Call for Papers - Special Issue of "Information Security and Trust to Support Social and Ethical Digital Activities"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of “Information Security and Trust to Support Social and Ethical Digital Activities”.
This special issue of " Information Security and Trust to Support Social and Ethical Digital Activities " focuses on technologies and approaches promoting user activities and decisions that meet social and ethical standards. Research areas relevant to this special issue include cryptographic applications and privacy protection, empirical studies on improving users' digital literacy, interventions for reducing abuse of AI and cyber hate, and trustworthy digital identities.
Submissions from a wide range of fields, such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Media Communication, or papers that have the potential for application to such a kind of fields are encouraged. Through the research of each technology, this special issue aims to discuss the relationship between society and the technologies required in the digital society, including ELSI (Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues). The purpose of this Special Feature is to publish SoK (Systematization of Knowledge) papers in addition to research papers. SoK papers are evaluated with a different review policy than research papers.
Please refer to https://www.iwsec.org/spt/sp2022_sok_reviewpolicy_e.html for the review policy.
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 prefix the title of these papers with “SoK:” when you submit an SoK paper. 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 February 23, 2024 March 8, 2024. *Deadline extended

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

(5) The editorial committee of this special issue
Editor in-Chief: Midori INABA (Institute of Information Security)
Editorial Board Member: Yukiko SAWAYA (KDDI Research), Shigeyoshi SHIMA (Univ. of Nagasaki)
Editorial Committee Members: Atsuo INOMATA (Osaka Univ.), Tetsutaro UEHARA (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Satoshi OZAHATA (Univ. of Electro-Communications), Ogawa RYUICHI (IPA), Akira KANAOKA (Toho Univ.), Sachiko KANAMORI (NICT), Ayako KOMATSU (Notre Dame Seishin Univ.), Yuichi KOMANO (Chiba Institute of Technology), Hidehito GOMI (LY Corporation), Takahito SAKAMOTO (Shizuoka Univ.), Akira SATO (Univ. of Tsukuba), Masue SHIBA (Toshiba), Masaki SHIMAOKA (Univ. of Tsukuba), Yoshiaki SHIRAISHI (Kobe Univ.), Yuji SUGA (IIJ), Tetsuji TAKADA (Univ. of Electro-Communications), Yukiyasu TSUNOO (Tokyo Online Univ.), Masato TERADA (Tokyo Denki Univ.), Masakatsu NISHIGAKI (Shizuoka Univ.), Ayako HASEGAWA (NICT), Takashi HATASHIMA (NTT), Masashiro FUJITA (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.), Kanta MATSUURA (Univ. of Tokyo), Yuko MURAYAMA (Tsuda College), Koichi MOURI (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Nariyoshi YAMAI (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology), Akira YAMADA (Kobe Univ.), Takumi YAMAMOTO (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.), Akira FUJITA (NICT)