IJNM: proposing a special issue

Proposals to organize a special issue for the International Journal of Network Management (IJNM) should be submitted by email to the associate editor in chief: Lisandro Granville, with a Cc to the editor in chief: James Hong.

Proposal contents

Each proposal should include:

• Proposed title of the issue
• Name of guest editor and one or two co-editor(s)
• Contact information, positions, and affiliations
• Previous experiences in organizing special issues / conferences in the area of network management
• A draft version of the Call for Papers
• A description on how the Call for Papers will be distributed. What mailing-lists do you expect to use?
• An indication of the number of expected papers and where they will come from
• A description of the review process and the acceptance criteria
• A list of potential reviewers. Note: you should expect a substantial number to decline, for whatever reason. Therefore make sure you have sufficient alternatives
• A tentative timetable (see below)

Proposal template

https://www.simpleweb.org/wiki/images/9/9d/Special_Issue_template_for_IJNM.zip

Timetable

(expressed in months)

• X: CFP announced on IJNM webpage and start of multiple rounds of announcements to various mailinglists by the guest editors
• X+4: Announced deadline for paper submissions
• X+5: Assignment of reviewers finalized (including possibly 2 weeks deadline extension if needed)
• X+7: Reviews received and author notification by the guest editors
• X+10: Camera ready received (after possible major revision) + editorial submitted by guest editors to AEiC
• X+12: Publication in IJNM issue (6 issues/year in odd numbered months)

Review process

It is essential to have a thorough review process, with (at least) 3 independent reviewers per paper. Papers coming from the organizers should be avoided. The guest editors are expected to write an editorial, however.

Example CfPs

• Special Issue on Internet of Things and Big Data
• Special Issue on Software Defined Operations
• Special Issue on Internet of Things Management
• Special Issue on Multimedia Service Management
• Special Issue on Economic Traffic Management
• Special Issue on Managing Self-Organizing Radio Access Networks
• Special Issue on Management and Security technologies for Cloud Computing
• Special Issue on Measure, Detect and Mitigate – Challenges and Trends in Network Security
• Special Issue on Advances in Management of Multimedia Services