Call for papers - Special issue of "Information System Pervading Society"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of Information System Pervading Society.
In the special issue of this journal, the program committee especially seeks paper submissions to information systems focusing on theory and practice. The information systems support collection, processing, transfer, and use of information required for the activity of an organism or society. The program committee thinks as important the necessity and usefulness of an information system which are used by the activity of an organization and society. Topics may cover a wide range of issues associated with communities, information system analysis, design, implementation and operation, these theories and practice, and the relation between information systems and social environment. Dr. Tomisawa, Maebashi Institute of Technology, has been invited to act as a guest editor for this special issue.

(1) All papers must be submitted electronically. Please access the following URL and proceed under the submission instructions:
https://www.ipsj.or.jp/prms/author_pre_submit_en.do
*Note that this URL is for English papers only.
If you plan to submit a paper in Japanese, please visit another page at https://www.ipsj.or.jp/prms/author_pre_submit.do

(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 (two months) for preparation of your responses to inquiries.

(3) Submission deadline is August 11, 2015 August 19, 2015. *Deadline extended

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in May, 2016. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in May, 2016.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Masaki TOMISAWA (Maebashi Institute of Technology)
Editorial Board: Yoshio KAKIZAKI (Tokyo Denki Univ.)
Editorial Committee: Kiminobu KODAMA (Information Systems Institute, Ltd) Akihiro ABE (Iwate Prefectural Univ.), Michinori HATAYAMA (Kyoto University), Susumu KANEMUNE (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ.), Michiko OBA (Future Univ. Hakodate), Yasuko KAMINUMA (A Fellow of IPSJ), Makoto TACHIKAWA (Muroran Institute of Technology), Shigeo KANEDA (Doshisha Univ.), Masahiro HIJI (Hitachi East Japan Solutions Ltd.), Hidekazu TSUJI(Tokai Univ.), Hidemi FUKADA (Otaru University of Commerce), Hiroshi MARUYAMA(Aoyama Gakuin University), Yasuichi NAKAYAMA(The University of Electro-Communications)