An introduction to the special interest group on internet and operation technology (SIG-IOT) of information processing society of Japan
Takashi Yamanoue, Naomi Fujimura, Hideo Masuda, Motonori Nakamura · 2012
This paper introduces the Special Interest Group on the Internet and Operation Technology (SIG-IOT) of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). IPSJ SIG-IOT is a similar association to ACM SIGUCCS in Japan. It retains about four hundred members who are mainly managers and operators of ICT infrastructures in universities and colleges, and staff members of companies. The activity of IPSJ SIG-IOT focuses on the technologies for the Internet in general and the techniques for the construction, operation, and administration of the distributed computer/network systems. IPSJ SIG-IOT organizes regularly four workshops and one sym-posium once a year, and also issues a special section in the IPSJ journal every year. All papers submitted for the symposiumsand journals are reviewed. IPSJ SIG-IOT participates in the Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO) every year, as one of the organizing SIGs. It also hosts the Workshop on Company, Campus and Community Networking (C3NET) every year. C3NET is a workshop of the International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), which is co-sponsored by IPSJ and IEEE CS. The fields of operational technologies may look modest and tend to be shunned, especially by young people. However, it must be an important portion of the fundamentals of the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) infrastructures that continue to grow. We are encouraging the research activities and preparing academic papers for young people and hope the activities of IPSJ SIG-IOT help to convey the importance of the field.