1. IEEE AESS Publications: Status W
IEEE AESS Publications: Status W. Dale Blair, VP Publications Arlington, Virginia Marriott Hotel May 8, 2015

2. AESS Publications Strategic Plan
Mission Statement
AESS Publications provides AESS members with scholarly, highly-regarded publications that support their professional growth and advancement. Publications will provide venues for publication of scholarly achievements, knowledge for the specialist, education for the nonspecialist, and information for our professional community. AESS Publications will pursue the following strategic vision for its publications.
Transactions is relevant, timely, technically advanced, and highly regarded among professionals in our field.
Magazine is attractive and desirable and addresses timely topics in our field of interest so as to draw members to AESS.
Tutorials is a useful, informative, and timely resource for the professional growth of our members.
QEB provides new and timely information to support our members’ involvement in our professional community.
AESS Web Site is a one stop shop for AESS information.

3. AESS Publications Strategic Objectives
3 Year Goals
Reduce the average submission to-publication delay for the AES transactions to 12 months.
Achieve an average submission rate of 12 articles per month for the AES Magazine.
Increase the contributions to AES publications from industry by 50%
Increase Impact Factor of transactions to 2.0
Increase Impact Factor of magazine to 1.0
Increase readership (opens) of QEB by 25%
Increase visits to IEEE AESS Web Site by 25%

4. AESS Publications Initiatives
XML Tagging of submissions to the transactions at submission for early posting on IEEE Xplore
EJ Press to deliver beta product in July 2015
(2) Establish and Implement Term Limits for Editors of the Transactions
Complete for TEs by end of 2015
Complete for AEs by end of 2016
(3) Implement advertising plan in the magazine
Soliciting advertisers
Coordinate content with advertisers
(4) Increase the presence of student activities in the magazine.
Student editors
Student highlights
(5) Improve the Operations of Editorial Board for the Magazine.
Develop Operations Manual for the magazine
Improve training of the editors for the magazine
(6) Increase industrial participation in AES publications
New magazine column: “Industry Tips and Insights”
Plan special issues around industrial needs .

5. Status of the Transactions
Lance Kaplan, EIC

6. Number of Submissions
Fourth Month
Full Year

7. Submissions by Technical Area

8. Time to First Decisions

9. Final Decision 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Accepts 192 191 174 223 209
Rejects
288
343
300
302
364
Acceptance Rate
40%
36%
37%
42%

10. Quality Source: Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Report 2009 2010 2011
2012
2013
No. Articles
126
218
257
196
Impact Factor
1.230
0.917
1.095
1.299
1.394
5 Year Impact Factor
1.776
1.603
1.680
1.767
1.755
Immediacy Index
0.095
0.140
0.151
0.214
0.327
2013 Rankings (Engineering, Aerospace):
Impact Factor: #2
5-year IF: #2
Immediacy Index: #1
Source: Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Report

11. PRAC Review occurred Feb. 5, 2015
Review was a positive and productive experience
Major Comments
Increase number of female and industrial AEs
Improve submission to publication timelines
Reduce submission to first review times
Reduce acceptance to publication times
Provide authors a better description of scope, especially with respect to the Magazine
Term limits for TEs and AEs

12. T-AES Response to PRAC Actively seeking more female and industrial AEs
Term limits for TEs are being implemented this year, and term limits for AEs start next year
Administrative help to identify and nudge tardy editors
Switching from quarterly to bimonthly
Working with Allen Press and IEEE to solve metadata issue
April editorial explains the scope of T-AES versus AES-M (plan to update Information for Authors)

13. More News on T-AES EJ Press Post-acceptance Web Portal
Improve communication between Authors and Allen Press
Automatic creation of metadata to enable early access on IEEE Xplore
Beta version should be available in July 2015
M. Barry Carlton Award
2011 Award decision is still in process (mea culpa)
2012 Award process will start soon

14. Editor Changes Resignations New Appointees Notes
Murat Efe (Avionics Systems TE)
New Appointees
Roberto Sabatini (Avionics Systems TE)
Zhen Zhu (Navigation AE)
Young Chang Lee (Navigation AE)
Mathieu Joerger (Navigation AE)
Notes
In process to appoint two new CCC AEs
In process to identify more Radar AEs
Will need to work with TEs to appoint more AEs as part of their exit strategy

15. AE Performance

16. AE Performance (Cont)

17. AE Performance (Cont)

18. AE Summary Chart

19. AES Magazine
Maria S. Greco, EIC

20. Magazine AEs: Status New Associate Editors Retired Associate Editors
Domenico Ciuonzo - AoS: Communications, Signal Processing and Data Fusion (since January 2015)
Daniel O’Hagan - AoS: Radar Systems (since January 2015)
Teresa Pace - AoS: Electro-Optic and Infrared Systems, Image Processing (since January 2015)
Antonio Franchi - AoS: Robotic Systems (since May 2015)
Michael S. Braasch - AoS: Navigation Systems (since June 2015)
Wenbo Dou- AoS: Student Highlights (since March 2015)
Retired Associate Editors
Shirley Cheng - AoS: Guidance (since January 2015)
Carles Fernandez-Prades - AoS : Navigation Systems (since June 2015)
Rick Coogle (graduated) – AoS : Student Highlights (since March 2015)

21. Magazine Content Magazine includes:
Peer reviewed Manuscripts Student highlights
Award Summaries and Articles Advertisements (as available)
Tutorials Special issues
Interview articles Book Reviews
News and Information Calls for Papers (CFPs)
History Articles Industry Insights
WASPS – Women Airforce Service Pilots

22. New and Newer Content Student highlights Advertisement Interviews
Now published almost on a monthly base
Advertisement
In some issues. Still understanding how to make it more effective
Interviews
Dave Dobson Interview (D. Blair) will appear on June 2015 issue
Marshall Greenspan interview planned during the IEEE International Radar Conference, next week (Mark Davis)
Alfonso Farina (M.S. Greco) interview planned in next few months.
Industry Insights
Short paper (3-4 pages) focused on industry “tip and tricks”, dedicated to industrial readers (upcoming in Summer)

23. Special Issues and Tutorials
In 2015
Special Issue on “Avionic Systems”, August 2015
Tutorial VIII, February issue, Vol 30 Number 2 Part II
Basic tracking using nonlinear continuous-time dynamic models (Crouse)
Navigation using inertial sensors (Groves)
Planned in 2016
Special Issue on Waveform Diversity: September 2016
Special Issue on Sense & Avoid : June 2016
Upcoming proposal on “Aerospace Robotic Systems”: November 2016
Tutorial IX scheduled for Summer 2016
Dale Blair is the new tutorial editor

24. 2012 & 2013 Harry Rowe Mimno Award
Erik P. Blasch, Dale A. Lambert, Pierre Valin, Mieczyslaw "Mitch" M. Kokar, James Llinas, Subrata Das, Chee Chong and Elisa Shahbazian, "High Level Information Fusion (HLIF): Survey of Models, Issues, and Grand Challenges," IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine,  
Hugh Griffiths, "The German WW2 HF Radars Elefant and See-Elefant" and "Radar Detection and Tracking of German V-2 Rocket launches in WW2,"  IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, January 2013, March 2013, respectively.

25. More Information from 2015 PRAC Report
2015
(January only)
2014
2013
2012
2011
Region of author affiliation %
Regions 1 – 6 (U.S.A.) 33 31 35 41 45
Region 7 (Canada) 11 1
Region 8 (Europe/Africa, Middle East) 23 46 30 24
Region 9 (Central/South America)
Region 10 (Asia/Pacific) 28 18 29
More balance among number of authors form US, Europe and Asia
Year
Impact Factor
(regular, with self-citations)
Impact Factor (w/o self-citations)
Citation
Half Life
Immediacy Index
2014
2013
0.438
0.404
8.4
0.073
2012
0.343
0.313
8.1
0.037
2011
0.297
0.282
6.9
0.015
2010
0.179
0.172
6.3
0.014
Steep increasing of the impact factor, still large room for improvement through more special issues, invited and solicited papers, industry insights

26. Bill Walsh, EIC Judy Scharmann, Executive Assistant
Status of QEB
Bill Walsh, EIC
Judy Scharmann, Executive Assistant

27. QEB Content President’s Message Society News Conferences Education
EVTS
Distinguished Lecturer Program
GOLD for GOLD Lecturers (Young Professionals)
Industry Relations
Membership
Awards
Chapter News
Student Activities
Publications
Systems Magazine
Transactions
Tutorials
Website
Technical Operations
Technical Panels

28. QEB Process
1st day of January, April, July, and October – the QEB will be published;
January 2 – March 15; April 2 – June 15; July 2 – September 15; October 2 – December 15 – Editor will solicit articles for publication. As articles are submitted, they will be edited and formatted.
March 15, June 15, September 15, December 15 – The editor will send all edited final articles to Executive Assistant for inclusion in the QEB.
March 28, June 28, September 28 and December 28 –The finished product will be sent to the Editor for final approval.

29. QEB Objectives Purpose and intention: Objectives: Features:
Provide time-sensitive news and useful information for AESS members
Draw attention to each of the specific technical areas that our Society represents and pursues
Document activities and events from individual Chapters of the Society
Highlight content of current and upcoming issues of the Systems magazine
Objectives:
Increase and enhance awareness in all aspects of our professional society
Promote and enable outreach to the various technical tenants that make up our interest areas
Provide links to articles and other items as part of a true electronic newsletter.
Making QEB accessible through social networking.
Features:
Chapter Corner – an opportunity for individual AESS chapters to provide activity updates and announcements
Featured AESS Technical Panels (new in 2015!) – introduction to the highlighted Panels, POCs, links to related conferences, other pertinent information on how to actively participate

30. AESS Publications Operating Budget
2015 Budget Expenses Summary
January - April 2015

31. 2015 Budget Expenses Estimate AES Transactions
Allen Press (AE-T) - $289,680
2nd year of 3 year contract for integrated services
Managing Editing, Copy Editing, Typesetting, XML tagging
Precision Computer Works (EJP) - $22,000
eJournal Database
Includes Task Order #TT16842 – IEEE: Export with IEEE DTD
Total for 2013: $311,680
Does not include IEEE-related expenses attributed to Transactions (e.g. various purchase services, XPLORE, etc.)
2% escalation on Allen Press Contract
EJP estimate covers work for Systems Magazine as well

32. AES Transactions Expenses – Estimated versus Actual

33. 2015 Budget Expenses Estimate AES Magazine
Allen Press (AP-S) - $317,322
Publication & Delivery Services
Susanne J. Walsh (SJW) - $35,000
Administrative & Assistant Administrative Editors
David Dobson (DD) - $20,000
Editorial & Publication Consultant
Total for 2013: $372,322
Does not include IEEE-related expenses attributed to Transactions (e.g. various purchase services, XPLORE, etc.)
Comparative expenses for 2012: $360,000 (Difference is 2% escalation for Year 2 of Allen Press contract).
SJW & DD estimate covers work for T-AES and AES Magazine

34. AES Systems Magazine Expenses – Estimated versus Actual