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 Springer journal on swarm intelligence

The German scientific publisher Springer debuted a new journal last June on swarm behavior.

The Journal is entitled Swarm Intelligence and it looks like we have online access to this journal via our SpringerLink e-journals subscription. You can access it via the link above or the URL below (note the Library proxy link):

http://libproxy.library.wmich.edu/login?url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/1935-3812

The tables of contents for the first two issues that are available are pasted below.

Swarm Intelligence

v.1:no.1 (June 2007)

Editorial: Marco Dorigo p.1-2

The biological principles of swarm intelligence
Simon Garnier, Jacques Gautrais and Guy Theraulaz
p.3-31

Particle swarm optimization: An overview
Riccardo Poli, James Kennedy and Tim Blackwell
p.33-57

Mathematical runtime analysis of ACO algorithms: survey on an emerging issue
Walter J. Gutjahr
p.59-79

v.1:no.2 (December 2007)

Moving targets: collective decisions and flexible choices in house-hunting ants
Nigel R. Franks, James W. Hooper, Mike Gumn, Tamsyn H. Bridger, James A. R. Marshall, Roderich Groß and Anna Dornhaus
p.81-94

Ant-based and swarm-based clustering
Julia Handl and Bernd Meyer
p.95-113

An ant colony optimization approach to flexible protein-ligand docking
Oliver Korb, Thomas Stützle and Thomas E. Exner
p.115-134

Ant colony optimization for real-world vehicle routing problems
From theory to applications
A. E. Rizzoli, R. Montemanni, E. Lucibello and L. M. Gambardella
p.135-151

IEEEXplore Downtime this Saturday February 2, 2008

IEEE will be doing an upgrade of the IEEEXplore Digital Library site this coming Saturday February 2, 2008 from 9am – 5pm.  The upgrade will mean that this site will be unavailable for search and retrieval during this time.  The upgrade will result in the following new features:

• Conference Proceedings weekly update alerts
• Scitopia.org search from the IEEE Xplore home page
• Draft standards search – Users will be able to limit their search to IEEE draft
• standards only from the Advanced Search page in IEEE Xplore.
• Support of OpenURL images and custom text

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.

“Oh, my aching laptop…” from SIGUCCS ‘O6

Computing Reviews (January 17, 2007) has a review by B. Hazeltine of an article from the Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM SIGUCCS Conference on User Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Nov 5-8, 2006 on the ergonomics of computer laptops. Makes specific reference to college students and the health hazards they face being on laptops for hours at a time.
Wyatt P., Todd K., Verbick T. (2006). “Oh, my aching laptop: expanding the boundaries of campus computing ergonomicsUser services” Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM SIGUCCS Conference on User Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Nov 5-8, 2006. 431-439.

Computing Reviews: URL: Oh, my aching laptop: expanding the boundaries of campus computing ergonomics from SIGUCCS ’06

Free online technical and computer science books

Check out the FreeTechBooks.com site. This site lists and links to hundreds of free computer science and technical books at publishers’ and authors’ sites. Books cover computer programming, mathematics, electric circuits, digital signal processing, database management and information management.

Source: October 12, 2006 posting at Sukdev’s World.