EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-Chief
Hans van Vliet
Department of Computer Science, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Editors
Benoit Baudry
IRISA-INRIA, Cedex France
Antonia Bertolino
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy
Daniela Damian
Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Juan C. Dueñas López
Department of Telematic Systems Engineering, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Kaushik Dutta
Information Systems and Decision Sciences, Muma College of Business, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Helen D. Karatza
Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Patricia Lago
Department of Computer Science, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Special Issue Editor
Wing-Kwong Chan
Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Emeritus Editor-in-Chief
Robert L. Glass
Computing Trends, Bloomington, IN, USA

Editorial Board Members:

D.-H. Bae D.-C. Lou
EECS Department, Computer Science, Daejon, South Korea Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
R. Bianchini W. Maalej
Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, NJ, USA Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
J. Bosch N. Medvidović
Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers, University of Technology, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles,
Gothenburg, Sweden CA, USA
D.N. Card
Det Norske Veritas, Satellite Beach, FL, USA H. Mei
Peking University, Institute of Software, School of Computer Science and
M. Cataldo Electronics Engineering, Beijing, China
Robert Bosch Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
R. Mirandola
J.F. Chicano Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Department of Languages and Computer Science, University of Malaga, Spain
R. Santos
Y. Chen Dep. Ingenieria Electrica y de Computadoras, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingenieria
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe,
Electrica, Universidad Nacional del Sur – CONICET, Argentina
AZ, USA
I. Crnkovic H. Sharp
Department of Computer Science and Electronics, Mälardalen University, Västers, Centre for Research in Computing, The Open University, UK
Sweden D. Shepherd
F. Cuadrado ABB’s Software Engineering Group, Raleigh, NC, USA
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), London, UK I. Stamelos
C. Ebert Department of Informatics, Software Engineering Group, Aristotle University of
Vector Consulting Services, Stuttgart, Germany Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
A. Garcia G.H. Subramanian
Informatics Department, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil School of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University, Middletown, PA, USA
M. Harman T.H. Tse
CREST, Software Systems Engineering Group, Department of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
University College London, London, UK
Ö. Ulusoy
J.-M. Jezequel
Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, Cedex, France
L. Jian J. Wang
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, National University of
Defence Technology, Changsha, China
M. Jorgensen
Simula Research Laboratory, Fornebu, Norway W.E. Wong
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
P. Kruchten
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, T. Zimmermann
Vancouver, Canada Microsoft Research, Seattle, USA

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