June
2007 —
IEEE
has approved six new publications for
2008. The list of new journal titles,
which offer an exciting array of information on
a wide variety of engineering and computer
science topics include :
IEEE Intelligent Transportation
Systems Magazine
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
IEEE Transactions on Haptics
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in
Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
The IEEE Intelligent Transportation
Systems Magazine (ITSM), sponsored by
the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITS) Society, will focus on publishing
peer-reviewed articles that provide innovative
research ideas, report significant application
case studies, and raise awareness of pressing
research and application challenges in all
areas of intelligent transportation systems. The
journal, in contrast to the highly academic IEEE
Transactions on Intelligent Transportation
Systems, will serve as a dissemination
vehicle for information regarding developments in
the intelligent transportation field to all
members of the ITS society and other
interested parties. High quality tutorials, surveys,
successful implementations, technology
reviews, lessons learned, policy and societal
impacts, and ITS educational issues will also be
published in the new magazine.
The ITS
Magazine will also serve as an ideal media
communication vehicle between the governing
body of ITS society and its membership and promote
ITS community development and growth.
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IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
The scope of IEEE Transactions on
Services Computing, sponsored by the
IEEE Computer Society, will focus on any
computing or software aspect of the science and
technology related to services innovation
research and development. The periodical will
emphasize the algorithmic, mathematical,
statistical, and computational methods that
are central in services computing; the emerging
field of Service-Oriented Architecture; Web
Services; Business Process Integration;
Solution Performance Management; Services
Operations; and Management. Services
Computing will cover the whole lifecycle
of services innovation research from both computing
and software perspectives including, but not
limited to:
- Mathematical foundation of services
computing
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Service creation, development, and
management
- Linkage between IT services and
business services
- Web services security and privacy
- Web services agreement and contract
- Web services discovery and negotiation
- Web services management
- Web services collaboration
- Quality of service for web services
- Web services modeling and performance
management
- Solution frameworks for building
service-oriented applications
- Composite web service creation and
enabling infrastructures
- Business and scientific applications
using web services and SOA
- Business process integration and
management using web services
- Standards and specifications of
services computing
- Utility models and solution
architectures
- Resource acquisition models in utility
computing
- Mathematical foundation of business
process modeling, integration, and
management
- Business process modeling, interaction,
and collaboration
The
goal of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
is to enable IT services and computing
technology to perform business services more
efficiently and effectively.
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IEEE Transactions on Haptics
Sponsored by the IEEE R&A society
and the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Transactions
on Haptics, will address the science,
technology and applications associated with
information acquisition and object
manipulation through touch. Haptic interactions
relevant to this journal include all aspects of
manual exploration and manipulation by humans,
machines, and interactions between the two,
performed in real, virtual, teleoperated, or
networked environments. Specific research
areas to be included in IEEE Transactions
on Haptics would include, but not be limited
to:
- Human haptic and multi-sensory
perception and action
- Haptic interactions via passive or
active tools and machines
- Devices that sense, enable, or create
haptic interactions locally or at a
distance
- Haptic rendering and its association
with graphic and auditory rendering in
virtual reality
- Algorithms, controls, and dynamics of
haptic devices, users, and interactions
between the two
- Human-machine performance and safety
with haptic feedback
- Haptics in the context of
human-computer interactions
- Systems and networks using haptic
devices and interactions, including
multi-modal feedback
- Application of the above in areas such
as education, rehabilitation, medicine,
computer-aided design, skills training, computer
games, driver controls, simulation, and visualization
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IEEE Transactions on
Learning Technologies
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies,
sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, will publish
peer-reviewed archival research papers and
critical survey papers that describe original
research or offer a critical review of learning
technologies. Topics within the scope of the
journal include technology advances in online
learning systems, intelligent tutors, educational
software applications and games, as well as
simulation systems for education and training.
Also within the scope of IEEE Transactions
on Learning Technologies are papers
concerning collaborative learning tools,
devices and interfaces for learning,
interactive techniques for learning, tools for
formative and summative assessment; ontologies
for learning systems, standards and web services
that support learning, as well as authoring tools
for learning materials, computer support for
peer tutoring, learning via discovery, project,
field or lab work, and the creation and management
of learning objects that provide innovative
research ideas and critical survey papers.
Evaluations of technology would be considered if the
technology is novel or significant technical
insights are to be gained.
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IEEE Reviews in
Biomedical Engineering
Sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE Reviews in
Biomedical Engineering (RBME), is
aimed at providing a platform for papers dealing
with new developments and emerging trends in
the field of biomedical engineering, an
interdisciplinary field embracing engineering, life
sciences and medicine. Other interests include
contributions of scholarly works, ranging from
the historic and modern development in biomedical
engineering to the life sciences and medicine
enabled by new technologies. The main goal of
IEEE Reviews in Biomedical
Engineering is to consolidate the research and
state-of-the-art reviews for members of all the IEEE
societies that have an interest in biomedical
engineering. There is a significant demand for
such reviews among the authors of various IEEE
journals that publish biomedical-related
articles, but the current journals, with their focus
on original articles and communications/letters, are
not able to meet this demand. The RBME,
therefore, will receive, review, and publish,
under one umbrella. the contributions of scholarly
works, ranging from historic and modern
development in biomedical engineering to the life
sciences and medicine enabled by technologies
covered by the various IEEE societies and vice
versa. It is expected that this journal will achieve
a high impact factor through the emergence and
popularity of the field and relentless
insistence from the very beginning on the high
impact, high quality contributions and
selection of state-of-the-art topics of wide
appeal to the scientific community.
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IEEE Journal of
Selected Topics in Applied Earth
Observations and Remote Sensing
Sponsored by the Geosciences and Remote
Sensing Society (GRSS) and the IEEE Committee
on Earth Observations (ICEO), the IEEE Journal of
Selected Topics in Applied Earth
Observations and Remote Sensing will focus
on the growing field of applications in Earth
observations and remote sensing. The journal will
also provide a venue for the rapidly expanding
special issues that are being sponsored by the
Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society. The
journal will draw upon the experience of the highly
successful IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and
Remote Sensing to provide a
complementary medium for the wide range of
topics in applied earth observations.
The
‘Applications’ areas planned for the
journal encompasses the societal benefit areas
of the Global Earth Observations Systems of Systems
(GEOSS) program. Through deliberations over
two years, ministers from 50 countries agreed
to identify nine areas where Earth observation could
positively impact the quality of life and health of
their respective countries. Some of these are
areas not traditionally addressed in the IEEE
context. These include biodiversity, biotechnology,
healthcare, climate, communications,
computers, signal processing and ocean
engineering as they relate to earth observations and
remote sensing. Specific themes for the
journal include understanding, assessing,
predicting, mitigating, and adapting to climate
variability and change; improving water
resource management through better understanding of
the water cycle; improving the management and
protection of terrestrial, coastal and marine
ecosystems; and supporting sustainable agriculture
and combating desertification.
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