ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) is a quarterly journal published by the Association for Computing Machinery since 2006, covering the engineering of software and systems that operate autonomously and adapt at run time, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.2.《ACM 自主与自适应系统汇刊》（ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems）由美国计算机协会（ACM）自 2006 年起出版，为季刊，研究可自主运行并在运行时自我调整的软件与系统，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.2。

Scope

• Foundations of autonomy and adaptation, from formal models and logics of self-adaptive systems to control-theoretic and learning-based adaptation policies.自主与自适应的理论基础，从自适应系统的形式模型与逻辑，到基于控制论与学习的调整策略。
• Engineering methods for self-adaptive and self-organising systems, including requirements, architectures, middleware and the feedback loops that manage uncertainty at run time.自适应与自组织系统的工程方法，包括需求、体系结构、中间件，以及在运行时处理不确定性的反馈回路。
• Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, covering coordination, negotiation, organisational structures and mechanism design.自主智能体与多智能体系统，涉及协调、协商、组织结构和机制设计。
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence as enabling technology, with recent papers on federated and incremental learning, large-model inference on edge devices and multimodal recognition.作为使能技术的机器学习与人工智能，近期论文涉及联邦与增量学习、边缘设备上的大模型推理以及多模态识别。
• Verification, assurance and safety of autonomous systems, including runtime monitoring, constraint-based policy verification and automated repair of faulty behaviour.自主系统的验证、保障与安全，包括运行时监控、基于约束的策略验证以及故障行为的自动修复。
• Security and resilience of autonomous and networked systems, such as attack-path prediction in industrial factory networks.自主与网络化系统的安全与韧性，例如工业厂区网络中的攻击路径预测。
• Applications span robotics and human-robot collaboration, cyber-physical and edge systems, smart environments, games and software engineering tooling.应用领域覆盖机器人与人机协作、信息物理与边缘系统、智能环境、游戏以及软件工程工具。

History

• The journal was established by ACM in 2006, and volume 1, issue 1 appeared in September 2006 with papers on biologically inspired design patterns and ant-inspired division of labour in robot groups.本刊由（ACM）于 2006 年创办，第 1 卷第 1 期于 2006 年 9 月出版，首期载有生物启发设计模式与蚁群式机器人分工等论文。
• It has appeared quarterly, four issues to a volume, and reached volume 21 in 2026.期刊按季出版，每卷四期，2026 年已出至第 21 卷。
• Annual output has grown, with Crossref recording roughly 30 items dated 2024 and more than 50 dated 2025.年发文量近年增长，据（Crossref）记录，2024 年约 30 篇，2025 年超过 50 篇。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.2, after 2.1 in 2024 and 0.971 in 2021, a rise that carried the title into the first quartile of computer science, theory and methods at rank 28 of 146.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.2，2024 年为 2.1，2021 年为 0.971，这一上升使本刊进入计算机理论方法类别 Q1，排名 28/146。
• It is indexed in SCIE and Scopus and is ranked in three JCR categories, artificial intelligence, information systems, and theory and methods.本刊被（SCIE）与（Scopus）收录，在 JCR 中分属人工智能、信息系统、理论方法三个类别。
• Content is delivered through the ACM Digital Library, and the journal is published by the Society from its New York headquarters.内容通过（ACM Digital Library）发行，期刊由设于纽约的（ACM）出版。

Editors

• Rami Bahsoon, Reader in Software Engineering at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, became editor-in-chief on 15 January 2024 for a term running to 14 January 2027.主编为英国伯明翰大学软件工程专业的（Rami Bahsoon），2024 年 1 月 15 日就任，任期至 2027 年 1 月 14 日。
• His work centres on self-adaptive systems, software architecture and engineering for machine learning, which maps closely onto the journal's remit.其研究集中于自适应系统、软件体系结构与面向机器学习的软件工程，与本刊范围高度契合。
• Manuscripts are submitted through ACM's online system, where the editor-in-chief screens each paper and assigns it to an associate editor by topic.稿件经（ACM）在线系统投递，由主编初筛后按主题指派副编辑处理。
• Associate editors form an international board drawn from software engineering, multi-agent systems and robotics groups, and they commission the external referees for each paper.副编辑组成国际编委会，成员来自软件工程、多智能体系统与机器人研究团队，并负责为每篇论文约请外部审稿人。
• Editorial appointments run on fixed three-year terms, the cycle that governs Bahsoon's 2024 to 2027 mandate and the rotation of the wider board.编辑任期固定为三年，这一周期既适用于（Bahsoon）2024 至 2027 年的任期，也适用于整个编委会的轮换。