Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Big Data and Cognitive Computing 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 in Big Data and Cognitive Computing were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected.

One Review:
Forecasting Plant and Crop Disease: An Explorative Study on Current Algorithms
By Gianni Fenu and Francesca Maridina Malloci
Big Data Cogn. Comput. 2021, 5(1), 2; doi:10.3390/bdcc5010002

One Article:
6G Cognitive Information Theory: A Mailbox Perspective
By Yixue Hao, Yiming Miao, Min Chen, Hamid Gharavi and Victor C. M. Leung
Big Data Cogn. Comput. 2021, 5(4), 56; doi:10.3390/bdcc5040056

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and the chance to publish a paper free of charge in Big Data and Cognitive Computing in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Big Data and Cognitive Computing 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Big Data and Cognitive Computing.

Kind regards,
Big Data and Cognitive Computing Editorial Office

The BDCC Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to BDCC. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referees have been selected to receive the BDCC “Outstanding Reviewer Award 2019” for the quantity, timeliness, and helpfulness of their reviews in 2019 (in alphabetical order by surname). Each of them will receive 500 CHF, a feature paper free of charge in BDCC, and a certificate for their outstanding review work:

Dr. Jorge Maestre Vidal
1. Indra Sistemas S.A, Avenida de Bruselas 35, 28108 Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
2. Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, C/ Profesor José García Santesmases 9, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Dr. Giancarlo Sperlì
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy

Prof. Dr. Jorge Bernardino
1. Polytechnic of Coimbra—Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra (ISEC), 3030-190 Coimbra, Portugal
2. Centre of Informatics and Systems of University of Coimbra (CISUC), 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal