The International Journal of Intelligent Real-Time Automation
A journal of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control



Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing a major role in the fourth industrial revolution and we are seeing a lot of evolution in various machine learning methodologies. AI techniques are widely 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. Submitted papers should report some novel aspects of AI used for a real world engineering application and also validated using some public data sets for easy replicability of the research results.

Papers which do not respect the 4 following conditions will be desk-rejected without being sent to reviewers:

• Papers on new metaphor-based metaheuristics are very rarely accepted by EAAI (see details on this in the guide online).
• The abstract should clearly specify which is the contribution in AI and which is the application in engineering.
• The use of undefined acronyms in the title and in the abstract is forbidden.
• The papers must be formatted in single-column format.

Focal points of the journal include, but are not limited to innovative applications of:
Internet–of–things and cyber-physical systems
Intelligent transportation systems & smart vehicles
Big data analytics, understanding complex networks
Neural networks, fuzzy systems, neuro-fuzzy systems
Deep learning and real world applications
Self-organizing, emerging or bio-inspired system
Global optimization, Meta-heuristics and their applications: Evolutionary Algorithms, swarm intelligence, nature and biologically inspired meta-heuristics, etc.
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
Real-time intelligent automation, and their associated supporting methodologies and techniques, including control theory and industrial informatics
Knowledge processing, knowledge elicitation and acquisition, knowledge representation, knowledge compaction, knowledge bases, expert 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
Industrial experiences in the application of the above techniques, e.g. case studies or benchmarking exercises
Robotics


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


The Editors of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence wish to inform authors that this journal will not publish papers that propose "novel" metaphor-based metaheuristics, unless the authors:
present their method using the normal, standard optimization terminology;
show that the new method brings useful and novel concepts to the field;
motivate the use of the metaphor on a sound, scientific basis;
present a fair comparison with other state-of-the-art methods using state-of-the-art practices for benchmarking algorithms.


For more details on the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), visit their home page at http://www.ifac-control.org

Software publication

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.

For more information contact us at: software.impacts@elsevier.com

Survey papers/tutorials
Contributed papers
Brief papers
Case studies or software reviews
IFAC EAAI Forum 

Editor-in-Chief
Professor Ajith Abraham
Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence, Auburn, Alabama, , United States Email Professor Ajith Abraham
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Professor Patrick Siarry
University Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, 61 Av. du General de Gaulle, 94010, Creteil, France Email Professor Patrick Siarry
Emeritus Editor
Professor Leo Mõtus
Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
Professor Rob A. Vingerhoeds
Graduate School of Aeronautics and Space Science, Toulouse, France
Board of Editors
Dr. Maysam Abbod
Brunel University College of Engineering Design and Physical Sciences, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
Dr. Sašo Blažič
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Professor Christian Blum
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Bellaterra, Spain
Dr. Lucian Busoniu
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Dr. Jian Cao
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Professor Oscar Castillo
Technological Institute of Tijuana Division of Graduate Studies and Research, Tijuana, Mexico
Professor Christine Chan
University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Dr. Amitava Chatterjee
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Assist. Prof. Francisco Chicano
University of Málaga, Malaga, Spain
Mr. Raymond Chiong
The University of Newcastle Faculty of Science, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Professor Swagatam Das
Indian Statistical Institute Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Kolkata, India
Dr. Leandro Dos Santos Coelho
Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, CURITIBA, Brazil
Dr. Andries Engelbrecht
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Dr. Cèsar Ferri-Ramírez
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Professor Giancarlo Fortino
University of Calabria Department of Computer Engineering Modelling Electronics and Systems, Rende, Italy
Dr. Kevin Guelton
Reims Champagne-Ardenne University, Reims, France
Professor Inan Güler
Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
Professor Thomas Hanne
Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Inst. für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Brugg, Switzerland
Professor Enrique Herrera-Viedma
University of Granada Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Granada, Spain
Dr. Tzung-Pei Hong
National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Dr. Hesam Izakian
Alberta Motor Association, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Professor Tabitha James
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Professor Dong-Sheng Jeng, PhD
Griffith University School of Engineering and Built Environment, Southport, Queensland, Australia
Dr. Arturas Kaklauskas
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Professor Juš Kocijan
Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Professor Peter Kopacek
TU Wien University, Wien, Austria
Dr. Zsofia Lendek
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Dr. Sean McLoone
Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
Dr. Ghita Mezzour
International University of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco
Professor Pranab Muhuri
South Asian University, New Delhi, India
Dr. Yong Ping Pan
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Dr. Mili Pant
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India
Dr. Sheela Ramanna
University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Dr. Beibei Ren
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, Lubbock, Texas, United States
Dr. Matilde Santos
Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle
National Institute of Optical Astrophysics and Electronics, Puebla, Mexico
Professor Damien Trentesaux
Polytechnic University Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes, France
Dr. Elif Derya Ubeyli
TOBB Economics and Technology University, Ankara, Turkey
Professor Sebastian Ventura
University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
Dr. Mao Ye
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Dr. Hong Yue
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Professor Mengjie Zhang
Victoria University of Wellington School of Engineering and Computer Science, Wellington, New Zealand
Industrial Board Members
Dr. Nabil Belgasmi
Banque de Tunisie, Tunis, Tunisia
Dr. Alécio P. D. Binotto
IBM Research Brazil, RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
Dr. Pietari Pulkkinen
Amazon.com Inc, Seattle, Washington, United States