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Table of Contents
Manuscript
Preparation
Editorial
Guidelines
1. TKDD will encourage submissions
that have not been published or submitted previously to this or any other
publication, and submissions which may significantly contribute to opening up
new and potentially important areas of research and development. TKDD
will do this by giving earliest possible publication dates for such
submissions once they have been accepted. The Associate Editors, with
the recommendation from the reviewers, will determine which submissions fall
into these categories. The subsequent submissions are then recommended
to the Editor-in-Chief, who will make the final decision. 2. TKDD will promote fusion of
theory and systems by strongly encouraging the authors of theory papers to
indicate applications and implementation considerations/consequences, and the
authors of systems papers to indicate the use of existing theoretical results
and to point to possible theoretical research issues. 3. TKDD will publish outstanding
papers which are "major value-added extensions" of papers
previously published in conferences; that is, TKDD will not
automatically reject papers that are major extensions to previously published
conference papers. These papers will go through the normal review
process. 4. TKDD will strive to make papers
straightforward and more readable by recommending that authors include
examples where appropriate and to make greater efforts to target their
presentation to a broader audience than specialists doing current research in
the topical areas of the papers. 5. The TKDD Editorial Board is
committed to providing an editorial decision within five months, starting
with papers submitted in January 2006. This turnaround time is defined
to start with the day the paper was submitted electronically and extends to
the day the decision was sent to the author. It is expected that the
average turnaround time will be even shorter, so prospective authors can
expect a fast review of their submission. TKDD editors will also
regard a submission to have been withdrawn if its required revision is not
submitted within six months of the revision notification. 6. TKDD will discourage excessively
long papers (longer than 50 double-spaced pages including figures,
references, etc.), and unnecessary digressions, even in shorter papers.
TKDD’s goal is to motivate the authors to bring out the essence of
their papers more clearly, to make it easier for the reviewers and readers to
follow the article, and to allow TKDD to publish more papers in any
given issue. 7. Similarly, TKDD encourages
shorter submissions, even very short (for example, five page) submissions. The primary focus
of review is the significant improvement on the state-of-the-art, not the
number pages the manuscript fills. 8. TKDD will adopt the ACM Computing Surveys' style of
references; that is, references will be labeled by authors' names and years
of publication, rather than by numbers. 9. The editor processing a paper normally
assigns three reviewers to a paper. Reviewers provide advice to the
editor to assist him/her in reaching an editorial decision regarding the
paper. The editor's decision may differ from the consensus of the
reviewers. If the editor determines early on in the process that a
submission is a clear-reject (through an early-arriving review, editor's own
reading, etc.), the editor may stop the review process without collecting all
reviews. 10. TKDD will publish occasional
special issues to provide timely enhancement to promising areas of research
and development, or a timely consolidation of the results in other
areas. Guest editors will be invited to organize such issues. 11. TKDD will also publish focused
surveys. These reviews should be deeply focused and will sometimes be
quite narrow, but will make a contribution to our understanding of an
important area or subarea
of knowledge discovery from data, broadly defined. More general surveys
that are intended for a broad-based Computer Science audience or surveys that
may influence other areas of computing research should continue to go to ACM Computing Surveys. Brief
surveys on recent developments in knowledge discovery research are more
appropriate for ACM
SIGKDD Explorations. TKDD surveys should be educational to data
mining audiences by presenting a relatively well-established body of data
mining research. Surveys can summarize prior literature on a theoretical or
systems research topic, or can explain approaches implemented in commercial
systems. A survey of the former type summarizes literature on a
particular subject, presenting a new way of understanding how the papers in
this literature fit together. A survey of the latter type summarizes
the best industrial art, and can be acceptable even if it represents no new
contribution over what has been used in industry for years, if the paper's
content is not to be found in the published literature. Types of Papers
The ACM Transactions on Knowledge
Discovery from Data publishes original archival papers in the area of knowledge
discovery and data mining and closely related disciplines. (See the
Editorial Charter for
further details.) Submitted papers are judged primarily on originality
and relevance, but effective presentation is also critical.
Contributions should conform to generally accepted practices for scientific
papers with respect to organization and style. TKDD also publishes focused surveys. These should be deep and will
sometimes be quite narrow, but would make a contribution to our understanding
of an important area or subarea
of knowledge discovery and data mining, broadly defined.
More general surveys that are intended for a broad-based Computer Science
audience or surveys that may influence other areas of computing research
should continue to go to ACM Computing Surveys. Brief surveys on recent
developments in data mining research are more appropriate for SIGKDD
Explorations. Finally, TKDD welcomes submissions
that review, critique, correct, or expand on a paper previously published in TKDD.
Such submissions will go through the standard formal review. Where
appropriate, the author(s) of the original paper will be given an opportunity
to respond, with their own submission. Prior
Publication Policy
The technical contributions appearing in
ACM journals are normally original papers that have not been published
elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers
that appeared elsewhere must have major value-added extensions over what
appeared previously. There is little scientific merit in simply sending
a conference version to a journal after the paper has been accepted for the
conference. Widely distributed refereed conference
proceedings, in addition to journal papers, are considered publications, but
technical reports and CORR articles (which are not peer reviewed) are not.
All overlapping papers appearing in workshop proceedings and newsletters
should be brought to the editor's attention; they may be considered
publications if they are peer reviewed and widely disseminated. Novelty Requirement A manuscript that is based on one or more
previous publications by one or more of the published authors should consist
of at least 30% new material in the new submission. The new material should
be content material; meaning, it should be descriptive beyond straightforward
proofs or basic performance figures, but rather illustrate those dimensions
that offer substantial, new insights. The submitted manuscript provides an
opportunity to present additional results, for example by considering new
alternatives or by delving into some of the issues listed in the previous
publication(s) as future work. At the same time, it is not required that the
submitted manuscript contain all of the material from the published paper(s).
In fact, only enough material need be included from the published paper to
set the context and render the new material logical. Disclosure Requirement The disclosure requirement concerns any
paper by any author of the TKDD submission that overlaps significantly
with the TKDD submission and: (a) is in submission, (b) has been
accepted for publication, or (c) has been published at the time of
submission. An overlap is significant when it exceeds a page of the TKDD
submission or when the overlap concerns content material in the TKDD
submission, regardless of length.
Note that the novelty requirement applies
to papers in categories (a)-(c). The likely outcome of a failure to comply
with this Prior Publication Policy is rejection. In particular, the editor,
at his or her discretion, may choose immediately to reject a submission when
an overlapping paper is discovered about which the corresponding author did
not adhere to the requirements stated above. Manuscript
Format
To
ensure proper indexing, classification, retrieval and distribution, authors
must include the following in the manuscript.
Submission
for Editorial Review
How to Submit
To submit a paper, please use the file upload submission process. PDF or postscript are the preferred formats. If the paper has
previously been published, and the author is submitting it with significant
updates (see the Prior
Publication Policy), please upload the original publication as a
supplementary file for review. Authors should
keep editors informed of changes of address. Papers will be refereed in the
manner customary with scientific journals before being accepted for
publication. It you have any questions, please contact the Editor-in-Chief,
and always inform editors in your submission letters of any possible
conflicts. Correspondence on editorial matters should be addressed to one of
the editors. Correspondence regarding accepted papers should be sent to
the following address. Managing Editor Review Process
Submitted papers are evaluated by
anonymous referees for originality, relevance, and presentation. (Please see
the TKDD
referee guidelines for more details.) The author will be notified of the
name of an Associate Editor who will be responsible for the processing of the
manuscript, and should address correspondence to that Associate Editor. Appeals
If an author has concerns about how their
paper was handled, that author should first bring those concerns to the
Associate Editor who handled the processing of the paper. In almost all
cases, any misunderstanding will be able to be resolved then. If the concern
is not addressed, the author can ask the Associate Editor to turn over
processing of the paper to the Editor-in-Chief. This is the Associate
Editor's decision. Should the Associate Editor decide not to turn over the
processing of the paper, the editorial decision will stand. Otherwise, the
Editor-in-Chief will reexamine the materials, and make the final editorial
decision. If the concerns are still not adequately
addressed, then the author can appeal to the Chair of the ACM Publications Board,
in accordance with ACM policy. Procedures
for Accepted Papers
How to Prepare
Final Version
Once a manuscript is accepted, a final
version must be submitted to the Editor who processed the paper for
transmission to ACM for publication. Although this may be done on
paper, electronic submission is highly encouraged. ACM provides for a
wide variety of formats for such electronic submissions. Please refer to
ACM's Guidelines
for Submitting Accepted Articles for details. If the final
manuscript is submitted in a format other than LaTeX, then a printed copy of the
manuscript must also be sent to the Editor who processed the paper. The Editor who processed the paper will
send to ACM a cover letter notifying ACM of the paper's acceptance and all
milestone dates regarding the processing of the paper. Copyright
and Use Agreement
Authors whose papers are accepted sign a
form which transfers copyright to the ACM. This form will be sent by the
Editor-in-Chief along with notification of acceptance. The completed form
should be returned as indicated on the form. Authors retain liberal rights to
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consideration for publication in Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from
Data implies that unrestricted use of the algorithm within a computer is
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