Call for Papers - Special Issue of "New Social Systems and Advanced Transportation Systems Innovated in Collaboration with Superintelligence"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of “New Social Systems and Advanced Transportation Systems Innovated in Collaboration with Superintelligence.”

　To realize Society 5.0, the importance of new social systems is increasing more than ever. These systems integrate data collected from sensors and devices deployed throughout cities, transportation networks, and living spaces across the network, edge, and cloud, and use it to enable intelligent understanding, prediction, and optimization. In recent years, the rapid advancement of large-scale models, including generative AI, has made it increasingly feasible to achieve complex environment understanding, multimodal situation estimation, natural-language-based operation and explanation, and the automation of design and operation—capabilities that were difficult to realize with conventional machine learning. This has created a growing need for perspectives on how to transform social systems together with “superintelligence.” On the other hand, transportation is a social infrastructure in which safety and security must take the highest priority, and the requirements for implementation and operation are extremely stringent, including explainability, reliability, real-time performance, privacy, security, fairness, and consistency with legal systems and ethics. In the area where new social systems and advanced transportation systems converge, there is a need for new frameworks for optimization and control in which multiple agents cooperate within cyber-physical systems that integrate data-driven, model-driven, and knowledge-driven approaches.
　This special issue, entitled “New Social Systems and Advanced Transportation Systems Innovated in Collaboration with Superintelligence,” invites research papers on new social systems, advanced transportation systems, and urban infrastructures in which AI transcends its role as a mere “tool” and works together with humans, society, and infrastructure to support decision-making and enable continuous improvement from design through operation. The relevant fields are listed below, but submissions are not limited to them, as long as they are related to advanced transportation systems, mobile communication systems, or mobile computing. Submitted papers will be handled in exactly the same manner as regular papers.

・Mobile communication systems (architectures, protocols, management and operation, security)
・Sensor networks, smart home appliances / home networks, ad hoc networks
・Communication media (6G, Beyond 5G, 5G, Wi-Fi, C-V2X, Bluetooth, ZigBee, infrared, DSRC, digital broadcasting)
・Mobile / pervasive / ubiquitous / wearable computing
・Mobile agents, mobile web services
・Machine learning / edge computing / cyber-physical systems
・Mobile applications (smart mobility, mobile healthcare), RFID tag systems
・Intelligent transportation systems
・Navigation, location-based services, geographic information systems
・Human-machine interfaces, advanced mobile devices, electronic payment, security, QoS control, operating systems
・Traffic management (commercial vehicle operations systems, traffic flow prediction, vehicle management)
・Driver assistance (vehicle control, driver assistance systems, autonomous driving systems)
・Image processing (lane detection, obstacle detection, congestion detection)
・Cooperative perception, cooperative sensing
・SDVs, connected cars, Internet ITS
・Metaverse / XR / digital twins
・Awareness transformation / behavior change
・Solutions utilizing mobile platforms (land, sea, and air), market analysis, social simulation

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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 August 28, 2026.

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in June, 2027. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in June, 2027.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Yutaka ARAKAWA (Kyushu Univ.)
Editorial Board Member: Tatsuhito HASEGAWA (Univ. of Fukui) , Makato KOBAYASHI (Hiroshima City Univ.)
Editorial Committee Members: Takuro YONEZAWA (Nagoya Univ.), Shigemi ISHIDA (Future Univ. Hakodate), Takuya KITADE (NTT Docomo), Yasutaka NISHIMURA (KDDI Research), Yusuke FUKAZAWA (Sophia Univ.), Sachiko TANIGUCHI (Mitsubishi Electric), Takuya FUJIHASHI (The Univ. of Osaka), Yugo NAKAMURA (Kyushu Univ.), Mitsuyoshi HORIKAWA (Iwate Prefectural Univ.), Hiroki KASHIWAZAKI (Kindai Univ.), Keiichi OCHIAI (Yokohama City Univ.), Takahiro YAMAURA (Toshiba), Masato TOKUHISA (Tottori Univ.), Masashi KUNIKAWA (Fujitsu), Yoshitaka NAKAMURA (Kyoto Tachibana Univ.), Doenhoff JENS (Hitachi), Hiroki WATANABE (Kobe Univ.), Jin Xiao ZHU (Tokyo Denki Univ.), Tomohiro MIMURA (NTT Docomo), Kien NGUYEN (Chiba Univ.), Hisayasu KURODA (Matsuyama Univ.), Tomokazu MATSUI (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Mizuki MIURA (KDDI Research), Taisaku SUZUKI (Meio Univ.), Teruhiro MIZUMOTO (Chiba Institute of Technology) , Susumu ISHIHARA (Shizuoka Univ.), Shintaro ONO (Fukuoka Univ.), Yoh SHIRAISHI (Future Univ. Hakodate) , Masaki SUZUKI (KDDI Research), Suhua TANG (The Univ. of Electro-Communications), Hidetoshi TERAOKA (Hitachi), Manato FUJIMOTO (Osaka Metropolitan Univ.), Takuya YOSHIHIRO (Wakayama Univ.), Tatsuya AMANO (Osaka Univ.), Katsuhisa OGASAWARA (Mitsubishi Electric), Nobuyuki OZAKI (Nagoya Univ.), Ryo KATSUMA (Osaka Metropolitan Univ.), Yuka KATO (Tokyo Woman's Christian Univ.), Akira KAWAI (Shiga Univ.), Tomoya KAWAKAMI (Fukui Univ.), Noriyasu KIKUCHI (Kanagawa Institute of Technology), Tomoya KITANI (Shizuoka Univ.), Ryozo KIYOHARA (Kanagawa Institute of Technology), Hiroshi SHIGENO (Keio Univ.), Xiaokang ZHOU (Kansai Univ.), Satomi TAKAGI (Honda Motor), Yuichi TOKUNAGA (Kanazawa Institute of Technology), Takefumi HASEGAWA (Taisho Univ.), Hisatomo HANABUSA (i-Transport Lab.), Kohei HIROMATSU (Mitsubishi Electric), Siya BAO (Waseda Univ.), Tetsuya MANABE (Saitama Univ.), Tsunenori MINE (Kyushu Univ.), Tomoyuki YASHIRO (Chiba Institute of Technology), Tomohisa YAMASHITA (Hokkaido Univ.), Masashi SAITO (Kanazawa Institute of Technology), Kenya SATO (Doshisha Univ.), Masashi TAWADA (Waseda Univ.), Kentaro INENAGA (Kyushu Sangyo Univ.), Taketoshi KUNIMATSU (Railway Technical Research Institute), Shusuke SHIGENAKA (Senshu Univ.)