ETRI Journal Call for Papers for
The Special Issue on Software and Content Technologies

The IT industry has improved our lives dramatically over the past couple of decades. Software and content technologies are at the core of developing the IT-based knowledge society we are pursuing and are a major source of industrial competition around the world.
This special edition of ETRI Journal deals with the main issues of software and content research in hopes of making a significant contribution to the development of software and contents technology. Among the broad research topics of software, studies regarding Internet platforms, speech and language information processing, embedded software, information security and safety will be included in this issue. In the case of content research, studies related to computer graphics, virtual reality, and DRM will be included.

We welcome submission of papers that present new technologies and techniques that can be applied to real products and thus lead to new business opportunities. We encourage the submission of papers that include the presentation of an implemented prototype, which gives readers a better understanding of new techniques and technology in relation to existing research.

Papers to be submitted should focus on one of the following areas:

Human Computer Interaction
- Speech recognition
- Speech synthesis
- Automatic speech translation
- Natural language processing
- Information retrieval
- Data mining
- Question-answering
- Computer vision
- Image recognition
- Multimodal interface/interaction
- Haptic/tactile technology
Internet Platform
- Database management systems
- Server platforms
- Distributed file systems
- Cluster computing
- Virtualization
Embedded Software
- Operating systems
- Development environments
- Cyber physical systems
- Mobile system platforms
- Embedded software platforms for automobiles and ships
Information Security and Safety
- Cryptography, crypto engineering, and security protocols
- Computer and network security
- Digital content protection
- Identity management
- Biometrics
- Digital forensics
- Application security (security in wireless and mobile networks, ad-hoc networks, home networks, vehicle ad-hoc networks, RFID and ubiquitous sensor networks, and so on)
Content
- Computer graphics
- Games
- Virtual reality
- e-learning
- Digital rights management
- Digital content distribution
- Convergence Services

Submission of manuscripts for the special issue opens on January 1, 2010 and closes on February 28, 2010. Publication is scheduled for the October 2010 issue. Submissions should be completed on the ETRI Journal Internet website, http://etrij.etri.re.kr. Submission for the special issue should be of regular-paper type and prepared using the regular-paper template available on this site. Refer to our website for more details. Don't forget to choose "Special Issue-Software and Content Technologies" for the paper type when submitting.