International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics
Quarterly, ISSN: 1756-378X
URL in UK: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ijicc.htm
URL in CN: http://ijicc.buaa.edu.cn
Call for Papers: Special Issue
on "Swarm
Robotics"
"International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (IJICC)" is published quarterly by Emerald Group Publishing Limited, a 41 years leading publisher(1967~2008). Its objective is to discuss, through papers, new theoretical developments and techniques in the fields of intelligent computing and cybernetics. All submissions will be thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts in the related fields based on originality, significance and clarity, only papers presenting novel research results or successful innovative applications are seriously considered for publication in IJICC.
"International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (IJICC)" serves as
an international forum for the publication of the latest developments in all
areas of intelligent computing and cybernetics.
Intelligent computing
focuses on studying
and understanding the underlying principles of natural computation, and how
these principles can be adopted or modified to extend and enrich computer
science and engineering.
Cybernetics
is the
science of communication and control in society and in individual human beings.
Algorithms, techniques and theories in these fields have been successfully
applied to a wide range of complex problems. IJICC will consider for publication
original papers in all disciplines of intelligent computing and cybernetics
including but not limited to:
◆ self-adjusting systems, learning,
multi-agent systems, cognitive systems
◆ planning and uncertainty handling, decision
theory, distributed decision making, case-based reasoning, game theory
◆ data mining, cluster analysis, forecasting,
discrete event dynamic systems
◆ evolutionary computation, function approximation,
unsupervised learning, fuzzy logic, fuzzy set theory, support vector machines
◆ genetic algorithms, ant colony optimization,
particle swarm optimization, artificial immune system
◆ evolutionary games, differential evolution,
cultural algorithms, artificial life
◆ granular computing, grid computing, DNA
computing, internet computing, quantum computation, simulated annealing
◆ image processing, image recognition, image
segmentation
◆ natural language processing, information
retrieval, information fusion, intelligent search, knowledge acquisition,
knowledge based systems
◆ mathematical optimization, neural nets, pattern
recognition, Petri nets, semantic web, electronic commerce
◆ evolvable hardware, robot programming, software
development environments, system health management, intelligent transportation
◆ flight control, intelligent control, nonlinear
control, optimal control, predictive control, adaptive control, robust control,
stochastic control, variable structure control, networked control, production
control, motion control
◆ system identification, fault identification,
flexible manipulators, robotics, manufacturing systems, hybrid systems,
real-time systems, virtual reality
◆ Editor-in-Chief:
Hai-Bin DUAN
School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University
No. 37, Xueyuan Road, Haidian District
Beijing, 100083, P. R. China
Email: hbduan@buaa.edu.cn
Please use the email address ijicc@buaa.edu.cn when submitting manuscripts.
◆ Advisory Board:
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Natural Selection Inc., U.S.A Email: dfogel@natural-selection.com |
Lotfi A. Zadeh |
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University of South Florida, U.S.A. Email: hall@csee.usf.edu |
University of Connecticut, U.S.A. Email: Peter.Luh@uconn.edu |
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Boston University, U.S.A. Email: cgc@bu.edu |
Ministry of Education of P. R. China Email: xqlin@moe.edu.cn |
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Washington State University, U.S.A. |
National University of Singapore, Singapore Email: eletankc@nus.edu.sg |
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Beijing University of Aero. & Astro.,
P. R. China |
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◆ Managing Editor:
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Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France Email: talbi@lifl.fr |
Xiufen Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China Email: ijicc@buaa.edu.cn |
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Martin
Middendorf |
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◆ Editorial Board:
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University of Illinois, U.S.A. Email: wah@uiuc.edu |
Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Email: mdorigo@ulb.ac.be |
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University of Leiden, Netherlands Email: rozenber@liacs.nl |
Beijing Univ.of Posts and Telecom., China Email: yxzhong@ieee.org |
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Carlos A. Coello Coello |
Kay C. Wiese |
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Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. Email: yuhui.shi@xjtlu.edu.cn |
INRIA Rhône-Alpes Research Unit, France Email: Peter.Sturm@inrialpes.fr |
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University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Email: hproding@sun.ac.za |
Zhong-Ping Jiang |
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National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. and
Tech.,Taiwan |
Paul
Spirakis |
Vladimir FomichovState University–Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Email: vdrfom@aha.ru |
Wen-Hua Chen
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Hisao Ishibuchi |
University of New South Wales, Australia Email: abbass@itee.adfa.edu.au |
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Email: king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk |
Antonio Bicchi University of Pisa, Italy Email: bicchi@ing.unipi.it |
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University of Pretoria, South Africa |
Gerry Vernon Dozier |
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Minghsin University of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan Email: cstseng@must.edu.tw |
Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany Email: yaochu.jin@honda-ri.de |
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University of Nottingham, U.K. Email: gxk@cs.nott.ac.uk |
Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Email: mbiro@ulb.ac.be |
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Beihang University, P. R. China Email: czj@buaa.edu.cn
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Email: asysong@ntu.edu.sg |
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Gábor Horváth
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Email: horvath@mit.bme.hu |
Tsinghua University, P. R. China Email: szq-dcs@tsinghua.edu.cn
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Ball State University, U.S.A. Email: byang@bsu.edu |
Kyoto University, Japan Email: okuno@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp |
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University of Technology,Australia Email: dikai.liu@eng.uts.edu.au |
3. For Authors
Submitted manuscripts may be General Review(extensive reviews of established or emerging research topics or application areas), Research Paper (detailed discussions involving new research or applications), Technical Paper (detailed discussions involving new technical concepts and developments), Conceptual paper (new useful ideas and brief pertinent comments of a technical nature), and Viewpoint (Letters to the Editor about the journal or to authors commenting on previously published papers. In the latter case, the Editor will give the authors an opportunity to respond). The journal also publishes Special Issues on the subject of increasing importance.
Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published previously and is not under consideration of publication elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract or academic thesis or has been partially presented in conference).
Especially, substantially extended versions of conference papers (with at least 30% new materials) are invited for IJICC submissions. It is required that you include a statement of extensions at the beginning of your paper submission. Otherwise, your journal submission may be rejected as a double submission.
Upon acceptance of an article, author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
Manuscripts should be submitted as an email attachment, and the manuscripts for consideration should be email to: ijicc@buaa.edu.cn. An acknowledgment email regarding the receipt of the manuscript will be promptly sent. The review process will take approximately 8-14 weeks, and the author will be notified concerning the possibility of publication of the manuscript as soon as the review process is completed. All correspondence will be directed to the first author of multi-authored manuscripts. It is the responsibility of the first author to communicate with the other co-author(s).
A revised manuscript should be returned to the editor or Editor-in-Chief with a statement that describes actions taken in the revision corresponding to the main review comments of referees. Revised manuscripts may be reviewed again by the original review panel. Return of a manuscript to the author(s) for revision does not guarantee acceptance of the manuscript for publication. The final decision will be based upon the comments of the reviewers and editors, upon their final review of the revised manuscript.
Additional information about IJICC can be found at the home of the IJICC On-Line System http://ijicc.buaa.edu.cn or http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ijicc.htm
4. For Editors
(1)
The
Editor-in-Chief
collect submissions, and delegates each submission to an
Editorial Board member (referred to as the
handling editor hereafter).
(2)
The handling editor assigns and sends a paper to
2~3 reviewers, makes a recommendation to
the Editor-in-Chief based on the review reports. An early recommendation is
encouraged if only two consistent reviews are received timely.
A reviewer can be either an EB member or another person
appointed by the handling editor.
The handling editor should avoid two reviewers from the same research group when
handling a paper submission.
(3)
Although the final editorial decision will lie
with the Editor-in-Chief, the technical recommendation as to whether the paper
is publishable lies with the handling editor. It is the responsibility of the
handling editor to work on papers that need to be resubmitted or accepted based
on modifications suggested by the reviewers.
A minimum of two review
reports are required to make a recommendation. A possible recommendation to the
Editor-in-Chief may be acceptance or rejection.
(4)
If the paper requires revisions, the handling
editor interacts with the authors directly. If a reviewer has suggested a major
revision, the revised paper should be sent back to the original reviewer
whenever possible.
(5)
The Editor-in-Chief will inform the authors about
their paper decision and copy to the handling editor.
(6)
It is the handling editor's responsibility to
make sure that there is no conflict of interest for those people involved in
reviewing any given paper.
If a reviewer feels that his/her decision will be affected, he/she should return
the paper to the handling editor, stating the conflict of interest. Similarly,
the handling editor should not send the paper to be reviewed by a reviewer who
may have a conflict of interest. Examples of cases which could cause conflict of
interest include:
◆ papers by an author with
which the handling editor or reviewer has co-authored a paper recently.
◆ papers by an author in the
same department or in a closely related discipline of the same university as the
handling editor or reviewer.
◆ papers by an author who was
a recent student or thesis advisor of the handling editor or reviewer.
(7)
A handling editor should make a recommendation
within three months (six weeks for short papers) from the date that the paper is
received from the authors. The handling editor should normally allow six weeks
(three weeks for short papers) for each reviewer to respond.
(8)
The handling editor should keep records on
reviewer performance and timeliness.
(9) A wide range of submission file formats is supported, including: MS-Word, pdf, Latex-2.0, Latex2e, TXT, Postscript, Tar, Zip. The preferred file format for accepted paper is Word, including figures, tables and signed copyright form. Other acceptable formats are WordPerfect or Tex/ Latex, and the Latex submission must be accompanied with the PDF version.
(1) Reviewers should see themselves as protectors
of the quality of the IJICC journal, as well as of the reputation of the authors
who submit papers. It is the reviewer's responsibility to make sure that only
high quality papers are published, and that the author(s) are protected from
putting poor work into print. From this perspective, the reviewer should not
only read the papers thoroughly to find flaws, but should also make
recommendations to the author(s) as to how the paper might be improved.
(2) Before reviewing a paper, the reviewer should make sure that there is no
conflict of interest in his/her reviewing the paper.
If a reviewer feels that his/her decision will be affected, he/she should return
the paper to the handling editor, stating the conflict of interest. Examples of
cases which could cause conflict of interest include:
◆
papers by an author with whom the reviewer has
co-authored a paper recently.
◆
papers by an author in the same department or in
a closely related discipline of the same university as the reviewer.
◆
papers by an author who was a recent student or
thesis advisor of the reviewer.
Also, if a reviewer feels that his/her confidence
in the review is not high (e.g. the technical content of the paper is not in
his/her main research area), he/she should return the paper to the handling
editor and suggest a more suitable person.
(3) A review consists of 6 parts: <1> originality of the paper, <2> technical
soundness,<3> significance, <4> clarity of presentation, including the style and
English, <5> relevance to the IJICC journal, and <6> length (relative to the
useful contents of the paper).
IJICC publishes regular and short papers. A
regular paper is either a critical review, discussing the state of the art in an
emerging topic area related to IJICC, or a state-of-the-art research report,
presenting the results of original research. The title, abstract, introduction,
and conclusion of a regular paper should all be informative and coherent. A
short paper usually reports on-going research that is original and significant.
Regular papers are normally limited to 12000 words and short papers should have a
maximum of 4000 words. Short papers have the same acceptance standard but
present results that can be stated more concisely. If a long submission is
accepted as a short paper, the results must be presentable in a concise form.
(4) Associated with each of the above parts should be a rating from -3 to 3 with
0 being the average as follows.
3: Strong Accept (As good as any top
paper in reputable journals)
2: Accept (Comparable to good papers
in reputable journals)
1: Weak Accept (I vote acceptance,
but won't argue for it)
0: Neutral (I don't like it, but I
won't object if others like it)
-1: Weak Reject (I would rather not
see this paper accepted)
-2: Reject (I would argue to reject
this paper)
-3: Strong Reject (Definitely
detrimental to the journal quality if accepted)
(5) The reviewer should make a recommendation to the handling editor, stating
whether he/she thinks that the paper is acceptable, or what could be done to
make it acceptable.
The overall recommendation might be:
◆
Reject. The paper is regarded
not suitable for publication in the IJICC Journal. The author(s) may be
encouraged to incorporate the changes suggested by the reviewers and resubmit
the paper as a new paper.
◆
Resubmit after a
major revision
and a second round of review is necessary. Author(s) should prepare a revision
and resubmit it for a second round of review by the same set of reviewers. A
letter explaining the changes made in the revised paper will be required from
the author(s) if they choose to send in a revised paper. This letter will
accompany the revised paper and be sent to the same set of reviewers.
◆
The paper requires
minor changes.
Author(s) will be asked to revise the paper and resubmit with a letter to the
handling editor, explaining changes made to address the reviewers' comments. The
revised paper will not go through another round of review. The handling editor
will make the recommendation for publication to the Editor-in-Chief.
◆
Accept. The paper is accepted
as it is. Or the paper should be accepted but there are some potential
improvements that the author(s) have the option to make.
(6) Reviews should be completed and returned to the
handling editor within 8 weeks
(4
weeks for
short papers). In case of
delay, the reviewer should contact the handling editor with a date on which the
review can be returned.
6. Review Form
