IJCAI Policy on Multiple Publication of Papers

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bundy, Alan

Affiliations: University of Edinburgh, Scotland U.K.

Abstract: At their meeting in Milan during IJCAI-87, the IJCAI Inc. Trustees were faced with an issue of principle that periodically arises. An IJCAI and an AAAI conference were happening in the same summer. Several authors had submitted the same paper to both conferences. What attitude should we take to this? Clearly the problem is a wider one than the relationship between IJCAI and AAAI, although it was that coincidence of conference dates that had attracted our attention to it. There are now a number of rival national and international AI conferences. There are also a growing number of international conferences in subfields of AI. Not just IJCAI, but all these conferences, need to evolve mutually compatible policies to cope with multiple publications. At the moment no such consensus exists. Different publications adopt conflicting policies. Multiple publications are commonplace. A wide variety of incompatible views were reported at our meeting. Few people have thought seriously about the issue. I certainly had not. Now that I have, I am somewhat embarrassed about my own publication list.

DOI: 10.3233/AIC-1988-1401

Journal: AI Communications, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 3-5, 1988