Focus and Scope

The Scope topics include, but are not limited to :

• Agent System and Multi-Agent Systems

• Analysis & Design of Information System

• Artificial Intelligence

• Big Data and Data Mining

• Cloud & Grid Computing

• Computer Vision

• Cryptography

• Decision Support System

• DNA Computing

• E-Government

• E-Business

• E-Learning

• Embedded System

• Enterprise System

• Green software development

• Green computing

• Green Information Technology

• Human Computer Interaction

• Image Processing & Computer Vision

• Informatics Theory

• Information System

• IT for Education

• IT for Industry

• IT for Chemical

• Mechatronics

• Mobile Computing & Applications

• Natural Language Processing

• Network & Data Communications

• Open Source System

• Semantic Web

• Social Networking & Application

• Soft Computing

• Software Engineering

• Software Entrepreneurship

• Web Engineering

• Wireless Communication

• Mikrokontroller

• elektronic and telecomonunication

Peer Review Process

Every manuscript submitted to Jurnal INSTEK (Informatika Sains dan Teknologi) is independently reviewed by at least two reviewers in the form of "peer-review". It is due to increase the quality of articles. Decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is mostly based upon their reports/recommendation. In certain cases, the editor may submit an article for review to another, third reviewer before making a decision, if necessary. The Editorial Team, however, reserves the right to make the final decision on the status of the manuscript with regard to publication.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication Fee

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)

Authors are not required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

Article Publication: 000.000.00 (IDR)

If your manuscript is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publication cost.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Jurnal INSTEK (Informatika Sains dan Teknologi) is a peer-reviewed journal, available in print and online and published two times a year. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer­­­­­ and the publisher Department of informatics engineering Faculty of Science and Technology Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed Jurnal INSTEK (Informatika Sains dan Teknologi) is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society. 

Informatic Engineering of Departement of Faculty of Science and Technology, Alauddin State Islamic University Makassar as publisher of Jurnal INSTEK (Informatika Sains dan Teknologi) takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions.

Publication Decisions

The editor of the Jurnal INSTEK (Informatika Sains dan Teknologi) is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair Play

An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Plagiarism

Journal History

Jurnal INSTEK (Informatika Sains dan Teknologi) has been publishing scholarly research articles since 2016. Fully supported by Department of Informatics Engineering Faculty of Science and Technology Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar.

The journal is preserving, archiving and disseminate article related to information science and technology, multimedia system, and computational intelligence.

Copyright Notice

Once the article was published in the journal, the author(s) are:

• granted to the journal right licensed under Creative Commons License Attribution that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship.
• permitted to publish their work online in third parties as it can lead wider dissemination of the work.
• continue to be the copyright owner and allow the journal to publish the article with the CC BY-NC-SA license
• receiving a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) of the work.

About this Publishing System

This journal uses Open Journal Systems 3.1.2.4, which is open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public License.