Scope

The mission of Multi-Robot Systems is to promote the rapid dissemination of potentially useful, intriguing technical developments in the area of design, implementation, estimation, control, and coordination in multi-robot systems. The topics mentioned serve as mapping the scope of the journal without necessarily limiting it within those boundaries. The section welcomes papers featuring new techniques which address meaningful problems in multi-robot systems that cannot be addressed with straightforward applications of existing tools. That said, the journal focuses on technical accuracy, completeness, and relevance, without judging a priori the papers’ potential impact.

The role that is envisioned for this journal is that of an open forum for innovative interdisciplinary work on techniques for multi-robot systems that may bring together ideas from control, computer science and formal AI. At the same time, the journal aims at providing a focal point for the associated research community, and a collegiate mechanism for timely checking, improving, and spreading research outcomes.

Guidelines for authors sumbitting to Multi-Robot Systems

The most common type of article expected in this section is Original Research. For this type, the editorial board strongly encourages the authors to structure their paper in a certain way, which arguably makes its evaluation more straightforward and helps authors convey more effectively the message of their papers.

Special attention should be given to the introduction of the paper. An effective introduction helps significantly the paper pass the first pre-screening filter that the editorial board subjects all such papers before it sends them out for review. The introduction is expected to address the following questions:
1) what is the problem treated in the paper
2) why that problem may be important
3) why the problem fits in the journal’s scope
4) how close to the solution is work that exists in literature
5) what are the gaps that need to be filled
6) how this paper fills these gaps.

The mere process of addressing these issues while writing the paper contributes to producing better results. Giving answers to the above questions serves as a guideline to composing an effective introduction, focusing the paper, and also allows the editors to provide some preliminary feedback for papers that are not ready to go out for review.

Original Research papers should include a concrete, nontrivial example that demonstrates the application of the methodology or the results described in the paper. That example should be a very small instance of the problem, but one that the authors believe that cannot be treated with existing tools. The complete statement of this problem (not its solution) should be no more than 250 words, and the analytical part of its solution should be no longer than 2 pages long in 10pt font size—including Figures if they are integral part of the solution. This part is important since it will serve as a benchmark for comparison and a reference point for editors and reviewers to assess the novelty of the paper’s approach.

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