Special Issue Hack@DAC: Security Competition at the Design Automation Conference

Special Issue for 13th International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2017)

     This special issue is a collection of refereed articles selected from the 13th International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2017). The initial selection was made by Dr. Hamed Fazlollahtabar who also wrote the following description. The accepted articles were reviewed going through the usual reviewing process of IJOR. Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri Editor-in-Chief &nbs...

Special Issue of Asian Nano Forum Conference 2015

Special Issue of Asian Nano Forum Conference 2015

Special issue on “Cyber Security”

After careful reviewing and emphasizing the recent advances in information assurance and network security, this special issue of the Cairo University Journal of Advanced Research, an Elsevier publications, contains three parts with total of nine papers; part I addresses network security, part II focuses on software and applications security, while part III discusses cyber infrastructure protect...

How to manage a conference special issue

The editors of a special issue have many responsibilities. The first is to determine which authors should be invited to submit extended papers. This is not as simple as looking at the review scores from the conference and choosing the top few papers. For example, I have seen strong papers that have excellent reviews but that also are ‘complete’ and so there is little scope to extend the work. E...