IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - November 2019 - 2

CIM Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Hisao Ishibuchi
Southern University of Science and Technology
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Shenzhen, Guangdong, CHINA
Osaka Prefecture University
Department of Computer Science
Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, JAPAN
(Email) hisaoi@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp

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Founding Editor-in-Chief

Gary G. Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA

Hisao Ishibuchi
Southern University of Science
and Technology, CHINA
Osaka Prefecture University, JAPAN

Last Editor's Remarks

Past Editor-in-Chief
Kay Chen Tan, City University of Hong Kong,
HONG KONG
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
José M. Alonso, University of Santiago de Compostela,
SPAIN
Battista Biggio, University of Cagliari, ITALY
Giacomo Boracchi, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY
Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University,
SINGAPORE
Raymond Chiong, The University of Newcastle,
AUSTRALIA
Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies Inc., USA
Sheng Li, University of Georgia, USA
Hongfu Liu, Brandeis University, USA
Zhen Ni, South Dakota State University, USA
Yusuke Nojima, OPU, JAPAN
Luca Oneto, University of Genoa, ITALY
Nelishia Pillay, University of Pretoria, SOUTH
AFRICA
Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK
Ming Shao, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,
USA
Dipti Srinivasan, NUS, SINGAPORE
Ricardo H. C. Takahashi, UFMG, BRAZIL
Chuan-Kang Ting, National Tsing Hua University,
TAIWAN
Kyriakos G.Vamvoudakis, Georgia Tech, USA
Nishchal K.Verma, IIT Kanpur, INDIA
Handing Wang, Xidian University, CHINA
Dongrui Wu, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, CHINA
Bing Xue, Victoria University of Wellington, NEW
ZEALAND
Dongbin Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA
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n October 2013, I wrote my first Editor's Remarks for the
IEEE CIM February 2014 Issue. Now I am writing my last
Editor's Remarks for November 2019 Issue. My sincere thanks
go out to all of you who have supported me over the years. I am
happy to announce that Chuan-Kang Ting (National Tsing Hua
University, Taiwan) has been appointed as the next Editor-inChief for 2020-2021. He has had paramount roles with many
CIS activities in various capacities such as CIS Newsletter Editor, CIS Webpage
Manager and CIM Associate Editor. We have already started to work together on a
smooth transition of my duties. I believe that he will set a new stage for CIM into
this fascinating AI era.
In the last six years, the CIM has increased its popularity as a peer-reviewed journal while playing an important role as a communication medium between the IEEE
CIS and its members. I received 45 regular paper submissions in 2014, which
increased to 94 in 2018. The Impact Factor in 2013 was 2.706 which increased to
5.857 in 2018. The number of paper submissions for special issues strongly depends on
the topic. In the last six years, three special issues received less than 10 submissions
whereas one special issue received 161 submissions: "New Trends of Learning in
Computational Intelligence." In the past, almost all CIM issues were special issues.
However, due to the increase in the number of regular paper submissions, it may be
advantageous to decrease the frequency of special issues. The balance between regular
and special issues will be addressed by our next Editor-in-Chief.
The feature topic of the current CIM issue is "Computational Intelligence for
Internet of Things in the Big Data Era." IoT is a hot topic, which is one of the top
three popular search terms in the IEEE Xplore together with "machine learning" and
"artificial intelligence". This special issue received 46 submissions including many
high-quality papers. As a result, some of these special issue papers will be published in
February 2020 Issue. I hope you will enjoy all these articles in this issue. Thank you
very much for supporting CIM over the years.

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