| IEEE HOME | IEEE WEB ACCOUNTS | IEEE XPLORE | SMC SOCIETY | CONTACT IEEE |
IEEE Office 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, New York 10016-5997 U.S.A. Tel: +1 212 419 7900 Fax: +1 212 752 4929
Editorial News Focus on Technical Committees From Society Leaders Submission Guidelines Back Issues Society Information
Focus on Technical Committees

The Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society is home to three technical groups: Cybernetics, Human Machines Systems, and System Science and Engineering. The Cybernetics group includes 16 committees, the Human Machine Systems, 8 TC’s, and the largest is System Science and Engineering with 18 committees. In each issue of this Newsletter, we cover the activities of some technical committees to familiarize the reader with the committee’s work and stimulate interest in their activities.

Technical Committee on Computational Life Science (TCCLS)

This TC is part of the Cybernetics Group, which started in 2005.  Professor Hong Yan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) co-chairs the committee with Michael R. Berthold (Konstanz University, Germany), and Daniel Yeung (South China University of Technology, China.)  http://www.ieeesmc.org/technicalcommittess/tc_cls.html

Scope:

The primary objective of the technical committee is to bring together specialists from the areas biology, chemistry and computer science and engineering working in this interdisciplinary environment. The goal of the TC is to provide a basis for the exchange of information and resources among the diverse communities and enable interactions between groups from these fields.

Membership:

The present committee members come from: Australia, China, Portugal, Turkey, UK, and the USA.

Goals for the next five years:

The Committee is planning to edit a special issue/section in a related journal, and is  technical supporter of:

• 2013 International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences
http://www.cmls-conf.org/2013/

• 2015 SMC Annual Conference.

Most important work:

• H. Yan, J. S. Jin, Z. Q. Liu and D. S. Yeung (eds.), Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing (VIP2005) , IEEE SMC Society, Hong Kong Chapter, 2005.

• M. R. Berthold, R. Glen, I. Fischer (eds.), Computational Life Science II, Second International Symposium (CompLife 2006), LNBI 4216, Springer, 2006.

• T. D. Pham, X. Zhou, H. Tanaka, M. Oyama-Higa, X. Jiang, C. Sun, J. Kowalski, and X. Jia (eds.), Computational Models for Life Sciences (CMLS-2011), AIP Conference Proceedings, 2011.

Technical Committee on Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems (TCKAIS)

This TC is part of the Cybernetics Group, which started in 1999 as an IEEE TC.  Stuart Rubin and Shu-Ching Chen are co-chairs. http://www.ieeesmc.org/technicalcommittess/tc_ka.html

Scope:

All aspects of acquiring knowledge for all manner of knowledge-based systems.

Membership:

The 17 present committee members come from: Australia, Canada, France, Korea, Singapore, The Netherlands, and the US.

Goals for the next five years:

To develop fundamental scientific principles leading to applications for computational decision making. Naturally, such decision making requires deep domain-specific knowledge using various representational formalisms, search paradigms - including embodiments of heuristics, and distributed computing techniques. Reuse and integration plays a key role in extending knowledge by process of abduction. We hope to address these issues in the context of fundable applications.

Most important work:

• S.H. Rubin and S.C. Chen (Guest Editors), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Part C (Applications): Special Issue on Information Reuse and Integration, Jul. 2009, Vol. 39, no. 4

• S.H. Rubin, On randomization and discovery, Information Sciences, (INS-D-05-1154), vol. 177, issue 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 170-191.

• S.H. Rubin, S.N.J. Murthy, M.H. Smith, and L. Trajkovic, KASER: Knowledge amplification by structured expert randomization, IEEE Trans. SMC.: Part B, vol. 34, no. 6, Dec. 2004, pp. 2317-2329.

Technical Committee on Intelligent Green Production Systems (IGPS)

This TC is part of the SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Group, which started in 2006.  Professor Hossam Gabbar chairs this committee. http://www.ieeesmc.org/technicalcommittess/tc_igps.html

Scope:

The primary goal of the Committee is to be a center of excellence in the world on green production systems engineering and to act as an active organ within SMCS that ties process and systems engineering, and computational intelligence techniques to provide green energy, product, service, and production systems. IGPS brings together specialists from interdisciplinary fields to investigate and realize environmentally benign and safer production systems, with less impact on human, while maintaining the limited natural resources and environmental sustainable development. IGPS will provide basis for the exchange of information and resources among the diverse professionals and communities and enable interactions among them.

Membership:

The present committee members come from: Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland,  Indonesia,  Italy,  Japan, Singapore,  Taiwan,  UK, USA

Goals for the next five years:

The Committee is planning to:
• Organize workgroups/workshops on Green Hybrid Energy Systems
• Organize educational and certification programs on Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE); Green Supply Chain Management, and Environmental Management
• Organizing international workshops on Intelligent Green Production Systems.
• Organize special sessions in the international conferences of IEEE SMC and other related societies and events on Intelligent Green Production Systems.
• Collaborate with industry to conduct courses and professional certification programs on HSE management systems, computer-aided process safety, intelligent green supply chain management systems, intelligent green energy management systems, intelligent environmental management systems, green nano-materials and manufacturing, and computer-aided sustainable development.


Most important work:

• Hossam A. Gabbar, Modeling Approach for Flexible Production Chain Operation, IEEE Transactions on SMC Part A, vol. 38, no. 1, Jan. 2008.

• Hossam A. Gabbar, Integrated Framework for Safety Control Analysis & Design of Nuclear Power Plants, Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Design, Volume 240, Issue 10, October 2010, Pages 3550-3558.