Vietnam debuted its first international computer science journal on Monday at the campus of a university in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Vietnam Journal of Computer Science (VJCS) is published by Springer, a global publishing company headquartered in Germany, according to information provided at the debut at Nguyen Tat Thanh University, located in District 4.

VJCS is an archival journal serving the academic research community by publishing high-quality scientific articles that present methods, techniques, tools, implementations, and applications of research.

The journal welcomes articles that highlight advances in the use of computer science methods and technologies for solving tasks in management, industry, engineering, administration, and education, and also evalua­tions of existing intelligent systems and tools, emphasizing comparative studies and user experi­ences.

The journal covers all sub-disciplines of computer science, with a particular emphasis on infor­mation systems and knowledge engineering; artificial intelligence, including machine learning and data mining; soft computing and computational intelligence; agents and multi-agent sys­tems; Web intelligence; and optimization.

The editorial board includes 41 members coming from 16 countries who work on a voluntary basis.

Vietnam’s leading applied mathematician Hoang Tuy and US computer scientist Lotfali Askar Zadeh (better known as Lotfi A. Zadeh), who were awarded the Medal of Honor by the New York-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1995, are among the advisors to the journal.

The board looks to put VJCS on the database of the US Institute for Scientific Information, which includes carefully chosen journals all over the world, by 2020.