Special Issue and Proceedings
(Dedicated to ALAPS 2020, IWMS 2021 and ICLAA 2021)

Special Issue

We intend to publish a special issue dedicated to the conferences ALAPS 2020, IWMS 2021, and ICLAA 2021 in a reputed journal. We thank ‘AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics’ for its consent for publishing a special issue with the articles focused on a common area of interest of the journal and conferences.

The guest editorial team invites research articles in the following mentioned focus area for the possible publication in the special issue dedicated to the conferences. The article need not be the one presented in the ALAPS 2020/ IWMS 2021/ ICLAA 2021 and similarly, the author need not be among speakers or participants of ALAPS 2020/ IWMS 2021/ ICLAA 2021, though we encourage the speakers to submit an article presented in the conference.

Focus Area of Special Issue: Keeping in view of the focus area of the journal and conference, the articles submitted are expected to be in the following broad area:

1. Linear Algebra & Matrix Theory
2. Graphs & Matrices
3. Applications of Matrices, Graphs, Network, and Combinatorics in the area of Statistics & other branches of Sciences.

Guest Editors Team: Consists of Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) members

1. Ravindra B Bapat, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi (Chairman, SAC)
2. Manjunatha Prasad Karantha, MAHE, Manipal, India (Convener, SAC)
3. Stephen J Kirkland, University of Manitoba, Canada Simo Puntanen, Tampere

associated with

5. Shaun Fallat, University of Regina, Canada
6. Debajit Kalita, Tezpur University, India
7. Rajesh Kannan, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
8. Balaji Ramamurthy, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
9. Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
10. Yimin Wei, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Journal: AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics (An open-access journal)

Web Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uakc20.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis online

How to Submit: The author may submit an article within the focus area mentioned above, directly to the convener of SAC, who is the coordinator for the special issue and the proceedings ( km.prasad@manipal.edu; kmprasad63@gmail.com) with the suggestion of a guest editor to handle the paper.

To download the LaTeX template: Click here.

Formatting: The author may refer to instructions for authors on the journal site with the link: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=uakc20

Submission fee & APC: There are no Submission Fees or Article Processing Charges (APC) for the articles submitted for the special issue.

Review Process

1. After receiving an article, a manuscript number will be assigned and one among the guest editors will be requested to arrange two reviews of the article. In very exceptional cases, we may be content with just one review with a detailed report
2. The article, if found suitable, the guest editor will be inviting two reviewers to assess the article
3. The guest editor will be forwarding his/her recommendation (accept/minor revision/major revision/reject based on report/not suitable; reject) to the coordinator
4. The coordinator will be requesting the author regarding the decision and request the author to take suitable action
5. After an essential decision on the article, the coordinator will forward the article along with recommendation and review reports to the Chief-editor of the journal, who will be making the final decision on the acceptance of the article.

Important Dates

Receiving the articles: April 30, 2022
Completing the review process including necessary revision: September 30, 2022
Submitting the final manuscript in the necessary format: October 31, 2022
Publication of special issue: January 31, 2023 (subject to the convenience of AKCE Journal)

Proceedings of conferences

This volume is to cherish the beautiful path laid by the living legend

who completed 100 years of fruitful life in 2020 and in memories of young and dynamic

whom we missed in this year of 2021.

The proceedings proposal has been submitted to SPRINGER for the possible publication in a scopus indexed series.

Research articles in detail and expository articles are invited for the possible publication in the volume of proceedings in the focus area of ALAPS 2020, IWMS 2021, ICLAA 2021 and the work by Professor Rao. Though we appreciate the submission of work presented in any of these connected conferences, we also invite any good articles in the form of chapters which throw more light on the work of Professor Rao and help young scholars to understand Rao’s work and further advancements. We welcome articles in memory of Arbind Lal.

Editorial Team

1. Narayanaswamy Balakrishanan, McMaster University, Canada
2. Ravindra B Bapat, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
3. Arup Bose, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
4. Manjunatha Prasad Karantha, MAHE, Manipal, India
5. Stephen J Kirkland, University of Manitoba, Canada
6. Samir Kumar Neogy, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India
7. Sukanta Pati, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
8. Simo Puntanen, Tampere University, Finland

Nature of article

We appreciate articles of following nature:

1. Research or expository
2. It could be in the focus of area of any of the conferences ALAPS 2020, IWMS 2021, and ICLAA 2021 (Pure and applied linear algebra, Matrix Method in Statistics, Matrices and Graphs, Combinatorial Matrix Theory, and Applications of any of these in applied branches of science)
3. It could be in area of applied linear algebra and Statistics in which Rao worked

To download the SPRINGER LaTeX template: Click here

Timeline

Last Date for receiving the articles: April 30, 2022
Completion of Review, including necessary revision: October 31, 2022
Proof reading & Pre-production work by SPRINGER: December 31, 2022
Publication of edited volume: March 31, 2023

Number of pages

We appreciate the number of pages of article restricted to 20-25, but in some exceptional cases it could be more.

Note: For all the communications regarding the special issue and proceedings, kindly use the email id: iclaa2021@gmail.com.