INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS PART C: APPLICATIONS AND REVIEWS is published bimonthly in January, March, May, July, September, and November.
Each paper submitted is subjected to a thorough review procedure, and the publication decision is based on the comments and recommendations of the reviewers. Review management is
generally under the direction of an associate editor. Often, reviews take three to four months to obtain, occasionally longer. An additional several months is required for the publication
process. Our goal is to provide review results in approximately ten weeks.

A. Process for Submission of a Technical Paper to PART C

1) All papers should be submitted electronically in Portable Document Format (PDF) or PostScript. The paper should print correctly on 8.5 by 11 inch paper. For UNIX and Windows
systems there are postscript to PDF converters, notably ps2pdf which is a part of Ghostscript. A text version of your abstract is required.
2) Please utilize our manuscript submission system at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcc-ieee
3) We encourage the submission of attachments with the paper. An attachment (video, animations, applets, code, data, etc.) should be referenced in the text of the paper and enhance
the presentation. We currently accept avi files (PowerPoint animations), MPEG video files, Java applets, code with specific compilation instructions and execution instructions
and machine specific information, and data sets with a description of the data format. More information on Multimedia Materials can be found at:
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html
4) If the manuscript has been presented, published, or submitted for publication elsewhere, please inform the Editor. Our primary objective is to publish technical material not
otherwise available, but we do occasionally publish papers of unusual merit that have appeared or will appear elsewhere.

B. Style for Manuscript

1) Use double-space format and 11 pt type or larger. Please have your text fit in 8.5 11in. (21.6 27.9 cm) sheets.
2) Regular papers are normally about 10 Transactions pages in length, or shorter. Technical correspondences are generally no more than 6 Transactions pages in length.
The maximum number of Transactions pages for a review paper is 16. Please see the discussion on excess page charges for charges that are imposed when manuscripts
exceed the maximum number of pages.
3) Since the TRANSACTIONS publishes only in English, contributors for whom English is not a native language should consult a colleague who is familiar with the English language,
prior to submitting the paper, for the purpose of editing the original manuscript.
4) Provide an informative 100 to 250 word abstract at the head of the manuscript; provide an abstract of not more than 100 words for Correspondences.
5) Provide a separate double-spaced sheet listing all footnotes, beginning with “Manuscript received ” (date to be filled in by Editor) and affiliation of the author(s), and continuing
with numeric citation. Acknowledgement of financial support is placed at the end of the first footnote.
6) References should appear in a separate section at the end of the paper, double-spaced with items referred to by numerals in square brackets. References must be complete and in
IEEE style: Style for papers: Author, first initials followed by last name, title in quotations, periodical, volume, page numbers, month, year. Style for books: Author, title. Location:
publisher, year, chapter, and page numbers (if desired). See any issue of the Transactions for examples.
7) Provide a separate sheet listing all figure captions.
8) Authors of accepted papers will be asked to supply a head and shoulders photograph of themselves and a technical biography. The biography should be in the form used in
IEEE TRANSACTIONS, consisting of three paragraphs of information: name, where and when born, degrees earned, field(s) of study, school, city, state; chief employment dates,
organizations, positions held, type of work, responsibilities, present position; and professional society membership, offices, awards.
9) Accepted papers will rapidly appear on the Web in the IEEE Xplore™ system approximately three weeks after corrected page proofs are received from an author. This will
typically be before the paper appears in the print version of the journal. Hence, papers will be disseminated to the research community faster utilizing electronic submission.
10) “Information for IEEE Authors” and other information may be obtained at the WWW site: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/index.html.

C. Style for Illustrations

1) Originals for illustrations (including tables) should be sharp, noise-free, and of good contrast.
2) On graphs, show only the coordinate axes, or at most the major grid lines to avoid a dense hard-to-read result.
3) All lettering should be large enough to permit legible reduction of the figure to column width, sometimes as much as 4 to 1. There should only be one illustration per page and
only illustrations should be included in the set of illustrations. Please be very sure that your lettering is sufficiently large such that it will be readable after photo-reduction.
4) If an illustration is to be reproduced in color the author is responsible for the incremental cost of printing in color.

D. Voluntary Page and Excess Page Charges

After a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the author’s company or institution will be requested to pay a voluntary charge of $110 per printed page to cover part of the cost
of publication. These page charges, like those for journals of other professional societies, are not obligatory nor are their payment a prerequisite for publication. The author will receive
100 free reprints without covers if this charge is honored. A mandatory overlength page charge of $175 is required for each page in excess of 10 pages for a regular paper, 6 pages for
technical correspondences, and 16 pages for a review paper. This is effective for any paper published after January 1, 2009 onward. Authors who are concerned with these latter charges
are encouraged to estimate the length of their manuscripts prior to submission. Detailed instructions on payment of these charges will accompany the page proof.

E. Electronic Publishing
The final version of the manuscript must comply with IEEE Periodicals requirements for text and graphics processing. The author must submit final files electronically through the
manuscript submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcc-ieee. The required files include source file(s) (e.g. Latex or Microsoft Word), figures, and a pdf file of the entire
manuscript. Figures can also be embedded in the source file of the manuscript. Acceptable formats for figures include Word, eps, ps, tiff, ppt, and Excel. Further details are contained in
the information for authors accompanying the final acceptance letters.
For important information on preparing final manuscript materials visit the Tools for Authors web site at:
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html/

F. Copyright
It is the policy of the IEEE to own the copyright to the technical contributions it publishes on behalf of the interests of the IEEE, its authors, and their employers, and to facilitate the
appropriate reuse of this material by others. To comply with the U.S. Copyright law, authors are required to sign an IEEE Copyright Form before publication. This form returns to authors
and their employers full rights to reuse their material for their own purposes. The Copyright Form may be obtained from the following web address:
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/rights/copyrightmain.html
Authors must submit a completed copy of this form electronically via the manuscript submission system with their accepted manuscript related files.

Part A Part B Part C

WITOLD PEDRYCZ, Editor-in-Chief EUGENE SANTOS, JR., Editor-in-Chief VLADIMIR MARIK, Editor-in-Chief
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Thayer School of Engineering Dept. of Cybernetics, FEE
W2-032 Elect & Comp Eng-ECERF Dartmouth College Czech Technical University in Prague
University of Alberta 8000 Cummings Hall Technicka 2
Edmonton, T6G 2G7 Canada Hanover, NH 03755 USA 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TSMCC.2011.2162920