Call for Papers - Special Issue of "Computer Security Technologies for Digital Transformation"

　Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of “Computer Security Technologies for Digital Transformation”.
　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.
The publication fee of any accepted papers will not be charged if all the authors of the 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

Once you have submitted your manuscript, you cannot change it.
So, you must submit the final version of your manuscript.
If, by mistake, you submitted a wrong version, please contact the IPSJ secretariat ＜editt-at-ipsj.or.jp＞ (Replace -at- with @).

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 “Instructions & Forms” 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 (eight weeks) for preparation of your responses to inquiries.

(3) Submission deadline is November 26, 2018 December 10, 2018. *Deadline extended

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in September, 2019. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in September, 2019.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Shiho MORIAI (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology).
Editorial Board: Yuji WATANABE (IBM Japan, Ltd.), Kenichi TAKAHASHI (Tottori Univ.).
Editorial Committee: Dai IKARASHI (NTT Corp.), Masatsugu ICHINO (The Univ. of Electro-Communications), Atsuo INOMATA (Osaka Univ.), Isao ECHIZEN (National Institute of Informatics), Tetsushi OHKI (Shizuoka Univ.), Toshihiro OHIGASHI (Tokai Univ.), Yoshihiro OYAMA (Univ. of Tsukuba), Takehisa KATO (Toshiba Corp.), Akira KANAOKA (Toho Univ.), Mitsuhiro HATADA (NTT), Hiroaki KIKUCHI (Meiji Univ.), Ryoichi SASAKI (Tokyo Denki Univ.), Masaki SHIMAOKA (SECOM Co. Ltd.), Masaaki SHIRASE (Future Univ. Hakodate), Yuji SUGA (IIJ Inc.), Hiroki TAKAKURA (National Institute of Informatics), Masayuki TERADA (NTT DOCOMO Inc.), Masato TERADA (Hitachi Ltd.), Satoru TORII (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.), Toru NAKANISHI (Hiroshima Univ.), Masakatsu NISHIGAKI (Shizuoka Univ.), Ryo NOJIMA (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology), Nobutaka KAWAGUCHI (Hitachi Ltd.), Kanta MATSUURA (The Univ. of Tokyo), Takaaki MIZUKI (Tohoku Univ.), Mamoru MIMURA (National Defense Academy of Japan), Koichi MOURI (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Tatsuya MORI (Waseda Univ.), Naoto YANAI (Osaka Univ.), Toshihiro YAMAUCHI (Okayama Univ.), Akira YAMADA (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.), Katsunari YOSHIOKA (Yokohama National Univ.).