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1 Overview
A number of open source resources, in the form of curated datasets, web-based databases, stand-alone software, or library packages have been floating in various forms online. These codes are useful in computer science research works, and engineering practices. The application of these resources requires instructions. Traditional scientific publications usually focus on the algorithms, principles, theoretical proofs, benchmarking evaluations and comparisons that is in the background or in the generation process of these resources. The instructions, case studies, application examples and sample codes, which help users and other practitioners to utilize these resources, usually do not get published as journal papers. However, when these resources are applied in practice, a reference with constant and static description content is usually needed.
This special channel is intended as a platform for short descriptive notes that provide information on the usage and guidelines for novel software, library packages, datasets, and web-sites with data query and computation functions. These codes and data must represent implementations of novel algorithms, methods or with scientific significant discoveries. In particular, these codes and data must be with applications on computer science related fields or interdisciplinary fields. The contents of these notes must not be published elsewhere or under consideration for publication elsewhere. If preprints are deposited, it must be revealed to the journal on the initial submission. Once published, the authors are responsible to maintain the availability of the software or the website for at least two years, with a link to the published paper in the journal FCS.
2 Topic of Interest
Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following aspects:
Computational biology, bioinformatics, cheminformatics and medical informatics
Quantum computing
Machine learning
Urban computing and urban informatics
Computer vision
Computer graphics
Digital image processing
Natural language processing
Computer networks
Information security
Hardware design, analysis and emulation
EDA and CAD
3 Online submission
The authors should submit their manuscript directly online, by http://mc. manuscriptcentral.com/hepfcs. All manuscripts must be written in English. All manuscript will be peer-reviewed based on the usefulness, the novelty, the originality and the presentation. The length of the paper is restricted strictly to be shorter than 2 journal pages, or within 1500 words and 1 figure. No more than 12 reference is allowed for each paper in this special channel.
When the authors were submitting the manuscript, they should choose the manuscript type as "Code & Data". Please use the Letter template, which will also be found on this site, to set the layout of the paper.
4 Guest Editors
Pu-Feng DU, Tianjin University, China, pdu@tju.edu.cn
Xiaowo WANG, Tsinghua University, China, xwwang@tsinghua.edu.cn
Min-Ling ZHANG, Southeast University, China, zhangml@seu.edu.cn
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Strict Embargo until 00.01 GMT Tuesday, 28 November 2023
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