`adaptive behavior'

[Avery Andrews 080195:1505]

Something that won't make anybody happy, but should probably be
known about. Unfortunately the ANU doesn't get the journal, but maybe
somebody is near somwhere that does.

                      CALL FOR PAPERS (please post)

                       ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR Journal

           Special Issue on ENVIRONMENT STRUCTURE AND BEHAVIOR

                       Guest editor: Peter Todd

                 Submission Deadline: 1 October 1995.

   Adaptive Behavior is an international journal published by MIT Press;
   Editor-in-Chief: Jean-Arcady Meyer, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

By adaptive behavior we usually mean behavior that adapts to the varying
environmental structures that an individual encounters. Thus, to understand
adaptive, environmentally embedded behavior, we must understand not only an
organism's behavior-generating system, but also the structure of the
organism's environment. Much of that environment can be composed of the
shifting, behaving flux of members of the organism's own species, or members
of other species in the same ecosystem. But a significant proportion of
relevant environmental structure can comprise more static spatiotemporal
patterns of plants, water, and other resources, inanimate barriers,
temperature and other climatic gradients, and the like. For this special
issue, we invite papers that consider the impact of these latter non-social
kinds of environment structure on the behavior of natural or artificial
adaptive organisms. Relevant topics include methods for analyzing and
categorizing environments and their behavioral implications; consequences of
biological and physical environment structures; interactions and feedback
between behavior-affecting environments and environment-affecting behaviors;
constructed environments and culture; and using environmental design to
control behavior in applied settings. Authors are encouraged to emphasize the
relevance of their research to both natural and artificial systems.

Submitted papers should be delivered by 1 October 1995. Manuscripts should be
typed or laser-printed in English (with American spelling preferred),
doublespaced, and between 10000 and 15000 words in length counting 500 words
per full-page figure. Electronic submissions are also possible, in plain
text or Postscript; please contact Peter Todd by email at the address below
for arrangements.

Authors intending to submit are also encouraged to contact the guest editor as
soon as possible to discuss paper ideas and suitability for this issue.
Copies of the complete Adaptive Behavior Instructions to Contributors are
available on request--also see the Adaptive Behavior journal's home page at
http://www.ens.fr:80/bioinfo/www/francais/AB.html .

For paper submissions, send five (5) copies of submitted papers (hardcopy
only) to:

Peter M. Todd
Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition
Leopoldstrasse 24
80802 Munich
GERMANY

For electronic submissions, contact the guest editor first.

Email: ptodd@synapse.psy.du.edu
Phone: (303)871-4995
Fax: (303)871-4747

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[Martin Taylor 950801 11:45]

Avery Andrews 080195:1505

Something that won't make anybody happy,...
                       ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR Journal
           Special Issue on ENVIRONMENT STRUCTURE AND BEHAVIOR

By adaptive behavior we usually mean behavior that adapts to the varying
environmental structures that an individual encounters. Thus, to understand
adaptive, environmentally embedded behavior, we must understand not only an
organism's behavior-generating system, but also the structure of the
organism's environment.
...
Relevant topics include methods for analyzing and
categorizing environments and their behavioral implications; consequences of
biological and physical environment structures; interactions and feedback
between behavior-affecting environments and environment-affecting behaviors;
constructed environments and culture; and using environmental design to
control behavior in applied settings.

Well, I don't know about you, but it sounds to me like a nice opportunity
to gather more "classical" rejection notices. Whether or not the editors
have thought about control, papers based on it could fit well within the
criteria for the issue. It might be interesting to see the reasons for
rejection--but who knows? A control paper just might be accepted. We've
had enough related discussions on CSG-L to suggest a line of attack.

Martin