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. In addition, due to the impact of the new coronavirus infection that has continued since 2020, the environment surrounding the network is constantly changing, such as holding national convention of IPSJ and research meetings in an online/onsite hybrid style. Moreover, the Internet still continues to grow. For example, various kinds of devices become widespread among the public, not only PCs and workstations but also smartphones, tablets, IoT devices, and V2V devices. Not only the fifth-generation mobile communication systems, SDN (Software Defined Network) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) but also edge network and low energy sensor wireless network like LPWA (Low Power, Wide Area) have emerged. In addition, as network infrastructures have evolved into cloud and edge computing, 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.
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” such as network infrastructures, services and applications and so on.

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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 1, 2023 May 9, 2023. *Deadline extended

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in February, 2024. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in February, 2024.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Shigeru FUJITA (Chiba Institute of Technology)
Editorial Board: Shintaro IMAI (Iwate Prefectural Univ.)
Editorial Committee Members: Akihito HIROMORI (Osaka Univ.), Akihito TAYA (Univ. of Tokyo), Akiko TAKAHASHI (National Institute of Technology, Sendai College), Akimitsu KANZAKI (Shimane Univ.), Akira UESHIMA (Okayama Univ. of Science), Akiyoshi SUGIKI (Hokkaido Univ.), Atsushi TAGAMI (KDDI Research, Inc.), Fumiaki SATO (Toho Univ.), Gen KITAGATA (Morioka Univ.), Hideaki HIRAYAMA (Mejiro Univ.), Hideaki YANAGISAWA (National Institute of Technology, Tokuyama College), Hiroaki KIKUCHI (Meiji Univ.), Hiroaki KOUNOURA (Hitachi, Ltd.), Hiroki SAITO (Meiji Univ.), Hiroshi SHIGENO (Keio Univ.), Hiroshi UEDA (Hosei Univ.), Hirozumi YAMAGUCHI (Osaka Univ.), Ikumi MORI (Mitsubishi Electric), Kazunori UEDA (Koeki Univ. (Tohoku Univ. of Community Service and Science)), Kazutoshi YOKOYAMA (Kochi Univ. of Technology), Kunihiko TOUMURA (Hitachi, Ltd.), Manato FUJIMOTO (Osaka Metropolitan Univ.), Masaya SATO (Okayama Prefectural Univ.), Minoru NAKAZAWA (Kanazawa Institute of Technology), Naoto TAKEDA (KDDI Research, Inc.), Naoto UMEMORI (NTT Data), Norihiro FUKUMOTO (Univ. of Tokyo), Ryota TSUKAMOTO (Mitsubishi Electric), Saneyasu YAMAGUCHI (Kogakuin Univ.), Satoru IZUMI (National Institute of Technology, Sendai College), Shingo YAMAGUCHI (Yamaguchi Univ.), Shinji SAKAMOTO (Kanazawa Institute of Technology), Shinya YAMAMOTO (Sanyo-Onoda City Univ.), Shunsuke OSHIMA (National Institute of Technology, Kumamoto College), Susumu ISHIHARA (Shizuoka Univ.), Tetsuya SHIGEYASU (Prefectural Univ. of Hiroshima), Tomokazu HAYAKAWA (Meiji Univ.), Tomoki YOSHIHISA (Osaka Univ.), Tomoya KAWAKAMI (Univ. of Fukui), Toshihiro UCHIBAYASHI (Kyushu Univ.), Toshiyuki MIYAJI (NICT), Yasuhisa TAKIZAWA (Kansai Univ.), Yoshinari NOMURA (Okayama Univ.), Yoshitaka NAKAMURA (Kyoto Tachibana Univ.), Yuanyuan WANG (Yamaguchi Univ.), Yusheng JI (NII), Yusuke GOTOH (Okayama Univ.), Yusuke MANABE (Chiba Institute of Technology), Zhi LIU (Univ. of Electro-Communications)