ISSN 2007-1558
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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Guidelines for presenting manuscripts
• Send manuscripts

General

The International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics is an international scientific electronic journal which publishes papers form all areas related to Informatics and the Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Coverage The international Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics published papers in different areas related to the Informatics. The topics are:

• Combinatorial Optimization Problems (COPs).
• Computer Science Security.
• Computational Complexity.
• Computational aspects in Science of life.
• Computational Intelligence.
• Doctoral thesis Summary.
• Grid Computing.
• Informatics.
• Meta-heuristic and heuristics algorithms.
• Operations Research.
• Semantic Web.
• Software engineering.
• Technical reports of master's thesis and bsc´s thesis.
• Web Technologies.

Evaluation Process

The Steps of the Editorial process are:

1.- The author must to submit the paper using the paper submission system. By submitting your article to the International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics, you and all co-authors of your submission agree to the terms of the Copyright Transfer Agreement.

2.- The manuscript is read and examined for conformity to the Instructions for Authors by the editor. Failure to meet the criteria outlined may result in return of the manuscript for correction before evaluation.

3.- Having established that the article meets the themes, the editor selects two referees (two external academic pairs, who will determine anonymously) who are invited, in confidence, to evaluate the manuscript according to the following aspects:

• Originality of the work.
• Relevance to scientific knowledge in Informatics and Combinatorial Optimization Problems.
• Background: Theoretical background adequate. Hypothesis, objectives and clear contribution to IJCOPI topics.
• Methodology: Materials and methods appropriate and adequately described. Sound experimental design.
• Results: Data concise and sufficient. Statistics analysis when appropriate. Efficiency measurements. Figures clear and correct, only essential data should be included in figures. Elimination of figures, graphs and tables which add little or could be replaced by a few sentences or a statement of numerical values is recommended.
• Discussion: In-depth discussion, correct interpretation.
• Formal Aspects: Correct language, references properly cited. High quality figures. Adherence to usual and consistent nomenclature. Title and summary sufficiently informative.

All the above items will be evaluated as outstanding, good, fair, mediocre or poor by an assessment form given to evaluators.

4.- The manuscript could be: accepted; accepted after minor revision (no further review required); accepted only after major revisions, inappropriate for the journal; rejected. If the paper is accepted after major revisions, it must be sending again for peer review to the same evaluators. In case of discrepancy, the manuscript will be sent to a third arbitrator whose decision will define his pulbicación.

5.- If the manuscript is accepted or accepted with minor revision, later of the modifications realized for the author. The authors must to fill the query proofs of the paper and later, the author must check the final full text. Once the final PDF are ready, the paper is announced and becomes available for all audiences.

Format of paper

All contributions should be concise and written in English. Authors must assure that no part of the paper has been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere.

Format of Research papers (doc)

Format of Doctoral thesis summary (doc)

Format of Technical reports (doc)

References

The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.

Journal article

Hamburger, C.: Quasimonotonicity, regularity and duality for nonlinear systems of partial differential equations. Ann. Mat. Pura. Appl. 169, 321–354 (1995)

Article by DOI

Slifka, M.K., Whitton, J.L. Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med. (2000) doi:10.1007/s001090000086

Book

Geddes, K.O., Czapor, S.R., Labahn, G.: Algorithms for Computer Algebra. Kluwer, Boston (1992)

Book chapter

Broy, M.: Software engineering — from auxiliary to key technologies. In: Broy, M., Denert, E. (eds.) Software Pioneers, pp. 10–13. Springer, Heidelberg (2002)

Online document

Cartwright, J.: Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1 (2007). Accessed 26 June 2007

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.

1. I declare that the manuscript is original and its contents are the direct product of my intellectual contribution. All data and references to published materials and are properly identify with their respective credit and included in the appointments, and in cases that require it, I have the proper authorization of the holders of economic rights.

2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

3. All work in the paper should be free of plagiarism or other unethical behavior (outlined in thePublication Ethics and malpractice statement, which is found in About the Journal). And the submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal submission.