Electronic Communications of the EASST
Volume 4 (2006)

Dear Readers,

we are very happy to present the first volume of the new peer-reviewed, scientific, and open
access journal Electronic Communications of the EASST. It is a fully refereed journal that pro-
vides a forum for practitioners, educators and researchers for disseminating innovative research
in the area of software and systems technology. The journal is also intended as a medium to
rapidly publish conference and workshop proceedings, with original and peer reviewed contri-
butions. ECEASST is an open access on-line journal, that provides unlimited and free access
to all its contributions. In this way, ECEASST grants full-text access to all the papers and sup-
ports the provision of fast and broad feedback to published work. This journal is published
by EASST, the European Association of Software Science and Technology, whose scope is the
broad field of Software Science and Technology. This includes any aspect related to the sys-
tematic and rigorous engineering of software and systems. The new journal intends to presents
original results achieved in this field and to disseminate information relevant to the whole com-
munity as well as to more specialized communities. Currently, this journal is a medium for
publishing special issues containing contributions from conferences and workshops on EASST-
related topics and shall be extended towards special issues and regular contributions. Examples
thereof are the satellite events of ETAPS, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Prac-
tice of Software, of ICGT, the International conference on Graph Transformations, and of further
EASST-supported conferences.

We want to thank all the people that have made this journal possible; the editorial board
for its support, the workshop organizers for choosing this journal to publish their workshops
proceedings, the authors for their work on their excellent contributions, and Benjamin Braatz for
all the support with the open journal system OJS.

This journal is still evolving and any comments or suggestions for future extensions and con-
tributions are most welcome.

We thank you for your interest and hope that you will accompany the growth of the journal
and actively contribute to its success.

Julia Padberg, Tiziana Margaria, and Gabriele Taentzer

Managing Editors: Tiziana Margaria, Julia Padberg, Gabriele Taentzer
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