Japanese Version

Special Issue on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering

1. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
   • Architecture of knowledge, software and information systems including collaborative, distributed, multi-agent and multimedia systems, internet and intranet,
   • Requirements engineering, domain analysis and modeling, formal and semiformal specifications,
   • Knowledge engineering for domain modeling, system family engineering, and software product lines,
   • Intelligent user interfaces and human-machine interaction,
   • Knowledge acquisition and discovery, data mining,
   • Automating software design and synthesis,
   • Object-oriented and other programming paradigms, metaprogramming,
   • Reuse, re-engineering, reverse engineering,
   • Knowledge-based methods and tools for software engineering, including testing, verification and validation, process management, maintenance and evolution, CASE,
   • Decision support methods for software engineering,
   • Applied semiotics for knowledge-based software engineering,
   • Knowledge systems methodology, development tools and environments,
   • Practical applications and experience of software and knowledge engineering,
   • Information technology in control, design, production, logistics and management,
   • Enterprise modeling, workflow,
   • Knowledge management for business process,
   • Intelligent agents for software engineering,
   • Program understanding, programming knowledge, learning of programming, modeling programs and programmers,
   • Knowledge-based methods and tools for software engineering education,
   • Knowledge bases and software engineering for information society
   • Software engineering and knowledge engineering education, distance learning.
2. Guideline for paper submission:
   • In preparing the manuscript, authors should be subjected to the Information for Authors on IEICE Transactions, which describes the standard format of papers. Information for Authors is available through anonymous ftp service (ftp.ieice.or.jp) and WWW service (http://www.ieice.or.jp/ or ftp://ftp.ieice.or.jp/pub/info-authors/eibunsi/info.txt).
   • Please prepare a manuscript as a pdf file or a MS-WORD file (up to WORD 2000). Please write the E-mail address of the representative author on the cover page of the manuscript. The editorial committee will send a receipt notification to the representative author via E-mail within four days after submitting the manuscript.
   • Authors should submit the electronic manuscript by June 30, 2003 to the following address:
     Atsuo Hazeyama,
     Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Tokyo Gakugei University,
     4-1-1, Nukuikita-machi, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8501 Japan
     TEL: +81-42-329-7465
     E-mail: kbse2004 (at) cmail.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp
   • It is recommended that the paper does not exceed 8 printed pages. If it exceeds this limit, extra fee will be charged.
   • All authors, including authors of invited papers, are requested to pay for the page charges that cover a part of the publication cost. The page charges help cover the substantial cost of editing and publishing the IEICE Transactions. Peer review of your manuscript is provided as a service. Authors are entitled to 100 free reprints of their published articles.
   • Please be advised that in the case that a large number of papers are accepted for publications, a portion of these papers may be published in another issue of the journal.
3. Editorial Board:
   Guest Chief Editor: Kenji Kaijiri (Shinshu University)
   Guest Associate Chief Editor: Toyohiko Hirota (Kyushu Sangyo University)
   Guest Editorial Manager: Masakazu Kanbe (NTT) Atsuo Hazeyama (Tokyo Gakugei University)
   Members: Haruki Ueno (National Center for Science Information Systems) Morio Nagata (Keio University) Seiichi Komiya (Shibaura Institute of Technology) Masa-aki Hashimoto (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Shuichiro Yamamoto (NTT data) Toshio Okamoto (University of Electro-Communications) Teruo Koyama (National Center for Science Information Systems) Kenji Sugawara (Chiba Institute of Technology) Yoshiaki Fukazawa (Waseda University) Takahira Yamaguchi (Shizuoka University) Shigeo Kaneda (Doshisha University) Hiroyuki Yamada (Ehime University) Tadashi Iijima (Keio University) Syunsuke Yura (NTT) Koichi Ono (IBM Japan) Fumihiro Kumeno (Mitsubishi Research Institute) Behrouz H. Far (University of Calgary) Takeshi Miyake (NTT) Atsushi Kanai (NTT) Haruhiko Kaiya (Shinshu University) Hirohisa Aman (Ehime University) Mizue Kayama (Senshu University) Tatijana Welzer (University of Maribor)

   Inquiry on this matter: Atsuo Hazeyama (Tokyo Gakugei University) E-mail: kbse2004 (at) cmail.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp