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The papers appearing in this special issue of the "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering" periodical are based on papers that originally appeared in the proceedings of the First International Conference on Data Engineering which was held in Los Angeles, California, on April 25-27, 1984. The paper by Braegger, Dudler, Rebsamen and Zehnder was selected as the best paper at the conference by the awards committee, and concerns a database tool called Gambit. This design tool is based on an extended relational/entity relationship model and assists the designer with a wide variety of subtools. The paper by Farmer, King, and Myers is also about a design tool which is called the Semantic Database Constructor (Sedaco). It is based on a semantic data model which buffers the designer from most low level data structuring issues.

The author discusses the status and authorship of the "IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation" in the U.S. As an editor-in-chief, the author wish to improve the timing and quality of reviews from initial submission to final publication. The author also encouraged workers in the antennas and propagation field to publish their articles in the journal. In addition, the author raised some concerns about the importance of authorship and the basic aspects of it. Moreover, the author intends to raise awareness of responsibilities of the authors when they submit their manuscrips for publication.

The article focuses on the policy of the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to enforce economic embargoes against countries the U.S. government considers unfriendly. Normally, these embargoes cover tangible "assets," like computers, vehicles, oil, medical supplies, and money. However, in late 2001, OFAC informed the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) that it considers these embargoes to also apply to intangible "services," such as editing of technical journal articles. Consequently, the editors of the IEEE journals are prohibited by law for conveying reviewer comments and suggestions to authors who reside in any of the "embargoed" countries.

The author reflects on the flourishing condition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) journal in the U.S. He expresses thanks to the authors and reviewers and editors of the journal, who have kept it running smoothly over the years. The author also mentions the continued growth of the journal's submission, which have gone through multiple rounds of review before being accepted.

Presents the table of contents for this issue of the periodical. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents calls and calendar of events related to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the U.S. for 2006. The IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine is soliciting unpublished research papers for March/April 2007 issue on computational photography. On the other hand, the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems will be held on July 4-7 and the 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies will be held on July 5-7.

The article provides information about the articles published within the issue May 2006 of "IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation," in the U.S. The current issue highlights current and emerging research in the terahertz (THz) and optical antenna fields, as well as applications of this technology. It consist of invited and contributed papers on novel antenna structures and systems operating in the THz and optical regimes.