| Action Agenda |
| # | Time | Submitter | Type | Presenter | Agenda Item | Supporting Documents |
1 | 19:00 | SPS Pub Bd | Procedural | Theodoridis | Call to Order (COMPLETED) | | 2 | 19:01 | SPS Pub Bd | Procedural | Theodoridis | Roll Call (COMPLETED) | - Roll Call of the Publications Board
87141 | 3 | 19:02 | SPS Pub Bd | Motion | Theodoridis | Approval of Agenda (PASSED) | | 4 | 19:03 | SPS Pub Bd | Motion | Theodoridis | Approval of Consent Agenda (PASSED) | | 5 | 19:04 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Theodoridis | Chair's Report (COMPLETED) | - Chair's Report
87144 | 6 | 19:24 | SPS Pub Bd | Motion | Editors-in-Chief | Approval of 2019 Page Budgets and Periodicity (PASSED) | | 7 | 19:44 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Theodoridis | ExCom Decisions Related to Publications (COMPLETED) | | 8 | 19:59 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Sayed | EDICS and Society's Areas of Interests (COMPLETED) | | 9 | 20:09 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Theodoridis | Change Reviewing System for all SPS Publications (COMPLETED) | | 10 | 20:19 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Sharma | Additional Immediate Reject classification/category (COMPLETED) | | 11 | 20:29 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Theodoridis | Possible Ways to "Guard" the Novelty Related to Accepted Papers (COMPLETED) | | 12 | 20:45 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Colacchio/Fleisher | Smartsheets (COMPLETED) | - Smartsheets Presentation
87204 | 13 | 20:55 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Theodoridis | Implement Policies Towards Research Reproducibility (COMPLETED) | | 14 | 21:10 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Li | SPS Preprint Policy (COMPLETED) | - SPS Preprint Policy
87139 | 15 | 21:20 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Sharma | Updated Requirements for Publishing Deep Learning Papers (COMPLETED) | | 16 | 21:32 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Li | Proposed Changes of EDICS (COMPLETED) | - EDICS - SPL
- EDICS - TASLP
- EDICS - TASLP Changes
87177 | 17 | 21:42 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Fowler | Proposed Changes of EDICS (COMPLETED) | - EDICS SPL
87268 | 18 | 21:52 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Djuric | Computer Society's withdrawal of financial sponsorship of T-NSE (COMPLETED) | | 19 | 22:02 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Theodoridis | EMBS's withdrawal of financial sponsorship of T-CI (COMPLETED) | | 20 | 22:12 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Theodoridis | Updating T-SP webpage (similar to SPM) (COMPLETED) | | 21 | 22:22 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Theodoridis | Proposal for a new Journal, by BISP: Bioimage Processing Letters (COMPLETED) | | 22 | 22:27 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Sharma | Handling Prohibited Author List (PAL) and Duplicate Submissions from Other IEEE Journals (COMPLETED) | | 23 | 22:37 | SPS Pub Bd | Discussion | Colacchio, Pereira | Prohibited Reviewers List (COMPLETED) | | 24 | 22:47 | SPS Pub Bd | Procedural | Theodoridis | Old Business | | 25 | 22:48 | SPS Pub Bd | Procedural | Theodoridis | New Business | | 26 | 22:49 | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Theodoridis | 2018 Society Goals | - 2018 Society Goals
87179 | 27 | 22:59 | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Theodoridis | Next Meeting: Conference Call - Date to be Determined | | 28 | 23:00 | SPS Pub Bd | Motion | Theodoridis | Adjourn (PASSED) | |
| Consent Agenda |
| # | Time | Submitter | Type | Presenter | Agenda Item | Supporting Documents |
201 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Theodoridis | Approval of the Minutes from the 13 November 2017 Publications Board Meeting, Montreal, Canada | - Meeting Minutes, 13 November 2017
87184 | 202 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Theodoridis | Approval of the Minutes from the 27 February 2018 Publications Board Conference Call Meeting | - Publications Board Meeting, 27 February 2018
87186 |
| Reference: Committee / Forum Reports |
| # | Time | Submitter | Type | Presenter | Agenda Item | Supporting Documents |
301 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Heath | IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | - SPM Monthly Reports
87154 | 302 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Heath | Inside Signal Processing e-Newsletter | | 303 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Dragotti | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | - T-SP Monthly Reports
87188 | 304 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Li | IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | - T-ASLP Monthly Reports
87189 | 305 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Sharma | IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | - T-IP Monthly Reports
87155 | 306 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Campisi | IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security | - T-IFS Monthly Reports
87156 | 307 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Fowler | IEEE Signal Processing Letters | - SP-L Monthly Reports
87157 | 308 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Narayanan | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing | - J-STSP Monthly Reports
87158 | 309 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Wohlberg | IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging | - TCI Monthly Reports
87190 | 310 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Djuric | IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing Over Networks | - T-SIPN Monthly Reports
- T-SIPN Update
87191 | 311 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Barrutia | IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging | | 312 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Pappas | IEEE Transactions on Multimedia | - T-MM Monthly Reports
87193 | 313 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Liao | IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing | | 314 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Mitra | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | | 315 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Flynn | IEEE Biometrics Compendium | | 316 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Chakraborty | IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering Magazine | | 317 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Cavallaro | IEEE Multimedia Magazine | | 318 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Rocha | IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine | - IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine Report
87162 | 319 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Willett | IEEE Sensors Journal | - Sensors Council Report
87196 | 320 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Zhu | IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid | | 321 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Hua | IEEE Wireless Communications Letters | - Wireless Communications Letters EIC Report
- Wireless Communications Letters Steering Committee Meeting
87198 | 322 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Cui | Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networks | | 323 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Fosler-Lussier | Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics | | 324 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Yu | Internet of Things Journal | | 325 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Barrutia | IEEE Life Sciences Letters | - IEEE Life Sciences Letters Report
87150 | 326 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Patil/Gao | Council on Radio Frequency Identification | | 327 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Tubaro | AVSS Steering Committee | | 328 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Giannakis | Transactions on Big Data | | 329 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Bouman | Transactions on Computational Imaging | | 330 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Matta | Transactions on Signal & Information Processing Over Networks | | 331 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Fung | Transactions on Affective Computing | | 332 | --- | SPS Pub Bd | Info | Chowdhury | IEEE Control Systems Letters | |