It is my pleasure to introduce and welcome nine new members of the Editorial Board, Joanne M. Atlee, Shing-Chi Cheung, Rance Cleveland, Prem Devanbu, Susanna Donatelli, Matthew B. Dwyer, Richard N. Taylor, Sebstian Uchitel, and Alexander L. Wolf. These distinguished colleagues bring a variety of skills to the board, and ensure that we have coverage of all of the diverse areas of Software Engineering. The biographical sketches below summarize their accomplishments, expertise, and interests.

As mentioned in my introductory editorial in January, the board is crucial to the well-being of the journal and, so, my intention is to continue to strengthen the board by the nomination of appropiately qualified individuals. Being a member of the Editorial Board is both challenging and time-consuming. They are responsible for selecting reviewers, overseeing the reviewing process and for making the recommendations regarding acceptability. Many of them also assist in the preparation of our various special issues. The editorial board also engages in regular discussion about policy issues facing TSE. These activities are undertaken voluntarily and co-exist with existing professional responsibilities.

I am delighted that these nine new board members have agreed to help.

Jeff Kramer

Editor-in-Chief

Joanne M. Atlee received the BS degree in computer science and physics from the College of William and Mary. She received the MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an associate professor in computer science at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and was the founding director of the software engineering degree program there. Her research focuses on modeling, documentation, and verification of software requirements and designs, with a current emphasis on configurable model-driven development. She is a coauthor on the textbook Software Engineering: Theory and Practice (with Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Prentice-Hall, 2005). She serves on the editorial board for the Requirements Engineering Journal and is a member of IFIP WG 2.9 on Software Requirements Specifications.

Shing-Chi Cheung received the BSc degree in electrical engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 1984. He received the MSc and PhD degrees in computing from the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of London, United Kingdom, in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He is an associate professor of computer science and associate director of the CyberSpace Center at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He serves actively on the program committees of international conferences on software engineering, distributed systems and web technologies. His research interests include software engineering, services computing, ubiquitous computing, and embedded software engineering. His work has been published in leading journals and conferences, including TOSEM, TSE, ASE, DSS, TR, ICSE, FSE, ESEC, ISSRE, FORTE/PSTV and ER. He is a Chartered Engineer and a senior member of the IEEE.

Rance Cleveland received the BS degrees in mathematics and computer science from Duke University in 1982 and the MS and PhD degrees from Cornell University in 1985 and 1987, respectively. He is a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also executive and scientific director of the Fraunhofer USA Center for Experimental and Software Engineering. Prior to joining the Maryland faculty in 2005, he held professorships at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at North Carolina State University. In 1992, he received Young Investigator Awards from the US National Science Foundation and from the US Office of Naval Research and, in 1994, he was awarded the Alcoa Engineering Research Achievement prize at North Carolina State University. He has published more than 100 papers in the areas of formal methods, model checking, software specification formalisms, and verification tools. With Scott Smolka and Steve Sims, he also cofounded Reactive Systems, Inc., in 1999 to commercialize tools for model-based testing. He is a member of the IEEE, the ACM, and the Society for Automotive Engineering.

Prem Devanbu received the BTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Chennai and the MS and PhD degrees from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He has been on the faculty at the University of California, Davis, since January 1998. Prior to his current appoinment, he was a research staff member at AT&T Laboratories-Research in Florham Park, New Jersey, and at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey (prior to the divestiture by AT&T). His research interests include software tools, middleware, open source software development, and secure software engineering. He is also an adjunct professor of software engineering at Chiang Mai University, in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Susanna Donatelli received the MS degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1987, and the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Turin, Italy, in 1987. She is currently a full professor of computer science at the University of Turin. Her research has focused on performance evaluation and probabilistic verification of discrete event systems based on queuing network, stochastic Petri nets, high-level Petri nets, and stochastic process algebras. Her current reseach interests concentrate mainly on the automatic generation of dependability models from UML specifications, with special attention to the field of large critical infrastructures, and on the definition and realization of a multiformalism modeling and validation framework. She serves as a member of the Steering Commitees of the Petri Nets community and of the International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems. She is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.

Matthew B. Dwyer received the BS degree in electrical engineering in 1985 from the University of Rochester, the MS degree in computer science in 1989 from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and he completed the PhD degree at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1995 under the supervision of Lori Clarke. He is the Henson Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Prior to joining UNL, he was a professor in the Department of Computing and Information Sciences at Kansas State University from 1995 through 2004. He joined the IEEE as a student in 1984 and has been a member for his entire professional career. From 1985 through 1990, he worked as a senior engineer with Intermetrics, Inc., developing compilers and software for safety-critical embedded systems. He is an active member of the software engineering, computer-aided verification, and program analysis research communities. He has published widely on software specification and static analysis of concurrent programs with an emphasis on developing cost-effective techniques that are usable by practitioners. He has served as a program committee member for many of the major meetings in these areas, including FSE, ICSE, ISSTA, PASTE, PLDI, CAV and TACAS, and has chaired several of those meetings, for example, the International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software in 2001, the ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE) in 2002, and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) in 2004. He is currently serving as Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGSOFT.

Richard N. Taylor received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1980. He is a professor of information and vomputer sciences at the University of California at Irvine and a member of the Department of Informatics. His research interests are centered on software architectures, especially event-based and peer-to-peer systems and the way they scale across organizational boundaries and decentralized applications. Professor Taylor is the director of the Institute for Software Research, which is dedicated to fostering innovative basic and applied research in software and information technologies through partnerships with industry and government. He has served as chairman of ACM's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, SIGSOFT, chairman of the steering committee for the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), and was general chair of the 1999 International Joint Conference on Work Activities, Coordination, and Collaboration and the 2004 International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. He was a 1985 recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award. In 1998, he was recognized as an ACM fellow and, in 2005, was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award.

Sebastian Uchitel received the degree in computer science from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the PhD degree in computing from Imperial College London. He is a professor of software engineering in the Department of Computing at the University of Buenos Aires and a lecturer int the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. His research is in behavior modeling and analysis of requirements and design for complex software-intensive systems. His research focuses on scenario-based specifications, behavior model synthesis, goal-oriented requirements engineering, reliability, software architectures, service-oriented architectures and partial behavior models, such as modal transitions systems. He has been active in the IEEE and the ACM since 1998, serving on numerous program committees. He is currently program cochair of the 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM SIGSOFT.

Alexander L. Wolf received the BA degree in geology and computer science from Queens College, City University of New York. He received the MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he holds the Charles Victor Schelke Chair in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He also holds an appointment as a professor on the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Previously, he was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. At the University of Colorado, he was the founding director of the Computer and Communications Security Center and is a faculty affiliate of the Science and Technology Policy Research Center and the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles. He also directs the Software Engineering Research Laboratory. His interests are in the discovery of principles and development of technologies to support the engineering of large, complex software systems. He has conducted research in the areas of large-scale distributed software systems, object-oriented database management systems, software process measurement and evaluation, and program analysis tools. He helped define the fields of software architecture, software deployment, self-managed software systems, and content-based networking. He has published papers in a variety of areas, including software architecture, software process, and configuration management, and, most recently, in the areas of security, survivability, dynamic reconfiguration, and networking. These projects have resulted in the construction of several innovative prototypes in use today. He served as chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT). He is a member of the ACM Council and the National Software Strategy Steering Group of the Center for National Software Studies. He is on the executive committee of the Impact Project, which is aimed at understanding and documenting the impact of software engineering research on software engineering practice. He served on the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology and the Software Process Journal. He has been a program chair of several international conferences, including the 2000 International Conference on Software Engineering.