Book Reviewers

L A N G U A G E S OF DESIGN
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ANNOUNCEMENT
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LANGUAGES OF DESIGN, the international journal of formalisms for
WORD, IMAGE, & SOUND, is seeking qualified reviewers to write
reviews for publication in the journal. Every issue of the journal
contains three or four extended reviews. Reviewers need to be
familiar with the needs international-multidisciplinary audience.
The journal services a transdisciplinary audience of professional
artists & scientists in the arts & technology community.

Readers who are interested in reviewing books should contact the
Editor-in-Chief directly by surface mail. Please include a short CV
and an indication of the books that you are interested in reviewing.

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AIMS & SCOPE

Languages of design is an international, interdisciplinary journal
devoted to research in formal languages and their use for the synthesis
of words, images, and sounds. Languages of design welcomes articles
employing linguistic techniques to generate literary and non-literary
texts, music, and visual works including art, dance, theater,
architecture and all types of design.

This multidisciplinary focus is reflected by the journal's editorial board,
which includes literary theorists, music theorists and composers,
researchers in artificial intelligence, artists and art critics. Formal
design theory, generative grammars, shape grammars, and computational
musicology are central to the subjects covered by the journal. More
general subject areas, such as formal languages, finite state automata,
grammatical inference, pattern recognition, cellular automata, semantic
networks, connectionism, and syntactical analysis are discussed in the
context of their application to productive systems. Specific analytic
perspectives, such as syntactics, semiotics, deconstruction, hermeneutics,
stylistics, narratology, philology, morphology, prosody, harmony theory,
formal musicology, and performance analysis will be presented in terms
of their impact and influence on a theoretical foundation for productive
systems. Research results from visual, audio and textual analyses that
may have an impact on the arts are also invited. Of particular interest
is research utilizing computational methods to verify theoretical formal
analysis. Articles criticizing the assumptions and results of this work
are also welcome.

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BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW

- Adaptive User Interfaces
D. Browne, P. Totterwell and M. Norman, Academic Press, 1990
- Artificial Intelligence and Information Control Systems
I. Plander, ed., North-Holland, 1989
- Computational Linguistics: An Introduction
R. Grishman, Cambridge University Press, 1992
- Computational Linguistics and Formal Semantics
M. Rosner and R. Johnson, eds., Cambridge University Press, 1992
- The Construction of Reality
M. Arbib & M. Hesse, Cambridge University Press, 1990
- Formal Methods for Interactive Systems
A. Dix, Academic Press, 1991
- Definitions of Art
S. Davies, Cornell University Press, 1991.
- Design Essentials
J. Block and G. Atterberry, Prentice Hall, 1989
- Design Theory and Computer Science
S. Dasgupta, Cambridge University Press, 1991
- Formal Methods for Artificial Intelligence
A. Ramsay, Cambridge University Press, 1992
- Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying
J. Clifford, Cambridge University Press, 1992
- Human-Computer Interaction in Complex Systems
G. Weir and J. Alty, Academic Press, 1991
- Hypertext & Hypermedia
J. Nielsen, Academic Press, 1990
- Interactive Music Systems
R. Rowe, MIT Press, 1993
- An Introduction to Morphological Image Processing
E. Dougherty, SPIE Press, 1992
- Mazes for the Mind
C. Pickover, St. Martin's Press, 1992
- Mathematical Morphology in Image Processing
E. Dougherty, Marcel Dekker, 1993
- Modernities
J. Mashek, Penn State Press, 1993
- From Memex to Hypertext
J. Nyce and P. Kahn, Academic Press, 1991
- Objects and Images
S. Vihma, ed., University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, 1992
- On Suprematism, K. Malevich
P. Railing, ed., Artists Bookworks, 1990
- Perspectives on Language and Thought
S. Gelman and J. Byrnes, eds., Cambridge University Press,1991
- Principles of Art History Writing
D. Carrier, Penn State Press, 1991.
- From Science to Systems of Art
P. Railing, ed., Artists Bookworks, 1989
- A Semantic Processing for Finite Domains
M. Stone, Cambridge University Press, 1992
- The Semiotics of Performance
M. De Marinis, Indiana Univ. Press, 1993
- The Seperable Human Interface
E. Edmonds, Academic Press, 1992
- Sign, Search and Communication
R. Jorna, B. van Heusden and R. Posner, eds., Walter de Gruyter,
1993
- A Structuralist Theory of Logic
A. Koslow, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992
- Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition
H. Bunke and A. Sanfeliu, eds., World Scientific, 1990
- Classics of Semiotics
M. Krampen et al., eds., Plenum, 1987
- Cognitive Science : An Introduction
N. Stillings, MIT Press, 1987
- Computers and Musical Style
D. Cope, A-R Editions, 1991
- The Electronic Design Studio
M. McCullough, W. Mitchell, and P. Purcell, MIT Press, 1990
- Intelligent CAD
H. Yoshikawa and D. Gossard, NorthPHolland, 1989
- Images and Understanding
H. Barlow et al., eds., Cambridge University Press, 1990
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language
C. Georgopoulos and R. Ishihara, eds., Kluwer, 1990
- The Mathematical Structure of Raster Graphics
E. Fiume, Axademic Press, 1989
- Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics: Anton Marty
K. Mulliga, ed., Kluwer, 1990
- Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
E. Gelsema and L. Kanal, eds., North-Holland, 1988
- Philosophical Logic and Artificial Intelligence
R. Thomason, ed., Kluwer, 1989
- Programming in Three Dimensions
C. Watkins and L. Sharp, M&T, 1992
- Product Semantics
S. V
kev
, ed., Univ. of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, 1990
- Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar
H. Haider and K. Netter, eds., Kluwer, 1991
- Representation and Reality
H. Putnam, MIT Press, 1991
- Semantic Visions in Design
S. Vihma, ed., UIAH, 1990
- Sotto Ponzio Pilato, D. Nardoni
Edizione Italiane de Letteratura e Scienza, 1988
- Total Design, S. Pugh
Addison-Wesley, 1990
- Bolle di Sappone, M. Emmer
La Nuova Italia, 1991
- I Gladiatori Romani, D. Nardoni
Editori Eiles, 1989
- The Algebra of Signs, R. Marty
John Benjamin, 1989
- Matrix Logic, A. Stern
Elsevier, 1988
- Radical Hermeneutics, J. Caputo
Indiana University Press, 1987
- Statistical Pattern Recognition, F. Fukunaga
AcademicPress, 1987

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