Editorial
Editorial
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10.1145/1731060.1731061
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2010-03
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Peter M. Chen
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这一问题标志着ACM TOCS主编职位的过渡。TOCS的四位前任主编Anita Jones、Ken Birman、Larry Peterson和Carla Ellis将TOCS打造成了实验系统的顶级期刊，我很荣幸能够追随他们的脚步。特别是，我要感谢即将离任的主编卡拉·埃利斯（Carla Ellis），感谢她出色地领导了TOCS。在过去的6年里，卡拉熟练地监督了发现，审查和发表实验系统研究最重要论文的过程。Carla还管理了向TOCS在线提交和审查系统的过渡，这将有助于简化审查过程。我还要欢迎三位新的副编辑加入编辑委员会：洛伦佐·阿尔维西、米格尔·卡斯特罗和安德鲁·迈尔斯。这三个人在系统社区中都以他们在研究中的创新和在审查中的正确判断而闻名，我期待着与他们和其他副编辑合作。当我们进入TOCS的第28个年头，编委会面临着两个重要的问题，关于TOCS在CS出版物中的独特作用。首先，鉴于顶级会议所发挥的突出作用，我们如何保持和提高TOCS的相关性和地位？第二，考虑到涵盖重叠主题的期刊数量激增，TOCS将涵盖哪些主题？下面，我将详细阐述这些问题，并提出我作为主编打算追求的方向。由于该领域以会议为中心的文化，许多计算机科学期刊面临着相关性和地位的问题。计算机科学的顶级会议填补了期刊在其他领域的角色。在顶级会议上发表的论文受到好评，严格审查和存档。此外，会议出版物具有独特的好处，即在作者发言后公开讨论和辩论。计算机系统中的顶级会议工作得特别好。论文会接受大量的深入审查，并在项目委员会之间进行长时间的面对面讨论后被接受或拒绝，其中很大一部分人已经阅读了正在讨论的论文。主题的问题在计算机科学的其他期刊（和会议）中也很常见。随着我们的领域范围和研究人员数量的扩大，它需要更多的出版场所来充分覆盖研究，这自然会导致更专业的出版物。这种场所的扩散特别影响TOCS，因为TOCS的创建具有非常广泛的章程：涵盖“计算机系统的设计，规范，实现，行为和使用”，其中计算机系统包括“系统架构，操作系统，分布式系统和计算机网络”[Jones 1983]。自从TOCS于1983年创建以来，ACM已经创建了许多与
This issue marks a transition in the editor-in-chief position for ACM TOCS. The four prior editors-in-chief for TOCS, Anita Jones, Ken Birman, Larry Peterson, and Carla Ellis, have built TOCS into the premier journal for experimental systems, and I am honored to follow in their footsteps. In particular, I want to thank the outgoing editor-in-chief, Carla Ellis, for so capably leading TOCS. For the last 6 years, Carla has skillfully overseen the process of finding, reviewing, and publishing the most important papers on experimental systems research. Carla also managed the transition to an online submission and reviewing system for TOCS, which should help streamline the reviewing process. I’d also like to welcome three new associate editors to the editorial board: Lorenzo Alvisi, Miguel Castro, and Andrew Myers. All three are well known in the systems community for their innovation in research and for their sound judgment in reviewing, and I look forward to working with them and the other associate editors. As we enter the 28th year of TOCS, the editorial board faces two significant questions regarding the unique role of TOCS among CS publications. First, how can we maintain and increase the relevance and stature of TOCS given the prominent role filled by top conferences? Second, what range of topics will TOCS cover given the proliferation of journals that cover overlapping topics? Below, I expand on these questions and present the directions I intend to pursue as editor-in-chief. Questions of relevance and stature confront many computer science journals because of the field’s conference-centric culture. Top conferences in computer science fill the role that journals fill in other fields. Papers published in top conferences are well regarded, rigorously reviewed, and archival. In addition, conference publications have the unique benefit of being discussed and debated publicly after the authors’ presentation. Top conferences in computer systems working especially well. Papers receive numerous in-depth reviews and are accepted or rejected after lengthy in-person discussions among the program committee, a substantial fraction of whom have read the paper under discussion. The question of topic is also common to other journals (and conferences) in computer science. As our field expands in scope and the number of researchers, it needs more publication venues to sufficiently cover the research and this leads naturally to more specialized publications. This proliferation of venues affects TOCS in particular because TOCS was created with a very broad charter: to cover the “design, specification, realization, behavior, and use of computer systems,” where computer systems included “systems architectures, operating systems, distributed systems, and computer networks” [Jones 1983]. Since TOCS was created in 1983, ACM has created many new transactions that overlap with