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- APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS SOCIETY
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- INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
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- The first issue of the ACES Newsletter on numerical
- modeling in electromagnetics was published in February,
- 1986. Pre-paid subsciptions will run one year from the date
- of the first issue, and will include a minimum of two
- issues. Other subscriptions will begin with the next issue
- and will also run for one year. Back issues of the
- Newsletter may be ordered until the supply has been
- exhausted at a price of $15.00 per copy. A limited supply
- of 1986 Conference Proceedings are available for $35.00 per
- copy.
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- Motivation for both the Newsletter and the Society
- stems from the fact that, over the past ten years or so,
- computer modeling has matured as a problem-solving tool in
- real-world electromagnetics applications. Use of computer
- modeling has become so routine that sessions at the various
- professional society meetings deal primarily with new
- developments, as also do most of the articles found in the
- technical literature. As a result, those areas where
- modeling is routinely used are not highlighted, and
- information exchange among the practitioners (both users and
- developers) is inhibited.
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- Consequently, it seems worthwhile to explore
- alternatives that could provide a forum for those working in
- applications of computer modeling in electromagnetics.
- Response to our first meeting "The First Annual NEC Review"
- (130+ attendance and over 40 presentations) held at Lawrence
- Livermore National Laboratory in March 1985, and our second
- meeting "The Second Annual Review of Progress in Applied
- Computational Electromagnetics" (100+ attendance and nearly
- 50 presentations) held at the Naval Postgraduate School
- shows that there is a need for an applications forum, and
- the consensus was that both a regular meeting and a
- publication were appropriate. The Newsletter is the initial
- phase of a publication that we expect to become a journal
- under the aegis of the Applied Computational
- Electromagnetics Society. This organization is now being
- formally chartered, having had a constitution and by-laws
- adopted at the Monterey Meeting along with a slate of
- officers. Membership in ACES can be attained through either
- attending an annual meeting, or by payment of a membership
- fee (see below). Corporate membership includes Newsletter
- reproduction rights (for internal use) and a listing in each
- Newsletter issue.
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- NEWSLETTER GOALS AND ORGANIZATION
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- The overall goal of ACES is to foster information
- exchange among computer modelers in electromagnetics. The
- focus of ACES is on computer-applications issues as opposed
- to the research and development emphasis provided by other
- societies and media. In order to promote this goal and
- focus, the ACES Newsletter/Journal will be organized as
- follows:
- 1. There will be several regular departments or
- features to appear in the Newsletter including--
- --A modeling column that will contain announcements of
- general interest such as problems and limitations discovered
- in codes and fixes developed thereto, enhancements and
- improvements added, innovative applications discovered, and
- new codes available.
- --Applications notes, to consist of an
- introductory summary which describes in 1-2 pages the
- problem, the approach used, the results obtained, and
- conclusions and recommendations, followed by a maximum of 8-
- 10 pages which provide more detail, including results and
- validation thereof.
- --Code descriptions which briefly describe new codes
- that have become available.
- --Tutorial articles that give an introduction/overview
- of various modeling topics from an applications viewpoint,
- covering material likely to help the modeler do more
- accurate, efficient and reliable modeling.
- --An ACES column to provide news of Society activities.
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- 2. Material published in the Newsletter will be so
- organized that as subsequent Newsletters become available,
- the various sections can be removed to be kept in a common
- binder, thus allowing various subjects (applications notes
- for example) to be accumulated as a separate reference
- document. This topic-oriented organization of the
- Newsletter material should provide a more useful way to
- collect information than the chronological format used by
- most journals.
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- 3. For the ease and convenience of both the readers
- and contributors to the Newsletter, standard formats will be
- adopted wherever possible for providing material for
- inclusion. By requiring an application-note summary to
- contain specific information in a particular order, the
- reader can always be sure of what the note's minimum
- content will be, and the authors will not have to design
- their own format.
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- ARTICLE-PUBLICATION CRITERIA
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- Finally, because the ACES Newsletter/Journal is
- intended to deal with applications, each contribution will
- be required to satisfy at least one of the following
- criteria to be considered for publication:
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- 1. Code validation. This may be done using
- experimental, analytical or computational data.
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- 2. Code applications to design. This could include
- studies of parameter sensitivity tradeoffs for the purpose
- of tabulating handbook-type data or achieving some desired
- performance.
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- 3. Code studies of basic physics. This might involve
- using a code to simulate reality in such a way that better
- or new physical insight or understanding is achieved.
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- 4. Code enhancements and fixes. This category is self
- explanatory, but could cover significant changes to existing
- codes, including extending their applicability or improving
- their performance, and correcting problems or removing
- limitations.
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- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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- For further information regarding the Newsletter or
- becoming a member in the Applied Computational
- Electromagnetics Society, please contact ACES secretary
- Dr. Richard W. Adler, Code 62AB, Naval Postgraduate School,
- Monterey, CA 93943, telephone (408)646-2352. You can
- subscribe to the Newsletter (and become a member of ACES) by
- completing and returning the form below. Information for
- prospective authors follows on the next page.
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- organizational).
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- PLEASE REMIT PAYMENT WITH THIS FORM BY CHECK OR MONEY ORDER,
- MADE PAYABLE TO "Applied Computational Electromagnetics
- Society".
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- SUBMITTAL OF MATERIAL FOR THE ACES NEWSLETTER
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- In preparing material for submittal to the ACES
- Newsletter, please keep the following guidelines in mind.
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- APPLICATIONS NOTES
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- FORMAT
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- During the start-up phase of the ACES Newsletter, and
- for the forseeable future thereafter, we plan to employ
- camera-ready final copy because of the cost savings and
- convenience it provides. Please follow the guidelines used
- by the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society Newsletter which
- are paraphrased below.
- "...Materials intended for publication in the
- Newsletter should be typed single-space in photo-ready
- condition--all typing must be kept within a 4 1/2 inch
- column width. Any plain white paper can be used but special
- paper with light blue column guidelines such as can be
- obtained from the IEEE Headquarters for its Newsletters is
- convenient. An alternative method is to type on plain bond
- paper using heavy black guidelines on a back-up sheet..."
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- CONTENT
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- In order to ensure an appropriate level of quality
- control and review, contributions for the Applications Notes
- will be refereed. We intend to have the Associate Editors
- perform this function whenever possible in order to reduce
- time delays in publication. Contributions will be reviewed
- both for technical correctness and for adherence to the
- guidelines listed above with respect to information content.
- Contributors might therefore want to submit the initial
- manuscript in draft form so that any suggested changes can
- be made before the photo-ready copy is prepared.
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- STYLE
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- Although it is our intention to be reasonably flexible
- with espect to the style of the applications articles which
- appear in the ACES Newsletter, it is advisable to provide
- some guidelines. We suggest that article preparation with
- respect to equations, referencing and layout follow that of
- Radio Science. In particular, equation numbers are put in
- parentheses at the right column margin, and references are
- given by author(s) name and year in the body of the article
- and listed in alphabetical order at the end.
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- OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
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- Contributions of other kinds are also welcomed. These
- include items for the modeling column, code descriptions and
- suggested topics for the tutorial articles.
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- include items for the modeling column, code descriptions