1. May 2004T-ASE1 IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Status Report An Important/Exciting Beginning May 2004, New Orleans Peter B. Luh, Editor-in-Chief Ken Goldberg, Chair, Advisory Board

2. –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. May 2004T-ASE3 Submissions –Transferred from T-RA: 13 accepts –2003 T-ASE Submissions: 61 –2004 T-ASE Submissions: 62 (as of 4/22/04) –Estimated in the original T-ASE Proposal: 60 for 2004 Review Status –Accepted and Conditionally Accepted: 26 –Revise/Resubmit: 27  Rejected: 13 –Withdrawn: 5  Review: 65 –Acceptance rate: 24.5% (=13/(13+27+13)) ~ Reasonable Submissions and Review Status

4. May 2004T-ASE4 Five Regular Papers –A web-based rapid prototyping system –Energy management networks for building automation –Port yard storage optimization –Design of six sigma supply chains –Autonomous and agile information coordination systems Four Short Papers –Root cause determination of manufacturing processes –Scheduling robotic cells for semiconductor equip. manuf. –A case study of automotive paint shops –A productivity study of parallel production lines First Issue: July 2004 (Mostly from T-RA)

5. May 2004T-ASE5 Workholding and Fixturing –TC on Manufacturing Automation. M. Wang, E. DeMeter, S. Melkote, K. Goldberg (E: Ian Walker) –A Special Section for the October 2004 issue Nano-scale Manipulation and Assembly –Wen Li and Ning Xi –A high quality proposal A few other proposals are on the drawing board Special Issues/Sections

6. May 2004T-ASE6 Publication Statistics 200420052006 Page Budget180392424 Pages Regular Paper Short Paper Comm. Items Book Reviews Correspondence Pages/Reg Pap  Submissions for 2004 by 4/22/04: 62  Estimated 2004 submissions: 186 (= 62  3)  25% acceptance rate  46 papers (=186/4)  1/3 Short Papers  31 Regular + 15 Short  12 pages/regular equivalent  462 (=12  38.5)  Achieving 424 one year in advance (424)

7. May 2004T-ASE7 Major Development T-ASE Googol Technology Best Paper Award –Zexiang Li of Hong Kong UST, AE of T-RA/T-RO, and founder/Chairman of Googol Technology (HK) Ltd agreed to contribute $1000 per year for five years –Googol Best New Application Paper Award Migrate to ManuscriptCentral soon Building the Community: Not an easy task –Promotion by A/E Boards and IEEE Creative Services –Working with Technical Activities Board and Conference Board to promote automation in general –Advices will be highly appreciated

8. May 2004T-ASE8 Concluding Remarks An exciting and critical beginning Ideas and comments are welcome Special thanks to Ken and Dick for the excellent leadership, dedication, and efforts Your support are highly appreciated http://www.ieee.org/t-ase Submit and Subscribe!