IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society presents...

2005 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Waikoloa Hilton Village, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA
October 10-12, 2005

Welcome to 2005 IEEE SMC International Conference – HAWAII 05

It is my distinct pleasure to welcome each and every one of you to the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. The plans for this conference began back in 2002 when it was decided to come to the beautiful island of Hawaii.

We at SMC Society have begun a new approach for our annual conference, i.e., soliciting full papers only. We (SMC and Hawaii) attracted 949 full papers, including 44 special session proposals. The program committee sent all the papers, unsolicited and special ones, to 3 reviewers each in a span of 12 weeks time. Over 2500 individual reviews were uploaded into the web site of the conference. The program that you are witnessing here is the result of diligent work of many wonderful volunteers to help run this international conference. On the top of that list are our two Program Co-Chairs Dr. Edward Tunstel, Jr. of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech and Professor Gary Anderson of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. I sincerely thank the untiring efforts of both colleagues and their program committee of over 200 members.

We hope that this conference will render not only a beautiful venue and scenery, but provide you a very rewarding and innovative technical meeting where new interests in Systems Engineering with emphasis on our Conference Theme – System of Systems Engineering are discussed. IEEE SMC has always been a leader in Systems Engineering among all fields of engineering, be it electrical, mechanical, aerospace, etc. We hope that the contribution of the IEEE SMC and its thousands of members would continue to make a difference in systems engineering, cybernetics and human-machine systems.

Aside from the technical program committee, many others have spent numerous hours helping to bring this wonderful meeting to you. I wish to thank Mr. Prasanna Sridhar, SMC 2005 webmaster who designed and implemented the site all by himself and interacted with thousands of inquiries of authors, potential attendees, students and the like. The diligent works of the local organizing team, headed by Professor Sevki Erdogan of the University Hawaii – Hilo, Professor Song Choi of the University of Hawaii - Manoa, Dr. Tak Sugimura of the Maui Supercomputing Center, and Dr. Joseph Ritter of SAIC Corporation are all very much appreciated.

I would like to thank the IEEE SMC’s executive committee peers President Bill Gruver, our Vice Presidents Julie Adams, Daniel Yeung, T. T. Lee, and Peter Beling and our President-Elect Larry Hall for their support. I wish to thank our distinguished list of keynote speakers Prof. Lotfi Zadeh (UC – Berkeley), Professor Andrew Sage (George Mason University), Professor George Bekey (University of Southern California), Professor James Tien (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Dr. Firouz Naderi (NASA JPL) for accepting my invitation to come and deliver wonderful keynotes. I wish to thank many individuals who organized our panel sessions, among them are Dr. Bob Rassa of Raytheon, Dr. Jay Pearlman and Mr. Paul Gartz of Boeing, Mr. David Beals of NASA Langley Research Center and Dr. Chuck Weisbin of NASA JPL and their distinguished panelists. Many colleagues took the time and made efforts in their proposed 44 special sessions, I wish to thank each and every one of them for their efforts. Last and by no means least I wish to thank many students who have worked so hard to help prepare this meeting from the University of New Mexico, University of Hawaii - Hilo and the University of Hawaii – Manoa, among other institutions who came in later on.

Enjoy this paradise we call Hawaii and have a wonderful stay on the Big Island.

IEEE SMC 2005 General Chair
and Vice President – Conferences and Meetings
Mo Jamshidi

2005 IEEE SMC TECHNCIAL PRORGAM AT A GLANCE