JOURNAL OF COMPUTER AND SYSTEM SCIENCES AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Audience p.1 • Impact Factor p.2 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.4 ISSN: 0022-0000 DESCRIPTION . The Journal of Computer and System Sciences publishes original research papers in computer science and related subjects in system science, with attention to the relevant mathematical theory. Applications-oriented papers may also be accepted and they are expected to contain deep analytic evaluation of the proposed solutions. 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AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 23 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/jcss 1 IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 1.023 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . Scopus ACM Guide to Computing Literature BIOSIS Citation Index Bioengineering Abstracts CompuMath Citation Index Current Contents - Engineering, Computing & Technology Embase Information Science Abstracts Mathematical Reviews Research Alert Science Abstracts Science Citation Index Zentralblatt MATH INSPEC EDITORIAL BOARD . Managing Editor M. Segal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Communication Systems Engineering, PO Box 653, 84105, Beer Sheva, Israel Editorial Assistant A. Goldfeld, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Beer Sheva, Israel Editors J.-Y. Cai, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America A. Chi-Chih Yao, Beijing, China R. Constable, Ithaca, New York, United States of America D. Dolev, Jerusalem, Israel R. Fagin, San Jose, California, United States of America S. Goldwasser, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America G. Gottlob, Oxford, United Kingdom M. Rabin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America M. Sharir, Tel Aviv, Israel J. Sifakis, Lausanne, Switzerland M. Yannakakis, New York, New York, United States of America L.A. Zadeh†, Berkeley, California, United States of America Associate Editors S. Albers, Technical University of Munich, Munchen, Germany H. Bast, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany R. Belohlavek, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czechia M.A. Bender, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America M. Benedikt, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom P. Berenbrink, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany V. Braverman, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America M. Broy, Technical University of Munich Department of Informatics, Garching, Germany T. Brun, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America J. Chen, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America J. Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia M. Chudnovsky, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America P. Crescenzi, School of Advanced Studies, L'Aquila, Italy M. Elkin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel M. Feldman, Tel Aviv University Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv, Israel P. Flocchini, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada M. T. Hajiaghayi, University of Maryland at College Park Department of Computer Science, College Park, Maryland, United States of America AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 23 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/jcss 2 D. Hofheinz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany S. Homer, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America S.-Y. Hsieh, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan S. Irani, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America R. Jain, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore B. Kimelfeld, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel S. Kirkpatrick, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel R. Klasing, University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux, France J. Koenemann, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada D. Kowalski, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom S. Lucas, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain U. Maurer, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland R. Niedermeier, TU Berlin Faculty IV Electric Engineering and Computer Science, Berlin, Germany J. Ouaknine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom A. Panconesi, University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy M. Panella, University of Rome La Sapienza, Sapienza, Roma Italy R. Pass, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America A. Pretschner, Technical University of Munich, Technische Universität München, Germany D. Pym, University College London, London, United Kingdom R. de Queiroz, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil Y. Rabinovich, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel T. Sauerwald, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom S. Saurabh, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India and University of Bergen, Tamil Nadu, India C. Scheideler, Technical University of Munich Department of Informatics, Garching, Germany J. Seiferas, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America E. Sontag, Rutgers University Department of Mathematics, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America F. Stephan, National University of Singapore Department of Mathematics, Singapore, Singapore V.S. Subrahmanian, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America S. Szeider, TU Wien University, Wien, Austria V. Terrier, University of Caen Normandy, Caen, France C. Umans, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America S. Valaee, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada P.J. Wan, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America L. Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong D.P Woodruff, Carnegie Mellon University, San Jose, California, Pennsylvania, United States of America A. Yehudayoff, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel H. Yu, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore M. Zeitoun, University Hospital Centre Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France S Zilles, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 23 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/jcss 3 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . The purpose of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences is to publish original research papers in computer science and system science, with emphasis on the relevant mathematical theory and its applications. Papers may deal with such subjects as automata theory, databases, complexity, computational learning theory, parallel computation, quantum computation, computational biology, computer network algorithms, cryptography and computer/communication security, theory of formal languages and formal systems, theory of algorithms, computer programming theory, mathematical theory of systems (discrete or continuous, deterministic or stochastic), optimization of systems, mathematical programming, computational biology and genomics, and applications of mathematics to the study of complex systems. JCSS Guide for Authors JCSS Guide for Authors The Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS) publishes original research papers on computer science and system science, with emphasis on the relevant mathematical theory and its applications. Among the subject areas covered by JCSS are classical traditional subjects like computability theory, theory of algorithms, formal language theory and abstract automata theory. Contemporary and modern subject areas covered include complexity theory, parameterized complexity, database theory and practice, parallel and distributed computing, computational learning theory, cellular automata and abstract systems, computer security and cryptography, computer networks, and computational biology/genomics. To assure proper handling and login, each online submission will be automatically assigned to the Managing Editor as listed below. Managing Editor Michael Segal:[email protected] Editorial Assistant Arie Goldfeld: [email protected] Submission checklist You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details. Ensure that the following items are present: One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details: • E-mail address • Full postal address All necessary files have been uploaded: Manuscript: • Include keywords • All figures (include relevant captions) • All tables (including titles, description, footnotes) • Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided • Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where applicable) Supplemental files (where applicable) Further considerations