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

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AESS Publications Strategic Plan

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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.

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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.

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AESS Publications Strategic Objectives

• 3 Year Goals (1) Reduce the average submission to-publication delay for the AES transactions to 12 months. (2) Achieve an average submission rate of 12 articles per month for the AES Magazine.

(3) Increase the contributions to AES publications from industry by 50% (4) Increase Impact Factor of transactions to 2.0

(5) Increase Impact Factor of magazine to 1.0

(6) Increase readership (opens) of QEB by 25% (7) Increase visits to IEEE AESS Web Site by 25%

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AESS Publications Initiatives

(1) 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

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Status of the Transactions Lance Kaplan, EIC

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Number of Submissions

Full Year Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Fourth Month

Submissions by Technical Area

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Time to First Decisions

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Final Decision

Accepts Rejects Acceptance Rate

2010

192 288 40%

2011

191 343 36%

2012

174 300 37%

2013

223 302 42%

2014

209 364 36%

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Quality

No. Articles Impact Factor 5 Year Impact Factor Immediacy Index

2009

126 1.230

1.776

0.095

2010

126 0.917

1.603

0.140

2013 Rankings (Engineering, Aerospace):

2011

218 1.095

1.680

0.151

Impact Factor: #2 5-year IF: #2 Immediacy Index: #1 Source: Thomson Reuters

Journal Citation Report

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257 1.299

1.767

0.214

2013

196 1.394

1.755

0.327

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

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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)

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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

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Editor Changes

• Resignations – 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

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AE Performance

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AE Performance (Cont)

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AE Performance (Cont)

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AE Summary Chart

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AES Magazine Maria S. Greco, EIC

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Magazine AEs: Status

• New 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)

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Magazine Content

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Magazine includes:

Peer reviewed Manuscripts Award Summaries and Articles Tutorials Interview articles News and Information History Articles Student highlights Advertisements (as available) Special issues Book Reviews Calls for Papers (CFPs) Industry Insights

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New and Newer Content

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Student highlights

– 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)

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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

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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,"

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, 2012.

 Hugh Griffiths, "The German WW2 HF Radars Elefant and See-Elefant" and "Radar Detection and Tracking of German V-2 Rocket launches in WW2,"

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, January 2013, March 2013, respectively.

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More Information from 2015 PRAC Report

2014 2015 (January only) 2013 2012 2011 Region of author affiliation Regions 1 – 6 (U.S.A.) Region 7 (Canada) Region 8 (Europe/Africa, Middle East) Region 9 (Central/South America) Region 10 (Asia/Pacific) % 33 11 23 0 33 % 31 0 41 0 28 % 35 0 46 1 18 % 41 0 30 0 29 % 45 1 24 0 30 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 2012 2011 2010 0.438

0.343

0.297

0.179

0.404

0.313

0.282

0.172

8.4

8.1

6.9

6.3

0.073

0.037

0.015

0.014

Steep increasing of the impact factor, still large room for improvement through more special issues, invited and solicited papers, industry insights

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

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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

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QEB Process

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1 st day of January, April, July, and October

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published

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the QEB will be

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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.

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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.

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QEB Objectives

Purpose and intention: – 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

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

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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

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AES Transactions Expenses – Estimated versus Actual

$400 000,00 $350 000,00 $300 000,00 $250 000,00 $200 000,00 $150 000,00 $100 000,00 $50 000,00 Budget Expenses $0,00

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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

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AES Systems Magazine Expenses – Estimated versus Actual

$400 000,00 $350 000,00 $300 000,00 $250 000,00 $200 000,00 $150 000,00 $100 000,00 $50 000,00 $0,00 Budget Expenses

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