Aims and scope:

The Electronic Journal of the Argentine Society of Computer Science 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. We will work towards that goal, with the support of all our community.

The purpose of this document is twofold: on one hand, it has to serve as a presentation of this new publication, on the other hand it is an invitation to participate in this project that, we hope, will not only be the project of SADIO but of the whole CS, IT and OR community of the country and the region.

Advisory Board:

The general editorial guide-lines of the Journal will be responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief (EC), that will be counseled by an Advisory Board (AB). The AB is formed by distinguished international representatives of the academic and professional environments. The role of the AB consists, among other tasks, in critically follow the progress of the journal, suggest ideas, new Editorial Board members, etc., apart of publicizing and encourage the submission of contributions by third parties. The AB is constituted by:

Guillermo Arango (Schlumberger, France),
Giorgio Ausiello (Università 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:

The Editorial Board (EB) will be responsible for guaranteeing the quality of the published contributions, and will be formed by first-level scientists and professionals, representatives of different areas and of recognized capacity and trajectory, both from Argentina and from other countries.

The Editorial Board is currently formed by:

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

Field Editors:

Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Sergio Bandinelli(?????)
Gabriel Baum (Universidad de la Plata, Argentina)
Leo Bertossi (Universidad Católica, Chile)
Sebastián Ceria (Columbia University, USA)
Juan Echague (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Martín Farach (Rutgers University, USA)
Miguel Felder (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Raúl Gallard (Universidad de San Luis, Argentina)
Juan Garay (IBM Watson, USA)
Joos Heintz (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)
Pablo Jacovkis (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Delia Kesner (Universite d'Orsay, France)
Irene Loiseau (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Claudia Medeiros (Universidad de Campinas, Brazil)
Alfredo Olivero (Universidad de Gral. Sarmiento, Argentina)
Gustavo Rossi (Universidad de La Plata, Argentina)
Jorge Santos (Universidad del Sur, Argentina)
Hugo Scolnick (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Guillermo Simari (Universidad del Sur, Argentina)
Nora Szasz (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Alfredo Viola (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

Main characteristics of the publication:

• All contributions will be refereed, or at least moderated.
• English will be the official language of the journal. Articles (including surveys and work in progress) will be written in that language, and possibly (upon decision of the authors) also in Spanish. Only some sections of the journal, interesting exclusively for locals, may be only in Spanish.
• Refereeing times will be fast (not more than three months), to take the maximum benefit of electronic publication.
• The electronic support will allow that authors provide corrections, attachments, implementations, presentations, animations, examples, extended bibliographies, etc., to their already published contributions. Besides, other authors may contribute with comments on published works.
• The status of the published papers will be such that extended versions of the works may be published elsewhere.
  

The journal will contain the following sections:

• Scientific works: original research or experiences articles. Contributions to this section will be evaluated according to their originality and relevance by at least two anonymous referees, selected by EB members specialized in the corresponding subjects.
• Extended abstracts of original work. This section is devoted to those who wish to publish their work with a status that allows the subsequent publication of extended versions in other journals. In this case the articles will have status of internal reports. Publication of this papers will be moderated by the EC, advised by members of the EB specialized in the corresponding subjects.
• Surveys of two kinds: invited by the editors or contributed (refereed)
• Ongoing research. This section will be moderated but not refereed. It is devoted to those researchers that wish to publish partial results of their research. It may be implemented by hyper-links to other web-pages.
• Debates. This section will be devoted to the electronic discussion about different subjects proposed and moderated by one or more members of the EB. The debate may spread along more than one issue of the journal. During its lifetime the discussion will be updated periodically.
• Abstracts of international publications of local authors. The goal of this section is to contribute to the dissemination of the work being done in the region.
• Book reviews. Invited or contributed (moderated) reviews.
• "What's happening" in other countries of the region. The idea is to maintain correspondents in some south-American countries, and a column that in each issue will be dedicated to a different country, rotatively.
• National or international research projects. This section is dedicated to publicize proposals, progress reports, results of research projects.
• "From theory to practice". Contributed articles critically describing experiences about the use of theoretical tools in industrial or commercial applications.
• Open problems. In this section, both CS, IT and OR people, or others may send their open problems to receive help from readers. This section will be moderated by the EC, with the help of the EB.
• Pointers to other publications and interesting pages, including relevant institutions, libraries, etc.
• Calls for papers of conferences, special issues, etc.
• Software demonstrations and evaluations. This section will be devoted to free software or commercial software of sponsors of the journal (moderated).
• Positions available in academy or industry (moderated).
  

Format of the journal

The journal will be open to the different alternatives that present technology provides to electronic publication. We believe that at this point it is convenient to be as flexible as possible and incorporate new tools as they become available and necessary. For that reason, contributors to the Journal will be invited to propose formats to the Editors, being the final decisions a responsibility of the latter.

The first issue

We have already anticipated some of the features of the journal. However, we believe that the best way to achieve our high-quality goal is to start little by little. For that reason, we plan to start only with just part of them.

More concretely, 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. That issue will contain from 10 to 15 full papers, that will be selected among the 42 original research papers presented in the five different symposia that composed the conference. For this occasion, the program committee presidents of WAIT, ASOO, SOST, SIO and Redes will be Invited 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. Contributions must be sent by e-mail to the Editor-in-chief (xxx@?????????????), using standard PostScript or PDF formats.