ee journals will be available in print and on Springers online platform www.springerlink.com. All articles will be published online via Online First before they appear in print, thereby enabling research results to be disseminated quickly to the scientific community. In addition, all authors, via the Springer Open Choice program, have the option of publishing their articles using the open access publishing model. Springer will digitize the back volumes of the journals, making them available to readers through the Springer Online Archives Collection.