Welcome message from the Editor-in-chief

Abstract

What Makes a Good Journal? — I asked a natural yet fundamental question to myself on May 2015, when I received not only an encouraging invitation from EAI: “In the light of your overall experience in the field of cloud computing, we are pleased to offer you the position of Editor-in-Chief of the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing,” but also an challenging mission: “In promoting and bringing collaborative computing innovation to the community in the shortest time possible.” By focusing on three key perspectives — good vision, good board and good papers — we are making efforts to enable the EAI Transactions on Collaborative Computing Journal to become a promising answer to this question, and we are honoured to serve it as Editor-in-Chiefs. First, collaborative computing vision from the present to the future. Throughout the evolution of both physical world and cyber world Internet, collaboration has been always a timeless theme under broad contexts, ranging from the collaborative content distribution/sharing in wide-area network peer-to-peer computing paradigm [1], to the collaborative parallel-processing across hundreds of thousands of servers in cloud computing and datacenter scenario [2]. Nowadays, even people’s daily use of resource-constrained mobile smartphones is also geared with powerful cloud platforms in a collaborative fashion, so as to deliver energy-efficient mobile-cloud rich-media applications [3]. In a long-term view, the role and impact of collaboration is being deepen, broaden and enriched in diversified forms, such as the newly emerging Intercloud/hybrid-cloud services [4], big data architectures [5], and even more interesting cross-disciplinary opportunities and challenges in the strategic collaboration of geodistributed datacenters, smart grids and renewable energy [6-7] for shaping a “Green” world in the future. Therefore, this Journal addresses a growing community, given that ever-increasing organizations and individuals have relied on electronic collaboration among distributed teams of humans, computing systems and devices, as well as autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and produce joint products. In response, we amend the new scope of this Journal to adapt to the above emerging research trends and long-term vision. Second, collaborative editorial board with efficient review process. In a reasonable time range, we’re able to set up a highly international and domain-diverse Editorial Board consisted of networking, systems, applications, security, and industry experts from USA, Canada, France, Sweden, Zurich, Norway, Qatar, Iran, Japan, Hong Kong and Mainland China. As a salient feature and good news for authors, the Journal would be crowd-reviewed, which means that it will rely upon e-Scripts (http://escripts.eai.eu/welcome), a novel Web 2.0 crowdreview system based on a reviewer bidding procedure. Corresponding author. Email: fmliu@hust.edu.cn