It
is a great pleasure to welcome you to the third issue
of the SMC e-Newsletter.
I
am so pleased to inform that an inaugural SMC Student
Design Competition is being worked out and will be announced
in the near future. The prime objective of the competition
is to reward students’ innovative efforts in the
areas of Systems, Man-machines, and Cybernetics. Your
participation in terms of organizing, reviewing, and
sending suggestions and comments will be highly appreciated.
Current
issue’s Activity Reports section starts with a
paper from Professor Mo. Jamshidi et al. on
their project of “Virtual Laboratory (V-Lab)”
at the University of New Mexico. Also introduced therein
is “Intelligent DEVS”, an integral part
of the concept of V-Lab for creating intelligent simulations.
Prof. Kaz Kawamura et al. at the Center for
Intelligent Systems, Vanderbilt University, has also
sent a report sharing their research, experience, and
ideas about natural and robust human-robot interactions.
We also have a short report from Dr. Stuart Rubin about
his work on developing novel AI techniques for autonomous
UAVs applications. Professor Peter Beling has sent us
a conference report on recently concluded “2003
IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium”
at University of Virginia.
I
would like to encourage the readers to make best use
of the Activity Reports section of the Newsletter also
to tell the world about your new research endeavors
that got off the ground recently. E-mail your submissions
and contributions directly to me at ttlee@cn.nctu.edu.tw
. Do not hesitate to include couple of spectacular video
clips or pictures.
IEEE
Annual Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics is
an ideal gateway to access information on career resources--including
the latest developments in science and technology and
advice from experts in Systems, Man and Cybernetics
fields. You still have the opportunity to participate
in this year’s conference to be held in Washington,
D.C., October 5 -- 8, by registering at the conference
website https://becat.engr.uconn.edu/IEEE_CSMC_2003/
.
I
take this opportunity to thank for all submissions to
the current issue. A special thank goes out to my students
for keeping the Newsletter website up and running.
Hope
you will enjoy this issue of SMC e-Newsletter. Please
let us know your comments and suggestions. We will readily
endeavor to make the Newsletter more useful and enjoyable.
Tsu-Tian
Lee,
Newsletter Editor, IEEE SMC
Chair Professor
Department of Electrical and Control Engineering
National Chiao Tung University
E-mail: ttlee@cn.nctu.edu.tw
