Expert Systems With Applications is a refereed international journal whose focus is on exchanging information relating to expert and intelligent systems applied in industry, government, and universities worldwide. The thrust of the journal is to publish original papers dealing with the design, development, testing, implementation, and/or management of expert and intelligent systems, and also to provide practical guidelines in the development and management of these systems. The journal will publish papers in expert and intelligent systems technology and application in the areas of, but not limited to: finance, accounting, engineering, marketing, auditing, law, procurement and contracting, project management, risk assessment, information management, information retrieval, crisis management, stock trading, strategic management, network management, telecommunications, space education, intelligent front ends, intelligent database management systems, medicine, chemistry, human resources management, human capital, business, production management, archaeology, economics and energy. Papers in multi-agent systems, knowledge management, neural networks, knowledge discovery, data and text mining, multimedia mining, and genetic algorithms will also be published in the journal. The journal no longer considers papers that contain applications to military/defense systems.

Papers detailing algorithms which repurpose existing concepts within the framework of metaphors inspired by various systems and processes, such as natural, technical, or social ones are discouraged as this can hinder effective algorithm comparisons and scientific advancement. Submissions from this field are required to convincingly demonstrate their contribution to the field in order to be considered for further evaluation. Authors are urged to present their methods with clarity, employing standard optimization terminology, and to provide compelling explanations for how their components are adapted to specific problem-solving contexts. The emphasis is on genuine innovation rather than the renaming of existing concepts.

Natural metaphor articles - new nature-inspired proposals detailed in papers must provide formal, mathematically grounded explanations for how they differ from established methods and the use of metaphors as superficial embellishments is discouraged.

Reproducibility Badge Initiative and Software Publication

Reproducibility Badge Initiative (RBI) is a collaboration with Code Ocean (CO), a cloud based computational reproducibility platform that helps the community by enabling sharing of code and data as a resource for non-commercial use. CO verifies the submitted code (and data) and certifies its reproducibility. Code submission will be verified by the Code Ocean team for computational reproducibility by making sure it runs, delivers results and it is self-contained. For more information please visit this help article. Note that an accepted paper will be published independently of the CO application outcome. However, if the paper receives the Reproducibility badge, it will be given additional exposure by having an attached R Badge, and by being citable at the CO website with a DOI.

We invite you to convert your open source software into an additional journal publication in Software Impacts, a multi-disciplinary open access journal. Software Impacts provides a scholarly reference to software that has been used to address a research challenge. The journal disseminates impactful and re-usable scientific software through Original Software Publications which describe the application of the software to research and the published outputs.

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Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Binshan Lin
Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
Founding Editor
Dr. Jay Liebowitz
University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Maryland, United States
Editorial Advisory Board
Dr. Pornthep Anussornnitisarn
Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. Dianne Berry
University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Dr. Bernt Bremdal
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Dr. Francisco Javier Cantu
Technological and Higher Education Institute of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Dr. Sumali Conlon
University of Mississippi, University Park, Mississippi, United States
Dr. Kimiz Dalkir
McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Dr. Reggie Davidrajuh
University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
Dr. Randall Davis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Edward Feigenbaum
Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
Dr. Roar Fjellheim
Computas AS, Oslo, Norway
Dr. Mark Fox
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Olli-Pekka Hilmola
LUT Kouvola Unit, KOUVOLA, Finland
Dr. Jae Kyu Lee
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology College of Business, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Dr. Dusan Lesjak
International School for Social and Business Studies, Celje, Slovenia
Dr. Chinho Lin
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Dr. Peter Love
Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Dr. Ana Gabriela Maguitman
National University of the South, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Dr. Shawn Mankad
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States
Dr. Vladimir Milacic
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Yalda Mohsenzadeh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Arcot Desai Narasimhalu
Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore
Dr. Daniel O'Leary
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States
Dr. Keng-Boon Ooi
UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr. Joanna Paliszkiewicz
Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
Dr. Zbigniew Pastuszak
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Dr. Cezar Scarlat
Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
Dr. Randall Shumaker
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States
Dr. James Slagle
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Dr. Ching Y. Suen
Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Dr. Jie Tang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Dr. Efraim Turban
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Dr. Ismail Burhan Turksen
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Jan Vanthienen
KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Dr. Shouhong Wang
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Mark Zielinski
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States