in colour in the online edition, assuming colour originals are supplied.
We look forward to receiving your submissions, which should be sent to the Editorial Office, at the address above.
3.3 Abstracts
Structured abstracts are required for all manuscripts, and should be submitted as detailed below, following the title and author's name and address, preceding the main text.
For manuscripts reporting original research, state the primary objective and any hypothesis tested; describe the research design and your reasons for adopting that methodology; state the methods and procedures employed, including where appropriate tools, hardware, software, the selection and number of study areas/subjects, and the central experimental interventions; state the main outcomes and results, including relevant data; and state the conclusions that might be drawn from these data and results, including their implications for further research or application/practice.
Abstracts should not exceed 200 words.
3.4. Copyright permission
Contributors are required to secure permission for the reproduction of any figure, table, or extensive (more than fifty word) extract from the text, from a source which is copyrighted - or owned - by a party other than Taylor & Francis or the contributor.
This applies both to direct reproduction or 'derivative reproduction' - when the contributor has created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source.
It is essential that you adhere to convention regarding product names. Product manufacturers often require that product names are trademarked, even if the product name has become a commonplace term. For example, let us assume the Taylor & Francis product 'pre view' has been trademarked by Taylor & Francis. We should require you as author to print the name as pre view ? and state the following as a footnote:
This article includes a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark. Its inclusion does not imply it has acquired for legal purposes a non-proprietary or general significance, nor is any other judgement implied concerning its legal status.
3.5. Mathematics
Special care should be taken with mathematics in manuscripts, especially subscripts and superscripts and differentiation between the letter 'ell' and the figure one, and the letter 'oh 'and the figure zero.
In the unlikely event your keyboard does not have the characters you need, it is preferable to use longhand, in which case it is important to differentiate between capital and small letters, K, k and x and other similar groups of letters. Special symbols should be highlighted in the text and explained in the margin. In some cases it is helpful to supply annotated lists of symbols for the guidance of the sub-editor and the typesetter, and/or a 'Nomenclature' following the abstract.
For simple fractions in the text, the solidus / should be used instead of a horizontal line, care being taken to insert parentheses where necessary to avoid ambiguity, for example, I /(n-1). Exceptions are the proper fractions available as single type on a keyboard.
Full formulae or equations should be displayed, that is, written on a separate line. Horizontal lines are preferable to solidi.
The solidus is never used for units: ms-1 not m/s, but note electrons/s, counts/channel, etc.
Displayed equations referred to in the text should be numbered serially on the right hand side of the page. Short expressions not referred to by any number will usually be incorporated in the text, but are discouraged.
3.6. Units
Authors must adhere to SI units. Please note the following style conventions.
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34¡ã
17' S |
| 36o N |
decibel dB |
| differences in temp deg K |
hectares ha |
| hertz Hz |
hour h |
| kelvin K |
kilogramme kg |
| kilometre km [note lower case k] |
litre l |
| metre m |
minute min |
| radian rad |
second s |
| steradian sr |
watt W |
3.7. Glossary of terms
please add your suggestions
4. Notes on style
All authors are asked to take account of the global, diverse audience of Connection Science. Clearly explain or avoid the use of terms that might be meaningful only to a local or national audience.
Some specific points of style for the text of articles, research reports, case studies, reports, essay reviews, and reviews follow.
- We prefer US to 'American', USA to 'United States', and UK to 'United Kingdom'.
- We use conservative (British, not US, spelling, i.e. colour not color; behaviour (behavioural) not behavior; [he] practises not practices; centre not center; organization not organisation; analyse not analyze, etc.
- Single 'quotes' are used for quotations rather than double "quotes", unless the 'quote is "within" another quote'.
- Punctuation should follow the British style, e.g. 'quotes precede punctuation'.
- Punctuation of common abbreviations should follow the following conventions: e.g. i.e. cf. Note that such abbreviations are not followed by a comma or a (double) point/period.
- Dashes; em-dash should be clearly indicated in manuscripts by way of either a clear dash (-) or a triple hyphen (---), the en-dash should be indicated by a clear dash (-) or a double hyphen.
- We are sparing in the use of upper case in headings and references, e.g. only the first word in paper titles and all subheads is in upper case; titles of papers from journals in the references and other places are not in upper case.
- Apostrophes should be used sparingly. Thus, decades should be referred to as follows: 'The 1990s [not the 1990's] saw ...'. Possessives associated with acronyms, should be written as follows: 'The AVHRR's findings that ...', but, NB, the plural is AVHRRs.
- All acronyms for national agencies, examinations, etc., should be spelled out the first time they are introduced in text or references. Thereafter the acronym can be used if appropriate, e.g. 'The work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the early 1980s ...'. Subsequently, 'The NOAA studies of achievement ...', in a reference ... (Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] 1989a).
- Material to be emphasized (italicized in the printed version) should be underlined in the typescript rather than italicized. Please use such emphasis sparingly.
- n (not N), % (not per cent) should be used in typescripts.
- Numbers in text should take the following forms: 300, 3000, 30 000. Spell out numbers under 10 unless used with a unit of measure, e.g. nine pupils but 9mm (do not introduce periods with measure). For decimals, use the form 0.05 not (.05).
5. Notes on tables and figures
Artwork submitted for publication will not be returned and will be destroyed after publication, unless you request otherwise. Whilst every care is taken of artwork, neither the Editor nor Taylor & Francis shall bear any responsibility or liability for non-return, loss, or damage of artwork, nor for any associated costs or compensation. You are strongly advised to insure appropriately.
- Tables and figures should be referred to in text as follows: figure 1, table 1, i.e. lower case. 'As seen in table [or figure] 1 ...' (not Tab., fig. or Fig).
- The place at which a table or figure is to be inserted in the printed text should be indicated clearly on a manuscript:
[Insert table 2 about here ]
- All figures and tables must be on separate sheets and not embedded in the text.
Thus tables and figures must be referred to in text and numbered in order of appearance. Each table should have a descriptive title and each column an appropriate heading. For all figures, original copies of figures should be supplied. All figures should allow for reduction to column width (7.5 cm) or page width (160mm). Please avoid figures that would require landscape reproduction, i.e., reading from bottom to top of the page. Photographs may be sent as glossy prints or negatives. The legends to any illustrations must be typed separately following the text and should be grouped together. Maps must have a scale and north point. Graph axes must state terms and units.
6. Citations in text
References should be cited using the author-date, or Harvard, system.
- 'Ibid.' (and the like) are not used when repeating citations. Simply repeat the original citation verbatim, e.g. (Orwell 1945).
- Citations should be included in prefatory material to quotes (wherever possible) rather than placing them at the end. Thus, for example, 'Orwell (1945: 23) reduces the principles of animalism to seven commandments, namely, ...' is preferred to 'Orwell reduced the principles of animalism to seven commandments, namely, ... (Orwell 1945: 23)'.
- Multiple citations within parentheses should be divided by a comma, not a semi-colon, and there should be no use of '&' within such multiple references. References to works published in the same year should be cited as, e.g. (Smith 1991a, b).
- Multiple citations within a text should be ordered by date, not alphabetically by authors name, e.g. (Smith 1902, Jones and Bower 1934, Brown 1955, 1958a, b, Green 1995).
- 'et al.' may be used in references within the text when a paper or book has three or more authors, but note that all names should be given in the reference itself.
- Page spans in references should be given in full, e.g. 'Sedgewick (1935: 102-103; emphasis added) outlines them as follows:'.
7. Acknowledgements
Any acknowledgements authors wish to make should be included in a separate headed section at the end of the manuscript.
8. References
Connection Science uses the following conventions for references. Please note that many journal references will often be hyperlinked in the on line edition of the Journal to an abstract; hence accuracy of bibliographic data is essential.
8.1. Reference to a book:
Vgotsky, L.S., 1978, Mind in Society (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press).
8.2. Reference to a chapter in a book:
Arnold., L. and Crauel, H., 1990, Iterated function systems and multiplactive ergodic theory. In Stochastic Flows, edited by M. Pinsky and V. Wihsturtz (Basel: Birkhauser), pp. 284-305.
8.3. Reference to an article in a journal:
Nolfi, S., and Tani, J., 1999, Extracting regularities in space and time through a cascade of prediction networks. Connection Science, 11, 125-148.
8.4. Reference to a Report
Eldhuset, K. W., 1995, Fast phase preserving processing of spaceborne SAR data. FFI/RAPPORT-95/00644, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway.
8.5. Reference to a paper published in a conference proceedings
Wilson, A.K., 1988, Calibration of thermal data. NERC Airborne Campaign Workshop, 24 February 1988 (Swindon: NERC), pp. 219-231.
8.6. Reference to an Internet source
Give the universal resource locator in full:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/t-authors/cosauth.html
Please note this will be hyperlinked in the on line edition of the Journal.
8.7. Reference to a case in law
In text, italicize names of plaintiffs and defendants:
Miranda v. Arizona 1974
8.8. Reference to government legislation
US Congress, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 1956, The Mutual Security Act of 1956, 84th Congress, second session, report 2273.
9. A Guide to Electronic Processing of Accepted Papers
Early Electronic Offprints: Corresponding authors can now receive their article by e-mail as a complete PDF. This allows the author to print up to 50 copies, free of charge, and disseminate them to colleagues. In many cases this facility will be available up to two weeks prior to publication. Or, alternatively, corresponding authors will receive the traditional 50 offprints. A copy of the journal will be sent by post to all corresponding authors after publication. Additional copies of the journal can be purchased at the author's preferential rate of £15.00 per copy.
It is essential that authors provide the final, revised version of an accepted manuscript in hard (paper) and electronic forms.
Normally we receive and process electronic versions on disk, but if you would like to employ our file transfer protocol (FTP) facility, please contact Taylor & Francis Ltd at the address or email given below.
This Guide sets out the procedures which will assure we can process your article efficiently. It is divided into three sections:
- a guide for authors using standard word-processing software packages
- a guide for authors using LaTeX mathematical software packages
- a guide for authors using graphics software packages
There are some general rules which apply to all three options.
- these guides do not apply to authors who are submitting an article for consideration and peer review; they apply only to authors whose articles have been reviewed, revised, and accepted for publication
- print out your hard (paper) copy from the disk you are sending; it is essential that the hard-copy printout is identical to the material on the disk; where versions differ, the hard copy will take precedence. We advise that you maintain back-ups of your files
- save and send your files on a standard 3.5 inch high density disk (Mac or PC); please do not attempt to send the article via file transfer protocol or email
- when saving your article onto a disk, please make sure that the files do not exceed a manageable size. Please ensure that figures are saved on a separate disk
- ensure that the files are not saved as read only
- virus-check your disk before sending it to the Editor
- label your disk
- package disks in such a way as to avoid damage in the post
Disks are not returnable after publication
9.1. A guide for authors using standard word-processing software packages
For the main text of your article, most standard PC or Mac word-processing software packages are acceptable, although we prefer Microsoft Word in a PC format.
Word-processed files should be prepared according to the journal style.
Avoid the use of embedded footnotes. For numbered tables, use the table function provided with the word-processing package.
All text should be saved in one file with the complete text (including the title page, abstract, all sections of the body of the paper, references), followed by numbered tables and the figure captions.
You should send the following to the Editor:
- a 3.5-inch disk containing the final, accepted version of the paper
- include an ASCII/text only version on the disk as well as the word processed version if possible
- two hard copy printouts
Disks should be clearly labelled with the following information:
- Journal title
- Name of author
- File names contained on disk
- Hardware used (PC or Mac)
- Software used (name and version)
Sample disk label: text
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9. 2. A guide for authors using LaTeX mathematical software packages
Authors who wish to prepare their articles using the LaTeX document preparation system are advised to use article.sty (for LaTex 2.09) or article.cls (for LaTex2e).
The use of macros should be kept to an absolute minimum but if any are used they should be gathered together in the file, just before the \begin{document} command
You should send the following to the Editor:
- a 3.5-inch disk containing the final, accepted version of the paper
- the files you send must be text-only (often called an ASCII file), with no system-dependent control codes
- two hard copy printouts
Disks should be clearly labelled with the following information:
- Journal title
- Name of author
- File names contained on disk
- Hardware used (PC or Mac)
- Software used (name and version)
Sample disk label: LaTeX
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9.3. A guide for authors using graphics software packages
We welcome figures on disk, but care and attention to these guidelines is essential, as importing graphics packages can often be problematic.
- Figures must be saved on a separate disk from the text.
- Avoid the use of colour and tints for aesthetic reasons. Figures should be produced as near to the finished size as possible.
- High quality reproducible hard copy for all line figures (printed out from your electronic files at a minimum of 600 dpi) must be supplied in case the disks are unusable; photographs and transparencies can be accepted as hard copy only. Photocopies will not be accepted.
- All figures must be numbered in the order in which they occur (e.g. figure 1, figure 2 etc.). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. figure 1 (a), figure 1 (b) etc.)
- The figure captions must be saved as a separate file with the text and numbered correspondingly.
- The filename for the graphic should be descriptive of the graphic e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
- Files should be saved as TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), containing all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g., CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
Disks should be clearly labelled with the following information:
- Journal title
- Name of author
- Figures contained on disk
- Hardware used (PC or Mac)
- Software used (name and version)
Sample disk label: figures
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9.4. File transfer protocol
If you would like to deposit the final version of your manuscript via FTP, please contact the Editorial Production Manager for Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN; Tel. +44 (0)1235 828000 for a guide to access and use, or email elizabeth.jefferis@tandf.co.uk
10. About Taylor & Francis
The foundations of Taylor & Francis were laid in pioneering fashion in 1798. Richard Taylor printed and launched the Philosophical Magazine, one of the first scientific journals published by an independent company.
It was the start of a close collaboration with scholarly societies which was cultivated throughout the 1880s. The company became the printer for the Royal Astronomical Society, the Geological Society, the Zoological Society, the Horticultural Society, the Royal Botanical Society, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society and the Linnean Society of London. With the proliferation of periodicals and information generated by learned societies at the turn of the century, Taylor & Francis also became pioneers in the field of abstracting journals, and in 1890 the company became the first printer of Science Abstracts the precursor of today's Physics Abstracts.
Book publishing was a mostly secondary concern for the company until the 1960s, when significant expansion was implemented at all levels from schoolbooks to high level monographs. Since then the focus of book publishing has been predominantly at the undergraduate level and above, with an ever larger number of subject areas brought into the programme.
The principles which drove the founders of Taylor and Francis are still paramount today. Academic scholarship must be of the highest quality which will be reflected in appropriate production practices and values. We hope that we remain true to those principles and that being a Taylor & Francis author is still a pleasant, profitable and proud experience.
Contacting Taylor & Francis:
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Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Professor Noel E. Sharkey - Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
Editors:
Dr Amanda J.C Sharkey - University of Sheffield, UK
Professor Tom Ziemke - University of Skövde, Sweden
Associate Editors:
Andy Clark - (Philosophy and connectionism), University of Indiana, USA
Professor Garrison W. Cottrell - (Connectionist natural language processing), University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA
Niall Griffith - (The Arts), University of Limerick, Ireland
Ronan Reilly - (Connectionist psychological modelling), University College, Dublin, Ireland
Stefan Wermter - (Hybrid systems for AI), University of Sunderland, UK
Book Reviews Editor:
Dr Tony J Prescott - University of Sheffield, UK
Editorial Advisory Board:
Igor Aleksander - Imperial College, London, UK
Luis B. de Almeida - University of Lisbon, Portugal
James A. Anderson - Brown University, Providence RI, USA
Gordon H. Bower - Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Joachim Diederich - Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Georg Dorffner - University of Vienna, Austria
Michael Dyer - UCLA, Los Angeles CA, USA
Rolf Eckmiller - University of Bonn, Germany
Jeff Elman - University of California, San Diego CA, USA
Dario Floreano - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Stevan Harnad - University of Southampton, UK
James A. Hendler - University of Maryland, USA
Professor Philip Husbands - University of Sussex, UK
Teuvo Kohonen - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
George Lakoff - University of California at Berkeley CA, USA
Christoph von der Malsburg - Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
Ulrich Nehmzow - University of Essex, UK
Stefano Nolfi - University of Rome, Italy
Lars Niklasson - University of Skövde, Sweden
Rolf Pfeiffer - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Jordan Pollack - Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
Tony Sanford - University of Glasgow, UK
Paul Smolensky - Johns Hopkins University MD, USA
Luc Steels - Free University of Brussels, Brussels
Ron Sun - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Carme Torras - Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
David Willshaw - University of Edinburgh, UK
Professor Xin Yao - University of Birmingham, UK
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