Call for Papers - Special Issue of "Network Services and Distributed Processing"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of "Network Services and Distributed Processing".
The Internet has grown to be an indispensable social infrastructure that supports many aspects of our lives. The growth of the Internet is still continuing with several changes of its characteristics by following the requirements from new network services. For example, various sorts of devices not only PCs and workstations but also mobile phones, smartphones, home electronics, sensors, etc., get to be connected to the Internet so that the amount and the variations of data traffic grow rapidly. New types of network services have appeared such as social network services that provide cyber spaces for communications instead of one-to-one of one-to-many communications such as e-mails. Furthermore, the new style of service provision such as cloud computing are getting populated and replacing the traditional server-client service paradigm, for which new network mechanisms such as SDN (Software-Defined Networks) are adopting. To sustain the evolution of the Internet, wide variations of cross-disciplinary and forward-thinking studies are required in addition to the advanced computing and networking technologies. More specifically, future studies to develop the Internet should include: smart network services that support our living environment using sensors and actuators, user-oriented and context-aware content delivery services, environments for collaboration over large amount of knowledge, mutual relationship between society and technology in consideration with privacy and security, communications in the environments that have not imagined so far, etc. It is essential to discuss wide range of social and technological tasks and its solutions over the above issues in combination of traditional network technologies, including every layer from physical to application ones.
In this special issue, we focus on the challenges for the wide range of research topics "Network Services and Distributed Processing," inviting Prof. OBANA (The Univ. of Electro-Communications) as the guest editor.



Foundation of Network Services, Cloud Computing, Overlay Networking, P2P, SDN, Security Architecture, Sensor Networks, Delay-Tolerant Networks, Network Structural Analysis, Web/Blog Communication Analysis, Network Measurements, Web Services, Services Engineering, Ubiquitous Networking, Network Architecture/Protocol, Routing, Distributed Computing/Algorithm/Object/Agent/Databases, Seamless Communication, Seamless Computing, Multi-media, All Areas Related to Distributed Processing, High-speed Networks, QoS, Information Security, Access/Mobile/Ad-hoc Networks, Information Networks, Information Search, Data/Web/Text Mining, Multimedia Communications/Processing/System/Application, Online Games, Grid Computing, Clusters, Cooperation of Mobile-Fixed Terminals, Integration of Communications/Broadcasting, 3-dimensional Virtual Spaces, Social Computing, etc.

(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 8, 2014 May 14, 2014.
*Submission deadline has been extended.

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in April March, 2015. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in February, 2015.
Notice: Journal of Information Processing (JIP) will be published bimonthly from 2015 (Vol.23). A publication schedule of this special issue might be moved up by one month.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Sadao OBANA (The Univ. of Electro-Communications)
Editorial Board: Takuya YOSHIHIRO (Wakayama Univ.)
Editorial Committee: Michiaki KATSUMOTO (Katsumoto Lab.)，Shigeru FUJITA (Chiba Institute of Technology), Yoshinari NOMURA (Okayama Univ.)，Ryozo KIYOHARA (Kanagawa Institute of Technology), Tomoya KITANI (Shizuoka Univ.), Tetsuya SHIGEYASU (Prefectural Univ. of Hiroshima)，Atsushi TAGAMI (KDDI R&D Labs.), Masaaki NORO (Fujitsu Lab.), Yuuichi TERANISHI (NICT), Yuuki SAITO (Meiji Univ.), Naoki SHIBATA (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)，Yuka KATO (AIIT), Tamio KIHARA (Showa Women's Univ.), Naotoshi ADACHI (Kansai Univ.), Hiroshi INAMURA (NTT DoCoMo), Atsushi KANAI (Hosei Univ.), Masataka GOTO (Toshiba), Taku KONISHI (NEC), Kazuto SASAI (Tohoku Univ.), Fumiaki SATO (Toho Univ.), Hiroshi SHIGENO (Keio Univ.), Yoh SHIRAISHI (Future University Hakodate), Takuo NAKASHIMA (Tokai Univ.), Akihito HIROMORI (Osaka Univ.), Masaaki YAMANAKA (Hiroshima International Univ.), Kazutoshi YOKOYAMA (Kochi Univ. of Technology), Shintaro IMAI (Iwate Prefectural Univ.), Hiroshi MINENO (Shizuoka Univ.), Akimitsu KANZAKI (Osaka Univ.), Toshihiro YAMAUCHI (Okayama Univ.), Yuusuke GOTO (Okayama Univ.), Shinya YAMAMOTO (Tokyo Univ. of Science, Yamaguchi), Yoshitaka ATARASHI (Hitachi Information & Control Solutions), Daisuke KAMISAKA (KDDI R&D Labs.)