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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

2013

100th Anniversary 2017

Members: JP region 29,569, Other regions 3,245

10 Overseas Sections: Europe, Bangkok, Beijing, Indonesia, Korea(3), Shanghai, Singapore & Taipei

Engineering Sciences Society(ESS) Communications Society(CS) Electronics Society(ES) Information and Systems Society(ISS) Human Communication Gourp(HCG)

Number of IEICE Members

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As of March 2013

IEICE Transactions (English)

Paperless Journals

IEICE Transactions (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 - 19(Regular)+9(Ad hoc) Technical Committees - Each TC organizes 5 to 10 Workshops a year.

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

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2013-2014 IEICE-CS Board of Directors

Vice President

President-Elect

Iwao SASASE President

Atsushi HIRAMATSU Planning, Member Activities and Finance

Chair, Editorial Board Miki YAMAMOTO

Other Directors

Vice President Council of Technical Committee Representatives

Soichiro ARAKI

Kou MIYAKE

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Total 1,453 IEICE-CS Overseas Members (August, 2013)

ALGERIA AUSTRALIA BANGLADESH BELGIUM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BRAZIL CANADA CHINA CROATIA CZECH DENMARK EGYPT FINLAND

FRANCE GERMANY GREECE HUNGARY INDIA INDONESIA IRAN IRELAND ITALY JORDAN KOREA MACEDONIA MALAYSIA MEXICO

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

SINGAPORE SLOVENIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAIN 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) Software Radio (SR) Ambient Intelligence and Sensor Networks (ASN) Short Range Wireless Communications(SRW) Communication Systems (CS) Energy Engineering in Electronics and Communications (EE) Network Systems (NS) Optical Communication Systems (OCS) Optical Fiber Technology (OFT) Photonic Network (PN) Radio Communication Systems (RCS) Mobile Network and Applications (MoNA)

19 Regular TCs

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

Standardization & Innovation in ICT Technologies (SIIT) (2008.10-2014.3) Medical Information and Communication Technology (MICT)

(2006.5-2014.3) Communication Behavior Engineering (CBE) (2011.4-2015.3) Network Virtualization (NV) (2011.4-2015.3) Extremely Advanced Optical Transmission (EXAT) (2010.4-2016.3) Wireless Power Transmission (WPT) (2010.4-2014.3) ICT in Smart Grid (ICT-SG) (2010.10-2014.3) Information Network Science (NetSci) (2011.7-2015.3) Photonics-applied Electromagnetic Measurement (PEM) (2012.4-2016.3)

9 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

Year

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Japan 30.8%

Korea 30.0%

China 24.4%

Taiwan 5.6%

Iran 2.0%

Malaysia 1.1%

Thailand 1.0% Others 5.1%

IEICE Transactions on Communications (English) is now an international journal in Asian Pacific regions.

Year 2012

Publications (1) Transactions on Communications

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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：

* 4 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 * 45 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.

Launched on 3rd April 2013. Available free of charge. Covers 160,000 IEICE articles.

IEICE Transactions IEICE Technical Reports IEICE General/Society Conference ISAP (International Symposium on

Antennas and Propagation) EMC (International Symposium on

Electromagnetic Compatibility)

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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International Conferences

(Numbers classified to regions)

(Numbers classified to categories)

Number of International Conferences in 2012.

Regions Number of conferences

Asia 12 (include 5 in Japan)

Europe 6

South America 1

Oceania 1

Categories Number of conferences

(a) Promoter 3

(b) Joint promoter 1

(c) Participating promoter 11

(d) Supporting or backing roles 5

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International Conferences Upcoming international conferences supported by IEICE-CS

in 2013-2014

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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 fifth IEICE-CS’s Welcome Party was held on 19th March 2013 in Gifu University.

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 197 colleagues participation.

Industry booth and posters A snapshot of the party

Member Activities IEICE-CS’s Welcome Party