Organization and Governance
The Artificial Intelligence Division (AIJD)
The editorial process of the Artificial Intelligence Journal is performed by the Artificial Intelligence Journal Division, AIJD, under a contract with Elsevier B.V, the company that publishes the Journal. It is in charge of the acquisition, reception, selection, and evaluation of contributions to the AIJ, and supplies accepted contributions to Elsevier for publication.
In formal terms, AIJD is one of the two divisions of IJCAI, the other division being IJCAI’s Conference division, in charge of the organization of the annual IJCAI conference. The inclusion of AIJ activities as a division within IJCAI occurred in 2002.
AIJD has the following committees and officers:
Editors-in-Chief who oversee the editorial activities of the journal
Sylvie Thiébaux, The Australian National University, Australia, and University of Toulouse, France
Michael Wooldridge, University of Oxford, UK
Review Editors who are in charge of the acquisition and evaluation of survey articles as well as book reviews, position papers, and similar publications
Sven Koenig, University of California, Irvine, USA
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Georgia Tech, USA
Competition Section Editor who is in charge of the acquisition and evaluation of competition summary articles
Meir Kalech, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
The Associate Editors and Editorial Board Reviewers who assist the editors-in-chief in the reviewing process..
The full editorial board can be found at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence/editorial-board/.
Secretariat
The AIJD Secretariat is since 1st of August 2020 staffed by Karin Baardsen. She can be reached by email on aij.office@gmail.com.
The Steering Committee which is in charge of major organizational decisions, including those of a financial character.
Rina Dechter, University of California at Irvine, USA
Kristian Kersting, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Nicholas Mattei, Tulane University, USA
Sylvie Thiébaux, The Australian National University, Australia, and University of Toulouse, France
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China
Michael Wooldridge, University of Oxford, UK
The Sponsorship Committee which is in charge of the acquisition and evaluation of sponsorship requests
Bo An, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey
William Yeoh, Washington University in St Louis, USA
Nevin L. Zhang (chair), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
The Awards Committee which is in charge of selecting the winners of the AIJ Classical and Prominent Paper Awards
Blai Bonet, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
Xuanjing Huang (chair), Fudan University, China.
James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Peter Stuckey, Monash University, Australia
Francesca Toni, Imperial College London, UK
The responsibilities and powers of these committees and persons are defined in bylaws that can be obtained from the Secretariat.