Computational Intelligence - November 2013 - 2

CIM Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Kay Chen Tan
National University of Singapore
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
4 Engineering Drive 3
SINGAPORE 117576
(Phone) +65-6516-2127
(Fax) +65-6779-1103
(E-mail) eletankc@nus.edu.sg

Kay Chen Tan
National University of Singapore, SiNgapore

Auld Lang Syne

Founding Editor-in-Chief

Gary G.Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA
Editors-At-Large
Piero P. Bonissone,
General Electric Global Research, 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
Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY
Oscar Cordón, European Centre for
Soft Computing, SPAIN
Pauline Haddow, Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, NORWAY
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University,
JAPAN
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK
Jong-Hwan Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology, KOREA
Jane Jing Liang, Zhengzhou University, CHINA
Chun-Liang Lin, National Chung
Hsing University, TAIWAN
Yew Soon Ong, Nanyang Technological
University, SINGAPORE
Ke Tang, University of Science and Technology
of China, CHINA
Chuan-Kang Ting, National Chung Cheng
University, TAIWAN
Slawo Wesolkowski, DRDC, CANADA
Jun Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University, CHINA

Editor's
Remarks

e have come to the end of the year 2013! Speaking of
time, my second 2-year term as the Editor-in-Chief of
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM) is coming
to a conclusion and this shall be my last remarks in this capacity.
Looking back, I started out four years ago trying to find my footing
as we steer the magazine to become ever more relevant to the
members of CIS. During the journey, we have received numerous
boosts along the way with your kind encouragements, helpful suggestions and responsiveness to our calls for paper submissions. It has indeed been a great honor for me to
have been in contact with many of you, who have been very supportive to our magazine or whom have been in close correspondence with us via e-mails or at
conferences.
We hope to close the year 2013 by looking forward to the future, with a special
issue on Computational Intelligence for Space Systems and Operations. Space exploration has fascinated humans for many years. The numerous movies and media attention
focused on space and its exploration have also brought the subject closer to the common man. The advancement of computational intelligence has already been applied
successfully in space expeditions, a few of which are highlighted in the feature articles
of this issue that are guest edited by Yang Gao, Nicola Policella and Frank Kirchner.
In the 2012 JCR Report by Thomson Reuters that was published recently, I
am pleased that the impact factor of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine has
improved to 4.629, which is now ranked 9th out of 463 journals in the category of
JCR Computer Science. This has been made possible because of the active participations and contributions of everyone. I hope you will keep the feedback and
comments coming in so that we can continuously improve the quality of this flagship magazine.

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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2013.2278938

KC Tan and family during a holiday at Urquhart Castle in Scotland in 2013.

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Date of publication: 16 October 2013

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