‘Homeland Security’: Today and Beyond Francesco Flammini, Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member Chairman, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Homeland Security Recently, there has been a change in the leadership of the Technical Committee on Homeland Security of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) society [1]. The new TC co-chairs represent three different continents (Europe, Asia…
The Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems has organized at the WODES 2016 (Workshop on Discrete Event Systems in Xi’An China, May 30 – June 1 2016) the successful special session on Discrete Event Systems Approaches in Logistics and Transportation Systems. The special session was organized by Maria Pia Fanti, Meng Chu Zhou and Walter…
The number two issue of the IEEE SMC Society eNewsletter for 2016….
Call for Proposals The IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) is soliciting proposals to its members for the IEEE SMCS 2020 Conference to be held in the Americas (Regions 1-7 and 9) in October 2020. Deadline for Proposals The deadline for the IEEE SMC 2020 proposals is August 25, 2016. The SMCS Board of…
Keith Hipel, who is University Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and currently holds the position of Past President of the Academy of Science (Royal Society of Canada), has been an active member of our IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society for twenty-five years. On October 15th, 1996, Keith was…
Dear Readers, This is the number two issue of the IEEE SMC Society eNewsletter for 2016. The current e-Newsletter is packed with content on Society news: among many others, do not miss the Call for nominations of the Society Board of Governors and the Call for Proposals for the 2020 SMC Annual Conference to be…
Cyber-physical Systems of Systems (CPSoS) are large complex systems where physical elements interact with and are controlled by a large number of distributed and networked computing elements and human users. Examples are railway systems, air traffic, future road traffic, logistic networks, the electric grid, industrial production sites, and smart buildings. These systems are subject to…
Enterprise Architecture and Essentials of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF® 9.1) Interested in enterprise architecture? Business process management? Information and communications technology? Then don’t miss IEEE’s new course on Enterprise Architecture and Essentials of TOGAF® 9.1! Through The Open Group Architecture Framework, you’ll discover proven development methods to help you develop an IT architecture…
