Call for Papers - Special Issue of “Applications and the Internet” in Conjunction with Main Topics of COMPSAC 2018

　IPSJ Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the Special Issue of “Applications and the Internet” in Conjunction with Main Topics of COMPSAC 2018.
　The Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC), sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and also technically sponsored by Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), is one of the premium international forums for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results, advancements and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications. Among a wide range of topics covered by COMPSAC, several symposia cover a broad range of networking and computing technologies as well as advanced applications and services. COMPSAC 2018 is held in Tokyo, Japan, on July 23-27, 2018. By taking this opportunity, the Special Issue of “Applications and the Internet” in Conjunction with Main Topics of COMPSAC 2018 has been planned to publish articles which are based on the papers presented mainly in the COMPSAC 2018. Your contribution to this special issue would be greatly appreciated.

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Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is currently encouraging more submissions from outside of Japan.
Any papers electronically submitted to this special issue are free of publication charge when accepted.
Non members of IPSJ can also submit papers to JIP.
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(1) Scope of this special issue includes but is not limited to the following symposia of the COMPSAC 2018
・EATA: Emerging Advances in Technology & Applications
・NCIW: Networks, Communications, Internet & Web Technologies
・SEPT: Security, Privacy & Trust in Computing
・SETA: Software Engineering Technologies & Applications
(Topics of Applications and the Internet in General)
＊This special issue encourages submissions of not only the papers based on those presented in past COMPSAC conferences but other papers related to the above topics.

(2) Notice to authors
・A submitted paper is required to have more than 30% additional material beyond the prior publication including COMPSAC/SAINT proceedings.
・Descriptions on originality and effectivity should also be enhanced with, e.g., more than 25 references (basically English materials except major references related to the submitted paper).
・Please inform to the editorial committee of this special issue when a submitted paper is a revised and elaborated version of a paper accepted and presented in main symposium of COMPSAC.

(3) All papers must be submitted electronically. Please access the following URL and proceed under the submission instructions:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ipsj

＊Those URLs are for English papers only.
＊Please note that the copyrights of the papers presented in the past COMPSAC /SAINT are held by IEEE, which requires appropriate copyright handling if you consider revision of a COMPSAC paper.

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.

(4) 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.

(5) Submission deadline is October 26, 2018 November 9, 2018. *Deadline extended

(6) 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.

(7) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Kenichi YOSHIDA (Univ. of Tsukuba).
Editorial Board: Yoshiaki KITAGUCHI (Tokyo Institute of Technology).
Editorial Committee: Toyokazu AKIYAMA (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.), Katsuyoshi IIDA (Hokkaido Univ.), Katsunori OYAMA (Nihon Univ.), Yasuo OKABE (Kyoto Univ.), Hiroki KASHIWAZAKI (National Institute of Informatics), Masaki SHIMAOKA (SECOM), Susumu TAKEUCHI (NTT), Michiharu TAKEMOTO (NTT), Nariyoshi YAMAI (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology), Hiroshi YAMAKI (Tokyo Denki Univ.), Ying CAI (Iowa State Univ.), Eun-Sun CHO (Chungnam National Univ.), Qinghua LU (China Univ. of Petroleum), Jungsuk SONG (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), Dave TOWEY (The Univ. of Nottingham Ningbo China).