Extended Technical Activities Committee Meeting with TAC members, TC Chairs, and Chapter Chairs Taipei, Oct. 10, 2006 1. Introduction of Members 2. Organization

extended Technical Activities Committee Meeting

with TAC members, TC Chairs, and Chapter ChairsTaipei, Oct. 10, 2006

1. Introduction of Members

2. Organization

3. TC Supports

4. Technical Map Project

5. TC Reports

6. Reduced TC Chairs' Duties

7. Announcements from SMCS

8. Q&A and Free Discussion

VP-TA Hideyuki TAKAGIVP-MSA MuDer JENG

Thank You for your Contributions to SMCS!

Thank you for great contributions of creating new TC's and Chapters, organizing conferences / workshops and organized sessions, recruiting new members, and others.

Thank you for your patients of making activities reports and TC Introduction web pages, sending your photos for TC posters, and others.

Introduction of Members: -- TCs in Cybernetics

Computational Intelligence Xizhao WangComputational Life Science Michael R. Berthold, Hong Yan, and

Daniel YeungIntelligent Internet Systems John W. T. Lee, Xiaolong Wang,

Daming ShiKnowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems Stuart H. Rubin, Michael H.

Smith, and Shu-Ching ChenMachine Learning YuanYan TangMedia Computing Zhi-Qiang Liu and Daniel YeungMedical Informatics Cathy M. Helgason and

Thomas H. Jobe Soft Computing Tadahiko Murata and Michael Hanss

Introduction of Members: -- TCs in Human-Machine Systems

Human-Computer Interaction Geb Thomas and Ellen BassInformation Systems for Design and Marketing Yukio Ohsawa and

Katsutoshi YadaSystems Safety and Security Ali G. Hessami, F. Hsu and

Ming Yu

Introduction of Members: -- TCs in Systems

Conflict Resolution LiPing Fang and Keith W. HipelControl of Uncertain Systems Abdelkader El KamelDiscrete Event Systems Maria Pia Fanti and MuDer JengDistributed Intelligent Systems William A. Gruver, Dilip B. Kotak,

and Haibin ZhuHomeland Security Hsinchun Chen, Don Brown and

Daniel ZengIndustrial Applications Seppo J. OvaskaInfrastructure Systems and Services Margot WeijnenIntelligent Transportation Systems Tsu-Tian LeeMedical Mechatronics Ming-Yih Lee and Chung-Hsien KuoRobotics and Intelligent Sensing Hong ZhangSelf-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics Huaglory TianfieldService Systems and Organization Jian ChenSystem of Systems Philip Chen and Mark Johnson

Introduction of Members: -- Chapters

Central Texas (Philip Chen)

Chile Gaston H. Lefranc

Kitchener Waterloo

Mohamed Kamel

Milwaukee Hue V. Tran

Montreal Eric Germain

North Jersey Michael I. Liechenstein

Orlando Yi Guo

Philadelphia Moshe Kam

Vancouver Dorian Sabaz

Bulgaria Mincho B. Hadjiski

Central & South Italy

(Maria Pia Fanti)

Croatia Goran Martinovic

France (Abdelkader El Kamel)

Germany Mark Mattingley-Scott

Hungary Imre J. Rudas

UK and Republic of Ireland

(Ali G. Hessami)

Baoding (Xizhao Wang)

Beijing (Jian Chen)

Hiroshima Hossam A. Gabbar

Hong Kong (Daniel S. Yeung)

Japan Takao Terano

Shenzhen Xiaolong Wang

Singapore Abdullah Al Mamun

Taipei WEN-JUNE WANG




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SMCS Borad of Governors

President-Elect President Jr. Past President Sr.Past President

VP-Long Range Plan. & Finance

VP-Conf. and Meetings

VP-Memb. andStudent Act.

VP-Pub. VP-TA

Secretary Treasurer

5 Members-at-Large (term ending 2006)



Offiers

Editors

SMCS Standing Committees

VP-Long Range Plan. & Finance

VP-Conf. and Meetings

VP-Memb. andStudent Act.

VP-Pub.

VP-TA Technical Activities Committee

Conference and Meeting Committee

Long-Range Planning and Finance Committee

Publication Committee

Membership and Student Activities Committee

Editor-In-ChiefsVP-Publication

What is the extended TAC?

VP-TA

VP-TA3 EICsVP-Publication

TC ..... TCChpt .... Chpt

25 Technical Committees24 Chapters

VP-Members &Student Activities

TACMSAC

SMCS's Technical Activities

TC'sChapters

ConferencesWorkshops

Publications

local activities to expand SMCS members

increasing SMCS's technical qualities and activities through activities per field




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Objectives and ActionsObjectives and Actions

Objective 1: Changing TC characteristics to SIGsHow to Achieve?: By supporting TC activities

Objective 2: Strategic planning of technical activitiesHow to Achieve?: Technical Map Project

Supports for TC ActivitiesSupports for TC Activities

1 TC Plaza (done)

2 TC Introduction Web Pages (done)

3 IT Tools for Supporting TC activities (on going)

4 TC Promotion Event at SMC2006 (done)

5 SMCS Best TC Award (done)

6 Campaign of "What can TC do for its members?" (not yet)

Supporting TC activities makes passive TC's active, makes TC's attractive for their members, and therefore changes them provide academic privilege to their members. This is the start to be SIG's.

TC-Support:

1 TC Introduction Web Pages TC-Support:

1 TC Introduction Web Pages They started in early February, 2006.

Thanks to TC Web Editor, Hong Yan, and Web Master, Cash Wang.

TC-Support:

2. IT Tool ProjectTC-Support:

2. IT Tool Project IT tools help to increase the activities of TC's whose members are in far countries. We categorized necessary functions for TC activities and are surveying them.

(1) Document Sharing Toolsuch as Google spreadsheet

(2) Forum ToolsBBS, Wiki and blogHong Yan's (www.my-smc.org)

(3) Video Conferencing Tool commercial ones? open sources? self-development?

(4) Conference Management Tool open sources: such as ConfTool or ConfMan

(5) Mailing ListRunning MLs: smc-excom, smc-bogPlanned MLs: TC Chair ML and Chapter Chair MLPossible MLs: each TC ML

TC-Support:

3 TC Promotion Event at SMC2006TC-Support:

3 TC Promotion Event at SMC2006

TC Web Editor,VP-Membership & Student Activities, andVP-TA,

TC-Support:

4. TC AwardTC-Support:

4. TC Award

SMCS Best TC Award (2006~） : Announced this night

SMCS Chapter of the Year Award (2007~):US$1000




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for Objective 2: Technical Map Projectfor Objective 2: Technical Map Project

VP-TA, VP-Publications, and Yukio Ohsawa

1. Background: Scope of SMCS is so wide that nobody knows our technical trends, emerging topics, and missing coverage of TC's, conferences, and publications well.

2. Objectives: Let's analyze papers in our fields, make a Technical Map, and use it for our strategic decision making, such as• planning new TCs,• new conferences/workshops, special issues, • tutorials, • panels, and• others

3. Progress: We collected paper titles of SMC1998 - SMC2005 and paper titles & abstracts of Trans. on SMC-A, B, and C in 1996-2006. We are now analyzing them.

for Objective 2: Technical Map Projectfor Objective 2: Technical Map ProjectTentative Analysis: KeyGraph

from paper titles of SMC1998-SMC2001 from paper titles of SMC2002-SMC2005




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TC ReportsTC Reports

Newly Established and Terminated TC's since 2005 BoG

(established)12/12/2005: TC on System of Systems01/28/2006: TC on Medical Mechatronics02/16/2006: TC on Infrastructure Systems & Services03/01/2006: TC on Information Systems for Design and Marketing03/12/2006: TC on Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics08/16/2006: TC on Information Assurance & Intelligent Multimedia-Mobile Communications(terminated)07/22/2005: TC on Intelligent Communications

We have 25 TC's: 9 TC's in Cybernetics 3 TC's in Human-Machine Systems,13 TC's in Systems

TC Reports

TC Activities in 2006TC Reports

TC Activities in 2006

Organizing Special Sessions at SMC2006

TC contributed for SMC2006 very well. SMC2006: 18 of 25 TC's collected 190 among 411 SS papers (46.2%) SMC2005: 8 of 19 TC's collected about 95 SS papers.

The best TCs contributed for SMC2006 are: 1. TC on Soft Computing (32 papers) 2. TC on Discrete Event Systems (29 papers) 3. TC on Infrastructure Systems & Services (16 papers) 4. TC on Information Systems for Design and Marketing (13 papers)

TC Reports

TC Activities in 2006TC Reports

TC Activities in 2006

Full sponsorship• TC on Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems: IRI2006• TC on Discrete event systems: ICNSC2006• TC on Industrial applications: SMCals/06• TC on System of Systems: SoSE2006• TC on Intelligent transportation systems: SMC2006

Co-sponsorship• TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems: DIS2006• TC on Service systems and Organizations: SIRI2006

Technical sponsorship• TC on Computational Intelligence: ICMLC2006• TC on Intelligent Internet Systems: ICMLC2006• TC on Media Computing: ICMLC2006• TC on Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics: SOAS2006• TC on Service systems and Organizations: SSSM2006

Organizing 2006 Conf./Workshops sponsored by SMCS

Reduced TC Chairs' Duties!Reduced TC Chairs' Duties! TC Chairs Duties decided at 2005 BoG meeting

1 All TC Chairs will be invited to serve as Program Committee members of the annual SMC Conference.

2 All TC Chairs, Co-Chairs or Vice-Chairs must be IEEE members of SMCS.3 Each TC must organize at least one invited session at one of the SMC

sponsored conferences.4 To provide an incentive for SMC chapters to collaborate with the TCs in

order to strengthen the role of TCs as SMCS’ technical leaders and to attract the establishment of more grass root organizations that can help boost the SMCS membership drive.

5 As a long term goal, each TC must plan to organize, within a period of 5 years, at least one special issue in a journal (preferably in one of the SMC publications), one workshop or local conference (preferably in

collaboration with at least one SMC chapter), and/or one collaborative project with the industry.

Reduced TC Chairs' Duties!Reduced TC Chairs' Duties! TC Chairs Duties modified at 2006 BoG meeting

1 All TC Chairs will be invited to serve as Program Committee members of the annual SMC Conference.2 All TC Chairs, Co-Chairs or Vice-Chairs must be IEEE members of SMCS.3 Each TC must contribute to SMCS by at least one of (1) organizing SMCS sponsored conferences/workshops, (2) organizing at least one special session at any SMCS sponsored conferences, or (3) serving with other significant contributions.4 To provide an incentive for SMC chapters to collaborate with the TCs in order to strengthen the role of TCs as SMCS’ technical leaders and to attract the establishment of more grass root organizations that can help boost the SMCS membership drive.5 As a long term goal, each TC should plan to organize, within a period of 5 years, at least one special issue in a journal (preferably in one of the SMC publications), one workshop or local conference (preferably in collaboration with at least one SMC chapter), and/or one collaborative project with the industry.




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Announcements from SMCS

1. Three VPs for three technical fields will start from 2008.

2. When TC's plan Special Issues at IEEE Trans. on SMC-A, B, and C, please contact with EIC's first.Due to backlog, there may be no space for Special Issues in 2006-2008.

3. We would like to encourage cooperative activities of TC and Chapter.

4. Human-Machine Systems field is the feature of SMCS among IEEE societies. We are going to increase the # of TC's especially in this field. Help your cooperation.

Organizing Chapters Events

• Chapter Chairs are encouraged to keep active by organizing special events such as conferences, meetings, lectures program.

• SMCS provides $500 to create new Chapters.• Distinguished Lecturer Program: SMCS

supports the travel cost of DL in part for Chapter activities. (See detail at SMCS web page.)




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Documents

Extended Technical Activities Committee Meeting with TAC members, TC Chairs, and Chapter Chairs Taipei, Oct. 10, 2006 1. Introduction of Members 2. Organization