IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Automation%20Science%20and%20Engineering

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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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• 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
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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• Withdrawn 5 ?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/(132713))
  Reasonable

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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

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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

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Publication Statistics

• 2004 2005 2006
• Page Budget 180 392 424
• Pages
• Regular Paper
• Short Paper
• Comm. Items
• Book Reviews
• Correspondence
• Pages/Reg Pap

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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

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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
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