Asia Pacific Board (APB)General Meeting

Takaya YamazatoDirector - Asia/Pacific Region

Nagoya University, Japanyamazato@ieee.org

Agenda Welcome and Introduction APB Committee Report

Technical Affairs Committee (TAC) Prof. Jianwei ,Prof. Takahiko Meeting & Conference Committee (MCC) Prof. Jiming Chen Information Services Committee (ISC) Vice Chair Prof. Tony Q.S. Quek Membership Development Committee (MDC) Assoc. Prof. Youngchul, Prof. Meixia Chapters Coordination Committee (CCC) Prof. Eiji Oki , Prof. Miki

AP RCCC and Sister Society Summit Chapter funding ComSoc membership status in AP Journal category ranking

Next APB Director Nomination Committee

Accomplishments 1st Half-YearGlobal Communications Newsletter (February 2017)

Asia/Pacific Region Interview with Takaya Yamazato, Director of the AP Region

Chapter funding approval (based on questionnaires)21 questionnaires received out of 43 chapters

Distinguished Lecturer Tours/Speaker ProgramsDLTs

2017 : 9 AP (7 EMEA, 3 LA, 4 NA) - As of May, 20172016 : 19 AP (6 EMEA, 5 LA, 6 NA)

DSTs2017 : 2 AP (1 EMEA, 0 LA, 3 NA) - As of May, 20172016 : 7 AP (4 EMEA, 1 LA, 10 NA)

NewslettersComSoc AP Newsletter No.51 published and distributed at ICC 2017

AwardsCall for Applications: 12th Asia-Pacific Young Researcher AwardCall for Nominations: 6th Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award

AP Regional Chapter Chair Congress at GLOBECOM 2017, SingaporeDate: 2 days before GLOBECOM 2017(Sister and Related Societies Meeting is cancelled)

AP Regional Chapter Chair Conference

Targeting GLOBECOM 2017 04-08, Dec 2017 @ Singapore Sister and Related Societies meeting is cancelled

Date: 03 (Sun) and 04 (Mon) Dec 2017

General Chair: Takaya Yamazato Program Chair: VP Wei Zhang Publicity: MDC co-chairs Prof. Youngehul Sung and Prof.

Meixia Tao Secretary: Hiroshi Shigeno and Takaya Miyazawa

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch

13:00 – 13:30 Welcome & Introductions All

13:30 – 14:00 ComSoc Inside – Admin & Support Susan Brooks

14:00 – 14:30 Member & Global Activities Stefano Bregni

14:30 – 15:00 Membership Development Zhensheng Zhang

3:00-3:30 pm Coffee Break

3:00-3:30 PM Q&A Session about ComSoc All

3:30-5:00 pmChapter Chair Reports Chair: APB Director Takaya

YamazatoAPB officers, Chapter Chairs

Reports from selected Chapter Chairs

6:30 – 8:30 pm ComSoc hosted RCCC Dinner

Sunday, December 3, 2017

8:00-9:00am Breakfast

9:00-9:45 ComSoc Staff support

Carol Cronin (NY), Fanny Su, Ewell Tan (Singapore),

Munir Mohammed (India)

9:45-10:30 ComSoc APB ReportCommittee Chairs of

TAC, MCC, ISC, CCC, MDC10:30-11:00am Coffee Break

11:00-11:45Open Discussion – Member

Development Chair: APB VD Prof.Wei ZhangAPB officers, Chapter Chairs

Reports from selected Chapter Chairs11:45-1:30 pm Lunch

1:30-3:00 pmOpen Discussion – Regional Activities Chair: APB VD Dr. Sumei Sun

APB officers, Chapter ChairsReports from selected Chapter Chairs3:00-3:30 pm Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 pm

Open Discussion – Regional Collaboration Chair: APB VD Prof. Saewoong

BahkAPB officers, Chapter Chairs, AP Sister Society Representatives

Reports from selected Chapter Chairs and

AP Sister Society Representatives5:00-5:15 pm AP-RCCC Wrap-up APB Director Takaya Yamazato6:00-9:30 pm IEEE GLOBECOM 2017 Welcome Reception

Monday, December 4, 2017

• 2days RCCC• 2 BoGs and 1 Officer talks• No invited talks• 1 Q&A session about

ComSoc• 3 Chapter chair report

sessions

• 2days RCCC• 8 BoG talks• 2 invited talksChapter Achievement Award Outstanding Chapter Report• 2 Panel Discussion of Hot

Topics

• Curtis asks one whole day for Sister and RelatedSocieties meeting

• Advertisement to ChapterChairs

• Any Topics for PanelDiscussions?

Initial Contact to AP Chairs(by Wei Zhang)

Received 28 responses 25 “YES" and 3 “NO" to attend the RCCC 15 Chapters have not replied

ComSoc Chapter Chapater Chair Name Chapter Chair EmailBANGLADESH Satya Prasad Majumder spmajumder@eee.buet.ac.bdDELHI Manav R. Bhatnagar manav@ee.iitd.ac.inGUJARAT Nagendra Gajjar nagendra.gajjar@nirmauni.ac.inHONG KONG Chak Chung Cheung r.cheung@cityu.edu.hkINDONESIA Rina Pudji Astuti rina_pudjiastuti@yahoo.comKANSAI Minoru Okada mokada@is.naist.jpKOLKATA Iti Saha Misra itisahamisra@yahoo.co.inMACAU Seng-Pan U benspu@ieee.org / benspu@yahoo.com.hk

NEW SOUTH WALES Ollencio D'Souza odsouza@ieee.org

PUNE Bharat S Chaudhari vsd.deshpande@gmail.com, bsc@ieee.orgQUEENSLAND Andrew P. Bradley a.bradley@itee.uq.edu.auSRI LANKA Dileeka Dias dileeka@ent.mrt.ac.lkTHAILAND Keattisak Sripimanwat keattisak.sripimanwat@gmail.comVICTORIAN Kandeepan Sithamparanathan kandeepan.sithamparanathan@rmit.edu.auVIETNAM Dao Ngoc Chien dnchien@most.gov.vn / chien@ieee.org

Chapter Funding

Each local Chapter may request funding to support chapter activities/initiatives including membership development, and organizing Distinguished Lecturer Tours (DLTs), Distinguished Speakers Programs (DSPs), social events and workshops.

The chapter must fill in a questionnaire form in early part of the year and request funding.

The Region Director approves or modifies each Chapter request, taking into account the balance in the Region.

Each Region proposal is submitted to the MS Director for final approval

21 questionnaires received out of 43 AP chapters

AP Chapters21 questionnaires received out of 43 chapters (* 15 no response at initial contact)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY Section

KARACHI Chapter SEOUL Chapter

BANGALORE Section KERALA Chapter SHANGHAI Chapter

BANGLADESH Chapter* KOLKATA Chapter* SINGAPORE Chapter

BEIJING (SHENZHEN) Chapter LAHORE Chapter SOUTH AUSTRALIA Chapter

BEIJING Chapter MACAU Chapter* SRI LANKA Chapter*

BOMBAY Chapter MADRAS Chapter TAINAN Chapter

CHENGDU Chapter MALAYSIA Chapter TAIPEI Chapter

DELHI Chapter* NANJING Chapter THAILAND Chapter*

GUJARAT Chapter* NEW SOUTH WALES Chapter* TOKYO (Joint) Chapter

HARBIN Chapter NEW ZEALAND NORTH, SOUTH & CENTRAL Chapter

VICTORIAN Chapter*

HONG KONG Chapter* NORTHERN AUSTRALIA Chapter VIETNAM Chapter*

HYDERABAD Chapter PUNE Chapter* WESTERN AUSTRALIA Chapter

INDIA COUNCIL QUEENSLAND Chapter* XI'AN Chapter

INDONESIA Chapter* REPUBLIC OF PHILIPPINES Chapter

KANSAI Chapter* SENDAI Chapter

ComSoc membership status in APFor detail, please see my article in AP Newsletter.

Journal category rankingFor detail, please see my article in AP Newsletter.

Next APB meeting will be inGlobecom 2017 Singapore

TAC report

May, 2017

Jiawnei Huang, TAC Co-Chair

IEEE ComSoc APB General Meeeting @ ICC 2017

TAC Members 2016-2017

APB Vice-Director: Prof. Saewoong Bahk TAC, Co-Chair: Prof. Jianwei Huang TAC, Co-Chair: Prof. Takahiko Saba TAC, Vice Chair: Prof. Lingyang Song TAC, Vice Chair: Prof. Hsuan-Jung Su

TAC Action Plan 2016-2017

TAC Action Plan: Promote the Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award and

select winners for 2016 and 2017. Promote the Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award and

select winners for 2016 and 2017.

Current Status: Promoting the above awards for 2017 at ICC and also

through various email lists. (Deadline for application and nomination is July 31)

Call for Application (1/3):The 12nd AP Young Research Awards The IEEE ComSoc AP Young Researcher Award honors

young researchers who have been very active in IEEE ComSoc publications and conference activities over the last 3 years (Jan. 2014 to Dec. 2016 ).

Eligibility: Age 35 or younger (i.e., born on or after 1981/01/01) Member of the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific region.

Award Prize: ONE Best YRA with a certificate and US$500 SEVERAL Outstanding YRAs with a certificate and US$250.

Call for Application (2/3):The 12nd AP Young Research Awards

Application should include: A cover page that contains the applicant's name, affiliation, mailing

address, telephone, fax number, and e-mail address. The applicant’s biography (up to 400 words). Description of the applicant’s major research contributions over the last 3

years, including clear discussions of 3 most representative publications(e.g., journal/conference/magazine papers and monographs) published over the last 3 years. For each publication, please provide SCI and Google citation information, impact factor (if applicable), significance of the publication, and the applicant’s own contribution to the publication (up to 2 A4 pages).

A complete list of publications and conference activities (over the last 3 years only), and the SCI/Google Scholar citations and H-index (of the entire career).

Awards/recognitions received (over the last 3 years only).

Call for Application (3/3):The 12nd AP Young Research Awards Important Dates:

Application Submission Deadline: July 31, 2017 Announcement of Awardees: October 1, 2017 Award Ceremony at Globecom 2017 (December, 2017)

For inquires and applications, send to APB TAC: apb-officers-tac@ieee.org

Call for Nomination (1/2):The 6th AP Outstanding Paper Award

The IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Paper Award honors outstanding original papers authored by members in the AP region over the last 3 years (Jan. 2014 to Dec. 2016).

Eligibility: Appeared in IEEE ComSoc journals, magazines, conference

proceedings, and so on (including those technically co-sponsored by ComSoc).

All authors’ affiliations must be from the AP region. Nominated by IEEE ComSoc AP region members (not self-

nomination).

Award Prize: Plaque and honorarium up to US $500.

Call for Nomination (2/2):The 6th AP Outstanding Paper Award

Nomination should include: Cover page with nominator’s name and contact information. Paper Information (including title, authors, source, etc.) A copy of nominated paper. Letter of recommendation (up to one A4 page). Number of SCI and Google scholar citations, impact factor if

applicable.

Important Dates: Application Submission Deadline: July 31, 2017 Announcement of Awardees: October 1, 2017 Award Ceremony at Globecom 2017 (December, 2017)

Send to APB TAC: apb-officers-tac@ieee.org

Meeting and Conference Committee (MCC) Report

Prepared by Jiming Chen,

Chair, MCC (2016-17)

• The mission of MCC is to promote participation of AP region in ComSoc Conferences and Meetings.

• MCC Committee 2016-2017– Chair: Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China– Vice Chair: Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology,

Japan

• In this report, we highlight AP contributions in IEEE INFOCOM 2016.

INTRODUCTION

• San Francisco, CA, USA, 10-15 April, 2016

IEEE INFOCOM 2016

• International Conference on Computer Communications

First Authors of Accepted Papers by Countries/Regions

in AP RegionCountries/Regions First Authors Percentage

PR China 61 60%Hong Kong 15 15%Singapore 7 7%Korea 6 6%Australia 4 4%Taiwan 4 4%India 3 3%Japan 1 1%Total 101

First Authors of Accepted Papers in all Regions

Regions First Authors PercentageUnited States 134 44.7%Asia and Pacific 101 33.7%Africa, Europe, Middle East 53 4%Canada 12 17.7%Total 300

Only first authors of accepted papers are counted. First authors that have more than one paper are counted once for each paper.

IEEE LANMAN 2017

• IEEE Workshop on Local & Metropolitan Area Networks

• Osaka, Japan, 12-14 June, 2017

WCSP 2017

• International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing

• Nanjing, China, October 11-13, 2017• Submission deadline: June 15, 2017

IEEE HEALTHCOM 2017

• IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services

• Dalian, China, 12-15 October, 2017• Submission deadline: June 1, 2017

IEEE SmartGridComm 2017

• International Conference on Smart Grid Communications

• Dresden, Germany, 23-26 October, 2017• Submission deadline: 14 April, 2017

ICTC 2017

• International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence

• Jeju Island, Korea, 18-20 October, 2017• Submission deadline: 30 June, 2017

IEEE/CIC ICCC 2017

• IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China

• Qingdao, China, 22-24 October, 2017• Submission deadline: 31 May, 2017

• IEEE International Conference on Space Optical Systems and Applications

• Naha, Okinawa, Japan, 14-16 November, 2017• Submission deadline: 29 May, 2017

IEEE ICSOS 2017

• International Conference on Network and Service Management

• Tokyo, Japan, 26-30 November, 2017• Submission deadline: 12 June, 2017

CNSM 2017

• Global Communications Conference

• Singapore, 4-8 December, 2017• Submission deadline: 1 April, 2017

IEEE GLOBECOM 2017

Promotion of MCC

• Actively involved in IEEE ComSoc flagship conferences– INFOCOM, ICC, GLOBECOM, ICCC, WCSP

• Actively advertisement for APB sponsored regional conferences– APNOMS, APCC, ISPACP– Through APB email list and regional local lists– Helping organizing special invited sessions with international

speakers

• Help to advertise other AP local conferences

ISC ReportICC 2017

ISC Mission

To publish and distribute the APB Newsletter

To manage and update the APB Homepage

To manage the APB email broadcast to its members

To provide liaison to the IEEE Global Communication Newsletter (GCN)

To collaborate with the AP Office in information service related matters

AP Newsletter

AP Newsletter No. 51 (ICC’17 Issue) has been published Printed for distribution at the APB general meeting Available for download from APB website

(http://apb.regions.comsoc.org/archives/newsletter/)

Contents include: Message from APB Director Trending Topics in the Eyes of IEEE Fellows

( Thanks to Prof. Teng Joon Lim) New! Article on Membership Development – Exploring ways to

attract student members ( Thanks to Director Yamazato) New! Looking into the Future of Communications – What can we

do in the coming era of the 4th industrial revolution as communication engineers? ( Thanks to Prof. Youngchul Sung)

AP Newsletter (cont’d)

Contents include (cont’d): Call-For-Application of APB Young Researcher Awards Call-For-Nomination of APB Outstanding Paper Awards “Past APB Best/Outstanding Young Researchers – Then and

Now” – Interview the 2005 APB award winners. (Thanks to Prof. Qian Zhang, Prof. Jia-Chin Lin, and Prof. Naoki Wakamiya.

Report on DLTs/DSPs in the AP Region Committee Reports (``What’s up on the Asia-Pacific Board?’’) Upcoming Conferences Asia-Pacific Region Officers 2016-2017

AP Webpage

We have updated the webpage with several calls for papers (CFPs) for ComSoc-sponsored conferences and transactions from sister societies

To announce CFPs on the AP webpage, please send requests to ISC co-chair (Hung-Yun Hsieh)

Email broadcast will be handled by the ComSoc New York office (Caro Cronin at c.cronin@comsoc.org)

Membership Development Committee (MDC)

Youngchul SungMDC Co-Chair

MDC Commitee Co-Chairs

Youngchul Sung, KAIST, Korea

Meixia Tao, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China

Vice Chairs Osamu Muta, Center for Japan-Egypt Coop. in

Sci. and Tech, Japan

Hai Lin, Osaka Preferecture Univ. Japan

Munir Mohammed, IEEE India Office, Inida

Contents

Report on member statistics of AP region

ComSoc membership status

ComSoc AP Statistic @ Dec. 2016

ComSoc membership status in AP

Student Member Attraction

2017 AP regional chapter chair congress in coordination with Globecom 2017, Singapore Chapter level attraction activities

Chapters/Councils & Sister Societies

41 chapters/councils in total (See Table II) 396 members (corresponding to 5%,

from Korea, China, and Pakistan) are not part of any chapter/council (See Table III)

11 sister societies from 9 countries (See Table IV)

List of Areas WITHOUT ComSoc Chapters

Area CountryHigher Grade

Membership

Student Membership Total Total per

Country

Wuhan China 46 2 48 48

Changwon Korea 18 1 19

200Daejeon Korea 124 6 130

Kwangju Korea 19 1 20

Taegu Korea 31 0 31

Islamabad Pakistan 50 0 50 50Others 18 0 18 18

Total 382 14 396 396

Sister Societies in APCountry Sister Society URL

1 Australia Australian Computer Society (ACS) https://www.acs.org.au2 China China Institute of Communications (CIC) -3 China The Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) http://www.cie-china.org4

India The Institute of Electronics & Telecommunications Engineers (IETE) http://www.iete.org/

5India Communications Multimedia Applications

Infrastructure (CMAI) http://www.cmai.asia

6Japan The Institute of Electronics, Information &

Communication Engineers (IEICE-CS) http://www.ieice.org/cs

7 Korea The Korean Institute of Communication Sciences (KICS) http://www.kics.or.kr

8 Malaysia The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) http://www.myiem.org.my9 Singapore Singapore Computer Society (SCS) https://www.scs.org.sg10 Taiwan Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering

(CIEE) http://www.ciee.org.tw

11 Vietnam The Radio & Electronics Association of Vietnam (REV) -

Conclusion

Plan to set up new chapters/councils in

Korea, China, and Pakistan

Need to actively promote members in the

AP region

References

[1] IEEE Annual Statistics Report. http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/statistics/index.html

[2] AP ComSoc Membership Statistics and Graphs. http://www.ewh.ieee.org/ieee/apo/ComSoc/Comsoc_StatsandGraphs.html

[3] ComSoc Sister Societies. http://www.comsoc.org/about/SisterSocieties/agreements

Chapters Coordination Committee (CCC)Report

Eiji Oki and Miki YamamotoCCC Chairs

Chapters Coordination Committee (CCC)

Chairs Eiji Oki, Kyoto University, Kyoto,

Japan Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University,

Kansai, Japan Vice Chairs

Byonghyo Shim, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Masaki Bandai, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

APB-CCC Plans for 2016-2017 Collaborate with the AP Office in running

Distinguished Lecturer Tours (DLTs) and Distinguished Speaker Programs (DSPs) DLTs and DSPs so far in 2016-2017

xx DLTs and xx DSPs granted/delivered

Collaborate with the AP Office in coordinating ComSoc Executives' visit to Chapters

New Activities Collaboration with Sister Societies in AP region

2016 IEEE ComSoc DLTs in Asia PacificDistinguished Lecturer Tour dates Hosting Chapters

AP DLT #1: Anura Jayasumana 15 - 24 January 2016Bombay GujaratPune

AP DLT #2: J. B. Othman 14 - 19 March 2016

India Council Bombay

Pune Gujarat

AP DLT #3: Zhu Han 23 May - 4 June 2016Malaysia

DelhiSingapore

AP DLT #4: Mohamed-Slim Alouini 13 - 14 May 2016 Bangladesh

AP DLT #5: Dusit Niyato 20 - 27 May 2016 SeoulTokyo

AP DLT #6: Jianwei Huang 21 - 28 July 2016 TokyoKansai

(Continue:-) 2016 IEEE ComSoc DLTs in Asia Pacific

Distinguished Lecturer Tour dates Hosting Chapters

AP DLT #7: Jiajia Liu 28 - 30 March 2016 Taipei

AP DLT #8: Mahbub Hassan 22 - 28 May 2016 Malaysia

AP DLT #9: J. B. Othman 29 May - 19 June 2016 New Zealand North, South & Central

AP DLT #10: Ying-Dar Lin 19 – 29 May 2016SingaporeMalaysia Thailand

AP DLT #11: Anthony Chan 17 May - 3 June 2016

SingaporeMalaysiaIndonesiaPhilippine

AP DLT #12: Anura Jayasumana 23 September – 5 October 2016KeralaKolkata

Kharagpur

(Continue:-) 2016 IEEE ComSoc DLTs in Asia Pacific

Distinguished Lecturer Tour dates Hosting Chapters

AP DLT #13: Luiz A. DaSilva 19 - 25 June 2016Kolkata

KharagpurBangalore

AP DLT #14: Tarik Taleb 13 - 17 June 2016 TokyoSapporo

AP DLT #15: Yu Cheng 4 – 15 July 2016Nanjing

ShanghaiBeijing

AP DLT #16: Dusit Niyato 18 – 22 December 2016 Thailand

AP DLT #17: Tom Hou 16 – 30 December 2016Shenzhen

TaipeiTainan

AP DLT #18: Rose Qingyang Hu 16 December 2016- 4 January 2017

TaipeiTainanHarbin

Chengdu

AP DLT #19: Tarek El-Bawab 22 – 24 December 2016 LahoreKarachi

2016 IEEE ComSoc DSPs in Asia Pacific

Distinguished Lecturer Lecture Date Hosting Chapters

DSP #1: Lingyang Song 16 February 2016 Sendai

DSP #2: Nirwan Ansari 1 June 2016 Indonesia

DSP #3: Tarik Taleb 27 May 2016 Malaysia

DSP #4: Zhensheng Zhang 19 May 2016 Harbin

DSP #5: Tom Hou 16 June 2016 Xi'An

DSP #6: Liuqing Yang 18 October 2016 Nanjing

DSP #7: Liuqing Yang 25 November 2016 Beijing

2016 IEEE ComSoc MDSGs in Asia Pacific

Membership Development Support Grant Purpose

Xiaofeng Tao

Organizations of meeting with Young Professionals, students and Women

attending during the 19th International Symposium on

Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications

2017 IEEE ComSoc DLTs in Asia PacificDistinguished Lecturer Tour dates Hosting Chapters

AP DLT #1: Rath Vannithamby 9 - 15 January 2017Pune

Bombay Bangalore

AP DLT #2: Tarik Taleb 4 - 11 February 2017 Seoul

AP DLT #3: Jiajia Liu 20 - 30 July 2017Kansai Sendai Tokyo

AP DLT #4: Liuqing Yang 9 February – 3 March 2017BeijingNanjing

Shanghai

AP DLT #5: Ashutosh Dutta 12 - 23 March 2017

KolkataBangalore Hyderabad

BombayMadrasKeralaDelhi

AP DLT #6: Hsiao-Hwa Chen 6 - 10 March 2017 Shenzhen

(Continue:-) 2017 IEEE ComSoc DLTs in Asia Pacific

Distinguished Lecturer Tour dates Hosting Chapters

AP DLT #7: Tarik Taleb 11 - 19 April 2017 Tokyo

AP DLT #8: R Venkatesha Prasad unfixed Sri Lanka

AP DLT #9: Anura Jayasumana 9 July 2017– unfixed LahoreKarachi

2017 IEEE ComSoc DSPs in Asia Pacific

Distinguished Lecturer Lecture Date Hosting Chapters

DSP #1: Lingyang Song 24 February 2017 Sendai

DSP #2: Ali Begen 28 - 29 March 2017 SingaporeSydney

Sister Societies in AP region

CIC (China) CIEE (Taiwan) CMAI (India) IEICE-CS (Japan) IETE (India) KICS (South Korea) REV (Vietnam) SCS (Singapore)

Articles in AP News Letter for Sister Societies

Introductory articles of Sister Societies 1 sister society per NewsLetter (1/2 year) Alphabetical orderAP NewsLetter No. 50 (Dec. 2016): CIC (China) Oct. 1, 2016No. 51 (June 2017): CIEE (Taiwan) Deadline: Apr 1, 2017

Unfortunately, no response by deadline No. 52 (Dec. 2017): CMAI (India) Deadline: Oct. 1, 2017No. 53 (June 2018): IEICE-CS (Japan) April 1, 2018No. 54 (Dec. 2018): IETE (India) Oct. 1, 2018No. 55 (June 2019): KICS (South Korea) April 1, 2018No. 56 (Dec. 2019): REV (Vietnam) Oct. 1, 2019No. 57 (June 2020): SCS (Singapore) April 1, 2020

AP Region Websitehttp://apb.regions.comsoc.org/sister-societies/

CFP of Special Issue/Section of Sister Society Journals Guideline

Each CFP includes the title of the special issue/section and the link to the website of the special issue/section.

Each sister society can put at most nine CFPs in six months.

Every half year, on request basis IEICE provided a CFP this April. Invite to provide your CFPs by Oct. 1.

AP Region Websitehttp://apb.regions.comsoc.org/sister-societies/

Brief description of each sister society Guideline

A few line description is preferable, say 50word limit. A description exceeding this limitation will not be

appeared on our website. We sent invitations of article submission in Aug. 2016 and

March 2017. However, we received responses only from IEICE Japan and KICS Korea.

Please provide the short introductory description of your society!

Cooperation with Local Chapter

Comsoc has local chapter in each region. We would like to highly encourage each sister society to cooperate with local IEEE Comsocchapter(s).

(we sent this recommendation on Aug.24, 2016) Following page includes local chapter list.http://www.comsoc.org/about/chapters/APRegion