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Dear Readers,
this is a very special issue: the last of 12 in the 12th volume of
J.UCS! J.UCS has grown over the years tremendously, in importance and
size, and it will continue this way. The fact that J.UCS is now
available for free for everyone due to the generosity of a number of
academic institutions will further increase impact and importance of
the journal. Do spread the news: here is a reviewed publication, with
a comparatively short turn-around cycle that appears first
electronically, but then also always in printed editions. By the way,
most of the printed volumes are still available and can be ordered via
http://www.jucs.org/jucs_info/print if
you or your library are interested.
Turning to the content of this issue, it is typical for J.UCS: its
internationality and the fact that J.UCS is not shying away from hot
issues: if you read the paper on Web Search Engine
Monopoly, the second paper in this issue, you will see what I
mean.
Today, I also have an important message to all J.UCS authors whose
papers have been published in our journal over the past 12 years:
don't forget to look up your article now and then (SEARCH for your
name does a superb job!) and enter remarks about similar papers you
have written since, and PLEASE supply your home page, all this as part
of the COMMENT field, so that others can easily learn more about
you. We are preparing a big surprise for all J.UCS fans for 2007, but
we need as many home pages of authors as we can!
To all readers and contributors: submissions for 2007 are steadily
coming in, so stay tuned, submit a good paper yourself and encourage
others to do so, and make sure that our computer science world will
use J.UCS still more than it did in the past. To the members of the
editorial board and all other reviewers: thanks for your help, your
support and many valuable suggestions.
Since this is the last issue of 2006, let me (a bit late) wish you
also the very best for 2007,
Cordially,
Hermann Maurer
Hermann Maurer, Managing Editor
Graz University of Technology, Graz / Austria
email: hmaurer@iicm.edu
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