New Electronic Journal

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                             The ELECTRONIC JOURNAL
                                    OF THE
                        ARGENTINE SOCIETY FOR INFORMATICS
                             AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH
                                    (SADIO)

                          http://www.dc.uba.ar/sadio/ejs

Aims and scope:

The Electronic Journal of the Argentine Society for Informatics and
Operations
Research (SADIO) arose from the decision of establishing a scientific
information service on the disciplines that it represents: Computer
Science,
Information Technology and Operations Research. The new service should
become
a meeting point for the national and Latin-American community, a permanent
means of knowledge, communication and updating for all the professionals of
the area, from academy or industry; making use of the dissemination
capabilities
of the Internet.

Main characteristics:

- Peer-reviewed.
- Fast refereeing times (not more than three months).
- All-electronic format.
- International Advisory and Editorial Boards.
- Official language: English.

Advisory Board:

Guillermo Arango (Schlumberger, France), Giorgio Ausiello (Universita' di
Roma
"La Sapienza"), Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, the Netherlands),
Alberto
Mendelzon (Toronto University, Canada), Dante Ramos (Techint, Argentina,
President of SADIO),  Roberto Tamassia (Brown University, USA).

Editorial Board:

Editor-In-Chief: Esteban Feuerstein (Universidad de Gral. Sarmiento and
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Field Editors:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Chile), Sergio Bandinelli(Spain), Gabriel Baum
(Argentina),
Leo Bertossi (Chile), Sebastian Ceria (USA), Juan Echague (Uruguay), Martin
Farach  (USA), Miguel Felder (Argentina), Ra”l Gallard (Argentina), Juan
Garay (USA), Joos Heintz (Argentina and Spain), Pablo Jacovkis (Argentina),
Delia Kesner (France), Irene Loiseau (Argentina), Alberto
Marchetti-Spaccamela
(Italy), Claudia Medeiros (Brazil), Alfredo Olivero (Argentina), Gustavo
Rossi
(Argentina), Jorge Santos (Argentina), Hugo Scolnick (Argentina), Guillermo
Simari (Argentina), Nora Szasz (Uruguay), Alfredo Viola (Uruguay).

Sections:

- Scientific works: original  research or experience articles.
- Extended abstracts of original work.
- Surveys
- Ongoing research.
- Debates.
- Abstracts of international publications of local authors.
- Book reviews.
- "What's going on" in other countries of the region.
- National or international research projects.
- "From theory to practice".
- Open problems.
- Pointers to other publications and interesting pages, relevant
institutions,
libraries, etc.
- Calls for papers of conferences, special issues, etc.
- Software demonstrations and evaluations.

The first issue:

The first issue will be dedicated to the XXVI JAIIO, the 26th Annual
Argentine
Conference of CS and OR, that was held from August 11 to 15 in Buenos
Aires.
It will contain from 10 to 15 full papers, selected among the 42 original
research papers presented in the five different symposia that composed the
conference. For this occasion, the Program Committee chairs of these
symposia
will be Guest Editors, choosing the best presented works, inviting their
authors
to prepare full versions and submitting them to a final revision by
anonymous
referees to allow a final selection.
Publication of the first issue is expected for February 1998. Subsequent
issues of the journal will contain the research papers, surveys and ongoing
research sections, while other sections will be added progressively.

Call for papers:

We invite you to submit manuscripts on topics related to the journal's aims
and scope. For further information see our home page at
www.dc.uba.ar/sadio/ejs.