ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
Author Guidelines
Editorial Process
TRETS will accept submissions which have not been published or submitted in any form elsewhere. The Editors-in-Chief or Associate Editors will solicit reviews and make a publication recommendation; the Editors-in-Chief will make the final decision. Three anonymous reviews will be the norm, and every effort will be made to ensure a swift review process consistent with the fair and professional reviews that authors have a right to expect.
TRETS will publish outstanding papers which are "major value-added extensions" of papers previously published in conferences; that is, TRETS will not automatically reject papers that are major extensions to previously published conference papers. These papers will go through the normal review process. The common practice of "at least 30% new material beyond the conference publication" will be applied by TRETS. The authors should explicitly identify the new material in the cover letter, as well as attach a copy of the conference paper to their submission.
TRETS will occasionally publish special issues to provide a timely boost to promising areas of research and development, or a timely consolidation of the results in other areas. Guest editors will be invited to organize such issues.
Submitted papers are evaluated by anonymous reviewers (referees) for originality, relevance, and presentation. (Please see the TRETS Reviewers Information and Guidelines for more details.) The author will be notified of the name of an Associate Editor who will be responsible for the processing of the manuscript, and should address correspondence to that Associate Editor.
TRETS encourages high-quality submissions that are concise, with no more than 32 published pages including figures, tables, and references. Authors should expect that in longer papers any lengthy appendices, program listings, or similar matter will be published online by ACM and not appear as part of the printed paper. If authors have strong justification to go beyond the 32-page limit, they should first contact the Editor-in-Chief to obtain a page-limit exception before submitting such a manuscript to TRETS.
TRETS will publish survey and tutorial papers that are valuable to the community; however, these should not be submitted unsolicited. Authors who wish to submit a survey paper to TRETS should contact the Editor-in-Chief with a proposed topic and brief outline. If the Editor-in-Chief determines the proposed work is appropriate, authors can submit a manuscript for the full review process. Survey or tutorial papers are defined below.
Survey Paper: A paper that summarizes and organizes recent research results in a novel way that integrates and adds understanding to work in the field. A survey article assumes a general knowledge of the area; it emphasizes the classification of the existing literature, developing a perspective on the area, and evaluating trends.
Tutorial paper: A paper that organizes and introduces work in the field. A tutorial paper assumes its audience is inexpert; it emphasizes the basic concepts of the field and provides concrete examples that embody these concepts.
Manuscript Format, Preparation, and Submission
Authors are encouraged to consult the ACM Publications web page and Policy on Roles and Responsibilities in ACM Publishing, and especially the directions regarding Electronically submitting accepted articles to ACM journals; following those directions and guidelines will speed up the process of having your papers reviewed and published. All manuscripts for TRETS must be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word or as pdf files to ACM Manuscript Central. See below for template files. Once you are at that site, you will be asked to create an account and password with which you can enter the manuscript review tracking system. This account is different from the ACM account that you may have. From a drop-down list of journals, choose Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems and proceed to the Author Center to submit your manuscript and any other accompanying files. Published papers will be required to be submitted in ACM format. This format is encouraged but not required for initial submission.
Authors must include as part of the manuscript a descriptive title, author names and affiliations, an abstract of 150-200 words, and indexing information consistent with the ACM Computing Classification System (most recently released in 2012). Please select at least one primary-level classification followed by two secondary-level classifications. Proper classification by the authors, who best know their work, will aid in the review and publication process.
Questions about submissions should be directed to the Editor-in-Chief or by email to trets in the domain acm.org.
Technical content is the primary criterion for acceptability, but the presentation of the technical content is also critical for a successful paper. Authors are encouraged to take this into account before submitting papers, because extremely poor presentation can contribute to a poor evaluation by a reviewer. Note that discounted language editing services are available for submissions to ACM journals.
In papers describing experimental results, authors should strive to report experiments with replicability as a goal. Such papers shall report results on standard test sets using standard metrics. Authors shall cite the best known results on these test sets. Authors shall provide statistical significance tests on their results. There is little value in a paper that describes an experiment using authors' private data, private test sets, and authors' own metric. In case there are no standard tests or metrics in the paper's area, the authors shall have a mechanism to provide the test material and the evaluation tool to the community.
NOTE: The ACM Digital Library will host ancillary material for a paper on its web site. This material, an online appendix that does not appear in the print journal, is linked to and accessed from the online table of contents. For example, authors could provide hypertext and/or XML versions of their papers, or animations, or any other appropriate technology. Authors that wish to use this option should attach such material as an appendix to their submission and indicate in their cover letter that this material is intended to be ancillary material included in the digital library, and how it is intended to be accessed. All ancillary material should be free from viruses.
Prior Publication Policy
The technical contributions appearing in ACM journals are normally original papers which have not been published elsewhere. However, previously published conference proceedings can be expanded and submitted, provided that there are significant additions. In such a case, the submitted manuscript should have at least 30% new material. The new material should be content material, not just the addition of obvious proofs or a few more straightforward performance figures. The submitted manuscript affords an opportunity to describe the novel approach in more depth, to consider the alternatives more comprehensively, and to delve into some of the issues listed in the prior publication as future work. At the same time, it is not required that the submitted manuscript contain all of the material from the published paper. To the contrary: only enough material need be included from the published paper to set the context and render the new material comprehensible.
TRETS expects that papers submitted to it will not have been simultaneously submitted elsewhere, in line with the Policy on Roles and Responsibilities in ACM Publishing policy. The corresponding author of a TRETS submission must inform the editor handling that submission about any paper by any author of the TRETS submission that (a) is in submission, (b) has been accepted for publication, or (c) has been published, that overlaps significantly (more than a page or so) with the TRETS submission. Such papers in categories (b) and (c) should be referenced by the TRETS submission and discussed in the related work section, as appropriate. The corresponding author should also inform the editor about any overlaps that occur while the paper is under consideration by TRETS. In all cases, the Editors-in-Chief will make the determination as to whether the overlap is acceptable and reserve the right to reject papers if these guidelines have not been followed.
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