Aims & Scope
The scope of the Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation (JSAT) is propositional reasoning, modeling, and computation. The Satisfiability discipline is a central focus of JSAT. We welcome all sorts of contributions to this theme but also encourage authors to submit papers on related topics as Computational Logic, Constraint Programming, Satisfiability Modulo Theories, Quantified Boolean Logic, Pseudo Boolean Methods, zero-one Programming, Integer Programming and Operations Research, whenever the link to Satisfiability (SAT) is apparent.
Especially, JSAT welcomes substantial extensions of conference papers, where the actual conference contribution must be cited. As such, authors are able to provide more detailed information about their work (theoretical details, proofs or theorems, algorithmic or implementation details, more exhaustive empirical evaluations) which were enforced to be omitted in the conference proceedings simply because of strict page limitations.
JSAT also welcomes detailed descriptions of new promising but challenging applications around SAT, to make the SAT community aware of those new applications, and to provide it the opportunity to tackle those challenges.
Occasionally, JSAT also publishes Research Notes and these articles are also thoroughly reviewed but are not considered full Journal publications and hence will be designated and must be referenced to as such. Also, JSAT publishes papers on System Descriptions, being contributions with a focus on the internals of a Solver.
Editorial Board
Editor in Chief
Armin Biere
University of Freiburg
Germany
Former Editors in Chief
Daniel Le Berre
Artois University/CNRS
France
John Franco
University of Cincinnati
United States
Oliver Kullmann
Swansea University
United Kingdom
Hans van Maaren (Founding Editor)
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands
Production Editor
Marijn Heule
University of Texas at Austin
United States
Editorial board
Olaf Beyersdorff
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Germany
Nadia Creignou
Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS
France
John Franco
University of Cincinnati
United States
Vijay Ganesh
University of Waterloo
Canada
Holger Hoos
Leiden University
The Netherlands
Mikoláš Janota
Czech Technical University in Prague
Czech Republic
Matti Jarvisalo
University of Helsinki
Finland
Hans Kleine Büning
Paderborn University
Germany
Antonina Kolokolova
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Canada
Oliver Kullmann
Swansea University
United Kingdom
Ines Lynce
University of Lisbon
Portugal
Joao Marques-Silva
University of Lisbon
Portugal
David Mitchell
Simon Fraser University
Canada
Nina Narodytska
VMWare Research
United States
Jakob Nordström
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden
Luca Pulina
University of Sassari
Italy
Roberto Sebastiani
Trento University
Italy
Martina Seidl
Johannes Kepler University in Linz
Austria
Laurent Simon
Bordeaux INP / University of Bordeaux / CNRS
France
Carsten Sinz
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Germany
Ofer Strichman
Technion
Israel
Naoyuki Tamura
Kobe University
Japan
Xishun Zhao
Sun-Yat Sen University
China
Author Guidelines
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
By submitting my article to this journal, I agree to the Author Copyright Agreement, the IOS Press Ethics Policy, and the IOS Press Privacy Policy.
Please refer to http://jsatjournal.org for detailed instructions on the formatting and submission of manuscripts. For direct submission of an article please visit the submission and peer review system for JSAT.
Publication costs
JSAT is an open access (OA) journal where all articles are published online with OA and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY-NC 4.0). All open access publication costs are currently waived so there are no costs associated to publishing in JSAT.
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Article sharing
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Peer Review
Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation Peer Review Policy
The Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation is a peer-reviewed journal. All articles submitted to the journal undergo a single blind peer review process. This means that the identity of the authors is known with the reviewers but the identity of the reviewers is not communicated to the authors. Please visit our reviewer guidelines for further information about how to conduct a review.
After automatic plagiarism screening through iThenticate, all submitted manuscripts are subjected to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Reasons to reject a paper in the pre-screening process could for example be because the work does not fall within the aims and scope, the writing is of poor quality, the instructions to authors were not followed or the presented work is not novel.
Papers deemed suitable to be reviewed will be assigned a handling editor. The handling editor will then invite reviewers to comment on the work. Typically decisions are based on three reviews, in some circumstances a minimum of two reviews may be deemed sufficient to make a decision on a paper. The Editor-in-Chief strives to ensure a typical turnaround time of 3 months from submission until decision.
Reviewers are asked to judge a paper on at least:
- Originality, novelty and significance of results
- Technical quality of work
- Comprehensibility and presentation of the paper
- Overall impression
Based on the received reviews the handling editor will propose to the Editors-in-Chief a recommendation:
- Accept
- Minor revisions required
- Major revisions required
- Revise and resubmit
- Reject
They mean the following:
- Accept: The manuscript is suitable for publication and only requires minor polishing; thus, no further reviews are requested.
- Minor revisions required: The authors are required to make moderate changes to their manuscript. The manuscript becomes acceptable for publication if the changes proposed by the reviewers and editors are successfully addressed. The revised manuscript will be examined by the Editors-in-Chief and possibly sent back to all (or a selection of) reviewers for a second round of reviews. Authors are requested to provide a letter to the reviewers detailing the improvements made for the resubmission.
- Major revisions required: The manuscript cannot be accepted for publication in its current form. However, a major revision which addresses all issues raised by the reviewers may be acceptable for publication. The revised manuscript will undergo a full second round of review. Authors are requested to provide a letter to the reviewers detailing the improvements made for the resubmission.
- Revise and resubmit: In its current form, the manuscript is not suitable for publication. A resubmission would require substantial revisions and is only encouraged in special cases.
- Reject: The manuscript is rejected as it is deemed to be out of scope, not relevant, or not meeting the journal’s quality standards in terms of significance, novelty, and/or presentation.
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