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