Call for Editor of the ISAST Electronic Book Series

• Scientific Computing, Simulation, and Optimization;
• Intelligent Systems;
• Communications and Networking;
• Electronics and Signal Processing;
• Computers and Software Engineering;
• Nanotechnology;
• History of Computers and Communications;
• Emerging Topics of Information and Communication Sciences and Technology.

We publish electronic books, which are easy to download - either chapters or the entire book. The prices of those books are clearly lower than paperback versions. This will lead to a situation where university students and people in developing countries have better possibilities to achieve important scientific information in a flexible way. The price of the book depends on the country where it has been purchased. The price of the book will be about 65 euros.

We offer to you to be the Editor of our Electronic book series. Your commission will be about 10-20 percent depending on your contribution in the task. If you edit the book "History of Computers and Communications", your commission will be 15-25 percent.

Our goal is that internationally eminent scientists describe essential topics of above-mentioned scientific branches, as well as new research directions and results. The size of books will be about 100-500 pages. This page constraint is not valid in "History of Computers and Communications" book or book series. There should also be theoretic and computer programming-based problems with questions and solutions. Matlab is preferred as programming language. Also Matlab demonstrations are suggested. In "History of Computers and Communications" book/book series there should be included short biographies - about 5-10 pages/person - of the most eminent pioneers of computer science as well as information and communication technology.

The contents of the books should roughly be the following:

• About the Editor
• Dedications
• List of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledments
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Symbols
• Introduction and Preview
• Contents (about 6-20 chapters); after each chapter: appendices, problems and computer programs. Matlab is preferred as programming language. Bibliographical notes and references.
• Index
• Biographies of the Authors

If you will want to be an Editor or Editor-in-Chief of the electronic book,you should have recognized expertise in the field, possess editorial experience, and be able to lead an active editorial board in working effectively with publishing professionals. You must have a clear employer or institutional support for this activity for the duration of the three-year appointment, including release time as necessary and general office support.

If you feel that you fulfill these requirements, could you send us the following information:

• your area/areas of interest/interests;
• what title you will (roughly) propose to the book that you want to edit;
• general theme of the book/series;
• earlier experience as the editor;
• list of publications;
• curriculum vitae;
• connections to those eminent scientists, who will be interested in writing the chapter.

Our goal is also to press books in the paperback form. The printing house is Jyväskylä University Press.

On receipt of your response, the proposal will be submitted to the Advisory Board of International Society for Advanced Science and Technology with University of Jyväskylä, Finland, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Maryland, MIT, Cambridge University, British Telecom, and IEEE.

In case you find the task interesting and agree to undertake this responsibility, please respond to us by e-mail at editor@isastorganization.org at your earliest convenience.

Yours sincerely,

Professor Jyrki Joutsensalo
Dr. Jian Zhang
ISAST