Call for Nominations: ACM JEA Editor-in-Chief

The term of the current editor of the ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics, will end soon. The ACM Publications Board has chartered a search committee to identify suitable candidates for Editor-in-Chief of JEA, and to recommend one for approval by the Board.

Search Committee

David S. Johnson, AT&T Labs, Chair
Adam Buchsbaum, AT&T Labs
Andrew V. Goldberg, Microsoft Research
J. Ian Munro, University of Waterloo
Ronald F. Boisvert, NIST, ACM Publications Board Liaison

Duties

The duties of ACM Editors-in-Chief are summarized in this document. Further information can be found in ACM Publications Policies.

Qualifications

Candidates should have a well-recognized research record in algorithm design, analysis, and experimental evaluation. In addition, candidates should have editorial experience.

Nomination Process

To nominate a colleague, send a summary of candidate's relevant research contributions and editorial qualifications to the committee chair, whose email address is dsj@research.att.com.

The committee accepts self-nominations, which should be accompanied by the candidate's vita and a statement of their "vision" for the journal.

Deadline

The committee will start evaluating candidates after March 15, 2008. Nominations arriving after this date are not guaranteed to be considered.