CFP: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Special Section (Deadline extended to July 10)

[Makoto ONIZUKA <onizuka.makoto [at] lab.ntt.co.jp>]

日本データベース学会会員の皆様，DEIM2013に参加された皆様
（重複して受け取られた場合はご容赦ください）

NTT の鬼塚です．

電子情報通信学会 英文論文誌D の「データ工学と情報マネジメント特集号」
について，締め切りを 7/10 に延長致しました．
本特集号では高いインパクトファクタを目指す試みとして，
・オープンアクセス化
・国際的に活躍している著者による招待論文
・国際的な編集委員
を企画しております．
投稿までの残り期間は短いですが，この機会に是非ともご投稿をご検討
いただきたいと存じます．


CALL FOR PAPERS
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
Special Section on "Data Engineering and Information Management"
URL: http://www.ieice.org/eng/s_issue/cfp/2014_4ED.pdf

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 We invite submissions of original and unpublished papers in the field of wide range of data engineering, and particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in engineering and management of Big Data. 

1. Scope of Contributions
Original papers on both theoretical and practical data engineering, and its related research are welcome to this special section. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- Core Technologies: file structure, storage, query processing, query languages, transaction processing, indexes, stream processing, security and privacy
- Databases: cloud computing, distributed and parallel databases, multimedia databases, spatial temporal databases, mobile database, scientific databases, XML and semi-structured databases, graph management, social networks, sensor databases, data management in P2P and grid, data integration, uncertainty, crowd sourcing
- Information Retrieval: information extraction and summarization, information recommendation
- Data Mining: data warehouse, OLAP, data mining algorithms, text mining, Web mining
- Web Technologies: Web search engines, contents technologies, meta-data, semantic Web, Web services
- Applications: E-commerce, e-learning, digital libraries, data archive,  information and data broadcasting, visualization, user interfaces

2. Submission Guidelines
- A manuscript should be prepared according to the guideline given in "The Information for Authors" (http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_iss.html). We encourage the authors to use the IEICE Style File (http://www.ieice.org/ftp/index-e.html). The preferred length of the manuscript is 8 pages for a PAPER and 2 pages for a LETTER with the format determined by the IEICE Style File.
- Submit the manuscript through the IEICE Web site (https://review.ieice.org/regist_e.aspx). Choose "[Special DA] Data Engineering and Information Management" in the menu of "Please select the Journal / Section from here" in the submission page.
- Send "Confirmation Sheet of Manuscript Registration" and "Copyright Transfer and Page Charge Agreement" to the Guest Editor-in-Chief, not later than one week after the submission. Send the forms by E-mail, FAX, or postal mail to the following address of the Editor of this special section.
       Makoto Onizuka
       NTT Software Innovation Center.
       3-9-11 Midoricho, Musashino, Tokyo 180-8585, Japan
       Email: onizuka.makoto [at] lab.ntt.co.jp
- Submission deadline of the manuscript is July 1, 2013.

3. Notice to the Authors:
- If the paper is accepted, authors are requested to pay for the page charge which covers reprints of the paper and partial cost of publications.
- The standard period of 60 days between the notification (of conditional accept) and the second submission can be shortened 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. <http://www.ieice.org/eng/member/OM-appli.html>

4. Special Section Editorial Committee:
Guest Editor-in-Chief: Atsuyuki Morishima (Tsukuba Univ.)
Guest Editors: Miyuki Nakano (Tokyo Univ.), Makoto Onizuka (NTT)
Guest Associate Editors: Toshiyuki Amagasa (Tsukuba Univ.), Takako Hashimoto (Chiba Univ. of Commerce), Seung-won Hwang (POSTECH), Kaoru Katayama (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), Yukiko Kawai (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.), Nobutaka Suzuki(Tsukuba Univ.), Yu Suzuki (Nagoya Univ.), Keishi Tajima (Kyoto Univ.), Junichi Tatemura (NEC, USA), Masashi Toyoda (Tokyo Univ.), Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Xiaofang Zhou (Queens University, Australia)

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Makoto Onizuka(鬼塚 真)         E-mail  onizuka.makoto [at] lab.ntt.co.jp
NTT Software Innovation Center