ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) is a venue for high-quality research contributions addressing foundational, engineering, and technological aspects supporting the development and management of autonomous adaptive systems. TAAS focuses on system design, system software architectures, and enabling technologies. It particularly welcomes results supported by experimental validation.

Scope of the Journal

TAAS aims at disseminating high quality scientific and technological research results in the area of autonomous and adaptive systems, as defined in the About section. It is published on a quarterly basis.

Types of Articles

TAAS aims to publish papers that provably advance the state of the art, or that provide new insights and knowledge into specific issues related to autonomous and adaptive systems.

Authors submitting papers to this journal should support their arguments via performance evaluations, logical proofs, and statistical data or usability tests - depending on what applies to the specific case. Also, authors must demonstrate novelty with respect to the state of the art.

Survey papers are welcome, provided that they are of high quality, and may serve the purpose of informing researchers, professionals, and students about areas within the remit of this journal.

Purely speculative papers, papers that claim research results without supporting them with appropriate validation arguments, or survey papers that reduce to a list of known techniques without apparent rationale are not of interest to this journal.

Originality

Articles submitted to TAAS must be original, and must not have been published (or been/being submitted for evaluation) elsewhere. Extended versions of papers from conference and workshop proceedings may be acceptable, provided that the TAAS version notably extends prior publications with new results and discussion. Authors are required to clearly state where this is the case when they submit their paper to TAAS.

Style and Length

Articles must be in English. They should have an introductory part that is comprehensible by a non-expert, and should reference up-to-date related literature. TAAS enforces a limit on the length of papers to 10000 words (20 printed pages). Papers exceeding 10000 words will have to either be shortened, or have to move some of the material to an appendix that will only be published online.

Unethical articles

TAAS reserves the right to impose the revision of, or if necessary to refuse, a paper - despite its scientific and technical quality - whenever its content is explicitly unethical or if it supports racism, sexual or religious discrimination, illegal activities or terrorism; similarly an article may be refused if the editors deem that it might harm the political or religious sensitivity of interested readers in any manner.