Future Internet

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP)

edited by

Sardar Jaf

,

Basel Barakat

and Yongqiang Cheng

submission deadline 20 Jul 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 44388 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; AI; natural language processing; NLP; language models; large language model; speech processing; text processing; language processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Future and Smart Internet of Things

edited by

Gayathri Karthick

, Sahar Ahmadzadeh, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and Aminu Bello Usman

submission deadline 20 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4443 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart IoT systems; machine learning for IoT; AI-enabled IoT; blockchain in IoT; IoT security and privacy; edge and fog computing; sustainable IoT; digital twins; IoT data analytics; IoT in smart cities; intelligent sensing; human-centric IoT; cyber threat IoT; context-aware IoT; next-generation networks; decentralized IoT architectures; Industry 5.0; green IoT; IoT-based decision making

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Cyber-Physical Systems in Industrial Communication Systems

edited by Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti and

Flavio Lombardi

submission deadline 20 Jul 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3549 | Submission Open

Keywords: industrial cyber-physical systems; security and privacy; communication and networking; wireless communication; data encryption and privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

ICT and AI in Intelligent E-Systems—2nd Edition

edited by Ergun Gide and

Robert M. X. Wu

submission deadline 20 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3171 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; digital transformation; E-systems; E-business; data visualization; business intelligence; intelligent IS; business analytics; ICT higher education

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Human-Computer Interaction and Virtual Reality (VR)

edited by Qiang Hu, Xin Jin and Xiaoyun Zhang

submission deadline 25 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1517 | Submission Open

Keywords: virtual reality (VR); volumetric video reconstruction; volumetric video compression; VR content transmission; immersive VR application; VR application design; VR application evaluation; volumetric video fidelity; VR transmission stability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Artificial Intelligence in Next-Generation Networks: Cloud/Edge Perspectives and Applications

edited by

Dimitris Karampatzakis

,

Thomas Lagkas

and

Kalliopi Kravari

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5291 | Submission Open

Keywords: next-generation networks; artificial intelligence in networking; cloud computing in networking; edge computing in networking; intelligent agents; explainable artificial intelligence; trustworthy artificial intelligence; mobile edge computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Efficient and Secure Wireless Communications and Networking: Architecture and Applications

edited by

Călin Vlădeanu

and

Alexandru Marțian

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3648 | Submission Open

Keywords: cognitive radio; software-defined radio; dynamic spectrum access; massive MIMO; reconfigurable intelligent surfaces; non-orthogonal multiple access; artificial intelligence and machine learning for wireless networks; wireless network authentication and security; drones; sensor networks; satellite networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Federated Learning: Challenges, Methods, and Future Directions

edited by

Naiyue Chen

and

Ivan Serina

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2044 | Submission Open

Keywords: federated learning; decentralized machine learning; IoT; edge computing; blockchain; 6G network; data heterogeneity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

AI and Industry 4.0

edited by

Zhiwei Feng

, Qiang He and Bingxian Lu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1118 | Submission Open

Keywords: Industry 4.0; embodied intelligence systems; time-sensitive networking; industrial agent; industrial sensor fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Applications of Neural Networks in Internet of Things

edited by

Xu Yang

and Yanjun Zhang

submission deadline 10 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 260 | Submission Open

Keywords: LLM; brain-inspired AI; IoT; data analysis; decision-making

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Intelligent Industrial IoT

edited by Hairong Yan,

Rashid Ali

and Eirini Liotou

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 466 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent industrial IoT; smart sensor; smart factories; digital twin; embodied intelligence; large-scale AI models; industrial code generation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Clustered Federated Learning for Networks

edited by

Kristina P. Sinaga

and

Miin-shen Yang

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4493 | Submission Open

Keywords: clustered federated learning; federated learning; machine learning clustering; decentralized learning; networked systems; IoT and edge computing; multi-view learning; network optimization; privacy-preserving AI; scalable machine learning; distributed algorithms; communication efficiency; heterogeneous networks; secure aggregation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Artificial Intelligence in Smart Grids

edited by

Florin Dragomir

and

Iulia Stamatescu

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2234 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; smart grids; renewable energy; distributed generation; machine learning; intelligent control; energy management; fault detection; optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications: Progress, Trends and Directions

edited by

Juefei Yuan

and

Bo Li

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1424 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; AI applications; emerging trends; future directions; intelligent systems; data-driven applications; responsible AI; advanced computing; smart systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

LLM-Driven Agentic AI in Edge-Cloud Computing

edited by

Qiang Duan

,

Zhihui Lu

and Jiehan Zhou

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1417 | Submission Open

Keywords: large language model; agentic AI; industrial agent; agentic web; multi-agent system; agent orchestration; agent protocols; edge–cloud computing; edge intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Digital Twins in Next-Generation IoT Networks

edited by Junhui Jiang, Yu Zhao, Mengmeng Yu and

Dongwoo Kim

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6896 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twins; IoT systems; real-time data processing; interoperability; cybersecurity; AI; predictive maintenance; advanced IoT systems; multimodal data processing; computer vision; large language models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Emerging Approaches in Data Mining and Natural Language Processing Applications

edited by Arjun Mukherjee and

Leonardo Ranaldi

submission deadline 26 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 6934 | Submission Open

Keywords: data mining; natural language processing; sentiment analysis; large language models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems, 3rd Edition

edited by

Iwona Grobelna

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3895 | Submission Open

Keywords: internet of things; digital twins; Industry 4.0; cyber-physical systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Distributed Machine Learning and Federated Edge Computing for IoT

edited by

Demetris Trihinas

and

Alexandros Karakasidis

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 11 articles | Viewed by 27558 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; federated learning; split learning; internet of things; edge computing; energy-aware machine learning; distributed artificial intelligence; data privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Intelligent Agents and Their Application

edited by

Stanimir Stoyanov

,

Asya Stoyanova Doycheva

and

Veneta Tabakova-Komsalova

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 14 articles | Viewed by 26673 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent agents; multi-agent systems; agent-oriented architectures; agent-oriented technologies; Large Language Models (LLMs) and Small Language Models (SLMs); Chain of Thought (CoT); big data; knowledge-based systems; ontologies; symbolic, sub-symbolic, and integrated artificial intelligence

Advances and Perspectives in Human-Computer Interaction—2nd Edition

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 15098 | Submission Open

Keywords: HCI; user experience; user-centered design; multimodal interfaces; interaction technologies; usability; virtual reality; augmented reality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Cloud/Edge Computing for Next-Generation Networks: Architecture and Applications

edited by Lav Gupta

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8235 | Submission Open

Keywords: cloud computing; edge computing; 5G/6G networks; cloud-edge applications; cloud-edge systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Security and Privacy Issues in the Internet of Cloud—2nd Edition

edited by

Christos Kalloniatis

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5875 | Submission Open

Keywords: security challenges for IoC; privacy challenges for IoC; IoC and edge computing challenges; ethical issues with IoC; security and privacy requirements of IoC; security solutions and PETs in IoC

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Blockchain and Big Data Analytics

edited by

Kritagya Upadhyay

and

Syed Badruddoja

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1602 | Submission Open

Keywords: blockchain; big data; artificial intelligence; federated learning; cybersecurity; IoT

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Information Communication Technologies and Social Media

edited by Jinpeng Chen,

Ruifan Li

and Kaimin Wei

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 24880 | Submission Open

Keywords: social media impact; data privacy and security; digital communication; misinformation and media literacy; digital inclusion; cyberbullying and online safety; user behavior analytics; social media algorithms; ethical considerations in ICT; digital addiction effects

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Anomaly and Intrusion Detection in Networks

edited by Eszter Kail,

Anna Bánáti

and Miklós Kozlovszky

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5610 | Submission Open

Keywords: anomaly detection; intrusion detection; machine learning; legacy networks; XAI; IoT; IIoT; honeypots

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

IoT Networks Security

edited by

Fatima Salahdine

and

Naima Kaabouch

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2522 | Submission Open

Keywords: internet of things; cyber-security; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Cloud Computing and Cloud Service Orchestration

edited by

Efthimia Mavridou

and

Eleni Vrochidou

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 755 | Submission Open

Keywords: cloud computing; cloud service orchestration; AI-driven orchestration; intent-based management; resource provisioning; distributed monitoring; container orchestration; edge computing; serverless computing; microservices orchestration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)

Intelligent Computational Methods for Urban Traffic Management and Control

edited by

Yordanka Boneva

,

Alexander Gegov

and

Boriana Vatchova

submission deadline 16 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1638 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban traffic; traffic management; traffic control; intelligent transport systems; traffic optimization; traffic simulation; machine learning; reinforcement learning; urban mobility

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Parallel Computing and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Veronica Gil-Costa

and

Alonso Inostrosa Psijas

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 357 | Submission Open

Keywords: parallel computing; artificial intelligence; high-performance computing (HPC); scalable algorithms; heterogeneous architectures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)

Large Language Models and Network Intelligence

edited by

Rongfei Zeng

and Zhaoyun Ding

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 312 | Submission Open

Keywords: LLM; networks; edge; intelligence; IOTs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Advances in Security, Trust, and Privacy in Cloud–Edge–Terminal Collaborative Networks

edited by

Weidong Fang

,

Chunsheng Zhu

and Yepeng Ni

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 287 | Submission Open

Keywords: distributed cloud–edge environments; privacy and security Mechanisms; distributed AI and defense

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Smart Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Algorithms

edited by Fengyu Wang and Jincheng Dai

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5570 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence algorithms; multi-modal artificial intelligence; artificial intelligence empowered systems; artificial intelligence empowered evaluation; robotics algorithms; novel applications of artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Novel Approaches and Techniques for Privacy in Internet Communications

edited by

Antonio Ruiz Martínez

and

Simeon Okechukwu Ajakwe

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4278 | Submission Open

Keywords: anonymous communications networks; anonymous protocols; anonymous communication applications/services; tracking and advertising; surveillance; censorship resistance; anti-fingerprinting techniques; privacy technologies; artificial intelligence and privacy; privacy frameworks; user privacy; privacy by design; Internet of Things privacy; traffic analysis; web privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Blockchain-Empowered Internet of Agents for Trusted and Autonomous Networked Systems

edited by Shujie Yang,

Xiaohai Dai

,

Zhuo Chen

, Qinnan Zhang and

Junqin Huang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1767 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI agents; LLM-driven autonomous systems; blockchain-enabled trust; verifiable agent behavior; decentralized knowledge and coordination; BFT consensus and agent optimization; federated and edge intelligence; token incentive mechanisms; secure multi-agent collaboration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Recent Advances in Security for Internet of Things

edited by

Said El Kafhali

, Youssef Saadi and

Ahmed Bentajer

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 496 | Submission Open

Keywords: secure edge and fog computing; threat detection and anomaly analysis; privacy-preserving techniques; vulnerability assessment and attack modeling; AI/ML-based security solutions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Internet of Things Technology and Service Computing

edited by Yang Zhang and

Michael Sheng

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8834 | Submission Open

Keywords: LLM-driven IoT service; multimodal models enhanced IoT service; AI-based IoT service reasoning; generative AI as a IoT service; IoT security and privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy Between AI and Software Engineering

edited by

Yunwei Dong

,

Guanjun Liu

and Xiaomin Wei

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6724 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; software engineering; large language models (LLMs); software repair; program synthesis; machine learning; automated testing; software analytics; intelligent systems; AI4SE; SE4AI; human–AI collaboration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust in Intelligent Networked Systems

edited by

Linghui Li

and Ruigang Liang

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1057 | Submission Open

Keywords: cybersecurity; data privacy; zero trust; artificial intelligence security; blockchain security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Accessible Knowledge-Enhanced Web Intelligence: Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs, and Natural Language Interfaces

edited by

Alia Abdelmoty

, Usashi Chatterjee and

Michael Sheng

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 448 | Submission Open

Keywords: semantic web; ontologies; knowledge graphs; natural language interfaces; question answering; web intelligence; semantic search; knowledge representation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Autonomous Vehicles, Immersive Realities and Intelligent IoT

edited by

Yao-Liang Chung

and

Dah-Jing Jwo

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 401 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous vehicles; immersive realities (AR/VR/MR); intelligent IoT; V2X communication; edge/fog computing; 5G/6G; digital twins; task offloading; resource autoscaling; service migration; AI-driven orchestration; cybersecurity and resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare: Technologies, Applications, Challenges

edited by

Daniela Gîfu

and Kevin Bretonnel Cohen

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12802 | Submission Open

Keywords: interactive health technologies; natural language processing and text mining in healthcare; biomedical data analytics; big data in healthcare; visual analytics and decision-support systems; security and privacy in healthcare data; evaluation and validation of AI methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Intelligent Telecommunications Mobile Networks

edited by

Emanuele De Santis

and Francesco Delli Priscoli

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10433 | Submission Open

Keywords: B5G/6G communication systems; intelligent systems in telecommunication networks; sematic communication in mobile networks; intelligent caching and offloading; terrestrial/non-terrestrial networks convergence; AI-driven network management; machine learning in telecommunications; edge computing in mobile networks; adaptive spectrum sharing; 5G/6G network optimization; intelligent resource allocation; IoT integration in mobile networks; network slicing; cognitive radio networks; autonomous network operations; dynamic network topology; ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC); energy-efficient mobile networks; network function virtualization (NFV); self-organizing networks (SONs)

Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems

edited by

Yuyan Pan

, Xin Wu and

Fangtong Jiao

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 548 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent transportation systems (ITSs); highway and tunnel traffic applications; connected and automated vehicles (CAVs); transit optimization; digital twin and edge computing; AI-driven traffic prediction; cooperative vehicle–infrastructure systems; sustainable and smart mobility; multimodal transportation integration; next-generation traffic management; autonomous transportation systems; digital transportation and big data; traffic safety; urban air mobility operations; on-demand transit

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Machine Learning Techniques for Computer Vision—2nd Edition

edited by Yonggang Lu and

Ivan Serina

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1592 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; computer vision; mobile devices; human–computer interaction; deep learning; image processing; video processing; few-shot learning; transfer learning; interpretability; image classification; object detection; semantic segmentation; action recognition; anomaly detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Privacy-Preserving and Secure Federated Learning for IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems

edited by

Zhe Sun

and Yuanyuan He

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1372 | Submission Open

Keywords: federated learning; Internet of Things; cyber–physical systems; privacy-preserving machine learning; security and privacy; edge and fog computing; distributed artificial intelligence; differential privacy; secure aggregation; adversarial robustness; trustworthy AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Collaborative Intelligence for Connected Agents

edited by

Guiyang Luo

, Kaige Qu and Hui Zhang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1293 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-agent systems; collaborative perception; multi-agent decision-making; collaborative localization; collaborative navigation; collaborative intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

New Trends for Blockchain Technologies

edited by

Marios Touloupou

, Evgenia Kapassa and

Marinos Themistocleous

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 946 | Submission Open

Keywords: blockchain technologies; distributed ledger technologies; smart contracts; decentralized applications; information systems; data-driven decision making; digital platforms; cloud computing; edge computing; Internet of Things (IoT); interoperability; blockchain scalability; privacy and security; trust and transparency; blockchain-enabled services; artificial intelligence integration; decentralized autonomous organization (DAOs)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Federated Neural Networks: Design and Deployment

edited by

Amir Anees

and Gnana K. Bharathy

submission deadline 1 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 654 | Submission Open

Keywords: federated learning; federated neural networks; privacy-preserving machine learning; distributed deep learning; non-IID data and data heterogeneity; communication-efficient learning; secure and robust federated systems; model deployment and scalability; healthcare and industrial applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Wireless Communications and IoT Convergence

edited by

Amiya Nayak

,

Jose I. Moreno Novella

and Zhirun Hu

submission deadline 1 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 262 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things; wireless sensor networks; low-power wide-area networks; edge computing; smart devices; security and privacy; machine-to-machine communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

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