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Appendix 3: 2005 SMCS Technical Committees Reports
Daniel Yeung (Vice-President for Technical Activity)
Hideyuki Takagi (Technical Committee Coordinator)
CYBERNETICS
TC on Computational Intelligence,
Xizhao Wang
TC on Computational Life Science,
Michael R. Berthold, Hong Yang, and Daniel Yeung 4
TC on Expert and Knowledge Based Systems,
John W. T. Lee
6
TC on Intelligent Communications,
Ljiljana Trajkovic
8
TC on Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems,
Stuart H. Rubin and Shu-Ching Chen
10
TC on Machine Learning,
YuanYan Tang
12
TC on Medical Information,
Cathy M. Helgason and Thomas H. Jobe
14
Tadahiko Murata
16
Stephanie Guerlain
18
TC on Conflict Resolution,
LiPing Fang and Keith W. Hipel
20
TC on Control of Uncertain Systems,
Abdelkader El Kamel
22
TC on Discrete Event Systems,
MuDer Jeng
24
TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems,
Dilip B. Kotak and William A. Gruver
26
TC on Homeland Security,
Hsinchun Chen and Don Brown
28
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(old name: TC on Bio-Informatics)
TC on Soft Computing,
HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS
TC on Human Machine Interaction,
SYSTEMS
(old name: TC on Homeland Security, Communication, and Transportation)
TC on Industrial Applications,
Seppo J. Ovaska
30
TC on Intelligent Transportation Systems,
TsuTian Lee
32
TC on Robotics and Intelligent Sensing,
Hong Zhang
34
(old name: TC on Robotics and Manufacturing Automation)
TC on Service Systems and Organizations,
Jian Chen
36
TC on Systems Safety & Security,
Ali G. Hessami
38
(old name: TC on Systems Assurance)
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Computational Intelligence
10 September 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on computational Intelligence
2.
Chair
Xizhao Wang
Dean and Professor
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei, China
Email: wangxz@mail.hbu.edu.cn
3.
Members
Prof. Daniel So Yeung
Dept. of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
csdaniel@comp.polyu.edu.hk
John W. T. Lee
Associate professor
Dept. of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
John.lee@polyu.edu.hk
Daming Shi
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computing, Nanyang Polytechnic University, Singapore
ASDMShi@ntu.edu.sg
Dianhui Wang
Senior Lecture
Dept. of Computer Science, Latrobe University, Australia
dh.wang@latrobe.edu.au
Chaoyi Pang
Senior Scientist
CSIRO ICT Centre
Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Chaoyi.Pang@csiro.au
Xiaolong Wang
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
wangxl@insun.hit.edu.cn
4.
Goal of TC
The goal of this technical committee is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas among the computational
intelligence investigators, such as to organize the SMC co-sponsored conferences and workshops, and
publications. It also establishes a bridge to connect the new theoretical results of computational intelligence
research and real applications.
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Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
NA
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
NA
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
Organized the 4th Int. Conf. on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC2005), co-sponsored by
SMC, held in Guangzhou, China on 19-21 August 2005.
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
NA
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
NA
(f) Joint activities with other societies
NA
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
1.
2.
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Continue as an Associate Editor to organize paper review for IEEE Transactions on SMC-B
During the ICMLC2005 (in Guangzhou), the TC recruited more than 30 IEEE SMC members
including the student members.
Future activities
To organize the 5th Int. Conf. on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC2006), to be held in Dalian on
13-15 August, 2006.
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Additional comments
NA
Report submitted by:
Date:
Xizhao Wang
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10 September 2005
Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Computational Life Science
September, 1, 2005
1.
Name of TC
Computational Life Science
3.
Co-Chairs
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3.
Professor Hong Yan
Department of Electronic Engineering
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
E-mail: h.yan@cityu.edu.hk
Professor Daniel Yeung
Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hom Hum, Kowloon, Hong Kong
E-mail: csdaniel@inet.polyu.edu.hk
Professor Michael R. Berthold
Department of Computer and Information Science
Konstanz University, Fach M712, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
E-mail: Michael.Berthold@uni-konstanz.de
Members
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Dr. Raya Khanin
Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK
E-mail raya@stats.gla.ac.uk
Professor Tuan Pham
School of Information Technology, James Cook University, Australia
E-mail: tuan.pham@jcu.edu.au
Dr. Mihail Popescu
Department of Health Management & Informatics, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
E-mail: PopescuM@missouri.edu
Dr. Susana Vinga
Biomathematics Group, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Email: svinga@itqb.unl.pt
Professor Guanyu Wang
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas-Houston, USA
Email: Guanyu.Wang@uth.tmc.edu
Professor George Zouridakis
Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, USA
Email: zouridakis@uh.edu
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Goal of TC
The primary objective of the Computational Life Science (CLS) technical committee is to bring together
specialists from the areas biology, chemistry and computer science working in this interdisciplinary
environment. The goal of the TC is to provide a basis for the exchange of information and resources
among the diverse communities and enable interactions between groups from these fields.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
None.
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
Proposed a Tutorial on Computational Life Science (rejected)
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
.None, as the SMC bureaucracy hindered a technical sponsorship of CompLife’05.
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
Selected papers of CompLife 2005 will be invited for special issue (planned).
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
N/A
(f) Joint activities with other societies
N/A
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
Organized special session at ICMLC-2005
Computational Life Science 2005 to be held in Konstanz, Germany, September 25-27, 2005 (real
SMC involvement hindered by bureaucratic hurdles)
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Future activities
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Organization of an International Conference on Computational Life Science (ICCLS) in
conjunction with ICMLC-2006.
Hopefully more formal involvement of SMC in CompLife’06.
Special/Invited Sessions at SMC-2006.
Special Issue Trans. SMC
Additional comments
CLS is a growing field with tremendous interest. Getting SMC involved in this area seems very important to
enable continuous growth of the society.
Report submitted by
Michael R. Berthold
Date
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Expert and Knowledge Based Systems
September 10, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Expert and Knowledge Based Systems
4.
Chair
John W.T. Lee
Associate Professor
Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
john.lee@polyu.edu.hk
3.
Members
Professor Peter Smith
Dean, School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, UK
peter.smith@sunderland.ac.uk
Professor X.Z. Wang
Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Hebei University, China
wangxz@mail.hbu.edu.cn
Dr. Eric Tsang
Assistant Professor
Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
csetsang@comp.polyu.edu.hk
4.
Goal of TC
The goal of the TC is to promote the new generation of expert and knowledge based systems, which have
grown and augmented by the advancement of soft computing, computational intelligence and network
technologies, through organization of seminars, workshops, conferences, publications and other appropriate
activities.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
2005 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2005), August 18-21,
Guangzhou, China.
This conference we supported in the past few years has been very successful in China. The conference
received a total of 2461 submissions with 1050 accepted for presentation and with over 500 attendees.
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
none
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(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
none
(f) Joint activities with other societies
none
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
none
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Future activities
We intend to continue our support for the SMC Annual Conference and the ICMLC conference as our
major future activities in the coming year. The details will be part of our restructuring plans mention below.
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Additional comments
The TC is now in the process of a total review of its goal and technical domain and future plans. It is also
recruiting new members to help expand its domain of activities. This matter is currently discussed among
the TC members and potential members and the VP(TA) will be consulted in due course. We will submit a
proposal for restructuring the TC within the next reporting period.
Report submitted by John Lee
Date September 10, 2005
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Intelligent Communications
September 13, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Intelligent Communications
5.
Chair
Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic
Simon Fraser University
School of Engineering Science
8888 University Drive
Burnaby BC, Canada V5A 1S6
ljilja@cs.sfu.ca, (604) 291-3998
3.
Members
Prof. Donald E. Brown, University of Virginia, USA, brown@virginia.edu
Prof. William Gruver, Simon Fraser University, Canada, gruver@cs.sfu.ca
Dr. Stuart Rubin, SPAWAR Systems Center, USA, stuart.rubin@navy.mil
Dr. Richard Saeks, Accurate Automation Corporation, USA, richard@saeks.org
Dr. Michael Smith, UC Berkeley, USA, m.h.smith@ieee.org
4.
Goal of TC
The committee on Intelligent Communications addresses various aspects of modern intelligent data
communications. Its mission is to help researchers and developers exchange ideas on expanding current and
building novel intelligent communications systems.
The existing communication systems were originally engineered and provisioned to carry voice traffic
only. They are currently being used for a variety of voice, data, image, and video services. In order to
deliver quality of service promised to the customers, these networks require added intelligent systems and
algorithms. This added intelligence is paramount for old networks to continue their existence. It is also an
essential aspect of the design of future networks that they need to respond to the future needs of the ever
demanding user community.
Some of the successful applications of intelligent communications involve designing advanced
intelligent networks which introduced services such as call waiting, caller ID, differential ringing,
messaging services, personal communication services, and 800 numbers. This included advances in
designing efficient protocols and routing algorithms in packet networks. Current research and emerging
techniques include algorithms for admission and congestion control in data networks, fraud prevention,
denial of service protections, Web search engines, to name a few.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
NA
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
NA
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
NA
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
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NA
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
NA
(f) Joint activities with other societies
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S. Rubin serves as an associate editor of the International Journal of Modeling and Simulation,
published by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development
(IASTED).
Lj. Trajkovic serves as a BoG member of the Circuits and Systems Society, and an Associate
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part-I.
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
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M. Smith and W.Gruver served as Program Chairs for at the 4th Int. Conf. on Machine Learning
and Cybernetics (ICMLC2005), held in Guangzhou, China, August 19–21, 2005 (technically cosponsored by SMCS).
M. Smith delivered keynote address entitled “SMC, where are we going?” at the SMCia’05, held
in Espoo, Finland, June 28–30, 2005 (sponsored by SMCS).
W. Gruver delivered keynote lecture entitled “Distributed intelligent systems: what makes them
intelligent,” at the IEEE 2005 International Symposium on Microwave, Antenna, Propagation and
EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications (MAPE 2005), Beijing, China, August 11, 2005
(technically co-sponsored by SMCS).
D. Brown delivered a tutorial entitled “Knowledge discovery from simulation” at the 4th Int. Conf.
on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC2005), held in Guangzhou, China, August 19–21,
2005 (technically co-sponsored by SMCS).
Lj. Trajkovic delivered a tutorial entitled “Modeling and characterization of traffic in deployed
networks” at the 4th Int. Conf. on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC2005), held in
Guangzhou, China, August 19–21, 2005 (technically co-sponsored by SMCS).
Lj. Trajkovic served as a TPC member, session chair, and co-author of two papers presented at
SPECTS 2005, held in Cherry Hill, NJ, July 24–28, 2005 (technically co-sponsored by SMCS).
To recruit new committee members and revive the committee’s activities.
M. Smith and W.Gruver serve as Program Chairs for ICMLC2006, to be held in Dalian, China,
August 13–16, 2006.
S. Rubin plans to develop knowledge-based systems for language translation for coalition chat.
Lj. Trajkovic serves as Technical Program Co-Chair of SPECTS 2006, to be held in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada, July 31–August 2, 2006 (technically co-sponsored by SMCS).
Additional comments
Report submitted by Ljiljana Trajkovic
Date Sept. 13, 2005
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems
August 25, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems
6.
Chair
Stuart H. Rubin, SSC San Diego
Tel. (619) 553-3554, Fax. (619) 553-1130, E. stuart.rubin@navy.mil
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University
Tel. (305) 348-3480, Fax. (305) 348-3549, E. chens@cs.fiu.edu
3.
Members
Julie A. Adams, Vanderbilt University (Julie.a.adams@vanderbilt.edu)
Wei Dai, Victoria University (Wei.Dai@vu.edu.au)
Doug DeGroot, Leiden University (degroot@acm.org)
Mark Embrechts, Renssalaer Polytechnic University (embrem@rpi.edu)
David Fogel, Natural Selection Inc. (dfogel@natural-selection.com)
Gary Fogel, Natural Selection Inc., (gfogel@natural-selection.com)
Eric Grégoire, Université d´Artois (gregoire@cril.univ-artois.fr)
James Law, Expert2 Systems Inc., (jamesblaw@qmail.com)
Gordon Lee, San Diego State University (glee@kahuna.sdsu.edu)
Mariofanna Milanova, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (mgmilanova@ualr.edu)
Michael Smith, University of California at Berkeley (m.h.smith@ieee.org)
Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami (shyu@miami.edu)
Du Zhang, California State University (zhangd@ecs.csus.edu)
4.
Goal of TC
The goal is to advance the foundations upon which machine intelligence may be based. We recognize that
any non-trivial intelligent system necessarily embodies a collage of soft computing methodologies, which
calls forth the need to integrate the domain-specific technologies in a maximally reusable object system.
Knowledge is necessarily involved towards this end. The representation and acquisition of knowledge is
thus relegated to paramount importance. It follows that the charge of this TC is to explore new directions
and associated methodologies for representing, inferring, and validating knowledge.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
None
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
None
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI-2005) --Knowledge
Acquisition and Management, Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (August 15-17, 2005). Each IRI
conference (2) consisted of 29 sessions and 100/168 published/submitted papers.
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
(on going planning)
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Professors Du Zhang and Weide Chang plan to create a special issue of the IEEE SMC conference based on
the papers published in the IEEE IRI conference for the last two years
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
None
(f) Joint activities with other societies
The IEEE IRI Conference serves as a forum to integrate knowledge representation and acquisition into a
plethora of applications that stem from interaction with other IEEE societies.
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
Our TC is actively engaged in breaking the barriers of knowledge acquisition in expert systems,
multimedia systems, neural networks, and evolutionary programming. We have already developed
superior foreign language backend translators in this regard and are currently developing message
summarizers. A superior creative natural language expert system is slated for delivery at the year’s end.
These are all basic R&D projects that serve to fill perceived voids.
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Future activities
Our plan for the future can be summarized as follows.
a. Develop knowledge acquisition as a major conference track and journal theme
b. Collaborate with industry in the development of applications, which further the cause of knowledge
acquisition
c. Increase the level of student involvement through “best paper” and related awards.
d. Deploy the learning Semantic Normalizer for language translation applications in Iraq.
e. Develop and deploy a novel learning expert system – the T2K
f. Explore the learning of a brain-like ensemble neural network – the T3K
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Additional comments
We have many team members that serve the needs of the DoD as well as various U.S. funding agencies.
Our team is both theoretically and empirically based.
Report submitted by
Date
Stuart H. Rubin,
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Machine Learning
September 3, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Machine Learning
7.
Chair
Dr. Yuan Yan Tang, Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, yytang@comp.hkbu.edu.hk
3.
Members
Dr. Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University. jiming@comp.hkbu.edu.hk.
Dr. Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan. zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp
Dr. Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada. yyao@cs.uregina.ca
Dr. Yiming Ye, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA. yiming@watson.ibm.com.
Dr. Stan Klasa, Concordia University, Canada. klasa@cs.concordia.ca
4.
Goal of TC
The primary goal of the Machine Learning Technical Committee is to promote research, development,
innovations, technical activities, and international collaboration in the area of machine learning related to the
following areas: Decision Tree Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, Evaluating Hypotheses, Bayesian
Learning, Computational Learning Theory, Instance-Based Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Learning Sets of
Rules, Analytical Learning, Combining Inductive and Analytical Learning, Reinforcement Learning.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
We were not able to organize any sessions/tracks for the SMC ’05.
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
No tutorial courses
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
Collaborated with other Cybernetics Technical Committee chairs, we have organized “The Fourth
International Conference on Machine Leaning and Cybernetics 2005” (ICMLC’05), which has been
held in Guangzhou of China, August 2005.
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
No special issues.
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
No tutorial review papers.
(f) Joint activities with other societies
We are organizing “The Fourth International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications”,
which will be held in Macau, November of 2005. I will serve as a Conference Co-Chair.
Collaborated with International Associate of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), we have organized “the 8th
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR’06)” in Seoul of Korea,
August 2005.
Collaborated with IEEE Hong Kong Computational Intelligence Chapter, we have organized “2005
International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC’05)” in Hefei, China, August 2005.
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(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
Meetings of the TC Chair and seven TC Members during the successful ICMLC’05 in China.
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We are going to organize an invited sessions/tracks on “Wavelet Analysis and Application to
Intelligent Systems” in the International Conference on Machine Leaning and Cybernetics 2006.
Collaborated with other Cybernetics Technical Committee chairs, we are going to organize “The Fifth
International Conference on Machine Leaning and Cybernetics 2006” (ICMLC’06), which will be held
in China, August 2006.
We are organizing “The Fifth International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications”,
which will be held in Beijing of China, November of 2006.
Collaborate with International Associate of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), we will organize “the 18th
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’06)” in Hong Kong, August 2006.
A Transactions (Part B) Special Issue is currently under planning.
Additional comments
N/A
Report submitted by Yuan Yan Tang
Date September 3, 2005
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Medical Information
September 12, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Medical Information
8.
Chair
Cathy M Helgason
912 South Wood Street Room 855N or Room 832S
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Il. 60612
helgason@uic.edu
Thomas H. Jobe
Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Il. 60612
tjobe@uic.edu
3.
Members
Rod Taber, Consultant, USA (wrodtaber@atlanticbb.net)
Juan Ramos Sanchez, University of South Florida, USA (jsramos@hsc.usf.edu)
(this member may be changed)
Bashar Sripada, University of Illinois College of Medicine @ Chicago, sripada@uic.edu)
Julie A Dickerson, Iowa State University, UAS (julied@iastate.edu)
S-C Cheng, Creighton University, USA (scheng@creighton.edu)
Ellen Walker, Hiram University, USA (Walkere1@ hiram.edu)
4.
Goal of TC
The goal of this technical committee is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas among medical and
biological researchers and engineers trained in fuzzy logic based approach through scientific events, such as
special conference sessions, workshops, and symposia, as well as through publications, such as special
journal issues.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
none
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC B
We organized a Special Issue on Fuzzy Logic in Biological Systems and Medicine at Trans. on SMC-B,
December Issue (2005).
The papers in this issue are highly interesting and cover a broad range of applications of fuzzy logic in
medicine and biology: genetics, clinical psychiatry, bullet proofing police/armed forces jackets,
transcranial Doppler.
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(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
none
(f) Joint activities with other societies
none
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
none
6.
Future activities
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Organizing sessions for SMC2006. This will be our main 2006 goal.
To seek out Neurological applications of Fuzzy logic and work on a session for the American
Academy of Neurology meeting 2006. Unfortunately this could not be done in 2005 as originally
planned.
Additional comments
One of the goals of this committee is to bring forth the presence of fuzzy logic in medicine and to get both
the medical and engineering communities to interact at the level of publication and national/international
meetings to foster new projects and dissemination of information regarding this work. The participation in
the program for the SMC 2006 meeting is a good carry over from the publication of the special issue of
SMC Part B completed for publication in December, 2005.
Report submitted by
Date
Cathy M Helgason
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Soft Computing
September 7, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Soft Computing
9.
Chair
Tadahiko Murata (Dr., Associate Professor)
Kansai University, Department of Informatics
Takatsuki 569-1095, Osaka, JAPAN
TEL: +81-72-690-2429 FAX: +81-72-690-2491
e-mail: murata@res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp
URL: http://www.res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp/~murata/
3.
Members
Fridtjof Feldbusch, University Karlsruhe, Germany, feldbusch@informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de
http://ces.univ-karlsruhe.de/~feldbusch/
Michael Hanss, University of Stuttgart, Germany, hanss@mecha.uni-stuttgart.de
http://www.mecha.uni-stuttgart.de/Mitarbeiter/Hanss/hanss_en.htm
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan, takagi@design.kyushu-u.ac.jp
http://www.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~takagi/
4.
Goal of TC
The goal of this Technical Committee (TC) is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas among researchers
and engineers of Soft Computing such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, agent
systems, and their hybrid systems. The TC tries to seek opportunities to do that through scientific events,
such as organized sessions at SMC conferences, organized workshops, and publications.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
We collected 36 papers and organized the following 7 sessions:
1) Neural Networks, 2) Fuzzy Systems, 3) Evolutionary Computation and Optimization -1,
4) Evolutionary Computation and Optimization -2, 5) Hybrid Systems, 6) Agent Simulation,
7) Rules and Patterns
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
None.
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
None.
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
None at this moment. We hope to have several papers as fine outputs through the above mentioned
activities in several IEEE SMC Supported Conferences.
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
None.
(f) Joint activities with other societies
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None
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
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We collected seven papers and organized a session with five accepted papers at ICMLC2005.
Two TC members serve as AEs for IEEE Trans. on SMC-B.
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We will organize sessions for SMC2006, and a TC member serves as Special Session Chair for SMC2006.
We are trying to collaborate with the SIG on Evolutionary Computation of the Society of Fuzzy Theory and
Intelligent Informatics.
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We are planning to have online TC workshops using electric presentations such as power point files or poster
presentations with voice information. We can have discussions on presented research works through online
bulletin board. Anyone who is interested in this workshop, please take a keen attention to our announcement.
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Additional comments
Report submitted by
Tadahiko Murata
Date
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Human-Machine Systems
September 10, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Human-Machine Systems
10.
Chair
Stephanie Guerlain
Associate Professor, Dept. of Systems and Information Engineering
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4747
(434) 924-4438
(434) 982-2972 (fax)
Guerlain@virginia.edu
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Members
Andy Banerjee, Texas A & M University, Banerjee@iemail.tamu.edu
Ellen Bass, University of Virginia, ejb4n@virginia.edu
Amy Bisantz, SUNY Buffalo, bisantz@eng.buffalo.edu
Catherine Burns, University of Waterloo, c4burns@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
Arye Ephrath, Mythology, Inc., a.ephrath@ieee.org
Greg Jamieson, University of Toronto, jamieson@mie.utoronto.ca
John Lee, University of Iowa, jdlee@engineering.uiowa.edu
Michael Lewis, University of Pittsburgh, ml@sis.pitt.edu
Joachim Meyer, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, joachim@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Christine Mitchell, Georgia Tech, cm@chmsr.gatech.edu
Celestine Ntuen, North Carolina A & T, ntuen@ncat.edu
Mansour Rahimi, University of Southern California, mrahimi@usc.edu
Ling Rothrock, Pennsylvania State University, lrothroc@psu.edu
Phil Smith, Ohio State University, phil+@osu.edu
Geb Thomas, University of Iowa, Geb-Thomas@uiowa.edu
4.
Goal of TC
This technical committee is concerned with issues related to modeling, designing, and evaluating humanmachine systems.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
none
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
A special issue on "Human-Robot Interaction" was published: IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, vol. 35, no. 4
(2005).
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(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
none
(f) Joint activities with other societies
At the last two Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meetings, an agreement was reached to
initiate a new journal on Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. Several members of our TC will
play a prominent role as associate editors of and contributors to this new journal.
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Our TC reviewed HMS papers for SMC2005.
Conducted a HMS TC survey to determine how HMS members perceive
Recruited three new associate editors for SMC-A in the area of Human-Machine Systems
Commented on suggestion to create SIGs instead of TCs (overwhelming majority said this
was a good idea)
Organize and review special sessions for SMC conferences
Continue to solicit and review high-quality papers for SMC-A.
Recruit new associate editors for SMC-A in the area of Human-Machine Systems
Elect a new chair of the HMS TC
Appoint HMS Distinguished Lecturers
Additional comments
The SMC conference tends to fall very close to the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual
meeting which severely limits human-machine systems folks from attending the SMC annual meeting.
Report submitted by
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Conflict Resolution
September 2, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Conflict Resolution
11.
Chair
Liping Fang, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Professor and Chair
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3
Tel: (416) 979-5000 Ext. 6410, Fax: (416) 979-5265
E-mail: lfang@ryerson.ca
Keith W. Hipel, Ph.D., P.Eng., FIEEE, FRSC, FCAE, FEIC, FAWRA
Professor
Department of Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: (519) 888 4567 ext. 2830, Fax: (519) 746 4791
E-mail: kwhipel@uwaterloo.ca
3.
Members
Kei Fukuyama, Tohoku University, Japan, fukuyama@se.is.tohoku.ac.jp
Kevin W. Li, University of Windsor, Canada, kwli@uwindsor.ca
Donald J. Noakes, Thompson Rivers University, Canada, dnoakes@tru.ca
Norio Okada, Kyoto University, Japan, okada@imdr.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
4.
Goal of TC
The key goal of the Technical Committee on Conflict Resolution is to provide a forum for discussing,
promoting, and disseminating research in the development and application of formal approaches to conflict
resolution and risk analysis.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
We collected 16 papers and organized a special track of three sessions on Conflict and Risk Analysis in
Systems Management with 16 accepted papers for SMC 2005.
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
none
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
none
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
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(f) Joint activities with other societies
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(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
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Future activities
Will organize a special track of sessions on Conflict and Risk Analysis in Systems Management for SMC
2006.
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Additional comments
The Technical Committee on Conflict Resolution has been very active in organizing special tracks of
sessions on Conflict and Risk Analysis in Systems Management at the annual SMC conference for over ten
years.
Report submitted by
Liping Fang and Keith W. Hipel
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September 2, 2005
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Control of Uncertain Systems
September 10, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Control of Uncertain Systems
12.
Chair
Pr Abdelkader EL KAMEL
abdelkader.elkamel@ec-lille.fr, tel: +33320335411, Fax : +33320335499
3.
Members
P. BORNE, Pr., EC Lille, France, Pierre.borne@ec-lille.fr
K. MELLOULI, Pr., HEC Carthage, Tunisia, khaled.mellouli@ihec.rnu.tn
K. MESGHOUNI, Dr., EC Lille, khaled.mesghouni@ec-lille.fr
MO JAMSHIDI, Pr., U. New Mexico, USA, moj@wacong.org
I. KACEM, Dr., UTT, France, imed.kacem@utt.fr
S. HAMMADI, Pr., EC Lille, slim.hammadi@ec-lille.fr
L. FOULLOY, Pr., U. Savoie, Laurent.Foulloy@univ-savoie.fr
M. BEN REJEB, Pr., ENIT, Tunisia, mohamed.benrejeb@enit.rnu.tn
A. BENABDERAZAK, Pr., UEC Tokyo, Japan, ben@sowa.is.uec.ac.jp
M. SANO, Pr., Hiroshima University, Japan
F. Chowdhury, Pr., U. Louisiana, USA, fnc7818@louisiana.edu
T. Ida, Pr., ACM, Japan, Tetsuo.Ida@acm.org
Ph. VANHEEGUE, Pr., EC Lille, France, philippe.vanheeghe@ec-lille.fr
4.
Goal of TC
Bring together researchers focused in intelligent control in uncertain environment.
Support SMC activities in the area.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
We collected 8 papers and organized 2 sessions in SMC2005
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
TC participated actively in the organization of the 17th IMACS World Congress, Paris, July 10-15,
2005 sponsored by SMC
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
none
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
none
(f) Joint activities with other societies
Workshop on "supply chain management" in cooperation with CNRS-GDR MACS and France SMC
Chapter
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TC Chair served as European Liaison in SMC2005
5 of our TC members served as IPC members in SMC2005
2 invited speakers in the topic: “Belief functions in decision making” & “New developments in
intelligent control”
Preparation of a student branch in the topic as part of the TC & France SMC Chapter
WAC’2006 (Program Chair and IPCs)
SMC’2006
Additional comments
Report submitted by
Abdelkader EL KAMEL
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09-10-2005
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Discrete Event Systems
September 7, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Discrete Event Systems
13.
Chair
Professor MuDer Jeng
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Taiwan Ocean University
Keelung 202, Taiwan, R.O.C.
jeng@mail.ntou.edu.tw
3.
Members
Professor MengChu Zhou
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ 07102, USA
zhou@njit.edu
Professor Maria Pia Fanti
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Polytechnic of Bari
Bari, Italy
fanti@deemail.poliba.it
Professor Da-Yin Liao
Department of Information Management
National Chi-Nan University
Nantou, Taiwan, ROC
Email: dyliao@ncnu.edu.tw
Professor DooYong Lee
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Taejon 305-701, Korea
Emai: leedy@kaist.ac.kr
Professor Alessandro Giua
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Cagliari
Cagliari, Italy
giua@diee.unica.it
Professor Robin G. Qiu
Department of Information Science
The Pennsylvania State University
Malvern, PA 19355, U.S.A.
robinqiu@psu.edu
4.
Goal of TC
The goal of this technical committee is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas among discrete event
systems researchers and engineers through scientific events, such as special conference sessions,
workshops, and symposia, as well as through publications, such as special journal issues.
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Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
We have organized 2 special sessions (on Discrete Event Systems & Medical Mechatronic Systems
respectively) of 10 papers (collected & accepted) for the 2005 SMC conference.
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none.
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
We participated in organizing the 2005 International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control.
Two of our members, Prof. Jeng and Prof. Zhou, serve as Program Co-chairs.
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
A. We are guest-editing a special issue on “Advances in Heterogeneous and Complex System
Integration” of the IEEE Transactions on SMC – Part A. The special issue is tentatively scheduled
for publication in October 2005.
B. We are guest-editing a special issue on “Engineering Applications of Petri Nets” of the IEEE
Transactions on SMC – Part C. The special issue is tentatively scheduled for publication in May
2006.
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
none
(f) Joint activities with other societies
A. We guest-edited a special issue on “Discrete Event System Techniques for CIM” for the
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, March-May 2005.
B. We participated in organizing the 2005 International Conference on Automation Science and
Engineering. Our TC Chair Prof. Jeng serves as Tutorials Chair.
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
Three of our members currently serve as Associate Editors for the SMC Transactions (Prof. Jeng, Prof.
Zhou and Prof. Lee). Prof. Zhou is Managing Editor for SMC-C.
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B.
C.
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We will participate in organizing the 2006 SMC Conference. Our TC Chair, Prof. Jeng, will serve as
Program Co-chair for the 2006 SMC Conference. Our member Prof. Zhou will serve as General CoChair.
We will organize special sessions for the 2006 SMC conference.
We will co-host e-Manufacturing Symposium with Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association
starting from 2006.
Additional comments
Report submitted by MuDer Jeng
Date September 7, 2005
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Distributed Intelligent Systems
September 8, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems
14.
Chair
Dilip Kotak, Principal Officer
NRC Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation
National Research Council Canada
dilip.kotak@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
William A. Gruver, Professor
School of Engineering Science
Simon Fraser University, Canada
gruver@cs.sfu.ca
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Fabio Bellifemine, Telecom Italia, Italy <fabio.bellifemine@tilab.com>
Bob Brennan, University of Calgary, Canada <rbrennan@ucalgary.ca>
Mohamed Kamel, University of Waterloo, Canada <mkamel@uwaterloo.ca>
Uzay Kaymak, Erasamus University, Netherlands <kaymak@few.eur.nl>
Tsu-Tien Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan <ttlee@cn.nctu.edu.tw>
Duncan McFarlane, Cambridge University, England <dcm@eng.cam.ac.uk>
Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic <marik@labe.felk.cvut.cz>
Arturo Molina, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico <armolina@itesm.mx>
David Naso, Politecnico di Bari, Italy <naso@deemail.poliba.it>
Dorian Sabaz, Intelligent Robotics Corp., Canada <dorian@iroboticcorp.com>
Shinksuke Tamura, Fukui University, Japan <tamura@fuis.fuis.fukui-u.ac.jp>
Vince Thomson, McGill University, Canada <vincent.thomson@mcgill.ca>
Mihaela Ulieru University of New Brunswick, Canada <ulieru@ucalgary.ca>
Paul Valckenaers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
<paul.valckenaers@mech.kuleuven.ac.be>
Goal of TC
The objective of the Distributed Intelligent Systems Technical Committee is to bring together
specialists to develop systems and applications that exploit the technologies of distributed and
intelligent systems. It promotes research, development, and applications of agent technologies,
building on related consortia and research programs. It also provides a continuing base to researchers
who have been participating in national and international projects by building on the knowledge
created by these efforts. The scope of core technologies includes architecture, agent intelligence, agent
communications, agent collaboration, system optimization, and agent simulation. Applications include
infrastructure systems for manufacturing and supply chains, services, energy, and transportation.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
We collected eight papers and organized two special sessions, T-PM13 and T-PM43, entitled
"Distributed Intelligent Systems: Service Infrastructure" with eight accepted papers.
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
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Tutorial for SMC2005 entitled "UML for Systems Engineers," T-PM2
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
none
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
none
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
none
(f) Joint activities with other societies
none
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
Invited presentations and keynote lectures on Distributed Intelligent Systems in China, Canada, USA,
and Europe (DIS TC members).
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Distributed Intelligent Systems, "Collective Intelligence and its Applications," Prague, Czech
Republic, June 15-16, 2006 (general co-chairs, V. Marik, D. McFarlane, and W. Gruver)
Special issue of Transactions on SMC, Part A or C, based on papers from DIS 2006 in Prague.
Tutorial review paper for Transactions on SMC, Part C on the topic "Java Application Development
Framework and its Applications" (F. Belifemine)
Additional comments
Report submitted by
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Date
September 8, 2005
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Homeland Security
September 1, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Homeland Security
15.
Chair
Hsinchun Chen, Professor
University of Arizona, Artificial Intelligence Lab
hchen@eller.arizona.edu
Don Brown, Professor
University of Virginia, SIE Department
brown@virginia.edu
3.
Members
Sudarshan Chawathe, University of Maryland
Salim Hariri, University of Arizona
Ee peng Lim, Nanyang Technical University
Jay Nunamaker, University of Arizona
G. P. Patil, Pennsylvania State University
Feiyue Wang, University of Arizona
Chris Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
John Yen, Pennsylvania State University
Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona
4.
Goal of TC
The scientific and engineering communities have been called upon to help the United States and the world
respond to security challenges after September 11, 2001. The IEEE SMC Technical Committee on
Homeland Security (TCHS) aims to promote and guide information systems, algorithm, and databases
research of relevance to national and homeland security. The TCHS will: (1) organize special paper
session(s) relating to homeland security research in IEEE conferences; (2) conduct annual TCHS meetings
during annual IEEE SMC conferences; (3) collaborate with other professional societies to promote
homeland security related research; (4) collaborate with federal funding agencies (e.g., NSF, DHS, NIJ,
ITIC, NIH, etc.) to develop national and homeland security related research programs and engage in
research projects; and (5) collaborate with government agencies, industrial partners, and local and national
media in sponsoring and organizing homeland security related meetings, engaging in policy discussions,
and facilitating training, education, and outreach programs.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
Organized IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2005 (ISI 2005), May 19-20,
Atlanta, Georgia
(Technically Co-sponsored by SMCS)
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(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
none
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
none
(f) Joint activities with other societies
ISI2005 was co-sponsored by IEEE Intelligence Transportations Systems Society as well as SMCS.
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A special issue on "Artificial Intelligence for Homeland Security" at IEEE Intelligent Systems
magazine guest-edited by Profs. Hsinchun Chen and Feiyue Wang, is forthcoming in September
2005. We collected 25 papers and accepted 6 papers for this issue.
Organized two special issues on Intelligence and Security Informatics in Decision Support Systems
and Journal of the American Society on Information Science and Technology, 2005-2006.
Organized a special paper session on homeland security at IEEE Intelligent Transportation
Systems Conference (ITSC), September 14-17, Vienna, Austria, 2005.
Organize IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2006 (IEEEE ISI 2006), May
22-23, San Diego, California, with funding support from NSF, CIA, and DHS and sponsorship
from SMC and ITSS TCHS.
Organize a special issue on Homeland Security IT and Modeling Research for IEEE Trans. on
SMC Part A (Hsinchun Chen and Daniel Zeng)
Organize sessions for SMC2006
Organize a review paper for IEEE Trans. on SMC
Additional comments
Report submitted by
Date
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Industrial Applications
August 15, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Industrial Applications (Systems)
16.
Chair
Dr. Seppo J. Ovaska, Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, ovaska@ieee.org
3.
Members
Dr. Tamal Bose, Professor, Utah State University, USA, tbose@engineering.usu.edu
Dr. Mo-Yuen Chow, Professor, North Carolina State University, USA, chow@ncsu.edu
Dr. Mark J. Embrechts, Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, embrem@rpi.edu
Dr. Xiao-Zhi Gao, Docent, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, gao@cc.hut.fi
Dr. Akimoto Kamiya, Professor, Kushiro National College of Technology, Japan, kamiya@kushiro-ct.ac.jp
Dr. Yuichi Motai, Assistant Professor, University of Vermont, USA, ymotai@cem.uvm.edu
Dr. Bernhard Sick, Assistant Professor, University of Passau, Germany, sick@fmi.uni-passau.de
Dr. Yukinori Suzuki, Professor, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan, yuki@csse.muroran-it.ac.jp
Dr. Jonathan Timmis, Reader, University of York, UK, jtimmis@cs.york.ac.uk
4.
Goal of TC
The primary goal of the Industrial Applications Technical Committee is to promote research, development,
innovations, technical activities, and international collaboration in the area of industrial applications related
to systems; as well as to advance the emerging concept of Fusion of Soft Computing and Hard Computing.
We are just starting new activities related to the fresh field of Artificial Immune Systems and Their
Applications. In addition, this TC is running an established SMCia (Soft Computing in Industrial
Applications) workshop series and its new SMCals (Adaptive and Learning Systems) sister series.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
Because the TC was reorganized just before the submission deadline, we were not able to organize any
sessions/tracks for the SMC ’05.
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
No tutorial courses after 2003.
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
In May 2005, we organized the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing as
Transdiciplinary Science and Technology in Muroran, Japan (Technically Co-Sponsored by the SMCS);
over 100 participants; http://wstst05.softcomputing.net/
In June 2005, we organized the 4th SMCia workshop in Espoo, Finland (fully sponsored by the SMCS);
over 40 participants; http://powerelectronics.hut.fi/smcia05/
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(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
No special issues after May 2002 (SMC-C).
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
No tutorial review papers after May 2002 (SMC-C).
(f) Joint activities with other societies
An edited volume “Computationally Intelligent Hybrid Systems: The Fusion of Soft Computing and
Hard Computing,” based on the May 2002 SMC-C special issue, was published in the Computational
Intelligence Society’s book series on “Computational Intelligence” (series editor D. B. Fogel);
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471476684.html
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
Meetings of the TC Chair and seven TC Members during the successful SMCia/05 workshop in Finland.
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Organize an invited track of sessions on “Fusion of Soft Computing and Hard Computing” for the
SMC ’06 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Organize a half-day tutorial on “Computationally Intelligent Hybrid Systems” for the SMC ’06 in
Taipei, Taiwan.
Organize the 1st SMCals workshop (SMCals/06; Adaptive and Learning Systems) in Logan, Utah,
USA, July 2006.
Organize the 5th SMCia workshop (SMCia/07; Soft Computing in Industrial Applications) in Passau,
Germany, July 2007.
A Transactions (Part C) Special Issue is currently under planning.
Additional comments
N/A
Report submitted by Seppo J. Ovaska
Date August 15, 2005
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Intelligent Transportation Systems
August 18, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Intelligent Transportation Systems
17.
Chair
Tsu-Tian Lee
National Taipei University of Technology
Tel: (886)-2-2771-4193
Fax: (886)-2-2751-8845
ttlee@ntut.edu.tw
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Members
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4.
Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka, University of California, Berkeley (tomizuka@euler.Berkeley.edu)
Dr. Chih-Lin I, AE&T (icl@comsoc.org, ci@att.com)
Professor William T. Scherer, University of Virginia (w. scherer@ieee.org)
Dr. John Yen, The Penn State University (jyen@ist.psu.edu)
Prof. William Gruver, Simon Fraser University (gruver@cs.sfu.ca)
Professor Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University (t.fukuda@ieee.org)
Dr. Wei-Bin Zhang, University of California, Berkeley (wbzhang@path.berkeley.edu)
Goal of TC
In the 21st century, the mainstream of technology development is the interdisciplinary integration, together
with the human-centered technology that emphasizes on friendly service for human than the forced
adaptation by human. One case in point is the developing technology of Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITS) that integrates transportation systems with control, communications and information technologies.
The technical committee on Intelligent Transportation Systems within the IEEE SMC Society is advancing
those developments and promotes ITS related technical activities
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
We collected 7 papers and organized a special session on Intelligent Systems for Ovarian Cancer Micro
Array Data with 5 accepted papers for SMC2005.
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
none
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
none
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
none
(f) Joint activities with other societies
1.
Organize a special session for the 2005 Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control.
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Organize a special session on Taiwan Smart Car Project for 2005 IEEE Intelligent Vehicle
Symposium.
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
Prof. Tsu-Tian Lee was invited to serve as a Plenary Speaker for 2005 Symposium on Fuzzy Theory
and Applications. His topic is “Intelligent Transportation Systems in Taiwan”.
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We have started to organize SMC2006 in Taipei.
Will organize one special track on “Smart Car” and one special track on “Advanced Communication
and Network Technologies for ITS” for the SMC’06.
Additional comments
None.
Report submitted by
Date August 18, 2005
Tsu-Tian Lee
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Robotics and Intelligent Sensing
September 13, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Robotics and Intelligent Sensing
18.
Chair
Hong Zhang
Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
Tel: 1-780-492-7188, Fax: 1-780-492-1071, E-mail: zhang@cs.ualberta.ca
3.
Members
Ashraf Elnagar
Department or Computer Science, University of Sharjah,
UAE, Ashraf@sharjah.ac.ae
Alessandro Farinelli Department of Informatica e Sistemistica Universita di
Roma La apienza, Italy,
Alessandro.Farinelli@dis.uniroma1.it
Ron Kube
Syncrude Canada Ltd., Canada, kube.ron@syncrude.ca
Honghai Liu
Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, UK
hliu@csd.abdn.ac.uk
Ferat Sahin
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, feseee@rit.edu, USA
Simon X. Yang
School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Canada
syang@uoguelph.ca
Cang Ye
Department of Applied Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
USA, cxye@ualr.edu
John Zelek
School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Canada
jzelek@uoguelph.ca
4.
Goal of TC
The Robotics and Intelligent Sensing Technical Committee (RIS-TC) is part of the IEEE Society on System,
Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). The RIS-TC strives to maintain SMC’s leadership position in robotics and
intelligent sensing research, provide strategic support to SMC members active in robotics and intelligent
sensing research, and serve as a linkage between members of the RIS-TC and other technical committees
within the IEEE SMC society. In addition, the RIS-TC is committed to facilitate collaborative efforts between
SMC and other IEEE societies and non-IEEE professional societies in advancing fundamental and applied
research in robotics and intelligent sensing.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
Organized one special session on Robotics and Intelligent Sensing at SMC2005, T-PM31 with five
papers
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
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Served as a Founding Council Vice Chair and a PC member for IEEE International Conference on
Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA2005) Technically co-sponsored by SMCS
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
none
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
none
(f) Joint activities with other societies
none
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
none
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Future activities
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Technical co-sponsorship of IEEE ICMA 2006 mentioned above, to be held in Luoyang, China, in
June 2006, with a few other IEEE societies (Robotics and Automation, etc.)
Orgainze two to three special sessions at 2006 IEEE SMC annual conference, related to areas of
robotics and intelligent sensing.
Possibly organize a special issue on intelligent sensing for mineral granulometry.
Additional comments
Report submitted by
Date September 13, 2005
Hong Zhang
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Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Service Systems and Organization
September 5, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Service Systems and Organization
19.
Chair
Jian CHEN
Professor and Chair,
Dept. of Management Science and Engineering, School of Economics and Management,
Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Tel: (8610) 62789896, Email: jchen@tsinghua.edu.cn
3.
Members
Dr. X. Q. Cai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, xqcai@se.cuhk.edu.hk
Dr. C. B. Chu, Technology University of Troyes, France, chu@utt.fr
Dr. Hemant Jain, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, USA, jain@uwm.edu
Dr. Y. Nakamori, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, nakamori@jaist.ac.jp
Dr. Y. J. Shi, University of Cambridge, UK, ys@eng.cam.ac.uk
Dr. Y. Zhu Tsinghua University, China, zhuyan@em.tsinghua.edu.cn
4.
Goal of TC
The Service Systems and Organizations Technical Committee is a professional committee that is
committed to advance the research and applications in the area of service systems and organizations. The
main objectives of the committee are:

Enhance cooperation and communication among the professionals and researchers in the field of
service systems;

Organize international conferences or meetings that provide a multidisciplinary forum for discussing
and exchanging information and ideas in the service systems field;

Develop and promote international publications in the area of service systems and organizations; and

Increase public understanding and appreciation of service systems and organizations, as well as
encourage involvement and participation of youth and collegiate students.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
none
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
2005 Int. Conf. on Service Systems and Service Management, July 13-15, 2005, Chongqing China
sponsored by IEEE-SMCS as a Technical Co-sponsor.
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
none
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
none
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(f) Joint activities with other societies
none
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
Associate Editor for SMC-A and SMC-C
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Future activities
D.
E.
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Organize invited session for the 2006 SMC conference.
Organize 2006- Conference on Service Systems and Service Management in France. (We hope that it
could become a series conference of IEEE-SMC, tbd).
Additional comments
Report submitted by
Date
Jian Chen
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IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
Annual Report of Technical Committee on
Systems Safety & Security
September 5, 2005
1.
Name of TC
TC on Systems Safety & Security
20.
Chair
Professor Ali G Hessami, FIEE, SMIEEE, FRSA
Chief Engineer & Head of Advanced Technology Group
Atkins Global
Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, London NW1 3AT
Tel: +44-207-1212469, Mobile: +44-7803259306, Fax: +44-207-1212525
Email: A.G.Hessami@IEEE.Org
3.
Members
Not confirmed: Professors Zhang and Chang
(It is anticipated that the TC’s tutorial and special tracks during the Hawaii conference would result in
enlisting a dedicated and active core of TC members.)
4.
Goal of TC
The goal of this technical committee is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas among systems safety and
security experts through scientific events, such as special conference sessions, workshops, and symposia, as
well as through publications, such as special journal issues.
5.
Major Activities
(a) Organized special sessions or tracks for the annual SMC Conference held this year
Organized session on "Safety & Security in System of Systems," M-PM3, at SMC2005.
(b) Organized tutorial course for the annual SMC Conference held this year
A half day tutorial on "Safety and Security,"T-PM3, at SMC2005 in the 10/9th afternoon.
(c) Organized conferences or workshops sponsored by the SMC Society
none
(d) Organized special issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, or C
none
(e) Organized tutorial review papers in the SMC Transactions
none
(f) Joint activities with other societies
none
(g) Other technical activities related to your TC
Key note speech on Cybernetic Safety & Security at SMC UK&RI annual conference held at City
University in London during 7 & 8 Sept. 2005
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Future activities
(a) To work on a special issue on “Systems Safety & Security Analysis” of the IEEE Transactions on
SMC – Part C.
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(b) To arrange technical activities in collaboration with possibly the Computer Society and Systems
Safety Society.
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Additional comments
The TC has been approaching various SMC members for collaboration, participation or active support.
Many formal and informal approaches have so far not resulted in any firm commitment. It is anticipated
that the special sessions and the tutorial organized by the TC at SMC 2005 conference in Hawaii would
stimulate more professional interest and participation leading to a more active TC.
Report submitted by
Date
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