1. VP Publications’ Report Vincenzo Piuri 2008 AdCom Meeting Montreal, QC, Canada – 10 April 2008

2. Vision and Objectives Promote the System Journal as the premiere publication on complex systems and system-of-systems Involve the Member Societies to make them perceiving that the System Journal is one of their journals Be comprehensive and proactive within the IEEE and with the Member Societies

3. Main Achievement IEEE Systems Journal launched in the second semester of 2007 Editor-in-Chief: Mo Jamshidi

4. IEEE Systems Journal (1) Editor-in-Chief Associate Editors Abachi, H. Aghdam, Amir Basir, Otman Benitez-Read, J. S. Borne, Pierre Chen, Philip Cox, Daniel DeLaurentis, Dan Hata, Yutaka Hipel, Keith W. Hirt, Evelyn Johnson, Mark Keating, Chuck Korba, Petr Maier, Mark Michael, Bret Nahavandi, Saeid Nguyen, Charlie C. Parker, Gary Reuter, Matthias Rutkowski, Leszek Sahin, Ferat Saif, Mehrdad Sarangapani, Jag Shafai, Bahram Tunstel, Jr., Edward Mo Jamshidi

5. IEEE Systems Journal (2) Advisory Board Agrawal, Mauli Asrar, Ghassem Athans, Michael Bekey, George Bien, Zenn Borne, Pierre Chaudhuri, Balarko Dorato, Peter Fang, Wai-Chi Fowler, Kim Gruver, William Khosla, Pradeep Luh, Peter Madni, Asad Montrose, Mark Nguyen, Charlie C. Pearlman, Jay Pedrycz, Witold Phillis, Yannis Reckmeyer, William J. Sage, Andrew P. Simaan, Marwan Sorooshian, Soroosh Tesar, Delbert Tien, Jim M. Zadeh, Lofti Zoughi, Reza

6. IEEE Systems Journal (3) Regular Issues 2 issues in 2007 (one on RFID) 4 issues annually since 2008 Special issues GEOSS: Creating a Global System of Systems (ready to be published – 21 papers) Grid Resource Management (in progress – 25 papers) Recent Advances in Global Navigation and Communication Satellite Systems (GNCSS) Resilience Engineering Service Systems of Systems

7. IEEE Systems Journal (4) Paper sumissions 120 papers so far Printed pages 250 pages in 2007 600 pages annually since 2008 Subscriptions Corporate (ASPP & IEEEXplore) Individual –planned about 1,000 –actual about 100

8. Which Future? Reaching out Target audience Professional engineers Integration and involvement Comprehensiveness Support to education

9. Reaching Out To expand publicity and interactions worldwide for the Systems Journal –at our conferences –at major conferences of the Member Societies –with non-IEEE entities Publicity media –flyers to be distributed at major conferences –poster to be displayed at major conferences –announcements distributed through newsletters and emailing lists of Member Societies

10. Target Readers To focus publicity and publication –on scientists –on professional engineers –on governmental bodies –on students To attract the various audiences with material valuable to them

11. Professional Engineers To care specifically to the needs of professional engineers through real cases and methodological perspective

12. Integration and Involvement To attract interest from various technical groups focusing on specific topics To make everybody feeling at home To attract contributions from outstanding individuals and groups

13. Comprehensiveness To promote visibility of the System Journal

14. Support to education To create a knowledge base supporting advancement of theory and practice in our field

15. Anything More? Going beyond the traditional publication perspective (conference proceedings and archival journals)

16. Further Communications Goals: To expand the visibility and the knowledge dissemination of the IEEE Systems Council worldwide To provide a more effective framework for communications More visibility: More future

17. More Visibility: More Future (1) Systems Council Web Site to expand the structure and revise the information to make it more attractive technical areas (topics, seminal papers, books, events, presentations of the Member Societies…) conferences (sponsored, technically co-sponsored) publications tutorials chapters online communities member services mentoring job offering/searching …

18. More Visibility: More Future (2) Systems Knowledge Environment web-based environment for knowledge dissemination archival papers from the Systems Journal archival papers from any IEEE transactions and magazine conference papers from our conferences conference papers from any IEEE conference application notes successful cases tutorials mentoring notes …

19. More Visibility: More Future (3) Online Tutorials web-based tutorials theoretical frameworks methodologies application issues application cases …

20. More Visibility: More Future (4) Online Communities forums and networking opportunities discussion forums on technical topics discussion forums on mentoring …

21. More Visibility: More Future (5) Rising awareness on Complex Systems and Systems-of-Systems web-casting and pod-casting news major presentations at technical meetings major presentations at chapter meetings Second Life short presentations short tutorials short seminars mentoring … YouTube short presentations short tutorials short seminars …

22. Integration of Publications in Systems Council Activities and Goals Educational Activities Publications Conferences Technical Activities Fostering scientific advancement, knowledge dissemination and technological innovation to promote knowledge, economical and social development Members Activities