VP Publications’ Report

Vincenzo Piuri

2009 AdCom MeetingVancouver, Canada – 26-27 November 2009

Vision and Objectives

• Promote the System Journal as the premiere publication on complex systems and system-of-systems

• Involve the Member Societies to make them perceiving that the System Journal

is one of their journals

Planning Activities

• SYSC Publication Committee Plan:– approved– implementation in progress

• ISJ Publication Policies– approved– implementation in progress

• SYSC-KEE – Electronic Knowledge Environment on Systems– approved– analysis and feasibility design: in progress

• New Publications– Technical Co-Sponsorship to the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy– Technical Co-Sponsorship to the IEEE Transactions on Smart GRID– IEEE Systems Compendium

IEEE Systems Journal (1)

• Regular Issues• 4 issues annually since 2008

• Special issues• RFID (published in 2007)• GEOSS: Creating a Global System of Systems (published in 2008 – 21 papers)• Grid Resource Management (published in 2009 – 25 papers)• Recent Advances in Global Navigation and Communication Satellite Systems (GNCSS)• Biometrics Systems (to be published in 2009 – 30 papers) • Resilience Engineering• Service Systems of Systems

– Planning more special issues– Associate Editors have been asked to solicit tutorials and review papers…

• Paper sumissions• submitted papers: 24 to regular issues, 43 to special issues• accepted papers: 27 in regular issues, 27 in special issues

• Printed pages• 2007: 250 pages• 2008: 570 budgeted pages - 560 published pages• 2009: 650 budgeted pages (144 pages printed up to now)

• Papers usage 2007 2008IEEE Systems Journal: 2,259 11,705IEEE Trans. Biomedical Circuits and Systems: 5,191 19,422IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in SP: 9,826 38,565

IEEE Systems Journal (2)

• Editorial Board• Uniform listing in the web site: done

• Revision of the Editorial Board: in progress

• Editorial Board meeting: to be planned

• Advisory Board• Uniform listing in the web site: done

• Revision of the Advisory Board: in progress

• Policies for publishing in ISJ • Voluntary page charge for accepted peer-reviewed papers (up to 8 pages)

• Mandatory page charge for accepted peer-reviewed papers (up to 2 pages exceeding the page limit)

• Announcements without fee

• Announcements with fee

• Table of Contents on ISJ web• List all papers with links to the digital objects in IEEExplore

• Analysis of technical issues and problems: in progress

IEEE Systems Journal (3)

• Advertise ISJ

• Identifying the major conferences of – member societies: done– non-member societies & non-IEEE association relevant

in the SYSC field: to be done• Distributing flyers presenting ISJ

– IEEE Systems Conference: done– conferences of the member societies: done and in progress (about 7000 copies in

2008)– conferences of non-member societies & non-IEEE association relevant in the SYSC

field: to be done• Displaying a poster at

– IEEE Systems Conference: done– conferences of the member societies: done and in progress at a few conferences

• Publishing announcement describing the journal scope in– newsletters and/or web of the member societies: done and in progress– newsletters and/or web of the IEEE Regions: done and in progress

• Publishing announcement of special issues in– newsletters and/or web of the member societies: done and in progress for the special

issue on Biometric Systems– newsletters and/or web of the IEEE Regions: done and in progress for the special

issue on Biometric Systems• Including the option of subscribing the ISJ in the IEEE subscription forms: done

SYSC-KEE (1)

SYStems Council Knowledge Electronic Environment

• web-based environment for collecting and disseminating knowledge on theory, technologies, design methodologies, applications, successful cases, and practical guidelines on complex systems, system-of-systems and engineering of systems

• comprehensive integrative environment focusing on this interdisciplinary area

• attracting readers and authors since they will found an easy access to the knowledge of their interest

• easier access to knowledge in this field will result in a wider circulation of the knowledge itself and an increased education level of the readers, for the benefit of academic and professional communities as well as students and governmental bodies and, in turn, for the economic and social development

• establishing a new business model for the IEEE Systems Council, its Member Societies and the whole IEEE and more business opportunities (including online sponsorships and/or advertising as well as traditional subscription and single item purchases)

SYSC-KEE (2)

Posted material (not limited to):• abstracts and links to articles published in the IEEE Systems Journal

• abstracts and links to articles published in other IEEE journals and related to the systems field

• abstracts and links to articles published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Systems Conference or other conferences and workshops sponsored, co-sponsored or technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Systems Council

• abstracts and links to articles published in the proceedings of other IEEE conferences and workshops and related to the systems field

• survey and tutorial articles

• application notes

• successful cases

• tutorials in the IEEE Expert Now program or in other educational programs of the IEEE Societies/Councils,

• tutorials created for the SYSC-KEE

• electronic books

SYSC-KEE (3)

Posted material (not limited to) – cont’d:• standards announcements and analysis• mentoring notes• discussion forums• book reviews• products reviews• announcements of technical meeting (e.g., conferences, symposia, workshops)

organized by the IEEE (in particular by the IEEE Systems Council)• announcements of educational activities organized by the IEEE (in particular by

the IEEE Systems Council),• peer-reviewed references to articles published outside the IEEE in the systems

field• any other information and knowledge relevant in the systems area, as a

comprehensive service to communities in academia, industry, professional engineering, government, and the general public

• …

SYSC-KEE (4)

Teleconference with B. Lange to:• review our goals• review the current technologies available in IEEE• define a suited combination of technologies as platform to support the initial

goals of our environment• finalize a plan and the budget for creating the environment for submission to the

next SYSC adcom

Technical Co-Sponsorships

• IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

• IEEE Transactions on Smart GRID

Technical Co-Sponsorships

• MOTION #1 (from the Publication Committee)

Approve to request that SYSC will be a technical co-sponsor of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

• MOTION #2 (from the Publication Committee)

Approve to request that SYSC will be a technical co-sponsor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart GRID

IEEE Systems Compendium (1)

• New Electronic Publication

• Goals:

– Collect material published by the IEEE in the field of interests of the Systems Council• Papers published in

– IEEE Systems Journal– journals, magazines, and newsletters of the SYSC Member Societies– journals, magazines, and newsletters of the other IEEE Societies, Councils, and

Organizational Units – proceedings of the IEEE Systems Conference– proceedings of conferences of the SYSC Member Societies– proceedings of the other IEEE Societies, Councils, and Organizational Units

– Not republishing, but rebinding the available knowledge by focusing on a multidisciplinary topic which is typically contained in many journals and conference proceedings of many Societies, Councils and other OUs

– Not changing the status of papers (readers will clearly see the difference between journal and conference papers; conference papers will not be citable as journal papers due to publication in the Compendium)

– Simplify the access to the knowledge published by the IEEE on systems– Allow for selling a single title to people interested in systems – Reduce the cost of accessing to the knowledge on systems

IEEE Systems Compendium (2)

• Budget

– To be analyzed and discussed with the IEEE

• Technical aspects

– Technologies already available in the IEEE

• Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board

– To be identified with the cooperation of all SYSC Member Societies

– At least one Associate Editor per SYSC Member Society

• Editorial Board Activities

– Selecting papers

• already published by the IEEE

• topic within the field of interest of the SYSC

IEEE Systems Compendium (3)

• MOTION #3

Approve the Phase I proposal of the IEEE Systems Compendium