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		Digital Object Identifier (DOI) - Volume 14 All papers and issues published in 2008 (Volume 14) have now also been registered and assigned a Digital Object Identifier. Changes in J.UCS Administration As of 2009, the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia, is a co-publisher of J.UCS. The long-time editors-in-chief, Cris Calude and Arto Salomaa have stepped down from their past functions and are now members of the editorial board. J.UCS is now led by a three person team of editors-in-chief, Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria who also acts as the managing editor, Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia and Klaus Tochtermann, KNOW Center, Graz, Austria. The editorial team is supported by Dana Kaiser. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) In 2008, a significant new addition to the J.UCS publishing system was made: each article and issue published until 2007 has been assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) which can be found above the abstracts. We thankfully acknowledge the support and help of the staff of the library of the Graz University of Technology for accomplishing the gargantuan task of registering all published papers. Now that the year 2008 has been completed, also the articles and issues of 2008 will be assigned a digital object identifier. Open access We are convinced that open access has made J.UCS a very attractive journal: a high-quality, peer-reviewed journal published in an electronic edition and annually in printed form. (The latter will still have to be paid for since the printing costs and postage must be covered by the sale.) External Reviewers J.UCS would like to thank external reviewers for their support and help with the evaluation of submissions to our journal. Submissions J.UCS accepts submission from all areas of computer science. The submitted article must be an original contribution and may not be submitted to or already have been published in another journal. Furthermore, the article has to be a self-contained entity, i.e. the paper can be understood without knowledge of any previous articles published in J.UCS or elsewhere. Submissions will only be dealt with if the paper is formatted according to the J.UCS guide lines (see http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/style_guide.html) after we have received a copyright transfer statement for the paper. You can either upload an electronic version of the copyright transfer statement via web together with your paper or you can fax us the signed copyright transfer statement to +43 316 873 5699 The copyright transfer statement can be downloaded from http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/copyright.html. The submission is sent to the members of the J.UCS editorial board. If at least three reviewers sign up for a review of the paper, the submission is accepted. The authors are notified about the status of their submission within 3 weeks. If we fail to find the required number of reviewers, the submission is withdrawn and the authors are free to submit their paper to another journal of their choice. Archive editions 2007 and 2008 The printed annual archive edition of J.UCS, Volume 13, 2007, ISBN 978-3-85125-017-6, is available for purchase. To order the volume, please fax us the filled out form (http://www.jucs.org/jucs_info/print to +43 316 8735699 or send an electronic copy thereof to dkaiser@iicm.edu. The 2008 archive edition will be available summer/fall 2009. March 2010