III.1 and III.2 of the CEB Charter have been revised. The full charter is available here. The revised versions are below.

III. Appointment of CEB members.

III.1. The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) will be appointed according to the following three step process.

(i) The Steering Committee for Technical Programs (SCTP) serves as the nominating committee and identifies the best candidate for the EIC;

(ii) The EIC candidacy is approved by a committee of six consisting of the Associate Vice President of Conference Activities for the SCTP, the Vice President for Publication Activities and the Vice President for Technical Activities or their delegated Associate Vice Presidents, the EIC of the Transactions on Robotics, the EIC of Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and the EIC of the Robotics and Automation Magazine.

(iii) The EIC is appointed by the President of IEEE RAS.

III.2. The Editors will be proposed by the EIC and will be appointed by the Steering Committee on Technical Programs (SCTP).

Proposal for expanding the scope of the editorial board to CASE (starting 2010) and other conferences

• The RAS Conference Editorial Board (RAS CEB) will comprise the Editorial Boards for ICRA, CASE, and other conferences when and if they adopt the Conference Editorial Board Model. All members of these Editorial Boards will be members of *the* RAS Conference Editorial Board.

• Each conference will have an Editor-in-Chief chosen from the RAS CEB.

• The RAS CEB Editor-in-Chief will serve as the ICRA CEB.

• The RAS CEB will be responsible for formulating and enforcing all policies and mechanisms for obtaining high quality reviews for the respective conferences.

• All RAS CEB Editors and EiCs will meet annually to review CEB policies and mechanisms.

• The Chair of the RAS CEB will report to the SCTP.

[Antonio/Peter]

Should the CEB review ICRA videos?

[Antonio/Katsu]

See here for detailed information. See IEEE Xplore comparison.

• How do we go about doing this? There are too many conferences. See list of co-sponsored conferences and technically co-sponsored conferences.

• Should we have 2 SCTP members serve on steering committee of all co-sponsored conferences?

See draft prepared by Alessandro, Antonio and Seth.

Is this something we should consider? Here is an interesting paper.