Journal of Information Processing Vol.29 14–15 (Jan. 2021)

[DOI: 10.2197/ipsjjip.29.14]

Editor’s Message to Special Issue of Collaboration Technologies and Network Services toward the Sustainable Society

Akifumi Inoue1,a)

On 1 January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in such a situation. (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offi- The papers that were not accepted for this issue also had cer- cially came into force. The SDGs are universal goals from 2016 tainly some interesting information. The editorial committee was to 2030. They are also applicable not only to developing countries careful to return detailed comments to the authors, and strongly but also developed countries. Information technologies, which recommended to revise and resubmit their papers in the near fu- are the core field of IPSJ, are much anticipated as the means of ture. achieving the goals. In fact, we can find a lot of keywords about In closing, as the guest editor of this special issue, I would groupware and network services in the 17 goals and Japan’s na- like to thank all the authors for their contributing excellent pa- tional action plan about SDGs: remote work support service, pers. I also must express my appreciation of the voluntary work good health and longevity, quality education, and disaster risk performed by all reviewers as well as the remarkable efforts of reduction. Akihiro Miyata and Keisuke Tsunoda on the Editorial Board, and For this background, the editorial committee solicited a wide the other Editorial Committee members listed below. range of papers on collaboration technologies and network ser- vices toward sustainable society. The aim of this special issue is The Editorial Committee to publish the relevant research papers timely and quickly to share the latest results with our society. • Editor in-Chief: A total of 40 papers were submitted to this issue. The first Akifumi Inoue ( University of Technology) meeting of the editorial committee was held in April 2020 to dis- cuss whether the submitted manuscripts conformed to the theme. • Editorial Board Members: The second and third meetings were held in June and September, Akihiro Miyata () respectively, to discuss the peer review reports. After careful dis- Keisuke Tsunoda (NTT) cussions based on the peer reviews, 22 papers were accepted for publication, including two papers written in English. The final • Editorial Committee Members: acceptance rate was 55%. Hironobu Abe (Tokyo Denki University) Most of the accepted papers are related to the cutting-edges Yusuke Ichikawa (NTT) application about the collaboration technologies and network ser- Junko Ichino () vices. The issue also includes the papers relating to energy saving Satoshi Ichimura (Otsuma Women’s University) systems, improving labor productivity, and quality education. We Junko Itou (Wakayama University) are convinced that the issue can achieve the role literally just as Tomoo Inoue () the subtitle says. Hironori Egi (University of Electro-Communications) From the beginning of the reviewing process to the present Masao Ohira (Wakayama University) time, the world is facing the infection spread of COVID-19 and Seiji Okajima (Fujitsu Laboratories) the restriction of social activities. Most of the onsite academic Kenichi Okada () conferences were compelled to shift to online. Thus, we re- Masayuki Okamoto (Toyota) quested the members of the organization committee of the IPSJ Hideaki Kanai (JAIST) symposium “INTERACTION 2020”, which was supposed to be Satoru Kaneko (IBM Japan) held at Tokyo in March 2020, to contribute an invited paper to de- Nobutaka Kawaguchi (Hitachi) scribe the background of the decision to shift the symposium to Tomohiro Kokogawa (International Professional University online at the last minute. This paper suggests the potential and fu- of Technology in Tokyo) ture challenges for information and communication technologies Minoru Kobayashi () Noriaki Saito (Tokyo Online University) 1 Tokyo University of Technology, Hachioji, Tokyo 192–0982, Japan Hidekazu Shiozawa (Tamagawa University) a) [email protected]

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Hideyuki Takada (Ritsumeikan University) Ryota Nakamura (Musashino University) Atsuo Hazeyama () Akira Hattori () Taku Fukushima (Osaka Institute of Technology) Hiroyuki Miki (Oki Consulting Solutions) Yosuke Motohashi (NEC) Takaya Yuizono (JAIST) Hideto Yuzawa (Fuji Xerox) Takashi Yoshino (Wakayama University)

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