Foreword

Welcome to the Journal of Information Systems & Operations Management (JISOM)!

This journal is an open access journal published two times a year by the Romanian-American University.

The published articles focus on IT&C and belong to national and international researchers, professors who want to share their results of research, to share ideas, to speak about their expertise and PhD students who want to improve their knowledge, to present their emerging doctoral research.

Being a challenging and a favorable medium for scientific discussions, all the issues of the journal contain articles dealing with current issues from computer science, economics, management, IT&C etc.

Furthermore, JISOM encourages the cross-disciplinary research of national and international researchers and welcomes the contributions which give a special "touch and flavor" to the mentioned fields.

Each article undergoes a double-blind review from an internationally and nationally recognized pool of reviewers.

JISOM thanks all the authors who contributed to this journal by submitting their work to be published, and also thanks to all reviewers who helped and spared their valuable time in reviewing and evaluating the manuscripts.

Last but not least, JISOM aims at being one of the distinguished journals in the mentioned fields.

Looking forward to receiving your contributions,

Best regards,

Alexandru Tăbușcă, PhD Associate Profesor

Editor-in-Chief

Publication

The JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, ISSN 1843-4711, is indexed in BSCO, GALE Cengage Learning, Index Copernicus, ProQuest, RePEC / Ideas.

General guidelines

The editors invite submissions of papers that deal with important issues in IT&C domains, as well as interconnected fields.All submitted manuscripts must be original work that is not under submission at another journal.A resubmission of a manuscript identical to a previously rejected one will be immediately rejected.The language in which materials can be published is English.Papers (min. 10 - max 16 pages), accompanied by an abstract (max. 12 lines), end including endnotes and a references.Paper submission should cover the following main elements:

• Problem or model definition;
• Development methods (techniques) and algorithms;
• Data set loading;
• Software computations;
• Results analysis;
• Solution development;
• Final conclusions.

The text should be in the Times New Roman font type.The author(s) has/have full responsibility for the ideas expressed in the material published.The editor reserves the right to request modifications or corrections of the texts received, if such are deemed necessary.

Procedures for scientific acceptance

The paper must be original and it cannot be sent to another review for publishing from JISOM sending time until its evaluation status ending.

The paper will not contain the authors names and it is sent to three reviewers. If the reviewers decide that paper can be published then will be published in JISOM. Our reviewers will evaluate submitted papers against the following check points:

• Relevance from JISOM
• Originality
• Significance; usefulness
• Technical soundness
• References to the related literature
• Presentation
• Linguistic quality

If the reviewers ask for revision of the paper then the authors should make the revision and paper will be published after the reviewers acceptance. If the modifications asked by the reviewers are important then the editorial board will decide and will send to the authors the carrying on or stopping of the work on the paper.

If the reviewers reject the paper then the notification will be send to its authors.

By submitting an paper to JISOM, the author(s) understands that the respective manuscripts has not already been published or sent for review to other journals.

After a paper is accepted the author(s) will be required to complete further documents (statement of originality, copyright assignment etc.).

List of Topics

• information and communication technologies;
• e-learning;
• decision support systems;
• digital communication tools and platforms;
• communication strategies and development;
• communication security;
• Internet of Things (IoT);
• virtual reality;
• database management systems;
• system design methods,
• techniques and tools;
• client-server applications;
• distributed applications;
• design standards;
• new requirements in system design;
• new forms of business and management systems;
• operational research;
• decision analysis;
• project management and statistics;
• automated data processing security;
• Internet and services;
• cloud computing;
• cybersecurity;
• virtual organizations;
• artificial intelligence.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Daniela Alexandra CRIŞAN, PhD Associate Professor (crisan.daniela.alexandra@profesor.rau.ro)