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