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This article presents an update on the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) as of 2002. It is the top academic institution in the information processing field in the country. It has about thirty thousand members and promotes a variety of research and development activities covering all aspects of information processing and computer science. One of the major activities of the society is publication of its transactions containing papers covering all the fields of information processing, including fundamentals, software, hardware, and applications. Some of the papers are published in English, but because the majority are in Japanese, the transactions are not suitable for non-Japanese wishing to access advances information technology (IT) in Japan. IPSJ therefore decided to publish the book series Advanced Information Processing Technology. The series consists of independent books, each including a collection of top quality papers, from mainly Japanese sources of a selected area in IT. The book titles were chosen by the International Publication Committee of OPSJ so that they enable easy access to IT for international readers. Each book contains original papers and/or those updates or translated from original papers appearing in the transactions or internationally qualified meetings.