General Editor-in-Chief (EiC)
Dr. Franz I.S. Ko (IBC, UK/ Dong-A University, Korea)

Aims and Focuses

International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications (JDCTA) is a journal to be published by AICIT (Advanced Institute of Convergence Information Technology). The aim of the journal is to provide fast publication of refereed, high quality original research papers in all branches of the convergence technologies and its applications.

JDCTA is a refereed, multidisciplinary journal for bridging the latest advances in the digital content technologies and its applications. It provides an international forum for presenting authoritative references, academically rigorous research, and case studies. The journal publishes well-written and academically validated manuscripts in both theoretical development and application research.

Author Instructions and Call For Papers

Topic 1: Hybrid and Convergence IT and Service: Technology, Content, Service and its Applications
Topic 2: Digital Content: Technology, Content, Service and its Applications
Topic 3: HCI/Health/Bioinformatics relevant to Information Technology
Topic 4: Information Technology and Ubiquitous Computing: Content, Technology, Service and its Applications

For more details, please visit the website: http://www.aicit.org/jdcta

Author Instructions:
JDCTA is a refereed, multidisciplinary journal for bridging the latest advances in the digital content technologies and its applications. It provides and international forum for presenting authoritative references, academically rigorous research, and case studies. The journal publishes well-written and academically validated manuscripts in both theoretical development and application research.

Submission:
Authors are cordially invited to submit papers on JDCTA's web site. In order to submit the paper, you need to:

1. Register in our system;
2. Find Step1: Paper Submission of Paper Submission and Publication Process Menu
3. Click on Step1: Paper Submission. It will navigate you to page with different paper submission types: Special Issues and General Submissions;
4. Select appropriate option;
5. Fill out appropriate fields on the next page;

If you have any problems with paper submission or with registration in JDCTA's web site, please feel free to contact us at jdcta@aicit.org)

Accept/Revision/Reject Notification: Articles received are immediately exposed to the referees/members of the Editorial Board for their opinion. Authors will receive Accept/Revision/Reject notification in 3-7 weeks or less. In case of strong recommendation for publication, the paper will be published in the next issue of JDCTA.

Paper Types: We invite you to submit a paper of 8-9 pages.

Format for Body:
- Papers prepared in MS-WORD (doc) formats may be submitted through JDCTA system. Please do not submit papers via email. The page should be A4 and Times 10 pt is expected for font.
- We recommend the designated format for JDCTA. To download the template file click here(DOC).
- Manuscripts submitted to this journal will be deemed as they have not been published and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Please visit the journal's site for more information. (http://www.aicit.org/jdcta)

Formal Conditions of Acceptance :

• Papers will only be published in English.
• Each typescript must be accompanied by a statement that it has not been submitted for publication elsewhere in English.
• Previous presentation at a conference, or publication in another language, should be disclosed.
• All papers are refereed, and the Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to refuse any typescript, whether on invitation or otherwise, and to make suggestions and/or modifications before publication.

Typescripts which have been accepted become the property of AICIT. It is a condition of acceptance that copyright shall be vested in AICIT.

Publication and Review Information

- Publication : Twice a Month
- Review : in 6 weeks - 2 months (according to reviewers' review)
- Publication for accepted paper : in 3 - 4 month(s) after completing the publication process (according to publication schedule)
If an author want to accelerate the publication process, please follow the submission and publication process strictly.

Copyright Notice

Dear Authors,

For successful publication in the AISS, your agreement is required. Please carefully read the terms of this license. Please understand that submission of the FINAL version of your paper to the AISS online system means that you and all co-authors of this paper agree to the terms of license. A copyright form is not required for confirmation.

Submitting your paper to the AISS means that you grant us the exclusive right to reproduce and/or distribute your article in a whole (including abstract and references) throughout the world in electronic, printed or any other medium. You agree that we at any time may publish your article, and that we may sell or distribute it, on its own, or with other related material.

The paper that authors submit to the AISS must be an original work, never published earlier in any medium and not currently under consideration for publication. Authors guarantee to the best of your knowledge that your paper does not contain anything that may be considered illegal, libelous or infringes other organization/publisher/party's copyright. Authors must also guarantee that authors have the unrestricted permission of the owner of any copyrighted material that you use in the paper. This guarantee should be clearly acknowledged in the text. After the paper has been submitted and accepted for publication, the author may use the paper just as any other academic material.

We guarantee to respect all the rights of the authors. We will make sure that the authors' names are clearly and promptly associated with the published work. Apart from some necessary editorial changes that are required for publication following our official standard, we will not make any substantial alterations to the papers without discussing it with the author.

AISS Publication Team

Publication Ethics

The journals of AICIT strictly adhere to the publication ethics outlined below and prohibit any malpractices regarding publication. Ethical standards for publication encourage high-quality scientific research and papers and thus very important for the development of promising and respected network of knowledge. In this regard we declare publication ethics for authors, editors, reviewers and publisher itself.

• Duties of Authors (Taboos)

Falsification of data - Range from fabrication to deceptive reporting of findings and omission of conflicting data, or willful distortion of data, which disgrace the scientific mind and research and implant mistrust.
Plagiarism - The appropriation of ideas and works from others without giving them credit. Copying even one sentence from someone's manuscript without proper citation is considered plagiarism
Improprieties of authorship - Improper assignment of credit, such as excluding some who contributed to the work or including some who didn't make a definite contribution.
Multiple or concurrent submissions - Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously, which therefore, waste the time of editors and peer reviewers, and possibly defame the journal's reputation if published in more than one.
Redundant publications - Publishing many very similar manuscripts based on the same experiment.
Inappropriate behavior in relation to misconduct - This includes unfounded or knowingly false accusations of misconduct, failure to report known or suspected misconduct, withholding or destruction of information relevant to a claim of misconduct and retaliation against persons involved in the allegation or investigation.

• Duties of Editors and Reviewers

The journals of AICIT has a Double-blind peer review process, which includes two reviewers from editors and one from invited reviewer from experienced professors or doctors and author recommends 3 additional reviewers. After 3 to 6 reviewers review the paper, the editor-in-chief makes the final decision.
Editors and reviewers during the review process should follow the principles stated below:

- Fair play
- Confidentiality
- Promptness
- Contribution to the final decision
- Standards of Objective
- Acknowledgement of Source
- Disclosure and Conflicts of interest

• Duties of the Publisher

Advanced Institute of Convergence Information Technology (AICIT) as a respected and credible international journal, ensures that we strictly observe principles and standards on ethical matters and are strongly against any malpractices regarding publication, maintaining the integrity of the published record and publishing the most objective and unbiased information possible. We also do not allow advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue to have any influence on our publication decision as well as our journals cannot be used for personal or commercial interests. AICIT always works for the development of information convergence in science, technology and many others.