IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Special Issues

 

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems publishes Special Issues on emerging topics guest edited by distinguished researchers in fuzzy systems and related areas. 

On-going Special Issue(s):

Please see below information about how a special issue is organized.

Phase 1 - Proposal:
Interested researchers should submit a proposal for the Special Issue on an emergent topic in fuzzy systems or its closely related areas. The proposal should be emailed to the Editor-in-Chief – Prof. Dongrui Wu, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology) drwu09@gmail.com


The proposal should include at least the following components:

  • the theme of the Special Issue
  • its relevance/importance and need in the present context
  • a list of specific topics focusing the Special Issue
  • a list of potential authors (to ensure that there are enough researchers to support such a special issue)
  • short bios of the proposed Guest Editors including personal web page links
  • a feasible timetable.

The Special Issue will be organised based on an open call for papers - we do not consider Special Issues based on papers from a conference.

Phase 2-Evaluation:
The Editor in Chief will evaluate the proposal. The evaluation takes into account various issues including the technical merit, need and relevance, timeliness, and feasibility of such a Special Issue. The Editor in Chief makes the final decision on the Special Issue proposal. The decision could be acceptance, rejection or a revision of the proposal.

Phase 3- Call for Papers:
If a proposal is accepted, the Guest Editor is asked to prepare a call for papers (CFP) so that it can be published in our transactions. The CFP should include all relevant information such as the theme, topic, deadlines, and submission guidelines.
The CFP must include an instruction to authors suggesting them to ensure the ‘Special Edition’ option is ticked on submission and mention something like "This paper is for the special issue on XXXX" in their covering letter to the Editor at the time of submission through Manuscript-Central.
The CFP is usually announced in the journal’s web site, circulated through the TFS email and is published in the CIS Transactions and Magazine.

Phase 4- Processing:
Papers submitted for a Special Issue are assigned to the Guest Editor(s), acting as Associate Editors. Guest Editors(s) are responsible for inviting reviewers, chasing overdue reviews and handling the review process (help is available from the Journal Administrator). The review process for Special Issue papers is exactly the same as that for regular transactions papers. If a Guest Editor is an author of a paper submitted for the Special Issue, then reviewing of that manuscript is handled by a different Associate Editor chosen by the EiC. All decisions are subject to final approval by the Editor-in-Chief.
A Guest Editor can be nominated to make preliminary checks on all submitted papers. All Guest Editors must then be jointly involved – the papers will be distributed as equally as possible.
We will provide an up-to-date spreadsheet of the status of all papers as requested.

Phase 5-Publication:
Once the special issue is complete, the Editor in Chief requests the Guest Editors to write an Editorial to the Special Issue (usually not more than 2 formatted transactions pages) for inclusion in the Special Issue. The Special Issue is then published as soon as possible, once a date has been agreed with our Journals Production Manager.

General Points:
We do not encourage Guest Editors to submit papers in the Special Issue and under no circumstances should any of the Guest Editors submit more than ONE manuscript for the Special Issue.
Although multiple Guest Editors for a special issue are allowed, it is better to keep the number of Guest Editors as low as possible.
This is just a broad guideline and there may be other important points not listed here. Please email drwu09@gmail.com with any queries.

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