This book contains the successful invited submissions [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15] to a special issue of Symmetry on the subject area of ‘Information Technology and Its Applications’.
This special issue aims to provide a forum for presentations and discussions of the recent methodological advances in information technology and its applications. The special issue covers pure research and applications within novel scopes related to multimedia, such as image-related techniques image retrieval, and multimedia applications. In addition, it deals with information technologies, such as information hiding, IOT, cloud computing and so on.
This special issue includes the novel techniques and tools for information technology and its applications, such as:
- Multimedia Applications
- Image Related
- Information Hiding
- Pattern Recognition
- IOT
- Cloud Computing
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
- Neural Network
- Distributed Systems
- Software Engineering
- Bio-informatics
- Information Technology Related Issues
The response to our call had the following statistics:
- Submissions (49);
- Publications (15);
- Rejections (34);
- Article types: Research Article (15);
The geographical distribution of our authors (published papers) is:
- Taiwan (7)
- China (6)
- USA (1)
- Poland (1)
Published submissions are related to neural network, security, information hiding, multimedia applications, software engineering, machine learning and so on.
We found the edition and selections of papers for this book very inspiring and rewarding. We also thank the editorial staff and reviewers for their efforts and help during the process.
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