Tutorials Tutorial VI is still awaiting content Five papers awaiting revisions: Poisson Point Processes Joint Probabilistic Data Association Filter Range-Based Positioning Algorithms Prognostics and Health Management (significant revisions) Cognitive Systems Engineering (major revisions) Four commitments for papers: Aviation Information, Communications and Network Security Graph Methods for Information Fusion ATR Theory Sonar Tracking Actively soliciting papers Open call for papers Need to consider joint online tutorials and tutorial papers Any suggestions for topics and authors? Looking for a replacement editor PPP – Roy Streit JPDAF – Crouse, Bar-Shalom, Willett, Svensson Range-Based Positioning – Junlin Yan (Intel Mobile Communications GmbH), Christian Tiberius, Peter Teunissen (Curtin University of Technology), Giovanni Bellusci (Xsens), Gerard Janssen Delft University) PMH - Hongfeng Wang (UC Irvine) Cognitive – Gavan Lintern (DSTO, Univ. of Illinois, Aptima , GD) Engineering Psychology with experience in human factors for avionics Sonar Tracking – Willett et. al. Aviation Information - Krishna Sampigethaya – Boeing Graph Method – Jim Llinas and Moises Sudit (U Buffalo) ATR Theory – Greg Arnold (AFRL), Fred Garber (Wright State), .... Papers Rejected: The VITA 49 Standard: A New Radio Architecture Paradigm for Net-Centric RF Spectrum Sensing and Cognitive Radio Intelligent Control of UAV - Aldo Jaimes, Jose Gomez, Mo Jamshidi (U Texas at San Antonio) Near-Space Vehicles: Supply a Gap between Satellites and Airplanes for Remote Sensing

Citation Count - Tutorial Year # Papers Average High V 2010 3 11.7 22 IV 2007 7 17 III 2006 26 44 II 2005 5 65.8 156 I 2004 4 110 214 Predominance of radar and tracking papers Other topics – power, detection/classification, sensor networks, biometrics, and navigation Need to reinvigorate Tutorials with fresh topics Raw data: 5: PF – 22, AD – 10, BT – 3 4: SAR – 17, LORAN – 3, ATR – 1 3: DP – 5, Biometric – 29, Mono – 44 2: DP – 37, SN – 69, PDA – 33, BKF – 156, IFSAR - 34 1: MHT – 214, STAP – 175, Class – 11, RFSS - 40 Quality Matters!

Magazine October issue going to print (Pioneer Award on Cover) No contributions from e-journal Fifty-four manuscripts pending Issues need to be resolved regarding finding and assigning reviewers (half manuscripts held up because of this) Updated reviewer / search data base in e-journal Investigating opportunities for improvement Special Issue on Passive Radar (PCL) Upcoming Guest editors Kushel and Farina Still accepting papers Added upcoming transaction papers in magazine Interview article planned of Alfonso Farina by Maria Greco (AEIC) Set up monthly telecons with Pubs and SMEB to review upcoming issue content as well as AE status Developed plan forward for magazine (to be presented to BoG) Set up guidelines for submission of special issues and book reviews Developing a succession plan for EIC/AEICs (includes development of Harry Mimno award nomination guidelines, getting access to IEEE Xplore, and Google Scholar search for magazine citations) Plan to add book review section, feature articles from AEs, interview articles Looking for a Book Review editor PPP – Roy Streit JPDAF – Crouse, Bar-Shalom, Willett, Svensson Range-Based Positioning – Junlin Yan (Intel Mobile Communications GmbH), Christian Tiberius, Peter Teunissen (Curtin University of Technology), Giovanni Bellusci (Xsens), Gerard Janssen Delft University) PMH - Hongfeng Wang (UC Irvine) Cognitive – Gavan Lintern (DSTO, Univ. of Illinois, Aptima , GD) Engineering Psychology with experience in human factors for avionics Sonar Tracking – Willett et. al. Aviation Information - Krishna Sampigethaya – Boeing Graph Method – Jim Llinas and Moises Sudit (U Buffalo) ATR Theory – Greg Arnold (AFRL), Fred Garber (Wright State), .... Papers Rejected: The VITA 49 Standard: A New Radio Architecture Paradigm for Net-Centric RF Spectrum Sensing and Cognitive Radio Intelligent Control of UAV - Aldo Jaimes, Jose Gomez, Mo Jamshidi (U Texas at San Antonio) Near-Space Vehicles: Supply a Gap between Satellites and Airplanes for Remote Sensing

Citation Count – Magazine (from Google Scholar) Magazine Year # Papers # Papers Cited # Citations Total Avg # Cit per Paper Cited Max # Cit per Paper 2010 87 25 79 3.16 22 2009 86 34 154 6.16 2008 123 29 148 8.2 18  Did relevancy drop?  Quality improved Magazine topics appear to be interesting and diverse in general Included radar, sonar, automotive, wireless comm, maritime border control, small business technology infusion, aircraft noise monitoring, system engineering environments… However, maximum citations typically come from radar papers (radar community may be more familiar with magazine currently?) Raw data: 5: PF – 22, AD – 10, BT – 3 4: SAR – 17, LORAN – 3, ATR – 1 3: DP – 5, Biometric – 29, Mono – 44 2: DP – 37, SN – 69, PDA – 33, BKF – 156, IFSAR - 34 1: MHT – 214, STAP – 175, Class – 11, RFSS - 40 Quality Matters!