Industrial Artificial Intelligence - Special Issue Proposal Guidelines

Industrial Artificial Intelligence welcomes Special Issues (SI) on timely topics related to the field at large. The objective of Special Issues is to bring together recent and high-quality works in a research domain, to promote key advances in specific research areas covered by the journal, and to provide overviews of the state-of-the-art in emerging domains.

Preparing a proposal
All Guest Editors who wish to organize a Special Issue must send a proposal to dh.wang@latrobe.edu.au and wpedrycz@ualberta.ca with the following requirements: 

• Title
• Short description
• List of topics of interest
• A few sentences explaining the importance of the topic and relevance to the journal’s aims and scope (this opens in a new tab)
• Manuscript submission deadline
• Guest Editor details: Name, Email, Affiliation, Bio and Short CV (incl. list of at most 5 publications related to the SI proposal and links to their institutional webpages)
• Nomination of the Lead Guest Editor
• Draft call for papers

General Notes
This Journal adheres to the standard Peer Review Policy, Process and Guidance (this opens in a new tab) as outlined by Springer under Editorial Policies (this opens in a new tab).

After acceptance of the proposed topic, Guest Editors will manage the peer review process of the special issue and must obtain a minimum of 2 reviews for each paper. Guest Editors should be well established experts in the domain of the topic or closely related fields. The Editors-in-Chief are responsible for the final content published in the journal.

We require our Guest Editors to familiarize themselves with the editorial and publication policies of the journal and our Springer Nature Code of Conduct before they undertake their SI. Please find links to these below:
Submission guidelines (this opens in a new tab)
Editorial procedure (this opens in a new tab)
Code of Conduct (this opens in a new tab)

For SIs originating from conferences or workshops, papers are expected to be developed and extended by 60% with new material. The title and abstract should be updated. 

A complete SI will contain a minimum of 5 published articles.

Article Processing Charges
Authors who publish open access in Industrial Artificial Intelligence are required to pay an article processing charge (APC). The APC price will be determined from the date on which the article is accepted for publication. Current APC information is available here (this opens in a new tab).

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Open Access Funding
Springer Nature offers agreements that enable institutions to cover open access publishing costs. Authors can learn more about our open access agreements (this opens in a new tab) to check their eligibility and discover whether this journal is included.

Springer Nature offers APC waivers and discounts for articles published in our fully open access journals whose corresponding authors are based in the world’s lowest income countries (see our APC waivers and discounts policy (this opens in a new tab) for further information). Requests for APC waivers and discounts from other authors will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and may be granted in cases of financial need (see our open access policies for journals (this opens in a new tab) for more information). All applications for discretionary APC waivers and discounts should be made by authors at the point of manuscript submission within the submission system. Requests made during the review process or after acceptance cannot be considered.