BYLAWS OF THE NONLINEAR CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE OF THE IEEE CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS SOCIETY

BYLAWS
OF THE NONLINEAR CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE OF THE IEEE CAS SOCIETY

The Nonlinear Circuits and Systems (NCAS) Technical Committee goal is to promote research in nonlinear circuits and systems and their applications in electrical engineering and in related fields. Nonlinear circuits and Systems include, but are not limited to: nonlinear aspects of circuits and systems, dynamics, oscillations, numerical methods, stability, bifurcation and chaos, nonlinear signal and imaging processing, and cellular neural networks.

Membership

Membership of the NCAS Technical Committee is open to any IEEE member. Membership is approved by a majority of active members present at the Committee's annual meeting. Membership is by recommendation and by majority vote of the members present at a meeting. A member is removed from the committee if he/she does not attend three consecutive annual committee meetings. The committee shall have up to 25 members.

The Committee shall have three officers: Chair, Chair-elect, and Secretary. Each will serve one-year term.

Meetings

The committee shall meet once a year at ISCAS. All business requiring Committee approval will be transacted at that time.

Duties and Election of Officers

The Secretary, who will also act as the Treasurer for the Technical Committee, will record the minutes of the yearly meeting and maintain the roll of the committee. The Secretary will be the focal point for the Committee's nominations for CAS Society awards and for nominating transactions papers in the nonlinear circuits and systems field for the Best Paper Awards. He/She will report on Committee activities through the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Newsletter at least twice a year (following ISCAS in the Summer and prior to ISCAS in the Spring). The Secretary, a member of the Committee and the CAS Society, will be elected by the membership of the Committee present at an annual meeting and will serve for an one-year term that begins immediately after the ISCAS at which he/she was elected.

The Chair will preside over committee meetings and will be responsible for all interactions with the CAS Society. With the assistance of the Secretary, he/she will report the Committee activities to the CAS Board of Governors. The Chair will also be responsible for recommending Associate Editors for the CAS Transactions.

The Chair-elect, who must be a member of the Committee and of the CAS Society, will be elected by the members of the Committee present at an annual meeting and will serve an one-year term. The first year as a Chair-elect and then a year as Chair). The Chair-elect will be responsible for the NCAS Committee-sponsored special sessions and workshops at ISCAS. The Chair-elect will assume the chairmanship of the Committee immediately after the ISCAS following the ISCAS of his/her election.

Outside of ISCAS the three Officers can, upon a majority vote, undertake unplanned business on behalf of the Committee, provided that these activities be reported to the Committee at the next meeting.

Activities

The Committee will be responsible for nominating individuals for the various CAS society Awards, and for nominating deserving papers in the nonlinear CAS area for each of the CAS Society's Best Paper Awards. Every active Committee member will be solicited the Secretary to submit potential nominees. The Secretary and the two Chairmen will decide from the submission by the members, the names to be submitted to the CAS Award Committees.

The NCAS Technical Committee will organize a special session and/or workshop on NCAS at each ISCAS. The Chair-elect who is elected at an ISCAS will be responsible for organizing such an activity at the following ISCAS. (While the newly elected Chair-elect will be responsible for these activities at the next ISCAS, the Chair is expected to assist.)

The NCAS Technical Committee will recommend new Associate Editors for the Transactions of the Society in the field of nonlinear circuits and systems, and related fields, to the Editorial Board of the CAS Society. The Committee will accept nominations for these positions and review them at the annual meeting proceeding the term of the incoming editors. The Chair will be responsible for learning when each Editorial Board is going to form and for soliciting nominations from the Committee membership in a timely manner.

The Committee may engage in other activities such as editing a reprint books, the organizing of special issues of an IEEE publication, workshops, conferences, and other publication activities in the area of nonlinear circuits and systems.

Amendments

Future amendments to these bylaws will be by a majority vote from the NCAS Technical Committee members present at an annual ISCAS meeting or from majority of the members at large through mail. Any bylaw amendment can be introduced at the Committee meeting, provided that at least one of the three Officers has been notified at least one months prior to the Committee meeting. Approval by the three Officers is not necessary, but notification is required. An approved amendment will take effect the day following the conclusion of the ISCAS meeting when it has been approved.