Transactions on SMC: Systems

Scope

The scope of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems includes the field of systems engineering. It also includes issue formulation, analysis and modeling, decision making, and issue interpretation for any of the systems engineering lifecycle phases associated with the definition, development, and deployment of large systems. Other topics include systems management, systems engineering processes, and a variety of systems engineering methods such as optimization, modeling and simulation.

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans was renamed IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems on January 1, 2013.

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Editor-in-Chief

Robert Kozma, Editor-In-Chief
Robert Kozma

Editor-In-Chief
FedEx Institute of Technology
Department of Mathematics
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152, USA

Articles

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05 December 2023
The fusion of multiview data sets, in which features of each sample are categorized into distinct groups, is increasingly important in the big data era. Successful multiview learning approaches have mechanisms to enforce consensus and/or complementarity among views. This article introduces a framework called the consensus and complementarity-based multiview latent...
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21 February 2024
This article addresses the entry capture problem (ECP) of uncertain nonlinear systems under asymmetric performance constraints. We show that such ECP is commonly encountered in practice that has not been well addressed, whose tracking error is free from any performance constraints initially then is driven into the prescribed region in...
13 February 2024
Distributed optimization achieves a minimized objective function through collaboration among distributed agents. Considering limited communication capabilities and privacy concerns, this article proposes a dynamic event-triggered differentially private gradient-tracking algorithm for distributed optimization. The communication requirement is reduced by event triggering, while the $epsilon$ -differential privacy is guaranteed by perturbations on...
13 February 2024
This article investigates the formation tracking-containment control problem for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), while considering collision avoidance in the three-dimensional (3-D) environment. A distributed model predictive formation control method is developed for UAVs with obstacle avoidance. Unlike most existing trajectory tracking control schemes, the proposed method is derived from...
30 November 2023
Domain-specific ontologies support system design and can establish a framework for fulfilling user-level, safety, or ethical requirements. The IEEE 7007–2021 Ontological Standard for ethically driven robotics and automation systems is the first industry standard to introduce a structure of ontologies concerning robot ethics and related fields, such as data privacy,...
30 November 2023
The low enthusiasm for upstream and downstream pollution control is the main factor leading to poor water quality. Optimizing water pollution control strategies for multiple stakeholders/entities in river basins is challenging. Considering the dynamic change of water quality, we study the optimal decision of pollution control chain composed of upstream...

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