Welcoming Address by Dr. Raymond E. Miller Director of the School of Information and Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology

On behalf of the School of Information and Computer Science and Georgia Tech I am happy to welcome you to this Fourth Symposium on Empirical Foundations of Information and Software Sciences. We are very pleased to be able to host the symposium here at Georgia Tech, and I am particularly pleased with the leading organizational role that Dr. Pranas Zunde, of our faculty, has been taking in these conferences.