-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] Chaos and Complexity Letters: Call For Paper Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:53:33 +0200 From: Nicoletta Sala nicoletta.sala@usi.ch Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org
Call For Paper: Chaos and Complexity Letters Editor in Chief: Franco F. Orsucci Co-Editor Nicoletta M.R. Sala Publisher: Nova Science, NY Deadline 30th of September 2010 All correspondence and submissions should be addressed to the Co-Editor in electronic form: nicoletta.sala@usi.ch Chaos and Complexity Letters is a refereed journal dealing with complex systems research. It is both printed and made available on the web. INFORMATION for AUTHORS Contents Topics of interest 2. General information 3. Correspondence and submission of manuscripts 4. Journal Format 5. Language 6. Structure 1. Topics of interest The topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): artificial life cellular automata chaos theory complexity theory synchronization fractals genetic algorithms information systems metaphors neural networks non-linear dynamics synergetics Papers dealing with applications in biology, economics, linguistics, medicine, psychology, sociology, technology, and other fields are also strongly encouraged.
2. General Information All papers will be refereed for relevance, correctness and quality. All papers should be original contributions, and should not be under review elsewhere. There are various types of contributions: Regular Papers should be significant contributions describing scientific results. For the printed version of the journal there is a limit of 15,000 words. Reviews should be detailed outlines. Multi-media hypertext provides a superlative vehicle for reviewing many issues and reviews exploiting these features are encouraged. Reviews should not exceed 10,000 words for the printed version. Authors of review papers are encouraged to contact the editor in advance. News and Ideas will be provocative suggestions for applications of new ideas or methodologies. Contributions should not exceed 3,000 words in length for the printed version. Software and Algorithms will include any of the following: o Interactive processes, such as CGI and JAVA o Program packages o Algorithms and demonstrations of new computational ideas and techniques Submission of these should be accompanied by a description of the aims, methods and implementation; documentation to allow users to install and run the software; sample data, scripts or any other material to provide a demonstration of the software in use; and arrangements regarding availability. Authors should contact the Co-Editor, before submission. Educational Material will include lectures, seminars, tutorials and any other educational material. Original Data samples of any kind of raw original data (e. g. time series etc.) that could be offered, accompanied by explicative notes, to the scientific community to compare different methodological approaches. Technical Notes should be similar to departmental reports, and contain more detail of implementation and methods than would normally appear in a paper. Contributions should not exceed 2,000 words for the printed version. Metaphors creative suggestions coming from the arts and the social sciences. Sound, pictures and movies are particularly welcome in the digital version. 3. Correspondence and Submission of Manuscripts All correspondence and submissions should be addressed to the Co-Editor in electronic form, at: nicoletta.sala@usi.ch
4. Journal Format Authors should follow these guidelines. Manuscripts can be submitted in MS Word, RTF, PDF. Software Programs should be submitted in source form. They should compile and execute successfully using GNU software only. Citations Citations should follow the "author-date system" (APA criteria) in the text body referring to an alphabetical list of authors provided in the References section. The correct format is: a) Text body: ….To account for broad scale distributions in space and time in interacting dynamical systems, Bak, introduced the notion of Self-Organized Criticality (SOC) to explain 1/f phenomena like the Zipf laws (Bak, 1996). At the orthographic level Claude Shannon (1949) defined other orders when he stated: …. b) References: Varela FJ, Lachaux JP, Rodriguez E, and Martinerie J (2001) The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration. Nat.Rev.Neurosci. 2 (4):229-239. Verhulst F (1994) Metaphors for psychoanalysis. Nonlinear Science Today 4 (1):16. Vitiello G (2001) My double unveiled, the dissipative quantum model of brain, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co. West BJ, Zhang R, Sanders AW, Miniyar S, Zuckerman JH, an Levine BD (1999) Fractal fluctuations in cardiac time series. Physica A 270 (3-4):552-566. Hypertext links
Authors are encouraged to include hypertext links in their papers (digital versions). These should be standard URLs and should be verified by the authors prior to submission. 5. Language Manuscripts must be written in English. 6. Structure Papers should conform to the standard structure. The first page should include: Title Author(s) Affiliations (in order of authors) Email address(es) (in order of authors) The remainder of the paper should be divided into sections, identified by a heading. They should include: Abstract (no more than 250 words) Keywords Introduction ... various sections as needed Discussion or Conclusion Acknowledgements References Appendices