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Complexity International is a refereed journal for scientific papers dealing with any area of complex systems research.
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Information for Authors
Aims and Scope
The theme of the journal is the field of complex systems, especially
generation of complex behaviour from the interaction of multiple parallel
processes. Relevant topics include (but are not restricted to):
- artificial life
- cellular automata
- chaos theory
- control theory
- fractals
- genetic algorithms
- information systems
- neural networks
- non-linear dynamics
- parallel computation
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Papers dealing with applications of these topics (for example, to biology, economics, epidemiology, sociology) are also encouraged.
General Information
The journal will publish only material of high quality. The refereeing process will have the same rigour as any conventional journal. All papers will be refereed for relevance, correctness and quality.
Each paper should be an original piece of work that has not been published elsewhere and is not currently being published or reviewed by another journal or conference.
Manuscripts are considered under the following categories:
- Original Papers
should be significant, original pieces of work, not exceeding 5000 words in length.
- Reviews
should be detailed outlines, presenting arguments for the content,
importance and topicality of the material. Multi-media hypertext provides
a superlative vehicle for reviewing many issues and reviews expoiting these features are actively encouraged. Reviews should not exceed 10,000 words in length. Intending authors of reviews are encouraged to contact the editors in advance.
- News and Ideas
will be provocative suggestions for applications of complex systems
ideas or methodology. These will be refereed and a standard of analysis and
presentation considerably in excess of typical news-group contributions
will be required. Contributions should not exceed 3000 words in length.
- Software and Algorithms
will include any of the following:
- Interactive processes, such as CGI and JAVA
- Program packages
- Algorithms will be demonstrations of new computational ideas and techniques
Submission of these should be accompanied by a description of the aims, methods and implementation;
sufficient documentation to allow users to install and run the software; sample data, scripts or
any other material to provide a demonstration of the software in use; and arrangements regarding
availability. Authors should contact the Submissions
Editor regarding procedures for submission.
- Educational Material
will include lectures, tutorials and other educational material.
- Technical Notes
should be similar to departmental reports, and contain more detail of
implementation and methods than would normally appear in a paper.
Contributions should not exceed 2000 words.
Correspondence
All correspondence concerning the journal should be via email to ci-editor@life.csu.edu.au
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Expression of Interest.
Submission of Manuscripts
Please use the online form provided - Manuscript Submission Form
- to complete the registration
details that are required for each paper to be published in
Complexity International. This form includes a Declaration of copyright, originality
and ownership.
Papers will not be considered for publication unless this form is completed.
Copy Editing
Alterations and corrections will be processed
according to the usual protocols for conventional journals.
The journal does not
provide a formatting service; authors should provide their manuscripts in
a form that can be readily incorporated into the journal. Poorly formatted
manuscripts will be returned to authors for correction.
Authors should take particular note of the instructions regarding Journal
Format below. It is important that you follow these guidelines.
Our 'house style' is based on the Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers (Australian Government
Publishing Service, Canberra).
Journal Format
Authors are welcome to submit their documents in one of the three
following formats:
The templates for these three formats can be downloaded from here.
Please note that PDF and Postscript versions are NOT acceptable.
Word Document
Format
Manuscripts provided as a Word document are to be formatted using the provided templates, Word 6 version or Word 2 version, using the appropriate styles.
Mark Up in HTML
Documents are to be fully marked up as follows:
- Text
- The final form of text should be in HTML.
The example illustrates the required HTML tags
and structure. We strongly recommend that authors use the example, and the accompanying
manuscript template
and ensure that the text is free of formatting errors.
Use the format in the example provided for detailing author information at the start of the
document.
Make the title H1 size. Next put the word "Abstract" in H3 size. Then put the abstract in
italics. The section titles should use H2 size and be numbered starting with 1. Subsections should
use H3 size and be numbered such as 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.
- Images
- All images should be provided in a compressed image format
that is readable by standard World Wide Web browsers. GIF and JPEG are preferred. Ensure
that images are referenced using the IMG SRC="file.gif" format rather than absolute URLs to
images on your own web site.
The journal does not provide an image conversion service.
Authors should convert images themselves and should make
every effort to reduce images to be as small as possible, without
becoming unreadable. Unless there are good reasons for providing
large images, they should be scaled to fit as small, in-lined images
(no larger than WIDTH=480, HEIGHT=300).
Remember that images will be displayed in different sizes by different viewers and platforms.
- Equations
- Simple equations should be provided in HTML format.
Where formulae are too complex to mark up in HTML format, authors
should provide each equation as a small image (GIF format preferred).
- Software
- Programs should be submitted in source form and should meet the
criteria given earlier. They should compile and execute successfully
using GNU software only.
- Citations
- Citations should be indicated by numbers in the text that refer to an
alphabetical list of authors provided in the References section. Papers
should use the following examples as a guide and also refer to the online
example:
- Herman, G. T. & Rozenberg, G. (1975)
Developmental Systems and Formal Languages,
Amsterdam, North-Holland.
- Langton, C. G. (1990) Computation at the edge of chaos:
phase transitions and emergent computation,
Physica D, 42 (1-3): 12-37.
- Leighton, F. T. (1992)
Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures:
Arrays, Trees, Hypercubes,
Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, California.
- Seeley, D. & Ronald, S. (1992)
The emergence of connectivity and fractal time in the evolution of
random digraphs in
From Biology to Computation: Proceedings of the First Australian
Conference on Complex Systems, (eds) D. G. Green & T. J. Bossomaier, IOS Press, Amsterdam.
- Wolfram, S. (1986)
Theory and Applications of Cellular Automata,
World Scientific, Singapore.
- Hypertext links
- Authors are encouraged to include hypertext links in their papers
wherever feasible. These should be standard URLs and should be verified
by the authors prior to submission.
LaTeX
For LaTeX submissions, please use the provided templates :
Language
Manuscripts must be written in English. Spelling should be according to The Australian Oxford
Dictionary.
Please use 's' not 'z' in words such as recognise, emphasise, etc.
Structure
Papers should conform to the normal structure for journal papers.
The title area should include:
- Title
- Author(s)
- Postal address(es) (in order of authors)
- Email address(es) (in order of authors)
The remainder of the paper should be divided into sections, each clearly indicated by a heading. They should include:
- Abstract (no more than 250 words)
- Introduction
- ... other sections as required...
- Discussion or Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
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