Journals in Software general

Array

ISSN: 2590-0056
Impact factor: 2.3

Opening Up Computer ScienceArray is an international open access multidisciplinary journal encompassing a broad spectrum of topics in computer science, includingArtificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and RoboticsComputer Systems and ArchitectureComputer Vision, Speech and Pattern RecognitionControl & Signal ProcessingCyber SecurityData, Knowledge and Intelligent SystemsIndustrial EngineeringInterdisciplinary ApplicationsMedical Informatics and Biomedical EngineeringMicroelectronics and HardwareMultimedia and HCINetworks and CommunicationsOperational Research and Decision SystemsScientific ComputingSoftware EngineeringTheoretical Computer ScienceSubmissions must be novel, technically sound, and clearly presented. Array accepts both technical notes (technical notes are limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the standard Elsevier format) and regular papers. In addition to research papers presenting new results, review articles as well as discussion and opinion papers are also welcome.Papers meeting journal criteria will undergo a single-blind review process, utilizing a minimum of two (2) external referees. Our dedicated expert editorial team, together with an editorial board of hundreds of active researchers from all areas of computer science, ensure that papers move through to publication as fast as possible without compromising on the quality of the process.The journal audience comprises academia, industry, and practitioners. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their datasets publicly accessible via a repository of their choosing.Software publicationWe invite you to convert your open source software into an additional journal publication in Software Impacts, a multi-disciplinary open access journal. Software Impacts provides a scholarly reference to software that has been used to address a research challenge. The journal disseminates impactful and re-usable scientific software through Original Software Publications which describe the application of the software to research and the published outputs.For more information contact us at: [email protected]

Future Generation Computer Systems

ISSN: 0167-739X
5 Year impact factor: 5.9
Impact factor: 6.2

The International Journal of eScienceComputing infrastructures and systems are rapidly developing and so are novel ways to map, control and execute scientific applications which become more and more complex and collaborative. Computational and storage capabilities, databases, sensors, and people need true collaborative tools. Over the last years there has been a real explosion of new theory and technological progress supporting a better understanding of these wide-area, fully distributed sensing and computing systems. Big Data in all its guises require novel methods and infrastructures to register, analyze and distill meaning.FGCS aims to lead the way in advances in distributed systems, collaborative environments, high performance and high performance computing, Big Data on such infrastructures as grids, clouds and the Internet of Things (IoT).The Aims and Scope of FGCS cover new developments in:[1] Applications and application support:Novel applications for novel e-infrastructuresComplex workflow applicationsBig Data registration, processing and analysesProblem solving environments and virtual laboratoriesSemantic and knowledge based systemsCollaborative infrastructures and virtual organizationsMethods for high performance and high throughput computingUrgent computingScientific, industrial, social and educational implicationsEducation[2] Methods and tools:Tools for infrastructure development and monitoringDistributed dynamic resource management and schedulingInformation managementProtocols and emerging standardsMethods and tools for internet computingSecurity aspects[3] Theory:Process specification;Program and algorithm designTheoretical aspects of large scale communication and computationScaling and performance theoryProtocols and their verification

Heliyon

ISSN: 2405-8440
5 Year impact factor: 3.9
Impact factor: 3.4

Heliyon considers research from all areas of the physical, applied, life, social and medical sciences. We publish manuscripts reporting scientifically accurate and valuable research, which adheres to accepted ethical and scientific publishing standards. As such Heliyon publishes new insights as well as extensions on existing theories, negative/null results and replication studies.Submissions covering arts, humanities and law are not considered in Heliyon. Authors of these submissions are encouraged to submit directly to our partner journal Social Sciences & Humanities Open.Heliyon classifies manuscripts/articles into different sections based on the research topic discussed. Some sections exclude certain types of studies from their scope. To know more and to see the kind of manuscripts the various sections publish, please visit: https://www.cell.com/heliyon/sectionsA dedicated in-house editorial office team, internal editors as well as external academic section and associate editors handle your manuscript and manage the publication process, giving your research the editorial support and quality control it deserves.If it's important to you, it's important to us. Submit your paper today.

High-Confidence Computing

ISSN: 2667-2952
5 Year impact factor: 3.2
Impact factor: 3.2

An official Journal of the Shandong UniversityThe High-Confidence Computing Journal is dedicated to publish articles covering fundamental research outcomes that fusion the three domains of secure computing, precise computing, and intelligent computing, as well as complex system designs that jointly consider the properties of secure and trusted hardware/software, precise and process-traceable algorithms, and self-evolving systems that can adapt to new environments and support new applications.The journal intends to provide a unique interdisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners who are interested in the basic research of high-confidence computing and the complex system developments considering high-confidence properties to demonstrate their novel and creative designs. Other than the original research papers on all aspects of high-confidence computing from theory and applications, the journal also publishes review articles with inspiring open research discussions that can motivate new ideas of realizing high-confidence computing.The journal accepts original research and review articles that address the challenges in all aspects of high-confidence computing, from theory to systems. Its contents are centered in the following three tracks: high-confidence computing theory and algorithms, architectures and platforms, software and systems.The Journal considers Original Article, Review, Case Report and Commentary.Specific topics include but are not limited to: • Expandable and accountable computing architectures • SDN-enabled and blockchain-enhanced computing architectures • NFV for dynamic function expansion and adaptation • Access control to secure open computing environments • TEE-enabled trusted data collection and hardware control • Cryptographic high-confidence primitives and applications • High-confidence system security and privacy • Malicious, damaged and white-noise data cleaning and extraction • Spatial-temporal big data fusion for intelligent decision making • Migration learning and digital-twin technologies • Cascading failure detection and recovery • Cascading vulnerability detection and positioning • Active defence technologies • Blockchain technologies and applications • High-confidence IoT • Machine learning security

Information Systems

ISSN: 0306-4379
5 Year impact factor: 2.9
Impact factor: 3

Databases: Their Creation, Management and UtilizationInformation systems are the software and hardware systems that support data-intensive applications. The journal Information Systems publishes articles concerning the design and implementation of languages, data models, process models, algorithms, software and hardware for information systems.Subject areas include data management issues as presented in the principal international database conferences (e.g., ACM SIGMOD/PODS, VLDB, ICDE and ICDT/EDBT) as well as data-related issues from the fields of data mining/machine learning, information retrieval coordinated with structured data, internet and cloud data management, business process management, web semantics, visual and audio information systems, scientific computing, and data science. We welcome systems papers that focus on implementation considerations in massively parallel data management, fault tolerance, and special purpose hardware for data-intensive systems; theoretical papers that either break significant new ground or unify and extend existing algorithms for data-intensive applications; and manuscripts from application domains, such as urban informatics, social and natural science, and Internet of Things, which present innovative, high-performance, and scalable solutions to data management problems for those domains.All papers should motivate the problems they address with compelling examples from real or potential applications. Systems papers must be serious about experimentation either on real systems or simulations based on traces from real systems. Papers from industrial organizations are welcome. Theoretical papers should have a clear motivation from applications and clearly state which ideas have potentially wide applicability.Authors of selected articles that have been accepted for publication in Information Systems are invited by the EiCs to submit the experiment described in their papers for reproducibility validation. The resulting additional reproducibility paper is co-authored by the reproducibility reviewers and the authors of the original publication.As part of its commitment to reproducible science, Information Systems also welcomes experimental reproducible survey papers. Such submissions must: (i) apply a substantial portion of the different surveyed techniques to at least one existing benchmark and perhaps one or more new benchmarks, and (ii) be reproducible (the validation of reproducibility will result in a separate paper following the guidelines of our Reproducibility Editor).In addition to publishing submitted articles, the Editors-in-Chief will invite retrospective articles that describe significant projects by the principal architects of those projects. Authors of such articles should write in the first person, tracing the social as well as technical history of their projects, describing the evolution of ideas, mistakes made, and reality tests. We will make every effort to allow authors the right to republish papers appearing in Information Systems in their own books and monographs.

Information and Software Technology

ISSN: 0950-5849
5 Year impact factor: 4
Impact factor: 3.8

Visit the journal's proposal guidelines to submit a proposal for a special issue (original contributions on a topic within the scope of the journal) or a special section with extended papers from a conference of workshop within the scope of the journal.Information and Software Technology is the international archival journal focusing on research and experience that contributes to the improvement of software development practices. The journal's scope includes methods and techniques to better engineer software and manage its development. Articles submitted for review should have a clear component of software engineering or address ways to improve the engineering and management of software development. Areas covered by the journal include: • Software management, quality and metrics, • Software processes, • Software architecture, modelling, specification, design and programming • Functional and non-functional software requirements • Software testing and verification & validation • Empirical studies of all aspects of engineering and managing software development Short Communications is a new section dedicated to short papers addressing new ideas, controversial opinions, "Negative" results and much more. Read the Guide for authors for more information.The journal encourages and welcomes submissions of systematic literature studies (reviews and maps) within the scope of the journal. Information and Software Technology is the premiere outlet for systematic literature studies in software engineering. Guidelines for conducting systematic reviews are provided here.Benefits to authors We also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our Support Center.

Journal of Systems and Software

ISSN: 0164-1212
5 Year impact factor: 3.7
Impact factor: 3.7

For JSS's full CfP including information on Special Issues, Industry, Trends, and Journal First tracks please continue to read for further details.The Journal of Systems and Software publishes papers covering all aspects of software engineering. All articles should provide evidence to support their claims, e.g. through empirical studies, simulation, formal proofs or other types of validation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Methods and tools for software requirements, design, architecture, verification and validation, testing, maintenance and evolutionAgile, model-driven, service-oriented, open source and global software developmentHuman/social aspects in software engineering and developerexperienceArtificial Intelligence, data analytics and big data applied in software engineeringMetrics and evaluation of software development resourcesDevOps, continuous integration, build and test automationSoftware Engineering educationEthical/societal aspects of Software EngineeringSoftware Engineering for AI systemsSoftware Engineering for SustainabilityMethods and tools for empirical software engineering research The journal welcomes reports of practical experience for all of these topics, as well as replication studies and studies with negative results. The journal appreciates the submission of systematic literature reviews, mapping studies and meta-analyses. However, these should report interesting and important results, rather than merely providing statistics on publication year, venue etc.JSS supports Open Science and reproducible research. Therefore, authors are encouraged to make Open Science material available at the time of submission and after acceptance of their manuscript, e.g., by submitting artifacts related to a study to an archived open repository (such as arXiv.org, zenodo.org, Mendeley, etc.). Also, authors are encouraged to explicitly reference Open Science material in their manuscript (e.g., via a DOI from the open repository). If authors are not able to disclose any material (for example, industrial data subject to non-disclosure agreements), we encourage authors to explicitly acknowledge this by including a short statement in their manuscript. Depending on the type of research presented in a manuscript, Open Science material could include study protocols, (anonymized) raw or analyzed data, data analysis scripts, source code, customized tools and infrastructures, experimental material, codebooks, etc. If authors agree to participate in the JSS Open Science Initiative, after the acceptance of a manuscript, they will be invited to submit a link to Open Science material for review by the JSS Open Science Board. After a successful review (which does not impact the acceptance of the manuscript) considering availability and usability of the material, the publisher will add a statement to the final version of the manuscript acknowledging that the Open Science package was validated by the JSS Open Science Board.In addition to regular papers, JSS features two special tracks (In Practice, New Ideas and Trends Papers), as well as special issues.In Practice is exclusively focused on work that increases knowledge transfer from industry to research. It accepts: (1) Applied Research Reports where we invite submissions that report results (positive or negative) concerning the experience of applying/evaluating systems and software technologies (methods, techniques and tools) in real industrial settings. These comprise empirical studies conducted in industry (e.g., action research, case studies) or experience reports that may help understanding situations in which technologies really work and their impact. Submissions should include information on the industrial setting, provide motivation, explain the events leading to the outcomes, including the challenges faced, summarize the outcomes, and conclude with lessons learned, take-away messages, and practical advice based on the described experience. Contributing authors from industry are encouraged but not mandatory. (2) Practitioner Insights where we invite experience reports showing what actually happens in practical settings, illustrating the challenges (and pain) that practitioners face, and presenting lessons learned. Problem descriptions with significant details on the context, underlying causes and symptoms, and technical and organizational impact are also welcome. Practitioner insights papers may also comprise invited opinionated views on the evolution of chosen topic areas in practice. In contrast to applied research reports, practitioner insights are limited to four pages and the first author must be from industry. Finally, submissions to this track should be within scope of the journal's above topics of interest and they will be evaluated through industry-appropriate criteria for their merit in reporting useful industrial experience rather than in terms of academic novelty of research results.New Ideas and Trends Papers New ideas, especially those related to new research trends, emerge quickly. To accommodate timely dissemination thereof, JSS introduces the New Ideas and Trends Paper (NITP). NITPs should focus on the systems/software engineering aspects of new emerging areas, including: the internet of things, big data, cloud computing, software ecosystems, cyber-physical systems, green/sustainable systems, continuous software engineering, crowdsourcing, and the like. We distinguish two types of NITPs:A short paper that discusses a single contribution to a specific new trend or a new idea.A long paper that provides a survey of a specific trend, as well as a (possibly speculative) outline of a solution.NITPs are not required to be fully validated, but preliminary results that endorse the merit of the proposed ideas are welcomed.We anticipate revisiting specific new trends periodically, for instance through reflection or progress reports. New Ideas and Trend Papers warrant speedy publication.Special Issue proposals To submit a proposal for a special issue please submit your proposal here to Special Issues Editors Prof. Raffaela Mirandola and Prof. Laurence Duchien. Please visit the special issue guidelines page first to review the proposal guidelines and to download the proposal template required when submitting a proposal.Journal First Initiative Authors of JSS accepted papers have the opportunity to present their work in those conferences that offer a Journal First track. Using this track, researchers may take the best from two worlds: ensuring high quality in the JSS publication (thorough, multi-phase review process of a long manuscript), while getting feedback from a community of experts and fostering possible collaborations during a scientific event.Details may vary from conference to conference, but generally speaking, JSS papers to be presented in a Journal First track must report completely new research results or present novel contributions that significantly extend previous work. The ultimate decision to include a paper in the conference program is up to the conference chairs, not JSS. A JSS paper may be presented only once through a Journal First track.As of today, the list of conferences with which JSS is collaborating, or has collaborated, through a Journal First track, is: ASE, ICSME, SANER, RE, ESEM, PROFES, and APSEC.

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

ISSN: 1574-1192
5 Year impact factor: 3.4
Impact factor: 3

Special Issue Proposal Note PMCJ exclusively reviews Special Issue proposal forms submitted here through the designated submission system. Proposals submitted via any other means will not be considered for review. For more information on how to prepare and submit a SI proposal please check https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/computer-science/journals/how-to-prepare-a-special-issue-proposal.Aims and Scope As envisioned by Mark Weiser as early as 1991, pervasive computing systems and services have truly become integral to our daily lives. Tremendous advancements in a multitude of technologies ranging from personalized and embedded smart devices (e.g., smartphones, sensors, wearables, IoT) to ubiquitous connectivity through wireless mobile communications and cognitive networking infrastructures, to advanced computing techniques (including mobile edge/fog/cloud, data analytics and machine learning) and user-friendly middleware services and platforms have significantly contributed to the unprecedented advances in pervasive and mobile computing.Such cutting-edge pervasive technologies and paradigms have led to the convergence of cyber-physical-human systems with applications to smart environments (e.g., smart homes and cities, smart grid, smart transportation, smart health, smart agriculture) with the goal to improve human experience and quality of life without explicit awareness of the underlying communications and computing technologies. Additionally, the huge amount of (real-time) data collected via pervasive devices coupled with advanced data analytic, machine learning and AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques for reliable prediction and decision-making are making breakthrough research in pervasive computing and applications, such as self-driving cars, predictive maintenance in the industry 4.0 environments, mobile recommendation systems, etc.The Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC) is a high-impact, peer-reviewed technical journal that publishes high-quality scientific articles spanning theory and practice, and covering all aspects of pervasive and mobile computing and systems. Topics include, but not limited to: Pervasive Computing and Communications Architectures and ProtocolsPervasive, Mobile and Wearable Computing Systems and ServicesCyber-Physical Systems and Cyber-Physical-Human SystemsSmart Systems and Applications (smart homes, smart cities, smart manufacturing, smart transportation, smart grid, smart health, smart agriculture, etc.)Human-centric Intelligent SystemsCognitive ComputingTrustworthy AI in Pervasive SystemsMachine Learning and Deep Learning in Pervasive and Mobile ComputingFederated, Distributed and Embedded learning, Learning at-the-edge in Pervasive SystemsLearning on Streaming Data and Continual Learning in Pervasive and Mobile SystemsBig Data and Data Analytics in Pervasive Computing SystemsInternet of Things and Social Internet of ThingsInternet of People and Internet of VehiclesEdge, Fog, Mobile Cloud and Opportunistic Computing in Pervasive and Mobile SystemsEnabling Pervasive Communication Technologies (e.g., wireless LANs, cellular, hybrid, ad hoc and cognitive networks)Wireless Sensors Networks and RFID TechnologiesUrban Sensing and Mobile CrowdsensingParticipatory and Social SensingMachine-to-Machine and Device-to-Device CommunicationsPositioning, Localization and Tracking TechnologiesActivity Recognition and TrackingContext-aware ComputingLocation-based Services and ApplicationsPervasive Service Creation, Composition, Discovery, Management, and DeliveryHuman User Interfaces and Interaction ModelsTrust, Reliability, Security, and Privacy in Pervasive and Mobile Computing SystemsPerformance Evaluation of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Systems

Software Impacts

ISSN: 2665-9638
5 Year impact factor: 1.5
Impact factor: 1.3

Disseminating software of proven scientific relevanceSoftware Impacts - Code for researchSoftware Impacts is a multidisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal which publishes short, articles that describe software which addresses a research challenge. The journal describes the application of impactful and re-usable software and provides a scholarly reference. Publications in Software Impacts consist of two parts:A short descriptive paper of approximately three pages, including an Impact Overview statement and references to scholarly publications where the software has been usedOpen source software with support materialSoftware Impacts promises to make research software:Accessible - immediately and freely available to download and read with open access, giving readers easy access to software and related research articlesDiscoverable - easy to share your software article and your software with other researchers, ensuring it is accessible outside your domainCitable - drive traffic to and from your software and related publications with linking and referencingComprehensible - a software article that is easy to digest and interpretReviewed - ensure quality publication with expert peer-reviewReproducible - easier for your peers to re-use your software, saving valuable time and resources. Software submitted to Software Impacts for consideration is verified and certified for computational reproducibility by the CodeOcean, a cloud based computational reproducibility platform that helps the community by enabling sharing of code and data as a resource for non-commercial use. Certified papers will be given additional exposure by receiving a Reproducibility Badge, and by being listed on the CodeOcean website.Software Impacts welcomes submissions from all areas of science, as well as submissions which cover interdisciplinary research. Software submitted for consideration must have contributed to scientific research, with the outputs published in at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed article.The Editorial Team assesses the originality and quality of submitted software via published results. Such results are considered reliable if they have been published in a peer-reviewed, scholarly publication. The Editors of Software Impacts review the Impact Statement with the assistance of subject matter experts using single blind peer-review process.Software discussed in Software Impacts must adhere to a recognized legal license, such as the OSI-approved licenses and submissions are only considered if the code/software has been made freely available.Your next step.If this journal is good fit for your research software, follow the Original Software Publication guidelines in the Guide for Authors and use the template to submit your article. For any questions contact us at: [email protected] software can fuel discovery. Submit your paper today.

SoftwareX

ISSN: 2352-7110
5 Year impact factor: 3.1
Impact factor: 2.4

SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today's research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains. SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact.To this end, SoftwareX aims to support publication of research software in such a way that:The software is given a stamp of scientific relevance, and provided with a peer-reviewed recognition of scientific impact;The software developers are given the credits they deserve;The software is citable, allowing traditional metrics of scientific excellence to apply;The academic career paths of software developers are supported rather than hindered;The software is publicly available for inspection, validation, and re-use.Above all, SoftwareX aims to inform researchers about software applications, tools and libraries with a (proven) potential to impact the process of scientific discovery in various domains. The journal is multidisciplinary and accepts submissions from within and across subject domains such as those represented within the broad thematic areas below:Mathematical and Physical Sciences;Environmental Sciences;Medical and Biological Sciences;Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.Originating from these broad thematic areas, the journal also welcomes submissions of software that works in cross cutting thematic areas, such as citizen science, cybersecurity, digital economy, energy, global resource stewardship, health and wellbeing, etcetera.SoftwareX specifically aims to accept submissions representing domain-independent software that may impact more than one research domain.Domain independent underpinning software tools and technologies have for too long been underrepresented in academic literature. We wish to ensure that these software items get academic recognition and welcome submissions of software tools and services that may otherwise not have a publication home. Examples include mathematical or image processing libraries or methodologies, visualization tools, data management, etcetera.Through the quality of the description and of the (potential) impact of the software deposited we aim that significant reuse will occur both within and without the original developing domain and therefore encourage consideration of this reuse factor when submitting and in the language used within the description.Submissions to SoftwareX consist of two major parts:A short descriptive paper of 3000-word limit;An open-source software distribution with support material.The manuscript you submit must be regarded as an accompanying note for the benefit of readers and potential users of your software.Submissions are accepted only if the code/software has been made freely available. To submit please follow the Original Software Publication guidelines.For any questions contact us at: [email protected] software publications published in SoftwareX are hosted on a repository on GitHub. A copy of the 'accepted for publication' version of software/code will be copied to the journal's GitHub repository for archiving purposes. Go to the SoftwareX GitHub repository

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