Computational Intelligence

Edited by:
Ali Ghorbani, and Evangelos Milios

Print ISSN: 0824-7935
Online ISSN: 1467-8640
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 26 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 9/94 Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Impact Factor: 3.31

TopAuthor Guidelines

Computational Intelligence publishes high-quality original theoretical or experimental research in computational (artificial) intelligence. To facilitate publication, authors must check symbols, abbreviations, and technical terms for accuracy, consistency, and readability. Manuscripts and illustrations must meet the requirements outlined below, otherwise publication might be delayed. Authors are charged for excessive changes in page proofs.

NEW!! Computational Intelligence is pleased to offer authors web-based manuscript submission and peer-review. Submit your manuscripts online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/coin

Step-by-step instructions on how to submit your manuscript online are available during the submission process. Queries can be sent to the Editorial Office (ci@cs.ualberta.ca) and further information can be obtained online from the submission site via the 'Get Help Now' button.

Webster's Third New International Dictionary should be used as a guide for spelling. Style, arrangements, or abbreviations should conform in general to those recommended by The Chicago Manual of Style. The International System of Units (SI) should be used when appropriate. Equivalents in other units may be given in parentheses. Superscripts and subscripts should be legible and appropriately placed, and unusual and Greek characters identified clearly.

In addition to your manuscript, please send a signed Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) form downloaded from here.

Please also send the following information in raw text:

Title of paper
Names of all authors
Contact information for primary author
Keywords
Abstract

Responses to the following questions:
What is the original contribution of this work, and why it is important and useful?
What is the validation of your contribution? This will typically be theoretical (e.g. formal proofs) and/or empirical
(e.g. test runs over various datasets or challenge problems). Note that simply providing a new framework,
by itself, is typically not a validation.
What is the most closely related work (by yourself or others), and how does this submission improve on those earlier results?
Which category would your paper best fall into - Machine learning; Web Intelligence and semantic web; Discovery science and knowledge mining; Agents and multiagents systems; Modern knowledge-based systems; Key application areas of AI (Entertainment and Gaming, Software Engineering, BUsiness, Finance, Commerce and Economics, Knowledge-based and Personalized User Interfaces).

(For more details on the categories, view 'Aims and Scope')

The Manuscript:

* Final submissions to the journal (prior to publication) must be in MS Word or LaTeX formats, with figures in EPS or TIFF formats. LaTeX formatted manuscripts should use the standard article class in LaTeX 2e and adhere to the above guidelines. The source tex file, the bibliography file (in bib format) and figures in EPS or TIFF format are required. Include non-standard macro definitions in the preamble of the tex file. A sample LaTeX file and style file for Computational Intelligence are available from the Editorial Office. Please note that Word 2007 is not yet compatible with journal production systems. Unfortunately, the journal cannot accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents until such time that a stable production version is released. Please use Word's 'Save As' option therefore to save your documents as an older (.doc) file type.

* In order to assist submission of articles to Computational Intelligence, LaTeX and BibTeX templates are provided at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~ci/COIN/.
Please note that natbib.bst may only be used for non-profit purposes. It may not be distributed in exchange for money, other than distribution costs.
The author provides it 'as is' and does not guarantee it in any way.
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* The manuscript, consisting of title page, abstract, main body of the text, acknowledgments (optional), references, appendixes, list of symbols, list of figure captions, tables, symbols, and figures should be submitted.

* The manuscript, including footnotes, tables, and captions for illustrations, should be typewritten, double-spaced, on paper 8/1/2 x 11 with 1 inch margins and must exceed 5,000 words

* Each page of the manuscript should be numbered, beginning with the title page.

* Items to be included are enumerated as follows:

* Title page - This should specify the title, author's names, institution of origin, and its address (including postal code) phone/fax number(s), and
any necessary footnotes.

* Abstract - An abstract (excluding key words) should not be more than 200 words, and on a separate page. The concise abstract should present the
paper content accurately and should supplement, not duplicate, the title in this respect; it should not be merely an expansion of the table of contents.
References should not be cited in the abstract.

* Key words - These should not exceed ten (10) and should be placed directly below the abstract.

* Footnotes - These should be located on the page where they are referenced and numbered serially throughout the paper.

* References in Articles - We recommend the use of a tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.

EndNote reference styles can be searched for here:
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Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp

* References - References should be cited in parentheses in the text, by authors' last names and year of publication, e.g. , Previous studies (Minsky
1974; Schank 1976) indicate that the results of Winograd (1970) are... 'All citations should be listed in the references section unnumbered,
alphabetically by authors' names, in the format: Author(s). Year. Title of article, book, thesis, or report. Name of publication, publisher or university, and location. Volume or edition. First and last page of article, or total pages of book.

* All reference information should be written out in full, using no abbreviations beyond the authors' initials. Current issues of the Journal should be examined as a guide to punctuation and to the style used for listing references to journals, books, conference proceedings, theses, reports, etc. References to unpublished reports and to private communications should be given in parentheses in the text of footnotes; for a private communication, authors' initials and year of communication should be given.

* Equations and formulae - Equations and formulae must be set up clearly and should be typed triple-spaced. Numbers identifying equations should be
in square brackets and placed flush with the left margin of the text.

* Tables - Tables should be numbered with Arabic numbers, have a brief title, and be referred to in the text. Column headings and descriptive matter in tables should be brief. Vertical rules should not be used. Numerous small tables should be avoided, and the number of tables should be kept to a minimum.

* Figure captions - These should be listed on a separate page and placed after the references.

* Acknowledgments - These should be written in the third person and kept to a concise recognition of relevant contributions.

* Copyrighted material - If a manuscript contains material (figures, tables, etc.) that is protected by copyright, the author must submit to the
editor, before publication, written permission from the copyright holder for its reproduction.

* Illustrations: All terms, abbreviations, and symbols in illustrations should correspond with those in the text. There are three preferred formats for digital artwork submission: Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Portable Document Format (PDF), and Tagged Image Format (TIFF). We suggest that line art be saved as EPS files. Alternately, these may be saved as PDF files at 600 dots per inch (dpi) or better at final size. Tone art, or photographic images, should be saved as TIFF files with a resolution of 300 dpi at final size. For combination figures, or artwork that contains both photographs and labeling, we recommend saving figures as EPS files, or as PDF files with a resolution of 600 dpi or better at final size. More detailed information on the submission of electronic artwork can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp

* Line drawings - Drawings should be made with black ink on quality white paper. Any coordinate lines to appear should be ruled in. All lines must be
sufficiently thick to reproduce well, and decimal points, periods, dots, etc, must be large enough to allow for any necessary reduction. Letters and
numerals should be made neatly with a printing device (not a typewriter) and be of such size that the smallest character will not be less than 1mm high
when reduced.

* Computer generated output - Computer generated typescript is acceptable provided it is good quality and can be reproduced satisfactorily. Computer
generated graphics are acceptable provided they are in black and the lines and lettering are clear, dark and large enough to permit size reduction without loss of detail.

* Photographs - Prints should be made on glossy paper with strong contrasts, and should be trimmed to show only essential features. Photographs should be submitted in triplicate for review purposes.

* Page Proofs: Page proofs are provided for the correction of printing errors and not for improvements in the language or substance of the paper.
Corrected proofs should be returned within 48 hours of receipt. The cost of changes introduced by the author(s) and deemed to excessive will be charged
to the author(s).

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