An Introduction to the Special Interest Group on Internet and Operation Technology (SIG-IOT) of Information Processing Society of Japan (Ver.2021)

This paper introduces the Special Interest Group on the Internet and Operation Technology (SIG-IOT) of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). IPSJ SIG-IOT is a similar association to ACM SIGUCCS in Japan. It retains about four hundred members who are mainly managers and operators of ICT infrastructures in universities and colleges, and staff members of companies. The activity of IPSJ SIG-IOT focuses on the technologies for the Internet in general and the techniques for the construction, operation, and administration of distributed computer/network systems. IPSJ SIG-IOT regularly organizes four workshops and one annual symposium and also issues a special section in the IPSJ journal every year. All papers submitted for the symposiums and journals are reviewed. IPSJ SIG-IOT participates in the Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO) every year, as one of the organizing SIGs. It also hosts the Architecture, Design, Deployment & Management of Networks & Applications (ADMNET) every year. ADMNET is a workshop of COMPSAC which is the signature conference on computers, software, and applications and is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. The fields of operational technologies may look modest and tend to be shunned, especially by young people. However, it must be an important part of the foundation of the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) infrastructures as it continues to grow. We are encouraging the research activities and preparing academic papers for young people and hope the activities of IPSJ SIG-IOT help to convey the importance of the field.