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The Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (LAWPP) is a regional meeting with global undertones, whose main purpose is to provide a forum for research carried out in Latin America, while presenting the main trends at international level on the various areas of plasma physics. Therefore, it fosters the establishment of scientific collaborations between Latin American researchers, as well as between them and researchers in developed countries, providing a proper forum to assess their results. The 16th version is to be carried out in Mexico City on 4-8 September, 2017. A special issue on selected papers of the 16th Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (LAWPP 2017) will be published within the next four months in the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. While it will be based on the Plenary and Invited talks, the guest editors, aided by a technical committee, covering a wide scope of specialties, will invite some of the best papers to be submitted to this issue, and send them to suitable referees. The scope of the papers will cover space and astrophysical plasmas, controlled nuclear fusion, dense magnetized plasmas, laser plasma interactions, basic plasma physics, and industrial and environmental applications. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents the welcome message from this conference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the "2004 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference Awards". The 2004 IEEE Nuclear Space Radiation and Effects Conference (NSREC) Awards Committee evaluated each oral, poster, and workshop paper that was presented at the conference in a two-step reviewing process. As a result, eight papers were selected for final consideration for the Outstanding Conference Paper Award. The Outstanding Conference Paper was "Production and Propagation of Single-Event Transients in High-Speed Digital Logic IC's," by Paul E. Dodd, Marty R. Shaneyfelt, James A. Felix, and James R. Schwank.

In the longstanding tradition of the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), for NSREC 2016, we are pleased to recognize the Outstanding Conference Paper, an Outstanding Data Workshop Presentation, and the best paper presented and first authored by an IEEE Student Member. In addition to recognizing authors for particularly high quality and relevant work, the awards process also encourages all authors to produce presentations and manuscripts of outstanding technical quality, clarity of presentation, and significance to the community. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A call for papers on the 2014 International Workshop on Antenna Technology is presented.

A call for papers on a theme titled "Direct and Inverse Problems of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Wave Theory" for the XVIIIth International Seminar/Workshop that will take place in Lviv, Ukraine from September 23-26, 2013 is presented.

The article presents a call for papers for the 2012 International Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas and Unconventional Applications to be held in Tucson, Arizona from March 5 to 7, 2012

Reports on the Eighth Argentine Robotics Workshop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the objectives of the 2005 Workshop on Nonlocal, Collisionless Electron Transport in Plasmas which is held at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey. The purpose of the workshop was to facilitate discussion on non-local, collisionless phenomena in low-pressure plasmas between scientific communities working on plasmas. Another goal of the workshop was to form a bridge between high and low temperature plasma communities.

The IEEE iWEM (IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetics: Applications and Student Innovation Competition) was initiated from the AEM2C (International Conference on Applications of Electromagnetism and Student Innovation Competition Awards) by the General Co-Chairs, Prof. Dau-Chyrh Chang (Taiwan), Prof. Le-Wei Li (China), Prof. Kwai Man Luk (Hong Kong), and Prof. Hiroyuki Arai (Japan). The iWEM was approved by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society to receive the IEEE logo and to rename iWEM to IEEE iWEM in November, 2010. IEEE iWEM was scheduled to be held in Taiwan in 2011, and is scheduled to be held in China, Hong Kong, and Japan in 2012, 2013, and 2014, respectively. The main purpose of IEEE iWEM is to be a platform to encourage scholars and students to present innovative papers about electromagnetism. All of the papers of IEEE iWEM were submitted through the IEEE paper-submission system to guarantee the quality of the submitted format. In order to guarantee the quality of the papers, all the papers were reviewed by at least two international reviewers. All of the accepted papers will appear in IEEE Xplore as the formal record. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents information on the 2016 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology conference. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Information about the activities conducted at the 29th Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC) held on May 31, 2009 to June 3, 2009 in Montréal, Quebec is presented. It cites that three short courses including one on thermal behavior of electrical equipment and a workshop on insulation testing and diagnostic were conducted on May 31. Moreover, 114 papers were presented from June 1-3, 2009 which tackles various topics including about transformers and insulating materials.

The IEEE International Workshop on Applied Measurements for Power Systems (AMPS) is the main event promoted by TC-39 of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society (Measurements in Power Systems). In its eighth edition, it was held for the first time in Liverpool, U.K., on September 20–22, 2017, and it was hosted by the newly- built Sensor City, in partnership with the University of Liverpool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces the call for papers for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Workshop on Electromagnetics ( IEEE iWEM 2011) to be held in Taipei, Taiwan on August 8-10, 2011.

Information about the NETSOFT 2018: 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization in Quebec, WICE Workshops at ICC 2018 in Missouri, and Arduino Day 2018: Sensing and Controlling Real World Using Arduino workshop in Pakistan is presented. Topics discussed at the events include softwarization of network, the role of Arduino platform on Internet of Things (IoT), and roles of women communications engineers. Keynote speakers include Raj Jain, Vanitha Kumar, and Faisal Karim Shaikh.

Information about several papers discussed at the 48th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) in Summerlin, Nevada on July 25-29, 2011. It says that the conference includes technical programs, one-day tutorial short course, and workshop on radiation effects data. It states that the said conference is sponsored by the Radiation Effects Committee of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.

The 5th anniversary edition of RNDM 2013 International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling was organized on September 10-12, 2013 in Almaty, Kazakhstan by Prof. Jacek Rak from Gdansk University of Technology, Poland in co-operation with Prof. Hussein Mouftah from Ottawa University, Canada, and Prof. WenDe Zhong from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces the call for papers, panels, and workshops to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Symposium on Technology and Society to be held in Dublin Ireland in early November 2015.

The six papers in this special section are extended versions of papers presented at the Second IEEE International Workshop on Applied Measurements for Power Systems (AMPS), held at the E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, on September 28-30, 2011. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes radio frequency identification (RFID) projects, designed and implemented by students in the College of Engineering at the University of North Texas, as part of their senior-design project requirement. The paper also describes an RFID-based project implemented at Rice Middle School in Piano, TX, which went on to win multiple prizes both at the school and regional level. The goal of the RFID endeavor is to develop an RFID elective course that is current, industry-oriented, and methodically built to enable faculty to design, develop, and deliver the course to a diverse group of engineering students. The sequence of events through which the course evolved was as follows: 1) conduct an industry-supported workshop for students in the College of Engineering with funding received from the National Science Foundation (NSF); 2) assign an RFID-based design project for the senior students who attended the workshop; 3) use the first senior design project as a model to encourage subsequent senior students to create their own RFID projects or enable the students to contact companies seeking to accomplish RFID solutions to a problem; 4) involve middle school students in RFID-based projects by using the senior design projects as an enticement; 5) use the successful projects as the basis for practical laboratory experiences to be created in a new elective course on RFID. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several topics discussed at two workshops including "Reality Testing: HCI Challenges in Nontraditional Environments," held in 2006 and "Technology has Escaped from the Zoo: Studying usability in the Wild," held at Interact 2007. Both of the workshops focused on the challenges associated with evaluating ubiquitous computing nonlab environments and were organized around application domains. Sessions included short paper presentations followed by panel discussions.

Although several hybrid shop floor control architectures have been proposed in the literature, varying degrees of autonomy of subordinate controllers and their effects on supervisory level performance have not been studied. In this paper, we present a new hybrid control architecture with two levels, where the autonomy of subordinate agents changes adaptively. The penalty function in the architecture represents the degree of negative impact on performance that will result from changing the original schedule. When a disturbance occurs, the disturbance agent invokes rescheduling at the appropriate level depending on the threshold disturbance level. The subordinate agents execute tasks based on the schedule from the supervisory agent in the absence of disturbances; or else revise the original schedule optimally with regard to the supervisory level performance (via penalty function) and the disturbance before executing the tasks. We present math programming formulations, quantitative metrics to indicate the disturbance level and the levels of autonomy. The proposed architecture is illustrated using a job shop problem and is then tested with various other problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the HotMobile 2006 workshop that was held at the Semiahmoo resort in Blaine, Washington State. The aim of the workshop was to foster interaction between mobile computing practitioners. The event was attended by approximately 40 people wherein just nine papers were accepted. The attendees discussed the statement that the mobile phone is the only device people will carry in the future. The pro position raised the argument that cellular telephones are already ubiquitous while the con position argued that people use a variety of different devices.

Presents key events and topics in the global communications industry. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents information on the 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on the workshop on Advanced Methods for Uncertainty Estimation in Measurement (AMUEM) organized by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society from July 21-22, 2008 in Trento, Italy. He states that new approach has been an interest at the AMUEM to enable a correct simple expression and evaluation of measurement uncertainty. The author also expresses his gratitude for all the authors who submitted their papers and revisions to increase the quality of their work.

Provides information of the “Fifth International Workshop” about processing of NonDestructive evaluation signals to be held on August 2 to 5, 2005. Reflection and analysis on recent developments and new emerging techniques; Schedule of events; Venue of the workshop.

The four articles in this special section were presented a the IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N), that took place in Naples, Italy, on October 7?8, 2013. The main goal of this workshop was to provide a forum of discussion in the areas of modeling, measurements, communications, computer science, wireless systems, and sensor networks to researchers and practitioners from industry, academia, and government, and to stimulate new ideas about the role of both measurements for communication networks and communication networks for measurements. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The 12th International Workshop on Finite Elements for Microwave Engineering - FEM2014 - was held from May 14 to 17, 2014, in Mount Qingcheng, Chengdu, China. It was organized by the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), cosponsored by the Electronic Information Control Key Laboratory at Chengdu, International Joint Research Project (?111? Project), Computational Electromagnetics Chapter of Chinese Computational Physics Society, IEEE Chengdu Section, IEEE AP/EMC Joint Chengdu Chapter, and Antenna Society of Chinese Institute of Electronics, and technically cosponsored by the Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), and the University of Hong Kong (HKU). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about upcoming events of interest to Computer Society members. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This special issue contains papers solicited at the 13th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas held May 20???23 in Waco, TX, USA and follows the tradition of earlier workshops, which resulted in such issues in 1994, 2001, 2004, 2007, and 2010. Dusty plasmas constitute a fully developed interdisciplinary field with direct connections to astrophysics, nanoscience, fluid mechanics, and material science as defined through experimental, theoretical, and numerical studies. The field achieved an interdisciplinary research focus when the 1986 flyby of Halley's Comet and Voyager's images of Saturn's rings focused the attention of plasma physicists on a field that had previously been considered as purely planetary science. Joint efforts between these disciplines quickly led to rapid advancement in both plasma physics (e.g., discovery of dustacoustic waves, dust-ion-acoustic waves) and the planetary sciences (e.g., spokes in Saturn's rings, Jovian stream particles). The primary objectives of the 13th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas were to provide a review of recent advancements in the field of complex plasma, define new/existing/outstanding issues and research challenges, and strengthen engagement between the field of complex plasma and other research related disciplines. Researchers from universities all over the world, including twenty-six graduate students evenly split between universities in the United States and international universities, participated in the workshop. Eighty-six paper and poster presentations were accepted covering topics including laboratory, theoretical, and computational studies of dust plasma interactions. Sixteen papers from the Waco meeting appear in this special issue covering topics across a variety of theoretical and experimental areas. Instabilities in dusty plasma systems, the manner in which such instabilities are believed to be linked to the onset of dust density or dust-acoustic waves and the mechanism by which these waves evolve and are related to the ambient plasma are reported. Dust dynamics, mass loss, and a method for employing the plasma glow to probe the plasma sheath in the vertical direction are discussed. A numerical method allowing calculation of the grain charge while including secondary electron emission and the application of this method to the lunar environment is provided. Finally techniques for stereoscopic observations, three-dimensional models of dust plasma interactions and dusty plasma experiments allowing inspection of magnetized dusty plasmas and dusty plasma environments containing chemically reactive gases are reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article announces the need for contributed papers for the 1st International Workshop on Wireless Energy Transport and Harvesting to be held on June 28, 2011 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Describes the above-named upcoming conference event. May include topics to be covered or calls for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the 2004 Workshop on Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS), which was held from September 22-24, 2005 in Madrid, Spain. The special issue of the journal "IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science" contains selected papers from the Workshop. At least three reviewers scrutinized these manuscripts to ensure that all manuscripts were original and represented significant contributions to the literature. A separate proceedings of this RADECS 2004 Workshop contains a complete record of all manuscripts presented orally or via poster.

A calendar of events for the computer industry for 2010 is presented which includes a conference on digital game and intelligent toy-enhanced learning, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Workshop on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education, and the SocialCom 2010, IEEE International Conference on Social Computing.

This special issue contains papers solicited at the 14th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, which was hosted by Auburn and Wittenberg University and held in Auburn, AL, USA, from 26 May, 2015 to 29 May, 2015. The publication of this issue follows the tradition of earlier workshops, which resulted in similar special issues in 1994, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2013, and is intended to provide a snapshot of recent progress in the field of dusty plasma research. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper describes the highlights of presentations and discussions during the Third International BCI Meeting in a workshop that evaluated potential brain-computer interface (BCI) signals and currently available recording methods. It defined the main potential user populations and their needs, addressed the relative advantages and disadvantages of noninvasive and implanted (i.e., invasive) methodologies, considered ethical issues, and focused on the challenges involved in translating BCI systems from the laboratory to widespread clinical use. The workshop stressed the critical importance of developing useful applications that establish the practical value of BCI technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the outcome of discussions held during the Third International BCI Meeting at a workshop charged with reviewing and evaluating the current state of and issues relevant to brain-computer interface (BCI) clinical applications. These include potential BCI users, applications, validation, getting BCIs to users, role of government and industry, plasticity, and ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the outcome of discussions held during the Third International BCI Meeting at a workshop to review and evaluate the current state of BCI-related hardware and software. Technical requirements and current technologies, standardization procedures and future trends are covered. The main conclusion was recognition of the need to focus technical requirements on the users' needs and the need for consistent standards in BCI research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the outcome of discussions held during the Third International BCI Meeting at a workshop charged with reviewing and evaluating the current state of and issues relevant to brain-computer interface (BCI) feature extraction and translation. The issues discussed include a taxonomy of methods and applications, time-frequency spatial analysis, optimization schemes, the role of insight in analysis, adaptation, and methods for quantifying BCI feedback. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Model-based geoacoustic inversion in range-dependent underwater environments is a challenging task constrained by data quality (synthetic or measured) and propagation-model efficiency and accuracy. The Inversion Techniques Workshop (ITW), held in Gulfport, MS, May 15-18, 2001, was organized for the acoustics community to present state-of-the-art numerical geoacoustic inversion capabilities in range-dependent shallow-water environments. The organizers defined five range-dependent test cases (three synthetic and two experimental cases). Two of the synthetic cases were adopted for geoacoustic inversion in this paper. The first test case (TC1) is a monotonic down-slope bathymetry problem and the adiabatic normal-mode model PROSIM was applied for the inversion in this case. The second test case (TC3) is a flat-bottom case with an intrusion. The forward model used in this case was RAMGEO. The global optimization package SAGA was used for geoacoustic inversion of the synthetically generated reference solutions for TC1 and TC3. In general, the geoacoustic inversion results are in good agreement with the true solutions provided by the organizers. The results obtained demonstrate the feasibility of performing geoacoustic inversion in synthetic range-dependent shallow-water environments. However, results show that the propagation model choice in the inversion is strongly dependent on the specific range-dependent environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inversion methods have been developed over the past decade to extract information about unknown ocean-bottom environments from acoustic field data. This paper summarizes results from the Office of Naval Research/Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Geoacoustic Inversion Techniques Workshop, which was designed to benchmark present-day inversion methods. The format of the workshop was a blind test to estimate unknown geoacoustic profiles by inversion of synthetic acoustic field data. The fields were calculated using a high-angle parabolic approximation and verified using coupled normal modes for three range-dependent shallow-water test cases: a monotonic slope; a shelf break; and a fault intrusion in the sediment. Geoacoustic profiles were generated to simulate sand, silt, and mud sediments in these environments. Several different approaches for inverting the acoustic field data were presented at the workshop: model-based matched-field methods; perturbation methods; methods using transmission loss data; and methods using horizontal array information. An effective inversion must provide both an estimate of the bottom parameters and a measure of the uncertainty of the estimated values. New methods were presented at the workshop to formalize the measure of uncertainty in the inversion. Comparisons between the different inversions are discussed in terms of a metric-based transmission loss calculated using the inverted profiles. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of present-day inversion techniques and indicate the limits of their capabilities for range-dependent waveguides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The articles in this special issue focus on brain-computer interfacing. The papers are dedicated to this growing and diversifying research enterprise, and features important review articles as well as some important current examples of research in this area. The field of brain-computer interface (BCI) research began to develop about 25 years ago and transformed from initially isolated demonstrations by a few groups into a large scientific enterprise that is currently producing hundreds of peer-reviewed articles and several dedicated conferences and workshops each year. This level of productivity is reflective of the large and continually growing enthusiasm by the scientific community, funding agencies, and the public. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]