Call for Papers Journal of Information Processing Special issue of “Computer Security Technologies for Future Cyber-Physical Integrated Systems”

The Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of Computer Security Technologies for Future Cyber-Physical Integrated Systems.” 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 28, 2025

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in September, 2026. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in September, 2026.

(5) The editorial committee of this special issue
Editor in-Chief: Yuichi KOMANO (Chiba Institute of Technology)
Editorial Board Member: Masaya SATO (Okayama Prefectural Univ.), Takayuki SASAKI (Yokohama National Univ.)
Editorial Committee Members: Ryo IIJIMA (AIST), Makoto IGUCHI (Kii), Masatsugu ICHINO (The Univ. of Electro-Communications), Ryoma ITO (NICT), Hiroki INAYOSHI (Okayama Univ.), Ryuya UDA (Tokyo Univ. of Technology), Go OHTAKE (NHK), Toshihiro OHIGASHI (Tokai Univ.), Koji OKINO (Univ. of Toyama), Shohei KAKEI (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Kaisei KAJITA (NHK), Hitoshi KAMEI (Kagawa Univ.), Hiroaki KIKUCHI (Meiji Univ.), Daisuke KOTANI (Kyoto Univ.), Hajime SHIMADA (Nagoya Univ.), Yuji SUGA (Internet Initiative Japan), Yuta TAKATA (Deloitte Tohmatsu Cyber), Rui TANABE (Juntendo Univ.), Koji CHIDA (Gunma Univ.), Toru NAKANISHI (Hiroshima Univ.), Masakatsu NISHIGAKI (Shizuoka Univ.), Mitsuhiro HATADA (NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS), Shota FUJII (Hitachi), Masahiro FUJITA (Mitsubishi Electric), Daisuke FUJIMOTO (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Tatsuya MORI (Waseda Univ.), Naoto YANAI (Panasonic Holdings), Toshihiro YAMAUCHI (Okayama Univ.), Akira YAMADA (Kobe Univ.), Takuya WATANABE (Deloitte Tohmatsu Cyber)

(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