Tuesday, May 17, 2011

[DMANET] CFP: Special Issue on Mathematics of Puzzles (IPSJ Journal)

Call for Papers
Journal of Information Processing
Special issue of "Mathematics of Puzzles"
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 "Mathematics of Puzzles".
This special issue will focus on research papers that describe
mathematics of puzzles and games. The topics include, but not limited
to: solving methods and complexity analysis of puzzles, winning
strategies of games, 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, 2012 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:
http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/editt/jip/submit/index.html
*Note that this URL is for English papers only.
If you plan to submit a paper in Japanese, please visit another page
at: http://www.ipsj.or.jp/08editt/journal/submit/index.html
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 August 31st, 2011.
4. The special issue will be published on the web site of Journal of
Information Processing in June, 2012.

The Editorial Committee
Editor in-Chief: Hiro Ito (Kyoto University)
Editorial Board: Kunihiko Sadakane (National Institute of Informatics)
Editorial Committee: Stefan Langerman (Universite Libre de Bruxelles),
Koji Nonobe (Hosei University), Yoshio Okamoto (JAIST), Tetsuo Shibuya
(The University of Tokyo), Ryuhei Uehara (JAIST)
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