EDITORIAL a noti cation whenever a new paper is published that cites a paper by him/her. Academic Search Portal Odysci is a new web portal for search and rank of scienti c articles published in journals and conferences worldwide. Our objective is to provide the best academic search engine available, along with a productive technical social-network environment. Scienti c information overload is a problem that af ‚icts scientists, developers, engineers and students. They are ‚ooded with hundreds of publications all the time and it is dif cult and time consuming to nd the most relevant publications that would really help them do their work. Moreover, publications are spread over multiple publishers ™ sites and the user needs to comb through them in order to nd the most relevant ones. Odysci addresses these problems by providing better ranking algorithms, more ‚exible and powerful search options to users, and a technical collaboration environment for them to interact with peers. In addition, Odysci aggregates publications from multiple publishers and makes them available in one place. The end result is more productivity, less time wasted reading useless publications, and better research and development for users and their institutions. Odysci offers new interesting ways to search and to allow the user to control and narrow the results. For instance, a user can search for papers written by an author while he/she worked at a given place. To nd papers written by Leslie Lamport while at SRI, one would search for [author:lamport author@SRI]. Alternatively, a user can search for papers on a given topic written by authors of a given institution. For example, the search [Genetic Algorithms author@"University of Illinois ] will return papers on genetic algorithms written by Univ. of Illinois authors. One can also search for papers which received awards. To search for the Best Papers in the GECCO conferences, one would use [venue:GECCO bp:true]. Besides search, the portal also offers: (a) Information about upcoming conferences and deadlines, (b) Lists of best papers (and the ability to search for them), and (c) Comments by experts in different elds (our Online Editors). Another interesting feature is the ability for a user to automatically nd his/her own papers in our system and add them to their pro le page. We also have Alerts which allow a user/author to receive Collaboration facilities are also a main part of the portal. These are being driven by the goal of productive technical networking. More than a place to list œconnections , in Odysci users can comment on papers, form groups for sharing papers, and collaborate effectively with peers. We ™ll be releasing new features for that in the near future. Odysci ™s main research focuses on developing novel algorithms for data de-duplication and ranking algorithms, since we consider the quality of our data and ranking important aspects for the user. We currently list around 2 million documents, including data from ACM, IEEE Computer Society, several other public databases and data gathered using crawlers. New conferences and journals are added on a weekly basis. We would like to invite the SIGEVO community to try out www.odysci.com for search of research papers, and we welcome your feedback. Webpage Blog Twitter http://www.odysci.com http://blog.odysci.com @odysci SIGEVOlution Volume 5, Issue 4

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