Editorial: Ethics and Publishing

This issue has two papers with unusual author lists: Roger T. Alexander, Jeff Offutt and Andreas Stefik for the first; and Jane Huffman Hayes and Jeff Offutt for the second. Both papers were submitted before I became EiC and both were handled by Associate Editor Rob Hierons. Effective and sufficient controls were in place to ensure there was no conflict in their handling. It is important to emphasize three points: