JOURNAL OF VISUAL LANGUAGES & COMPUTING
Scope
The Journal of Visual Languages & Computing (JVLC) is
intended to be a forum for researchers, practitioners and
developers to exchange ideas and research results, for the
advancement of visual languages and visual
computing. JVLC publishes research papers, state-of-the-art
surveys, review articles, in the areas of visual
languages, visual computing, visual programming, visual human-machine interface
design, visual communication, multi-media communications,
pictorial databases, pictorial information systems,
information retrieval systems & algorithms, cognitive
aspects of human-machine systems, biological vision systems
and models, visualization of system design, visualization of
computational processes, large-scale scientific computing,
and parallel/distributed/neural computing & representations
for visual information processing. Papers are also welcome
to report on actual use, experience, transferred technologies
in visual programming, visual computing, and advanced applications in
geographic information systems, pictorial archiving and
communication systems, library information systems, biomedical
imagery, industrial automation, computer animation and
computer-assisted visual arts.
Book reviews and tool reviews, not to exceed four pages, can also be submitted
to the book reviews editor and tools reviews editor, respectively.
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Submission of Manuscripts
Manuscripts may be submitted electronically, or in hard copies, to
either Editor through our editorial office in London. Original papers only will be considered.
Book reviews may be submitted to the book reviews editor, and
tool reviews may be submitted to the tool reviews editor.
Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding
that the same work has not been and will not be nor is
presently submitted elsewhere, and that its submission for
publication has been approved by all of the authors and by
the institution where the work was carried out; further,
that any person cited as a course of personal communications
has approved such citation. Written authorization may be
required at the Editor's discretion. Articles and any other
material published in JVLC represent the opinions of the
author(s) and should not be construed to reflect the
opinions of the Editor(s) and the Publisher.
Form of Manuscript
Four copies of the manuscript including
the original (reproductions are acceptable if they are
clearly legible) and copies of all figures are required. In
addition, one reproducible set of figures (professionally
drafted ink originals of line drawings; glossy prints of
halftones will be required if the paper is accepted.
Manuscripts should be typewritten, double-spaced on one side
of 8.5 X 11 in white paper with 1 inch margins. Page 1
should contain the article title, author(s), and
affiliation(s); and the name and complete mailing address of
the person to whom correspondence should be sent. Any
footnotes to the title (indicated by *, +, etc.) should be
placed at the bottom of page 1. Page 2 should contain a
short abstract (100-150 words).
List of Symbols
The manuscript should contain a list of all
symbols used in the paper. They should be identified
typographically for the printer, not mathematically. This list
will not appear in print, but is essential to avoid costly
corrections in proof.
Footnotes
Text footnotes should be avoided whenever
possible. If they must be used, indicate them by superscript
numbers in the text, and type them all double-spaced on a
separate page.
Equations
Equations should be typewritten and with the number placed
in parentheses at the right margin. Reference to the
equations should use the form "Eq. (3)" or simply (3).
References
References should be indicated in the text by numbers in
square brackets and listed at the end of the paper in
numerical order; they should be typed double-spaced on a separate
page. Style and punctuation of references must be in
accordance with the following examples:
1. T. Y. Kong and A. W. Roscoe, Continuous analogs of
axiomated digital surfaces. Comput. Vision Graphics Image
Process 29, 1985, 60-86.
2. R. M. Haralick, edge and region analysis for digital
image data in Image Modeling (A. Rosenfeld, Ed), pp.
171-184, Academic Press, New York, 1981.
3. R. A. Schowengerdt, Techniques for Image Processing
and Classification in Remote Sensing, Academic Press,
New York, 1983.
Reports should not be cited unless absolutely necessary.
Tables should be umbered with Arabic numerals in order of
appearance in the text. They should be typed double-spaced
on separate pages. Each table should have a short descriptive
caption. Table footnotes (indicated by superscript
lower-case letters) should be typed at the end of the table.
Figures should be numbered in order of appearance (with
Arabic numerals) and should have short descriptive captions.
Line drawings must be professionally drafted originals, in
black ink, with lettering large enough to be legible after a
reduction of 50-60%. Photographs must be glossy prints. No
figures should exceed 8.5 x 11 inch in size; they should be
designed to fit the proportions of the printed page. All
figures should have captions typed double-spaced on a
separate sheet. Illustrations in color can be accepted only
if the authors defray the cost.
Review Form
The electronic review form can be used
by reviewers to review papers submitted to JVLC.
Copyright
Authors submitting a manuscript do so with the understanding
that if it is accepted for publication, copyright in the
article, including the right to reproduce the article in all
forms and media shall be assigned exclusively to the
publisher. The Publisher will not refuse any reasonable
request by the author for permission to reproduce any of his
or her contributions to the journal.
Elsevier now requires that all manuscripts submitted to its journals be accompanied by a
signed copyright transfer agreement (html file). You will find the copyright transfer agreement (gif file) in the back of each issue
of the journal and on the journal home page. The copyright transfer does not take effect until the
manuscript is accepted.
Under the terms of the U.S. copyright law effective January 1, 1978, and the copyright laws
of many other countries, journal publishers are required to obtain written confirmation from authors
in order to acquire copyright rights for papers published in their journals. We are therefore asking
you to sign and return the applicable section of the accompanying form. If you and your co-authors,
if any, own rights in your paper as individuals, please sign Section A of the attached form. If you
work for a corporation that owns the rights in the paper, please have an authorized officer of the
corporation sign Section B. If the paper is in the public domain because you created it within the
scope of your employment with the U.S. government or another government that does not claim any
copyright or if the paper is subject to Crown copyright because you arc an employee of the British
or Canadian government, please sign Section C.
No manuscript will be processed until the appropriate form has been returned.
We ask your cooperation because it is of vital importance for the widest possible
dissemination of your paper and the continued viability of our journal. We must have your written
confirmation in order to authorize libraries and other information centers to use this material and to
perform other appropriate publishing functions.
If your manuscript is not published within a reasonable period of time after acceptance, upon
written request, Elsevier will promptly return the rights to the manuscript to the author(s).
IMPORTANT: Note that Elsevier may choose to publish an abstract or portions of
the paper prior to publishing the paper in the journal. Please contact Elsevier immediately
if you would like Elsevier to refrain from such prior publication for any reason, including
disclosure of a patentable invention.
Check List for an Accepted Paper
Once a paper is accepted, the following items should be provided by the author(s):
Original manuscript and two copies
High quality original figures, each on a separate page
A separate page containing all figure captions
A separate page containing mathematical symbols used in the paper
A diskette contaning plain text file (or Latex or Word formatted file) and figures (in gif, jpg, or postscript format) used in the paper
Proofs
Proofs will be sent to the author, with a reprint
order form. Authors will be charged for alterations in
excess of 10% of the cost of composition.
Reprints
Fifty reprints without covers will be provided
free of charge. Additional reprints may be purchased; an
order form will be included with the proofs.
Acceptance Ratio and Expected Turnaround Time
The acceptance ratio for submitted papers is 38% for papers submitted in
1997-1998. The expected turnaround time is about eight to nine months, i.e.,
it takes about eight to nine months from the date of submission of paper to the date of acceptance decision.
Citation Indexes
Current Contents/Engineering; Computing and
Technology; INSPEC; Research Alert; and the Science Citation Index.
Send Manuscripts to:
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing,
c/o Academic Press Editorial Office
Block A2
Westbrook Centre
Milton Road
Cambridge, CB4 1YG, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 446000
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 460236
Send Electronic Manuscripts to:
http://www.elsubmit.com/esubmit/jvlc
Authors interested in online
submission are requested to go to the above website and upload their manuscript and its associated
artwork. An electronic (PDF) proof is generated and the reviewing process is carried out using
that PDF. The PDF file may be edited after acceptance to follow journal standards. Authors and
editors send and receive all correspondence by email via the website and no paper
correspondence is performed.
Authors can also submit their ps or pdf file to the editorial office by e-mail.
Send Correspondences to:
jvlc@harcourt.com
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Prof. Shi-Kuo Chang, Dept. of Computer Science, University
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, U.S.A. (Tel
412-624-8423, Fax 412-624-8423, E-mail
chang@cs.pitt.edu)
Prof. Stefano Levialdi, Dept. di Matematica, Universita di
Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy (Tel
39-6-4991-3250, Fax 4991-3249, E-mail
levialdi@dsi.uniroma1.it)
Send Book Reviews or Books to be Reviewed to
Dr Kang Zhang,
Dept of Computer Science,
Box 830688, MS EC31,
University of Texas at Dallas,
Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA
Email: kzhang@utdallas.edu
Send Tool Reviews to
Prof. Tim Arndt,
Dept. of CIS,
Cleveland State University,
1983 East 24th Street,
Cleveland, OH 44115, USA
E-mail: arndt@cis.csuohio.edu
Call for Members of the Board of Reviewers
We are looking for people to serve on the Board of Reviewers who will be
acknowledged in the journal annually. Each reviewer receives at most three
papers per year to review. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer,
please send a list of keywords describing your area of interest and
the URL of your Web site via e-mail to Professor Chang (chang@cs.pitt.edu).
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO JOURNAL OF VISUAL LANGUAGES & COMPUTING
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Street, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 5HP. The subscriptions department will deal
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