Dear xxx

We are augmenting the editorial board of the journal Concurrency: Practice and 
Experience that is edited by myself with Tony Hey as European editor.  The journal 
has been given a new name "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and 
Experience" starting this year but will still have the emphasis firmly on Practice and 
Experience. The new title reflects better the current content, which is broadly based 
practical computer and computational science.  The vision of the journal can be found 
at http://aspen.csit.fsu.edu/CandCPandE/CCPEvision.txt. Our goal is to offer a high-
quality refereed journal, relevant to a broad section of the CS and applications 
communities.  We wish also to be able to continue relatively rapid turn-around for 
refereed papers (which has improved to about 9 to 12 months from submission to 
print), actively seeking high-quality, relevant papers and/or special issues on topics of 
current interest.  Past special issues have addressed Java for scientific computing, 
high performance agents, and parallel software tools. Others scheduled this year include 
High Performance Fortran and computational issues in Earthquake Science.

To this end, we would like to ask if you would be willing to become one of our new 
Editorial Board Members.  We will require Editorial Board Members to take an 
active interest in the success and relevance of the journal.  For this reason, we would 
ask that you be prepared to undertake to commission either a nifty review paper on a 
relevant topic (possibly with yourself as author/co-author), or actively sponsor 
submission of a paper, or edit/commission a special issue.  You would also be 
expected to do a limited amount of refereeing and suggest appropriate referees for 
particular topics. I send round the abstracts of submitted papers to get referee 
suggestions from the board. The current board is at 
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1040-3108/edboard.html. 

You can look at the online version of the journal at 
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc?ID=5361. I would also be happy to 
send you sample copies if this was useful to you and of course Wiley would give you 
a complimentary subscriptions to the journal if you joined the board. I hope that this 
does not sound too burdensome and as further recompense, Wiley will offer you a 
complimentary book (more than one if you contribute a lot of refereeing or papers!) 
from their list each year.

I do hope you can agree to join us and help make "Concurrency and Computation" an 
even more successful and thriving journal which is widely acknowledged as such by 
the CS community.

We hold annual meetings of the Board in the United States at the SCXX Conference 
or in Europe at the Europar Conference.  We hope that you will be able to make at 
least one of these meetings each year, at which you will be able to assist in ensuring 
the future success of the journal.


Yours sincerely

Geoffrey Fox