Call for Papers - Special Issue of "the Internet and operation technologies for supporting full-scale Digital Transformation"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of "the Internet and operation technologies for supporting full-scale Digital Transformation". Our society is undergoing significant changes due to the influence of COVID-19. For example, the introduction of telework and online lessons has progressed rapidly to avoid face-to-face activities in corporate and educational activities. And, it is conceivable that this trend will involve fields that have not been digitized or remoted so far and will make full-scale progress toward DX (Digital Transformation), which will change social life for the better by the penetration of ICT. Various efforts have been made and discussed in the field of management and operation to support these activities. However, in order to operate the information infrastructure with a view to full-scale DX, it is necessary to design a system that can provide sustainable services, not just temporary online and digitalization, and there are issues such as training for users. In addition, when migrating from an existing system, it is necessary to review the business flow, and it is expected that the network management and operation system will change accordingly.
This special issue focuses on the Internet and operation management technology for supporting "DX", hoping that COVID-19 will converge globally. We will publish papers on the latest research, development, experiment, and operation to implement and utilize future infrastructure systems. We evaluate papers that solve problems in practice rather than in theory and are considered useful in other environments. We aim to contribute to the evolution of various operation technologies related to information systems.
We target papers in the following areas but are not necessarily limited to them.
● Topics about Digital Transformation for telework, online lessons, and so on
● Technologies for system operations and administrations
● Human resource training in system operation
● Other topics related to system operation, administration, and ICT

We invite Minoru IKEBE of Oita University as the guest editor for the special issue.
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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 ＜s1m-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 May 16, 2022 May 30, 2022. *Deadline extended

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in March 2023. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in March 2023.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Minoru IKEBE (Oita Univ.)
Editorial Board Member: Makoto OTANI (Saga Univ.)
Editorial Committee Members: Takashi IMAIZUMI (Chiba Univ.), Motoyuki OHMORI (Tottori Univ.), Hiroki KASHIWAZAKI (Kindai Univ.), Yoshiaki KITAGUCHI (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Shu SAKASHITA (Acutus Software), Akira SATO (Univ. of Tsukuba), Mikifumi SHIKIDA (Kochi Univ. of Technology), Hideaki TSUCHIYA (Univ. of Electro-Communications), Takao NAKAYAMA (Kyoto Women's Univ.), Yutaka NAKAMURA (Kyushu Institute of Technology),Takeshi HAGIWARA (Niigata Univ.), Itsuo HATONO (Kobe Univ.), Yutaka FUKUDA (Kyushu Institute of Technology), Ryosuke MATSUMOTO (SAKURA internet),　Kazuhiro MISHIMA (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology), Kensuke MIYASHITA (Kyoto Women’s Univ.), Nariyoshi YAMAI (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology), Noriaki YOSHIURA (Saitama Univ.)