Some Appropriate Journals for WTLAB Research Group

1. Some Appropriate Journals for WTLAB Research Group Design By: Ehsan Asgarian

5. 1 International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) • Impact Factor: 1.679 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.345 • ISSN: 1552-6283 • Issues per year: 4 • Publisher: IGI-Global • Country: USA • Link

6. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • Beyond Semantic Web (e.g., extending meaning with perception and experience) • Enterprise application integration • From e-government to e-democracy • Integration with other disciplines • Intelligent systems • Metadata-driven (bottom-up) versus ontology-driven (top-down) SW development • New Semantic Web enabled business models • New Semantic Web enabled information systems • New Semantic Web enabled tools for the citizen/ learner/ organization/ business • Ontologies, folksonomies, and associated knowledge representation issues • Real world applications towards the development of the Knowledge society • Semantic enabled business intelligence • Semantic Web applications on the Web, enterprises, desktops, personal and mobile devices, e-science and e-government applications, and associated issues of provenance, trust, privacy, security, quality, scalability, and performance • Semantic Web data management • Semantic Web issues, challenges, and implications in each of the IS research streams • Semantics and human computer interfaces including visualization and mashups • Semantics in business processes and distributed computing and services • Social Semantic Web and people Web • Standards

7. Indices: • Burrelle's Media Directory • Cabell's Directory • Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index) • CSA Illumina • Current Contents®/Engineering, Computing, and Technology • DBLP • DEST Register of Refereed Journals • Gale Directory of Publication & Broadcast Media • GetCited • Google Scholar • The Index of Information Systems Journals • INSPEC • Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition • Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) • MediaFinder • Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) • Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch®) • SCOPUS • The Standard Periodical Directory • Ulrich's Periodicals Directory • Web of Science

8. 2 International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR) • Impact Factor: 0.389 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.053 • ISSN: 1545-7362 • Issues per year: 4 • Publisher: IGI-Global • Country: USA • Link

9. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • Business grid • Business process integration and management using Web services • Case studies for Web services • Communication applications using Web services • Composite Web service creation and enabling infrastructures • Dynamic invocation mechanisms for Web services • E-commerce applications using Web services • Frameworks for building Web service applications • Grid-based Web services applications (e.g. OGSA) • Interactive TV applications using Web services • Mathematic foundations for service oriented computing • Multimedia applications using Web services • Quality of service for Web services • Resource management for Web services • Semantic services computing • SOAP enhancements • Solution management for Web services • UDDI enhancements • Web services architecture • Web services discovery • Web services modeling • Web services performance • Web services security

10. Indices: • ABI/Inform • Bacon's Media Directory • Burrelle's Media Directory • Cabell's Directory • Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index) • CSA Illumina • Current Contents®/Engineering, Computing, and Technology • DBLP • DEST Register of Refereed Journals • Gale Directory of Publication & Broadcast Media • GetCited • Google Scholar • The Index of Information Systems Journals • INSPEC • Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition • Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) • MediaFinder • Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) • PubList.com • Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch®) • SCOPUS • The Standard Periodical Directory • Ulrich's Periodicals Directory • Web of Science

11. 3 Journal of Web Semantics • Impact Factor: 2.789 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.593 • ISSN: 1570-8268 • Issues per year: 4 • Publisher: ELSEVIER • Country:NETHERLANDS • Link

12. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • The Semantic Web • Knowledge Technologies • Ontology • Agents • Databases • Semantic Grid and Peer-to-Peer Technology • Information Retrieval • Language Technology • Human-Computer Interaction • Knowledge Discovery • Web Standards • Major application areas that are covered by the Journal of Web Semantics are: • eBusiness • eCommunity • Knowledge Management • eLearning • Digital Libraries • e-Science

13. Indices: • DBLP • Engineering Information Compendex • Science Citation Index • Scopus

14. 4 Data & Knowledge Engineering • Impact Factor: 1.717 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.852 • ISSN: 0169-023X • Issues per year: 12 • Publisher: ELSEVIER • Country:NETHERLANDS • Link

15. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • Representation and Manipulation of Data & Knowledge: Conceptual data models. Knowledge representation techniques. Data/knowledge manipulation languages and techniques. • Architectures of database, expert, or knowledge-based systems: New architectures for database / knowledge base / expert systems, design and implementation techniques, languages and user interfaces, distributed architectures. • Construction of data/knowledge bases: Data / knowledge base design methodologies and tools, data/knowledge acquisition methods, integrity/security/maintenance issues. • Applications, case studies, and management issues: Data administration issues, knowledge engineering practice, office and engineering applications. • Tools for specifying and developing Data and Knowledge Bases using tools based on Linguistics or Human Machine Interface principles. • Communication aspects involved in implementing, designing and using KBSs in Cyberspace.

16. Indices: • ACM Computing Reviews • Artificial Intelligence Abstracts • CompuScience • Computer Abstracts • Computer Literature Index • Engineering Index • INSPEC Information Services • SCISEARCH • Science Citation Index • Scopus • Zentralblatt MATH

17. 5 Information Sciences • Impact Factor: 2.833 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.005 • ISSN: 0020-0255 • Issues per year: 24 • Publisher: ELSEVIER • Country: USA • Link

18. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • Foundations of Information Science Information Theory, Mathematical Linguistics, Automata Theory, Cognitive Science, Theories of Qualitative Behaviour, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing, Semiotics, Computational Biology and Bio-informatics. • Implementations and Information Technology Intelligent Systems, Genetic Algorithms and Modelling, Fuzzy Logic and Approximate Reasoning, Artificial Neural Networks, Expert and Decision Support Systems, Learning and Evolutionary Computing, Expert and Decision Support Systems, Learning and Evolutionary Computing, Biometrics, MoleculoidNanocomputing, Self-adaptation and Self-organisational Systems, Data Engineering, Data Fusion, Information and Knowledge, Adaptive ad Supervisory Control, Discrete Event Systems, Symbolic / Numeric and Statistical Techniques, Perceptions and Pattern Recognition, Design of Algorithms, Software Design, Computer Systems and Architecture Evaluations and Tools, Human-Computer Interface, Computer Communication Networks and Modelling and Computing with Words • Applications Manufacturing, Automation and Mobile Robots, Virtual Reality, Image Processing and Computer Vision Systems, Photonics Networks, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Brain Mapping, Language and Search Engine Design, User-friendly Man Machine Interface, Data Compression and Text Abstraction and Summarization, Virtual Reality, Finance and Economics Modelling and Optimisation

19. Indices: • Arts & Humanities Search • Current Contents • EiCompendex • Energy Science and Technology • GEOBASE • INSPEC • Information Science & Technology Abstracts • Inside Conferences • PASCAL/INIST-CNRS • SCISEARCH • Science Citation Index • Scopus • Social Scisearch

20. 6 Information Systems • Impact Factor: 1.595 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.884 • ISSN: 0306-4379 • Issues per year: 8 • Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD • Country: ENGLAND • Link

21. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • Information systems are the software and hardware systems that support data-intensive applications. The journal Information Systems publishes articles concerning the design and implementation of languages, data models, process models, algorithms, software and hardware for information systems. • Subject areas include data management issues as presented in the principal international database conferences (e.g. ACM SIGMOD, ACM PODS, VLDB, ICDE and ICDT/EDBT) as well as data-related issues from the fields of data mining, information retrieval, internet and cloud data management, web semantics, visual and audio information systems, scientific computing, and organisationalbehaviour. Implementation papers having to do with massively parallel data management, fault tolerance in practice, and special purpose hardware for data-intensive systems are also welcome.

22. Indices: • ASLIB • BIOSIS • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts • Chemical Abstracts • CompuScience • Computer Contents • Current Contents/CompuMath • Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology • Current Contents/SciSearch Database • ERIC • Elsevier BIOBASE • Engineering Index • INSPEC • Information Science Abstracts • Library and Information Science Abstracts • PASCAL/CNRS • PIRA • Research Alert • SSSA/CISA/ECA/ISMEC • Scopus • Zentralblatt MATH

23. 7 Decision Support Systems • Impact Factor: 2.135 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.568 • ISSN: 0167-9236 • Issues per year: 8 • Publisher: ELSEVIER • Country:NETHERLANDS • Link

24. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • 1. DSS Foundations. e.g. DSS principles, concepts, and theories; frameworks, formal languages, and methods for DSS research; tutorials about the nature of DSS; assessments of the DSS field. • 2. DSS Development-Functionality. e.g. methods, tools, and techniques for developing the underlying functional aspects of a DSS; solver/model management; data management in DSSs; rule management and AI in DSSs; coordinating a DSS's functionality within its user interface. • 3. DSS Development-Interfaces. e.g. methods, tools, and techniques for developing the overt user interface of a DSS; managing linguistic, presentation, and user knowledge in a DSS; DSS help facilities; coordinating a DSS's interface events with its functionality events. • 4. DSS Impacts and Evaluation. e.g. DSS economics; DSS measurement; DSS impacts on individual users, multiparticipant users, organizations, and societies; evaluating/justifying DSSs. • 5. DSS Reference Studies. e.g. reference discipline tutorials for DSS researchers; emerging technologies relevant to DSS characteristics or DSS development; related studies on such topics as communication support systems, computer supported cooperative work, negotiation support systems, research support systems, task support systems. • 6. DSS Experiences, Management, and Education. e.g. experiences in developing or operating DSSs; systems solutions to specific decision support needs; approaches to managing DSSs; DSS instruction/training approaches.

25. Indices: • AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature • ACM Computing Reviews • Applied Science & Technology Abstracts • Applied Science and Technology Index • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts • Current Contents • Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology • Engineering Abstracts • INSPEC • Research Alert • Science Citation Index • Technology and Applied Sciences • UMI Data Courier

26. 8 Information and Software Technology • Impact Factor: 1.507 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.433 • ISSN: 0950-5849 • Issues per year: 12 • Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE • Country: NETHERLANDS • Link

27. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • software management, quality and metrics, • software processes, • software architecture, modelling, specification, design and programming • functional and non-functional software requirements • software testing and verification & validation • empirical studies of all aspects of engineering and managing software development

28. Indices: • ACM Guide to Computing Literature • Applied Science and Technology Index • CompuScience • Computer Literature Index • Current Contents • Deadline Newsletter • Engineering Index • Ergonomics Abstracts • INSPEC Computer and Control Abstracts • IT-Digest • Research Alert • SCISEARCH • Science Citation Index Expanded • Scopus

29. 9 Information Processing Letters • Impact Factor: 0.612 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 0.774 • ISSN: 0020-0190 • Issues per year: 24 • Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE • Country: NETHERLANDS • Link

30. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • Algorithms – analysis of algorithms – approximation algorithms – automatic theorem proving – combinatorial problems – compilers – computational complexity – computational geometry – concurrency – cryptography – databases – data structures – design of algorithms – distributed computing – distributed systems – fault tolerance – formal languages – formal methods – formal semantics – functional programming – graph algorithms – information retrieval – interconnection networks – on-line algorithms – operating systems – parallel algorithms – parallel processing – performance evaluation – program correctness – program derivation – programming calculi – programming languages – program specification – randomized algorithms – real–time systems – safety/security in digital systems – scheduling – software design and implementation – software engineering – specification languages – theory of computation.

31. Indices: • ABI/Inform • ACM Computing Reviews • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts • CompuScience • Computer Abstracts • Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology • Engineering Index • INSPEC Information Services • Information Science Abstracts • Mathematical Reviews • Scopus • Zentralblatt MATH

32. 10 Information and ComputationAn International Journal • Impact Factor: 0.825 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.235 • ISSN: 0890-5401 • Issues per year: 12 • Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE • Country:USA • Link

33. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • Biological computation and computational biology • Computational complexity • Computer theorem-proving • Concurrency and distributed process theory • Cryptographic theory • Data base theory • Decision problems in Logic • Design and analysis of algorithms • Discrete optimization and mathematical programming • Inductive inference and learning theory • Logic & constraint programming • Program verification & model checking • Probabilistic & Quantum computation • Semantics of programming languages • Symbolic computation, lambda calculus and rewriting systems • Types and typechecking

34. Indices: • ACM Guide to Computing Literature • Chemical Abstracts • CompuMath Citation Index • Current Contents Engineering Technology & Applied Science • ExcerptaMedica • Research Alert • SCISEARCH • Science Abstracts • Science Citation Index • Scopus

35. 11 ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) • Impact Factor: 1.085 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.214 • ISSN: 1046-8188 • Issues per year: 4 • Publisher: ACM • Country: USA • Acceptance Rate: 10% • Link

36. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • Information Retrieval and Information Filtering: Algorithms and inference mechanisms for search, retrieval, and presentation of information with emphasis on semi-structured and unstructured objects in large-scale environments such as private distributed enterprises and the WWW. • Distributed Information Retrieval: Federated search, WebIR, peer-to-peer techniques. • Information Interaction Interfaces: Search and exploration interfaces, information visualization, multimedia presentation, task and user models for information access. • Models of User Information Preferences and Interaction Behaviors. • Language Technologies: Including summarization and natural language processing with application to information access. • Knowledge and Information Representation: Representation issues for supporting information systems including document markup to facilitate retrieval and understanding; topic and entity detection; ontologies and metadata schemes to support classification, retrieval, extraction, and preservation. • Algorithms, Data Structures, Methods, and Processes for Facilitating Information Access. • Knowledge Discovery: With emphasis on text and multimedia data mining, recommender system algorithms, and interaction models. • Multimedia Information Systems: With emphasis on retrieval and user interactions. • Organizational Interfaces for Information Access and Social Impact of Information Systems: adversarial computing and information access; social networks the effects of information access systems on groups, organizations, and communities; social constraints imposed on information systems such as legal and privacy concerns. • Design and Evaluation of Information Access Systems: Design principles for information systems, including long-term storage, versioning, and preservation; methodologies for evaluating information systems. • Information System Applications: Digital libraries; genomic databases; digital publishing; geographic information systems; and tutoring systems.

37. Indices: • Academic OneFile • ACM Computing Reviews • ACM Digital Library • DBLP • Google Scholar • Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition • Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch) • SCOPUS, Summon by Serial Solutions • …

38. 12 ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) • Impact Factor: 1.909 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.500 • ISSN: 1559-1131 • Issues per year: 4 • Publisher: ACM • Country: USA • Link

39. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • Browsers and Web Interfaces • Electronic Commerce • Electronic Publishing • Hypertext and Hypermedia • Semantic Web • Web Engineering • Web Services and Service-Oriented Computing • XML • In addition, papers addressing the intersection of the following broader technologies with the Web are also in scope: • Accessibility • Business Services • Education • Knowledge Management and Representation • Mobility and pervasive computing • Performance and scalability • Recommender systems • Searching, Indexing, Classification, Retrieval and Querying, Data Mining and Analysis • Security and Privacy • User Interfaces

40. Indices: • Academic OneFile • ACM Computing Reviews • ACM Digital Library • DBLP • Google Scholar • Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition • Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch) • SCOPUS, Summon by Serial Solutions • …

41. 13 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering • Impact Factor: 1.847 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.893 • ISSN: 1041-4347 • Issues per year: 12 • Publisher: IEEE COMPUTER SOC • Country:USA • Link

42. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING: • mining methods and algorithms (including classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and association analysis) • machine learning • data and knowledge representation • mining of structured, textual, multimedia, spatio-temporal and web data • data and knowledge visualization • interactive data exploration and discovery • knowledge acquisition and management outlier detection • personalization • spatial and temporal data mining • complexity, efficiency and scalability issues in data mining • data mining systems and tools • EMERGING KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS: • bioinformatics • business intelligence • digital libraries • electronic commerce • health science and medical systems • mobile data accesses • social networks and graph analysis • streams and sensor databases • web mashups and systems • web services

43. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: (cont.) • DATABASES AND DATA MODELING • caching and prefetching • concurrency control and transaction management • data integration • data quality • data security and privacy • database architectures • database integration • database semantics • models and languages • physical database design • performance and scalability • probabilistic data management • query processing and optimization • schema evolution • search • spatio-temporal, multimedia, XML and web data management • UNDERLYING COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORMS FOR KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING • system architectures • distributed and parallel systems • data intensive scalable computing architectures • mobile systems • search engines

44. 14 World Wide WebInternet and Web Information Systems • Impact Factor: 1.000 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.367 • ISSN: 1386-145X • Issues per year: 4 • Publisher: SPRINGER • Country: USA • Link

45. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • Application program interfaces • Authoring tools and environments • Browsing and navigation techniques and tools • Collaborative learning and work • Computer-based training and teaching • Content mark-up languages, such as XML • Courseware development • Data and link management • Data dissemination techniques on the Web • Digital libraries • Distance education • Distributed computing • Electronic commerce • Financial transactions • Firewalls • Information storage and retrieval • Innovative applications • Integration of heterogeneous information sources • Internet and Web-based

46. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • agent systems • cooperative databases and cooperative information systems • data management • database and information-system integration • information extraction • information services • information-system modeling, design, and development • information visualization • support tools and languages for information-system development • search and filtering technology • Internet transactions and transactional processes in the Web • Metrics and measurement • Mobile Web Information Systems • Multimedia software engineering • Object-oriented software engineering • Performance evaluation • Protocols (e.g., HTTP, IIOP) • Real-time computing • Search techniques and engines • Security, authorization, authentication, and privacy • Server and client technologies

47. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • Ubiquitous information • Universal design (.e.g., multilingual access) • User interfaces • Verification, validation, and testing • Virtual reality and 3D visualization • Web applications • Web change monitoring and management • Web content standards • Web data mining • Web database security • Web-based data-modeling languages • Web-based GIS • Web Information dynamics • Web information security • Web page design techniques and tools • Web query languages • Web site management techniques and tools • Web-based publishing • Web-based training and teaching • Web-based multimedia/hypermedia systems • Web-supported cooperative work

48. Topics to be discussed in the journal include: • XML and semi-structured data for Web applications • In addition to the above Internet- and Web-specific topics, the WWW journal also encourages research work on all fundamental issues relating to database and information systems for the Internet and Web. The following are some sample topics of interest when they are addressed within the context of the Internet and Web: • Database and information systems support for cooperative work • Data mining and warehousing • Data models and meta-data management • Information retrieval • Interoperability and heterogeneous information systems • Multimedia database and information systems • Object-oriented and object-relational databases • Query processing • Transaction processing • Workflow systems

49. Indices: • Academic OneFile • ACM Computing Reviews • ACM Digital Library • Cabell's • Computer and Communication Security Abstracts • Computer Science Index • Current Abstracts • Current Contents/Engineering • Computing and Technology • DBLP • EBSCO • EI-Compendex • Gale • Google Scholar • INSPEC • io-port.net • Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition • OCLC, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch) • SCOPUS • Summon by Serial Solutions

50. 15 Information Retrieval • Impact Factor: 1.308 • 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.215 • ISSN: 1386-4564 • Issues per year: 6 • Publisher: SPRINGER • Country:NETHERLANDS • Link