The purpose of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences is to publish original research papers in computer science and system
science, with emphasis on the relevant mathematical theory and its applications. Papers may deal with such subjects as automata theory,
databases, complexity, computational learning theory, parallel computation, quantum computation, computational biology, computer network
algorithms, cryptography and computer/communication security, theory of formal languages and formal systems, theory of algorithms, computer
programming theory, mathematical theory of systems (discrete or continuous, deterministic or stochastic), optimization of systems, mathematical
programming, computational biology and genomics, and applications of mathematics to the study of complex systems.
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Manuscripts
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English and should be submitted in duplicate to:
Professor Edward. K. Blum, Managing Editor Journal of Computer and
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Title page (page 1). This page should contain the article title, authors' names and
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Abstract (page 2). The abstract must be a single paragraph that summarizes the main findings of the paper
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Footnotes. In text, footnotes should be avoided. If absolutely necessary, identify them by superscript Arabic numerals
in order of their appearance and type them together on a separate page, double-spaced.
Equations. Numbers for displayed
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References to the literature should be cited by number in square brackets in the text and listed in numerical order at
the end. Cite references in text by Arabic numerals between brackets as [1], [1,2], [1, Theorem 1.5]. Please note the following examples:
[1] H. Ibarra, J. Su, A technique for proving decidability of containment and equivalence of linear constraint queries, J. Comput.
System Sci. 59 (1999) 1-28.
[2]. R.M. Haralick, Edge and region analysis for digital image data, in: A. Rosenfeld (Ed.), Image Modeling,
Academic Press, New York, 1981, pp. 171-184.
[3] R.A. Schowengerdt, Techniques for Image Processing and Classification in Remote
Sensing, Academic Press, New York, 1983.
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