Tuesday, March 18, 2014

CFP: Special issue of "Recreational Discrete Mathematics," JIP

Call for Papers
Journal of Information Processing
Special issue of "Recreational Discrete Mathematics"

The Editorial Committee of the Journal of Information Processing

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the
call for papers for a special issue of "Recreational Discrete Mathematics."
This special issue will focus on research papers that describe mathematics
of recreations (e.g., puzzles and games). The topics include, but not
limited to: solving methods of puzzles, winning strategies of games,
complexity analyses of games and puzzles, and algorithms for generating
puzzle instances.

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Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is currently encouraging more
submissions from outside of Japan.
Any papers electronically submitted to JIP before July 31, 2015 are
free of publication charge when accepted.
Non members of IPSJ can also submit papers to JIP.
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Submission Guidelines
1. All papers must be submitted electronically. Please access the
following URL and proceed under the submission instructions:
https://www.ipsj.or.jp/prms/author_pre_submit_en.do
* Note that this URL is for English papers only.
If you plan to submit a paper in Japanese, please visit another page at:
https://www.ipsj.or.jp/prms/author_pre_submit.do

2. All papers will be reviewed. The review process will be carried
out in the same manner as regular issues. However, you have shorter
time than usual (two months) for preparation of your responses to
inquiries.

3. Submission deadline is July 31st, 2014.

4. The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in July, 2015.
Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in May, 2015.

5. The Editorial Committee
Editor in-Chief: Hiro ITO (The Univ. of Electro-Communications)
Editorial Board: Takashi HORIYAMA (Saitama Univ.)
Editorial Committee: Yoshifumi MANABE (Kogakuin Univ.),
Yoshio OKAMOTO (The Univ. of Electro-Communications),
Hirotaka ONO (Kyushu Univ.), Ryuhei UEHARA (JAIST),
Yushi UNO (Osaka Prefecture Univ.)


Official Web page: http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/jip/cfp/15-L.html
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