Computational Intelligence - February 2015 - 2

CIM Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Hisao Ishibuchi
Osaka Prefecture University
Graduate School of Engineering
Department of Computer Science
1-1 Gakuen-cho, Nakaku, Sakai, Osaka
599-8531, JAPAN
(Phone) +81-72-254-9350
(Fax) +81-72-254-9915
(Email) hisaoi@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp

Hisao Ishibuchi
Osaka Prefecture University, JAPAN

Top Three News Stories on IEEE CIM in 2014

Founding Editor-in-Chief
Gary G.Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA
Past Editor-in-Chief
Kay Chen Tan, National University of
Singapore, SINGAPORE
Editors-At-Large
Piero P. Bonissone, Piero P Bonissone Analytics
LLC, USA
David B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA
Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, ITALY
Marios M. Polycarpou, University of Cyprus,
CYPRUS
Jacek M. Zurada, University of Louisville, USA
Associate Editors
Hussein Abbass, University of New South
Wales, AUSTRALIA
Raymond Chiong, The University of
Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Oscar Cordón, University of Granada and
European Centre for Soft Computing, SPAIN
Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, INDIA
Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies Inc.,
USA
Roderich Gross, The University of Sheffield, UK
Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University,
GERMANY
Kiyota Hashimoto, OPU, JAPAN
Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK
Jong-Hwan Kim, KAIST, KOREA
Jane Jing Liang, Zhengzhou University,
CHINA
Chun-Liang Lin, National Chung Hsing
University,TAIWAN
John McCall, Robert Gordon University, UK
Yusuke Nojima, OPU, JAPAN
Yew Soon Ong, NTU, SINGAPORE
Dipti Srinivasan, NUS, SINGAPORE
Ke Tang, University of Science and Technology
of China, CHINA
Chuan-Kang Ting, National Chung Cheng
University,TAIWAN
Dongbin Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
CHINA
IEEE Periodicals/
Magazines Department
Associate Editor, Laura Ambrosio
Senior Art Director, Janet Dudar
Assistant Art Director, Gail A. Schnitzer
Production Coordinator, Theresa L. Smith
Advertising Sales Coordinator, Mindy Belfer
Advertising Production Manager,
Felicia Spagnoli
Production Director, Peter M. Tuohy
Editorial Director, Dawn Melley
Staff Director, Publishing Operations,
Fran Zappulla

s a new editor-in-chief of the IEEE Computational Intelligence
Magazine (CIM), I oversaw publication of four issues in 2014.
It has been much more challenging than I thought to work
for CIM in this capacity. I am always under pressure to keep up
with the annual publication schedule. In January, I collect the final
versions of the articles for the May issue. In mid-February, after
checking each article, I send a package of all the required files to
the IEEE Publication Department. In early March, I check the front cover design and
the figures of the articles. In late March, I proofread the draft, which completes my
editorial work for the May issue. Then, in April, just after proofreading the May issue,
I start to collect the final versions of the articles for the August issue. In this manner, I
repeat a three-month cycle for each CIM issue. The best news for me in 2014 was the
publication of all four CIM issues on schedule.
I would like to share with you a number of updates. First, and of most direct
importance to CIM readers, is a change in the way CIM is distributed. CIM is the
official magazine of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), and so far
was sent in paper form to all CIS members as a part of the standard CIS membership
package. However, no printed copy is included in the membership package for 2015.
Members will, of course, continue to receive an e-mail notification of CIM, and can
read all articles through the IEEE Xplore.
A second piece of news was a drop in our impact factor, from 4.629 to 2.706.
Since the number of papers published in CIM is quite small, just a few highly-cited
papers can have a dominant effect on the impact factor. As a result, the impact factor
does not remain stable from year to year. Whereas 2.706 is still good, I received many
e-mails about the drop in the impact factor for 2013. I will continue to publish high
quality papers, which I hope will lead to a higher impact factor in the future.
Now let me move on to perhaps the most impressive piece of news. We have
received about 160 submissions to the May 2015 special issue on "New Trends of
Learning in Computational Intelligence". This number is astonishing. Since the average number of submissions to a CIM special issue is about 25, the submissions to the
upcoming special issue were more than the total of submissions for six average special
issues. I sincerely appreciate the hard work of the guest editors in handling such a
large number of submissions.
The feature topic of the current CIM issue is "Cloud Computing". Its relation to
computational intelligence (CI) is twofold. On the one hand, cloud computing provides us with a large computation power, which increases the applicability of CI techniques. Your learning algorithms may become applicable to big data if such a large
computation power is available. On the other hand, cloud computing can be viewed
as a promising new application field of CI techniques. Your optimization algorithms
may be useful for various scheduling problems in cloud computing. I hope that you
will find the articles in this issue interesting.

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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2014.2369873

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Date of publication: 14 January 2015

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