[Fis] to my mind !

Tue Jan 26 18:57:57 CET 2016

Dear Emanuel, Michel, and FIS Colleagues,

The question risen in your letters (see below) is very important!

Many conferences announce that the paper accepted in the conference will be “recommended” or “invited” to any Journal.
Usually the result is like one commented by you. 
No guaranties that paper will be published.
Nevertheless, many authors believe in such announcements.
And, of course, pay serious registration fees, not taking in account that they may submit papers without participating in the conference.
And to receive the same (positive or negative) result.
I think the correlation between conferences and journals has to be clearly described – does the journal accept evaluation of the Conference PC or not.
If not, it is not ethically correct to announce “recommendation” or “invitation”as feature of the conference.

Dear Emanuel,
I have read your paper with great interest. So you have at least one reader!

As editor, I have some remarks – really paper is not ready to be published due to some principal and formatting disadvantages.

For instance, papers pointed in Bibliography with numbers 7,8,17, and 23, are not cited in the text. I am afraid, that paper 17 is pointed as 18. But who knows!
In addition, the paper is written as an essay, which is not acceptable for many journals.

My principal remark is that only for humans information may be assumed as text. 
It is too limited definition.
What is “information” for bees, bears, cats, dogs, etc. 
In addition, Kolmogorov define information quite differently than you, practically with the same shortcomings as Shannon’s theory.

In conclusion, I want to point that I like your paper because it concern very important issue. 
I recommend to improve it and to submit again to any journal.
No need to wait (and to pay) for another conference.

Friendly regards
Krassimir

From: Michel Petitjean 
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 10:36 AM
To: Emanuel Diamant ; fis 
Subject: Re: [Fis] Never mind

Dear Emanuel,

An invitation to submit does not mean that the paper will be published.
Open access (OA) journals publishers send numerous emails to convince authors to submit.
Sometimes it is done at the occasion of a conference, and it can be even mentioned on the conference website.
If all the submitted manuscripts would be published, the quality of the OA journals would be very poor.
This indeed happens for predatory journals and publishers, for which almost all manuscripts are published provided that the authors pay the page charge.
Fortunately, a serious journal have an editor, and the job of this latter is to decide if submitted manuscripts should be published or not.
The word "invitation" is also used for conferences.
As for journals, it just means that you are welcome to submit a contribution, but without any guarantee that it will be accepted (a true invited contribution is ususally associated to a funding, at least partial).
When a journal paper is invited, in the sense that anyway it will be published (possibly after corrections), it is explicitely mentioned by the editor in his invitation letter.
In the case of your paper, I do not see any contradiction between the invitation and the rejection.

Best regards,

Michel Petitjean
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2016-01-26 8:12 GMT+01:00 Emanuel Diamant <emanl.245 at gmail.com>:

  Dear Pedro,

  Shortly after the Vienna Summit, I was invited to submit an extended version of my conference paper for a publication in the Special Issue of the Information journal "Selected Papers from the ISIS Summit Vienna 2015". 

  It took me a lot of time to prepare the manuscript, but in the end, it was submitted to the journal. 

  Soon afterwards, I was informed that “your manuscript has been declined for publication in Information”. 

  No comments, no further explanations – I have some previous experience with publishing selected conference papers in revered journals but that is my first encounter with such invited paper treatment style.

  Never mind, I have published the article in the Research Gate. Because its subject is closely related to the discussion we held on the FIS forum in October 2015, I dare to provide a link to this RG publication (may be the issue is still interested for some FIS partakers).

  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291352419_The_brain_is_processing_information_not_data_Does_anybody_knows_about_that 

  Best regards,

  Emanuel Diamant.

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