It is my great pleasure to welcome Jan Vitek as incoming Editor-in-Chief of JOT. Jan is a long-time contributor to the object-oriented community and is well known for his research in various aspects of programming languages and software engineering, more specifically in the areas of dynamic languages, mobile computation, transactional memory and embedded systems.
It has been nearly three years since Bertrand Meyer invited me to take over as Editor-in-Chief from Richard Wiener, who had done an amazing job of building up JOT’s readership and providing a steady flow of provocative articles on a variety of topics.
There have been mainly two kinds of changes to JOT since then. The first is visible to readers: JOT has a new look, with the web site being driven largely by meta-data. This makes it much easier to keep the web site up-to-date and consistent, and makes it easier to add new features. The second set of changes are visible to authors: the review process is formalized and more rigorous. Despite the added rigor, the review process is very competitive with other journals, with accepted papers typically appearing within six months to a year of initial submission.
In order to make this work, JOT relies on a dedicated team of associate editors (listed in the Masthead), and a large pool of anonymous reviewers who contribute their time to carefully reviewing submissions. In addition to regular articles, JOT has a strong tradition of publishing special issues and special sections of revised, selected papers from workshops and conferences related to object technology. These are prepared by invited editors, usually the PC Chairs of the original event. Finally there is nothing to review if there is not a steady stream of submissions. I would therefore like to sincerely thank all the authors, anonymous reviewers and associate and invited editors who contributed to JOT over the past three years!
Finally, I would like to offer my best wishes to Jan Vitek and encourage him to explore new ways for JOT to serve the OO community.
Oscar Nierstrasz
2013-01-25
Thanks Oscar for all your hard work and a warm welcome to Jan. Best wishes to JOT for climbing the next step.
Jean
Comment by Jean Bézivin — 2013/02/02 @ 14:03