News

In response to the public resignation and subsequent e-mail campaign of some
MACHINE LEARNING (MLJ) editorial board members, please allow these facts to
be clear.

Kluwer Academic Publishers will continue its full support of the artificial
intelligence community and MACHINE LEARNING.

MLJ has been the premier publication venue for machine learning for 15
years. Its prestige is unequalled; even with a rejection rate of over 55% it
publishes 12 full issues-over 1300 pages-per year. Its Science Citation
Index ranking rises each year, and is consistently in the top 12 in all of
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. MACHINE LEARNING is featured
in over 30 abstracting and indexing services, including all of the relevant
ISI indexes and those in fields as far-ranging as physics, psychology, and
neuroscience. Print subscriptions continue to grow. Its electronic version
reaches millions of users worldwide.

Kluwer's commitment to the MACHINE LEARNING community includes:
* Posting of accepted articles for free on the journal's web site
immediately upon acceptance
* Encouraging authors to post their papers on their own web site, prior to
and after publication
* Serving our editors, authors, and reviewers with an electronic reviewing
system
* Providing services from promotion to copyediting to distribution that
ensure their work will reach the community, and reach it with a professional
presentation
* Representing the journal at conferences across all of computer science,
exposing it to communities outside of machine learning
* Maintaining the current individual subscription price of $120
* Including in the 2002 volumes over 15% more content with a less than 5%
price increase to libraries

Kluwer Academic Publishers has made, and continues to make, a very large
investment in MLJ. Additionally, journals such as MACHINE LEARNING have
paved the way for countless other new journals across all disciplines-its
revenue provides a critical component for funding new projects that might
not otherwise have been started. In fact, Kluwer publishes over 25 research
journals in Artificial Intelligence. We are proud to sponsor targeted
journals such as ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW and ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS
AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE as a service to the AI community. Publisher
revenues also provide the very taxes that universities and other non-profit
entities depend on to fund research.

Kluwer Academic Publishers will continue our commitment to providing a
healthy forum for many journals spanning all areas of academic research.

The e-mail contact for MACHINE LEARNING is machine.learning@wkap.com.