Scope of the SMC Transactions: Parts A,
B, and C
The IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics publishes
papers in four primary areas, in accord with its defined scope
and purpose. These are as follows.
- Systems engineering; including efforts that involve issue
formulation, issue analysis and modeling, and decision making
and issue interpretation at any of the lifecycle phases associated
with the definition, development, and implementation of large
systems. It also include efforts that relate to systems management,
systems engineering processes and a variety of systems engineering
methods such as optimization, decision making, modeling and
simulation.
- Human system and human organizational interactions, cognitive
ergonomics, system test and evaluation, and human information
processing and decision concerns in systems and organizations.
- Cybernetics, including communication and control across humans,
machines and organizations at the structural or neural level,
as well as at functional and purposeful levels; design and development
of biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms
emphasizing vision, neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy
systems, automated planning, computational intelligence, and
robotics.
- Applications of these concepts, in terms of hardware and software,
to the design, quality assurance, risk assessment and management,
development, implementation, systems management, quality assessment
and management, and reengineering and systems integration of
realistic systems in any of several contemporary application
areas.
The scope of the IEEE Transactions on Systems,
Man and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans includes those areas
identified above. In particular, it is devoted to the fields of
Systems Engineering and Human Machine Systems. In the systems engineering
area, these Transactions deal with efforts that involve issue formulation,
analysis and modelling, and decision making and issue interpretation
at any of the systems engineering lifecycle phases associated with
the definition, development, and deployment of large systems. It
also deals with efforts that relate to systems management, systems
engineering processes, and a variety of systems engineering methods
such as optimization, modeling and simulation. In the Human Machine
Systems area, the Transactions deals with human systems and human
organizational interactions including: cognitive ergonomics, system
test and evaluation, and human information processing concerns in
systems and organizations.
The scope of the IEEE Transactions on Systems,
Man and Cybernetics Part B: Cybernetics includes the field of cybernetics,
or computational intelligence, including communication and control
across humans, machines and organizations at the structural or neural
level as well as at functional and purposeful levels. It focuses
on such topics as vision, neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy
systems, and robotics.
The scope of the IEEE Transactions on Systems,
Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews includes overviews,
tutorials, and application papers concerning all areas of interest
to the SMC Society: systems engineering, human factors and human
machine systems, and cybernetics and computational intelligence.
Book reviews of interest will also be published.
|
|
