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
Highlights
On behalf of the Editorial Board of ICST Transactions on Security and Safety (ISSN# 2032-9393), I welcome you to the inaugural issue of this international archived journal
Creation of this new journal is motivated by the increasing importance of security and safety, and by the observation that there exist a good number of journals in the field, researchers doing interdisciplinary researches and exploring out-of-the-box ideas still have difficulty finding a suitable journal to publish their findings
Besides academic research papers, which will be rigorously reviewed by experts from the community, we will put in major effort to solicit and publish position papers written by leading practitioners, security professionals, and policy makers
Summary
College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA On behalf of the Editorial Board of ICST Transactions on Security and Safety (ISSN# 2032-9393), I welcome you to the inaugural issue of this international archived journal. The goal of this journal is threefold: (i) to provide a dedicated venue for interdisciplinary researches and out-of-the-box ideas; (ii) to help form a community for interdisciplinary security researches; and (iii) to help this community improve academic rigor.
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