Journal Guide

Published on behalf of the VLDB Endowment, this journal contains scholarly contributions that examine information system architectures, the impact of technological advancements on information systems, and the development of novel database applications. The VLDB Journal also publishes a number of special issues in addition to the regular ones. One issue of each volume (usually the third) is devoted to selected papers from the previous year's VLDB Conference. Other special issues focus on information that the Editors and the Editorial Board determine to be of importance to the database community, including: - Privacy-Preserving Data Management - Integration of databases and information retrieval - Data Management, Analysis and Mining for the Life Sciences - Data Stream Processing - XML Data Management - E-Services - Databases and the Web - Multimedia Databases.

The Journal of Visual Languages and Computing is a forum for researchers, practitioners, and developers to exchange ideas and results for the advancement of visual languages and its implication to the art of computing. The journal publishes research papers, state-of-the-art surveys, and review articles in all aspects of visual languages.Research Areas Include:• Visual languages• Visual programming• Human-machine interface design• Multi-media communications• Pictorial databases• Pictorial information systems• Information retrieval systems and algorithms• Cognitive aspects of human-machine systems• Human vision systems and models• Visualization of computational processes• Large-scale scientific computing• Parallel/distributed/neural computing and representations for visual information processing• Advanced applications in geographic information systems• Pictorial archiving and communication systems• Biomedical imagery• Industrial automation• Computer animation• Computer-assisted visual artsBenefits 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

New Publishing Partnership Journal of Information Display is the official journal of the Korean Information Display Society (KIDS), and publishes original and significant contributions dealing with the theory and practice of information displays. The scope includes the following areas: LCD, PDP, EL, FED, Large Area Displays, Applied Vision/Human Factors, 3D Displays, Material/Component/Manufacturing Equipment and Liquid Crystal Technology. Articles must be written in English. All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two expert referees. Journal of Information Display is supported by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies Grant, which is funded by the Korean Government (MEST). STAR Taylor & Francis/Routledge are committed to the widest possible dissemination of its journals to non-profit institutions in developing countries. Our STAR initiative offers individual researchers in Africa, South Asia and many parts of South East Asia the opportunity to gain one month's free online access to 1,300 Taylor & Francis journals. For more information, please visit the STAR website. Disclaimer The Korean Information Display Society and Taylor & Francis make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the 'Content') contained in its publications. However, the Society and Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not necessarily the views of the Editor, the Society or Taylor & Francis.

Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian focuses on the production, collection, organization, dissemination, retrieval, and use of information in the social and behavioral sciences. This peer-reviewed journal publishes articles on all aspects of behavioral and social sciences information, with emphasis on librarians, libraries, and the users of social science information in libraries and information centers. The Journal publishes articles devoted to descriptive and critical analyses of information resources within particular fields; publishing trends; reference and bibliographic instruction; indexing and abstracting; thesaurus building and database construction; bibliographic and numeric databases and more. The Journal welcomes original research from a variety of disciplines, including the core fields of anthropology, sociology, economics, psychology, communication studies, education, political science, and those parts of history relying on social scientific methods and approaches8212;language and area studies and the study of special populations, such as Latin American studies, ethnic studies, and women's studies. Readership: Professionals with a common interest in the use of information in the behavioral and social sciences, including librarians and information specialists, collection development administrators, scholars, teachers, policymakers, publishers, and database producersPeer Review Policy: All research articles in Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two anonymous referees. Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

The Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) is a monthly journal publishing peer-reviewed original contributions on all aspects of surgery. These contributions include, but are not limited to, original clinical studies, review articles, and experimental investigations with clear clinical relevance. In general, case reports are not considered for publication. As the official scientific journal of the American College of Surgeons, JACS has the goal of providing its readership the highest quality rapid retrieval of information relevant to surgeons.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

The scope of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics includes computational approaches to the field of cybernetics. Specifically, the transactions welcomes papers on communication and control across machines or machine, human, and organizations. The scope includes such areas as computational intelligence, computer vision, neural networks, genetic algorithms,  machine learning, fuzzy systems, cognitive systems, decision making, and robotics, to the extent that they contribute to the theme of cybernetics or demonstrate an application of cybernetics principles.

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The IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems publishes high quality technical papers in the theory, design, and application of fuzzy systems. Readers are encouraged to submit papers which disclose significant technical knowledge, exploratory developments and applications of fuzzy systems. Emphasis is given to engineering systems and scientific applications. The Transactions also contains a letters section which includes information of current interest, and comments and rebuttals submitted in connection with published papers.

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The IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to applied research on professional communication—including but not limited to technical and business communication. Papers should address the research interests and needs of technical communicators, engineers, scientists, information designers, editors, linguists, translators, managers, business professionals, and others from around the globe who practice, conduct research on, and teach others about effective professional communication.

The Transactions publishes original, empirical research that addresses one of these contexts:

• The communication practices of technical professionals, such as engineers and scientists
• The practices of professional communicators who work in technical or business environments
• Evidence-based methods for teaching and practicing professional and technical communication
   

The IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing is a cross-disciplinary and international archive journal aimed at disseminating results of research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. The journal publishes original research on the principles and theories explaining why and how affective factors condition interaction between humans and technology, on how affective sensing and simulation techniques can inform our understanding of human affective processes, and on the design, implementation and evaluation of systems that carefully consider affect among the factors that influence their usability. Surveys of existing work are considered for publication when they propose a new viewpoint on the history and the perspective on this domain. The journal covers but is not limited to the following topics::

• Sensing & analysis: Algorithms and features for the recognition of affective state from face and body gestures
• Analysis of text and spoken language for emotion recognition
• Analysis of prosody and voice quality of affective speech
• Recognition of auditory and visual affect bursts
• Recognition of affective state from central (e.g. fMRI, EEG) and peripheral (e.g. GSR) physiological measures
• Methods for multi-modal recognition of affective state
• Recognition of group emotion
• Methods of data collection with respect to psychological issues as mood induction and elicitation or technical methodology as motion capturing
• Tools and methods of annotation for provision of emotional corpora. (Cyber) psychology & behavior: Clarification of concepts related to ‘affective computing’ (e.g., emotion, mood, personality, attitude) in ways that facilitate their use in computing
• Computational models of human emotion processes (e.g., decision-making models that account for the influence of emotion; predictive models of user emotional state)
• Studies on cross-cultural, group and cross-language differences in emotional expression
• Contributions to standards and markup language for affective computing. Behavior Generation & User Interaction: Computational models of visual, acoustic and textual emotional expression for synthetic and robotic agents
• Models of verbal and nonverbal expression of various forms of affect that facilitate machine implementation
• Methods to adapt interaction with technology to the affective state of users
• Computational methods for influencing the emotional state of people
• New methods for defining and evaluating the usability of affective systems and the role of affect in usability
• Methods of emotional profiling and adaptation in mid- to long-term interaction
• Application of affective computing including education, health care, entertainment, customer service, design, vehicle operation, social agents/robotics, affective ambient intelligence, customer experience measurement, multimedia retrieval, surveillance systems, biometrics, music retrieval and generation

The IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering is committed to timely publishing of peer-reviewed technical articles that deal with the theory and applications of network science and the interconnections among the elements in a system that form a network.

In particular, the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering publishes articles on understanding, prediction, and control of structures and behaviors of networks at the fundamental level. The types of networks covered include physical or engineered networks, information networks, biological networks, semantic networks, economic networks, social networks, and ecological networks. Aimed at discovering common principles that govern network structures, network functionalities and behaviors of networks, the journal seeks articles on understanding, prediction, and control of structures and behaviors of networks.

Another trans-disciplinary focus of the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering is the interactions between and co-evolution of different genres of networks. The core topics covered include: Network Sampling and Measurement; Learning of Network Topology; Modeling and Estimation of Network Dynamics; Network Inference; Models of Complex Networks; Modeling of Network Evolution; Network Design; Consensus, Synchronization and Control of Complex Networks; Interactions between and Co-evolution of Different Genres of Networks; Community Formation and Detection; Complex Network Robustness and Vulnerability; Network Interdependency and Cascading Failures; Searching in Complex Networks; Information Diffusion and Propagation; Percolation and Diffusion on Networks; Epidemiology in Complex Systems.

Government Information Quarterly is an international journal that examines the intersection of policy, information technology, government, and the public. In particular, GIQ focuses on how policies affect government information flows and the availability of government information; the use of technology to create and provide innovative government services; the impact of information technology on the relationship between the governed and those governing; and the increasing significance of information policies and information technology in relation to democratic practices.As the leading journal in the field, Government Information Quarterly seeks to publish high quality scholarly research, reviews, review essays and editorials that inform both researchers and practitioners regarding the relationship between policy, information technology, government, and the public. The journal seeks submissions drawn from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to information science, public policy, public administration, political science, business, law, geography, information systems, communications, economics, sociology, computer science, and public health.Government Information Quarterly encourages submissions that focus on:• Information policies and their impact on government information flows, availability, and access.• The impact of information technology on government innovation, transformation, and practice.• An open, transparent, and accountable government.• Data privacy, protection and security.• Participatory decision-making and civic engagement and the role of information technology in promoting and/or limiting civil discourse, participation, and practice. • Information flows in public spheres.• Co-participation and co-production between the governed and the governing and the influence of technology and policy on the relationship between the public and government.• The citizen, the state, information policy, and information technology. • The development, implementation, and use of information systems and emerging technologies as platforms and delivery tools for government services and resources, as well as tools for decision and policy making.Within this scope, Government Information Quarterly encourages submissions that include original research papers that are theory-driven research; papers that combine theory & practice; reviews & review essays, editorials; teaching cases and case studies.

Health Information Science and Systems is a multidisciplinary journal that aims to integrate computer science/information technology with health science and services, embracing information science research coupled with topics related to the modeling, design, development, integration, and management of health information systems.Health Information Science and Systems is an international, archival, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open access journal covering all aspects of the health information sciences and the systems that support this information. The scope includes i) medical/health/biomedicine information resources, such as patient medical records, devices and equipments, software and tools to capture, store, retrieve, process, analyze, optimize the use of information in the health domain, ii) data management, data mining, and knowledge discovery, all of which play a key role in decision making, management of public health, examination of standards, privacy and security issues, iii) development of new architectures and applications for health information systems. Health Information Science and Systems' topical coverage includes, but is not restricted to, the following subjects:Information systems including electronic health records, hospital information systems, data exchange and integrationHealth service delivery, workflowData mining, knowledge discovery, decision making supportSystem interoperability, ontology and standardizationBioinformaticsBiomedical informaticsBrain informaticsTelemedicineHealth data managementHealth database and information-system integrationHealth information extractionHealth information servicesHealth information-system modeling, design, and developmentHealth information visualizationSupport tools and languages for health information-system developmentHe, alth Information Science and Systems seeks articles on research methods and conceptual insights that are healthcare motivated but could potentially be applied broadly in diverse domains, both within and outside healthcare context. Methods may be drawn from information technology, computer science, bioinformatics, biomedicine, decision science, cognitive science, psychology, management science, and statistics. Articles emphasizing information management and knowledge representation/modeling issues that arise from the storage and use of health informatics will also be considered. System descriptions are welcome if they illustrate and substantiate the underlying methodology.

The purpose of the International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology is to concentrate and disseminate information concerning prevention, cure and care of otorhinolaryngological disorders in infants and children due to developmental, degenerative, infectious, neoplastic, traumatic, social, psychiatric and economic causes. The Journal provides a medium for clinical and basic contributions in all of the areas of pediatric otorhinolaryngology. This includes medical and surgical otology, bronchoesophagology, laryngology, rhinology, diseases of the head and neck, and disorders of communication, including voice, speech and language disorders.Published in cooperation with the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Otolaryngology and Bronchoesophagology, the Asociación Argentina de Otorrinolaringología y Fonoaudiología Pediátrica, the Association Française d'Otorhinolaryngologie Pédiatrique, the Australasian Society of Paediatric Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, the British Association for Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology, the Dutch/FlemishWorking Group for Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, the European Society for Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, the Hungarian Society of Otorhinolaryngologists Section on Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, the Interamerican Association of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, the Italian Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, theJapan Society for Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, the Polish Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, and the Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Advances in Children.

ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.

The journal provides a forum for academics and professionals to share the latest developments and advances in knowledge and practice of international business. It aims to foster the exchange of ideas on a range of important international subjects and to provide stimulus for research and the further development of international perspectives. The international perspective is further enhanced by the geographical spread of the contributors.Articles, all of which are refereed, comprise: empirical studies with practical application; examinations of theoretical and methodological developments in the field of business studies; and reviews of the literature in international business.IBR is the official journal of the European International Business Academy (EIBA).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