Below is a short report from the CCC business meeting discussion on
the special issue. With the vote and further discussion among the
conference committee, we decided to have the special issue for the
2004 conference in the journal Computational Complexity with Eric
Allender as editor. The conference committee will continue to study
the issue and take input from the community before making decisions on
future years. Please send me email (fortnow@cs.uchicago.edu) on any
comments you may have on the special issue.

Lance Fortnow

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At the business meeting I invited editors from four journals
interested in hosting our special issue: Jin-Yi Cai representing JCSS,
Sasha Razborov for Computational Complexity, Alan Selman for TOCS and
Chris Umans for the new on-line journal Theory of Computing. All four
journals had clear advantages and disadvantages.

After the presentations and some good discussion I distributed a
written ballot and asked every to rank the four journal options and
the option of "No special issue". Here is a summary of the votes.

 1st place votes      2nd place votes   total

JCSS     10                  5             15
CC         26                 15             41
TOCS    14                 22             36
TOC        7                   9             16
None       1                   0              1

There was definitely much stronger support for the Springer journals
over staying with JCSS or going with TOC. Between the two Springer
journals CC had many more 1st place votes.