ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)

Types of Papers

Scope. TAAS is a referred journal aimed at disseminating high quality scientific and technological research results in the area of autonomous adaptive systems, as defined in the scopes and editorial charter sections.

Originality. Contributions appearing in ACM journals are normally original papers that have not been published elsewhere. Publication of a paper that has been widely disseminated is permitted only if the Editor judges that the revision contains significant amplification or clarification of the original material or there is some significant additional benefit to be gained. Any prior appearance should be noted on the title page and it is the obligation of the author to inform the Editor-in-Chief if there are any circumstances concerning the contribution that bear on this policy. Submission of a manuscript that is under review by TAAS to another journal or conference without approval of the Editor-in-Chief is considered to be unethical and, when discovered, will result in rejection by TAAS.

Unethical Papers. TAAS reserves the right to impose the revision of, or if necessary to refuse, a paper – despite its scientific and technical quality – whenever its content is explicitly unethical or if it supports racism, sexual or religious discrimination, illegal activities or terrorism; similarly an article may be refused if the editors deem that it might harm the political or religious sensitivity of interested readers in any manner.

First Volumes Papers

Since TAAS is a new journal, the first volume (year 1) of the journal can also contain a limited number of general, introductory, “magazine style” papers, devoted to assess the scope of the journal and to encourage a wider readership (including non-experts). Papers can be submitted at any time, and will be published, if possible, in the next issue following acceptance.

Instructions for Submission

TAAS can accept papers in electronic format only. This facilitates both a quicker editorial review process as well as electronic publication of accepted papers.

TAAS authors should prepare manuscripts, no longer than 12000 words, according to the ACM accepted manuscript preparation guidelines. Papers must be sent either in PostScript or PDF format. Papers exceeding 12000 words may be published, provided that the reviewers and the editors explicitly consider such a length a necessary requirement for the paper to be complete and self-contained. For those submitting papers in PDF format, please ensure that papers do not contain embedded fonts (such as embedded Asian fonts). These papers can be difficult to read and view with many PDF viewers not equipped to display certain character sets. 

Submitted papers must include the following information:

• Authors names and affiliation
• Primary author contact information 
• Abstract
• Categories and Subject Descriptors
  
• References

Categories and Subject Descriptors should be selected from the Computing Reviews Classification Scheme published in the January 1991 issue of Computing Reviews.

Submitted papers must be submitted through the electronic submission web site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taas. Authors should first register themselves and then submit their paper.

Review Process

We plan to return review results within 4 months of submission. This interval is long enough to ensure quality reviews, and short enough to ensure reasonable publication delays.

Instructions for Publication of Accepted Papers

Authors of accepted papers will submit a publication packet to ACM Publications. The packet will include:

• Name and address of contact author, including email address and phone number.
• PDF or PostScript file of final version.
• Formatted source file (see www.acm.org/pubs/submissions/submission.htm).
• A printed copy of the paper.
• Figures in EPS or TIFF format.
• Computing Classification Systems terms (http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~jacm/CR/1991/).
• General terms  (http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~jacm/CR/1991/).
• Additional keywords and phrases (www.acm.org/class/1998).
• Signed copyright form (by the contact author) (www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html).

The electronic files should be included in a zip file and submitted through the electronic submission web site:  http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taas.