Editor's Message to Special Issue of Applications and the Internet in Conjunction with Main Topics of COMPSAC 2014
Nariyoshi Yamai · Journal of Information Processing · 2015
It is our great pleasure to have the special issue of "Applications and the Internet in Conjunction with Main Topics of COMP-SAC 2014" in the IPSJ Journal of Information Processing (JIP).This special issue is a successor of the special issue related to the IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), which was started in 2001 as a memorial project of IPSJ's 40th anniversary.Since 2013, the SAINT has been incorporated into the Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC).Among a wide range of topics covered by COMPSAC, several tracks cover a broad range of networking and computing technologies as well as advanced applications and services, which had been covered by the SAINT.COMPSAC 2014 was held in Vasteras, Sweden on July 21-25, 2014 and it was technically sponsored by IPSJ.This special issue was planned to publish papers based on those presented in COMPSAC 2014 and past COMPSAC or SAINT conferences, but also papers related to the above topics of COMPSAC.