The journal for which the Special Issue is intended
* A suggested title for the Special Issue 
* Proposed Aims and Scope
* A list of Guest Editors who will join the Lead Guest Editor in managing the Special Issue, including their names, emails, affiliations, and a short biography (one paragraph) of each of the Guest Editors
* A proposed timeline and schedule which includes:
* Deadline for submission (6 months from the initial Call-for-Papers)
* First round of review (3 months after submission deadline)
* Tentative publication date (3 months after the first round of review)

All proposals are subject to approval by the journal following a discussion of the proposed Special Issue among the journals Editorial Board. If approved, a Call-for-Papers for the Special Issue will be issued and posted online.

Each proposal will be evaluated by three independent experts according to the following Criteria
* Relevance to the Journal
* Scientific - Technical Originality, 
* Scientific content And advances beyond the State-Of-The-Art
* Potential Impact and tnterest for the readers

The Guest Editors cannot act as reviewers for the Special Issues manuscripts. This is to ensure a high-quality, fair, and unbiased peer-review process of every manuscript submitted to the journal, since any manuscript must be recommended by one or more (usually two or more) external reviewers and the Guest Editor before acceptance for publication.

The name of the Guest Editor recommending the manuscript for publication is published with the manuscript to indicate and acknowledge their invaluable contribution to the peer-review process and the indispensability of their contributions to the running of the journals.

The peer-review process is single blinded; that is, the reviewers know who the authors of the manuscript are, but the authors do not have access to the information of who the peer reviewers are. Every journal published by Hindawi has an acknowledgment page for the researchers who have performed the peer-review process for at least one manuscript in the past year. Without the significant contributions made by these researchers, the publication of the journal would not be possible.{/slider}

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It should be noted that papers must be written in exact IARAS format before they are uploaded to the journal, as this contributes to the best appeareance of the volume. If the final version of a paper is considerably different to the desired format, it will not be published even if it is accepted.

Frequent mistakes that should be avoided:

a) Single column format is not accepted; Only the abstract & keywords should be in a single column, and possibly some large pictures at the end of the paper as an Appendix

b) Very narrow or very wide margins are to be avoided

c) The title should not be written entirely in capital letters, as opposed to the authors' names that should

d) The authors' names should be written as such: {FIRST NAME} {FAMILY NAME} as opposed to vice versa and their titles cannot be included. For instance, JOHN SMITH instead of Professor Smith, John

e) The document should be displayed in A4 pages, not Letter or other size

f) No page numbers or other Headers or Footers are allowed

g) Paragraphs must have single line spacing

IARAS sends each paper to 3 independent reviewers, experts in the area of the paper. So, each paper will be evaluated by three independent experts according to the following Criteria
1) Relevance to the Journal
2) Scientific - Technical Originality, Potential Impact and Interest for the audience
3) Scientific/Technical Content and Advances beyond The State-Of-The-Art
4) Quality of the Presentation, clarity of the Content
5) Comments for the authors

The reviewers are going to indicate their familiarity with the paper's subject, evaluate the paper along the aforementioned criteria. Finally, the Editor-in-Chief or a Member of the Editorial Board will decide whether a paper will be accepted or not.
Our Score System will classify the papers as follows
* Publish as it is
* Consider after Minor Changes
* Consider after Major Changes
* Reject

If the Editor recommends Publish as it is the manuscript will undergo a final check by the journals editorial office in order to ensure that the manuscript and its review process adhere to the journals guidelines and policies. Once this is done, the authors will be notified of the manuscripts acceptance, and the manuscript will appear in the Articles in Press section of the journals website.

If the Editor recommends Consider after Minor Changes, the authors are notified to prepare and submit a final copy of their manuscript with the required minor changes suggested by the reviewers. The Editor reviews the revised manuscript after the minor changes have been made by the authors. Once the Editor is satisfied with the final manuscript, the manuscript can be accepted.

If the Editor recommends Consider after Major Changes, the recommendation is communicated to the authors. The authors are expected to revise their manuscripts in accordance with the changes recommended by the reviewers and to submit their revised manuscript in a timely manner. Once the revised manuscript is submitted, the Editor can then make an editorial recommendation which can be Publish Unaltered, Consider after Minor Changes, or Reject.

If the Editor recommends rejecting the manuscript, the rejection is immediate. Also, if the majority of the reviewers recommend rejecting the manuscript, the rejection is immediate.

All journals published by IARAS are committed to publishing only original material, i.e., material that has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere. IARAS as a participant of CrossCheck uses the iThenticate software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will incur plagiarism sanctions.

*MANAGEMENT: Our Editor-in-Chief manages this Journal. Receives the articles from IARAS,
checks them, rejects those that are not appropriate and forwards to reviewers whatever he believes that deserves an evaluation via the system of peer review.
Co-Editors-in-Chief have an Advisory Role.
* OWNERSHIP: IARAS Publications Ltd.

Manuscripts not adhering to journal guidelines will be returned to authors without scientific evaluation. Submitted manuscripts adhering to journal guidelines are reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief or an Editor, who will assign them to reviewers. The review process is single blind. The Editor prepares a decision letter according to the comments of the reviewers, which is sent to the corresponding author. All non-reviewed manuscripts are sent back within 10 days and decisions letters of manuscripts are sent within 4 weeks.

The editors of this journal take the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The editors of the Journal take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy.

The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, and so forth in this publication, even if not specifically identified, does not imply that these names are not protected by the relevant laws and regulations.

While the advice and information in this journal are believed to be true and accurate on the date of its going to press, neither the authors, the editors, nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.

Authors wishing to publish their papers in the Journal are asked to abide to the following rules:

a) Any facts that might be perceived as a possible conflict of interest of the author(s) must be disclosed in the paper prior to submission.

b) Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their findings.

c) Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper, so that other researchers can replicate the work.

d) Raw data should preferably be publicly deposited by the authors before submission of their manuscript. Authors need to at least have the raw data readily available for presentation to the referees and the editors of the journal, if requested. Authors need to ensure appropriate measures are taken so that raw data is retained in full for a reasonable time after publication.

f) Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already published in another language will not be accepted).

g) If errors and inaccuracies are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate actions can be taken.

h) Your manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published figures or images, please obtain the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license.
* Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.
* Plagiarism is not acceptable in IARAS submissions.
* Plagiarism includes copying text, ideas, images, or data from another source, even from your own publications, without giving any credit to the original source.

Reuse of text that is copied from another source must be between quotes and the original source must be cited. If a study's design or the manuscript's structure or language has been inspired by previous works, these works must be explicitly cited.

If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication, we may publish a correction or retract the paper.