Article Review

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the guest editors for suitability before being sent to reviewers. Papers should be submitted as Microsoft Word files, double-spaced with title, author and contact information on the title page. Papers invited for revision will undergo one or two revisions beyond the first submission. The guest editors will make all decisions as to the manuscripts’ suitability for the special issue.

We will first check plagiarism status of each submitted article, and there is a hard rule that the similarity rate cannot exceed 10 %. We take plagiarism case very seriously, which include self-plagiarism of authors' own published articles. Articles with high percentage of plagiarism and self-plagiarism will not be considered. If an author is found to commit an act of plagiarism, the following acts of sanction will be taken:

1. Reject the article submitted or delete the article from the final publications.
2. Report the author’s violation to his/her supervisor(s) and affiliated institution(s).
3. Report the author’s violation to the appropriate overseeing office of academic ethics and research funding agency.
4. Reserve the right to publish the author’s name(s), the title of the article, the name(s) of the affiliated institution and the details of misconduct, etc. of the plagiarism.
5. Each article should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind article evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the article WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the article and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.