Journal Guide

The IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is interested in well-defined theoretical results and empirical studies that have potential impact on the construction, analysis, or management of software. The scope of this Transactions ranges from the mechanisms through the development of principles to the application of those principles to specific environments. Specific topic areas include: a) development and maintenance methods and models, e.g., techniques and principles for the specification, design, and implementation of software systems, including notations and process models; b) assessment methods, e.g., software tests and validation, reliability models, test and diagnosis procedures, software redundancy and design for error control, and the measurements and evaluation of various aspects of the process and product; c) software project management, e.g., productivity factors, cost models, schedule and organizational issues, standards; d) tools and environments, e.g., specific tools, integrated tool environments including the associated architectures, databases, and parallel and distributed processing issues; e) system issues, e.g., hardware-software trade-off; and f) state-of-the-art surveys that provide a synthesis and comprehensive review of the historical development of one particular area of interest.

The scope of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems includes the fields of systems engineering. It includes issue formulation, analysis and modeling, decision making, and issue interpretation for any of the systems engineering lifecycle phases associated with the definition, development, and deployment of large systems. In addition, it includes systems management, systems engineering processes, and a variety of systems engineering methods such as optimization, modeling and simulation.

Design and realization of microelectronic systems using VLSI/ULSI technologies requires close collaboration among scientists and engineers in the fields of systems architecture, logic and circuit design, chips and wafer fabrication, packaging, testing, and systems applications. Generation of specifications, design, and verification must be performed at all abstraction levels, including the system, register-transfer, logic, circuit, transistor, and process levels.

To address this critical area through a common forum, the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems was founded. The editorial board, consisting of international experts, invites original papers which emphasize the novel system integration aspects of microelectronic systems, including interactions among system design and partitioning, logic and memory design, digital and analog circuit design, layout synthesis, CAD tools, chips and wafer fabrication, testing and packaging, and system level qualification. Thus, the coverage of this Transactions focuses on VLSI/ULSI microelectronic system integration.

Topics of special interest include, but are not strictly limited to, the following: • System Specification, Design and Partitioning, • System-level Test, • Reliable VLSI/ULSI Systems, • High Performance Computing and Communication Systems, • Wafer Scale Integration and Multichip Modules (MCMs), • High-Speed Interconnects in Microelectronic Systems, • VLSI/ULSI Neural Networks and Their Applications, • Adaptive Computing Systems with FPGA components, • Mixed Analog/Digital Systems, • Cost, Performance Tradeoffs of VLSI/ULSI Systems, • Adaptive Computing Using Reconfigurable Components (FPGAs) 

TVCG is a scholarly, archival journal published monthly. Its Editorial Board strives to publish papers that present important research results and state-of-the-art seminal papers in computer graphics, visualization, and virtual reality.  Specific topics include, but are not limited to: rendering technologies; geometric modeling and processing; shape analysis; graphics hardware; animation and simulation; perception, interaction and user interfaces; haptics; computational photography; high-dynamic range imaging and display; user studies and evaluation; biomedical visualization; volume visualization and graphics; visual analytics for machine learning; topology-based visualization; visual programming and software visualization; visualization in data science; virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality; advanced display technology, (e.g., 3D, immersive and multi-modal displays); applications of computer graphics and visualization.

The IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking’s high-level objective is to publish high-quality, original research results derived from theoretical or experimental exploration of the area of communication/computer networking, covering all sorts of information transport networks over all sorts of physical layer technologies, both wireline (all kinds of guided media: e.g., copper, optical) and wireless (e.g., radio-frequency, acoustic (e.g., underwater), infra-red), or hybrids of these. The journal welcomes applied contributions reporting on novel experiences and experiments with actual systems.

• Network types: chip-scale to global telecom to inter-planetary: networks-on-a-chip, high-speed intra-system interconnection networks, backbone and access telecom networks, logical and overlay networks, cellular mobile telecom networks, wireless local area networks, ad hoc and mesh wireless networks, inter-vehicular networks, delay/disruption-tolerant networks, etc.
• Networking aspects: architecture and design (including algorithms for network resource allocation, traffic engineering, modeling and performance analysis), protocols (including formal methods for the verification, testing, and conversion of communication protocols), network software (including software architecture and applications such as directory services, call processing, and signaling), network hardware (including novel hardware architectures, novel network devices, and their usage), operations and management (including network planning and evolution, reliability, and survivability), measurements (including insights gained from operational networks and network tomography), and security (including network intrusion detection and control of the spread of malicious software).  
• Application domains: telephony (circuit and packet, voice and video), all applications traditionally associated with worldwide packet networks (file transfer, e-mail, World Wide Web, streaming video, etc.), storage and data-centers, peer-to-peer file sharing, online social networks, cyber-physical systems (including distributed sensing, function computation over networks, and control over networks), etc.  
• Interfaces with networks in other domains: including information dissemination and related distributed systems aspects of social networks, and biologically or nature-inspired techniques for communication networks, etc. 

The field of biometric recognition - automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioural and biological characteristics - has reached a level of maturity where viable practical applications are both possible and increasingly available. Since the engineering of effective biometric systems requires integration of image analysis, pattern recognition, sensor technology, database engineering, security design and many other strands of understanding, the technological focus of the journal is diverse. IET Biometrics has a wide scope to account for the interdisciplinary nature of the field. While focusing on the core technological issues it also encompasses human factors, data security and database technologies, and takes into consideration the associated psychological and physiological issues. IET Biometrics includes papers that increase our understanding of biometric systems, signal future developments and applications for biometrics, and/or promote greater practical uptake for relevant technologies. Some of the topics covered include: • Development and enhancement of individual biometric modalities including established and traditional modalities (e.g. face, fingerprint, iris, signature and handwriting recognition) and also newer or emerging modalities (gait, ear-shape, and neurological patterns) • Multibiometrics, theoretical and practical issues, implementation of practical systems, multiclassifier and multimodal approaches • Soft biometrics and information fusion for identification, verification and trait prediction • Human factors and the human–computer interface issues for biometric systems, exception handling strategies • Position papers on technology or on the industrial context of biometric system development • Adoption and promotion of standards in biometrics, improving technology acceptance, deployment and interoperability, avoiding cross-cultural and cross-sector restrictions • Relevant ethical and social issues

IET Computer Vision publishes original research papers in a wide range of areas of electronic visual interpretation and recognition, including reconstruction of 3D depth information, estimation of object motion, attribute-based recognition, and high-level scene understanding. It publishes the most relevant and topical research in its field, explores new horizons, and aims to set the agenda for future research in computer vision. Some of the topics covered are: • Biologically and perceptually motivated approaches to low level vision (e.g. feature detection) • Object recognition • Image understanding • Motion analysis and object tracking • Control in vision systems

IET Computers & Digital Techniques publishes technical papers on recent research and development work in all aspects of digital system-on-chip design and test of electronic and embedded systems, including the development of design automation tools (methodologies, algorithms and architectures). It also publishes papers based on the problems associated with the scaling down of CMOS technology. The key subject areas covered include: • Design: Hardware description languages, high-level and architectural synthesis, hardware/software co-design, platform-based design, system-on-chip architectures and IP cores, embedded systems, logic synthesis, low-power design and power optimisation • Verification: Electrical and timing simulation, hardware/software co-simulation, mixed-domain technology modelling and simulation, power analysis and estimation, interconnect modelling and signal integrity analysis • Test: Design-for-testability, embedded core testing, system-on-chip testing, on-line testing, test quality and reliability, microprocessor testing, low-power testing, fault modelling and fault tolerance, automatic test generation and delay testing • Processor and system architectures: General-purpose and application specific processors, computational arithmetic for DSP applications, arithmetic and logic units, cache memories, memory management, co-processors and accelerators, systems and networks on chip, embedded cores, platforms, multiprocessors, distributed systems, communication protocols and low-power issues • Configurable computing: Embedded cores, FPGAs, rapid prototyping, adaptive computing, evolvable and reconfigurable hardware • Case studies: State-of-the-art CAD/EDA tools, applications in industrial designs, and design frameworks

The IET Image Processing journal encompasses research related to the generation, processing and communication of visual information. The focus of the journal is the coverage of the latest research results in image and video processing, including image generation and display, enhancement and restoration, segmentation, colour and texture analysis, coding and communication, implementations and architectures as well as innovative applications. Principal topics include: • Generation and Display: Imaging sensors and acquisition systems, illumination, sampling and scanning, quantisation, colour reproduction, image rendering, display and printing systems, evaluation of image quality • Processing and Analysis: Image enhancement, restoration, segmentation, registration, multispectral, colour and texture processing, multiresolution processing and wavelets, morphological operations, stereoscopic and 3-D processing, motion detection and estimation, video and image sequence processing • Implementations and Architectures: Image and video processing hardware and software, design and construction, architectures and software, neural, adaptive, and fuzzy processing • Coding and Transmission: Image and video compression and coding, compression standards, noise modelling, visual information networks, streamed video • Retrieval and Multimedia: Storage of images and video, database design, image retrieval, video annotation and editing, mixed media incorporating visual information, multimedia systems and applications, image and video watermarking, steganography • Applications: Innovative application of image and video processing technologies to any field, including life sciences, earth sciences, astronomy, document processing and security

IET Information Security publishes original, peer-reviewed, research papers in information security and cryptography. Information security is a multidisciplinary field that spans the very broad area of computer security, modern cryptography, and the electronic aspects of hardware security. The aim of the journal is to bring together papers from all disciplines contributing to information security. Some of the topics covered by this journal are: access control and database security; block ciphers and hash functions; financial cryptography; economic aspects of information security; key management and secret sharing; malware; peer-to-peer security; quantum cryptography; secure electronic commerce; and watermarking and fingerprinting.

The INFORMS Journal on Computing (JOC) is a quarterly that publishes papers in the intersection of operations research (OR) and computer science (CS). Most papers contain original research, but we also welcome special papers in a variety of forms, including Feature Articles on timely topics, Expository Reviews making a comprehensive survey and evaluation of a subject area, and State-of-the-Art Reviews that collect and integrate recent streams of research. All papers are refereed.

IT Professional is a technical magazine of the IEEE Computer Society. It publishes peer-reviewed articles, columns and departments written for and by IT practitioners and researchers covering:

• practical aspects of emerging and leading-edge digital technologies,
• original ideas and guidance for IT applications, and
• novel IT solutions for the enterprise.

IT Professional’s goal is to inform the broad spectrum of IT executives, IT project managers, IT researchers, and IT application developers from industry, government, and academia.

The journal is intended to present within a single forum all of the developments in the field of multi-sensor, multi-source, multi-process information fusion and thereby promote the synergism among the many disciplines that are contributing to its growth. The journal is the premier vehicle for disseminating information on all aspects of research and development in the field of information fusion. Articles are expected to emphasize one or more of the three facets: architectures, algorithms, and applications. Papers dealing with fundamental theoretical analyses as well as those demonstrating their application to real-world problems will be welcome. The journal publishes original papers, letters to the Editors and from time to time invited review articles, in all areas related to the information fusion arena including, but not limited to, the following suggested topics:• Data/Image, Feature, Decision, and Multilevel Fusion • Multi-classifier/Decision Systems• Multi-Look Temporal Fusion• Multi-Sensor, Multi-Source Fusion System Architectures• Distributed and Wireless Sensor Networks• Higher Level Fusion Topics Including Situation Awareness And Management • Multi-Sensor Management and Real-Time Applications• Adaptive And Self-Improving Fusion System Architectures• Active, Passive, And Mixed Sensor Suites• Multi-Sensor And Distributed Sensor System Design• Fusion Learning In Imperfect, Imprecise And Incomplete Environments• Intelligent Techniques For Fusion Processing• Fusion System Design And Algorithmic Issues• Fusion System Computational Resources and Demands Optimization• Special Purpose Hardware Dedicated To Fusion Applications• Mining Remotely Sensed Multi-Spectral/Hyper-Spectral Image Data Bases• Information Fusion Applications in Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Information Security and Assurance arena• Applications such as Robotics, Space, Bio-medical, Transportation, Economics, and Financial Information Systems• Real-World Issues such as Computational Demands, Real-Time Constraints in the context of Fusion systems.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

Information Sciences will publish original, innovative and creative research results. A smaller number of timely tutorial and surveying contributions will be published from time to time.The journal is designed to serve researchers, developers, managers, strategic planners, graduate students and others interested in state-of-the art research activities in information, knowledge engineering and intelligent systems. Readers are assumed to have a common interest in information science, but with diverse backgrounds in fields such as engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, cell biology, molecular biology, management science, cognitive science, neurobiology, behavioural sciences and biochemistry.The journal publishes high-quality, refereed articles. It emphasizes a balanced coverage of both theory and practice. It fully acknowledges and vividly promotes a breadth of the discipline of Informations Sciences.Topics include:Foundations of Information Science:Information Theory, Mathematical Linguistics, Automata Theory, Cognitive Science, Theories of Qualitative Behaviour, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing, Semiotics, Computational Biology and Bio-informatics.Implementations and Information Technology:Intelligent Systems, Genetic Algorithms and Modelling, Fuzzy Logic and Approximate Reasoning, Artificial Neural Networks, Expert and Decision Support Systems, Learning and Evolutionary Computing, Expert and Decision Support Systems, Learning and Evolutionary Computing, Biometrics, Moleculoid Nanocomputing, Self-adaptation and Self-organisational Systems, Data Engineering, Data Fusion, Information and Knowledge, Adaptive ad Supervisory Control, Discrete Event Systems, Symbolic / Numeric and Statistical Techniques, Perceptions and Pattern Recognition, Design of Algorithms, Software Design, Computer Systems and Architecture Evaluations and Tools, Human-Computer Interface, Computer Communication Networks and Modelling and Computing with WordsApplications:Manufacturing, Automation and Mobile Robots, Virtual Reality, Image Processing and Computer Vision Systems, Photonics Networks, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Brain Mapping, Language and Search Engine Design, User-friendly Man Machine Interface, Data Compression and Text Abstraction and Summarization, Virtual Reality, Finance and Economics Modelling and Optimisation

Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective is a highly influential insider's review dealing with the ever-changing security environment and its inherent challenges. It provides essential information for managing the evolving enterprise, with detailed articles on emerging technologies, current trends and innovative solutions. The Journal's audience is comprised of dedicated professionals charged with implementing security programs, as well as those who create and enforce policies and procedures. It is also made up of authors who are experts in their respective areas, submitting timely and visionary perspectives for the education of all.The journal covers: Access Control Analysis and Monitoring Application Security Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Certification and Accreditation Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) Cryptography Enterprise Security Management Practices Enterprise-wide System Development Security Information Security and Risk Management Laws, Investigations, Forensics and Ethics Malicious Code Operations Security Physical (Environmental) Security Regulations and Compliance Risk, Response and Recovery Security Standards, Guidelines, Criteria Security Architecture and Design Security Operations and Administration Systems Security Engineering Telecommunications and Network Security.

Information Security Technical Report is a quarterly technical report, focused on a specific topic. It is aimed at senior information security managers, who need to gain a better understanding of current information security issues and solutions, and provides 'off-the shelf' consultancy from professional researchers and practitioners. The main objective of the report is to provide a balanced, impartial, up to date, and authoritative view of specific topics within the information security arena. The report is a joint venture between Elsevier and the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London.Using our links with the top names in information security, Information Security Technical Report brings you guidance and solutions from internationally renowned IT security professionals and consultants. Because we already know the experts in the field we make sure each issue contains their input and advice through a series of commissioned articles offering a different technical perspective on a particular topic.Published quarterly as a series of technical reports, each issue provides an in-depth look at a specific, often newly emerging security problem. Because an entire issue is dedicated to one topic, you can be sure of receiving the kind of depth and technical detail you won't get elsewhere in printed format.Forthcoming issues of the report will cover:• Unix Security• Critical Infrastructure Protection• OO Security• Authentication Developments• Smart Cards• Transaction Security• Mobile Security• Biometrics.