Every year, CERA Journal in association with the General Conference Chair and the Program Chair release a special issue of the Journal dedicated to a current CE Conference (www.ceconf.com). The papers are nominated based on multiple criteria:

1. Recommendations from the Program/Session Chairs

2. Results of the evaluations from the Conference presentations

3. Recommendations received from the Conference attendees.

4. Screening done by Our Board of Editors

5. Recommendations received through Emails from the readers of Conference Proceedings

The Managing Editor invites a Guest editor(s) to oversee this special Issue & this review process. The Guest Editor(s) of the special issue invites 14-16 best paper out of 100 or more presented for possible consideration in a special issue of CERA Journal.

Guest Editors inform the authors of the selected papers. The information includes:

• Recommended Modifications and changes:

• Timing: When they can submit a revised paper

• Number of pages: 20-25 pages long (double-spaced) including Figures and

• Author biographies and Photos?

The paper undergoes several rounds of independent reviews of its own. Top papers out of the best 14-16 (invited from the Conference Proceedings) or so are tentatively selected for the second round of evaluation. Later, based on the tallied results of Reviews, 7-8 best papers are then selected for the special issue of CERA Journal.

CERA Journal requires an extended version of the original paper (25 pages, approximately 5500 words, including figures (both Printed Copy and a Computer disks) with Authors' biographies & photographs. The paper must comply with the "Guidelines for the Authors", which can be found on http://www.ceraj.com/

The paper is re-reviewed for Journal Publications. Both printed copy & a Microsoft WORD file of the extended paper are submitted to the Guest Editors for reviews. Guidelines are also printed on the inside back-cover of the CERA Journal.

This special Conference issue is put together comprising of the papers presented and published in the "Advances of Concurrent Engineering – CE20XX" Proceedings of a current year CE Conferences. For example Special Conference issue of CERA Journal in year 2002 will be based on the papers presented at the 8th ISPE International Concurrent Engineering Conference – CE2001 -- held in Anaheim, CA, USA on July 28-August 1, 2001. See Web Page for more details: http://www.ceconf.com/ce2001/index.htm