Computer Science Review publishes invited survey
papers covering the full spectrum of computer science. The surveys, both experimental and theoretical, provide general background information
as well as a critical assessment on topics in a state of flux.
The editorial policy of Computer Science Review is to serve its readership
in two ways. Firstly, it provides a critical overview of the current issues in a well-defined area of immediate interest to computer
scientists. Secondly, each survey contains an extensive list of references thus providing an invaluable pointer to the primary research
literature available on the topic.
This policy is implemented by the Editorial Board which consists of outstanding scientists in
their respective disciplines. The Board identifies the topics of interest and subsequently invites qualified authors. In order to ensure
speedy publication, each survey is published separately.
Submission of surveys:
Authors should a pdf or ps copy of their
manuscript to the Editor who invited the author to write the survey.
Editors-in-Chief:
J. Díaz
Departament
de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord - Ed. Omega, 240, Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3,
E-08034 Barcelona, Spain, Email: diaz@lsi.upc.edu
J. Nešetřil
Charles University, Malostranské
nam. 25, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic, Email: nesetril@kam.mff.cuni.cz
Editorial Board:
D. Achlioptas
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
N. Alon
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Ramat-Aviv, Tel
Aviv 69978, Israel
G. Ausiello
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza," Via Salaria 113,
00198, Rome, Italy
J. Bergstra
Institute of Informatics, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J.-C. Bermond
The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, 2004 route des Lucioles, B.P. 93, F - 06902, Sophia
Antipolis Cedez, France
X. Deng
Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon, Hong Kong
P. Flajolet
The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, Domaine de Voluceau-Rocquencourt, B.P.
105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France
Y. Gurevich
Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
J. Karhumaki
Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, FIN-20014, Turku, Finland
L. Kavraki
Department of Computer Science, Rice University,
MS132, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892, USA
U. Montanari
Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Pisa, Universita di
Pisa Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
M. Nielsen
Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, IT-Parken,
Aabogade 34, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
T. Nishizeki
Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-77,
Japan
D. Sannella
Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
EH9 3JZ, Scotland
P. Spirakis
Research Academic Computer, Computer Technology Institute, N. Kazantzakis str., University Campus,
265 00 Rio, Patras, Greece
M. Veloso
Computer Science Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Wean
Hall 7123, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA
P. Widmayer
Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich,
Switzerland
Submission language: English
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authors with a list of people who can check and improve the English of their paper (before submission). Please contact our Tokyo office:
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Types of contributions: Survey papers and invited book reviews.
Corresponding author:
Clearly indicate who is responsible for correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, including post-publication. Ensure
that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.
Full postal addresses must be given for all co-authors. Please consult a recent journal paper for style if possible.
Original
material: Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract
or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication
is approved by all authors and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language,
without the written consent of the Publisher.
Editor's requirements:
There are no page charges
Overview for
Contents of Surveys
A good topical survey should provide a broad introduction to the subject area for the general reader and/or
newcomer to the field. The survey should also provide an update to those who already have a deeper knowledge of the field by reporting
on recent significant developments.
The survey should be approximately 50 printed pages in length (i.e. 100 typed pages) and should
include the following elements:
a good descriptive title
a concise abstract
a table of contents
that establishes the structure of the survey
an introduction
an extensive reference list
Special
attention should be paid to the reference list, which should be an exhaustive survey of the literature and serve as a source of material,
as well as directing the interested reader towards other references.
Preparation of manuscripts
Detailed instructions
on manuscript preparation and artwork instructions can be found below. The editor reserves the right to return manuscripts that do not
conform to the instructions for manuscript preparation and artwork instruction, as well as paper that do not fit the scope of the journal,
prior to refereeing.
Manuscript Preparation:
General: Authors are requested to transmit the text and art
of the manuscript in a PDF file produced from LaTeX via e-mail, each time a new version is submitted. Submission as an e-mail attachment
should include all files in a single archive the size of which does not exceed 2 megabytes. The Elsevier LaTeX package (including detailed
instructions for LaTeX preparation) is available at http://www.elsevier.com/latex. Note that the use of other specified
versions of TeX or extensive use of custom macros might necessitate conventional typesetting from the hard-copy manuscript, which will
delay the production time involved. The manuscript will be edited according to the style of the journal, and authors must read the proofs
carefully.Manuscripts prepared using TeX or LaTeX are welcome; however, LaTeX(2e) is preferred. Authors are strongly encouraged to use
the LaTeX template available at http://www.authors.elsevier.com/getting_published.html?dc=QG3 for manuscript preparation.
Note that the use of other specialized versions of TeX or extensive use of custom macros may necessitate conventional typesetting from
the hard-copy manuscript. Hard-copy printouts of the manuscript and art that exactly match the electronic file must be supplied. The
manuscript will be edited according to the style of the journal, and authors must read the proofs carefully.
Structure:
Follow this order when typing manuscripts: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References,
Figure Captions and then Tables. For information regarding illustrations, please refer to http://www.elsevier.com/locate/artworkinstructions.
Estimation of Length: For a rough estimate of the final length of their printed article, authors should count 850 words
per full two-column page or four illustrations per page.
Title: The survey should be headed by a concise and informative
title. This should be followed by the name(s) of the author(s) and by the name and complete address of the laboratory in which the work
was performed. If the address of the author at the time when the paper will appear will be other than that where the work was carried
out, this may be stated in a footnote, but footnotes should otherwise be avoided.
Abstract:
The survey should have
an abstract of 50-200 words, provided on a separate sheet. The abstract should comprise a brief and factual account of the contents and
conclusions of the survey as well as an indication of any new information presented and its relevance. Abstracts should be understandable
in isolation, and reference to formulae, equations or references that appear in the main text is thus not permissible.
Keywords: Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of six keywords (avoid, for example, "and", "of", etc.). Be sparing with
abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible.
Introduction: The survey should have
an introduction that states the reasons for the work, with brief reference to previous work on the subject.
References:
Special attention should be paid to the reference list, which should be an exhaustive survey of the literature and serve as a source
of the material, as well as directing the interested reader towards other references.
The references should be brought together at
the end of the survey. Footnotes should not include bibliographic material, and reference lists should not include material that could
more appropriately appear as a footnote. Authors should check whether every reference in the text appears in the list of references and
vice versa. Numerals for references are given in square brackets [ ]. In the reference list, journals [1], books [2], and edited multi-author
books [3] should be cited in accordance with the following examples:
[1] J.A. Bergstra , J.W. Klop, Process algebra for synchronous
communication, Information and Control 60 (1-3) (1984) 109-137.
[2] R.J. van Glabbeek, The meaning of negative premises in transition
system specifications II, Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming 60-61 (2004) 229-258.
[3] G.D. Plotkin, A structural approach
to operational semantics, Technical Report DAIMI FN-19, Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, September 1981.
Each reference should be complete; thus the use of ibid., idem., et al., etc. is not permitted. Abbreviations for the titles of journals
should follow the system used by the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index, 1970 edition, and supplements.
References to books
should include the following information: title, publisher, town of publication, year of publication and page number. This information
should also be given for published proceedings or abstracts of conferences, together with the location and date of the meeting, e.g.
[4] N. Fujimori, T. Imai, H. Nakahata, Symposium N Plasma Assisted Deposition of New Materials. MRS Fall 1987 Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov.
30-Dec 5, 1987. Articles not yet published should be given as "in press", "submitted for publication" or "in preparation". Details of
personal communications or unpublished results should be given as a reference, e.g.
[5] A. Jones, personal communication, 1997.
Colour Costs and Queries:
For colour illustrations, a colour printing fee is charged to the author per colour page. Further
information concerning colour illustrations and costs is available from Author Support at authorsupport@elsevier.com,
and at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
FREE ONLINE COLOUR
If, together with your accepted
article, you submit usable colour and black/white figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will
appear in colour on the web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in
colour in the printed version.
Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting colour figures to "grey
scale" (for the black/white printed version of e-colour) please submit in addition usable black and white versions of all the colour
illustrations. Also make sure that in your captions and text you do not refer to colour, as the images will be black and white in print,
and references to colour will not make any sense to the reader of the print journal. 'Usable' means the formats comply with our instructions.
See the information about Illustrations at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. For colour illustrations in the
print journal see Colour Costs above.
Tables:
Tables should be numbered consecutively and given suitable captions and
each table should begin on a new page. No vertical rules should be used. Tables should not duplicate results presented elsewhere in the
manuscript (for example, in graphs). Footnotes to tables should be typed below the table and should be referred to by superscript lowercase
letters.
Notification:
Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their paper by the editor. The Publisher will also
send a notification of receipt of the paper in production.
Copyright:
All authors must sign the Transfer of Copyright
agreement before the article can be published. This transfer agreement enables Elsevier to protect the copyrighted material for the authors,
but does not relinquish the authors' proprietary rights. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute
the article, including reprints, photographic reproductions, microfilm or any other reproductions of similar nature and translations.
Authors are responsible for obtaining from the copyright holder permission to reproduce any figures for which copyright exists. Elsevier
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PDF Proofs:
One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author, to be checked for
typesetting/editing. The corrections should be returned within 48 hours. No changes in, or additions to, the accepted (and subsequently
edited) manuscript will be allowed at this stage. Proofreading is solely the author's responsibility. Any queries should be answered
in full. Please correct factual errors only, or errors introduced by typesetting.
For more information on proofreading please go
to our proofreading page http://www.elsevier.com/locate/languagepolishing. Please note that once your paper has been proofed
we publish the identical paper online as in print.
Author Benefits:
Submissions are free of charge and recognizing the
work involved in preparing a survey article, Elsevier will pay authors for their contributions to Computer Science Review. This amount
will be 400 per accepted article for the authors; provided the article meets minimum length requirements (at least 20 typeset pages,
preferably more).
Book reviewers will be paid for comprehensive book review contributions - 15 per typeset page, to a maximum of
100.
Free offprints: The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article. 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.
Online Paper Tracking:
Authors can track the status of their accepted paper online at http://www.elsevier.com/trackarticle using the reference
supplied by the Publisher.
