Non Deterministic Approaches

To publish contents on NDAPortal.com, every author should follow a publication procedure. 

After a registered user has been granted an author role (see how to apply for an author role), he/she can start to build his/her own content. The new content will follow a publishing workflow, starting from the "draft" state up to "published". There are 4 possible states of the content are:

1. DRAFT: when the content is in this state, it is NOT published, nor made available for comments except to the author. Only the author can access it to allow for incremental editing, personal review and modification. When the author has finished writing the content and thinks that it should be ready for submission, then it can switch to the state "REVIEW".
2. REVIEW: in this state the content is requested to be under review. All the contents must pass the review, which will check that there is no spam, no offensive or otherwise forbidden content. The review process will not deal with the specific topics of the content, but simply check and correct the form used to present it. This review process is done by an administrator that, when finished, will switch the content to two possible states: "PUBLISHED" or "REWORK".
3. PUBLISHED: At the end of the review state, if the administrator considers the content ready for publishing, then the content is switched to the  "PUBLISHED" state. Then, the content will be visible on the front page and in the categories to which it belongs (Handbook, articles, etc.)
4. REWORK: In the case that, at the end of the review process, the administrator thinks that the content needs some rework from the author side (for example due to some figure or graph) the content is switched to this state and action is required from the author. When the author has finished the corrections, then the content can be switched to the review state to ask for a second check before publishing.

This procedure in 4 states corresponds to a simplified "edit and review" model, often used when submitting papers or articles to conferences or journals.

In order to publish you can choose between two content creation methods. To get a detailed description of these methods, click on the following links.