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Status Report on

IEICE Communications Society

(IEICE-CS)

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About IEICE

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1917 established

1995 4 societies + 1 group

2014

100th Anniversary 2017

Members: JP region 28,420, Other regions 3,155

11 Overseas Sections:

Europe, Bangkok, Beijing, Indonesia, Korea(3),

Shanghai, Singapore ,Taipei & Vietnam

Engineering Sciences Society(ESS)

Communications Society(CS)

Electronics Society(ES)

Information and Systems Society(ISS)

Human Communication Gourp(HCG)

0

5000

10000

15000

5976

11401

6266

11128

898

Total Members: 31575

EngineeringScienceSociety(ESS)

CommunicationsSociety(CS)

Electronics Society(ES)

Information and Systems Society(ISS)

HumanCommunicationGroup(HCG)

Number of IEICE Members

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As of March 2014

Transactions Online (English)

Online Journals

Transactions Online (Japanese)

Transactions and Journals of IEICE

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Organization of IEICE-CS Executive Committees

Board of Directors - Administration of Communications Society

Editorial Board - Transactions on Communications, in English

- Transactions on Communications, in Japanese

- Communications Society Magazine, B-plus ,in Japanese

- IEICE Communications Express (ComEX), in English

Council of Technical Committee Representatives - 21(Regular)+7(Ad hoc) Technical Committees

- Each TC organizes 5 or more Workshops a year.

Planning and Members Activities Committee - International Affairs - IEICE-CS GLOBAL NEWSLETTER - Web Management

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2014-2015 IEICE-CS Board of Directors

Vice President

President-Elect

Kou MIYAKE President

Atsushi HIRAMATSU Planning, Member Activities and Finance

Chair, Editorial Board Hidenori NAKAZATO

Other Directors

Vice President Council of Technical Committee Representatives

Nobuyoshi KIKUMA

Masahiro UMEHIRA

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Total 1,189 IEICE-CS Overseas Members (March, 2014)

ALGERIA AUSTRALIA BANGLADESH BELGIUM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BRAZIL CANADA CHINA CROATIA CZECH DENMARK EGYPT FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECE INDIA INDONESIA IRAN IRAQ ITALY JORDAN KOREA MALAYSIA MEXICO

MONTENEGRO NETHERLANDS NORWAY PAKISTAN PHILIPPINE POLAND PORTUGAL REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR ROMANIA RUSSIA SAUDI ARABIA SERBIA

SINGAPORE SLOVENIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAIN SRI LANKA SWEDEN SWITZERLAND TAIWAN THAILAND TURKEY U.K. U.S.A. VIETNAM

53 Countries

6

Asia

Europe

Middle East

North America

South America

Oceania

Africa JP region

Overseas

IEICE-CS members

Overseas Members of IEICE-CS

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Technical Committees of IEICE-CS (Regular Committees)

Antennas and Propagation (AP) Internet Architecture (IA) Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics (SANE) Satellite Telecommunications (SAT) Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMCJ) Communication Quality (CQ) Information and Communication Management (ICM) Information Networks (IN) Smart Radio (SR) Short Range Wireless Communications (SRW) Ambient Intelligence and Sensor Networks (ASN) Communication Systems (CS) Energy Engineering in Electronics and Communications (EE) Network Systems (NS) Optical Communication Systems (OCS) Optical Fiber Technology (OFT) Photonic Network (PN) Healthcare and Medical Information Communication Technology (MICT) Radio Communication Systems (RCS) Wireless Power Transmission (WPT) Mobile Network and Applications (MoNA)

21 Regular TCs

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Technical Committees of IEICE-CS (Ad-hoc Committees)

Standardization & Innovation in ICT Technologies (SIIT) (2008.10-2016.3) Extremely Advanced Optical Transmission (EXAT) (2010.4-2016.3) ICT in Smart Grid (ICT-SG) (2010.10-2016.3) Communication Behavior Engineering (CBE) (2011.4-2015.3) Network Virtualization (NV) (2011.4-2015.3) Information Network Science (NetSci) (2011.7-2015.3) Photonics-applied Electromagnetic Measurement (PEM) (2012.4-2016.3)

7 Ad-hoc TCs

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Publications (1) Transactions on Communications

The Communications Society monthly issues Transactions in Japanese and Transactions in English.

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Number of Papers/Letters in Trans. on Communications

Publications (1) Transactions on Communications

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

LETTER

PAPER

* Submission to the LETTER category had been closed on May 31, 2012.

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IEICE Transactions on

Communications (English)

is now an international

journal in Asian Pacific

regions.

Year 2013

Publications (1) Transactions on Communications

China 30.2%

Japan 27.2%

Korea 26.2%

Taiwan 5.3%

India 2.2%

Malaysia 2.2%

Iran 1.1%

Turkey 1.0%

Thailand 0.8%

Others 3.8%

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Publications (2) IEICE Communications Express

IEICE Communications Express (ComEX) is an Online Letter Journal, where researchers exchange new topics easily and timely. Features:

- Papers are DOI (digital object identifier) attached and accessible through the Internet (http://www.comex.ieice.org/).

- Papers with multimedia files such as movie files can be published.

-Short papers (up to 1,500 words) are rapidly published in a short time after acceptance.

Short review period

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Average length of review times Trans. Commun. PAPER：

* 3.5 months from the time of submission to the first review result notification

* 9 months from the time of submission to publication

ComEX LETTER：

* 20 days from the time of submission to the first review result notification * 40 days from the time of submission to publication

Publications (1) & (2) Trans. Commun. / ComEX

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Publications (3) GLOBAL NEWSLETTER & E-mail News

GLOBAL NEWSLETTER issued quarterly since

August 2002.

Messages from IEICE-CS presidents, fellows, etc.

Report of Society’s activities, conferences

E-mail News

issued occasionally since 2003

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Publications (4) Communications Society Magazine

Communications society magazine, B-plus, started in June, 2007.

Includes technical reviews, surveys, practical topics etc.

B-plus is quarterly published in Japanese.

Electronic version is accessible for free from March 2015.

Launched on 3rd April 2013.

Available free of charge.

Covers 200,000 IEICE articles. Journals of IEICE

IEICE Transactions

IEICE Technical Reports

IEICE General/Society/FIT Conference

IEICE-hosting international conferences

(APNOMS, EMC, ICTF, ISAP and WCSIT)

Metadata is stored as linked

data.

Serendipity searching A talent of finding something valuable

while not specifically searching for it

IEICE Knowledge Discovery (I-Scover)

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I-Scover Park(http://iscover-p.ieice.org/cms/?page_id=14)

is the portal site for understanding I-Scover.

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International Conferences

(Numbers classified to regions)

(Numbers classified to categories)

Number of International Conferences in 2013.

Regions Number of conferences

Asia 14 (include

10 in Japan)

Europe 5

North America 1

Oceania 1

Categories Number of conferences

(a) Promoter 0

(b) Joint promoter 4

(c) Participating promoter

9

(d) Supporting or backing roles

8

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International Conferences

Upcoming international conferences supported by IEICE-CS in 2014-2015

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Member Activities Sister Societies

Our current sister societies: IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Korean Information and Communications Society

(KICS) Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and

Science (KIEES) Informatiostechnische Gesellschaft within The

Verband Der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik (VDE/ITG)

China Institute of Communications (CIC)

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The sixth IEICE-CS’s Welcome Party was held on 18th March 2014 in Niigata University in Niigata.

Purpose: To get together and to exchange ideas and views in an informal manner under friendly atmosphere, especially for young researchers and students.

The party was very successful with 201 colleagues participation.

Industry booth and posters A snapshot of the party

Member Activities IEICE-CS’s Welcome Party