A Second Call for Papers for the new IEEE SMC Magazine has been announced. The Magazine will publish content covering the Society’s Field of Interest. Editor-in-Chief Mo El-Hawary Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2 Scope The scope of content published within the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine matches…
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2014 IEEE SMC Celebration Lecture Series (CLS) in Taipei
The 2014 IEEE SMC Celebration Lecture Series was held at the College of Science and Engineering at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan on 14 April 2014. This was probably the first time Fu Jen Catholic University hosted an event in collaboration with the IEEE. The Lecture Series was presented under the title of “The…
Read More >Sydney, Australia IEEE SMC Celebration Lecture Series (CLS)
The first Sydney-Australia IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Celebration Lecture Series (CLS) was held on April 17, 2014 at the University of Sydney. CLS aims to provide expert insights, advice and professional training, as well as an academic forum and networking opportunity to PhD students and early career researchers in their future academic career….
Read More >SMC 2013 Manchester, UK, Conference Report
2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2013) between 13 and 16 October in Manchester, UK. The conference theme was “Cyber Systems Enabling Knowledge Integration: The Smart Response to Emerging Societal Challenges.” The conference attracted 1179 submissions addressing state-of-the-art developments in systems science and engineering, cybernetics and human machine systems. The program…
Read More >Editorial – March 2014
This is the first issue of the IEEE SMC Society e-Newsletter for 2014 and we have many exciting news to share with you. A major update of the Society’s Awards program was approved by the Board of Governors at its meeting which was held in conjunction with IEEE SMC 2013 Conference in Manchaster, UK in…
Read More >President’s Message – March 2014
Dear SMC Members: Ladies and Gentlemen: A year is coming to the end soon. Our Society has made a tremendous progress this year due to countless contribution from you. This is the first completion cycle of continent-rotation in conference venue for our annual conference -America (Regions 1-7&9), Asia/Pacific (Region 10), and Europe (Region 8). Repeating…
Read More >Focus On: Technical Committee on Awareness Computing
Scope The goal of awareness computing (AC) is to build systems that are aware. Awareness may not imply full understanding, cybernetics, or intelligence. Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious. It implies vigilance in observing or alertness in drawing inferences from what one experiences. Compared with artificial intelligence…
Read More >VP Publications Column – March 2014
IEEE Systems, Man, & Cybernetics Society has well established traditions and reputation as a society with high quality publications that date back to the birth of the IEEE Transaction of Systems, Man, & Cybernetics in 1971 and its spin-offs – Part A, Systems & Humans; Part B, Cybernetics; and Part C, Applications & Reviews –…
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