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IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Status Report An Important/Exciting Beginning May 2004, New Orleans Peter B. Luh, Editor-in-Chief Ken Goldberg, Chair, Advisory Board.
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IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Status Report An Important/Exciting Beginning May 2004, New Orleans Peter B. Luh, Editor-in-Chief Ken Goldberg, Chair, Advisory Board T-ASE
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
Submissions and Review Status • Submissions • Transferred from T-RA: 13 accepts • 2003 T-ASE Submissions: 61 • 2004 T-ASE Submissions: 62 (as of 4/22/04) • Estimated in the original T-ASE Proposal: 60 for 2004 • Review Status • Accepted and Conditionally Accepted: 26 • Revise/Resubmit: 27 Rejected: 13 • Withdrawn: 5 Review: 65 • Acceptance rate: 24.5% (=13/(13+27+13)) ~ Reasonable T-ASE
First Issue: July 2004 (Mostly from T-RA) • Five Regular Papers • A web-based rapid prototyping system • Energy management networks for building automation • Port yard storage optimization • Design of six sigma supply chains • Autonomous and agile information coordination systems • Four Short Papers • Root cause determination of manufacturing processes • Scheduling robotic cells for semiconductor equip. manuf. • A case study of automotive paint shops • A productivity study of parallel production lines T-ASE
Special Issues/Sections • Workholding and Fixturing • TC on Manufacturing Automation. M. Wang, E. DeMeter, S. Melkote, K. Goldberg (E: Ian Walker) • A Special Section for the October 2004 issue • Nano-scale Manipulation and Assembly • Wen Li and Ning Xi • A high quality proposal • A few other proposals are on the drawing board T-ASE
(424) • Submissions for 2004 by 4/22/04: 62 • Estimated 2004 submissions: 186 (= 623) • 25% acceptance rate 46 papers (=186/4) • 1/3 Short Papers 31 Regular + 15 Short • 12 pages/regular equivalent 462 (=1238.5) • Achieving 424 one year in advance Publication Statistics 2004 2005 2006 Page Budget 180 392 424 Pages Regular Paper Short Paper Comm. Items Book Reviews Correspondence Pages/Reg Pap T-ASE
Major Development • T-ASE Googol Technology Best Paper Award • Zexiang Li of Hong Kong UST, AE of T-RA/T-RO, and founder/Chairman of Googol Technology (HK) Ltd agreed to contribute $1000 per year for five years • Googol Best New Application Paper Award • Migrate to ManuscriptCentral soon • Building the Community: Not an easy task • Promotion by A/E Boards and IEEE Creative Services • Working with Technical Activities Board and Conference Board to promote automation in general • Advices will be highly appreciated T-ASE
Concluding Remarks • An exciting and critical beginning • Ideas and comments are welcome • Special thanks to Ken and Dick for the excellent leadership, dedication, and efforts • Your support are highly appreciated THANK YOU http://www.ieee.org/t-ase Submit and Subscribe! T-ASE