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Call for Special Issue Proposals
I. INTRODUCTION
The IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (IEEE CEM)of the IEEE
Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) bimonthly publishes peerreviewed
articles that present emerging trends, key insights, tutorials,
practical experiences, design, and industry-related research &
developments of mainstream consumer electronic products,
technologies, and related fields of interest to the membership of the
IEEE CTSoc and broad engineering audience. CEM aims to educate and
entertain on general topics related to consumer technologies and
electronic products.
The IEEE CEMsolicits proposals for Special Issues (SIs). A SI is a group
of articles organized around a timely narrow-scope technical topic of
interest to the magazine readership. A SI may be composed of 6 to 12
articles. SIs can give articles special prominence and should provide a
better opportunity for readers to explore special and emerging topics
including, but not limited to, the followings:
* Application-Specific CE for Smart Cities (SMC)
* Audio/Video Systems and Signal Processing (AVS)
* Automotive CE Applications (CEA)
* Consumer Communications Networks and Connectivity (CCN)
* Consumer Power and Energy (CPE)
* Consumer Systems for Healthcare and Wellbeing (CSH)
* Entertainment and Gaming (ENT)
* Human-Machine Interaction and User Experience (HMI)
*
Internet of Things, Internet of Everywhere and Edge Computing
(IOT)
* Machine learning, Deep learning and AI in CE (MDA)
* Quantum in Consumer Technology (QCT)
* Security and Privacy of CE Hardware and Software Systems
(SPC)
* Sensors and Actuators (SEA)
* Smartphone and Mobile Device Technologies (MDT)
* Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Metaverse (VAM)
Potential Guest Editors (GEs) interested in organizing an SI are invited
to submit their proposal in MS Word and PDF file formats to the
magazine's Editor-in-Chief (EiC), Norbert Herencsar, via e-mail to
ieee.mce.eic@gmail.com. Proposals should address the following
sections: (I.) Background & Motivation, (II.) Scope's Significance,
Timeliness, and Relevance to the IEEE CEM. The proposal should also
include:
(III.) Tentative Schedule of the following important dates:
o Manuscript Submission Deadline [Proposal Submission
Date + 6 months].
o Authors' Revision Notification Date [Manuscript
Submission Deadline + 3 months].
o Revised Manuscript Submission Deadline [Authors'
Revision Notification Date + 1.5 months].
o Final Decision Notification Date [Revised Manuscript
Submission Deadline + 1.5 months].
o Publication Date [Final Decision Notification Date +
6 months].
(IV.) A plan how the GEs will work together.
(V.) A plan to advertise the Call for Papers (CfP).
(VI.) Short biographies of the GEs and their experience in the topic
and editorial work (not exceeding 250 words each).
(VII.) List of 20 potential authors, including their affiliations and
Google Scholar profile links.
(VIII.) Draft of the CfP at most one A4 page, including the topic
description in 300 words, 8 to 10 topics of interest, important
dates, and the list of GEs including their e-mail addresses.
Maximum 3 SI proposals will be approved at the end of each calendar
quarter.
5.
II. SPECIAL ISSUE PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS
Some of the requirements for an acceptable SI proposal include, but are
not limited to, the following:
1. Proposers are expected to take the time to examine the scope
of currently active IEEE CEMSIs and earlier published SIs in the
last 12 to 18 months (please visit IEEE Xplore for further
information). New hot topics that the magazine does not
already cover will have a preference.
2. A successful SI must have a short, catchy title that attracts the
IEEE CEM'sreadership.
3. A SI must have a focused scope on a particular issue and
should not be too broad. New ideas that fit the scope of IEEE
CEM and/or complement other publication tracks while not
duplicating them, are always welcome.
4. Each SI is expected to be managed by a team of a minimum 4
and a maximum of 5 GEs (including the Lead GE), where:
a) It is expected that at least 3 GEs have prior active
involvement in the IEEE CTSoc, e.g., current IEEE CEM's
Senior Associate Editor (SAE) or Associate Editor (AE),
CTSoc Board of Governors member not later than in the
past 2 years, current officer in one of the 15 Technical
Committees (TCs), and/or other currently appointed
officers and committee chairs listed in1
(to be updated
annually).
In general, the involvement of TCs is
supposed. The Lead GE must be serving as an IEEE
CEM's SAE or AE at the time of the SI proposal,
guaranteeing full knowledge of the magazine's policies
and processes.
b) Each GE should add a unique aspect to the team and
each must have a particular role.
c) All GEs should contribute to the solicitation and review
processes, and must respect IEEE CEM'spolicies.
d) The selection of GEs must strike a good geographical
balance and a balance between academia and industry.
In addition, the GE selection is highly encouraged to
exhibit gender diversity.
e) The team should not include GEs who serve in this
particular role at the time of the SI proposal as GEs for
another SI in any IEEE CTSoc publication.
III. ORGANIZING A SPECIAL ISSUE
1. Guest Editors (GEs) should be aware of all IEEE CEM'spolicies,
including manuscript submission, reviewers, and publishing
guidelines. They must fully respect and implement these
guidelines and understand that failure to do so, and/or to
deliver manuscripts on time, may result in cancellation of the SI
at any point in time.
2. GEs are welcome to (co-)author one State-Of-The-Art (SOTA)
article in their own SI, which should be submitted at the time of
the SI CfP kick-off. Any further articles (co-)authored by GEs
must be submitted under the Original Articletrack. GEs are also
responsible for authoring a Guest Editorial that introduces the
SI and is published as a preamble of it.
3. Submissions to the SI should be made based on an open CfP,
not personal invitations. Individual authors can be encouraged
to write an article but with an understanding that all
submissions must comply with the Author Guidelines and must
go through the same peer review process without any
assurance of acceptance.
4.
If an SI proposal is accepted, the EiC will preliminarily schedule
the SI for a specific issue after discussing this schedule with
the GEs. The GEs should then start to advertise the CfP.
If possible, the CfP will be advertised in the magazine.
However, advertising a CfP is the responsibility of the GEs, who
should not rely only on publishing the CfP in the IEEE CEM
and/or its website. Guest Editors must advertise the CfP per
their proposal plan, through the IEEE CTSoc's Technical
Committees, mail lists, newsletters, and through their own
professional networks. They are responsible for properly
1 IEEE Consumer Technology Society's Leadership:
https://ctsoc.ieee.org/images/IEEE-CTSoc-Leadership.pdf
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