Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• Does the submission match with the CAI topics?
• Does the article contain significant new contribution compared to already published work of the same or other author(s)? Does it provide interesting information for potential readers?
• Is the title sound and clear? Does abstract clearly explain the contribution? Are the character and contents of the paper clear from the title and abstract?
• Does Introduction provide relevant information for the article topic? Does it provide understandable information about the problem addressed, about contribution and about motivation/need for such contribution? Is it understandable for anyone in computer science field?
• Does the article provide relevant survey of state-of-the-art relevant to the topic of the paper? If the paper is interdisciplinary, does it overview all relevant state-of-the-art in related fields?
• Does the paper appropriately compare the performance of proposed methodologies with those found in the published literature? Are the references provided up to date? Is adequate credit given to other contributors in the field and are references sufficiently complete? Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• Is evaluation methodology provided/explained? Is the evaluation method/methodology used relevant for the article topic? If contribution is evaluated experimentally, are the used data/dataset relevant/significant for the article topic? Is the size of experiment statistically significant? If contribution is evaluated by other method, such as providing use cases, providing formal proof or other, is it significant? Does it prove the contribution?
• Is the scientific contribution of the paper significant? Is comparison to state-of-the-art and existing methods provided, or does it address the problem in a novel way which is somehow measurable?
• Is the contribution properly explained in an understandable way? Is the paper clearly, concisely, accurately and logically written?
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.