Editorial appointments for the 2013-2014 term

Yehea I. Ismail will serve another term as the Editor-in- Chief (EiC) of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. Previous EiCs of this journal have worked tirelessly to bring this journal to the very top. During his previous term the impact factor of TVLSI has moved up from 0.9 to 1.2, which is a significant improvement. Dr Ismail will work with the steering committee and the board to further improve the impact factor of TVLSI. He looks forward to the whole community helping with this goal by submitting quality work, accepting reviews, giving valuable comments, and making suggestions. TVLSI had a backlog in the acceptance to publication time because of a large number of submissions to the Journal. We have increased the number of pages of TVLSI from 1800 to 2400 and have not accepted any special issues resulting in a significant improvement in this backlog. We will continue this policy and find other ideas to completely eliminate the problem. This item also announces the appointment of Professor Massimo Alioto of NUS as the Associate EiC of TVLSI. Dr. Alioto has a long editorial record and is a well-known scholar in the VLSI area. In addition, the biographies and photographs of the Associate Editors on the new editorial board are provided.