Guidelines for Special Issues in IJCIS
All guest editors who wish to apply for a Special Issue need to follow these guidelines:
1. The guest editors send a proposal to the EiCs, Jie Lu (jielu@it.uts.edu.au) and Luis
Martínez (luis.martinez@ujaen.es), with a clear description of the subject of the Special
Issue and its relationship to the scope of IJCIS, guest editors, related collaborations
(conference, workshop etc.), including:
(1) title;
(2) CV of guest editor(s);
(3) the topic and aim/objective of the Special Issue; MUST fall into IJCIS scope
(4) main contents;
(5) quality control;
(6) important dates.
A Special Issue proposal format (example) is attached.
2. When a Special Issue includes extended versions of papers previously submitted to a
Workshop or Conference, these versions must contain at least 40% new material and the
title of the extended paper must be clearly different.
3. The description of the Special Issue must include a schedule (from CFP to camera ready
papers) for the Special Issue that will be fulfilled by the guest editors.
4. The details of the review process (reviewers, reports, and response letters) must be
enclosed with the accepted paper before its publication in IJCIS. Each paper must be
revised at least by 2 reviewers.
5. Guest editors are responsible for preparing camera ready papers in the style of the
journal.
6. Papers in a Special Issue should originate from multiple countries. One author cannot
appear in more than one paper of a Special Issue.
7. A public call is encouraged.
8. Guest editors are to provide a 1-2 page editorial or preface to the Special Issue.
9. A Special Issue may contain between 5 and 10 papers.
10. The length of the Special Issue may not exceed 100 pages.
EiCs:
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EiCs will carefully check each Special Issue proposal and decide whether to accept it;
EiCs will check each paper nominated by Guest editors, and will make a final decision on
each paper within a Special Issue.
The final version of each Special Issue must be submitted online to IJCIS.
International Journal Of Computational Intelligent Systems: Special
Issue proposal form
Special issue proposal form (example):
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Title: Intelligent Decision Support Systems
Guest Editors: Jie Lu
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Aims and Scope
This special issue will provide a systematic overview and state-of-the-art research in the field of
Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS), and will outline new developments in
fundamental, approaches, methodologies, software systems, and applications in this area.
Relevance to this journal
Relevance to the main scope of this journal
Similar special issues in this journal and other journals
Main topics and quality control
This special issue is dedicated to a set of best papers in the field of IDSS. Full papers will be
subject to a strict review procedure for final selection to this special issue based on the following
criteria:
1. Quality and originality in theory and methodology of IDSS;
2. Relevance to IDSS research area, such as
a. Knowledge representation in IDSS;
b. Intelligent models and methods in DSS development;
c. Applying various computational intelligence techniques to support decision
making.
3. Application orientation which exhibits originality and IDSS theory, such as
a. Intelligent DSS for specialized problem-solving and various applications in
business, education, health, safety, engineering, finance and environment.
4. If there is an implementation, the details of the implementation must be provided;
5. Extended papers must contain at least 40% new material (qualitative) relative to the
conference paper.
Important Dates
Submission of papers:
15 November, 2012
Notification of review results:
15 January, 2013
Submission of revised papers:
15 March, 2013
Notification of final review results: 15 April, 2013
Short CV of guest editor(s)
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