MINUTES OF THE 2002 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NONLINEAR CIRCUITS AND
SYSTEMS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, THE IEEE CAS SOCIETY,
(ISCAS 2002 - May 27, 2002, Scottsdale, AZ)
LIST OF ATTENDEES (#22):
Hideki Asai, B. Burdiek, Geoffrey Coram, Rui de Figueiredo,
Leonid Goldgeisser (Chair-elect), Gian Mario Maggio (Secretary),
Shinasaku Mori, Tetsuo Nishi, Yoshifumi Nishio (Track Chair for
ISCAS 2002), Josef Nossek, Maciej Ogorzalek, Kohshi Okumura,
Tamas Roska, Toshimichi Saito, Irwin Sandberg, Arturo Sarmiento
Reyes, Gianluca Setti (Chair), Mamoru Tanaka, Ljiljana
Trajkovic, Tetsushi Ueta, Joos Vandewalle, and Wei Xing Zheng.
AGENDA
TC NCAS ANNUAL REPORT TO THE IEEE-CAS SOCIETY (2001-2002):
During the period 2001-2002, the members of the Nonlinear
Circuits and Systems Technical Committee (TC-NCAS) edited five
special issues in related journals, published two technical
books in the field of nonlinear circuits and systems, organized
several special sessions, and participated in numerous major
conferences and workshops.
Special Issues in CAS-related Journals:
G. Chen edited a special issue on "Chaos Control and
Synchronization," in the Int. J. Bifurcation Chaos, Vol. 12,
No. 5, May 2001.
G. Chen, J. L. Moiola, and H. O. Wang edited a special issue
on "Controlling Bifurcations," in Latin American Applied
Research Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3, June 2001.
L. Kocarev, G. M. Maggio, M. J. Ogorzalek, L. Pecora, and K.
Yao edited a special issue on "Applications of Chaos in
Modern Communication Systems," in the IEEE Trans. Circuits
Syst. I, published in December 2001.
M. Hasler, G. Mazzini, M. J. Ogorzalek, R. Rovatti, and G.
Setti edited a special issue on "Applications of Nonlinear
Dynamics to Electronic and Information Engineering," in the
Proc. of the IEEE, published in May 2002.
M. di Bernardo, H. S. H. Chung, C. K. Tse, A. Ioinovici,
M. Kazimierczuk, and T. Saito, plan to edit a special issue
on "Analysis, Design and Applications of Switching Circuits
and Systems," in the IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I, to appear
in September 2003.
Books:
G. R. Chen and T. Ueta edited a book entitled: "Chaos in
Circuits and Systems," World Scientific Series on Nonlinear
Science, Series B - Vol. 11 to appear in summer 2002
(http://www.wspc.com/books/chaos/4945.html).
G. R. Chen, X. Yu, and D. J. Hill, are editing a two-volume
book entitled "Chaos and Bifurcation Control: Theory and
Applications," Lecture Notes in Control and Information
Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
Conferences, Workshops, Schools:
2001 Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems (NDES'01),
Delft University of Technology, June 21-23, 2001;
First Asia-Pacific Workshop in Chaos Control and
synchronization (organized and chaired by G. R. Chen),
Shanghai, China, June 28-29, 2001.
Fifteenth European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design
(ECCTD'01), Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo,
Finland, August 28-31, 2001.
Second International Symposium on Intelligent and Complex
Systems (ISICS'01), Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, Wuhan, China Three-Gorge Yantze River Cruise,
October 17-21, 2001.
2001 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its
Applications (NOLTA'01), Miyagi Zao Royal Hotel, Miyagi,
Japan, October 28 - November 1, 2001.
Winter School on: "Nonlinear Phenomena in Communication
Networks," (organized by G. M. Maggio and L. Kocarev) held at
UCSD, January 13-16, 2002. The presentations are available
online at: http://rfic.ucsd.edu/chaos/ws2002.html
2002 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
(ISCAS'02), Scottsdale Princess Resort, May 26-29, 2002.
The International Conference on Communications, Circuits and
Systems & West Sino-Expo 2002 (ICCCAS & WeSino Expo'02) will
be held in Chengdu City, capital of Sichuan Province, China,
June 26-28, 2002.
2002 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its
Applications (NOLTA'02) will be held in Xi'an City, China,
October 7-11, 2002.
Special Sessions/Tutorials organized:
ISCAS'01: Special Session on "Applications of Chaos to
Communication Systems," Organizers: G. M. Maggio and G.
Kolumban.
ISCAS'01: Tutorial Session on "Statistical Approach to
Discrete-time Chaotic Systems," Organizers and Speakers: G.
Setti, G. Mazzini, and R. Rovatti.
ECCTD'01: Tutorial on "Application of Chaos - State of the
Art," Organizer: M. Ogorzalek, Speakers: M. Delgado, G.
Setti, and V. Porra.
ECCTD'01: Tutorial on "Design Principles of Chaotic
Oscillators," Organizer: E. Lindberg, Speakers: M. Delgado
and E. Lindberg.
ECCTD'01: Special Session on "Analogic Wave Algorithms,"
Organizers: T. Roska, C. Rekeczky, and M. Gilli.
ECCTD'01: Special Session on "Nonlinear Circuits in
Communication Systems (NCCS)," Organizers: W. Mathis and O.
Feely.
ECCTD'01: Special Session on "Applications of Chaos I and
II," Organizers: M. Ogorzalek and P. Kennedy.
ISCAS'02: Special Session on "Statistical Methodologies for
Nonlinear Signal Processing," Organizers: G. Setti, R.
Rovatti, and G. Mazzini.
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CHAIR REPORT ON THE TC CHAIRS MEETINGS
(Jan. 11, 2002, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ):
1. Several different situations for TCs
TC on Analog Signal Processing had the largest number of
paper to review (>370) with 40 members involved (NCAS TC >100
and >20).
TC on NN and CNN had a relative small number of papers at
ISCAS. Proposal of merging the committees (at least for the
ISCAS track).
TC on CAS for communication is rapidly growing.
TC on CAD has not ISCAS as its major conferences (second
choice submission).
TC on Gigascale and Nanoelectronics and on Biomedical
Engineering has great importance in "spreading" new
technologies inside CAS.
VP opinion: Play an active role as much as possible.
2. "Benchmarking" of CAS papers
Project initiated with previous VPs.
Goals are (a) to give publicity to the most important papers,
(b) to give a comprehensive overview over a specific research
topic.
Discussion:
* Prof. Michael Green started a debate regaridng benchmark
publications (as proposed by M. Hasler).
* Dr. G. M. Maggio pointed out that, at least in the case
of printed publications, the IEEE may grant authorization
to re-publish manuscripts without violating copyright laws.
Web-based publications need to be investigated further.
* Prof. Tamas Roska encouraged the use of CASE (Circuits and
Systems Expositions). This is one of the options for
submitting a paper to TCAS-I (other than a full paper or a
transactions brief). This could be one way to deal with
the benchmark publications.
TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES PROMOTIONS:
Prof. Rui de Figueiredo announced a new conference relevant
to the CAS society: the 1st International Conference on
Circuits and Systems for Communications (ICCSC'02),
St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg,
Russia, June 26-28 2002.
Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic, a Special Sessions Co-Chair
of ISCAS 2003 (with Prof. Gert Cauwenberghs), encouraged NCAS
members to contribute to the ISCAS 2003 Special Sessions.
Detailed information is available from
the ISCAS 2003 Web site http://www.iscas2003.org, under link:
Special Sessions.
ELECTION OF TC NCAS OFFICERS (Term ending at ISCAS 2003):
Chair
Leonid Goldgeisser (leonidg@ieee.org)
Past-chair
Gianluca Setti (gsetti@ing.unife.it)
Chair-elect
Gian Mario Maggio (gmaggio@ucsd.edu)
Secretary
Yoshifumi Nishio (nishio@ee.tokushima-u.ac.jp)
Track Chair for Nonlinear Circuits and Systems at ISCAS 2003
Joos Vandewalle (joos.vandewalle@esat.kuleuven.ac.be)
Prepared by: G. Setti, L. Goldgeisser, G. M. Maggio, Y. Nishio,
and Lj. Trajkovic.
(A copy of these minutes will be also posted on the Web at:
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ljilja/tcncas/writeups.html)