Big Data and Cognitive Computing in 2026
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Happy New Year! We hope you enjoyed a fruitful 2025, and we extend our best wishes for a successful 2026.
We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue, titled “Big Data and Cognitive Computing in 2026”, as part of the MDPI journal New Year Special Issue Series. This Special Issue will feature a collection of high-quality reviews and original research articles contributed by Advisory Board Members, Editors-in-Chief, Editorial Board Members, Guest Editors, Topical Advisory Panel Members, Reviewer Board Members, as well as authors and reviewers affiliated with learned societies.
If you are interested in contributing, you are welcome to submit a short proposal for a contribution to our Editorial Office at bdcc@mdpi.com before full submission.
All proposals will be evaluated by our Editors. Please note that selected full papers will still undergo a thorough and rigorous peer-review process.
We look forward to your contributions and to another year of excellent research together.
Prof. Dr. Min Chen
Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Fortino
Dr. Wenjing Xiao
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Big Data and Cognitive Computing is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- large language models
- multimodal learning
- explainable AI
- edge computing
- privacy-preserving computing
- knowledge graphs
- embodied intelligence
- blockchain
- agentic AI
- big data
- cloud computing
- machine learning
- deep learning
- cognitive computing
- IoT
- data mining
- human-machine interaction
- digital twin
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Published Papers
Big Data Cogn. Comput. - ISSN 2504-2289