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Tsu-Tian Lee,
Newsletter Editor, IEEE SMC
President, National Taipei University of Technology
E-mail: president@ntut.edu.tw
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First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to
offer my condolences to those SMCS members and their families who were
affected by the hurricane in New Orleans and other natural disasters elsewhere
in the recent months. And, I wish them strength that is as strong as those
disastrous natural powers to bounce back and rebuild their lives.
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. I would
like to thank Intelligent Systems Lab, NCCU, Taiwan and Media and Information
Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Kanagawa for sending interesting
research articles. Thank you! also to Mo and the Chairs of the TCs on
Industrial applications, Systems Safety & Security, Conflict Resolution,
and Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems for sending in their
valuable reports. I hope that the newly introduced "Recent Ph.D.
Theses" corner will be useful information to the readers. Please
send in your comments and suggestions on how we may make this corner more
resourceful. Last and by no means least, I would like to thank all who
contributed to this issue of the eNewsletter in various other ways.
I also take this opportunity to encourage you to vote
our present SMCS president William A. Gruver for IEEE Division X Director,
2007-2008 (Systems and Control) and Ferial El Hawary who is a candidate
for R7 Director. Their long and distinguished track records can be found
by following the links given within this eNewsletter. I encourage our
membership and the readers who are also a Voting Member for the ongoing
IEEE annual election to support James M. Tien for 2006 IEEE President-Elect.
Jim who has been a proactive and progressive SMCS volunteer since 1983
has been extensively involved in IEEE products and services including
4 of IEEE’s 6 major boards.
Our flagship conference, IEEE International Conference
on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics is only few weeks away. This year’s
conference venue, Waikoloa Hilton Village on the Big Island of Hawaii
is arguably the best resort hotel in the State of Hawaii. You may find
a very attractive conference progress report by Mo Jamshidi, the General
Chair, by following the link provided within this Newsletter. I take this
opportunity to invite you to register and book hotels early to take part
in this one of the world’s major conferences in Systems Engineering.
I am looking forward to seeing you at SMC’05 in
Hawaii in few weeks!.
Tsu-Tian Lee,
Newsletter Editor, IEEE SMC
President, National Taipei University of Technology
E-mail: president@ntut.edu.tw
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 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 : |
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.
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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: |
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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
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for Applications and Recommendations for Distinguished Lecturers |
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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! |
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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.
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| 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. |
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June
2005 Senior Member
Qilian Liang
Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin
Stanko Strmcnik
Tao Zhang
August 2005 Senior Member
Charles J. Kim
Joseph O. Palmiter
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