Editor's Message to Special Issue of Applications and the Internet in Conjunction with Main Topics of COMPSAC 2016
Hiroki Takakura · Journal of Information Processing · 2017
It is our great pleasure to have the special issue of "Applications and the Internet in conjunction with Main Topics of COMP-SAC 2016."The Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC), sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and also technically sponsored by Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), is one of the premium international forums among academia, industry and government.A wide range of topics including research results, advancements and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications is discussed.Among fruitful discussion at COMPSAC, several symposia cover a broad range of networking and computing technologies as well as advanced applications and services.COMPSAC 2016 was held with the theme of "Connected World: New Challenges for Data, Systems & Applications," in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on June 10-14, 2016.We planned this special issue to publish premium research contributions from these research areas presented in COMPSAC 2016 together with research outcomes related to the main topics of COMPSAC.We received six submissions.Among those, we selected five papers for publication.In addition to them, we invited two papers from major researchers related to COMPSAC.