Journal of Information Processing Vol.23 No.2 142 (Mar. 2015)

[DOI: 10.2197/ipsjjip.23.142]

Editor’s Message to Special Issue of “Students’ and Young Researchers’ Papers”

Yasuo Okabe1,a)

It is our great pleasure to publish the special issue of “Students’ Hironori Egi (Kobe University) and Young Researchers’ Papers” in the IPSJ Journal of Informa- Kozo Okano (Osaka University) tion Processing (JIP). This special section focuses on original Hirotaka Ono (Kyushu University) work by students and young researchers within all research areas Hideaki Kanai (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and of our society (IPSJ). Technology) One of the most important mission of our IPSJ is to promote ac- Nahomi Kikuchi (Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.) tivities by students and young researchers who will lead the next Ryozo Kiyohara (Kanagawa Insutitute of Technology) generation. Cutting-edge technologies in information processing Masashi Kiyomi () have achieved by young researchers’ hard and steady work. It is Hitoshi Koshiba (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, of benefit to our society that young researchers are sustainably Science and Technology) fostered and trained. Timely and speedy publication of research Kazunori Komatani (Osaka University) outcomes by young researchers will not only contribute to the Takamichi Saito () progress of information science but will help the researchers to Daisuke Sakamoto (The University of ) get good positions and generous grants. Tetsuya Shigeyasu (Prefectural University of Hiroshima) We welcomed to submit a paper on any research topic of our Yuji Suga (Internet Initiative Japan Inc.) society, so long as the first author of it is either a student or a Koutarou Suzuki (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corpo- young researcher. We received far more submissions than ex- ration) pected. Out of 21 submissions, 6 papers are accepted (i.e. accep- Tomohiro Suzuki () tance ratio is 29%). Takaaki Tateishi (IBM Japan, Ltd.) We’d like to express our sincere appreciation to all authors for Akihiro Tamura (NEC Corporation) their submission to this issue. Thanks are also due to all the re- Nozomu Togawa () viewers and the editors for their contribution to the scrupulous Masahiro Toyoura (University of Yamanashi) review process. Hironori Nakajo (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Tech- nology) The Editorial Committee Shohei Nobuhara (Kyoto University) Teruyuki Hasegawa (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.) • Editor in-Chief: Atsuo Hazeyama (Tokyo Gakugei University) Yasuo Okabe (Kyoto Univ.) Yusuke Hayashi (Hiroshima University) Naoki Fukuta (Shizuoka University) • Editorial Board: Hiroaki Fukuda (Shibaura Institute of Technology) Haruo Yokota (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Hideki Fujii (The ) Makoto Fujisawa () • Editorial Committee: Katsuhide Fujita (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Tech- Nobuyoshi Asai (The University of Aizu) nology) Ryu Iida (National Institute of Information and Communi- Takashi Horiyama () cations Technology) Hiroki Matsutani () Susumu Ishihara (Shizuoka University) Yohei Murakami (Kyoto University) Yasushi Inoguchi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Akito Monden (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) Technology) Takaya Yuizono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Takashi Imaizumi () Technology) Kazunori Imoto (Toshiba Corporation) Kazuki Yoshizoe (Japan Science and Technology Agency) Ryuya Uda (Tokyo University of Technology) Francois L E Gall (The University of Tokyo) Chiemi Watanabe (University of Tsukuba) 1 Kyoto University, Kyoto 606–8501, Japan a) [email protected]

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