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Editorial – Taking over
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Editorial – Taking over
I am honoured to take over the role of Editor-in-Chief of a journal as prosperous as the Journal of Systems and Software. Like my predecessor David Card, my primary objective will be to maintain the levels of quality and relevance established by the Journal. The philosophy and objectives of the Journal will be kept as they are. They provide for a broad readership and a large volume of prospective authors. I am very glad David has decided to remain as a member of the editorial board. The set of Area Editors changes as of this issue. Paul Clements has decided to step down as Area Editor for Software Architecture. I welcome his successor, Christine Hofmeister, as the new Area Editor for Software Architecture. Because of the large overlap, the area of Internet Systems is combined with the area of Computer Systems to form a new area, called Computer Systems and Networks, handled by Helen Karatka. I thank both Hai Zhuge and Paul Clements for their longestablished dedication to the Journal. At the same time, I welcome two new Editors for areas that have shown an increasing number of submissions: Software Testing and Databases. Antonia Bertolino will be in charge of Software Testing, and Kaushik Dutta, will handle the database area. Some additional biographical information of the new Area Editors, and myself, is given below. Antonia Bertolino is a Research Director of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), in Pisa, where she leads the Software Engineering Research Laboratory. She is also the scientific coordinator of the Pisatel initiative, a collaboration agreement for joint research and education activity between ISTI-CNR and Marconi/Ericsson Lab Italy. She investigates approaches for rigorous and automated model-based integration and system testing, for architecture-based and component-based test methodologies, as well as methods for evaluation of extra-functional properties of compound systems. Currently she is the CNR responsible for the FP7 CP TAS3, the FP6 Strep PLASTIC, and the Marie Curie RTN TAROT. Besides serving on the Board of the Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software, she is also an Associate Editor of Springer Empirical Software Engineering Journal, and of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. She has (co)authored over 90 papers in international journals and conferences. Christine Hofmeister is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, where she does research in software architecture, component-based systems, and web applications. Dr. Hofmeister received her A.B. in mathematics from Bryn Mawr College, MS in computer science from Lehigh University, and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, with a dissertation on dynamic reconfiguration of distributed systems. She has coauthored numerous papers in addition to the book ‘‘Applied Software Architecture,” which is part of Addison-Wesley’s Object Technology Series. Kaushik Dutta is a faculty member at College of Business of Florida International University (FIU). His research interests include design and development of emerging technologies, information technology infrastructures, web mining, database systems, and data management. Prior to joining FIU, he was Director of Engineering for Chutney Technologies, a software company that developed solutions to improve the scalability and performance of enterprise database based applications. He has about 12 years of experience in software product development in the area of data management in India, Europe and USA. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India), an MS in Computer Science from the Indian Statistical Institute (Kolkata, India), and a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA). Hans van Vliet is professor of Software Engineering at the VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since 1986. He started his career in 1967 as computer operator at the Mathematical Centre (now known as CWI) in Amsterdam, feeding
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paper tapes and punched cards into an Electrologica X1 and X8. A few years later, he became a programmer, writing programs in ALGOL 60, e.g. a program that hyphenated Dutch words and had to fit into 3 K of memory. He got his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include software architecture and empirical software engineering. He spent a year as a visiting researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He co-authored over 100 refereed articles. He is the author of ‘‘Software Engineering: Principles and Practice”, published by John Wiley & Sons (3rd Edition, 2008). Hans van Vliet Department of Computer Science, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel.: +31 20 598 7768 E-mail address: [email protected]
The Journal of Systems and Software 81 (2008) vii–viii www.elsevier.com/locate/jss
Editorial – Taking over
I am honoured to take over the role of Editor-in-Chief of a journal as prosperous as the Journal of Systems and Software. Like my predecessor David Card, my primary objective will be to maintain the levels of quality and relevance established by the Journal. The philosophy and objectives of the Journal will be kept as they are. They provide for a broad readership and a large volume of prospective authors. I am very glad David has decided to remain as a member of the editorial board. The set of Area Editors changes as of this issue. Paul Clements has decided to step down as Area Editor for Software Architecture. I welcome his successor, Christine Hofmeister, as the new Area Editor for Software Architecture. Because of the large overlap, the area of Internet Systems is combined with the area of Computer Systems to form a new area, called Computer Systems and Networks, handled by Helen Karatka. I thank both Hai Zhuge and Paul Clements for their longestablished dedication to the Journal. At the same time, I welcome two new Editors for areas that have shown an increasing number of submissions: Software Testing and Databases. Antonia Bertolino will be in charge of Software Testing, and Kaushik Dutta, will handle the database area. Some additional biographical information of the new Area Editors, and myself, is given below. Antonia Bertolino is a Research Director of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), in Pisa, where she leads the Software Engineering Research Laboratory. She is also the scientific coordinator of the Pisatel initiative, a collaboration agreement for joint research and education activity between ISTI-CNR and Marconi/Ericsson Lab Italy. She investigates approaches for rigorous and automated model-based integration and system testing, for architecture-based and component-based test methodologies, as well as methods for evaluation of extra-functional properties of compound systems. Currently she is the CNR responsible for the FP7 CP TAS3, the FP6 Strep PLASTIC, and the Marie Curie RTN TAROT. Besides serving on the Board of the Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software, she is also an Associate Editor of Springer Empirical Software Engineering Journal, and of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. She has (co)authored over 90 papers in international journals and conferences. Christine Hofmeister is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, where she does research in software architecture, component-based systems, and web applications. Dr. Hofmeister received her A.B. in mathematics from Bryn Mawr College, MS in computer science from Lehigh University, and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, with a dissertation on dynamic reconfiguration of distributed systems. She has coauthored numerous papers in addition to the book ‘‘Applied Software Architecture,” which is part of Addison-Wesley’s Object Technology Series. Kaushik Dutta is a faculty member at College of Business of Florida International University (FIU). His research interests include design and development of emerging technologies, information technology infrastructures, web mining, database systems, and data management. Prior to joining FIU, he was Director of Engineering for Chutney Technologies, a software company that developed solutions to improve the scalability and performance of enterprise database based applications. He has about 12 years of experience in software product development in the area of data management in India, Europe and USA. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India), an MS in Computer Science from the Indian Statistical Institute (Kolkata, India), and a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA). Hans van Vliet is professor of Software Engineering at the VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since 1986. He started his career in 1967 as computer operator at the Mathematical Centre (now known as CWI) in Amsterdam, feeding
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paper tapes and punched cards into an Electrologica X1 and X8. A few years later, he became a programmer, writing programs in ALGOL 60, e.g. a program that hyphenated Dutch words and had to fit into 3 K of memory. He got his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include software architecture and empirical software engineering. He spent a year as a visiting researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He co-authored over 100 refereed articles. He is the author of ‘‘Software Engineering: Principles and Practice”, published by John Wiley & Sons (3rd Edition, 2008). Hans van Vliet Department of Computer Science, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel.: +31 20 598 7768 E-mail address: [email protected]