A New Publication Model for HiPEAC
Papers in computer systems are typically published first in conferences and extended versions of them are occasionally published in archival journals. While the merit of using conferences as the primary publication vehicle is rapid dissemination, there are several quality issues. First, the review process associated with conferences is not as solid as that of journals. Papers not included in the conferences will have to be revised and submitted again and reviewed by a new set of referees because the review history of papers is not maintained. Second, papers published in conferences are not indexed by citation indexes generally accepted across disciplines which hurts individual contributors as well as computer systems as a discipline.
HiPEAC is committed to help changing the culture of scientific publication in the computer systems area by launching a journal-first publication model. Original scientific contributions are submitted to a journal and thoroughly reviewed and the review history is maintained across the review rounds. Speed through the review process is maintained by establishing a review board consisting of experts that are committed to hand in timely reviews. Accepted papers are uploaded in the ACM Digital Library and can enjoy citations. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at a conference.
Call for Papers to ACM TACO Special Issue on “High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers”
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) and the International Conference on High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC) are now trying out this new publication model. We are inviting authors to submit their original work to this special issue. Authors of papers accepted for publication in this ACM TACO special issue are expected to present their work at the 7th International Conference on High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers in Paris on January 23-25, 2012. Papers should be submitted via TACO Website before July 15, 2011 and will be reviewed in a first round with feedback by September 15. Papers that are revised before November 1 will enjoy a second round of review and the final notification is sent out by November 15. Final versions of accepted papers are due on December 15. Accepted papers will be copy-edited and will appear in the ACM Digital Library before the start of the conference. For more details about the special issue, please refer to http://taco.acm.org/. Editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization:
- Tom Conte (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Special Issue Guest Editors:
- Walid Najjar (UC Riverside, USA)
- Per Stenström (Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden)
- Theo Ungerer (Univ. of Augsburg, Germany)
[Download here] the Call for papers in Pdf
