Announcing a Name Change and New Scope

Abstract

our transaction���s name has changed - from IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS PART B: CYBERNETICS to a more concise Transactions on Cybernetics (TCyb). For the past many months, the publications of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) have been undergoing a major reorganization. The reorganization was based on numerous discussions with the SMCS membership and positive feedback that were received and on recommendations from the 2006 IEEE Periodicals Review. In November 2011, the IEEE Technical Activities Board approved the name and scope changes of all three transactions: 1) IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS PART A: SYSTEMS AND HUMANS to IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS: SYSTEMS; 2) IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS PART C: APPLICATIONS AND REVIEWS to IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HUMAN���MACHINE SYSTEMS; and 3) this transaction. The realignment of the three transactions is meant to help better situate research topics, areas, and articles for the society through its publications. Here are the associated scopes for the three transactions. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS: SYSTEMS - The scope of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS: SYSTEMS includes the fields of systems engineering. It includes issue formulation, analysis and modeling, decision making, and issue interpretation for any of the systems engineering life cycle phases associated with the definition, development, and deployment of large systems. In addition, it includes systems management, systems engineering processes, and a variety of systems engineering methods such as optimization, modeling, and simulation. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CYBERNETICS - The scope of IEEE TCyb includes computational approaches to the field of cybernetics. Specifically, the transactions welcomes papers on communication and control across machines or between machine, human, and organizations. The scope of TCyb includes areas such as computational intelligence, computer vision, neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, fuzzy systems, cognitive systems, decision making, and robotics, to the extent that they contribute to the theme of cybernetics or demonstrate an application of cybernetics principles. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HUMAN���MACHINE SYSTEMS - The scope of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS includes the fields of human machine systems. It covers human systems and human organizational interactions, including cognitive ergonomics, system test and evaluation, and human information processing concerns in systems and organizations.