[Om-announce] [ISSAC-ANNOUNCE] ISSAC=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9914=3A_?=JSC Special Issue - Call for Papers

[Kosaku Nagasaka]

JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION

Call for Papers: Special Issue - ISSAC 2014

Following the 39th International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic
Computation (ISSAC’14) which was held at Kobe University, Japan,
between July 23-25, 2014, 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’14, but this call is open to further submissions
close to presentations at ISSAC'14.

Potential contributors may contact the guest editors to discuss the
suitability of topics and papers, by sending an email to
issac14specialissue at gmail.com

*Guest Editors:*
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- Kosaku Nagasaka (Kobe University, Japan)
- Agnes Szanto    (North Carolina State University, USA)
- Franz Winkler   (RISC, Linz, Austria)

*Important Dates:*
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- Deadline for paper submission:         December 1st, 2014.
- Notification of acceptance/rejection:  April, 2015.
- Publication of special issue:          Fall 2015.

*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=issac14specialissue

- 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.

*Contact:*
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Inquiries should be sent to issac14specialissue at gmail.com


yours sincerely,
--
Kosaku Nagasaka (ISSAC 2014 general co-chair with Franz Winkler)

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