报告题目：The State of Academic Publishing in the Control and Automation Field
报告人：Prof. Ian Craig, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Pretoria
报告时间：2019年9月27日10:00-12:00
报告地点：升华后楼504
报告摘要：
This presentation will provide an overview of the publications portfolio of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). This portfolio includes eight of the main journals in the control field as well as the IFAC PapersOnline Proceedings Series, all of which are available on the ScienceDirect platform.
A summary will be given of how journals operate and what roles authors, reviewers and editors play in the processing of submissions.
The presentation will close with a number of developments, of interest to control and automation community, that impact on the academic publications landscape. These include an increasing demand for open-access publication that might have a significant impact on future publication business models.
报告人简介：
Ian Craig received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pretoria, the S.M. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Ph.D and M.B.A. degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand. He heads the control systems group in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria. Previously he was part of the Measurement Control Division of Mintek where he was involved in the design, implementation and commercialisation of advanced controllers for the mineral processing industry. His research interests include model-based control and optimisation in the process industries, with a particular focus on mineral processing.
Ian was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Control Engineering Practice from 2005-2010 and President of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) from 2011-2014. He is an IFAC Advisor, a recipient of the IFAC outstanding service award, a fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering, and a registered Professional Engineer in South Africa. He is the current Chair of the IFAC Publications Committee and the IFAC Foundation Board. Ian is the chief academic master of the 111 project "Intelligent Control and Decision Optimization for Manufacturing Process", hosted by the Central South University, China.
Ian has presented plenary addresses at a number of international events, including the31stChinese Control Conference, held in Hefei, China, in 2012, and the 5thIFAC Workshop on Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing, held in Shanghai, China in 2018. He has been a member of over 40 international program committees including being the International Program Committee Chair for the17thIFAC Symposium on Control, Optimization and Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing (IFAC MMM 2016), held in Vienna, Austria, in 2016.
