The SIGART Bulletin is eager to print abstracts of recent Ph.D. dissertations. Send your abstract with author, title, granting institution, and author's current address to sigart@isi.edu. Include your ACM member number if you have one. [Lewis Johnson (johnson@isi.edu), comp.ai, 8/23.]

Genetic algorithms; IEEE Expert. John J. Grefenstette (gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil). This is a continuing "special track" rather than a single issue.

AI in text-based information systems; IEEE Expert. Contact Dik Lee (dlee@cis.ohio-state.edu) or W. Bruce Croft (croft@cs.umass.edu) by 10/25/91.

THE INFORMATION SOCIETY covers political, social, economic, and cultural implications of the emerging information society. Published quarterly by Taylor & Francis, $80 (or $40 personal rate), (800) 821-8312. Submit contributions to Dr. Robert H. Anderson (anderson@rand.org), Editor-in-Chief. [Rob Kling (kling@ics.uci.edu), comp.infosystems, 9/7.]

Neural networks for oceanic engineering; IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. Contact Patrick K. Simpson (xm8@sdcc12.ucsd.edu) by 2/2/92. [comp.ai.neural-nets, 9/4.]

Parallelization in Inference Systems, a book in the AI subseries of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Technical papers and half-page project summaries are solicited. Contact Bertram Fronhoefer (bertram@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) by 10/15/91. [comp.ai, 9/10.]