Message from the New Editor-in-Chief

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It is my great honor to be the new Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Network and Systems Management. My association with JNSM began before it was published for the first time in 1993. While working as a tenure track assistant professor, I received a flyer in my mail about a new journal in the planning stages of being launched that focused on the network management area and featured Manu Malek as the founding Editor-inChief. This initial announcement listed the journal’s original name, which was a long title that reflected operations, administration, maintenance, and network control—all critical components of network management. However, when the first issue came out, the journal actually bore the much more compact title: Journal of Network and Systems Management. Since then, the journal has been commonly known in the research community by its initials, JNSM. I immediately felt that my research was a good fit for this newly launched journal, so, I submitted a manuscript for possible consideration. To my delight, my manuscript was accepted, and it was published in the second issue of the first volume in June 1993. Around the same time, I started serving as a reviewer for JNSM, but by 1995, Manu had already asked me to serve on the editorial board of JNSM, which I gladly accepted. In 1997, I co-guest edited a special issue on ‘Fault Management in Communication Networks’, and in 2002, Manu asked me to be a Senior Technical Editor for JNSM—a role I’ve continued to serve in until now. With the emergence of the web, I felt that it was important for JNSM to have an online presence. Thus, in 1995, I suggested to Manu that I start and maintain a webpage for the journal, and from this discussion, the JNSM on-line page (http://www. cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/) was born as a leaf page on my department’s web-site. Here, I added information on issues along with abstracts of each paper. With the plan to publish special issues, Manu forwarded me the call for papers, which I announced