International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control Vol. I (2006), No. 1, pp. 5-6 Editorial Florin Gheorghe Filip, Ioan Dziţac, Mişu-Jan Manolescu Welcome to the International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control (IJCCC), a new scientific journal in Computer Science. 1 Why IJCCC? Nowadays there are many prestigious journals in the field of Computer Science, so it is only natural to ask the question: “Is there any reason for a new journal in this area?” There is a saying "in the world of computers the only thing that stays the same is the changing". We live in the most dynamic era of creation and circulation of information. The transition from the Information Society to Knowledge Society is accompanied by the globalization of information. More and more specialists, researchers from institutes, universities and industries of all over the world, write scientific papers in this field. These papers must be put in the scientific circuit as fast as possible and, the existing journals cannot publish the increased number of papers. The increased interest of the participants from many countries for the International Conference on Computers and Communications, initiated and organized by Ioan Dziţac in 20041 (with Constantin Popescu and Horea Oros, http://iccc.rdsor.ro), under the guidance of acad. Florin-Gheorghe Filip and continued in 20062 under the name of International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control (www.iccc.univagora.ro) at Agora University of Oradea (president Mişu-Jan Manolescu), gave us the courage and confidence to start this new journal, entitled International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control (IJCCC). To this new editorial project have subscribed as members of the Editorial Board, the following professors and specialists in Computer Science: • Pierre Borne, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France; • Antonio Di Nola, University of Salerno, Italy; • Ioan Dziţac, Agora University, Oradea, Romania (Executive Editor); • Ömer Egecioglu, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; • Florin Gheorghe Filip, Romania Academy, Romania (Editor in Chief); • Constantin Gaindric, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova; • Kaoru Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; • Mişu-Jan Manolescu, Agora University, Oradea, Romania (Managing Editor); • George Metakides, University of Patras, Greece; • Shimon Y Nof, Purdue University, USA; • Gheorghe Păun, IMAR, Romanian Academy, Romania; • Mario J. Perez-Jimenez, University of Seville, Spain; • Imre J. Rudas, Budapest Tech, Hungary; • Athanasios D. Styliadis, Alexander Institute of Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece; • Gheorghe Tecuci, George Mason University, USA; • Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, Institute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iasi, Romania; • Dan Tufiş, RACAI, Romanian Academy, Romania. 1In 2004 we received for review 112 papers (only 67 accepted) from authors of Australia, Austria, China, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom and USA. 2In 2006 we received for reviews 142 papers (only 91 accepted) from authors of previous countries and from others countries: Algeria, Hungary, Iran, Serbia & Montenegro, Tunisia and Thailand. Copyright c© 2006 by CCC Publications 6 Florin Gheorghe Filip, Ioan Dziţac, Mişu-Jan Manolescu 2 About IJCCC International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control (IJCCC) is published from 2006 and has 4 issues per year, edited by CCC Publications, powered by Agora University Editing House, Oradea, ROMANIA (www.journal.univagora.ro). Every issue is published in online format (ISSN 1841-9844) and print format (ISSN 1841-9836). We offer free online access to the full content of the journal. The printed version of the journal should be ordered, by subscription, and will be delivered by regular mail. IJCCC is directed to the international communities of scientific researchers from the universities, research units and industry. IJCCC publishes original and recent scientific contributions in the following fields: • Computing & Computational Mathematics; • Information Technology & Communications; • Computer -based Control. To differentiate from other similar journals, the editorial policy of IJCCC encourages especially the publishing of scientific papers that focus on the convergence of the 3 “C” (Computing, Communication, Control). The articles submitted to IJCCC must be original and previously unpublished in other journals. The submis- sions will be revised independently by two reviewers. IJCCC also publishes: • papers dedicated to the works and life of some remarkable personalities; • reviews of some recent important published books. Also, IJCCC will publish as supplementary issues the proceedings of some international conferences or sympo- siums on Computers, Communications and Control, scientific events that have reviewers and program committee. The authors are kindly asked to observe the rules for typesetting and submitting described in Instructions for Authors, which are to be found at the end of the journal and on the journal’s website www.journal.univagora.ro. There are no fees for processing and publishing articles. The authors of the published articles will receive a hard copy of the journal. topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Applications of the Information Systems; Arti- ficial Intelligence; Automata and Formal Languages; Collaborative Working Environments; Computational Math- ematics; Cryptography and Security; E-Activities; Fuzzy Systems; Informatics in Control; Information Society - Knowledge Society; Natural Computing; Network Design & Internet Services; Multimedia & Communications; Parallel and Distributed Computing. Florin-Gheorghe Filip Editor in Chief of IJCCC Romanian Academy 125, Calea Victoriei, 71102 Bucharest-1, Romania E-mail: ffilip@acad.ro Ioan Dziţac Executive Editor of IJCCC Agora University 8, P-ta Tineretului, 410526 Oradea, Romania E-mail: idzitac@univagora.ro Mişu-Jan Manolescu Managing Editor Agora University 8, P-ta Tineretului, 410526 Oradea, Romania E-mail: rectorat@univagora.ro