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Systems Council Report to Communications Society Board of Governors. 3 December 2008 Bill Semancik wsemancik@ieee.org. Current Member Societies. Aerospace & Electronic Systems http://www.ieee-aess.org Circuits And Systems http://www.ieee-cas.org/
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Systems Council Reportto Communications Society Board of Governors 3 December 2008 Bill Semancik wsemancik@ieee.org
Current Member Societies • Aerospace & Electronic Systems http://www.ieee-aess.org • Circuits And Systems http://www.ieee-cas.org/ • Communications http://www.comsoc.org/ • Computational Intelligence http://www.ieee-cis.org/ • Computer http://www.computer.org/ • Control Systems Society http://www.ieeecss.org/ • Engineering in Medicine & Biology http://www.embs.org/ • Instrumentation & Measurement http://www.ieee-ims.org • Microwave Theory & Techniques http://mtt.org/ • Oceanic Engineering http://www.oceanicengineering.org/ • Power Electronics http://www.pels.org/ • Product Safety Engineering http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pses/ • Reliability http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/relsoc/ • Robotics & Automation http://www.ncsu.edu/IEEE-RAS/ • Systems, Man & Cybernetics http://www.ieeesmc.org
Activities of Systems Council • In existence for nearly 3 years • Sponsor of IEEE International Systems Conference • 2007 operated at a loss • 2008 operated at a small profit (20K) • 2009 to take place 23-26 March in Vancouver, B • Four meetings held this year • Louisville, Montreal, Denver, and Ft. Lauderdale
Activities of Systems Council • Louisville • Re-grounded the Systems Council • Introduced concept and discussed format of SoS conference • Montreal • Primarily an after-action review of IEEE Systems Conference • Further discussion of concept and format of new conference
Activities of Systems Council • Denver • Developed realizable concepts for SoS conference • Voted on 6 candidate topics – Healthcare was voted strongest candidate with target of Nov 2010 • Announcement that Paul Gartz would step down as President and would be replaced according to charter
Activities of Systems Council • Ft. Lauderdale • Clyde Chittester appointed President • Further fleshed out SoS conference • Covered detailed financial and organizational status of Systems Council • Reported TAB review of Systems Council • Planned for Dec. as target for first planning committee meeting for the new conference • Chicago meeting delayed to “further refine concept”
Actions Assigned to Society Representatives • Asked for representatives to the SoS Planning Committee • Pradeep Ray has accepted that position pending successful application for ComSoc sponsorship • Offer made to member Societies to have member as conference treasurer • Present IEEE Systems Journal as an option for member renewals • Participation in making information available for SysC Knowledge Engineering Environment web site
Candidate Systems of Systems Health Privacy GEOSS Trans-portation Defense Infra-structure Functions Needed Communications Computing Reliability Sensors Info Fusion Robotics Systems Eng Data Security Power Safety/Availability Test & Verification
GRSS EM&BS … Computing Communication Signal Processing MedicalElectronics Systems Engineering The Healthcare SoS Sector has a DENSE Society Impact/Opportunity Matrix! …Systems Council Member Societies… Society Sampling: Healthcare Sector spans ALL Council Members! SoS “Products” Interoperability: Integration Patient Safety: Stds, Regs Public Health: data mining Electronic/Pers. Health Records – SoS databases Regions/Markets – unique populations, economies, infrastructure, regulations Middle East & Africa Latin America Europe Pan-Asia US/Americas EVERY blue dot above represents substantial new individual SOCIETY membership, revenue, research, collaboration, and public service opportunities, incl. regional and international conferences, standards, publications and related projects!