Devoted to the Rapid Publication of Short Contributions to Information Processing
Guide for Authors
Contributions should be sent in quadruplicate to a member of the Board of Editors
(NOT the Managing Editor) selected for reasons of geographic or subject-area proximity. Editors may also permit electronic submissions.
Potential authors are advised not to submit the same or similar papers to two or more Editors. Multiple submissions will be unconditionally
rejected. Before submitting your contributions you may wish to consult the IPL Editors' Domains of Competency below. Contributions must
be in English or American. Please contact the Managing Editor if you have questions or problems concerning submission, processing, or
publication of a paper. Submit a paper ONLY to an Editor (based primarily on subject-area proximity) who is on the Board of Editors.
The Managing Editor is not responsible for directing submissions to appropriate Editors. Since no linguistic assistance in the form
of copy editing is provided by IPL, poorly written papers will not be considered.
The length of a contribution (including
all figures, references etc.) should not exceed the equivalent of nine A4 or 8 1/2-by-11 pages, typed with wide margins and double line-spacing,
i.e., approximately a 20K character file or 3,000 words. An Editor's decision to reject a contribution because of its length is final.
An abstract is not required, but appropriate keywords must be supplied; these should include at least one keyword drawn
from the following list of keywords: algorithms – analysis of algorithms – approximation algorithms – automatic theorem
proving – combinatorial problems – compilers – computational complexity – computational geometry – concurrency – cryptography – databases – data structures – design of algorithms – distributed computing – distributed
systems – fault tolerance – formal languages – formal methods – formal semantics – functional programming – graph algorithms – information retrieval – interconnection networks – on-line algorithms – operating
systems – parallel algorithms – parallel processing – performance evaluation – program correctness – program
derivation – programming calculi – programming languages – program specification – randomized algorithms –
real–time systems – safety/security in digital systems – scheduling – software design and implementation –
software engineering – specification languages – theory of computation.
References should be numbered and put in alphabetical
order at the end of the paper. References should contain the names and initials of all authors, title of the article, name of the journal,
volume number, year of publication (or title of volume, name of editor(s), name of publishers), and page numbers. See papers in existing
issues of IPL for the preferred style. Since IPL is not published from camera-ready copies, there is no need to supply
fancy print-outs. If computer-assisted printing is used, care must be taken that the print is legible and properly paginated and that
the paper satisfies the length constraint stated earlier. Figures should be sharp glossy prints of about manuscript size or,
preferably, original drawings or computer output.
Once a submission has been accepted for publication, all further correspondence
should be sent directly to the Publishers (Elsevier B.V., P.O. Box 2759, 1000 CT Amsterdam, The Netherlands - refer to IPL on
the envelope).
Upon acceptance of an article, author(s) are asked to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. This transfer
of copyright will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. There are no page charges. Twenty five free offprints are
supplied for each article published. Further offprints can be ordered from the Publisher. (Both an Offprint Order Form and a Copyright
Transfer). Notice will be sent by the Publisher upon receipt of the paper.
IPL Editors' Domains of Competency
For
each IPL keyword, the table below lists Editors who prefer handling submissions classified by that keyword. Choosing an Editor indicated
in the table may lead to a shorter processing time for your submission. Within each group, the Editors are listed alphabetically --no
order of preference is implied.
algorithms: Bertossi, Chin, Dehne, Hambrusch, Hemaspaandra, Hsu, Iwama, Scheideler, Vitanyi, Yamashita
analysis of algorithms: Dehne, Hambrusch, Hemaspaandra, Hsu, Iwama, Scheideler, Yamashita
approximation algorithms: Chin, Iwama,
Scheideler
automatic theorem proving: Basin, Chomicki
combinatorial problems: Boasson, Hambrusch, Hemaspaandra, Hsu, Iwama, Scheideler,
Yamashita
compilers: Morrisett
computational complexity: Bertossi, Hemaspaandra, Iwama, Scheideler, Vitanyi
computational
geometry: Boasson, Chin, Dehne, Hambrusch, Yamashita
concurrency: Fiadeiro,
cryptography: Desmedt, Pointcheval, Yamashita
databases: Chomicki, Hambrusch
data structures: Bertossi, Dehne, Hambrusch, Hemaspaandra, Hsu, Moffat, Scheideler, Yamashita
design of algorithms: Dehne, Hambrusch, Hemaspaandra, Hsu, Iwama, Moffat, Scheideler, Yamashita
distributed computing: Chin, Iwama,
Scheideler, Vitanyi, Yamashita
distributed systems: Vitanyi
fault tolerance: Bertossi,
formal languages: Boasson, Iwama,
Yamashita
formal methods: Basin, Fiadeiro
formal semantics: Boasson, Fiadeiro, Yamashita, Morrisett
functional programming:
Boasson, Morrisett
graph algorithms: Chin, Iwama, Scheideler, Yamashita
information retrieval: Hambrusch, Hsu, Moffat
interconnection
networks: Bertossi, Dehne, Hambrusch, Yamashita
on-line algorithms: Iwama, Scheideler
operating systems:
parallel algorithms:
Bertossi, Dehne, Hambrusch, Iwama, Scheideler, Yamashita
parallel processing: Dehne, Hambrusch
performance evaluation: Bertossi
program correctness: Basin, Fiadeiro, Morrisett
program derivation: Basin,
program specification: Basin, Chomicki, Fiadeiro,
Morrisett
programming calculi: Morrisett
programming languages: Chomicki, Morrisett
randomized algorithms: Iwama, Scheideler
real-time systems: Bertossi
safety/security in digital systems: Basin, Chomicki, Desmedt, Yamashita, Morrisett
scheduling: Bertossi,
Yamashita
software design and implementation: Fiadeiro
software engineering: Fiadeiro
specification languages: Basin, Chomicki,
Fiadeiro
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Electronic Submission: LaTeX documents The Latex source for an accepted paper (only) may be submitted along with the final
printed version; this can speed up processing time and reduce errors.
If the file is suitable, proofs will be produced without rekeying
the text. The article should be encoded in ESP-LaTeX, standard LaTeX, or AMS-LaTeX (in document style "article"). The Elsevier-LaTex
package, together with instructions on how to prepare a file, is available from the Publisher. This package can be obtained from http://www.elsevier.com/latex, or using anonymous FTP from the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) at sites in the USA,
United Kingdom and in Germany.
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Electronic submission: non-LaTeX documents
The final accepted manuscript can be submitted
electronically, along with a paper-printed version which is identical to the file. Please mention which word processor you have used.
The word-processed text should be in single column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible; in particular, do not use
the word-processor's options to justify the text or to hyphenate words. The electronic text should be prepared in a way very similar
to that of conventional manuscripts (see also Guide for Authors). The list of references, tables and figure legends should be compiled
separately from the main text. Do not reserve space for the figures and tables in the text; instead, indicate their approximate locations,
either directly in the electronic text or on the manuscript. If the electronic version is submitted on diskette, use standard 3.5" diskettes
for this purpose and label it with your name. It is recommended to store the main text, list of references, tables and figure legends
in separate text files with clearly identifiable file names (for example, with extensions .TXT, .REF, .TBL,.FIG). The format of the files
depends on the word-processor used. Essential is that name and version of the word-processing program and the type of computer on which
the text was prepared is clearly indicated on the diskette label or the accompanying checklist. The manuscript may contain parts (e.g.
formulas or complex tables) or last-minute corrections which are not included in the electronic text; however, if this is the case then
the differences with the electronic version should be clearly marked on the manuscript. Illustrative material (original figures or
high-quality glossy prints, or photographs showing a sharp contrast) should be included separately.
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Keyword Instructions Important Notice: please add one to five keywords to your article Keywords
are essential for the accessibility and retrievability of your article. Keywords assigned to articles will be assembled in a keyword
index which will be printed in the last issue of each volume, and in cumulative indexes. In addition, it is planned to make keywords
available on Internet.
To maximize the consistency with which such keywords are assigned by different authors, the following guidelines
have been drawn up.
Each keyword (which can be a phrase of more than one word) should describe one single concept. Often words
like "and" or "of" should be avoided. At least one keyword should be drawn from the list of keywords given above.
Avoid very
general keywords which become meaningless once in a keyword list. Examples to avoid are "action", "computer", "mathematics". Check whether
thekeywords as a whole describe the outlines of the article.
Use natural language: for instance "automatic error recovery"
rather than "error recovery, automatic".
Try to use nouns and adjectives as much as possible (i.e. use "automatic error recovery"
rather than "recovering errors automatically"). Do not use nouns in the plural form.
Use English rather than American spelling
(regardless of the spelling used for the article itself).
Avoid the use of abbreviations as much as possible, unless an abbreviation
is so well-established that the full term is rarely used (e.g. use "laser" instead of "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of
Radiation", but use "computer aided design" instead of "CAD").
Although these guidelines are not mandatory, they should be
adhered to where possible.
Author Benefits No page charge is due The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided
with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively, 50 free paper offprints. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published
article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use. 30% discount
on Elsevier books.
