Journal Guide

Information Processing & Management is devoted to refereed reporting of:1. Basic and applied research in information science, computer science, cognitive science and related areas that deals with: the generation, representation, organization, storage, retrieval, and use of information; the nature, manifestations, behavior, and effects of information and knowledge; communication and distribution of information and knowledge; and human information behavior.2. Experimental and advanced processes, related to: information retrieval (IR); digital libraries; knowledge organization and distribution; digitized contents - text, image, sound and multimedia processing; and human-computer interfaces in information systems. Implementations in information retrieval systems and a variety of information systems, networks, and contexts. Related evaluation.3. Management of information resources, services, systems and networks, and digital libraries. Related studies of the economics of information and the principles of information management.The aim is to provide an international forum for advanced works and critical analysis in these interdependent and interdisciplinary areas. Invited are original papers and critical reviews of trends reporting on:• Progress in the theory, principles, and procedures in information processing, particularly involving information retrieval; search engines; knowledge and distributed intelligence; information representation, classification, extraction, filtering and summarization; question answering; information navigation, browsing and visualization; and human-computer interaction in information systems.• Research on the formal characteristics and properties of information and knowledge and the associated processes of communication among humans and between humans and machines. Includes studies of human information needs, seeking, searching, and use; and bibliometric and infometric studies of the structural and statistical properties of information artifacts. • Modeling and evaluation of information systems performance, particularly of information retrieval systems, knowledge systems, and digital libraries. Studies of their effectiveness, efficiency, value, or impact.• Studies in management and economics of information and information systems. Use of information for decision making and problem solving.• Studies in information policies. Data and issues relevant to information policies on organizational, national, and international levels. Derivation and use of information indicators.In 2002, Elsevier launched Library Connect, a new initiative bringing together many of Elsevier's library-focused efforts. For more information about this initiative and to read or subscribe to the complimentary Library Connect Newsletter, please visit Library Connect

Information Sciences will publish original, innovative and creative research results. A smaller number of timely tutorial and surveying contributions will be published from time to time.The journal is designed to serve researchers, developers, managers, strategic planners, graduate students and others interested in state-of-the art research activities in information, knowledge engineering and intelligent systems. Readers are assumed to have a common interest in information science, but with diverse backgrounds in fields such as engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, cell biology, molecular biology, management science, cognitive science, neurobiology, behavioural sciences and biochemistry.The journal publishes high-quality, refereed articles. It emphasizes a balanced coverage of both theory and practice. It fully acknowledges and vividly promotes a breadth of the discipline of Informations Sciences.Topics include:Foundations of Information Science:Information Theory, Mathematical Linguistics, Automata Theory, Cognitive Science, Theories of Qualitative Behaviour, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing, Semiotics, Computational Biology and Bio-informatics.Implementations and Information Technology:Intelligent Systems, Genetic Algorithms and Modelling, Fuzzy Logic and Approximate Reasoning, Artificial Neural Networks, Expert and Decision Support Systems, Learning and Evolutionary Computing, Expert and Decision Support Systems, Learning and Evolutionary Computing, Biometrics, Moleculoid Nanocomputing, Self-adaptation and Self-organisational Systems, Data Engineering, Data Fusion, Information and Knowledge, Adaptive ad Supervisory Control, Discrete Event Systems, Symbolic / Numeric and Statistical Techniques, Perceptions and Pattern Recognition, Design of Algorithms, Software Design, Computer Systems and Architecture Evaluations and Tools, Human-Computer Interface, Computer Communication Networks and Modelling and Computing with WordsApplications:Manufacturing, Automation and Mobile Robots, Virtual Reality, Image Processing and Computer Vision Systems, Photonics Networks, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Brain Mapping, Language and Search Engine Design, User-friendly Man Machine Interface, Data Compression and Text Abstraction and Summarization, Virtual Reality, Finance and Economics Modelling and Optimisation

Information Security Technical Report is a quarterly technical report, focused on a specific topic. It is aimed at senior information security managers, who need to gain a better understanding of current information security issues and solutions, and provides 'off-the shelf' consultancy from professional researchers and practitioners. The main objective of the report is to provide a balanced, impartial, up to date, and authoritative view of specific topics within the information security arena. The report is a joint venture between Elsevier and the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London.Using our links with the top names in information security, Information Security Technical Report brings you guidance and solutions from internationally renowned IT security professionals and consultants. Because we already know the experts in the field we make sure each issue contains their input and advice through a series of commissioned articles offering a different technical perspective on a particular topic.Published quarterly as a series of technical reports, each issue provides an in-depth look at a specific, often newly emerging security problem. Because an entire issue is dedicated to one topic, you can be sure of receiving the kind of depth and technical detail you won't get elsewhere in printed format.Forthcoming issues of the report will cover:• Unix Security• Critical Infrastructure Protection• OO Security• Authentication Developments• Smart Cards• Transaction Security• Mobile Security• Biometrics.

Fundada el año 1948 en el Instituto Técnico de la Construcción y del Cemento, Informes de la Construcción es una publicación científica con periodicidad trimestral. Trata temas de arquitectura, ingeniería, obras públicas, medio ambiente, instalaciones, rehabilitación, sistemas constructivos, técnicas de ensayos, resultados de investigaciones de componentes y sistemas de la edificación, etc. La revista va dirigida a arquitectos, ingenieros, empresas constructoras, investigadores y profesionales relacionados con la construcción de edificios y obras civiles.

The Ingeniería e Investigación journal has been in existence for about 25 years. It represents a means for broadcasting teachers, scientists and technicians' work carried out in the engineering sector. It publishes articles about scientific research, original and unedited technological development in different disciplines related to engineering and applied science, as well as review articles and updates, technical translations and other work contributing towards the development of engineering.Its abbreviated title is Ing. Investig., and it should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographic strips. .