COMPLEXITY INTERNATIONAL

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COMPLEXITY INTERNATIONAL
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                       COMPLEXITY INTERNATIONAL 
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http://www.complexity.org.au/
(Link active 23 April 2004)

              A Hypermedia Journal of Complex Systems Research
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                   Introduction and Call for Papers
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Papers of original, previously unpublished work in the field of complex 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 ofcomplex systems research.  Being accessible 
through Internet, Complexity International has several advantages 
over existing paper journals: 

 o for authors it provides rapid publication, and instant world-wide 
   distribution of their work; 
 o subscription is free to anyone with access to the Internet; 
 o all papers will be available on-line in hypermedia format (via World 
   Wide Web), allowing rapid browsing and thematic searching.  
 o 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
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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
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Several types of article are acceptable.  See the Instructions for Authors 
for further details.  

 o Original Papers    (max.    5000 words); 
 o Reviews            (max.  10,000 words); 
 o News and Ideas     (max.    3000 words); 
 o Algorithms; 
 o 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 beassessed 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
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Executive Editor: Terry Bossomaier (Australian National University, Canberra)
Co-editor       : David Green      (Australian National University, Canberra)
 
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
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 o Ah Chung Tsoi (University of Queensland) 
 o Roger Bradbury (National Resource Information Centre, Canberra) 
 o Richard Brent (Australian National University, Canberra) 
 o Terry Caelli (University of Melbourne) 
 o Kit Dampney (Macquarie University) 
 o Geoffrey Fox (University of Syracuse) 
 o Walter Freeman (University of California, Berkeley) 
 o Paulien Hogeweg (University of Utrecht) 
 o Doug Seeley (University of Adelaide) 

ACCEPTANCE AND PUBLICATION PROCEDURE
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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, Complexity International will publish one volume per year, 
but the frequency of issues 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
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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
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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
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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 ...  

 o UNIX/X11 systems 
    o Xmosaic (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) 
    o tkWWW (export.lcs.mit.edu) - includes WYSIWYG HTML editor 
    o Viola (info.cern.ch) 
 o DOS Windows 
    o Cello (fatty.law.cornell.edu) 
    o WinMosaic (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) - not yet available 
 o Macintosh 
    o MacMosaic (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) - alpha release 
    o 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 

          ci-submissions@life.anu.edu.au

   Editorial correspondance 

          ci-editor@life.anu.edu.au

   Subscription ...  

          ci-subscribe@life.anu.edu.au

   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://www.csu.edu.au/ci/ci.html
(Link inactive 23 April 2004)

For information about the above services contact david.green@anu.edu.au 
See also the following documents ...  

 o Complexity International - Contents 
 o Complexity International - Guide for Authors 
 o Complex Systems Hypermedia Information 

 o ANU Bioinformatics Hypermedia Service 



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