Call for TBench Special Issue

BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations (TBench ) is an open-access multi-disciplinary journal dedicated to benchmarks, standards, evaluations, optimizations, and data sets. TBench will be open-access (OA) without any charge. It seeks a fast-track publication with an average turnaround time of one months.

TBench is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of “open-source computer systems”. This special issue focuses on studies in exploring the software and hardware co-design space in high-end computer systems, studies in advancing open-source movement including novel abstraction and methodology, open-source hardware, open-source software, measurement and optimization tools.

Submission deadline: Submission site: https://www.editorialmanager.com/tbench/default1.aspx

The detailed submission guidelines are as follows:

• Papers must be submitted in printable PDF format.
• Reviewing will be double blind: please do not include any author names on any submitted documents except in the space provided on the submission form.
• The submission must describe unpublished work that is not currently under review of any other conference or journal venues.

Submission instructions and latex templates: https://www.elsevier.com/authors/policies-and-guidelines/latex-instructions

Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Position papers, Full-length articles/Research articles, Review articles, Short communications, Discussions, Editorials, Case reports, Practice guidelines, Product reviews, Conference reports, and Opinion papers. Please ensure that you select the appropriate article type from the list of options when making your submission. Authors contributing to special issues should ensure that they select the special issue article type from this list.

• Position Papers – No page limits.
• Full-Length Articles/Research Articles - 12 double-column pages (All research article page limits do not include references and author biographies)
• Review Papers - no page limits
• Short Communications - 4 double-column pages (All short communication article page limits do not include references and author biographies)
• Discussions - 2 double-column pages (All discussion article page limits do not include references and author biographies)
• Editorials - 10 double-column pages (All editorial page limits do not include references and author biographies)
• Case Studies - 8 double-column pages (All case report page limits do not include references and author biographies)
• Practice Guidelines -12 double-column pages (All practice guideline page limits do not include references and author biographies)
• Product Reviews - 4 double-column pages (All product review page limits do not include references and author biographies)
• Conference Reports - 10 double-column pages (All conference report page limits do not include references and author biographies)
• Opinion Papers - - 4 double-column pages (All opinion page limits do not include references and author biographies)

Editors-in-Chief
Jianfeng Zhan, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Tony Hey, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory STFC, UK

Advisory Board
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
D. K. Panda, The Ohio State University, USA

Founding Editor
H. Peter Hofstee, IBM Systems, USA and Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Zhen Jia, Amazon, USA
Blesson Varghese, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Raghu Nambiar, AMD, USA
Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, China
Francisco Vilar Brasileiro, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Jianwu Wang, University of Maryland, USA
David Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA
Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Lei Wang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Weining Qian, East China Normal University, China
Arne J. Berre, SINTEF, Norway
Ryan Eric Grant, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Rong Zhang, East China Normal University, China
Cheol-Ho Hong, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK
Zhifei Zhang, Capital Medical University, China
K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA
Yunyou Huang, Guangxi Normal University, China
Woongki Baek, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Radu Teodorescu, The Ohio State University, USA
John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
Marco Vieira, The University of Coimbra (UC), Portugal
Jose Merseguer, University of Zaragoza (UZ), Spain
Xiaoyi Lu, University of California, Merced, USA
Yanwu Yang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Jungang Xu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jiaquan Gao, Nanjing Normal University, China