		ISSN 1320-0682
		Volume 1	April 1994

Editorial

Welcome to the first issue of Complexity International! This represents one of the first efforts in on-line, hypermedia publishing of scientific research and opens a new era in scientific communications. The gestation period has been long and difficult. Although the introduction of the World Wide Web, and especially hypermedia browsers, such as NCSA's Mosaic, have made this form of publication feasible, we have had to surmount many technical hurdles to make it happen.

The greatest hurdle has been how to deal with mathematics. The HTML standard makes no provision for equations; yet they are clearly amenable to SGML markup and we anticipate that extensions will be developed. The interim solution is to convert all equations into images, but to retain original LaTeX forms for future conversion. Exactly the same argument applies to tables and a few other features found in common word-processing programs. Here we have been greatly assisted by the development of new "authoring tools", especially latex2html.

As anybody currently experimenting with hypertext will be aware, opportunities, software and network protocols are growing exponentially. The facilities in WWW for scientific work are at present limited, but we anticipate very rapid development over the next year or so. Some compromises are inevitable at the moment. Papers which are submitted in HTML provide the best quality. Papers which are submitted in LaTeX (including the Complex Systems conference papers) have to go through an extensive conversion process. The tool Latex2html developed by Nikos Drakos at the University of Leeds has been invaluable in this regard.

In order that copyright libraries may maintain copies of the journal, some volume structure has to be imposed on the hypertext. This issue represents the first quarter of 1994 and is now closed. There will be a subsequent issue, opened at the beginning and closed at the end of each quarter. Papers will be added on-line (to whatever volume is currently open) as soon as they complete the refereeing process.

So far, the material for the journal has not made extensive use of hypertext facilities. Although the emphasis will always be on academic quality, we actively encourage multimedia submissions. Reviews in fields such as chaos, artificial life, fractals, self-organisation and many others, are restricted by the printed page and we would like to receive hypertext contributions with extended graphics.

The journal may be cited as a URL with the appropriate volume number. During the course of 1994 we hope to expand our listing in major scientific indices.

Finally, we would like to welcome contributors and readers to the journal and are interested in any constructive comments people may have during this formative period. Our thanks go to all the authors who have made this first issue possible.

The Editors

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