Full Review Process Research Articles

Computerized Clinical Decision Support: Contributions from 2014.

To summarize recent research and propose a selection of best papers published in 2014 in the field of computerized clinical decision support for the Decision Support section of the IMIA yearbook. A literature review was performed by searching two bibliographic databases for papers related to clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) and computerized provider order entry systems in order to select a list of candidate best papers to be then peer-reviewed by external reviewers. A consensus meeting between the two section editors and the editorial team was finally organized to conclude on the selection of best papers. Among the 1,254 returned papers published in 2014, the full review process selected four best papers. The first one is an experimental contribution to a better understanding of unintended uses of CDSSs. The second paper describes the effective use of previously collected data to tailor and adapt a CDSS. The third paper presents an innovative application that uses pharmacogenomic information to support personalized medicine. The fourth paper reports on the long-term effect of the routine use of a CDSS for antibiotic therapy. As health information technologies spread more and more meaningfully, CDSSs are improving to answer users' needs more accurately. The exploitation of previously collected data and the use of genomic data for decision support has started to materialize. However, more work is still needed to address issues related to the correct usage of such technologies, and to assess their effective impact in the long term.

A 2014 medical informatics perspective on clinical decision support systems: do we hit the ceiling of effectiveness?

To summarize recent research and propose a selection of best papers published in 2013 in the field of computer-based decision support in health care. Two literature reviews were performed by the two section editors from bibliographic databases with a focus on clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) and computer provider order entry in order to select a list of candidate best papers to be peer-reviewed by external reviewers. The full review process highlighted three papers, illustrating current trends in the domain of clinical decision support. The first trend is the development of theoretical approaches for CDSSs, and is exemplified by a paper proposing the integration of family histories and pedigrees in a CDSS. The second trend is illustrated by well-designed CDSSs, showing good theoretical performances and acceptance, while failing to show a clinical impact. An example is given with a paper reporting on scorecards aiming to reduce adverse drug events. The third trend is represented by research works that try to understand the limits of CDSS use, for instance by analyzing interactions between general practitioners, patients, and a CDSS. CDSSs can achieve good theoretical results in terms of sensibility and specificity, as well as a good acceptance, but evaluations often fail to demonstrate a clinical impact. Future research is needed to better understand the causes of this observation and imagine new effective solutions for CDSS implementation.

Flow‐based Approaches in Network Management: Recent Advances and Future Trends

The continuous increase of line speeds and throughput in modern computer networks has considerably stimulated the usage of aggregation-based monitoring techniques for network management in the past years. Amongst those, flow-based approaches have become extremely popular among researchers and operators due to the wide availability of hardware and software flow exporters and their quasistandardized exporting formats, such as NetFlow or IPFIX. While flow-based monitoring was originally used for simple diagnosing and accounting purposes, researchers are now proposing flow-based approaches for a wide range of application fields, such as intrusion detection, traffic classification, and resource management. Several trends can be identified in flow-based monitoring. First of all, we observe more and more attempts to close the gap between packet-based and flow-based monitoring. As the latter was originally proposed as an efficient and scalable alternative to Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) in high-speed networks, the most recent flow exporters allow for enriching flow data with application-layer information, for example. It can be expected that this will lead to new approaches and solutions for network management problems. Second, IPFIX is evolving towards a generic protocol for exporting structured data. For example, the IPFIX Working Group has investigated the use of IPFIX for exporting SNMP Management Information Base (MIB) variables. Another example was showcased at the IETF-87 meeting, where room temperatures were exported to a central collection point using IPFIX. Since IPFIX is a push protocol, it will provide an effective way for network managers to continuously collect information from remote hosts. Finally, new environments, such as Clouds and Software Defined Networks (SDN), demand new flow-based solutions for their monitoring and management. OpenFlow, the most prominent protocol for SDN, is flow-based, highlighting the need for network managers to monitor and understand trends in flows through their networks. Thus, the goal of this Special Issue of the International Journal on Network Management is to present innovative flow-based approaches and solutions for network management tasks, as well as new methods and technologies for the generation, processing and analysis of flow information. The articles in this Special Issue present research results and a survey on the usage of flow-based approaches, and on the design and implementation of high-speed monitoring devices. A total of 22 submissions was received for this Special Issue, for which we wish to thank all authors. Three papers did not go through the full review process because they were identified early as out of scope. Each of the remaining 19 papers received at least three independent reviews. In total, 47 reviewers participated in the review process. Based on their reviews, seven papers were finally selected for publication.

Advances in Selection and Assessment in Europe

Employee recruitment, selection, and assessment have become one of the strongest areas of research and practice in the field of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology. Numerous psychology graduates are employed in human resource management consultancies, human resource management departments, and in specialized work psychology/psychological testing firms; and involved in staffing, recruitment, selection, performance appraisal and training of personnel, and other aspects of applied psychology in countries worldwide. These trends are similarly true within the European Union and so the purpose of the present Special Issue of the International Journal of Selection and Assessment (IJSA) is to showcase and highlight recent advances in employee selection research in Europe. The development of the field is also apparent from the large numbers of scientific articles appearing in both general Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology Journals and specialized outlets, such as the IJSA, which is currently celebrating its 20th volume. Also, a number of influential handbooks have recently been published both in the United States and Europe (e.g. Handbook of Employee Selection, edited by James L. Farr & Nancy T. Tippins; Handbook of Personnel Selection, edited by Arne Evers, Neil Anderson, & Olga Voskuijl), and the number of conference papers and symposia presented in international conferences, such as the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the European Association of Work & Organizational Psychology (EAWOP), the Academy of Management (AoM), and the International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP), dealing with issues related to employee recruitment, selection and assessment, has been steadily increasing during the last few years. Recent research in employee selection has shifted focus from the traditional selection paradigm, that is, the relationship between the predictor and the criterion, toward other important issues as well. For example, there is increased interest in different selection methods (e.g., situational judgment tests), the role of technology and the Internet in recruitment and selection (e.g., video resumes and the effect of social networking websites), the applicant perspective (e.g., trust, fairness, and applicant reactions research), the use of new statistical and methodological approaches (e.g., multilevel analysis and diary studies), ethical issues and adverse impact, high stakes selection, and so forth. These recent developments of the field in Europe has led the guest editors of the current special issue to organize a small scale conference entitled ‘EAWOP Small Group Meeting on Selection & Assessment in Europe’, in Athens, Greece, in June 2011 (http://www.eawopsgm. wordpress.com/), under the auspices and support of the EAWOP and the Athens University of Economics & Business. The meeting was part of the EAWOP Small Group Meetings initiative and attracted a large number of European researchers specializing in the field of recruitment, selection, and assessment. Twenty-four papers were presented during the meeting and the authors were invited to submit a full version of their paper for consideration in the current special issue. Following a full double-blind review process, as is normally the case at IJSA, 12 papers were finally accepted and are included in the current special issue. As editors, we are delighted to be able to publish these papers as showcase articles illustrative of very recent developments across different countries in Europe and covering a notably diverse set of topics in employee selection. The success of the Athens Small Group Meeting, along with the increased interest in recruitment, selection, and assessment in Europe, motivated the participants in Athens to establish the European Network of Selection Researchers (ENESER). The Network’s aim is to advance selection research in Europe, to bring together researchers carrying out applied research in the field of employee recruitment, selection, and assessment, and to

State of the Journal

State of the Journal

Chunk It: How to Turn Large Written Projects into Articles

Do you want to turn your thesis, capstone project or dissertation into an article? If you're unsure where to begin, you're not alone. As a writing consultant, I find that recent graduates' desire to publish often exceeds their readiness. Considering how few advanced degree programs teach students to trim large written projects into publishable products, it's no surprise that some graduates give up without trying. Others submit manuscripts that are rejected because, according to journal reviewers, they read like “school papers” (Hall-Johnson, 1991). Such was the case for a faculty cadre of recent graduates from master's, DNP and PhD programs who asked me to facilitate a “Dissertation Chunkers” workshop for them. This article shares the three simple steps they learned for chunking large written projects into manuscript-sized topics: brainstorm possible topics; assess each topic's eye-glitter quotient (EGQ); and, select the topic that makes your eyes glitter most. Amy's Story is an exemplar drawn from recent graduates' experiences that illustrates each step in this process. As you read how Amy goes about chunking out her writing project, keep a writing implement close by so you can chunk your own. Amy had been out of her PhD program for a couple of years and her first manuscript from her dissertation had been rejected by two different journals when she emailed asking about a one-on-one consultation. I requested that she come to our exploratory, phone session with a list of wishes and fears and concerns regarding her proposed publication project (Heinrich, 2011). Amy's wish was to publish from her dissertation; her fear was that her dissertation research would go unpublished. To give Amy the self-confidence, skills and support she needed to chunk her dissertation into a manuscript-sized topic for a publication project, we agreed to embark on a “Scholarly Intensive.” These Intensives are a series of consultative sessions in which nurses get hands-on experience with “best scholarly practices” that help them complete a pre-determined product, be that a proposal, project, presentation and/or publication. Amy's first two topics were drawn from her dissertation while the final one shares lessons learned from her experiences as a doctoral student and as an educator. Notice what happens as you record the list of potential topics drawn from your large written project. Do your topics come as fast and furiously as Amy's did? Or does it take a few days/weeks for them to percolate? Either way, allow your list to become a work-in-progress by adding new topics as they present themselves. Try it for yourself by picking a number that reflects your EGQ for each of your topics. See what you discover as you prioritize your topics by EGQs. In the event that several topics share the same EGQ, order them by the strength of your desire to transmute them into a publishable product. Now you know how to chunk your large writing project into manuscript-sized writing projects by brainstorming possible topics, assigning each topic an eye-glitter quotient (EGQ), and going for the topic with the most glitter. If your experience is like Amy's, the pleasant surprises may not end with choosing the topic with the greatest glitter. Once Amy re-committed to her manuscript describing stories of five politically influential nurses, I wanted to make sure that the second journal had actually rejected it. When she forwarded that editor's email message, I noticed that the statement following “…this paper is not suitable for publication at the present time” offered Amy a second chance. It read, “Should you decide to resubmit your manuscript with substantive revisions, please be aware that it will be subjected to a second full review process without guarantee of acceptance.” Once Amy understood that this was an invitation for revising and resubmitting her manuscript, she was thrilled. Amy is currently updating her literature search as she readies her manuscript for resubmission. This article introduced a three step process called chunking that can help you translate any large written project ~ be it a thesis, capstone project, or dissertation ~ into an article(s). Whether you're going it alone or being mentored by a seasoned author, chunking large written projects into manuscript-sized topics paves the way for publishing success. As you order topics by eye-glitter quotient and take pleasure in turning them into manuscripts that reviewers compliment and editors are eager to accept, a lengthening list of publications will seal your career success. With gratitude to the nursing faculty at Old Dominion University who identified the need for and participated so enthusiastically in the original “Chunker's Group.” Kathleen T. Heinrich RN, PhD, is the author of A Nurse's Guide to Presenting and Publishing: Dare to Share (2008). This twice-tenured professor turned consultant shares her “can-do” publishing strategies with nurses to enhance their careers, renew their passion for the profession and foster zestful workplaces.

Guest Editor's Introduction: Special Section on the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV)

THIS special section on Parallel Graphics and Visualization features extended versions of three selected papers from the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV) in 2009. EGPGV 2009 was held in Munich, Germany, from 29-30 March 2009. It was the ninth event of this successful series of symposia, and was colocated with the Eurographics Annual Conference, which took place from 30 March to 3 April 2009. More information on EGPGV and its supporting Eurographics Working Group on Parallel Graphics can be found at http:// www.egpgv.org. EGPGV 2009 received 27 full paper submissions, which were reviewed by an International Program Committee with 23 members and by the three editors of the symposium proceedings (the symposium chair and the two paper cochairs). Each submission received three or more reviews, culminating with a final program that contained 14 papers, for an acceptance rate just short of 52 percent. Accepted papers for EGPGV 2009 covered a healthy range of topics from the fields of both computer graphics and visualization. The topics included simulation, global illumination, rendering, visualization, and general purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPUs), covering a wide variety of parallel computing platforms ranging from multicore to grid computing. Based on the reviewers’ comments and scoring as well as the quality of the oral presentations at EGPGV 2009, a committee that consisted of the proceedings editors and additional members selected three papers to be invited for submission to this special section of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). The authors extended their papers to include new additional material. The extended paper then underwent a full journal review process, including multiple cycles of editing and reviewing. The paper “GPU-Based Multilevel Clustering” by Iurie Chiosa and Andreas Kolb addresses the problem of mesh and data clustering. They present an efficient parallel algorithm for multilevel clustering, specifically designed for fast execution on GPUs. They demonstrate that their clustering method is useful for mesh clustering and general data clustering alike. “Parallel Iteration to the Radiative Transport in Inhomogeneous Media with Bootstrapping” by Laszlo SzirmayKalos, Gabor Liktor, Tamas Umenhoffer, Balazs Toth, Shree Kumar, and Glenn Lupton presents a method to solve the radiative transport equation in inhomogeneous participating media. The proposed solution involves running a multiple-scattering solver in parallel on the GPU or across different nodes in a cluster. “Efficient Rasterization for Outdoor Radio Wave Propagation” by Arne Schmitz, Tobias Rick, Thomas Karolski, Torsten Kuhlen, and Leif Kobbelt considers the problem of simulating and propagating radio waves, which is more complex than the analogous light transport problem due to the fact that waves bend around corners because of diffraction. In this work, the authors present a parallel beam tracing solution to this problem. We would like to thank all members of the International Program Committee of EGPGV 2009, the external reviewers for EGPGV 2009, and the reviewers for the extended papers for TVCG for their help. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Kurt Debattista for his great work as symposium chair and his support and help during the reviewing process of EGPGV 2009, as well as all of the people from the University of Warwick who designed and hosted the symposium Web pages. Finally, we thank the local organizers of the Eurographics Conference, Rudiger Westermann and Joachim Georgii, who were very supportive of local arrangements for EGPGV 2009.

Preface: Special Issue on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS)

This special issue contains seven papers from the 26th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS), held February 26–28, 2009, at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Based on their initial ratings, these papers were judged by the program committee to be among the best submissions to the conference. Authors were invited to provide complete journal versions of the STACS paper. These submissions underwent the full review process of this journal. We thank the authors for submitting their papers to this issue, and we thank the referees for many thorough reviews of the manuscripts.

WITHDRAWN: Phylogenetic relationships of selected species of Prosopis inferred from chloroplast trnL-trnF intergenic spacer sequences

This article has been withdrawn at the request of the editor after inadvertently being published prematurely before the full review process was completed. The Publisher apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy.

Guest Editorial to the Special Section on MODELS 2007

This section of “Software & Systems Modeling” contains four selected papers of the tenth MODELS conference. MODELS 2007 was held in Nashville, TN, USA, from September 30 to October 5, 2007. This conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems has established itself as the key international venue for the presentation of scientific results in the domain of model driven engineering and related topics such as software modeling and model transformation. A total of 45 papers were selected for publication in the conference proceedings from 158 papers submitted for review. The papers presented at the conference covered a wide range of issues from model transformation, meta modeling, model and consistency analysis, service and process modeling, language definition, as well as modeling methods. The program of the conferenceweek comprised three keynote presentations, technical paper presentations, two panels, and several workshops and tutorials on key topics in the field. The invited speakerswereMaryShaw (CarnegieMellonUniversity), Kevin Sullivan (University of Virginia), and Patrick Lardieri (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Lab). After the conclusion of the conference, the program committee was asked to propose a selection of the best papers for publication in a special issue of SoSyM. In the end, 13 papers were proposed, and their authors were invited to submit extended versions of the conference papers to this special section. All submitted papers underwent a full review process, and were evaluated by at least three reviewers, generally including both some of the original PC members and some fresh reviewers. Finally, four papers were selected for

Preface for the special volume on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling

This special volume of Annals of Operations Research contains a collection of papers arising from the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling, April 1–5, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The eleven papers in this special volume underwent a full review process, as would be expected from a high quality international journal. We have presented the papers in three sections, these being:

Peer Review and Manuscript Management in Scientific Journals: Guidelines for Good Practice

Peer Review and Manuscript Management in Scientific Journals: Guidelines for Good Practice

Helicases and NTP-Driven Nucleic Acid Machines: Structure, Function and Roles in Human Disease

In 2001, Sandy Weller and Steve Matson organised the first FASEB meeting on “Helicases: Structure, Function and Roles in Human Diseases”. Thanks to their initiative and high scientific standards the conference became a biennial event. It was organised by Anna Pyle and Smita Patel in 2003 and, in 2005, Steve Kowalczykowski and Patrick Linder brought it to the Swiss Alps for the first time. The success of these meetings has been largely due to the many excellent contributions and the enthusiasm of the participants. Since the discovery of the structure of DNA we have known that nucleic acids can exist in a complementary, base-paired form, and that these double-stranded molecules must first be unwound in order that replication, repair, transcription, translation or degradation may occur. These many different processes require a variety of different machines that use NTP to perform their work, either to unwind the double-stranded molecule or to translocate along its length. In line with the in vivo situation, the 2005 meeting included presentations of many different machines from a variety of organisms, including DNA replication, recombination, transcription and restriction, as well as RNA metabolism. The methods used to study the enzyme components of these machines ranged from genetic analysis to sophisticated biochemical investigation, and from structural examination to analysis of single molecules. The organisms studied ranged from bacteriophages and bacteria to eukaryotes both simple and complex and including humans. Remarkably, these seemingly different enzymes from disparate sources and pathways were very often found to function according to highly similar or unified mechanisms. The meeting generated a combination of convivial individuals who contributed to a highly stimulating exchange of concepts and ideas on mechanism and function, achieving in full the original aspirations of Sandy Weller and Steve Matson. The success of these meetings, and the willingness of their contributors to produce these reviews, reflect important aspects of science: friendship and open discussions are well represented in the “helicase community”. This issue of NAR contains a collection of reviews that describe part of this exciting field, its recent progress, and its impact on the understanding of basic cellular processes. All of the articles have been subjected to the full peer review process by editors and external referees that operates for all NAR submissions. We hope that the series will foster increased levels of enthusiasm in the field. We would like to thank the editors of NAR for their support, the authors for their contributions and patience and the referees for their constructive criticism. Special thanks go to Sandy Weller (1), who was the driving force in establishing these conferences but whose contribution—much to our chagrin—could not be included within this series. (1) Chattopadhyay S, Chen Y, Weller SK. (2006). The two helicases of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). Front Biosci. 11:2213–23.

Authors, reviewers and editors at The EMBO Journal

![Graphic][1] In this internet era, it is reasonable to question why we bother with scientific journals instead of just posting research data in accessible formats on the web. One reason is obviously that we use the scientific journals as a way of evaluating science (both at publication and after). A second equally important reason is that we use them to draw our attention to papers ‘worth reading’ outside our specialties. As scientists, we need to publish our findings, preferably in a venue that we think reflects the merit and importance of our contribution, and that reaches the intended target audience. To make the process work, journals must critically evaluate the submitted science, which means that scientists, in turn, act as authors, reviewers and editors and thus ‘wear different hats’ in the process. As authors, we are naturally excited about, and attached to, our work. As reviewers, we are critical keepers of scientific standards, usually anonymously. Wearing the third (editor's) hat involves overseeing the whole process and making decisions. Working at EMBO Journal as the Executive Editor, it has become abundantly clear to me that the world—and specific tiny pieces of it—can look very different depending upon which hat you are wearing. Evaluating a manuscript is often complicated and the process often not an ideal impersonal scientific discourse. In the following, I will describe how we do things at The EMBO Journal and why, as well as provide my personal views on some issues that come up. For prospective authors and readers, it might be of interest to know how the editorial process is structured at The EMBO Journal . The EMBO Journal is owned and run by the European Molecular Biology Organization, and is housed in the EMBO building in Heidelberg. The daily editorial work is carried out by 4–5 full‐time … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif

“… The Need, the Need for Speed!”

“… The Need, the Need for Speed!”