IPSJ Transactions on Advanced Computing Systems
ACS

Objectives

Computer systems are now found in all aspects of our lives, functioning as high performance computers, data center servers, cellular phones, handheld games, and appliances. Fundamental computer system technologies in these fields have been conceived and developed separately;, e.g, high performance and dependability in the high performance computing field, and low power and real-time in the embedded systems field. According to the evolution of device technologies and various user demands, technologies that were originally developed in specific fields are gaining importance in other fields. In embedded systems, such as cellular phones and handheld games, for instance, high performance technologies are required to achieve high quality, while embedded technologies and low power consumption are leveraged to realize a massively parallel computer. Moreover, newly emerging fundamental technologies, such as reconfigurable architectures and grid computing, are being carefully considered in various fields.

The IPSJ Transactions on Advanced Computing Systems (ACS) focuses on those advanced fundamental system technologies that can be characterized as technologies for high performance, embedded systems, low power consumption, reconfigurability, and grid systems, as well as supporting technologies such as numerical and nonnumerical algorithms, system performance evaluation, operating systems, programming languages, compilers, and architectures. We hope that this transactions contributes to hand leads the advanced computing system technologies that are in demand by industry.

The IPSJ Transactions on Advanced Computing Systems is supported by SIG High Performance Computing (HPC), SIG Computer Architecture (ARC), and SIG System Software and Operating System (OS), and with the cooperation of SIG Programming.

Scope

• System Architectures
  • High performance processor architectures
  • Parallel and distributed systems (massively parallel systems and cluster systems)
  • Reconfigurable systems
  • Embedded systems and ubiquitous systems
  • High performance I/O, massive file system, and data mining
  • Low power, low energy, and small space technologies
• Advanced Fundamental/Infrastructural Software Systems
  • Optimizing compilers, parallel programming environment, and scheduling
  • Grid, cloud computing and distributed computing systems
  • Parallel and distributed programming languages
  • parallel and distributed middleware and operating systems
  • Visualization, debugging tools, component architectures
  • Dependable technologies
  • Security
  • Operating systems and middleware
• System Evaluation
  • Performance modeling and prediction
  • Performance tuning
  • Benchmarks
• Computational Sciences
  • Modeling, Discrete, Numerical algorithms
  • High accuracy computation methods, parallel algorithms, massively parallel computation
  • Computational chemistry, computational physics, computational fluid dynamics, computational economics, etc.

This transactions has two paper categories: research and survey papers. The former encompasses not only proposals of new ideas and/or technologies but also case studies of existing systems and benchmark results.

Review Policy

Papers submitted in any category are reviewed by the Editorial Board and external reviewers, and will be published if judged by the Editorial Board to be acceptable.

• In order to provide a report on the latest technological revolutions, original proposals or idea papers are accepted if the practical values are contained in the paper.
• Papers reporting fair results of practical research and development in computer systems, fundamental technologies, and applications are accepted if they appropriately claim its originality, novelty, and/or superiority.
• Survey papers that collect, categorize, and evaluate existing technologies according to the author's novel viewpoint may contribute to society. Such original survey papers are considered accepted papers.
• A case study of practical systems is an important report in the sense that the report bridges the gap between the computer scientists and users. Such a report is considered as an accepted paper.
• Editorial board members follow the rules of justice.

Submission Guidelines

• CFP, including publication months and submission deadlines, is announced quarterly in this web page. For more information, please see the "Future publication schedule" section.
• Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format through the online submission system. All accepted manuscripts must be formatted using the LaTeX system with the IPSJ journal format (in Japanese). The author(s) is/are responsible for preparing the formatted version.
• The paper must be written in either English or Japanese. Papers written in Japanese must have both Japanese and English abstracts.
• No length limitation is imposed, but the length of the paper must be reasonable. Unnecessary redundancy will be grounds for rejection, and reduced paper length will be a condition of acceptance.
• The review process follows the IPSJ journal rules. Notification of acceptance is sent by email. If the paper is conditionally accepted, the author(s) must reply the reviewer comments and make improvements to the paper within three weeks. If this work is not completed before the deadline, the paper will be automatically rejected.
• If a manuscript is "conditionally accepted", the author(s) should prepare a supplementary report to provide responses to the reviewer acceptance conditions.
• All research and survey papers are reviewed, and only accepted papers are published. After receiving notification of acceptance, author(s) must prepare the camera ready file versions formatted in the LaTeX system with the IPSJ journal format. The LaTeX files must be sent to IPSJ. The author(s) may proofread the manuscript once before publication.
• After the ACS issue including an accepted paper written in English has been published, the paper is automatically included in IPSJ's on-line journal, called IPSJ Online Transactions.
• Author(s) must pay publication fee after the accepted paper is published. The price (in Nov. 2011) is as follows.

  	English paper:	12,180 yen/page
  	Japanese paper:	13,650 yen/page

• Authors of a submitted paper may not be required IPSJ members. The Transactions welcomes and encourages the submission from outside of IPSJ.

Publication Schedule

ACS is a quarterly transactions published. The schedule is now under the consideration based on the new joint edition policy.
Detailed new schedule will be announced later.

1.	Ordinary (non-joint) Edition
	Submission Due :	January
	Publication :	June
2.	Joint Edition with SACSIS (acceptance notified in March)
	Submission Due :	3 weeks after the notification of SACSIS
	Publication :	September
3.	TBD
4.	TBD

Please note that the submission deadline for symposium joint-edition issues are subject to change following the schedule of the symposium.

For the latest submission schedule announcements, please go here.

ACS Editorial Board

• Editor-in-Chief:
  • Hiroshi Nakamura (Tokyo University)
• Associate Editors-in-Chief: (alphabetical order)
  • Kenji Kono (Keio University)
  • Masahiro Goshima (Tokyo University)
  • Reiji Suda (University of Tokyo)
• Editorial Board Member: (alphabetical order)
  • Akihiro Fujii(Kogakuin University)
  • Atsushi Kubota (Hiroshima City University)
  • Hidemoto Nakada (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
  • Hideharu Amano (Keio University)
  • Hideki Okawara (Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.)
  • Hidetomo Shibamura (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
  • Hidetsugu Irie (University of Electro-Communications)
  • Hirotake Abe (Osaka University)
  • Hiroyuki Takizawa (Tohoku University)
  • Kazunori Takashio (Keio University)
  • Ken Naono (Hitachi Ltd.)
  • Kenichi Kourai (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
  • Kohei Ichikawa (Osaka University)
  • Koichi Mouri (Ritsumeikan University)
  • Koichi Sasada (University of Tokyo)
  • Koji Inoue (Kyushu University)
  • Masaaki Kondo (University of Electro-Communications)
  • Motohiko Matsuda (University of Tokyo)
  • Naruse Akira (Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.)
  • Osamu Tatebe (University of Tsukuba)
  • Ryotaro Kobayashi (Toyohashi University of Technology)
  • Shinobu Miwa (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
  • Shoji Itoh (University of Tokyo)
  • Shorin Kyo (Renesas Electronics Corp.)
  • Takahiro Katagiri (Tokyo University)
  • Takahiro Shinagawa (University of Tsukuba)
  • Takumi Washio (Tokyo University)
  • Tomohiro Kudo (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
  • Toshinori Sato (Fukuoka University)
  • Toshio Endo (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  • Toshio Hirotsu (Hosei University)
  • Yasuhito Takamiya (NEC)
  • Yoshio Tanaka (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
  • Yuetsu Kodama (University of Tsukuba)