Journal Guide

Publish original scientific articles, technical articles and bibliographic reviews, to contribute significantly to advance of knowledge on agricultural engineering.

The publication of original technical and scientific contributions to do with areas of sanitation and environment as well as their interfaces.

This journal is specifically dedicated to the dissemination of the latest developments of new engineering analysis techniques using boundary elements and other mesh reduction methods.Boundary element (BEM) and mesh reduction methods (MRM) are very active areas of research with the techniques being applied to solve increasingly complex problems. The journal stresses the importance of these applications as well as their computational aspects, reliability and robustness.The main criteria for publication will be the originality of the work being reported, its potential usefulness and applications of the methods to new fields.In addition to regular issues, the journal publishes a series of special issues dealing with specific areas of current research.The journal has, for many years, provided a channel of communication between academics and industrial researchers working in mesh reduction methodsFields Covered:• Boundary Element Methods (BEM)• Mesh Reduction Methods (MRM)• Meshless Methods• Integral Equations• Applications of BEM/MRM in Engineering• Numerical Methods related to BEM/MRM• Computational Techniques• Combination of Different Methods• Advanced FormulationsRelated Conferences:Conferences with links to websites, are listed under Related websites.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are now being used by the practicing engineer to solve a whole range of hitherto intractable problems. This journal provides an international forum for rapid publication of work describing the practical application of AI methods in all branches of engineering.Focal points of the journal include, but are not limited to innovative applications of:• Real-time intelligent automation, and their associated supporting methodologies and techniques, including control theory and industrial informatics,• Architectures, algorithms and techniques for distributed AI systems, including multi-agent based control and holonic control,• Decision-support systems,• Aspects of reasoning: abductive, case-based, model-based, non-monotonic, incomplete, progressive and approximate reasoning,• Applications of chaos theory and fractals,• Metaheuristics and their applications in intelligent automation: Genetic Algorithms, Ant Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization, etc.,• Knowledge processing, knowledge elicitation and acquisition, knowledge representation, knowledge compaction, knowledge bases, expert systems,• Neural networks, fuzzy systems, neuro-fuzzy systems,• Perception, e.g. image processing, pattern recognition, vision systems, tactile systems, speech recognition and synthesis,• Aspects of software engineering, e.g. intelligent programming environments, verification and validation of AI-based software, software and hardware architectures for the real-time use of AI techniques, safety and reliability,• Intelligent fault detection, fault analysis, diagnostics and monitoring,• Self-organizing, emerging or bio-inspired system,• Industrial experiences in the application of the above techniques, e.g. case studies or benchmarking exercises.Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence publishes:• Survey papers/tutorials.• Contributed papers — detailed expositions of new research or applications.• Case studies or software reviews — evaluative and descriptive reviews of existing available AI software systems, discussing the experience gained and lessons learnt from using or developing AI systems for engineering applications.• IFAC EAAI Forum — problems arising from engineering practice, needing to be solved by somebody; solutions to problems discussed in this forum or elsewhere; critiques of a position or claim found in the literature.For more details on the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), visit their home page at http://www.ifac-control.org