The Editorial Board Editor-in-chief -   Etsuya Shibayama The Participating Societies are: -   The Association for Natural Language Processing   Editors: Manabu Okumura and Kentaro Inui -   Human Interface Society   Editors: Hirotake Ishii and Asako　Kimura -   The Information Processing Society of Japan   Etsuya Shibayama and Rin-ichiro Taniguchi -   The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence   Editors: Hiroshi Yamakawa and Ryutaro Ichise -   Japan Society for Software Science and Technology   Editor: Shigeru Chiba   -   The Database Society of Japan   Editor: Yoshiharu Ishikawa and Naoko Kosugi The Secretariat The Information Processing Society of Japan     Contact: Yoshio Iwase