Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications

About Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications — a Book and Proceedings Series, Not a Journal

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (commonly shortened to FAIA) is a numbered book series published by IOS Press, with print ISSN 0922-6389 and electronic ISSN 1879-8314 — the two ISSNs carried on this Journals World record. That identity matters more than any other fact on this page. FAIA is not a conventional periodical journal with issues, article processing charges and a manuscript submission portal. It is a long-running series of individually titled, individually edited volumes — monographs, selected doctoral dissertations, handbooks and conference proceedings — each published as a book under the continuing series title. IOS Press states this directly on its official series page, and any profile that presents FAIA as an ordinary journal would mislead authors about how to publish in it, how it is reviewed, how it is indexed and how its citation record should be read. This profile therefore describes the series honestly, in its own terms.

IOS Press describes FAIA as covering “all aspects of theoretical and applied Artificial Intelligence research” in the volume forms named above. The series contains named sub-series, including Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases and Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems. It also carries the biennial proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI, and other publications sponsored by EurAI, the European Association for Artificial Intelligence, formerly known as ECCAI. IOS Press states that volumes are selected for inclusion by an international editorial board of well-known scholars in the field of artificial intelligence, and that all contributions to the volumes in the series have been peer reviewed. Those two sentences — selection by a series editorial board, and peer review of contributions within each volume — are the correct quality signals for this record, not a journal impact factor.

At a Glance

Why the Distinction Between a Series and a Journal Matters

A reader who searches for this title usually arrives with one of three questions. A doctoral researcher may have been told that a chapter in an FAIA proceedings volume “counts” for a degree or a project report, and wants to know whether the volume is genuinely peer reviewed and indexed. A conference organiser may be considering FAIA as the proceedings outlet for a workshop or conference, and wants to know what the series has published before. Or an author with a dissertation or a monograph manuscript may be wondering whether FAIA is a possible home for a book-length work. Each of those is a sensible question about a book series. None of them is answered by treating FAIA as though it were a monthly journal.

The practical differences are substantial. A journal receives individual manuscripts continuously, sends them through its own editorial office, and publishes accepted articles in issues under one title. A book series such as FAIA receives proposals for whole volumes. A proceedings volume normally begins with a conference or workshop: the event's own programme committee reviews the papers, the volume editors assemble and edit the collection, and the series board and publisher decide whether the volume belongs in the series. A monograph or dissertation volume begins with a book proposal rather than a journal submission system. Citation practice differs too: scholars cite the individual volume and chapter, with the series name and volume number forming part of the book's bibliographic identity. Library cataloguing differs as well, because each volume carries its own book-level identifiers in addition to the continuing series ISSNs shown in the table above.

This is also why several familiar journal questions have no meaningful answer here. There is no single acceptance rate for FAIA, because acceptance operates at two different levels — the review of contributions inside a proposed volume, and the series-level decision to include the volume at all — and IOS Press does not publish a combined rate for them. There is no single time to first decision, because a workshop paper, a dissertation and a handbook move on completely different timetables. And there is no journal impact factor to quote: the influence of the series is visible instead in the standing of the conferences whose proceedings it carries, the libraries and indexes that hold its volumes, and the citation records of individual volumes and chapters.

Scope: Artificial Intelligence in Book-Length and Proceedings Form

The publisher's scope statement is deliberately broad: all aspects of theoretical and applied artificial intelligence research. The volumes themselves show what that breadth means in practice. Across the series, FAIA volumes have addressed knowledge representation and formal ontology, information modelling and knowledge bases, legal knowledge and information systems, software methodologies and intelligent software tools, data mining and its applications in business and finance, collaborative decision making, computing and philosophy, multi-agent and intelligent systems, and the proceedings of major European artificial intelligence gatherings. The ECAI proceedings volumes alone give the series a recurring presence at the centre of European AI research, because ECAI is the flagship conference of the European artificial intelligence community, held every two years.

The sub-series structure deserves attention because it shapes what the series publishes. Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases reflects a long-running research community concerned with how information and knowledge are structured, modelled and used in systems. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems reflects the applied, engineering-facing side of the field. Around those continuing strands sit one-off monographs, dissertations selected for book publication, handbooks that consolidate a topic, and the proceedings of conferences and workshops whose themes range across the whole discipline. A prospective volume editor should therefore not ask whether a topic is “in scope” in the narrow journal sense; almost any serious artificial intelligence topic can be. The better question is whether the proposed volume is a coherent, peer-reviewed collection or work of book quality that an international series board would judge a lasting addition to the literature.

That breadth also explains the series' longevity and size. Front matter reproduced from published volumes shows the numbering well into the hundreds: volume 157 was current in the mid-2000s, volume 183 followed shortly afterwards, volume 277 appears in later publisher listings, volume 325 was associated with the ECAI 2020 period, and volume 339 — a proceedings volume on novelties in intelligent digital systems — appeared in 2021, alongside volume 338 from the long-running SoMeT conference strand on intelligent software methodologies. Those waypoints, taken from the volumes themselves, show a series adding many volumes a year rather than a handful of issues. Readers should verify the current highest volume number on the IOS Press catalogue before citing it, because the count grows continuously and any figure printed here would date quickly.

Series Editors and Editorial Selection

FAIA is overseen by a panel of series editors drawn from the international artificial intelligence community. The series editor list printed in a recent volume's front matter names Joost Breuker, Nicola Guarino, Pascal Hitzler, Joost N. Kok, Jiming Liu, Ramon López de Mántaras, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Mark Musen, Sankar K. Pal and Ning Zhong. Earlier volumes list a closely related panel, with some names varying over time as panels are refreshed — for example, earlier front matter also includes Rosemarie Dieng-Kuntz. Readers who need the panel as it stands today should check the current IOS Press series page or the front matter of the most recent volume available to them, rather than relying on a list reproduced in a secondary profile.

The names themselves signal the series' intellectual territory. The panel spans knowledge engineering, formal ontology, the semantic web, machine learning, intelligent systems and the philosophy and foundations of the field, across institutions in Europe, Asia and North America. For a proceedings organiser, that panel is the audience for a volume proposal: the case to make is that the event's peer review was rigorous, its community is real, and its papers add up to a volume worth shelving beside the series' earlier titles. For a monograph author, the case is that the work is original, book-length research of international interest, not a lightly extended journal article. IOS Press's statement that all contributions to FAIA volumes have been peer reviewed should be read alongside this structure: review happens within volumes, under volume editors and conference committees, inside a series-level selection frame.

Indexing and Discoverability

IOS Press states that all volumes within the FAIA series are indexed in the ACM Digital Library, DBLP, EI Compendex, Google Scholar, Scopus and Zentralblatt MATH, and that all volumes are submitted for individual evaluation by the Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index, the CPCI. Some volume front matter additionally refers to the Book Citation Index in the Sciences. Two cautions follow from the publisher's own wording. First, indexing of a series is not identical to indexing of every chapter in every service; database coverage of proceedings and book content varies by volume and by year, so an author who needs a specific paper to appear in Scopus or DBLP should check that specific volume's record in the database concerned. Second, “submitted for individual evaluation” by the CPCI is not a promise that every volume is selected; it means each volume is assessed on its own merits.

For computer science readers, the DBLP and ACM Digital Library presence is particularly relevant, because those services are where proceedings literature is most often discovered and verified. For engineering-facing volumes, EI Compendex matters. For mathematics-adjacent work on logic, ontology and formal methods, Zentralblatt MATH coverage is a natural fit. A librarian or research manager verifying an FAIA chapter for an assessment exercise should work from the volume's own database records and DOI-level metadata where present, rather than assuming coverage from the series name alone — sound advice for any proceedings series, and consistent with how the publisher phrases its own indexing claim.

How Publishing in FAIA Works

There are three main routes into the series, and none of them is a journal submission portal. The first and most common is the conference or workshop route: organisers agree proceedings publication with IOS Press, authors submit papers to the event itself, the event reviews them, and the accepted, revised papers are assembled by the volume editors into the proceedings volume. An author who wants to appear in such a volume must therefore submit to the conference, follow that event's own deadlines and formatting instructions, and meet its review standard; there is no separate FAIA manuscript system to submit to afterwards.

The second route is the monograph or dissertation route. An author with a book-length manuscript — including, as the publisher notes, selected doctoral dissertations — approaches the publisher with a proposal, typically describing the work's contribution, audience, structure and relation to existing books, including earlier FAIA volumes. The series board's selection role applies here directly. The third route is the edited handbook or collection: editors propose a thematic volume, recruit contributions, manage review of the chapters, and deliver an edited manuscript. In all three routes, formatting follows IOS Press book and proceedings instructions supplied for the volume, which is why authors should always work from the instructions attached to their specific volume or event rather than from generic journal guidelines.

Costs follow the same book logic. This profile found no journal-style article processing charge published for FAIA, and the series page consulted does not publish a single standard volume fee; any page, colour, open-access or production arrangements for a given volume are matters agreed between the volume editors or author and the publisher for that volume, and are recorded here as not publicly disclosed rather than guessed at. Authors offered FAIA publication by a conference should confirm with the organisers what, if anything, the event's registration covers, because practice varies by event.

Reading the Series' Standing Without a Journal Metric

Because FAIA has no Journal Impact Factor, readers sometimes ask what replaces it. The honest answer is a combination of signals, none of which should be inflated into a single number. The series is published by an established scientific publisher and has run continuously for decades, reaching volume numbers in the hundreds. It carries the proceedings of ECAI, the principal European artificial intelligence conference, which is a strong community signal. Its volumes are held and indexed by the major computer science bibliographic services named by the publisher. Its series board consists of internationally recognised researchers. And individual volumes — handbooks of satisfiability research, formal ontology proceedings, long-running conference strands such as JURIX on legal knowledge and SoMeT on software methodologies — are cited as books within their communities. A research manager who needs a defensible statement can say exactly that, attributing each element to the publisher or to the volume record, instead of attaching an invented score to the series.

Conversely, readers should be careful with third-party websites that assign FAIA a journal-style impact factor, quartile or acceptance rate. Such figures typically result from a database forcing a book series into a journal template. Where a figure cannot be traced to IOS Press, to the ISSN record for 0922-6389 and 1879-8314, or to a named bibliographic database's own record for a specific volume, it should not be relied on. That caution is the reason this profile leaves several familiar boxes deliberately plain: for this title, an accurate “not published” is more useful than a confident number with no source.

Who Should Consider FAIA, and Who Should Not

FAIA is a strong fit for conference and workshop communities in artificial intelligence that want peer-reviewed proceedings in a recognised, indexed series with a permanent volume identity; for editors assembling a coherent edited collection on an AI topic; and for authors of research monographs and outstanding dissertations seeking a book audience in the field. It is a poor fit for an author with a single journal-style article and no conference or volume to attach it to, for anyone who needs a Journal Impact Factor for an institutional requirement, and for anyone working to a deadline measured in weeks, since book and proceedings production follows the timetable of a whole volume. Authors in those positions should look instead at the many genuine artificial intelligence journals — while taking care not to confuse this series with similarly named but entirely separate publications, including the journal Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence published by a different publisher, which is a distinct title with its own ISSNs and editorial office.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications a journal? No. It is a numbered book series from IOS Press publishing monographs, selected doctoral dissertations, handbooks and proceedings volumes. This Journals World record's earlier description of it as a peer-reviewed scholarly journal was a template label; the peer-review element is real, but it operates within volumes, as the publisher describes.

What are the ISSNs of FAIA? Print ISSN 0922-6389 and electronic ISSN 1879-8314, matching the ISSNs stored on this record.

Is FAIA peer reviewed? IOS Press states that volumes are selected by an international editorial board of well-known scholars in artificial intelligence and that all contributions to the volumes have been peer reviewed.

How do I publish in FAIA? Through a volume: by having a paper accepted at a conference or workshop whose proceedings appear in the series, or by proposing a monograph, dissertation volume or edited collection to IOS Press for series-board consideration. There is no journal manuscript portal for individual articles.

Is FAIA indexed? The publisher states indexing in the ACM Digital Library, DBLP, EI Compendex, Google Scholar, Scopus and Zentralblatt MATH, with volumes submitted for individual evaluation by the Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Check the specific volume's record for the coverage you need.

Does FAIA have an impact factor or an article processing charge? A journal impact factor is not published for this book series, and no journal-style article processing charge is published on the series page consulted; volume-level arrangements are agreed with the publisher and are not publicly disclosed as a standard fee.

Verification Notes

This profile is anchored on the live Journals World record for post 331247, whose stored ISSNs are 09226389 and 18798314, and on the official IOS Press series page for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, consulted for the aims and scope, volume forms, sub-series, ECAI connection, editorial selection, peer-review statement and indexing list quoted and paraphrased above. Series editor names are taken from front matter reproduced from published FAIA volumes, and volume-number waypoints are taken from publisher listings and volume front matter for volumes 157, 183, 277, 325, 338 and 339. Facts that could not be verified from a source actually consulted — including any current total volume count, any standard publication fee and any journal-style metric — are stated as not published or not publicly disclosed, rather than estimated.