October 2004 T-ASE 1

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Status Report An Important/Exciting Beginning

 October 2004, Sendai, Japan Peter B. Luh, Editor-in-Chief

Ken Goldberg, Chair, Advisory Board

http://www.ieee.org/t-ase

October 2004 T-ASE 2

– Scientific methods and technologies that improve efficiency, productivity, quality, and reliability

– Emphasizing solutions for structured environments, and the explicit structuring of such environments

– First issue July 2004 – Notes to Practitioners– http://www.ieee.org/t-ase

October 2004 T-ASE 3

• First Issue: July 2004– Five regular papers and four short papers

– First page of each paper http://www.ieee.org/t-ase

• Second Issue: October 2004 to be out any day now– Special Section on Workholding and Fixturing

• Technical Committee on Manufacturing Automation. M. Wang, E. DeMeter, S. Melkote, K. Goldberg; E: I. Walker

• Four regular & one short papers plus one more short paper

• Page Budget:– Using up the page budget plus 5% for a total of 188 pages

– Page budget for 2005: 424 pages

Publication Update

October 2004 T-ASE 4

• Nano-scale Automation and Assembly – Wen Li and Ning Xi; E: M. Wang – Submissions deadline: November 1, 2004– Expected publication date: October 2005

• Automation for the Life Sciences – Mingjun Zhang, Robin Felder, E. S. Kim, Bradley

Nelson, Beth Pruitt, Yuan Zheng; E: D. Meldrum – Submissions deadline: March 1, 2005– Expected publication date: April 2006

• Please promote and submit

Special Issues in Progress

October 2004 T-ASE 5

• Submissions– Transferred from T-RA: 13 accepts

– 2003 T-ASE submissions: 61

– 2004 T-ASE submissions: 138 as of 9/27/04. Estimated 180 to the end of the year

– Original estimate in the T-ASE proposal: 60 for 2004

• Review Status– T-ASE accepted and conditionally accepted: 18

– Revise/resubmit: 55 Rejected: 37

– Withdrawn: 6 Review: 93

– Acceptance rate: 16% (=18/(18+55+37))

Submissions and Review Status

October 2004 T-ASE 6

Major Development

• Migrated to Manuscript Central V3: June 8, 2004– General feedback has been positive

– There were no major difficulties, and we love it

• Building the Community: A critical but difficult task – Promotion by A/E Boards and IEEE Creative Services

– Working with Technical Activities Board and Conference Board to promote automation in general

– Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE) approved by the Conference Board to be held in conjunction with IROS 05

– See the synergy from different application areas

October 2004 T-ASE 7

Promotion Initiatives Led by Ken Goldberg

• General Promotion:– Color Flyer/Poster: 5000 copies printed – Email Blast: Emailing from IEEE and signed by RAS

President and others on 7 Sept 2004

• Membership Renewal – Bundling Rate: T-ASE and T-RO combined subscription

rate approved and set for Fall 2004 – 20%-Discount: A special Fall 2005 promotion on T-ASE – Member Bills: Announcing T-ASE on printed renewal

bills set for Sept/October – Color Insert: Color buckslip insert in renewal mailings

• Thank Ken for the leadership and tireless efforts

October 2004 T-ASE 8

• Advertisement appeared in – Chinese Control Journal, 3/04 – Journal of Association for Laboratory Automation, 8/04

• Next task (PAB-level) to increase IEEEXplore downloads– Be more strict on abstracts, key words, and references in

the review process for our papers to be easily located by search engines

– Identify a body of people who manages key words for R&A, and work with them and IEEE to improve R&A key words for IEEE and the R&A professional in general

– Encourage students/colleagues to download frequently – Need volunteers and suggestions

October 2004 T-ASE 9

• The goal: – Build the subscription base

– Increase the number of IEEEXplore downloads and our citations in general

– Prepare for our first impact factor in three years

• How you can help:– Subscribe and submit personally if you haven't already!

– Encourage your students and colleagues to subscribe, submit, and visit articles frequently via IEEEXplore

– Encourage your library to subscribe

– Be on the lookout for non-traditional automation areas