CALL FOR PAPERS

   Special Section on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications

The IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications
and Computer Sciences announces a forthcoming Special Section on
Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications to be published in
September, 2008. The objective of the special section is to review and
promote recent progress in the field of discrete mathematics and its
applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- algorithms, data structures, and computational complexity   
- graphs, networks, and matroids 
- combinatorial optimization   
- parallel and distributed algorithms
- discrete geometry, computational geometry, and computational algebra 
- coding theory and cryptography   
- probabilistic and number theoretic algorithms
- linear programming and mathematical programming   
- computational biology and bioinformatics 
- Petri nets and concurrent systems   
- applications of discrete mathematics 
- algorithm engineering   
- quantum computation, quantum algorithm, and quantum cryptography

Submission Guidelines:
Authors are requested to follow the submission process described below.

1. Submit papers using the IEICE online submission web site
https://review.ieice.org/regist_e.aspx by December 17, 2007.
Choose the "[Special-EA] Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications" as
a "Type of Issue (Section)/Transactions" on the online submission
page. Do not choose "[Regular-EA] Fundamentals" or other special
sections. We accept papers only in PDF format.

2. Send by postal mail (NOT by FAX or E-mail) the "Copyright Transfer
and Page Charge Agreement" and the "Confirmation Sheet of Manuscript
Registration" by December 21, 2007 to

    Ryuhei Uehara (Guest Editor)
    School of Information Science, JAIST,
    Asahidai 1-1, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
    E-mail: uehara@jaist.ac.jp    Phone: +81-761-51-1220   FAX: +81-761-51-1149

Please write clearly in red ink "Special Section on DMA" on the
envelope. We cannot start the review process without them, even if we
receive the manuscript.

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the style guidelines for
the IEICE Transactions 
(See http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_ess.html). In this special
section, the length of the manuscript should be no longer than eight
printed pages for a PAPER and two printed pages for a
LETTER. Submissions that do not follow the above instructions will not
be accepted. The term for revision after the review process might be
shortened, although it is usually 60 days' long. Some papers may
appear in the following transactions, if the number of accepted papers
exceeds the limit. At least one of the authors must be an IEICE member
when the manuscript is submitted for review. Please note that if
accepted, authors are requested to pay for the page charges covering
partial costs of publications.

Guest Editor:
 Ryuhei Uehara (JAIST)
Secretary:
 Eiji Takimoto (Tohoku University), 
 Mitsuru Matsui (Mitsubishi Electric Corpolation)
Editorial Committee:
 Michiko Inoue (NAIST), 
 Hirotsugu Kakugawa (Osaka University), 
 Akinori Kawachi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), 
 Akiyoshi Shioura (Tohoku University), 
 Tetsuo Shibuya (University of Tokyo),
 Tsuyoshi Takagi (Future University --- Hakodate), 
 Keisuke Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology), 
 Seiichi Tani (Nihon University), 
 Masayuki Numao (IBM), 
 Shoichi Hirose (The University of Fukui),
 Toshihiro Fujito (Toyohashi University of Technology), 
 Takashi Horiyama (Saitama University), 
 Kazuhisa Makino (University of Tokyo), 
 Atsuko Miyaji (JAIST),
 Eiji Miyano (Kyushu Institute of Technology), 
 Koichi Yamazaki (Gunma University)