期刊名称：ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS ISSN： 0360-0300 版本： SCI-CDE 出版频率： Quarterly 出版社： ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, 2 PENN PLAZA, STE 701, NEW YORK, USA, NY, 10121-0701   出版社网址： http://www.acm.org/ 期刊网址： http://surveys.acm.org/ 影响因子： 10.282 主题范畴： COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal Computing Surveys,a journal published by the ACM, the Association for Computing, publishes surveys, tutorials, and special reports on all areas of computing research. Volumes are published yearly in four issues appearing in March, June, September, and December. Papers for ACM Computing Surveys must be of high quality and fall within the scope of the journal. There are four main ingredients to an acceptable paper: (1) technical quality is high, (2) relevance to significant areas of research or practice is high, (3) the level of general interest is high, and (4) the presentation is effective. Few papers excel in all of these, but a substandard level in any is sufficient ground for rejection. Computing Surveys does not accept papers primarily devoted to presentation of new technical results; such papers belong in technical journals, and reviewers may make suggestions of possibilities where appropriate. This is not to say no new results may be included; papers devoted primarily to presenting a survey or tutorial that include a new result to organize and convey the material in a better way are within the scope of the journal. Please prepare an anonymous referee report suitable for transmission to the author. In addition, please prepare a cover letter to the editor summarizing recommendation (i.e., publish, publish after revision, reject but encourage resubmission after revision, reject). Your report may be transmitted to the editor by electronic mail. Instructions to Authors Scope The ACM Computing Surveys publishes surveys of and tutorials on areas of computing research or practice. See the Editorial Charter available at http://www.acm.org/surveys/Charter.html for further details. Contributions should conform to generally accepted practices for scientific papers with respect to organization and style. Types of Papers Submissions must be of one of the following types. Survey paper A paper that summarizes and organizes recent research results in a novel way that integrates and add understanding to work in the field. A survey article assumes a general knowledge of the area; it emphasizes the classification of the existing literature, developing a perspective on the area, and evaluating trends. Tutorial paper A paper that organizes and introduces work in the field. A tutorial paper assumes its audience is inexpert; it emphasizes the basic concepts of the field and provides concrete examples that embody these concepts. Symposium Proposals Proposals for editing Symposium issues covering areas or topics of research, such as the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence appearing in Volume 27, Number 3 (September 1995). Prior Publication Policy The papers appearing in ACM journals are normally original contributions that have not been published elsewhere. Widely disseminated conference proceedings and newsletters are a form of publication, although they are usually only semiarchival and often unrefereed. Publication, or republication, of a (perhaps revised) paper that has been widely disseminated is permitted only if the editor judges that (a) the revision contains significant amplification or clarification of the original material or (b) there is a significant additional benefit to be gained from journal publication. In either case, prior appearance should be noted on the title page of the paper. Manuscript Preparation Authors are encouraged to prepare and submit their manuscripts electronically. This facilitates both a quicker editorial review process as well as faster and more accurate processing of accepted papers. Computing Surveys permits electronic submissions for editorial review in LaTeX or PostScript formats only. Use of the ACM Transactions LaTeX style is encouraged to insure proper formatting. Authors using other word-processing systems must submit their manuscripts on paper. (Note that ACM admits a wider variety of formats for electronic submission of accepted papers, such as LaTeX, Frame, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect and ASCII, but not PostScript.) To ensure proper indexing, classification, retrieval and dissemination, authors must include the following in the manuscript: Descriptive title Author names and affiliations Abstract Content indicators Citations to relevant literature Guidelines for the preparation of this material follow. Descriptive Title Select a title that accurately and clearly tells what the paper is about. Choose title terms as specific as content and emphasis of the paper permit. Avoid special symbols and formulas in titles unless essential to indicate content. Author Names and Affiliations Authors' names should be given without titles or degrees along with the name and address of the organization for which the work was carried out. A footnote on the first page should acknowledge funding sources and presentations, if any, of the material at technical meetings (give dates and sponsoring societies). The author's current address should be given in a footnote on the first page. Abstract The abstract should be from 150 to 200 words long and consist of short, direct sentences. It should state the objectives of the work, summarize the results, and give the principal conclusions. The title need not be repeated. Because abstracts are extracted and used separately, do not use the first person, do not display mathematics, and do not use citation reference numbers. Try to avoid starting with the words ``This paper ...' Content Indicators Three types of content indicators must be assigned: (1) categories and subject descriptors, (2) general terms, (3) keywords and phrases. The first two items are selected from the Computing Reviews Classification Scheme published in the January 1991 issue of Computing Reviews. Select as many of these as may be applicable. The keywords and phrases are additional English language words that indicate the content of the submission. They should not be synonymous with those already in the classification system: they can be more specific than the subject descriptors, or they may not be covered by the existing system at all. The following guidelines may be helpful. Use important terms from the title; include their synonyms, related words and words of higher or lower generic rank. Use English nouns, or noun-noun and noun-adjective combinations; do not use hyphens unless the hyphenated parts are always treated as a single unit. Use specific terms whose meanings are generally accepted; do not use broad catchall terms (such as ``computer', ``automatic', ``machine', ``system', ``discussion', ``description'); do not use private terms or acronyms that may not be generally known. Do not use negative terms stressing what your paper does not do. Citations Citations should be provided according to the following guidelines. Use of the ACM Transactions LaTeX style is encouraged to insure proper formatting. Citations in the text: Reference callouts in the text have the form [Turing 1936], [Turing and Church 1936], [Turing et al. 1936]. References to items in periodicals: These should take the form: author, title, journal, volume, number, date, pages. Last names of authors are given first, even for multiple authors; likewise for editors, with the name followed by (Ed.). The author's name appears in capital letters and always ends with a period, either the period which follows his initial or a period for the purpose. The title has only the first word and proper names (or their derivatives) starting with capital letters, and it ends with a period. The date is given in parentheses. Example: JENKINS, M. A., and TRAUB, J. F. Principles for testing zerofinding programs. ACM Trans. Math. Soft. 1, 1 (March 1975), 26-34. References to reports or proceedings: Author(s) name(s) and title (same style as above), report number, source including date and pages. References to books: Author(s) -- same style as in periodicals. Title -- set in italics, with all principal words capitalized. Include publisher, city, and year. Page or chapter references follow the year. Sequence: In the reference list, entries must be arranged alphabetically according to authors' or editors' names, or publishing organizations for items to which no names can be attached. Accuracy: Authors are responsible for checking that all information in the references is correct. Completeness: Include any and all information necessary for finding the work referenced. It is better to include more than enough information than too little. Submission for Editorial Review How to Submit Regular papers should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief. Submissions may be made by postal mail or electronically. Electronic submission of manuscripts may be made in either self-contained LaTeX, PostScript, or PDF formats. (Note that ACM admits a wider variety of formats for electronic submission of accepted papers.) Send a cover letter with the corresponding author information and mime-attached ps, pdf, or doc files to Gul A. Agha, Editor-in-Chief computing_surveys@cs.uiuc.edu. To submit by mail, send three copies of the manuscript to the Editor-in-Chief, and include a covering submittal letter. To save postage, machine-reproduced copies of manuscripts will not be returned to the author unless specifically requested. Review Process Submitted papers are evaluated by anonymous referees for general interest, relevance, and presentation. The author will be notified of the name of an associate editor who will be responsible for processing his or her manuscript, and is expected to keep this editor informed of any change of address. Revisions requested by the associate editor should be returned directly to that editor. After the refereeing process is complete, the associate editor either rejects the paper or makes a recommendation for acceptance to the Editor-in-Chief, who makes the final decision on acceptance. Procedures for Accepted Papers Transmitting Accepted Papers Once a manuscript is accepted, a final version must be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief for transmission to ACM for publication. Although this may be done on paper, electronic submission is preferred. 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Payment of page charges is not a condition of publication; editorial acceptance of a paper is unaffected by payment or nonpayment. ACM Computing Surveys. This page is http://www.acm.org/surveys/Authors.html. Last modified: May 02, 2003. cvarela@NOSPAMcs.rpi.edu (remove NOSPAM from address) Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Gul A. Agha Department of Computer Science 3121 DCL, MC-258 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1304 West Springfield Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 217-244-3087 - office 217-244-6869, 217-333-9386 - fax numbers agha@cs.uiuc.edu Associate Editors Nicholas Georganas Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab) School of Information Technology & Engineering (SITE) University of Ottawa 161 Louis Pasteur Priv., Room A-613 P.O. Box 450, Station "A" Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1N-6N5 phone 613-562-5800, ext. 6225 (Secretary - 6132) fax 613-562-5175 georgana@mcrlab.uottawa.ca (Multimedia Systems) Chris Hankin Department of Computing The Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine 180 Queen's Gate London SW7 2B2 United Kingdom clh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Models of Computation, Semantics) John Mylopoulos Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 6 King's College Road, Rm 290G Toronto CANADA M5S 3H5 phone 416-978-5180 fax 416-978-1455 email jm@cs.utoronto.ca (Software Engineering) Paul Purdom 101 Lindley Hall Computer Science Department Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 phone 812-335-1501 email pwp@cs.indiana.edu (Theory) Fred B. Schneider Department of Computer Science Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-9221 email fbs@cs.cornell.edu (Operating & Distributed Systems) Yoav Shoham Department of Computer Science Gates Hall, Rm 140 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 phone (650) 723-3432 fax (650) 723-1449 email shoham@cs.stanford.edu (Artificial Intelligence) Scott F. Smith Department of Computer Science The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218-2686 phone 410-516-5299 fax 410-516-6134 email scott@cs.jhu.edu (Programming Languages) Marc Snir Department of Computer Science 3270 Digital Computer Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1304 West Springfield Avenue, Rm. 3315 Urbana, IL 61801 phone (217) 333-3373 fax (217) 333-3501 email snir@cs.uiuc.edu (Architecture) Peter Widmayer Theoretische Informatik ETH Zentrum CH 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone +44-1-632-7400 or -7401 (Voice) email widmayer@inf.ethz.ch (Algorithms, Data Structures) Stanley B. Zdonik Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence, RI 02912 phone (401) 863-7648 fax (401) 863-7657 email sbz@cs.brown.edu (Databases)