Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Petr Bouchner, Head of Department of Transporting Technologies Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague Laboratory, Systems Reliability of FTS Czech. Tech. Univiversity Institute of Informatics Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Members of the Editorial Board
Prof. Igor Sevostianov, New Mexico State university, Las Cruces, NM, USA
Prof. Cho W. Solomon To, ASME Fellow, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Prof. Jiin-Yuh Jang, University Distinguished Professor, ASME Fellow, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Prof. Robert Reuben, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Prof. Ali K. El Wahed, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Prof. Yury A. Rossikhin, Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Voronezh, Russia
Prof. Pierre-Yves Manach, Universite de Bretagne-Sud, Bretagne, France
Prof. Ramanarayanan Balachandran, University College London, Torrington Place, London, UK
Prof. Hyung Hee Cho, ASME Fellow, Yonsei University (and National Acamedy of Engineering of Korea), Korea
Prof. Kumar Tamma, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Prof. Sorinel Adrian Oprisan, Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Charleston, USA
Prof. Yoshihiro Tomita, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Prof. Marcin Kaminski, Department of Structural Mechanics, Al. Politechniki 6, 90-924 Lodz, Poland
Prof. ZhuangJian Liu, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
Prof. Abdullatif Ben-Nakhi, College of Technological Studies, Paaet, Kuwait
Prof. Xianwen Kong, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Prof. Ahmet Selim Dalkilic, Yildiz Technical University, Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
Prof. Essam Eldin Khalil, ASME Fellow, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
Prof. Jose Alberto Duarte Moller, Centro de Investigacion en Materiales Avanzados SC, Mexico
Prof. Seung-Bok Choi, College of Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, Korea
Prof. Junwu Wang, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Jia-Jang Wu, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (ROC)
Prof. Moran Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Prof. Gilbert-Rainer Gillich, "Eftimie Murgu" University of Resita, Romania
Prof. Jon Bryan Burley, Landscape Architecture Program, School of Planning, Design, and Construction, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI 48824, United States of America
Prof. Cyril Fleaurant, Institut Superieur des Sciences Agronomiques, Angers, France
Prof. Arch. Biagio Guccione, Architettura del Paesaggio, Universtita degli Studi di Firenze, Via Giambattista Lulli 85, 50144 Firenze, Italy
Prof. Giuseppe Genon, Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienza, Torino, Italy
Publication Ethics
Publication Ethics
STATEMENT:
IARAS is committed to maintaining high standards through a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies. Any infringements of professional ethical codes, such as plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, bogus claims of authorship, should be taken very seriously by the editors with zero tolerance. IARAS follows the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and follows the COPE Flowcharts for Resolving Cases of Suspected Misconduct.
The submitted manuscript should not have been previously published in any form and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Please find further information on Publication Ethics at "Editorial Workflow" (Menu item "Editorial Workflow")
Terms of Collaboration
1). COPYRIGHT: By submitting a paper the author understands that its copyright is transferred to IARAS. IARAS may publish it at their discretion and the author may not resubmit it anywhere else, and that includes other IARAS publications. Based on this copyright transfer of the paper, IARAS is entitled to publish the paper to its journals.
2). After the Review process is completed by the Assoc. Editor and the Reviewers, it is no longer allowed for the authors to withdraw their paper.
3). PEER REVIEW: All submitted papers are subject to strict peer-review process by at least three international reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular paper. The factors that are taken into account in review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability and language. The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
4). If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
5). Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
6). Articles may be rejected without review if they are obviously not suitable for publication.
7). The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
8). The reviewers evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
9). The staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
10). Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
11). Peer review assists the publisher in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the experts form the scientific board ant the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
12). Manuscripts received for review are treated as confidential documents and are reviewed by anonymous staff.
13). A reviewer should also call to the publisher's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
14). Authors of contributions and studies research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance.
15). A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
16). The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
17). Submitting the same manuscript to more than one publication concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
18). Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study.
19). All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
20). Authors should make themselves aware of the paper processing charges and registration fees of the publication they submit a paper to by reading the respective sections.
21). The IARAS Open Access Journals do not require from the authors to submit any copyright form. An author can withdraw a paper until 30 days after the paper submission. After these 30 days no withdrawal is allowed. It is the discretion to the Publisher to publish a paper with or without fees..
Editorial Workflow
Editorial Workflow
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.
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