September 2005
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  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
  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

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Table of Contents
Please see each issue by clicking the following links.

Part A: SYSTEMS AND HUMANS
Volume: 35 Issue: 4
Date: July 2005

Volume: 35 Issue: 5
Date: Sept. 2005


Part B: CYBERNETICS
Volume: 35 Issue: 4
Date: Aug. 2005

Part C: APPLICATIONS AND REIVEWS
Volume: 35 Issue: 3
Date: Aug. 2005

How To Access the full papers
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IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Part C: APPLICATIONS AND REIVEWS
Volume: 35 Issue: 3 Date: Aug. 2005

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Biometric Systems
Zhang, D.; Campbell, J.P.; Maltoni, D.; Bolle, R.M.
Page(s): 273- 275

Improved class statistics estimation for sparse data problems in offline signature verification
Bin Fang; Yuan Yan Tang
Page(s): 276- 286

Fingerprint classification based on learned features
Xuejun Tan; Bhanu, B.; Yingqiang Lin
Page(s): 287- 300

On the use of different speech representations for speaker modeling
Ke Chen
Page(s): 301- 314

Eigenspace-based face recognition: a comparative study of different approaches
Ruiz-del-Solar, J.; Navarrete, P.
Page(s): 315- 325

An appearance model constructed on 3-D surface for robust face recognition against pose and illumination variations
Ishiyama, R.; Hamanaka, M.; Sakamoto, S.
Page(s): 326- 334

Time-series detection of perspiration as a liveness test in fingerprint devices
Parthasaradhi, S.T.V.; Derakhshani, R.; Hornak, L.A.; Schuckers, S.A.C.
Page(s): 335- 343

An adaptive multimodal biometric management algorithm
Veeramachaneni, K.; Osadciw, L.A.; Varshney, P.K.
Page(s): 344- 356

Fingerprint and speaker verification decisions fusion using a functional link network
Toh, K.-A.; Wei-Yun Yau
Page(s): 357- 370

iShopFloor : An Internet-Enabled Agent-Based Intelligent Shop Floor
Shen, W.; Lang, S.Y.T.; Wang, L.
Page(s): 371- 381

Coupling fuzzy modeling and neural networks for river flood prediction
Corani, G.; Guariso, G.
Page(s): 382- 390

The life cycle CO/sub 2/ emission performance of the DOE/NASA solar power satellite system: a comparison of alternative power generation systems in Japan
Hayami, H.; Nakamura, M.; Yoshioka, K.
Page(s): 391- 400

Support vector machines for quality monitoring in a plastic injection molding process
Ribeiro, B.
Page(s): 401- 410

Face authentication from cell phone camera images with illumination and temporal variations
Venkataramani, K.; Qidwai, S.; Vijayakumar, B.V.K.
Page(s): 411- 418

Target dependent score normalization techniques and their application to signature verification
Fierrez-Aguilar, J.; Ortega-Garcia, J.; Gonzalez-Rodriguez, J.
Page(s): 418- 425

Hallucinating face by eigentransformation
Xiaogang Wang; Xiaoou Tang
Page(s): 425- 434

Improving iris recognition accuracy via cascaded classifiers
Zhenan Sun; Yunhong Wang; Tieniu Tan; Jiali Cui
Page(s): 435- 441

A real-time focusing algorithm for iris recognition camera
Kang Ryoung Park; Jaihie Kim
Page(s): 441- 444

Model checking for E-business control and assurance
Anderson, B.B.; Hansen, J.V.; Lowry, P.B.; Summers, S.L.
Page(s): 445- 450


 
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


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