Systems, Man & Cybernetics - October 2017 - 3

Editorial

by M.E. El-Hawary

his issue marks the third year
of publication for IEEE Sys-
tems, Man, and Cybernetics
Ma--gazine, and it is a good time to
reexamine the mission envisaged in
our aim and scope:
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cy--
bernetics Magazine communicates to readers the activities
and actions of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
(SMC) Society's governing body,
its technical committees, and
Chapters. Furthermore, the
magazine offers educational
material such as technical
review articles, publishes contributions on educational activities, industrial and university
profiles, conference news, book
reviews, a calendar of important events, and provides information on the activities of sister non-IEEE SMC bodies.
Over the past three years, our content included a mix of historical, personal, and technical subjects, which
I hope have all been relevant toward
the magazine's scope. Our goal for
2018 is to present cutting-edge tutorials and reviews that allow our readers to further appreciate the progress
being made in our fields of interest.
If you can help contribute to this
end, please contact me at elhawary@
dal.ca.
Welcome and Gratitude
Please join me in congratulating our
incoming president, Edward Tunstel,
and wishing him well as he leads the
IEEE SMC Society for the next two
years. For an informative feature
-a rticle on Dr. Tunstel's work, please
see [1].

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Date of publication: 18 October 2017

Our Magazine
After Three Years

Sciences, in Beijing, and her research
In addition, the past year witnessed
interests include intelligent robotics,
a significant increase in article submispattern recognition, machine learnsions and, consequently, the corresponding, and data mining. She proposed
ing need for more detailed work from
the attractive "regions in the enviour associate editors, who are the conronment" concept, which has been
tent-quality guardians of this magazine.
a breakthrough in
Please join me in exthree-dimensional
pressing gratitude to
robotic assembly.
our colleagues: Liping
Our goal for
Fang, Aurona Gerber,
Saeid Nahavandi, FeYing Tan
2018 is to
rat Sahin, Weiming
Tan is a professor in
present cuttingShen, Margot Weithe Department of
jnen, Qiangfu Zhao,
Machine Intelligence
edge tutorials
and Haibin Zhu. I am
at the Key Laboraand reviews
pleased to welcome
t or y of M a ch i ne
that allow our
three new associate
Per-ception, Beijing,
editors to our roster:
Ch i na , a nd he is
readers to furXiaoou Li, Hong Qiao,
the director of the
ther appreciate
and Ying Tan.
Computational Intelligence Laboratory
the progress
School of Electronic
Xiaoou Li
being made
Eng i neer i ng a nd
Li is a research proin our fields
Computer Science
fessor (investigator
at Peking Univerand professor) at
of interest.
sity, China. He is the
the National Polyeditor-in-chief of
technic Institute in
International Jour-
Mexico City. Her re----
nal of Computational Intelligence and
search interests include Petri nets
Pattern Recognition and an associate
applications, knowledge representaeditor for IEEE Transactions on Evo-
tion and inference, data mining and
lutionary Computation, IEEE Trans-
applications, social network analysis,
actions on Cybernetics, and IEEE
active database systems, and human-
Transactions on Neural Networks
machine interfaces. She is a member
and Learning Systems. His research
of the IEEE Press Editorial Board.
interests include computational
intelligence, intelliption (intelligent
Hong Qiao
perception), data mining, and knowlQiao is a professor at the Institute
of Automation, Chinese Academy of
edge -discovery.

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