IEEE Xplore Upgrade

WMU Library Users now have access to more content through IEEE Xplore. Additional journals are available with articles available from 1988-present.  You now will have access to additional conference proceedings and all current IEEE standards.   For more information about what is included see: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/subscriptions/prod/iel_overview.html

IEEE Xplore
http://libproxy.library.wmich.edu/login?url=http://www.ieee.org/ieeexplore/

Full-text access to all journals, transactions, and magazines published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers with coverage from 1988;  Includes IEEE conference proceedings and
all current IEEE standards.

Note: this resource is limited to fifteen simultaneous users. Please logoff when you are finished.

This database is listed on the “A-Z” list of databases and in the computer science and electrical/computer engineering subject guides.

Synthesis eBooks at Waldo

Waldo Library is proud to present the Synthesis Digital Library (published by Morgan and Claypool Publishers).  This collection of 100 eBooks covers various areas of engineering and computer science, including the following: artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, communication networks, energy, entrepreneurship, robotics, and solid state materials.  Each book is in full text PDF format and contains from 50 to 100 pages.  What is more, the books can be saved, printed or emailed.

New IEEE Journals

IEEE has plans to publish six new journals. You can read about it at the IEEE publications site. The titles and brief descriptions below come from the email newsletter I received from Barry Holquist at IEEE.

1. IEEE Transactions on Haptics

IEEE Transactions on Haptics will address the science, technology and applications associated with information acquisition and object manipulation through touch. Haptic interactions relevant to this journal include all aspects of manual exploration and manipulation by humans, machines and interactions between the two, performed in real, virtual, teleoperated or networked environments.

2. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

The IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (ITLT) is intended as a vehicle for peer-reviewed archival research and critical survey papers covering: technology advances in online learning systems; intelligent tutors; educational software applications and games; simulation systems for education and training; collaborative learning tools, devices and interfaces for learning; interactive techniques for learning; tools for formative and summative assessment; ontologies for learning systems; standards and web services that support learning; authoring tools for learning materials; computer support for peer tutoring and learning via discovery or project work or field or lab work; and creation and management of learning objects that provide innovative research ideas and critical survey papers.

3. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

The proposed journal will address the growing field of applications in Earth observations and remote sensing, and will also provide a venue for the rapidly expanding special issues that are being sponsored by the Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society.

4. IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

The proposed journal is aimed at providing a platform to review the state-of-the-art and trends in the emerging field of biomedical engineering, an interdisciplinary field embracing engineering, life sciences and medicine. The goal of RBME would be to consolidate the research and state-of-the-art reviews for members of all the IEEE societies that have an interest in biomedical engineering.

5. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

The scope of the proposed transaction is to cover all computing and software aspect of the science and technology of services innovation research and development. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing will emphasize the algorithmic, mathematical, statistical and computational methods that are central in services computing; the emerging field of Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services, Business Process Integration, Solution Performance Management, Services Operations and Management.

6. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine

The IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (ITSM) publishes peer-reviewed articles that provide innovative research ideas and application results, report significant application case studies, and raise awareness of pressing research and application challenges in all areas of intelligent transportation systems. In contrast to the highly academic publication of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, the ITS Magazine focuses on providing needed information to all members of ITS society, serving as a dissemination vehicle for ITS Society members and the others to learn the state of the art development and progress on ITS research and applications.

You will be able to access all the new journals along with all other IEEE journals via our IEEE Xplore digital portal.  Just remember that off-campus and Parkview laptop users will need to login with their BroncoNet ID’s and passwords.

How to Read a Paper by Keshav

I discovered a great, concise (2 pages) paper on how to read a research paper in the July 2007 issue of the Computer Communication Review. This paper is entitled simply “How to Read a Paper” and is by S. Keshav, of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Mr. Keshav gives his “three-pass approach” to reading a scientific/technical research paper. This is a great article for both undergraduates and new graduate students to read, partly because it is so short and clear. (You may want to consider assigning this paper to your students to read and discuss.) If your library has the ACM Digital Library, you already have access to this paper. If you don’t have access to the paper via your Library, you can view it at the author’s faculty page (or order it via Interlibrary Loan).

Mathematical Programming Glossary

Another great site discovered from a student’s list of references.  This site is the Mathematical Programming Glossary, published by the INFORMS Computing Society, from the original site which was written and published by H.J. Greenberg.  This site is basically an online dictionary to terms in mathematical programming (duh!) and related terms in mathematics, computer science, etc.  It looks quite good, as far as online dictionaries go.  Plus there are a number of supplementary pages, as well as a list of links to other online math and computer science dictionaries.

Grid Computing Info Centre (GRID Infoware)

I discovered the following website via a citation in an engineering student’s PhD thesis.  (Still working on my interminable project collating citations in engineering masters’ and PhD theses.)  The site is called the Grid Computing Info Center (or GRID Infoware) site.  The URL is www.gridcomputing.com The site is run by Dr. Rajkumar Buyya, a professor of computer science and software engineering at the University of Melbourne.  This site collects and makes available information and links related to grid computing, the use of networks of distributed computers to run large-scale computing programs that can be used to solve very complex problems.  There is some explanatory information here (check out the FAQ’s if you are wondering what grid computing means.), as well as links to grid projects, conferences, software and hardware sites, and a few articles.  This looks like a good site for getting a sense of what is happening in this area of computer science.