Call for Papers - Special Issue of "Computer Security Technologies against Sophisticated Cyber Attacks"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of “Security and privacy challenges in supporting the digital social revolution”.
This special issue will focus on papers that describe such security and privacy challenges in terms of basic theories and techniques, protocols, architectures, software systems, applications and implementations, operation and management, and social-scientific analyses. Original papers, as well as papers that have been presented at domestic and international workshops, symposiums, and conferences, will be welcomed.

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Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is currently encouraging more submissions from outside of Japan.
Any papers electronically submitted to JIP before July 31, 2017 are eligible for 30% discount in publication charge when accepted.
Note that the publication fee will not be charged if all the authors of a paper belong to institutes outside Japan.
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(1) All papers must be submitted electronically. Please access the following URL and proceed under the submission instructions:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ipsj

In the event you would like to make a submission, you must first create an account on the paper submission Web page. For detailed information, please refer to the manual available from the link “Submission Rules and Document Types” at the top of the submission page.

(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 November 25, 2016 December 5, 2016. *Deadline extended

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in September, 2017. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in September, 2017.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Toshihiro YAMAUCHI (Okayama Univ.).
Editorial Board: Takehisa KATO (Toshiba Corporation), Toshihiro OHIGASHI (Tokai Univ.).
Editorial Committee: Koji CHIDA (NTT Corporation), Isao ECHIZEN (National Institute of Informatics), Mitsuhiro HATADA (NTT Communications Corporation), Sadayuki HONGO (Hokkaido Univ. of Science), Yoshiaki HORI (Saga Univ.), Akira KANAOKA (Toho Univ.), Hyunho KANG (Tokyo Univ. of Science), Hiroaki KIKUCHI (Meiji Univ.), Masahiro MAMBO (Kanazawa Univ.), Kanta MATSUURA (The Univ. of Tokyo), Kazuhiro MINAMI (The Insititute of Statistical Mathematics), Atsuko MIYAJI (Osaka Univ. / Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Koichi MOURI (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Yuko MURAYAMA (Tsuda College), Toru NAKANISHI (Hiroshima Univ.), Takashi NISHIDE (Univ. of Tsukuba), Masakatsu NISHIGAKI (Shizuoka Univ.), Ryo NOJIMA (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology), Tetsushi OHKI (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Eiji OKAMOTO (Univ. of Tsukuba), Takeshi OKAMOTO (Tsukuba Univ. of Technology ), Koji OKINO (Toyama Univ.), Takao OKUBO (Institute of Information Security), Mirang PARK (Kanagawa Institute of Technology), Takamichi SAITO (Meiji Univ.), Ryoichi SASAKI (Tokyo Denki Univ.), Masaki SHIMAOKA (SECOM Co., Ltd.), Yuji SUGA (IIJ Inc.), Koutarou SUZUKI (NTT Corporation), Kenichi TAKAHASHI (Tottori Univ.), Hiroki TAKAKURA (National Institute of Informatics), Masato TERADA (Hitachi Ltd.), Masayuki TERADA (NTT DOCOMO, Inc.), Satoru TEZUKA (Keio Univ.), Satoru TORII (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.), Ryuya UDA (Tokyo Univ. of Technology), Yuji WATANABE (IBM Japan, Ltd.), Akira YAMADA (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.), Masaya YASUDA (Kyushu Univ.), Katsunari YOSHIOKA (Yokohama National Univ.), Hiroshi YOSHIURA (Univ. of Electro-Communications).