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extendedTechnicalActivitiesCommittee Meeting VP-TA Hideyuki TAKAGI VP-MSA MuDer JENG Introduction of Members Organization TC Supports Technical Map Project TC Reports Reduced TC Chairs' Duties Announcements from SMCS Q&A and Free Discussion with TAC members, TC Chairs, and Chapter ChairsTaipei, Oct. 10, 2006

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 Wang Computational Life Science Michael R. Berthold, Hong Yan, and Daniel Yeung Intelligent Internet Systems John W. T. Lee, Xiaolong Wang, Daming Shi Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems Stuart H. Rubin, Michael H. Smith, and Shu-Ching Chen Machine Learning YuanYan Tang Media Computing Zhi-Qiang Liu and Daniel Yeung Medical 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 Bass Information Systems for Design and Marketing Yukio Ohsawa and Katsutoshi Yada Systems Safety and Security Ali G. Hessami, F. Hsu and Ming Yu

Introduction of Members: -- TCs in Systems Conflict Resolution LiPing Fang and Keith W. Hipel Control of Uncertain Systems Abdelkader El Kamel Discrete Event Systems Maria Pia Fanti and MuDer Jeng Distributed Intelligent Systems William A. Gruver, Dilip B. Kotak, and Haibin Zhu Homeland Security Hsinchun Chen, Don Brown and Daniel Zeng Industrial Applications Seppo J. Ovaska Infrastructure Systems and Services Margot Weijnen Intelligent Transportation Systems Tsu-Tian Lee Medical Mechatronics Ming-Yih Lee and Chung-Hsien Kuo Robotics and Intelligent Sensing Hong Zhang Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics Huaglory Tianfield Service Systems and Organization Jian Chen System of Systems Philip Chen and Mark Johnson

Introduction of Members: -- Chapters

extendedTechnicalActivitiesCommittee Meeting Introduction of Members Organization TC Supports Technical Map Project TC Reports Reduced TC Chairs' Duties Announcements from SMCS Q&A and Free Discussion with TAC members, TC Chairs, and Chapter ChairsTaipei, Oct. 10, 2006

SMCS Borad of Governors Offiers President-ElectPresident Jr. Past President Sr.Past President VP-Conf. and Meetings VP-Long Range Plan. & Finance VP-Memb. andStudent Act. VP-Pub. VP-TA Secretary Treasurer 5 Members-at-Large (term ending 2006) 5 Members-at-Large (term ending 2007) 5 Members-at-Large (term ending 2008) Editors

SMCS Standing Committees VP-Conf. and Meetings Conference and Meeting Committee VP-Long Range Plan. & Finance Long-Range Planning and Finance Committee VP-Memb. andStudent Act. Membership and Student Activities Committee Publication Committee VP-Pub. Editor-In-Chiefs VP-Publication Technical Activities Committee VP-TA

What is the extended TAC? VP-Members & Student Activities VP-TA TAC MSAC VP-TA 3 EICs VP-Publication Chpt .... Chpt TC..... TC 24 Chapters 25 Technical Committees

SMCS's Technical Activities ConferencesWorkshops Publications TC's Chapters increasing SMCS's technical qualities and activities through activities per field local activities to expand SMCS members

Objectives and Actions Objective 1: Changing TC characteristics to SIGs How to Achieve?: By supporting TC activities Objective 2: Strategic planning of technical activities How to Achieve?: Technical Map Project

Supports for TC Activities 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 Plaza (done) • TC Introduction Web Pages (done) • IT Tools for Supporting TC activities (on going) • TC Promotion Event at SMC2006 (done) • SMCS Best TC Award (done) • Campaign of "What can TC do for its members?" (not yet)

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 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 Tool such as Google spreadsheet (2) Forum Tools BBS, Wiki and blog Hong 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 List Running MLs: smc-excom, smc-bog Planned MLs: TC Chair ML and Chapter Chair ML Possible MLs: each TC ML

TC-Support: 3 TC Promotion Event at SMC2006 TC Web Editor, VP-Membership & Student Activities, and VP-TA,

TC-Support: 4. TC Award SMCS Best TC Award (2006~）: Announced this night SMCS Chapter of the Year Award (2007~): US$1000

for Objective 2:Technical Map Project VP-TA, VP-Publications, and Yukio Ohsawa • 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. • 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 • 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 Project Tentative Analysis: KeyGraph from paper titles of SMC1998-SMC2001 from paper titles of SMC2002-SMC2005

TC Reports • Newly Established and Terminated TC's since 2005 BoG • (established) • 12/12/2005: TC on System of Systems • 01/28/2006: TC on Medical Mechatronics • 02/16/2006: TC on Infrastructure Systems & Services • 03/01/2006: TC on Information Systems for Design and Marketing • 03/12/2006: TC on Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics • 08/16/2006: 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, • 13TC's in Systems

TC 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 2006 Organizing 2006 Conf./Workshops sponsored by SMCS • 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

Reduced TC Chairs' Duties! TC Chairs Duties decided at 2005 BoG meeting • All TC Chairs will be invited to serve as Program Committee members of the annual SMC Conference. • All TC Chairs, Co-Chairs or Vice-Chairs must be IEEE members of SMCS. • Each TC must organize at least one invited session at one of the SMCsponsored conferences. • 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. • 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! 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. 3Each 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.

Announcements from SMCS • Three VPs for three technical fields will start from 2008. • 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. • We would like to encourage cooperative activities of TC and Chapter. • 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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