Meeting Agenda
1. Opening of meeting
2. Introduction of NCAS TC officers and members
3. Approval of the 2011 NCAS TC meeting agenda
4. Reports on activities during the period from ISCAS 2010 to ISCAS 2011(H. Leung)
5. Report on paper submission/acceptance rate for NCAS track at ISCAS 2011 (H. Sekiya)
6. Membership and welcome to new members
7. Election of officers for the term 2011 - 2012
8. Any other business
9. Meeting adjourned
Additional discussions:
A. Potential for merger among NCAS, Cellular Nanoscale Networks & Array Computing (CNNAC), and Neural Systems & Applications (NSA).
-The attendees agreed that these committees represent different (though overlapping) communities, that TC-NCAS is a large committee and there is no reason for a merger.
B. 2020 Vision
The chair showed the "US national academy of engineering Grand Challenge (USA)", which has 8 topics and indicates future directions.
- TC-NCAS puts emphasis on theories which can be applied to many topics. Actually, TC-NCAS includes different areas such as nonlinear phenomena, complex systems, and interacting systems. The memristor also came from this committee.
David Skellern summarized the discussions in the Vision Committee meeting
- It is important to come up with a five-year vision. New vision yields big challenges. TC-NCAS has different areas and different approaches.
-Target research areas are needed in order to link the challenges. For example, the area of complex networks relates to Smart Grids, which also draws on other areas.
- It is important to focus on innovation and how fundamental knowledge can be extended to apply to new challenges. We have to guide all CAS members that TC-NCAS, with its fundamental theoretical expertise, can contribute across a range of interesting topics.
- 100 word visions should be sent to the vision committee by September, 2011.
C. 2012 CAS-FEST
-Information on funding can be obtained from the CAS web page.
-It is good opportunity to collaborate with ISCAS and WiCAS. Face-to-face meeting is a very good idea.
- For example, Jinhu Lu got USD10,000 support for the International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks from CAS society.
- It is suggested that a workshop on NCAS be hosted at ISCAS 2012.
Ljiljana Trajkovic pointed out that this data should be compared with that of previous years, which can be obtained from the past chairs or past meeting minutes.
Zbigniew Galias stated that there was one case in which the officers of the committee did not accept an application for membership of the Technical Committee.
(A copy of these minutes will be posted on the TCNCAS Web site: http://eecs.berkeley.edu/~ljilja/tcncas/writeups.html.)