IEEE Embedded Systems Letters

Please submit papers at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/les-ieee.

Scope

IEEE Embedded Systems Letters seeks to provide a forum of quick dissemination of research results in the domain of embedded systems with a target turn-around time of no more than three months. The journal is currently published quarterly consisting of new, short and critically refereed technical papers. Submissions are welcome on any topic in the broad area of embedded systems and embedded software, especially but not limited to:

Publication Style and Types

To guarantee a fast review and publication; we require a strict page limit for all papers in this journal, without any exception. This strict limit is 4 pages, and the format is required to be exactly as stated in this guideline. Research findings and results whose fast dissemination will spark interest in the academic and industrial communities, and whose main points can be captured within this page limit are best targeted for this journal. Research papers that require elaborate context, elaborate formalization, and large amount of data or formal proofs to convince the readers will be better targeted for other archival journals in the field. If you are writing for IEEE ESL, a general guideline is to minimize the motivational text and point to directly relevant background work without, of course, any omissions. In some cases, directly stating the problem that you are attempting to address may be an appropriate starting point.
Manuscript can be one of three types: regular manuscripts, letters to the editor and a Response Manuscript. Per IEEE policy, all published manuscripts should be peer reviewed for originality and technical soundness. If you are writing a "Response Manuscript" that is a follow up of an earlier published work, use the introductory text to capture the main points of the manuscript for the reader who may not have the benefit of having read the prior work.

Length Restrictions

Submitted letters must be four pages or fewer, including all figures, tables, and references. Submissions exceeding this length will be returned without review. Papers should use 7.875in x 10.75in (20cm x 27.30cm) trim size and the IEEE transactions two-column format in 9-pt. font. In word counts, this corresponds to roughly 2200 words.
Concurrent or Overlapping Submission & Originality of Work
Submissions to IEEE ESL must consist of original work that has not been previously published nor is currently under review elsewhere. Concurrent or overlapping submission to ESL and other publications is viewed as a serious breach of ethics and, if detected, will result in immediate rejection of the submission.

Contributions beyond prior work must be clearly articulated. Letters submissions that extend or are otherwise closely related to prior publications must also include copies of those prior papers for the reviewers' and editors' reference.

However, due to the short format, we expect that publication in IEEE ESL should not preclude later publication in top-quality conferences or full-length journals. However, we expect that the later publication is substantially extended as per IEEE guidelines.
Review Process

Submissions are accepted on a continuing basis. Each submission will be assigned to an appropriate member of the Editorial Board to manage the review process. Upon acceptance, authors will have one week to make revisions.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR REVIEWERS

As a reviewer, you play a critical role in the peer review process. The guiding principles for our peer review process are to conduct a thorough, fair and timely evaluation of the submitted manuscripts. Only those manuscripts that meet the criteria for highest quality should be recommended for publication. In plain English, we are looking to publish articles that are technically sound, present a new idea, new method or new insight to the reader and are understandable to researchers or practitioners in the specific topic area. This can be hard especially in case of submission to IEEE ESL due to the space constraints. Clearly, a manuscript needs to be direct about the problem being addressed, method taken, results obtained and conclusions reached. In your review, even on manuscripts that you are recommending a clear reject recommendation, provide sound and constructive reviews that the authors can use to improve their research endeavor.

All reviewers at the conclusion of a review process are rated by the editorial board for responsiveness and quality of the reviews received. Your reputation as a conscientious and careful reviewer is a strong part of your standing within the peer community.
Conduct of the Reviewer

To guarantee fairness to the author, the reviewer of a manuscript submitted to IEEE ESL should abide by a number of guidelines, including, but not limited to:

•    Respond within the allotted time
•    Provide sound, constructive reviews
•    Assume that manuscripts submitted for publication are not meant to be public
•    Do not use material from a manuscript you have reviewed
•    Do not share material from a manuscript you have reviewed with others
•    Do not distribute copies of a manuscript you have been asked to review unless the material is already public
•    Tell the editor, guest editor, and editor in chief if there are any conflicts of interest involved in reviewing a manuscript

The IEEE details guidelines specific to the conduct of reviewers in the IEEE Policies 6.4.1 C—Referees of Manuscripts.

IEEE Review Process Statement

The IEEE shall not accept or publish manuscripts in an archival journal without prior peer review. There shall be a review process of manuscripts by two or more independent referees who are conversant in the pertinent subject area.

Editors of all regular technical periodical IEEE publications, except IEEE SPECTRUM and Society newsletters, shall follow the review process which shall be defined in the Publications Services and Products Board (PSPB) Operations Manual.

Reviewers shall treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge which that access provides. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program committees shall be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same manner.

Periodicals which are published in cooperation with non-IEEE organizations shall be encouraged to have a review policy that ensures the quality of papers. This policy should be generally consistent with the IEEE review policy contained in Policy 6.10 and procedures which shall be specified in the PSPB Operations Manual.

The review process shall ensure that all authors have equal opportunity for publication of their papers. Acceptance and scheduling of publication of papers in these periodicals shall not be impeded by added criteria and procedures beyond those contained in the review process.

To read IEEE Policy Section 6—Publication Activities in its entirety, click here.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Rajesh K, Gupta, UC San Diego
Editor-In-Chief

Frank Vahid, UC Riverside
Hardware-Software Co-design

Anand Raghunathan, Purdue University
Embedded Security

Tarek Abdelazhar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Cyber-physical Systems, Real-Time Systems

Sandeep Shukla, Virginia Polytechnic University
Embedded Systems Specification and Modeling

Tom Conte, Georgia Tech
Embedded Processor Architectures and Microarchitectures

Peter Corke, CSIRO, Kenmore, Australia
Embedded Sensor Platforms

Ryan Kastner, UC San Diego
Reconfigurable Systems

David Atienza, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
 Multi-Processor Systems

Donatella Sciuto, Politecnico Milano
Design Methods for Embedded Systems

Paulo Tabuada, UC Los Angeles
Embedded Control and Hybrid Systems

Sanjit Seshia, UC Berkeley
Dependable Systems, Design Automation

Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Nagoya University, Japan
Embedded Processors

Tullika Mitra, National University Singapore
Compilers

S Ramesh, General Motors R&D, Bangalore, India
Automotive Embedded Systems.