Calculus Mécanique is a experimental, non-academic technical publication, run by “professional amateurs,” that aims for the rigour of mainstream academic publishers like Elsevier or Springer. We are interested in publishing articles, monographs, technical reports, and other literature items in computer science, and their application to the natural sciences and useful arts.
General Guidelines for Writing
- Substantiate every claim, point, fact, mathematical theorem, and any other analytical or synthetic proposition with either citations to the literature, experiment or proof-of-concept, or a mathematical argument (proofs preferred, but an informal or “semi-formal” argument can suffice).
- In literature reviews, go “as comprehensive and exhaustive as possible” in the topic under study, and technical literature is of higher priority than popular articles.
- Citations should be in IEEE format.
- Theoretical articles are welcome, but always include a proof-of-concept whenever possible.
- Open datasets are encouraged.
- An exception is with experiments involving datasets on human subjects - personal and identifiable information must be redacted, and we will discourage even anonymized datasets if we feel that de-anonymization techniques (see Ji et al. (2014); Wong et al. (2024)).
- AI-assisted content is welcome, and subjected to proper transparency. But purely AI-generated content is not welcome.
Note that these some of these guidelines may be relaxed in specific circumstances, whereas other guidelines, like no AI-generated content, nor leaking of personal information in open datasets, are followed dogmatically.
Caveat Lector
While Calculus Mécanique does aim for the rigour of mainstream academic publishers, we are not an academic, peer-reviewed outlet. Rather, we should be classified as a technical grey literature publication. It is recommended that readers exercise scepticism when reading our publications, and we welcome researchers to scrutinize our publications, and to try to reproduce and replicate our studies. Also note that “aiming” for the rigour of an academic journal is not the same as actually exhibiting the rigour (see the Green Lumber Fallacy ;-)
Publication Currently in Development!