Coverage
Topics covered by the International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST)
include but are not limited to the heterogeneity and autonomy of
Internet, Web, peer-to-peer, service oriented, grid, next generation
grid, next generation technologies and other distributed systems
paradigms and concepts; algorithms, software, application, services and
technologies integration methods; process, resource, service and data
virtualization, sharing, and integration; process, resource, service and
resource flow management; scheduling; aspects of quality provision,
policies; trust, identity management, forensics and security;
application developments centered on the integration and management of
various (e-) science-to-science, science-to-business,
business-to-business, business-to-customer, and customer-to-customer
models.
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not
limited to) the following:
- Distributed
concepts, systems, applications, technologies, and advanced paradigms
for early warning systems, evacuation processes, climate changes,
disaster management, and threat detection including geographical
information systems and health informatics
- Distributed strategies and practices for e-society, global economies, developing countries, and education
- Distributed
systems, system architecture and design, technologies and applications,
and their integration methods and tools for performance analysis,
verification, testing, and benchmarking and their empirical results
- Distributed
technologies for science or business process, models, and application
integration and management such as in operational research, economic
models, and supply chain
- Distributed technology applications
and system integration solutions in diverse collaborative environments
including but not limited to science, engineering, management, and
business
- Forensics, security, cryptography, threat detection,
business continuity, trust, identity management, policies, and quality
of service management
- Innovative developments in distributed
computer, operating systems, databases, middleware, networking, and
application architecture including design and analysis of distributed
algorithms, programming languages, compilers, software tools and
middleware environments, autonomy services, IoT, smart environments, cloud computing, service
oriented, grid, peer-to-peer, throughput and cluster programming
interfaces, scheduling and fault-tolerance service and algorithms, and
synchronization and concurrency theory and programming
- Matching,
mapping, and other novel techniques for the integration, management,
and interoperability of distributed data, systems, technologies,
services, architectures, applications, and legacy systems
- Novel
algorithms, uses, and implications of distributed concepts, models,
architectures, technologies, and practices for example in Internet,
wireless communications, mobile, ad-hoc networks, and sensors
- Representation
techniques like semantics, meta-data, tagging, clouds, ontologies, and
knowledge bases in distributed environments
- Theories and
applications of distributed computing such as algorithms and services,
and their implementation in Internet, pervasive and utility computing,
IoT, smart environments, cloud computing, peer-to-peer, grid, next
generation grid, and next
generation technologies
- Theories, applications, and
technologies such as click stream, data mining, databases, data
warehouses, Web houses, Web data centers and sites, mashups,
intra-/inter-tagging, IoT, smart environments, cloud computing for managing and integrating
linked, streaming, media rich, multimedia, spatial, temporal data,
services, and resources
- Theory and use of distributed technologies for collaborative work, resource sharing, and problem solving
- Theory of distributed systems and technologies such as parallel or integration algorithms
- User
and community led systems and application development, software
engineering modeling, architecture, description, deployment, packaging,
interfaces, and distribution
Other implications, including
scientific or business models, and human and/or market dynamics
influencing decisions and transitions within small and large virtual
communities or organizations
Submission
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished article manuscripts will be considered. Interested authors must consult the Journal Guidelines for Manuscript Submission at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/journal-guidelines-for-submission/?titleid=1160 PRIOR to submission. Any further questions may be answered at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/. All article manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least three members of the editorial review board of the journal for a double-blind peer review. The final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers.
Starting January 1st, 2023, this journal will be converting from Hybrid Open Access to full Gold Open Access, meaning from January 1st, 2023 onward all of its published contents will be 100% open access and the copyright of the published work will stay with the author(s) ((Note: IGI Global open access journal article manuscript publishing offers authors the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licensing arrangement. The copyright for the work remains solely with the author(s) of the article manuscript), and the publisher will provide the published contents free of charge globally (there will no longer be subscription fees or payment of any kind required for individuals and libraries to access and utilize the published contents).Once the journal is converted to Gold Open Access in 2023 and will no longer have subscription revenue backing it, the journal will be heavily reliant on Open Access Article Processing Charges (APCs) payment provided by either the author(s) or his/her/their respective institution or another funding agency, AFTER the article manuscript submission has been through a full double-blind peer review and the Editor-in-Chief at his/her full discretion has decided to accept the manuscript based on the results of the double-blind peer review process. The APC will offset the costs of all of the activities associated with the publication of the article manuscript, including the digital tools used to support the manuscript management and review process, the typesetting, formatting and layout, online hosting, the submission of the journal’s content to numerous abstracts, directories, and indexes, third party software (plagiarism checks), editorial support which includes manuscript tracking, communications, submission guideline checks, communications with authors and reviewers, as well as all promotional support and activities which includes metadata distribution, press releases, promotional communications, web content, ads, fliers, brochures, postcards, etc. for the journal and its published contents; and the fact that all published articles will be freely accessible and able to be posted and disseminated widely by the authors.
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