Open Access
ARIMA Journal is an overlay publication hosted by Episcience plateform (episciences.org). It leans on HAL open archive. According to the overlay publication model accepted articles are stored on Hal Archive which guarantees that they are freely available for readers. They are also available on Hal Archive, prior to their acceptance, in the form of preprints. Authors are encouraged to follow the Principles of reproducible science by sharing all relevant information with the community for the purpose of verification, replication and subsequent use of their results. They are also urged to respect the principles of ethical publication (COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics publicationethics.org).
ARIMA Journal follows the Diamond Open Access which guarantees that the articles are freely available to the public without cost to authors and readers under Creative Common CC-BY license.
ARIMA Journal has declared its Open Access policy in Sherpa Romeo.
The articles are distributed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License: users are free to copy, distribute, transmit. Authors grant the journal non exclusive publication rights and retain their own rights without restriction.
Peer review
ARIMA Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, committed to publication of high quality and original scientific content in the broad area of applied mathematics and computer science. Articles accepted for publication must describe novel research results and are strictly selected on the basis of scientific merits as ascertained by an open peer-review process.
ARIMA Journal also publishes special issues dedicated to scientific events (conferences or workshops) taking place in Africa or related to the continent. Such an issue contains, after selection, the extended versions of some of the papers presented at the event. A special issue may also be devoted to some specific topic without being tied to a scientific event. Special issues are edited under the responsability of an ad-hoc editorial team in collaboration with the Editorial board of the journal.
Ethical code Policy
Duties of Authors
Originality
Authors must ensure that their submission is of high quality in the field of applied mathematics or
computer science, and that it describes innovative research results. They must cite the publications that
motivated or inspired their article. Any information, figure, sentence or table, used in the submission and
which comes from the work of others must be referenced in the paper. Appropriate recognition of the
work of others is a necessity.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined as passing off the work or ideas of another, or substantial parts of the work of
another, as one's own. It constitutes unethical behavior and is unacceptable.
Redundant publishing
As a general rule, authors should not seek publication of manuscripts on the same research multiple times.
The only cases that may deviate from this rule concern pre-publications, conference communications and
theses. In the event of a resumption, the authors must clearly describe the substantial contribution of the
second manuscript compared to the first. They must have contributed to all stages: the preliminary
version, proofreading and approval of the final research.
Authorship of the paper
The authors are natural persons who have made substantial contributions to one of the essential aspects
(methodology, theory, prototyping, experiments, simulations, analysis and interpretation of data) of the
article.
Other people whose contribution is not substantial must be recognized in the acknowledgments.
Authors must agree on the order of their names before submission. Any request to modify the list of
authors (addition or deletion of names, modification of the order of names) after submission of the paper,
is only admissible in exceptional circumstances and at the discretion of the editorial committee.
The corresponding author represents all other authors on the editorial board. Any action he undertakes
with the journal must first receive the approval of all the other authors, who then collectively assume
responsibility for their article.
Conflict of interest
Authors must declare any potential conflict of interest, whether professional, financial or otherwise, which
could be interpreted as having influenced their research work. In particular, all sources of financial
support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the submission must be indicated.
Generative AI and AI tools
ARIMA monitors the evolution of AI technologies, particularly generative AI and AI-based assistants, and
will refine its ethical code based on future developments in AI. As a general rule
- a direct product of generative AI cannot be considered as an original result;
- any use of this tool must be surrounded by all guarantees related to copyright;
- AI technologies should not be cited as authors since authorship implies responsibilities that can
only be assumed by humans;
- if AI methods are used to improve the form of the article, the authors must mention this in the
« Acknowledgments » section, specifying the parts of the article concerned.
Important error
Authors have an obligation to cooperate with the editorial board to correct or withdraw their submission
following notification of significant errors. Authors have the obligation to immediately inform the
editorial board of any significant error discovered after publication of their article. Third parties are
encouraged to report possible material errors.
Data access
The editorial board encourages authors to make the data used available to the scientific community and to
keep said data for a reasonable period after publication of the article. Exceptions are only possible in
exceptional circumstances
Fabrication and falsification of data with the intent to deceive or mislead the scientific community
constitutes unethical and unacceptable behavior.
Confidentiality
The authors undertake to obtain all necessary authorizations for the disclosure of information obtained in
the course of their work. They remain solely responsible for any uses that contravene the law.
Defamatory remarks
The authors undertake to respect the rules of scientific debate. They must ensure that their article is free
from any defamatory, hateful or fraudulent comments. They remain solely responsible for the opinions
expressed in the article.
Duties of Reviewers
Contribution to editorial decisions
Submissions are systematically reviewed by peers responsible for assessing quality against the journal's
expectations and making possible suggestions for improvement. By agreeing to evaluate a submission, the
reviewer confirms that he or she is a specialist in the subject matter. If he does not feel qualified to carry
out this task, he should decline the invitation of the editorial committee and, if possible, suggest other
experts.
Confidentiality
Any submission is treated as a confidential document. Reviewers must under no circumstances disclose
the content (subject, text, data or images) or their expert report. Information from the assessment is
confidential and should not be used for personal gain.
Conflict of interest
Reviewers must report any potential conflict of interest to the editorial board at all stages of the evaluation
process.
Objectivity and impartiality
Reviewers undertake to review submissions solely on their content and to demonstrate objectivity and
impartiality. They must clearly argue their points of view and provide the editorial committee with
relevant information to help it in its decision-making. The author's personal criticism is inappropriate.
Only scientific reasons should motivate a reviewer to suggest that an author include new citations in the
article.
Reviewers should be alert to potential ethical issues in the submission and should bring them to the
attention of the editorial board.
Generative AI and AI tools
ARIMA monitors the evolution of AI technologies, particularly generative AI and AI-based assistants, and
will refine its ethical code based on future developments in AI.
As a general rule, reviewers must surround themselves with all the guarantees linked to confidentiality.
Uploading a submitted paper, even partially, into an AI tool, and in particular a generative AI tool, could
violate the confidentiality of the paper's content, and therefore create copyright issues. This also concerns
evaluation reports since they could contain confidential information about the paper and/or the authors.
The evaluation of a paper is a scientific activity that involves responsibilities that can only be assigned to
humans. Reviewers are the only ones who take responsibility for their evaluation reports.
Procedure for handling allegations of plagiarism
Any denunciation of unethical publication practices, accompanied by elements justifying it, can be sent at
any time, by anyone, to the editorial committee. Any evidence of plagiarism will be communicated to the
authors of the article, and they will be required to respond, in consultation with the editorial team and
possible peers. In the worst case this could lead to the retraction of the article from the journal and/or an
embargo on any article submission from the authors for a specific period.
Plagiarism can concern either the form or the substance, or even both. Databases are used to search for
possible forms of plagiarism in all submitted papers.
Documents uploaded in Open Repositories are time-stamped, which guarantees the paternity rights of the research work, protects them from plagiarism or is a defence against potential patent applications by thord parties.
Achiving and Indexing
All articles of ARIMA are deposited in the open access repository HAL which is harvested by Google Sholar.
Text files in .pdf format or image files are sent to CINES for long-term archiving.
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