Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering 20 (2005) 1–6

The Twentieth Anniversary of CACAIE

r This issue coincides with a significant milestone in the Computational Structural Engineering (Guest life of the journal: the 20th anniversary of the journal. Editor: John W. Fisher, Lehigh University). I launched the journal in 1986 as a peer-reviewed quar- terly research journal under the title Microcomputers Other planned special/focus issues include: in Civil Engineering. In 1993, the journal became a bi- monthly publication. In March 1995, the journal was r Health Monitoring of Structures (Guest Editors: subtitled Journal of Computer-Aided Civil and Infras- Zhishen Wu, Ibaraki University, and James L. Beck, tructure Engineering. In January 1998, the current title California Institute of Technology), of Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering r Computing and Information Technologies in Trans- was adopted. The primary focus of the journal remains portation Systems (Guest Editors: Said Easa, Ryerson innovative computational modeling with the goal of en- University, and Masao Kuwahara, University of couraging exploration of new computing frontiers and Tokyo), paradigms and information technologies. r Product Models (Guest Editors: Alastair Watson, We continue to publish five different types of articles: University of Leeds, and Chuck Eastman, Georgia (a) major original contribution, (b) short original contri- Institute of Technology), bution, (c) state-of-the-art review article, (d) innovative r Imaging and Virtual Reality, and application of computers in education, and (e) novel and r Internet Computing. significant industrial application. Creativity and original- ity are the primary criteria for publication. A feature of the journal is the publication of special The manuscripts submitted for possible publication in and focus/theme issues. The following special/focus is- the journal are reviewed by at least three anonymous sues were published during the past 3 years: reviewers, selected among the members of the Editorial r and Industrial Advisory Boards and over 600 other re- Computing and Information Technologies in Envi- searchers from throughout the world. Many of these re- r ronmental Engineering, viewers have agreed to review manuscripts for the jour- r Sustainable Civil Infrastructure Systems, nal in advance by filing a Conscientious Reviewer form Computing and Information Technology in Construc- as noted in my Editorial published in issue 17:1, January r tion Engineering and Management, 2002. Often, reviews are solicited from more than three r Smart Civil Infrastructure Systems, reviewers in case some of the reviewers do not return r Computer Vision and Imaging Technology, their reviews in a reasonable period of time or do not Computing and Information Technologies in Trans- provide substantive reviews. Reviews with only yes and r portation Systems, no answers in the journal standard review form with- r Automated Data Capture Technologies, out substantive and thoughtful comments and evaluation r Wavelets, and are usually discarded. The 402 individuals who have re- Construction Automation, Control and Robotics. viewed manuscripts for the journal in recent years are ac- knowledged at the end of this editorial. Special thanks go The following special/focus issues will be included in to those on the journal roster of Conscientious Reviewers Volume 20, 2005: who have reviewed multiple manuscripts for the journal r with detailed and thoughtful comments. My apologies to Smart Structures: Control and Monitoring, r those whose names have been left out inadvertently. r Computational Bridge Engineering, Building Design Under Abnormal Loading (Guest Hojjat Adeli Editor: Don Grierson, University of Waterloo), and Editor-in-Chief

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