Preface: Special issue on the Third International Symposium on Computing and Networking

Abstract

The Third International Symposium on Networking and Computing (CANDAR 2015) was held in Sapporo, Japan, from December 8^th to 11^th, 2015. The organizers of the CANDAR 2015 invited authors to submit the extended version of the presented papers. As a result, 22 articles have been submitted to this special issue. This issue includes the extended version of 14 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 Satoshi Fujita, Professor Akihiro Fujiwara, Professor Nobuo Funabiki, Professor Shuichi Ichikawa, Professor Katsunobu Imai, Professor Yoshiaki Kakuda, Professor Michihiro Koibuchi, Professor Kazuhiko Komatsu, Professor Shirley Moore, Professor Toru Nakanishi, Professor Yasuyuki Nogami, Professor Tomoyuki Ohta, Professor Ferdinand Peper, Professor Hiroyuki Sato, Professor Reiji Suda, Professor Hiroyuki Takizawa, 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.