IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY
Signal Processing and Communications Electronics Technical Committee (SPCE)
Meeting at ICC 2011, Kyoto, Japan
6 June, 2011
1. Introductions – The meeting began at 12:00 PM. Attendees introduced themselves. SPCE Chair Hung Nguyen welcomed the members to the meeting.
2. Minutes of GLOBECOM 2010 – The draft GLOBECOM 2010 meeting minutes were shown and Chair Nguyen asked if there were any necessary modifications. There were none and the minutes were then approved to be posted on the SPCE Web site.
3. Technical Program Committee Reports
A. ICC 2011: Luc Deneire presented the report. There were 188 papers submitted and 73 papers were accepted.
B. GLOBECOM 2011: Hung Nguyen reported that the original 20 March submission deadline moved to 5 April but review and recommendation deadlines stayed firm. Final statistics: 210 papers reviewed, 74 accepted with threshold score of 3.3/5.0, acceptance rate is 35.24%.
C. ICC 2012: Dr. Nallanathan Arumugam reported that so far 102 TPC members accepted the invitation.
D. GLOBECOM 2012: Tomoaki Ohtsuki will represent the SPCE as Co-Chair for SPC Symposium.
E. ICC 2013: Hai Lin and Octavia Dobre were nominated as SPCE representatives for Co-Chairing.
6. Other Businesses:
Members commented on the future activities of the SPCE, such as member promotion, special issue proposals, and conference endorsement. Chair Nguyen responded positively to these proposed activities and will look into which one and how to implement these ideas.
Next SPCE meeting will be held during GLOBECOM 2011 in Houston, TX, USA.
Adjourn – The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 PM. There were 14 people in attendance.
Attendance:
Name | Affiliation | |
Hung Nguyen | The Aerospace Corporation, USA | hunguyen@ieee.org |
A. Nallanathan | King’s College London, UK | nallanathan@ieee.org |
Tomo Taniguchi | Fujitsu Labs, Japan | t-taniguchi@jp.fujitsu.com |
Tomoaki Ohtsuki | Keio University, Japan | ohtsuki@ics.keio.ac.jp |
Pooi-Yuen Kam | National University of Singapore | elekampy@nus.edu.sg |
Luc Deneire | University of Nice, France | deneire@unice.fr |
Hai Lin | Osaka Prefecture Univ. Japan | hai.lin@ieee.org |
Sangarapillai Lambotharan | Loughborough Univ. UK | s.lambotharan@lboro.ac.uk |
Xianbin Wang | University of Western Ontario, Canada | wang@eng.uwo.ca |
His-Pin Ma | National Tsinghua Univ. Taiwan | hp@ee.nthu.edu.tw |
Alagan Anpalagan | Ryerson University, Canada | alagan@ee.ryerson.ca |
Hongyang Chen | Fujitsu Labs Ltd, Japan | hongyang.chen@jp.fujitsu.com |
Alberto Rabbachin | European Commission Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC) | alberto.rabbachin@jrc.it |
Yuan Shen | MIT | shenyuan@mit.edu |