Preface for IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications

The members of Industry Applications Society, the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), are very pleased to hear that the society is issuing IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications, a bimonthly that is completely in English, from July 2012. It is with great pleasure that we invite engineers, scientists, professors, and students engaged in the fields of Electrical and Electronics Industry Applications to become members of the society and partake in its various activities. IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications is different from Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering (TEEE) and IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications (Japanese), and it is the official English journal of IEEJ Industry Applications Society. In order to convey to the world new technical information and creative and original theories in the fields of Electrical and Electronics Industry Applications, it is very important for the IEEJ Industry Applications Society to have a high-quality international journal. IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications is one such journal. However, it is published in Japanese and hence cannot be regarded as an international journal. Therefore, IEEJ Industry Applications Society intends to publish the journal in English from July 2012, bimonthly. The impact factor of our journal will be a motivating force for engineers, scientists, professors, and students worldwide to familiarize themselves with the papers published in it. Our society must do its best in order to have the impact factor of IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications. The first edition of IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications, Vol.1, No.1, is a special issue on power electronics. This issue will contain some invited papers by active and famous power electronics researchers. Moreover, it will contain revised papers submitted to the 2011 Japan-Korea Technical Workshop on Semiconductor Power Converter. The second edition of the Journal, Vol.1, No.2, to be published in September 2012, will consist of regular papers. The third edition of the journal, Vol.1, No.3, to be published in November 2012, will be a special issue on motor drives. The fourth edition, Vol.2, No.1, to be published in January 2013, will be a special issue on motion control. The electronic version of IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications, such as PDF files, will also be available on the website. Moreover, this official English journal of IEEJ Industry Applications Society is an open access journal, and it is available to all, free of any download charges. Therefore, engineers, scientists, professors, and students worldwide can read IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications easily and quickly. The members of IEEJ Industry Applications Society, including me, hope that IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications will soon be the global favored journal of engineers, scientists, professors, and students worldwide in the fields of Electrical and Electronics Industry Applications. Preface