Call for Papers

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems― Special Section on Data Engineering and Information Management ―submit by June 26(extended), 2020(JST)published in May 2021

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) announces a forthcoming special section on“Data Engineering and Information Management”, which is published in Transactions on Information and Systems*. We invite
submissions of original and unpublished papers in the field of wide range of the title.
1. Scope
Original papers on both theoretical and practical data engineering and information management, and its related research arewelcome to this special section. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:–
Data Engineering: file structure, storage, query processing, query languages, transaction processing, data model, cloudcomputing, distributed and parallel databases, P2P system, multimedia databases, spatial and temporal databases, mobiledatabases, sensor databases, data warehouse, OLAP, data mining, XML and semi-structured databases, stream processing,smart computing for big data, infrastructure and platform for smart computing–
Information Management: crowd sourcing, meta-data, semantic Web, information and data broadcasting, e-commerce,
e-learning, security and privacy, contents technologies, Web services, information retrieval and extraction,summarization, digital libraries, data archive, visualization, user interfaces, recommendation, personalization, graphmanagement, social networks, data integration, probabilistic database, GIS, scientific databases, big data analytics andsocial media
Papers whose topic are far from data engineering and information management may be rejected without review. This special
section does not accept SURVEY papers.
2. Submission Guidelines:–A manuscript should be prepared according to the guideline (https://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_iss.html). We
encourage the authors to use the IEICE Style File (https://www.ieice.org/ftp/index-e.html). The standard number of pages
is 8 for a PAPER and 2 for a LETTER with the format determined by the IEICE Style File. The maximum number ofpages for the initial submission of a LETTER is 4.
– Submit the manuscript and transfer the copyright to the IEICE through the IEICE Web site(https://review.ieice.org/regist/regist_baseinfo_e.aspx). Choose “[Special-DA] Data Engineering and Information
Management” in the menu of " Journal/Section " in the submission page.
– Inquiries: Chiemi Watanabe (Department of Industrial Information, Tsukuba University of Technology, Japan)
Email: chiemi@a.tsukuba-tech.ac.jp– Submission deadline of the manuscript is June 19, 2020 (JST) (firm).
3. Notice to the Authors:–Upon accepted for publication, all authors, including authors of invited papers, should pay the page charges covering
partial cost of publication around January 2021. If payment is not completed by 15 February, 2021 your manuscript
will be handled as rejection.
– The standard period of 60 days between the notification (of conditional accept) and the second submission can beshortened according as the review schedule.
– At least one of the authors must be an IEICE member when the manuscript is submitted for review. Invited papers
are an exception. We recommend authors unaffiliated with IEICE to apply for the membership.
< https://www.ieice.org/eng_r/join/individual_member.html >4. Special Section Editorial Committee:
Guest Editor-in-Chief: Kazuo Goda (Univ. of Tokyo)
Guest Associate Editor-in-Chief: Chiemi Watanabe (Tsukuba University of Technology), Yasuhiro Fujiwara (NTT), YuSuzuki (Gifu Univ.)
Associate Editors: Daichi Amagata (Osaka Univ.), Yoko Kamidoi (Hiroshima City Univ.), Yasuhiko Kanemasa (Fujitsu),
Makoto P. Kato (Univ. of Tsukuba), Kyoung-Sook Kim (AIST), Jianquan Liu (NEC), Hisashi Miyamori (KyotoSangyo Univ.), Kyosuke Nishida (NTT), Hiroaki Shiokawa (Univ. of Tsukuba), Masaaki Tsuchida (COTOBADESIGN,Inc.), Kei Wakabayashi (Univ. of Tsukuba), Shoko Wakamiya (NAIST), Takehiro Yamamoto (Univ. of Hyogo),
Takayuki Yumoto (Univ. of Hyogo)
Inquiry should be made to the Guest Associate Editor-in-Chief, Chiemi Watanabe, preferably by Email with Subject“IEICE(DA2020)”.
*The IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems has been selected for coverage in the ISI (Institute for ScientificInformation) products/services of Science Citation Index Expanded (included in “Web of Science”), Current Contents(Edition: Engineering, Computing and Technology), ISI Alerting Services, and CompuMath Citation Index.
* Open Access Publishing: Since January 2017, all papers of the IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems stored in
J-STAGE that include all papers published from January 2017 have been opened to all reader in the world through J-STAGE.
Open Access Option for many transactions in IEICE will not be applied to papers in January 2020 issue and following issuesof the IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. (Open Access Publishing will be continued after January 2020.).
For details on Open Access Publishing and Open Access Options, please carefully refer to “The Information for Authors”(https://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_iss.html). Note that these rules may be changed without notice.