<div dir="ltr"><div>Communicated on behalf of Mohab Safey El Din</div><div><br></div><div>====================================================</div><div>JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION</div><div><br></div><div>First Announcement of Special Issue - ISSAC 2017</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://polsys.lip6.fr/~safey/JSC-ISSAC17-SPECIALISSUE.txt">http://polsys.lip6.fr/~safey/JSC-ISSAC17-SPECIALISSUE.txt</a></div><div><br></div><div>Following the 42nd International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic</div><div>Computation 2017 which was held at The University of Kaiserslautern,</div><div>Germany, between July 25-28, 2017, we invite submissions to a special issue</div><div>of the Journal of Symbolic Computation</div><div><a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-symbolic-computation/">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-symbolic-computation/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>We solicit high-quality original research papers with journal-style</div><div>extent of contribution. The main focus of this special issue will be</div><div>on work (papers, tutorials, plenary talks, posters and softwares)</div><div>presented at ISSAC 2017, but this call is open to further submissions</div><div>close to presentations at ISSAC 2017.</div><div><br></div><div>Potential contributors may contact the guest editors to discuss the</div><div>suitability of topics and papers, by sending an email to</div><div><a href="mailto:mohab.safey@lip6.fr">mohab.safey@lip6.fr</a></div><div><a href="mailto:yap@cs.nyu.edu">yap@cs.nyu.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>*Guest Editors:*</div><div>------------------------------</div><div>- Mohab Safey El Din (University Pierre and Marie Curie, France)</div><div>- Chee Yap (New York University, USA)</div><div><br></div><div>*Important Dates:*</div><div>------------------------------</div><div>- Deadline for paper submission: Dec. 1 2017</div><div>- Notification of acceptance/rejection: Summer 2018.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>*Submission Guidelines:*</div><div>------------------------------</div><div>You are recommended to use the Elsevier article class *elsarticle.cls*</div><div>(<a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle</a>) to</div><div>prepare your manuscript and BibTeX (<a href="http://www.bibtex.org">http://www.bibtex.org</a>) to generate</div><div>your bibliography.</div><div><br></div><div>All submitted papers will be refereed according to the usual JSC</div><div>refereeing process. Submission is via EasyChair, at the website</div><div><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscissac17">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jscissac17</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>The introduction of the paper must explicitly address the following</div><div>questions in succinct and informal manner:</div><div>- What is the problem?</div><div>- Why is the problem important?</div><div>- What has been done so far on the problem?</div><div>- What is the main contribution of the paper on the problem?</div><div>- Why is the contribution original? (see below for clarification)</div><div>- Why is the contribution non-trivial?</div><div>- How is the journal paper different from the conference paper.</div><div><br></div><div>The paper must be _complete_ (since there is no page limit).</div><div>- All the related works and issues must be completely and carefully discussed.</div><div>- All the previous relevant JSC papers must be properly cited and discussed.</div><div>- All the theorem must be rigorously proved (no sketch allowed).</div><div>- All the important definitions/theorems/algorithms must be illustrated by well chosen examples.</div><div>- Address all the feedback from the conference's referee process and Q/A,</div><div><br></div><div>*Clarification:*</div><div>------------------------------</div><div>The results, already published in the conference paper will be still</div><div>counted as an original result for JSC refereeing process.</div><div><br></div><div>*Recommendation:*</div><div>------------------------------</div><div>Incorporating additional results, especially inspired by</div><div>the ISSAC reviews or by discussions during the conference</div><div>is strongly encouraged.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely yours,</div><div><br></div><div>Mohab Safey El Din (ISSAC 2017 Program Chair)</div><div>Chee Yap (ISSAC 2017 General Chair)</div><div>========================================================</div></div>
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