International Journal of Expert Systems

AIMS AND SCOPE
The International Journal of Expert Systems: Research and Applications is an archival journal. The journal seeks high quality original research papers providing clearly formulated theoretical results, descriptions of novel approaches, or empirical studies relating to issues of importance to the knowledge-based systems research community. We are interested in papers describing knowledge-based approaches to the construction of intelligent artifacts, that is, expert systems in the broad sense of the term. A system is knowledge-based when its behavior depends largely on information encoded in it or to which it has access, and is an expert system when this knowledge is considered expertise in a human. We encourage the submission of papers dealing with knowledge-based systems in general and expert systems in particular. We strive to strike a useful balance between theory and practice. The journal will not publish 'Look-Ma-no-hands' papers which simply report the existence of yet another expert system. Application papers should address some theoretical or practical issue in the design and construction of knowledge-based systems.