IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

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IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and
Engineering
AdCom Meeting   October 2005 San Francisco
Peter B. Luh, Editor-in-Chief Ken Goldberg,
Chair, Advisory Board
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Automation
Engineers strive to combine automated devices
with mathematical and organizational tools to
create complex systems for a rapidly expanding
range of applications and human activities.
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Rationale for T-ASE

• Automation is a vital topic for the 21st century
• New Applications and Methods are appearing
• Automation is important to the IEEE RA Society
• T-RA emphasizes Robotics
• Automation lacks a flagship journal
• Attract leading researchers from Automation
• Expand Scope of RAS

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STATUS as of 14 months

• Successful new companion conference IEEE
  Conference on Automation Science Engineering
  (IEEE CASE) (Edmundton Canada)
• Submissions
• 2003 T-ASE Submissions 61
• 2004 T-ASE Submissions 216
• 2005 T-ASE Submissions 260
• (218 as of October 11)
• Acceptance Rate Since June 2004 32
• Included in Thomson Scientific ISI Citation Index

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PAPER HANDLING PROCEDURES

• Handling papers in a quality, timely, and
  constructive manner for better papers at the end
• 90/90 Rule ? 90 of the paper should be completed
  within 90 days (13 weeks)
• Increase the number of IEEEXplore downloads
• Maintain high quality and look out for emerging
  areas
• Pay attention to search enabling abstracts and
  keywords
• AEs search Xplore to ensure relevant T-ASE papers
  are cited.

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T-ASE Printed Pages

• 2004 2005 2006
• Page Budget 180 424 440
• Pages 188 430
• Regular Paper 9 27
• Short Paper 5 12

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IEEE REVIEW IN FEB 2006

• 19 months after the start of publication
• Number of submissions Very good (260 vs Est.
  130)
• Timeliness of publication Perfect
• Meeting the page budget Perfect
• Number of Xplore hits Growing
• T-ASE T-RO RAM
• 1-12/04 4,984 7,407 45,612
• 1-6/05 7,554 13,510 24,335
• 7,8/05 3,005 7,400 7,456
• When adjusted for hits/

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• Subscriptions (2005)
• Projected Actual
• Regular member, print 525 173
• Regular member, electronic 200 78
• Student member, print 2 24
• Student member, electronic 25 16
• Non-member subscriptions 58 18
• Possible causes
• The onset of electronic subscriptions
• Natural start-up curve lack of projection
  experience
• Lack of support from IEEE

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Forthcoming SPECIAL ISSUES

• Nano-scale Manipulation and Assembly
• W. Li and N. Xi M. Wang
• Automation for the Life Sciences
• M. Zhang, E. S. Kim, B. Pruitt, R. Felder, B.
  Nelson, and Y. Zheng D. Meldrum
• Distributed Sensing for Quality and Productivity
  Improvement
• Y. Ding and J. Shi P. Ferreira
• Automation for the Home Environment
• P. Fiorini, E. Prassler, Y. Tsumaki, C. Nugent
  Meldrum
• IEEE CASE Conference in Shanghai, Oct 2006

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Summary

• T-ASE is forging the future of Automation Science
  and Engineering
• Submissions Excellent
• Editorial and Publication procedures Excellent
• Xplore hits Good, Growing
• Subscriptions Needs Improvement
• The baby is growing!
• We appreciate your parental advice and support

Thank you!