The IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society publishes papers in these areas:
- 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.
Posting Preprints to Non-IEEE Servers
Authors should disclose postings on approved preprint services when submitting papers to SMCS Journals.
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The following statement must be included on the initial screen of the preprint site:
“This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible.”
Upon acceptance of the article by IEEE, the preprint article must be replaced with the accepted version, as described in the section “Accepted article.”
Using AI-Generated Content in an IEEE Article
IEEE authors may use AI-generated content in their articles as long as it is disclosed in the article’s Acknowledgments section. The disclosure must state the AI system(s) used, identify the section(s) of the article in which AI was used, and briefly describe the level at which the AI system was used to generate the content.
IEEE reviewers are not allowed to use a public platform (directly or indirectly) to generate AI content for a review. Doing so is considered a breach of confidentiality because AI systems generally learn from input, and manuscripts under review are confidential documents.
The use of an AI system for editing and grammar enhancements is a common practice and is outside the scope of the above policies.
Disclosure of AI use for editing or grammar enhancements is recommended but not required.
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