Call for Papers - Special Issue of "Software Engineering"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of "Software Engineering". Authors may submit their papers in the regular paper submission process of JIP individually or together with Software Engineering Symposium 2012 (SES2012) if they want to do, sponsored by Special Interest Group of Software Engineering, IPSJ. The submitted papers can be the same as ones submitted to the SES2012 symposium or its extended version. The guest editor of this special issue is Dr. Katsuhisa MARUYAMA of Ritsumei University.


This special issue targets state-of-the-art research results and case studies in the following areas of software engineering.

Requirements Engineering, Architecture/Design, Components/Reuse, Test/Analysis, Formal Methods, CSCW, Software Process/Workflow Software, Security, Software Safety/Reliability, Reverse Engineering/Maintenance, Grid Software, Software Economics, HCI/UI, Empirical Software Engineering, Metrics, Aspect Orientation/Service Orientation, Distributed/Parallel Processing, Software Tools/Environment, Software Policies/Ethics, Programming Languages, Object Orientation, AI/Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, Embedded/Real-Time Software, Internet/Information System Development, Project Management, Software Engineering Education.

(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.
If you plan to submit a paper in Japanese, please visit another page at https://www.ipsj.or.jp/prms/author_pre_submit.do

(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 May 7, 2012 May 14, 2012.
*Submission deadline has been extended.

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

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Katsuhisa MARUYAMA (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Editorial Board: Hirohisa AMAN (Ehime Univ.), Naoyasu UBAYASHI (Kyushu Univ.), Kozo OKANO (Osaka Univ.), Nahomi KIKUCHI (Oki Electric Industry), Tomoji KISHI (Waseda Univ.), Takashi KOBAYASHI (Nagoya Univ.), Katsuhiko GONDOW (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Yuji SAKATA (NTT Data), Atsushi SAWADA (Nanzan Univ.), Junko SHIROGANE (Tokyo Woman's Christian Univ.), Shingo TAKADA (Keio Univ.), Yasuyuki TAHARA (The Univ. of Electro-Communications), Takako NAKATANI (Tsukuba Univ.), Taiga NAKAMURA (IBM Research), Masahide NAKAMURA (Kobe Univ.), Natsuko NODA (NEC), Makoto NONAKA (Toyo Univ.), Noriko HANAKAWA (Hannan Univ.), Saeko MATSUURA (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Makoto MATSUSHITA (Osaka Univ.), Naruki MITSUDA (Wakayama Univ.), Akito MONDEN (NAIST), Hironori WASHIZAKI (Waseda Univ.)