Articles in Press

Only electronic submission is allowed. Please send manuscripts (PDF files only) to tdp@tdp.cat (use "SUBMISSION to TDP" in the e-mail subject). Received files are acknowledged (in about a week at the latest).

After acceptance, sources files will be required.

No publication fees are required for publication.

For submission and publication, latex files are strongly preferred.

Style files/templates below.

Very important notice: This is an open access journal with no publishing costs (diamond open access). To make this possible the editorial office is minimal, and if the paper is accepted, we expect to apply only some minor changes (e.g. pagination) to the final file. So, please adhere completely to the style of the journal. Please, take special care on

avoiding any redefinition of the margins of the text,
using a single type of file for figures in latex (if possible, EPS),
using consistent capitalization in titles,
using uniform style in references.

AI, generative AI, Large Language Models, and TDP (version November 2024)

Large language models are affecting the way text is prepared, and are having an impact on scientific publication. Transactions on Data Privacy is implementing the following policy with respect to submitted papers as well as for reviews of papers.

For authors

We accept the use of AI-based tools for insignificant assistance without acknowledgement. This includes spell and grammar checking, as well as spell and grammar correction. Predictive text is also accepted. Under this AI-based assistance, no content is added nor removed by the system.
We do not accept AI-based generation of text. This includes (not exhaustive list), ideas, algorithms, definitions, state-of-the-art sections.
We only publish papers from human beings. No AI-system can be author of a paper.
Submitted papers are required to follow these guidelines. Their violation will lead to the removal of the paper.

For reviewers

We accept the use of AI-based tools for minor assistance without acknowledgement. This includes spell and grammar checking, as well as spell and grammar correction. Predictive text is also accepted. Under this AI-based assistance, no content is added nor removed by the system.
We do not accept AI-based reviews. In particular, we do not allow reviewers to submit parts of the reviewed paper to generative tools.
Reviewers are accountable for their reviews

Style files in Latex

The tdp.cls (new version 2.0 from 2013/12/31) class for latex documents can be found here: tdp.cls

An example of article myPaper.tex for preparing a paper for TDP can be found here: myPaper.tex

Word Template

The file TDP.wordTemplate.doc can be found here: TDP.wordTemplate.doc

Publication Agreement

The following publication agreement shall be signed by the authors after acceptance and before publication: publicationAgreement.v03.doc (word file), publicationAgreement.v03.pdf (pdf file)

Note that the copyright is kept by the authors.

Review Process

We use a single-blind peer review process. That is, the identity of the reviewers is kept anonymous, but authors names are in the paper.

We try to answer the authors within three/four months after submission. Nevertheless, the review process can naturally take less or more time as it depends on reviewer's availability. It usually takes longer in the summer period (summer in Europe) . From 2016, papers are published with information on submission, reception of revised version, and acceptance dates.

For enquiries about your paper use: tdp@tdp.cat (include SUBMISSION TDP and reference number in subject).

NOTE: We cannot answer all queries related to possible publication of a paper from an abstract due to many of such requests. In general, we only review full papers.

Review Form

The review form to be used by the referees can be found here: TDP.review.form.txt (ascii text)

We are very grateful to all our reviewers without them the journal would not be possible. If you want to help us with reviews, please send us an email with e.g. a link to your DBLP page and a short list of interests. Please, use the word TDP in the heading of your message. Thank you!!

Publication Costs

This is an open access journal with no publishing costs (diamond open access). All papers follow the same review procedure.

Special issues

As the number of issues per year is small, and we prefere to publish regular papers, we do not accept them in a regular basis but only occasionally. We may accept to publish an extended version of a selected conference/workshop paper (selected by workshop organizers) in some circumstances. If you are interested in organizing a special issue or invite one of the papers in your workshop to TDP, contact tdp@tdp.cat.

Privacy policy

Cookies. TDP's web site does not use cookies. TDP does not have and does not keep any information on IP addresses nor on browsers (e.g., device fingerprinting).

Information we collect about you. We keep email correspondence related to submissions and reviews.

Data sharing. Only information about published papers (at most the same information in our web) is shared to third-parties for indexing purposes (e.g., DBLP). Authors are required to give consent through the publication agreement for this distribution.

Third-party Links. TDP's web site include links to third-party web sites. We are not responsible for these web sites, and we are not responsible for their privacy statements.

Rights. To exercise your rights to access, rectify, suppress e-mail tdp@tdp.cat.