FINAL 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/2015_5ED.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 We invite submissions of original and unpublished papers in the field of wide range of data engineering, and particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in engineering and management of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 databases, 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 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: Masayoshi Aritsugi Kumamoto University, GSST 2-39-1 Kurokami, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan Email: aritsugi@cs.kumamoto-u.ac.jp - Submission deadline of the manuscript is July 28, 2014. 3. Notice to the Authors: - If the paper is accepted, authors are requested to pay for the page charge which covers 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> - The article submitted on and after May 1, 2014 will be first published in the category of an advance publication if it is accepted for publication. For more information on the advance publication, please refer to the information for authors. <http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_iss.html> 4. Special Section Editorial Committee: Guest Editor-in-Chief: Shinsuke Nakajima (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.) Guest Editors: Makoto Onizuka (NTT), Kaoru Katayama (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), Masayoshi Aritsugi (Kumamoto Univ.) Guest Associate Editors: Toshiyuki Amagasa (Univ. of Tsukuba), Koji Eguchi (Kobe Univ.), Takako Hashimoto (Chiba Univ. of Commerce), Yasuhiko Morimoto (Hiroshima Univ.), Satoshi Oyama (Hokkaido Univ.), Nobutaka Suzuki (Univ. of Tsukuba), Yu Suzuki (Nagoya Univ.), Keishi Tajima (Kyoto Univ.), Masashi Toyoda (Univ. of Tokyo) Inquiry should be made to Masayoshi Aritsugi, preferably by Email with Subject "IEICE(DE2015)".