Letter from the editor in chief

Abstract

JBCS, having coordinated its creation and consolidation, with the invaluable help of the editorial board and the countless anonymous reviewers. Since its first issue (July 1994), JBCS has published both special issues in emerging research areas and, lately, papers submitted in a regular basis or selected from among the 14 symposia organized by the Brazilian Computer Society. Almost all of these symposia have had a least one paper published in some issue of JBCS, thus providing a sample of state-of-the-art research conducted in Brazil in several areas. In these six years as Editor, I received submissions from over 20 countries, with a large concentration of papers from Brazil (around 40%), the US, Germany and France (another 40%). I am glad to say that nowadays the Journal is subscribed by most undergraduate and graduate Computer Science libraries in Brazil, thanks to the increasing penetration of the Brazilian Computer Society in the academic milieu. Special thanks are due to the Editorial Support Program of the Brazilian agencies FINEP and CNPq, which provided the main source of financing for the Journal. I also thank the staff of SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) of FAPESP, that has made JBCS one of the first Brazilian periodicals to be available online, thereby extending its readership to the Web. I must finally acknowledge the thorough work of the SBC secretarial staff, who has managed the complicated logistics of its distribution. Rather than publishing regular papers, I chose to include in my last issue as an Editor five award quality papers of recent Brazilian symposia (year 2000). Each of these papers was selected as the best paper of a symposium by the respective program committees. My thanks to all these committees who managed to answer my request, for this issue in a timely manner.