About the Journal

International Journal of Computer Architecture Education (IJCAE), ISSN 2316-9915, is a Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) publication established in 2010 and maintained by SBC's Special Commission on Computer Architecture and High-Performance Processing (CE-ACPAD).

Aims & Scope

The International Journal of Computer Architecture Education (IJCAE) covers all the aspects related to teaching, learning, and research of computer architecture, including integration with parallel computing, high-performance computing, and computer systems.

IJCAE is an open-access journal, meaning all content is freely available to people or their institutions without charge. People are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles or use them for any other lawful purpose without asking the publisher's or the authors' prior permission. IJCAE has no Article Processing Charges (APC) or additional charges for authors and readers.

The IJCAE publishes contributions to education, and its main goals include:

  • Promote the dissemination of high-quality research and innovative teaching practices in computer architecture education.
  • Facilitate an exchange of knowledge and ideas among professors and students to foster collaboration and inspire novel approaches to teaching and learning computer architecture in integration with other fields in computer systems.
  • Disseminate innovative approaches in computer architecture education by bridging the gap between theory and practice, thereby facilitating the integration of cutting-edge research findings into teaching methodologies.

Authors are invited to submit original contributions – written in English, Portuguese, or Spanish – presenting experimental or theoretical results, case studies, surveys, and new ideas and applications with advances in a broad spectrum of technical areas.

IJCAE operates in a continuous flow process: when a paper is accepted, and the Editorial Committee approves its camera-ready version, it receives a DOI number and is published online. ORCID registration is mandatory to authenticate the authors' identity. Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions. For more information, see the Editorial Workflow and the Authors Guidelines.

Topics include but are not limited to:

  • Learning assessment
  • Case studies related to education
  • Tools to aid learning and/or teaching
  • Integration of computer architecture and parallel computing with other disciplines, e.g., artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data
  • Integration between teaching, learning, and research
  • Laboratories and experimental activities
  • Methods and techniques for teaching, learning, and education
  • Metrics for assessing learning
  • Relationship between theory and practice in education
  • Tools, techniques, and materials for distance learning
  • Laboratory support for distance learning
  • Development and critical evaluation of textbooks
  • Assessment of regional differences in teaching and learning
  • Projects and initiatives to encourage and increase participation of high school students
  • Techniques and resources for teaching and learning advanced technologies such as graphics accelerators and multi/manycore architectures
  • Techniques and resources for teaching specific architectural aspects for embedded systems and the Internet of Things
  • Techniques and resources for teaching reconfigurable computing
  • Techniques and resources for teaching and integrating computer architecture, operating systems, and compilers
  • Techniques and resources for teaching quantum computing

Contributions

Contributions are accepted as full papers in several manners:

  • Concluded scientific works presenting algorithms, concepts, new devices, or techniques
  • On-going research presenting new ideas with preliminary results and critical discussions, addressing important problems, describing systems' implementations, etc.
  • Surveys with a critical vision of a specific area, including a complete revision of the state-of-the-art and presenting a rigorous methodology (e.g., systematic reviews)
  • Essays, Position articles, or tutorials deeply covering a specific topic from a theoretical or practical point of view.

IJCAE adopts the best editorial practices, valuing open, inclusive, democratic, and free science and adopting COPE's (Committee on Publication Ethics) core practices.

Authors are encouraged to share their research data and materials to complement their publications, adding rigor and reproducibility.

Authors are also invited to critically examine their references, background, and methods, striving to avoid and fight different biases in science (e.g., gender bias, race, ethnicity, social class, disability, etc.).

IJCAE has specific processes and instructions to deal with post-publication issues and communications from readers.

IJCAE is a Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) publication established in 2010 and maintained by SBC's Special Commission on Computer Architecture and High-Performance Processing (CE-ACPAD).

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