IEEE SMC Society eNewsletter

September 2005

Issue #12

Submission deadline for the next issue: November 20, 2005
Submission Guidelines

As you read this message you should have received voting ballots including the statements and biographies of the candidates running in the IEEE Annual Election.

This issue of the IEEE SMCS eNewsletter features three research reports, four TC reports, and a wonderful conference progress report about SMC’05 by Mo Jamshidi in the Features corner.

SMC Transactions Tables of Contents

Recent Publications of SMC Society Members

Welcome to 2005 IEEE SMC International Conference – HAWAII 05

Introduction to Embedded Intelligent System Lab. at NCCU, Taiwan

On the Dynamic Pattern Analysis, Discovery and Recognition

Development of Face Recognition Techniques at
NEC Laboratories

Introduction of TC on Industrial Applications (Systems)

IEEE SMC Systems Safety & Security TC

Technical Committee on Conflict Resolution

SMCS Technical Committee
on Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems

Recent Ph.D. Theses

Three Faculty Openings for the rank of Assistant, Associate and/or Full Professor, Department of Electrical and Control Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

Conferences sponsored by the SMC Society

Back Issues

2005
Oct 10-12	2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Big Island of Hawaii)
Dec 4-7	Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
Dec 20-22	2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2006
Oct 8-11	2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Taipei)
Apr 23-25	IEEE International Conference on Networking, Systems, and Control
Apr 28	IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium
Apr 26-28	IEEE/SMC International Conference on System of Systems
Jun 15-16	IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems
Jun	IEEE Workshop on Information Assurance and Security
Summer	IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration
Dec 3-6	Winter Simulation Conference
2007
Oct 7-10	2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Montreal)
2008
Oct	2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Singapore)
Past Conferences
Oct 10-13 2004	22004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (The Hague)
Aug 26-29 2004	3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Oct 7-8 2004	IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Nov 1-3 2004	IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse & Integration
Dec 6-9 2004	8th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision
Dec 16-18 2004	International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications
Dec 16-18 2004	Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
Mar 19-22 2005	IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control
Apr 18-21 2005	International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems
May 10-12 2005	International Conference on Biologically Inspired Computing and Computers in Biology

Voting materials for the 2005 IEEE Annual Election are available on-line at: www.directvote.net/ieee/. Three SMC members are on the ballot. They are :

James M. Tien
Candidate for IEEE President
Bill Gruver
Candidate for Division X Director
Ferial El Hawary
Candidate for Region 7 Director

This year, there are three candidates competing for the 2006 IEEE President-Elect.
Please see the position statement of each candidate by clicking their names.

Leah H. Jamieson
Gerald H. Peterson
James M. Tien

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The IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecturer Program provides opportunities for SMCS members to meet and interact with the following lecturers for the year 2005:

Speaker: Donald E. Brown
Title: Learning from Simulations
Speaker: William A. Gruver
Title: Distributed Intelligent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Speaker: Lawrence O. Hall
Title: Learning from Large Amounts of Data
Speaker: Tsu-Tian Lee
Title: Intelligent Transportation Systems
Speaker: Daniel S. Yeung
Title: Feature and Sample Reduction for Classification Problems
Speaker: Mengchu Zhou
Title 1: Deadlock Control in Automated Manufacturing Systems
Title 2: Clustered Water and Bio-signal Networks - an Emerging Area for Systems, Man and Cybernetics Research

For more information about the DL program please visit DLP website

Call for Applications and Recommendations for Distinguished Lecturers

The IEEE SMC Society is accepting applications and recommendations for Distinguished Lecturers, Distinguished Lecturers Program (Please visit DLP websiteand the links therein). The successful candidates will be appointed for a two year term to begin January 1, 2006, with a possible two year extension. Potential applicants are encouraged to send a biosketch, abstracts of two lectures, and availability for lectures in 2006 to the Vice President of Memberships, Tsu-Tian Lee president@ntut.edu.tw

The successful candidate must be a member of the SMC Society in good
standing. All applications must be received prior to November 1, 2005.

2005 WSC registration is now open!

The 2005 Winter Simulation Conference registration is now open. Take advantage of the early registration savings and come join us in Orlando, Florida (USA), December 4-7, 2005. Read More

Congratulations to the following members of the SMC Society who were elevated to the IEEE Senior Member grade at the last meeting of the IEEE Admission and Advancement Review Panel.

June 2005 Senior Member
Qilian Liang
Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin
Stanko Strmcnik
Tao Zhang

August 2005 Senior Member
Charles J. Kim
Joseph O. Palmiter