Call for Papers Journal of Information Processing Special issue of “Cybersecurity Technologies for Secure Supply-Chain”

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of “Cybersecurity Technologies for Secure Supply-Chain.” This special issue will focus on papers that describe such security and privacy challenges in terms of fundamental theories and techniques, protocols, architectures, software systems, applications and implementations, operation and management, social-scientific analyses, and surveys, including a discussion of future research directions. 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 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 November 30, 2023 December 6, 2023. *Deadline extended

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

(5) The editorial committee of this special issue
Editor in-Chief: Mitsuaki AKIYAMA (NTT Social Information Laboratories)
Editorial Board Member: Mitsuhiro HATADA (NTT Communications), Tetsushi OHKI (Shizuoka Univ.)
Editorial Committee Members: Makoto IGUCHI (Kii), Satoru IZUMI (National Institute of Tech., Sendai College), Ryoma ITO (NICT), Kazuki IWAMOTO (SecureBrain), Ryuya UDA (Tokyo Univ. of Tech.), Yuntao WANG (Osaka Univ.), Go OHTAKE (Japan Broadcasting Corp.), Toshihiro OHIGASHI (Tokai Univ.), Masayuki OKADA (Univ. of Nagasaki), Koji OKINO (Univ. of Toyama), Shohei KAKEI (Nagoya Institute of Tech.), Hiroaki KIKUCHI (Meiji Univ.), Hiroki KUZUNO (Kobe Univ.), Hiroki KUNII (SECOM), Daisuke KOTANI (Kyoto Univ.), Yuichi KOMANO (Chiba Institute of Tech.), Masaya SATO (Okayama Prefectural Univ.), Yuji SUGA (Internet Initiative Japan), Yasuyuki TANAKA (NTT Security (Japan)), Rui TANABE (Juntendo Univ.), Koji CHIDA (Gunma Univ.), Masayuki TERADA (NTT DOCOMO), Masakatsu NISHIGAKI (Shizuoka Univ.), Takashi HATASHIMA (NTT Social Information Laboratories), Takuya HAYASHI (NEC), Yuichi HAYASHI (NAIST), Chansu HAN (NICT), Masahiro FUJITA (Mitsubishi Electric), Mamoru MIMURA (National Defense Academy), Tatsuya MORI (Waseda Univ.), Tomohiro MORIKAWA (Univ. of Hyogo), Toshihiro YAMAUCHI (Okayama Univ.), Akira YAMADA (Kobe Univ.)

(6) Ethical Considerations in Cyber Security Research
If you have any concerns about research ethics in your research, please refer to the following URL and use the checklist.

https://www.iwsec.org/csec/ethics/checklist.html#en