Guest editorial: Polymeric sensors for smart systems

Guest Editorial: Smart Grid Communications

IN THIS SECOND edition of the IEEE JSAC Smart Grid series, we continue to explore advances in communication technologies that have the potential for improving energy efficiency and realizing the smart grid vision. We have received a total number of 73 papers, and after a thorough review and careful deliberations, we have accepted 15 articles. This issue tackles important challenges with respect...

Guest Editorial: Special Section on Smart DC Distribution Systems

Guest Editorial: Special Section on Sensors

Date of publication: 9 December 2013 T he activist group Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) was founded in 1999 by Katherine Albrecht. The very same year Kevin Ashton, co-founder and executive director of the then Auto-ID Center at M.I.T., made a presentation to Proctor & Gamble with a title that included the phrase “Internet of Things.” According to Ashton, ...

Hybrid Computer Systems [Guest editorial]

Today's increasing emphasis on simulation of continuous dynamic systems lends a special significance to this issue of Computer. Hybrid computers, with their tremendous computing speed resulting from the all-parallel configuration of their analog subsystem, are particularly suited for dynamic system simulation. Indeed, back in the 1950's analog computers were the only game in town when it came t...

Guest Editorial Semantic reference systems

Four centuries after René Descartes watched a fly walk across his ceiling and wondered how to capture its position (Gribbin 2002), we use Cartesian coordinates routinely to describe locations. We identify the positions of entities in the real world, transform their GIS representations from one coordinate system to another, and integrate spatially referenced data across multiple coordinate syste...