Focus On: Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence

Scope Computational Collective Intelligence (CCI) covers new methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of computational collective intelligence understood as the form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals (artificial and/or natural). The goal of the technique committee is to provide a forum for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements accomplished by…

Focus On: Technical Committee on Biometrics Systems

Introduction The term biometrics comes from the Greek words bios and metrikos. Biometrics deals with identification of individuals based on their biological or behavioral characteristics[1]. Up to now, a number of biometrics can be available, e.g., fingerprint, face, gait, iris, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), hand and finger geometry, palm print, signature, and voice, etc. Alphonse Bertillon…

New IEEE SMC Publication: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems focuses on such topics as modeling, simulation, analysis and understanding of social systems from the quantitative and/or computational perspective. “Systems” include man-man, man-machine and machine-machine organizations and adversarial situations as well as social media structures and their dynamics. More specifically, the transactions publishes articles on modeling the dynamics of…

IEEE SMC Transactions on Cybernetics Editor’s Corner

It is my great honor to take the responsibility of Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. As a flagship journal of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society since the inception in 1960, the Transactions and its predecessor has become a leading journal and source of technical knowledge on cybernetics with increasingly high impact, prestige,…

Call for Nominations for 2014 SMCS Awards

Nominations and supporting letters are now being accepted for 2014 SMCS Awards. Please submit Nominations for SMC Society Awards by June 15, 2014…