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Instruction to Authors

Public agreement for publishing.

•  The authors declare that the submitted manuscript is their own work, which has not been published before and that they are not going to publish it anywhere else at a later date.
• The authors take responsibility for the content of the publication. Author can only be a person who participated in the original scientific research.
• It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for reproducing illustrations or tables from other published material.
• The authors and the journal agree that the journal publish the reviewed and accepted manuscript after technical construction in electronic form.
• The authors and the journal agree not to lay any claim to financial demand, except in the case of conditional acceptance, when the author may bear the financial burdens of technical editing and publication or other expert service as an expertise fee.
• The manuscript will be published only after the final approval of the galley proof by the authors. The detailed final check of text, figures, tables, references, list of authors and affiliations and final correction of edited galley proof is the responsibility of authors. After the final approval of the galley proof, the paper is considered "published", and therefore it is unchangeable.
• The authors can ask for amendment or errata related to the publication, which will be published in the subsequent edition of the journal or as an electronic appendix in maximum one page. Other additions or remarks to the article after publication will be judged by the Editorial Board.
• The authors will transfer copyright to the publisher of AEER.
• This agreement for publication will become lawful on the authors’ side from submitting the manuscript, on the journal’s side from the announcement of the publication’s acceptance. In the case this procedure occurs through electronic channels, this agreement is valid without an additional signed copy.

Reviewing process.

The full reviewing process is made up of the following parts:

•  Pre-review (selection and classification)
•  Linguistic, structural and scientific methodological review, plagiarism check (CrossCheck/iThenticate)
•  Expert review

Confidentiality of the reviewing process.

All manuscripts are peer reviewed by at least two independent referees confidentially. During the reviewing process the names of the authors and referees are treated with strict confidence, these are only known by the editor-in-chief, and the managing technical editor. The names of authors and referees are unknown by each other or any other member of the Editorial Board except for the acting editors. The names of referees are not revealed afterwards even in the case of acceptance or rejection. The public information service of submitted manuscripts are managed anonymously.

Submission of manuscripts.

To ensure rapid publication process, upon acceptance of the abstract, manuscripts should be submitted in final, "ready to publish" format (edited with the sample.dot file based on the instructions, for detailed information please visit Preparation of Manuscripts) as an attached document (preferably *.doc format), e-mailed to: 

Thematic Unit 1 (Sub Thematic): AI, Human-Machine Learning: 

farshad.badie@berlinsbi.com

Thematic Unit 2 (Main Thematic): AI Applications in Sustainable e-governance and Business Intelligence:

lawrence.ibeh@berlinsbi.com

We accept papers for review only directly from the authors, with full author list (and correct affiliations). It is inevitable for referee appointments, and to keep the authorship rules. Author could only be a person who significantly contributed to the scientific research work. For financial or other non-scientific reasons, an author may not be excluded from or added to the author list.

The originally submitted author list is not changeable. We do not publish any paper with different author-list than the originally submitted one, and we do not pay back any fee, in connection with this problem or in connection with authorial side’s withdrawal. Please double-check the author list before submission!

We process the manuscripts in the order of the last e-mail’s date, therefore we suggest not to send us any e-mail before you received our answer to the previous one, because it will slow down the process. We also suggest you do not use any other e-mail address than the official ones indicated above by thematic because different e-mails will again slow down the process (all such cases require certain procedure with separate schedules and during these the process is suspended).

We suggest you prepare your manuscript before submission strictly based on the formatting instructions (Word File) and the downloadable sample.dot file, deviation from this will slow down reviewing and publishing process, and may decrease the expected prereview category of the submitted manuscript. 

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Submission Guidelines

The submissions are divided into two thematic units. 

Every paper will be assessed by the thematic unit team and reviewed by at least three programme committee members. The contributors are advised to choose the thematic unit that best suits their work. The contributions should be related to any one of the thematic units as discussed above.

The theme of BSBI’s 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be AI for Sustainable e-governance and Business Intelligence. Besides contributions addressing the theme of the conference, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of AI applications for e-governance and Business Intelligence. Therefore, papers not explicitly addressing the theme are welcomed provided they are original research works. 

The thematic units include, but are not limited to:

Thematic Unit 1: AI, Human-Machine Learning

• Ethics in AI
• Intersection of Human Learning, Machine Learning and IOT
• Data-centric Computer Vision and AI
• AI Engineering
• Data Science and Data Annotation
• Cybersecurity in Machine Learning and AI
• Industrial Automation Over Robotics
• Data and Information Processing Techniques

Thematic Unit 2: AI Applications in Sustainable e-governance and Business Intelligence

• Optimal e-governance Model and Applications
• Fusion and Computational Intelligence 
• Design for Optimising e-business
• Sustainability and AI Use Cases
• Business Dynamics and Big Data Analytics
• Health Care Automation Using ML and AI
• Cloud-Based Applications for ML
• AI in Supply Chain Management

Confidentiality of the reviewing process.

All manuscripts are peer reviewed by at least two independent referees confidentially. During the reviewing process the names of the authors and referees are treated with strict confidence, these are only known by the editor-in-chief, and the managing technical editor. The names of authors and referees are unknown by each other or any other member of the Editorial Board except for the acting editors. The names of referees are not revealed afterwards even in the case of acceptance or rejection. The public information service of submitted manuscripts are managed anonymously.

Submission of manuscripts.

To ensure rapid publication process, upon acceptance of the abstract, manuscripts should be submitted in final, "ready to publish" format (edited with the sample.dot file based on the instructions, for detailed information please visit manuscript requirements) as an attached document (preferably *.doc format), e-mailed to: 

Thematic Unit 1 (Sub Thematic): AI, Human-Machine Learning: 

farshad.badie@berlinsbi.com

Thematic Unit 2 (Main Thematic): AI Applications in Sustainable e-governance and Business Intelligence:

lawrence.ibeh@berlinsbi.com

We accept papers for review only directly from the authors, with full author list (and correct affiliations). It is inevitable for referee appointments, and to keep the authorship rules. Author could only be a person who significantly contributed to the scientific research work. For financial or other non-scientific reasons, an author may not be excluded from or added to the author list.

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Manuscript Requirements

Before you submit your manuscript, it’s important you read and follow the guidelines below.

You will also find some useful tips in our structure your journal submission how-to guide.

Format

• Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format
• While you are welcome to submit a PDF of the document alongside the Word file, PDFs alone are not acceptable. LaTeX files can also be used but only if an accompanying PDF document is provided. Acceptable figure file types are listed further below.​

Article Length / Word Count

• Articles should be between 4500 and 8000 words in length. This includes all text, for example, the structured abstract, references, all text in tables, and figures and appendices.
• Manuscripts in excess of the maximum word count may be considered only if discussed and agreed in advance with the editor. Please allow 280 words for each figure or table.

Article Title

• A concisely worded title should be provided.

Author Details 

The names of all contributing authors should be added to the ScholarOne submission; please list them in the order in which you’d like them to be published. Each contributing author will need their own ScholarOne author account, from which we will extract the following details:

• Author email address
• Author name

         We will reproduce it exactly, so any middle names and/or initials they want featured must be included.

• Author affiliation

        This should be where they were based when the research for the paper was conducted.

        In multi-authored papers, it’s important that ALL authors that have made a significant contribution to the paper are listed. Those               who have provided support but have not contributed to the research should be featured in an acknowledgements section. You                   should never include people who have not contributed to the paper or who don’t want to be associated with the research.

        Read about our research ethics for authorship.

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Structured Abstract

        All submissions must include a structured abstract, following the format outlined below.

       These four sub-headings and their accompanying explanations must always be included:

• Purpose
• Design/methodology/approach
• Findings
• Originality

     The following three sub-headings are optional and can be included, if applicable:

• Research limitations/implications
• Practical implications
• Social implications
• You can find some useful tips in our write an article abstract how-to guide.

     The maximum length of your abstract should be 250 words in total, including keywords and article classification (see the sections               below).

Keywords 

Your submission should include up to 12 appropriate and short keywords that capture the principal topics of the paper. Our Creating an SEO-friendly manuscript how to guide contains some practical guidance on choosing search-engine friendly keywords.

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Please note, while we will always try to use the keywords you’ve suggested, the in-house editorial team may replace some of them with matching terms to ensure consistency across publications and improve your article’s visibility.

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Article Classification

During the submission process, you will be asked to select a type for your paper; the options are listed below. If you don’t see an exact match, please choose the best fit:

You will also be asked to select a category for your paper. The options for this are listed below. If you don’t see an exact match, please choose the best fit:

Research Paper

Reports on any type of research undertaken by the author(s), including:

• The construction or testing of a model or framework
• Action research
• Testing of data, market research or surveys
• Empirical, scientific or clinical research
• Papers with a practical focus
• Viewpoint

        Covers any paper where content is dependent on the author's opinion and interpretation. 

        This includes journalistic and magazine-style pieces.

Technical Paper

Describes and evaluates technical products, processes or services.

Conceptual Paper 

Focuses on developing hypotheses and is usually discursive.

Covers philosophical discussions and comparative studies of other authors’ work and thinking.

Case Study

Describes actual interventions or experiences within organizations.

It can be subjective and doesn’t generally report on research.

Also covers a description of a legal case or a hypothetical case study used as a teaching exercise.

Literature Review

This category should only be used if the main purpose of the paper is to annotate and/or critique the literature in a particular field. It could be a selective bibliography providing advice on information sources, or the paper may aim to cover the main contributors to the development of a topic and explore their different views.

General Review

Provides an overview or historical examination of some concept, technique or phenomenon.

Papers are likely to be more descriptive or instructional (‘how to’ papers) than discursive.

Headings

Headings must be concise, with a clear indication of the required hierarchy.

The preferred format is for first level headings to be in bold, and subsequent sub-headings to be in medium italics.

Notes / End Notes

Notes or endnotes should only be used if absolutely necessary. They should be identified in the text by consecutive numbers enclosed in square brackets. These numbers should then be listed, and explained, at the end of the article.

Figures

All figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, webpages/screenshots, and photographic images) should be submitted electronically.

Both colour and black and white files are accepted.

There are a few other important points to note:

• All figures should be supplied at the highest resolution/quality possible with numbers and text clearly legible.
• Acceptable formats are .ai, .eps, .jpeg, .bmp, and .tif.
• Electronic figures created in other applications should be supplied in their original formats and should also be
• either copied and pasted into a blank MS Word document, or submitted as a PDF file.
• All figures should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and have clear captions.
• All photographs should be numbered as Plate 1, 2, 3, etc. and have clear captions.

Tables

Tables should be typed and submitted in a separate file to the main body of the article. The position of each table should be clearly labelled in the main body of the article with corresponding labels clearly shown in the table file. Tables should be numbered consecutively in Roman numerals (e.g. I, II, etc.).

Give each table a brief title. 

Ensure that any superscripts or asterisks are shown next to the relevant items and have explanations displayed as footnotes to the table, figure or plate.

References

All references in your manuscript must be formatted using one of the recognised Harvard styles. 

You are welcome to use the Harvard style Emerald has adopted – we’ve provided a detailed guide below. 

Want to use a different Harvard style? That’s fine, our typesetters will make any necessary changes to your manuscript if it is accepted.

Please ensure you check all your citations for completeness, accuracy and consistency; this enables your readers to exploit the reference

linking facility on the database and link back to the works you have cited through CrossRef.

Emerald’s Harvard referencing style

References to other publications in your text should be written as follows:

• Single author: (Adams, 2006)
• Two authors: (Adams and Brown, 2006)
• Three or more authors: (Adams et al., 2006) 

         Please note, ‘et al' should always be written in italics.

         A few other style points. These apply to both the main body of text and your final list of references.

When referring to pages in a publication, use ‘p.(page number)’ for a single page or ‘pp.(page numbers)’ to indicate a page range.

Page numbers should always be written out in full, e.g. 175-179, not 175-9.

Where a colon or dash appears in the title of an article or book chapter, the letter that follows that colon or dash should always be lower case.

When citing a work with multiple editors, use the abbreviation ‘Ed.s’.

At the end of your paper, please supply a reference list in alphabetical order using the style guidelines below.

Where a DOI is available, this should be included at the end of the reference.

For Books

Surname, initials (year), title of book, publisher, place of publication.

  e.g. Harrow, R. (2005), No Place to Hide, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.

For Book Chapters

Surname, initials (year), "chapter title", editor's surname, initials (Ed.), title of book, publisher, place of publication, page numbers.

  e.g. Calabrese, F.A. (2005), "The early pathways: theory to practice – a continuum", Stankosky, M. (Ed.), Creating the Discipline of Knowledge                  Management, Elsevier, New York, NY, pp.15-20.

For Journals

Surname, initials (year), "title of article", journal name, volume issue, page numbers.

  e.g. Capizzi, M.T. and Ferguson, R. (2005), "Loyalty trends for the twenty-first century", Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp.72-80.

For Published Conference Proceedings

Surname, initials (year of publication), "title of paper", in editor’s surname, initials (Ed.), title of published proceeding which may include place and date(s) held, publisher, place of publication, page numbers.

  e.g. Wilde, S. and Cox, C. (2008), “Principal factors contributing to the competitiveness of tourism destinations at varying stages of                                 development”, in Richardson, S., Fredline, L., Patiar A., & Ternel, M. (Ed.s), CAUTHE 2008: Where the 'bloody hell' are we?, Griffith University,          Gold Coast, Qld, pp.115-118.

For Unpublished Conference Proceedings

Surname, initials (year), "title of paper", paper presented at [name of conference], [date of conference], [place of conference], available at: URL if freely available on the internet (accessed date).

  e.g. Aumueller, D. (2005), "Semantic authoring and retrieval within a wiki", paper presented at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC),           29 May-1 June, Heraklion, Crete, available at: http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/aumueller05wiksar.pdf (accessed 20 February 2007).

For Working Papers

Surname, initials (year), "title of article", working paper [number if available], institution or organization, place of organization, date.

e.g. Moizer, P. (2003), "How published academic research can inform policy decisions: the case of mandatory rotation of audit appointments",             working paper, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, 28 March.

For Encyclopedia Entries

(with no author or editor)

Title of encyclopaedia (year), "title of entry", volume, edition, title of encyclopaedia, publisher, place of publication, page numbers.

  e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica (1926), "Psychology of culture contact", Vol. 1, 13th ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, London and New York, NY,                 pp.765-771.

(for authored entries, please refer to book chapter guidelines above)

For Newspaper

articles (authored)

Surname, initials (year), "article title", newspaper, date, page numbers.

  e.g. Smith, A. (2008), "Money for old rope", Daily News, 21 January, pp.1, 3-4.

articles (non-authored)

Newspaper (year), "article title", date, page numbers.

  e.g. Daily News (2008), "Small change", 2 February, p.7.

For Archival or Other Unpublished Sources

Surname, initials (year), "title of document", unpublished manuscript, collection name, inventory record, name of archive, location of archive.

  e.g. Litman, S. (1902), "Mechanism & Technique of Commerce", unpublished manuscript, Simon Litman Papers, Record series 9/5/29 Box 3,                 University of Illinois Archives, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

For Electronic Sources

If available online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as the date that the resource was accessed.

Surname, initials (year), “title of electronic source”, available at: persistent URL (accessed date month year).

e.g. Weida, S. and Stolley, K. (2013), “Developing strong thesis statements”, available at:                                                                                                          https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/588/1/ (accessed 20 June 2018)

Standalone URLs, i.e. those without an author or date, should be included either inside parentheses within the main text, or preferably set as a note (roman numeral within square brackets within text followed by the full URL address at the end of the paper).

For Data

Surname, initials (year), title of dataset, name of data repository, available at: persistent URL, (accessed date month year).

  e.g. Campbell, A. and Kahn, R.L. (2015), American National Election Study, 1948, ICPSR07218-v4, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and                Social Research (distributor), Ann Arbor, MI, available at: https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07218.v4 (accessed 20 June 2018)

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