Open Computer Science

MANUSCRIPTS
Open Computer Science encourages the submission of substantial full-length bodies of work. There are no specific length restrictions for the overall manuscript or individual sections; however, we urge the authors to present and discuss their findings in a concise and accessible manner.

All submissions must be made via online submission system Editorial Manager. In case of problems, please contact the Editorial Office of this journal (opencomputerscience@degruyter.com).

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts have to be written in LATEX, AMS-TEX, AMS-LATEX. We do not accept papers in Plain TEX format. For an initial submission, the authors are strongly advised to upload their entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file. Authors are strongly advised to submit the final version of the paper using the journal’s LaTex Template.

For detailed information, please see Instruction for Authors

EDITORIAL POLICY
Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.
Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.
Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists. Authors are encouraged to fill in the ICMJE Conflicts of Interest Form (available here) and send it in the electronic format to the Managing Editor.
Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. The corresponding author grants the journal the license to use of the article, by signing the License To Publish. Scanned copy of license should be sent to the journal, as soon as possible.
Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication. For more details the role of authors please see: https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/for-authors/for-journal-authors/role-of-authors
Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research, together with relevant supplementary materials, to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.
Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.

Editor-in-Chief
Christos Anagnostopoulos, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK

Senior Editors
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Editorial Contact
Kumaran Rengaswamy
Assistant Managing Editor, Compuscript
AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com

Editorial Advisory Board
Norman C. Beaulieu, University of Alberta, Canada
Erdal Cayirci, University of Stavanger, Norway
Liqun Chen, HP Labs, UK
John M. Cioffi, Stanford University, USA
Sudhir Dixit, HP Labs, India
Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
P. Vijay Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, India
Der-Tsai Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Shu Lin, University of California, Davis, USA
Charles E. Perkins, WiChorus Corporation, USA
Mauro Pezze, University of Lugano, Switzerland and University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Arnold L. Rosenberg, Northeastern University and Colorado State University, USA
Jie Wu, Temple University, USA
Ronald R. Yager, Iona College, USA
Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Jun Zhang, University of Kentucky, USA

Editorial Board
Davide Ancona, University of Genova, Italy
Mehmet E. Aydin, University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), UK
Farshad Badie, Berlin School of Business & Innovation, Germany
Ladislav Beránek, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Mark Burgin, University of California, USA
Adrian Chifu, Aix-Marseille University, France
Riccardo Dondi, Universita degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy
Frank Drewes, Umeå University, Sweden
Adérito Fernandes-Marcos, University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China
Giuditta Franco, University of Verona, Italy
Juraj Giertl, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Tomasz Górski, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Florentina Hristea, University of Bucharest, Romania
Jingmin Huang, University of Kent, UK
Jiří Kléma, Czech Technical University, Republic of Czech
Josip Knezović, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Renato De Leone, Universita degli Studi di Camerino, Italy
Jose M. Luna Ariza, University of Cordoba, Spain
José Machado, University of Minho, Portugal
Francisco Martins, University of the Azores, Portugal
Imran Memon, Zhejiang University, China
Hrvoje Mlinarić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Gianpiero Monaco, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Roberto Muscia, University of Trieste, Italy
Valerie Novitzká, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Milos Oravec, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
David Orellana-Martín, University of Seville, Spain
Radek Ošlejšek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Łukasz Radliński, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland
Michael Ruzhansky, Imperial College London, UK
Marek Rychly, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Shaaban Sahmoud, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey
Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Theodore Simos, T.E., King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, Ural Federal University, Russian Federation, TEI of Sterea Hellas, Greece, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Frans van der Sluis, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
William Steingartner, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria
José Valente de Oliveira, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Sebastian Ventura, University of Córdoba, Spain
Thomas Canhao XU, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, China
Claudio Zandron, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Erliang Zeng, University of Iowa, USA
Julius Žilinskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Hiba Zuhair, Al-Nahrain University, Iraq
Benyamin Ahmadnia, Tulane University, USA
Tai-Yu Lai, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Anna Formica, Consiglio　Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Rashmi Agrawal, Manav　Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, India

Publisher
De Gruyter Brill Sp. z o.o.
Nowogrodzka 4/3
00-513 Warsaw, Poland
T: +48 22 245 33 55

Managing Editor
Monika Maleszka
Monika.Maleszka@degruyterbrill.com

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