The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in Computer Science research, teaching, and education. The series enjoys close cooperation with the international research community, publishing the proceedings of many prestigious conferences and collaborating with important societies.

Proposals

A conference or workshop applying for publication in LNCS should have an international program committee, a coherent subject scope limited to related computer science topics, and an appropriate plan for reviewing the submitted papers. To submit a proposal to LNCS please contact lncs@springer.com.

Publishing Service

LNCS offers a full publishing service, including typesetting of papers, making most content available in PDF, HTML, print, and ePub formats. Authors can embed videos in their content, or add electronic supplementary material to be made available in our digital library (SpringerLink).

Open Access

Conference organisers may opt for gold open access of all content in proceedings volumes. Alternatively individual author teams may select gold open access for their proceedings papers. Please contact lncs@springer.com to enquire about terms.

Societies, Communities

LNCS cooperates with prestigious computer science societies and communities, publishing the proceedings of flagship conferences across all major fields. Among the events and associations are ECCV (European Conference on Computer Vision), IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research), MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society), the China Computer Federation (CCF), DASFAA (International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications), PRICAI (Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence), IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing), ETAPS (International Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software), ECML PKDD (European Conf. on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases), and IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition).

Indexing and Distribution

LNCS submits the content and bibliographic metadata of proceedings volumes to the major abstracting and indexing services, including the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI, part of Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science), DBLP, Scopus, the EI Engineering (Compendex, Inspec), the ACM Digital Library, and Google Scholar. In addition to the indexing services listed above, Springer Nature content is available worldwide through key university and industry library subscription access, and through major distributors such as Amazon and Google Books.

Sublines

The Formal Methods subline was established in cooperation with the Formal Methods Europe association, publishing proceedings and tutorials associated with high-quality events. The Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline was established in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the International Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS), and it publishes proceedings of high-quality events in theoretical computer science and foundations of programming.

Special Collections

LNCS includes contributed edited works such as Festschrifts, dedicated to individuals who have made excellent contributions to the field of computer science, State-of-the-Art Surveys, and Tutorials. Please contact lncs@springer.com for further details about any of these volume types.

Transactions

We publish the LNCS Transactions in Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems and the LNCS Transactions in Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (ToPNoC). Please contact lncs@springer.com for further details.

SharedIt

Springer Nature can make shareable links to online PDFs of published proceedings papers available to authors. This encourages reading by users who otherwise don't have subscription access (for example, via a university library). These shareable links can be communicated via social channels, on institutional repositories, on author websites, or on scholarly collaborative networks.

Overleaf

The LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates are available in the scientific authoring platform Overleaf.

Other Benefits of Publishing

By default, conference organisers and authors are not charged for publishing in LNCS. Organisers and participants get free online access to the SpringerLink-published papers for 4 weeks during and following the conference. LNCS offers readers transparent reviewing data about all published volumes. Authors retain copyright to their papers and authors can self-archive their submitted papers. For more information on publishing service and conditions, please contact lncs@springer.com.

Publishing Policies

We require volume editors (conference organisers), authors of proceedings papers, and reviewers engaged to evaluate papers submitted to conferences to follow our publishing policies and respective codes of conduct (https://www.springernature.com/gp/policies/book-publishing-policies).

LNCS Editors

Elisa Bertino (Purdue University), Wen Gao (Peking University), Bernhard Steffen (TU Dortmund), and Moti Yung (Google and Columbia University).

LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

This was established in 1988 as a topical subseries of LNCS devoted to artificial intelligence. The editors are Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Berlin), Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University), and Randy Goebel (University of Alberta, Edmonton).

LNBI (Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

This was established in 2003 as a topical subseries of LNCS devoted to bioinformatics and computational systems biology. The editors are Sorin Istrail (Brown University), Pavel Pevzner (University of California, San Diego) and Michael Waterman (University of Southern California).