As we approach the end of 2004, I am pleased to announce
the following newly elected and appointed positions
in the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.
Larry
Hall, South Florida University (USA) has been elected
President-Elect of the SMC Society at the recent meeting
of the Board of Governors in The Hague. Dr. Hall will
continue as Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the Transactions
on SMC, Part B: Cybernetics. Diane Cook, University
of Texas at Arlington (USA), will join TSMC-B as co-EIC.
Vladimir
Marik, Czech Technical University and Rockwell Automation
(Czech Republic) will succeed Chip White, as EIC of
the Transactions on SMC, Part C: Applications and Reviews.
Mengchu Zhou from New Jersey Institute of Technology
(USA) will join TSMC-C as Managing Editor.
We
welcome the following special appointments to the Board
of Governors: Publications Coordinator – Michael
Berthold (Germany); Chapters Coordinator – MuDer
Jeng (Taiwan); Technical Committees Coordinator –
Hideyuki Takagi (Japan); Conferences Coordinator –
Ljiljana Trajkovic (Canada); and Student Activities
Coordinator – Anna Zyzniewski (Canada).
Following
a very successful annual conference in The Hague with
participation by more than 1100 attendees, preparations
are now being made, under the leadership of the General
Chair, Mo Jamshidi, and the Program Chairs, Edward Tunstel
and Gary Anderson, for the 2005 IEEE International Conference
on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC05) to be held
October 10-12, 2005, at the Waikoloa Hilton Village
on the Big Island of Hawaii. Details of the submission
process and deadlines may be viewed on the SMC05 web
site, http://ieeesmc2005.unm.edu/.
Please note that all prospective authors will be required
to submit full-length papers for review. Featuring a
technical program that provides a world-class forum
for all aspects of systems engineering, human-machine
systems, and emerging topics in cybernetics, a conference
hotel that is a tropical paradise, and located on an
island teeming with active volcanos, this is one conference
that you do not want to miss!
I
would like to conclude this column by encouraging you
to join one or more Technical Committees (TCs), special
interest groups of SMCS members that bring together
specialists in a focused area of technology and applications.
Their activities include preparing special issues and
review articles for the SMC Transactions, organizing
invited sessions and workshops at the annual conference
and regional symposia, and developing opportunities
for collaboration on international projects. Currently
we have active TCs in the following specialties: bio-informatics,
computational intelligence, expert and knowledge based
systems, knowledge acquisition in intelligent systems,
intelligent communications, machine learning, soft computing,
human-machine interaction, conflict resolution, control
of uncertain systems, discrete event systems, distributed
intelligent systems, industrial applications, intelligent
transportation systems, robotics and manufacturing automation,
service systems and organizations, systems assurance.
Please view the Technical Activities web page of the
SMCS web site http://www.ieeesmc.org
for further information on participating in the Technical
Committees.
I
appreciate your continued contributions as an SMC member,
and wish you a happy and successful New Year.
Sincerely,
