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JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION
First Announcement of Special Issue - ISSAC 2015
Following the 40th International Symposium on Symbolic
and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC’15) which was held at
The University of Bath, UK, between July 6-9, 2015, we
invite submissions to a special issue of the Journal of
Symbolic Computation
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-symbolic-computation/.
We solicit high-quality original research papers with
journal-style extent of contribution. The main focus of
this special issue will be on work (papers, tutorials, plenary
talks, posters and softwares) presented at ISSAC’15, but this
call is open to further submissions close to presentations at
ISSAC'15.
Potential contributors may contact the guest editors to
discuss the suitability of topics and papers, by sending an
email to [log in to unmask]
*Guest Editors:*
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- Steve Linton (University of St Andrews, UK)
- Kazuhiro Yokoyama (Rikkyo University, Japan)
*Important Dates:*
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- Deadline for paper submission: November 20th, 2015.
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: April, 2016.
- Publication of special issue: Fall 2016.
*Submission Guidelines:*
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You are recommended to use the Elsevier article class
*elsarticle.cls*
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle)
to prepare your manuscript and BibTeX (http://www.bibtex.org)
to generate your bibliography.
All submitted papers will be refereed according to the usual
JSC refereeing process. Submission is via EasyChair, at the
website
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issac2015specialissu.
- The introduction of the paper must explicitly address the
following questions in succinct and informal manner:
- What is the problem?
- Why is the problem important?
- What has been done so far on the problem?
- What is the main contribution of the paper on the
problem?
- Why is the contribution original? (see below for
clarification)
- Why is the contribution non-trivial?
- How is the journal paper different from the
conference paper.
- Make it complete (since there is no page limit).
- All the related works and issues must be completely
and carefully discussed.
- All the previous relevant JSC papers must be
properly cited and discussed.
- All the theorem must be rigorously proved (no sketch
allowed).
- All the important definitions/theorems/algorithms
must be illustrated by well chosen examples.
- Address all the feedback from the conference's referee
process and Q/A.
*Clarification:*
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The results, already published in the conference paper will
be still counted as an original result for JSC refereeing
process.
*Recommendation:*
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Incorporating additional results, especially inspired by
the ISSAC reviews or by discussions during the conference
is welcome and encouraged.
*Contact:*
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Inquiries should be sent to [log in to unmask]
Sincerely yours,
Steve Linton (ISSAC 2015 General Chair)
Kazuhiro Yokoyama (ISSAC 2015 Program Chair)
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