Editorial

Abstract

We begin the second half of our Volume 4 season with another “regular submissions only” issue. I was a bit concerned, when with only three weeks to go before our final submission deadline for July, we had only one paper completely though the proofing stage! However, after some very efficient work on the part of our Administrative Editor, Sharri Shaw, and a series of lightening speed responses on the part of both reviewers and submitting authors, we managed to pull out a very complete set of quality papers. For future planning purposes, it is helpful to note that our print issue final paper deadline typically falls 30 days before the start of the formal issue month, July 31st for our September issue, September 30th for our November issue, etc. Due to scheduling pileups at our printing office, a slip of even one or two days, can result in a delayed issue release of two or more weeks. We, therefore, must be extremely rigid about these deadlines. Note that the print issue release date does not impact the posting of Early Access manuscripts on IEEE Xplore.