[IEICE-CS eNews<2014-07>] [Reminder]Call for Papers: Special Section of Position Papers Exploring Innovative Intelligence and Technologies in Communications March 6, 2014. Special Section of Position Papers Exploring Innovative Intelligence and Technologies in Communications The IEICE Transactions on Communications announces that it will publish a special section entitled "Special Section of Position Papers Exploring Innovative Intelligence and Technologies in Communications" in the Jan. 2015 issue and in the Mar. 2015 issue. Expansion of the field of communications has unlimited boundaries, and research and development (R&D) has been continuously pursued to support this expansion. A lot of new key ideas are emerging and open up novel research areas, which become driving force of further development of communications technologies. Aiming at the world's best performance has been also one of the major driving forces of R&D, and its resulting outputs lead to the stimulation of the R&D itself in turn. This special section will be publishing position papers, which exhibit novel ideas and/or significant achievements leading to such innovative technologies. There are two deadlines of the submission, and correspondingly, this special section will be published in two issues (scheduled to appear in the Jan. 2015 issue and in the Mar. 2015 issue). Moreover, for the wide promotion of the papers in this special section, all accepted papers will be - introduced in GLOBAL NEWSLETTER published by IEICE Communications Society, - available by open access through the website of the IEICE Transactions on Communications. 1. Scope This special section aims at whole research areas covered by the IEICE Transactions on Communications, such as Fundamental Theories for Communications, Fiber-Optic Communications, Networking, Antennas and Propagation, and Wireless Communications. In this special section, POSITION PAPERs are defined as papers having at least one of the following features: - introduction of novel viewpoints, frameworks, and/or paradigms - proposal of technologies or methods based on innovative ideas (not just extension of existing technologies) - novel ideas with the potential to bring about innovative technologies - prototyping or experimental results with noteworthy features, such as achievement of the world's best performance or the world's first realization In this special section, only papers having the significant feature(s) above will be accepted, while comprehensive evaluations of the performance or the effectiveness will not be required. 2. Submission Instructions In view of the scope of this special section, the paper is assumed to be shorter (around 4 pages) than the regular paper (the standard number of pages is 8), although there is no restriction on the number of pages. The page charges are considerably higher for extra pages exceeding 8 pages. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guideline in the "Information for Authors". The latest version is available at the web site, http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_cs.html. Please note that the paper will be handled and published as a PAPER defined in "1.1 Type of Manuscript" of "Information for Authors". The term for revising the manuscript after acknowledgement of conditional acceptance for this special section could be shorter than that for regular issues (60 days) because of the tight review schedule. This special section will accept papers only by electronic submission. Prospective authors are requested to follow carefully the submission process described below. 1. Submit a manuscript and electronic source files (LaTeX/Word files, figures, authors' photos and biographies) via the IEICE Web site https://review.ieice.org/regist/regist_baseinfo_e.aspx by April 1, 2014 (JST) for the publication in January 2015, and by June 1, 2014 (JST) for the publication in March 2015. Authors should choose the Position Papers Exploring Innovative Intelligence and Technologies in Communications as a "Journal/Section" on the online screen. Do not choose [Regular-EB]. 2. Send "Copyright Transfer and Page Charge Agreement" and "Confirmation Sheet of Manuscript Registration" by E-mail or Fax to the following address/Fax number (guest editor of the special section) by the above due date. We may not accept the submission if these documents have not been received by the due date, even if the manuscript has been received by electronic submission. For additional guidelines on manuscript preparation, please visit: http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_cs.html Send the above documents to: Kazunori Hayashi Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Tel: +81-75-753-5509, Fax: +81-75-753-5509, E-mail: positionpapers@sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp 3. Special Section Editorial Committee Guest Editor-in-Chief: Hisato Iwai (Doshisha Univ.) Guest Editors: Kazunori Hayashi (Kyoto Univ.), Takahiro Matsuda (Osaka Univ.) Guest Associate Editors: Shingo Ata (Osaka City Univ.), Keizo Cho (Chiba Institute of Technology), Motohiko Isaka (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.), Shoji Kasahara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Tadashi Minowa (NICT), Hiraku Okada (Nagoya Univ.), Shigeo Shioda (Chiba Univ.), Shinji Sugawara (Chiba Institute of Technology), Satoshi Suyama (NTT DOCOMO), Takuji Tachibana (Univ. of Fukui), Daisuke Umehara (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Kazuto Yano (ATR) * Please note that if the submitted paper is accepted, all authors are * requested to pay for the page charges covering partial cost of * publications. Note also that, in this special section, all authors * will be exempted from the page charges up to the fee required for 50 * reprints of 4 pages with electronic source data using the IEICE * LaTeX style file. * At least one of the authors must be an IEICE member when the * manuscript is submitted for review. Invited papers are an * exception. 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