Special Themes | General Submissions | Special Issue Proposals
Special Theme Issues
IEEE Internet Computing is seeking papers for the following theme issues:
- Information Quality in the Internet Era
- Trust and Reputation Management
- Overcoming Information Overload
General Submissions
As a crossroads between academic researchers and software professionals, IEEE Internet Computing presents novel content from academic and industry experts on a wide range of topics. It applies theory to the practice of building Internet systems and feeds the experience of Internet system construction and use back into research and theory. The magazine reaches more than 7,000 subscribers internationally, comprising leading researchers, developers, and engineers.
IC invites researchers and practitioners to submit articles describing their efforts and experiences with developments and key trends in Internet technologies and applications. IC is about the engineering, science, and art of building networks and networked applications. Software systems can often be understood as layers of elements that each rely on services provided by lower layers and provide services to the layers above them. Because a skilled developer at any architectural level must be familiar with both the facilities and pragmatics of the lower levels and the requirements of higher levels, IC covers a range from just above the details of network protocols to just below the domain-specific details of applications. On the other hand, some possibilities—such as security and quality of service—cross-cut many or all layers and are also of great interest to our readers.
As the IEEE's Internet journal, IC is widely available, both in print and in digital libraries, which makes it the premier place to publish novel scientific and engineering papers that have actual impact on the practice of system development. Appropriate topics of interest include but are not limited to
- programming, information, and e-commerce technologies for Internet applications;
- network protocols, structures, and services;
- security, reliability, manageability, and scalability in Internet application;
- Internet application technologies, including streaming multimedia, collaboration, knowledge management, education, medicine, engineering design, science, and games and entertainment;
- human-interface issues for Internet systems; and
- social effects/aspects of the Internet.
Articles should be understandable to a broad audience of science and engineering professionals and students. The writing should be down to earth, practical, and original, avoiding too much focus on theory, mathematics, jargon, and abstract concepts. Authors should not assume that the audience will have specialized experience in a particular subfield.
Accepted papers will be professionally edited for content and style. Submissions must be original manuscripts of fewer than 5,000 words including all text, the abstract, keywords, bibliography, biographies, and table text. Each figure counts as 250 words. All manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to IC's international readership. We do not accept white papers, and we discourage strictly theoretical or mathematical papers. For author guidelines and information on how to submit a manuscript, please log in to Manuscript Central to create or access an account, which you can use to log on to IC's Author Center and upload your submission.
Call for Special Issue Proposals
IEEE Internet Computing publishes novel content from academic and industry experts on a wide range of special issue theme topics. Currently, IC is seeking special issue proposals for the 2010-2011 editorial calendar.
Each special issue of IC typically includes three to five peer-reviewed theme articles and a Guest Editors' Introduction (about 33 magazine pages in all). See our Guest Editor Guidelines for an overview of duties, including an approximate timeline of the review and publishing processes. Special issues should have two to three guest editors, at least one of whom is an editorial board member. (You do not need to identify a board member to make a proposal, though it is very helpful. If the proposal is accepted, IC will assign one.)
To propose a theme to guest edit, please submit the following materials to editor in chief, Fred Douglis:
- an overview of the theme topic, describing why it is important, timely, and relevant to IC (see our About page for a general overview of IC's content and target audience);
- a 300-word Call for Papers that includes a paragraph on the general issues that good submissions should explore and a bulleted list of five or six potential paper topics;
- a list of potential reviewers;
- a list of potential authors from whom you plan to solicit; and
- CVs for the proposed guest editors.
Proposals for the 2010-2011 editorial calendar are due 1 March 2009.