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….
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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 –…
Read More >Focus On: Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence
Scope Computational Collective Intelligence (CCI) covers new methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of computational collective intelligence understood as the form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals (artificial and/or natural). The goal of the technique committee is to provide a forum for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements accomplished by…
Read More >Focus On: Technical Committee on Biometrics Systems
Introduction The term biometrics comes from the Greek words bios and metrikos. Biometrics deals with identification of individuals based on their biological or behavioral characteristics[1]. Up to now, a number of biometrics can be available, e.g., fingerprint, face, gait, iris, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), hand and finger geometry, palm print, signature, and voice, etc. Alphonse Bertillon…
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