Simplifying the Direct Submission process

Simplifying the Direct Submission process.

Although the largest number of submissions to PNAS are through the Direct Submission route, there continues to linger a general perception that to publish a paper in PNAS, an author requires sponsorship of an NAS member. In July 2010, the member Communicated route was eliminated, but to ensure and promote submission of exceptional papers that either were interdisciplinary and hence needed speci...

Simplifying the DevOps Adoption Process

DevOps is a new tendency in business and information technology alignment. The purpose of DevOps is bridging the gap between the development and operations. Several sources claim that DevOps is a new style of work. Many successful DevOps introduction attempts and also many problems in adoption of this style of work have been discussed. This paper reports on research results in facilitating the ...

Simplifying the Web Service Discovery Process

One of the crucial reasons for adding semantic descriptions to Web services is to enable intelligent discovery, removing the need for a human to manually search and browse textual descriptions in repositories of services, like UDDI or ebXML. The Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) provides a conceptual model within which the function of a Web service can be described in terms of formalized pre...

Title TBA: Revising the Abstract Submission Process

Academic conferences are among the most prolific scientific activities, yet the current abstract submission and review process has serious limitations. We propose a revised process that would address these limitations, achieve some of the aims of Open Science, and stimulate discussion throughout the entire lifecycle of the scientific work.

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