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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– Withdrawn: 6 Review: 93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
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