Call for Papers - Special Issue of "Security and Trust for a Safe and Secure Digital Society"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of “Security and Trust for a Safe and Secure Digital Society”.
This special issue, titled "Security and Trust for a Safe and Secure Digital Society," focuses on computer security, privacy, and trust that are essential for realizing a safe and secure digital society. We particularly welcome papers that adopt a human-centered research approach. Specifically, the scope includes, but is not limited to: studies on the usability of implementing and deploying fundamental information security technologies such as cryptography and privacy enhancing technologies (PETs); investigations into human perception, decision-making, and behavioral characteristics regarding security and privacy; examination of new risks, ethical challenges, and their solutions arising from the development of the digital society; and research contributing to the formation of new trust paradigms assumed in a digital society.
Submissions from a wide range of fields, including artificial intelligence (AI), data science, robotics, virtual reality (VR), media communication, service design, ethics, and legislation, or papers that have the potential for application to these fields are encouraged.
In addition to research papers, we also encourage Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers.
The objective of this special issue is to advance a comprehensive understanding of security, privacy, trust, and human factors through these wide-ranging studies, and to foster discussions that contribute to building a better relationship between technology and society.
Original papers, as well as papers that have been presented at domestic and international workshops, symposiums, and conferences, will be welcomed.

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Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is currently encouraging more submissions from outside of Japan.
The publication fee of any accepted papers will not be charged if all the authors of the paper belong to institutes outside Japan.
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(1) All papers must be submitted electronically. Please access the following URL and proceed under the submission instructions:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ipsj

Once you have submitted your manuscript, you cannot change it.
So, you must submit the final version of your manuscript.
If, by mistake, you submitted a wrong version, please contact the IPSJ secretariat ＜s1m-at-ipsj.or.jp＞(Replace -at- with @).

In the event you would like to make a submission, you must first create an account on the paper submission Web page. For detailed information, please refer to the manual available from the link “Instructions & Forms” at the top of the submission page.

(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 (eight weeks) for preparation of your responses to inquiries.

(3) Submission deadline is February 24, 2026.

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in December 2026. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in December 2026.

(5) The editorial committee of this special issue
Editor in-Chief: Sachiko KANAMORI (NICT)
Editorial Board Member: Ayako HASEGAWA (NICT), Takashi HATASHIMA (NTT)
Editorial Committee Members: Midori INABA (Institute of Information Security), Atsuo INOMATA (Osaka Univ.), Tetsushi OHKI (Shizuoka Univ.), Ryuichi OGAWA (IPA), Kanayo OGURA (Iwate Prefectural Univ.), Masataka KAKINOUCHI (Tsukuba Univ. of Technology), Akira KANAOKA (Toho Univ.), Fumihiro KANEI (NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS), Hiroki KUZUNO (Kobe Univ.), Yuichi KOMANO (Chiba Institute of Technology), Hideto GOMI (LY Corp.), Yukiko SAWAYA (KDDI Research), Masue SHIBA (Toshiba), Shigeyoshi SHIMA (Univ. of Nagasaki), Masaki SHIMAOKA (SECOM), Yoshiaki SHIRAISHI (Kobe Univ.), Yuji SUGA (IIJ), Masato TERADA (Tokyo Denki Univ.), Masakatsu NISHIGAKI (Shizuoka Univ.), Akira Fujita (NICT), Masahiro FUJITA (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.), Manato FUJIMOTO (Osaka Metropolitan Univ.), Kanta MATSUURA (The Univ. of Tokyo), Yuko MURAYAMA (Tsuda Univ.), Koichi MOURI (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Keika MORI (Deloitte Tohmatsu Cyber LLC.), Naoto YANAI (Panasonic Holdings Corp.), Rei YAMAGISHI (NICT), Akira YAMADA (Univ. of Hyogo)

(6) Ethical considerations
We encourage researchers to implement ethical considerations when conducting cybersecurity research or human-centered studies. Even when research has received prior approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) or Ethics Review Board (ERB) of the affiliated organization, we suggest that researchers specifically explain in the paper what ethical considerations were implemented.

[References]

Checklist for ethical considerations in cybersecurity research
https://www.iwsec.org/csec/ethics/checklist.html

A Systematic Literature Review of Empirical Methods and Risk Representation in Usable Privacy and Security Research
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3469845

(7) SoK papers
For specific examples of Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers, please refer to the reference information provided below. While it is a common convention for the title of an SoK paper to begin with the prefix “SoK:”, the inclusion of this prefix is not mandatory for submissions to this special issue.

[References]

Systematizing Systematization of Knowledge
https://oaklandsok.github.io/