1. October 2004T-ASE1 IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Status Report An Important/Exciting Beginning October 2004, Sendai, Japan Peter B. Luh, Editor-in-Chief Ken Goldberg, Chair, Advisory Board http://www.ieee.org/t-ase

2. October 2004T-ASE2 –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 –http://www.ieee.org/t-ase

3. October 2004T-ASE3 First Issue: July 2004 –Five regular papers and four short papers –First page of each paper http://www.ieee.org/t-ase Second Issue: October 2004 to be out any day now –Special Section on Workholding and Fixturing Technical Committee on Manufacturing Automation. M. Wang, E. DeMeter, S. Melkote, K. Goldberg; E: I. Walker Four regular & one short papers plus one more short paper Page Budget: –Using up the page budget plus 5% for a total of 188 pages –Page budget for 2005: 424 pages Publication Update

4. October 2004T-ASE4 Nano-scale Automation and Assembly –Wen Li and Ning Xi; E: M. Wang –Submissions deadline: November 1, 2004 –Expected publication date: October 2005 Automation for the Life Sciences –Mingjun Zhang, Robin Felder, E. S. Kim, Bradley Nelson, Beth Pruitt, Yuan Zheng; E: D. Meldrum –Submissions deadline: March 1, 2005 –Expected publication date: April 2006 Please promote and submit Special Issues in Progress

5. October 2004T-ASE5 Submissions –Transferred from T-RA: 13 accepts –2003 T-ASE submissions: 61 –2004 T-ASE submissions: 138 as of 9/27/04. Estimated 180 to the end of the year –Original estimate in the T-ASE proposal: 60 for 2004 Review Status –T-ASE accepted and conditionally accepted: 18 –Revise/resubmit: 55  Rejected: 37 –Withdrawn: 6  Review: 93 –Acceptance rate: 16% (=18/(18+55+37)) Submissions and Review Status

6. October 2004T-ASE6 Major Development Migrated to Manuscript Central V3: June 8, 2004 –General feedback has been positive –There were no major difficulties, and we love it Building the Community: A critical but difficult task –Promotion by A/E Boards and IEEE Creative Services –Working with Technical Activities Board and Conference Board to promote automation in general –Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE) approved by the Conference Board to be held in conjunction with IROS 05 –See the synergy from different application areas

7. October 2004T-ASE7 Promotion Initiatives Led by Ken Goldberg General Promotion: –Color Flyer/Poster: 5000 copies printed –Email Blast: Emailing from IEEE and signed by RAS President and others on 7 Sept 2004 Membership Renewal –Bundling Rate: T-ASE and T-RO combined subscription rate approved and set for Fall 2004 –20%-Discount: A special Fall 2005 promotion on T-ASE –Member Bills: Announcing T-ASE on printed renewal bills set for Sept/October –Color Insert: Color buckslip insert in renewal mailings Thank Ken for the leadership and tireless efforts

8. October 2004T-ASE8 Advertisement appeared in –Chinese Control Journal, 3/04 –Journal of Association for Laboratory Automation, 8/04 Next task (PAB-level) to increase IEEEXplore downloads –Be more strict on abstracts, key words, and references in the review process for our papers to be easily located by search engines –Identify a body of people who manages key words for R&A, and work with them and IEEE to improve R&A key words for IEEE and the R&A professional in general –Encourage students/colleagues to download frequently –Need volunteers and suggestions

9. October 2004T-ASE9 The goal: –Build the subscription base –Increase the number of IEEEXplore downloads and our citations in general –Prepare for our first impact factor in three years How you can help: –Subscribe and submit personally if you haven't already! –Encourage your students and colleagues to subscribe, submit, and visit articles frequently via IEEEXplore –Encourage your library to subscribe –Be on the lookout for non-traditional automation areas