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. Moreover, the Internet still continues to grow. For example, various kinds of devices become widespread among public, not only PCs and workstations but also smartphones, tablets, sensors for IoT technology (e.g. activity meters) and V2V devices. Not only the fifth-generation mobile communication systems, SDN (Software Defined Network) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) but also low energy sensor wireless network like Sub-GHz band have emerged. In addition, new types of network services have appeared such as social network services and big data to provide cyber spaces for communications and knowledge instead of one-to-one and one-to-many communications such as traditional e-mail and web services. To sustain the evolution of the Internet, wide variations of cross-disciplinary and forward-thinking studies will be required in addition to advance computing and networking technologies. More specifically, future studies to improve the Internet should include: smart network services that support our living environment using sensors and actuators, content delivery services based on preferences and circumstances of the individual, environments for collaboration over large amount of knowledge, mutual relationship between society and technology in consideration with privacy and security, technologies of next generation mobile communication systems and network operations to provide stable quality of communications and so on. It is essential to discuss social and technological tasks, and its solutions over the above issues in combination of traditional network technologies, including all levels of implementation from the physical through application layers.
　In this special issue which is edited by the guest editor organization, we focus on the challenges for the wide range of research topics “Network Services and Distributed Processing”.

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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 April 26, 2019 May 8, 2019. *Deadline extended

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in February, 2020. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in February, 2020.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Keiichi YASUMOTO (Nara Institute of Science and Technology).
Editorial Board Member: Yusuke GOTOH (Okayama Univ.).
Editorial Committee Members: Atsushi TAGAMI (KDDI Research), Akihito HIROMORI (Osaka Univ.), Hiroki SAITO (Meiji Univ.), Masaaki NORO (Fujitsu), Masaki SUZUKI (KDDI Research), Yuuichi TERANISHI (NICT), Tomoki KAJINAMI (Okayama Univ. of Science), Tomokazu HAYAKAWA (Meiji Univ.), Takayuki NISHIO (Kyoto Univ.), Nobuyoshi SATO (Iwate Prefectural Univ.), Yu KANEKO (Toshiba), Tomoya KAWAKAMI (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Ryota TSUKAMOTO (Mitsubishi), Kazuya ODAGIRI (Sugiyama Jyogakuin Univ.), Mitsuhiro GOTO (NTT), Yuka KATO (Tokyo Woman's Christian Univ.), Fumiaki SATO (Toho Univ.), Ryo KATSUMA (Osaka Prefecture Univ.), Hiroshi KUROSE (Kanazawa Institute of Technology), Masaki INOKUCHI (NEC), Takuo NAKASHIMA (Tokai Univ.), Fumihiko AKAKI (Fujitsu), Yasuhisa TAKIZAWA (Kansai Univ.), Naohiro HAYASHIBARA (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.), Akiyoshi SUGIKI (Hokkaido Univ.), Hideaki YANAGISAWA (National Institute of Technology, Tokuyama College), Tetsuya ODA (Okayama Univ. of Science), Atsushi KANAI (Hosei Univ.), Motonori NAKAMURA (NII), Yoh SHIRAISHI (Future Univ. Hakodate), Syunsuke TANAKA (NTT DATA), Yoshinari NOMURA (Okayama Univ.), Hisashi HOSHI (KDDI Research), Hideki HARA (Chiba Institute of Technology), Susumu ISHIHARA (Shizuoka Univ.), Shingo YAMAGUCHI (Yamaguchi Univ.), Mari ABE (IBM), Hiroyuki SANO (NTT docomo), Kosuke NAKABASAMI (Railway Technical Research Institute), Masafumi KINOSHITA (Hitachi), Manato FUJIMOTO (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Toshihiro UCHIBAYASHI (Tohoku Univ.), Remi ANDO (NEC), Hiroaki KIKUCHI (Meiji Univ.), Hiroshi SHIGENO (Keio Univ.), Tamio KIHARA (Digital Hollywood Univ.), Takeo ONISHI (NEC), Tetsuya SHIGEYASU (Prefectural Univ. of Hiroshima), Takuya YOSHIHIRO (Wakayama Univ.), Kazutoshi YOKOYAMA (Kochi Univ. of Technology), Minoru NAKAZAWA (Kanazawa Institute of Technology), Takayuki KUSHIDA (Tokyo Univ. of Technology), Shigeru FUJITA (Chiba Institute of Technology), Naotoshi ADACHI (Kansai Univ.), Motoi YAMAGIWA (Univ. of Yamanashi), Takumi HIGUCHI (Panasonic).