Preface: Special Issue on the Eighth International Symposium on Networking and Computing

Abstract

The Eighth International Symposium on Networking and Computing (CANDAR 2020) was held virtually from November 25th to 27th, 2020. The organizers of the CANDAR 2020 invited authors to submit the extended version of the presented papers. As a result, 38 articles have been submitted to this special issue. This issue includes the extended version of 22 papers that have been accepted. This issue owes a great deal to a number of people who devoted their time and expertise to handle the submitted papers. In particular, I would like to thank the guest editors for the excellent review process: Professor Hideharu Amano, Professor Satoshi Fujita, Professor Akihiro Fujiwara, Professor Ikki Fujiwara, Professor Shinji Inoue, Professor Yasuaki Ito, Professor Eitaro Kohno, Professor Michihiro Koibuchi, Professor Susumu Matsumae, Professor Toru Nakanishi, Professor Yasuyuki Nogami, Professor Kouzou Ohara, Professor Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki, and Professor Takashi Yokota. Words of gratitude are also due to the anonymous reviewers who carefully read the papers and provided detailed comments and suggestions to improve the quality of the submitted papers. This special issue would not have been without their efforts.