Call for Papers - Special Issue of "Applications and the Internet in Conjunction with Main Topics of SAINT 2012"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of "Applications and the Internet in Conjunction with Main Topics of SAINT 2012".
The IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT) is inteded to provide a forum for researchers in the Internet and its applications to discuss the current status, technical challenges, standards, fundamental issues, future services, and applications. This symposium covers a broad range of networking and computing technologies and advanced applications and services. This year, the SAINT 2012 will be held in Izmir, Turkey on July 16-20, 2012. By taking this opportunity, the Special Section on Applications and the Internet in Conjunction with Main Topics of SAINT 2012 has been planned to publish high-quality articles such as, but not limited to, those based on the papers presented in the SAINT 2012 as well as past SAINT symposiums. Your contribution to this special section would be greatly appreciated.

(1) All papers must be submitted electronically. Please access the following URL and proceed under the submission instructions:
https://www.ipsj.or.jp/prms/author_pre_submit_en.do
*Note that this URL is for English papers only.

(2) All papers will be reviewed. The review process will be carried out in the same manner as regular issues. However, you have shorter time than usual (two months) for preparation of your responses to inquiries.

(3) Submission deadline is October 15, 2012 October 22, 2012.
*Submission deadline has been extended.

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in July, 2013. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in June, 2013.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Hiroyuki OHSAKI (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Editorial Board: Nariyoshi YAMAI (Okayama Univ., Japan)
Editorial Committee: Dan LIN (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, USA), Hen-I YANG (Iowa State Univ., USA), Susumu ISHIHARA (Shizuoka Univ., Japan), Takashi IMAIZUMI (Chiba Univ., Japan), Yasuo OKABE (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Eiji KAWAI (NICT, Japan), Atsushi TAGAMI (KDDI R&D Labs., Japan), Yuuichi TERANISHI (NICT, Japan), Motonori NAKAMURA (NII, Japan), Yutaka NAKAMURA (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan), Kazutoshi FUJIKAWA (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Katsuyuki YAMAZAKI (Nagaoka Univ. of Technology, Japan), Takashi YAMANOUE (Kagoshima Univ., Japan)