Announcements

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Martin Gebser, Prof. Dr. Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo and Prof. Dr. Sheng Du to the Topical Advisory Panel of Algorithms (ISSN: 1999-4893).

Dr. Martin Gebser currently works at the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, University of Klagenfurt, Universitätsstraße 65-67, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria. He has been serving as a Committee Member in the Programme Committee within the PADL since 2019, the Session Chair of Answer Set Programming (part of PADL 2022), and he was the Chair of Break: Ask Me Anything within the LPOP 2020 track. His research interests include artificial intelligence; declarative problem solving; knowledge representation and reasoning; computational logic; and answer set programming.

Prof. Dr. Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo currently works at the Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain. He is a member of the Official Research Course group of the UCM in the Engineering of Software Languages and Applications (ILSA). He has participated as a researcher in ten national plan projects, one project of the Community of Madrid, being the IP of the group of the Faculty of Informatics of the UCM, and in twelve Educational Innovation projects, in five of them as the Director. He has been one of the Spanish MC Members in the action COST IS0704 INTEREDITION “An Interoperable Supranational Infrastructure for Digital Editions”. He has been a researcher of the network S2008/TIC-1650 "Research and development of technologies for ELearning in the CM (eMadrid)" of the Community of Madrid.

We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Manuel Torrilhon, Prof. Dr. Changjiang Zhu and Dr. Ali Pinar to the Editorial Board of Algorithms (ISSN: 1999-4893).

Prof. Dr. Manuel Torrilhon is a full professor in the Mathematics Department at RWTH Aachen University in Germany, and currently serves as the Director of the Center for Computational Engineering Science at RWTH. His research focus is on numerical methods for mathematical modeling with partial differential equations, especially hyperbolic conservation laws, kinetic theory, the Boltzmann equation, and plasma physics.

Prof. Dr. Changjiang Zhu currently works as a full professor at the School of Mathematics, South China University of Technology, P. R. China. His areas of interest include fluid dynamics, hyperbolic conservation laws, the stability of nonlinear waves, and the Boltzmann equation.

Dr. Ali Pinar works on various applications that involve graphs. Recently, he has been working on modeling large-scale graphs, such as those of social networks and cyber networks. He is a distinguished member of the ACM and is also on the Editorial Boards of Algorithms (MDPI), SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, SIAM News, and the Journal on Complex Networks.

“COVID-19 Prediction Applying Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms with Comparative Analysis Using WEKA”
Charlyn Nayve Villavicencio et al
Algorithms 2021, 14(7), 201; 10.3390/a14070201

“Short Communication: Detecting Heavy Goods Vehicles in Rest Areas in Winter Conditions Using YOLOv5”
Margrit Kasper-Eulaers and Per Egil Kummervold et al
Algorithms 2021, 14(4), 114; 10.3390/a14040114

“Phase Congruential White Noise Generator”
Yulian A. Menyaev et al
Algorithms 2021, 14(4), 118; 10.3390/a14040118

“Circle-U-Net: An Efficient Architecture for Semantic Segmentation”
Guanci Yang et al
Algorithms 2021, 14(6), 159; 10.3390/a14060159

“Bio-Inspired Algorithms and Its Applications for Optimization in Fuzzy Clustering”
Oscar Castillo et al
Algorithms 2021, 14(4), 122; 10.3390/a14040122

“A Real-Time Network Traffic Classifier for Online Applications Using Machine Learning”
Ahmed Abdelmoamen Ahmed et al
Algorithms 2021, 14(8), 250; 10.3390/a14080250

“An Integrated Neural Network and SEIR Model to Predict COVID-19”
Karl Andersson et al
Algorithms 2021, 14(3), 94; 10.3390/a14030094

“A Multi-Objective Optimization Method for Hospital Admission Problem—A Case Study on Covid-19 Patients”
Amr Mohamed AbdelAziz and Louai Alarabi et al
Algorithms 2021, 14(2), 38; 10.3390/a14020038

“Dynamic Shortest Paths Methods for the Time-Dependent TSP”
Christoph Hansknecht et al
Algorithms 2021, 14(1), 21; 10.3390/a14010021

“Machine Learning Predicts Outcomes of Phase III Clinical Trials for Prostate Cancer”
Felix D. Beacher et al
Algorithms 2021, 14(5), 147; 10.3390/a14050147

We are currently recruiting Topical Advisory Panel Members for Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). The main responsibilities of Members of the Topical Advisory Panel include regularly providing support to Guest Editors and Section Board Members. Further information on the role and responsibilities of Topical Advisory Panel Members is available here: https://www.mdpi.com/editors.

Algorithms is a fully open access journal published online monthly by MDPI since 2008. It is indexed by MathSciNet, Scopus, ESCI, and EI Compendex and has received a CiteScore (2020) of 2.90. The aims and scope of the journal can be found on our website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/about.

To qualify as a Topical Advisory Panel Member, applicants must:

• Have experience in the field related to the journal;
• Have received a Ph.D. in the last 10 years, approximately;
• Have published at least 6-8 papers in the last 5 years as a first author or corresponding author;
• Currently hold an independent research position in academia or a government institute.

If you are interested in this position, please apply via the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/topical_advisory_panel_application, or send an email to the Editorial Office (algorithms@mdpi.com) with your academic resume attached.

It is our pleasure to welcome Dr. Arun Kumar Sangaiah (VIT University), Prof. Ivan Kisel (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies), Dr. Mostafa Abbaszadeh (Amirkabir University of Technology), and various other prominent academics as new Editorial Board Members of Algorithms (ISSN: 1999-4893). We look forward to their contributions to the journal.

It is our pleasure to announce that Dr. Seyedali Mirjalili, Editorial Board Member of Algorithms (ISSN: 1999-4893), has been listed as one of the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate. Dr. Seyedali Mirjalili is recognized for his advances in Swarm Intelligence (SI) and optimization, including the first set of Swarm Intelligence techniques from a synthetic intelligence standpoint—representing a radical departure from how natural systems are typically understood—and a systematic design framework to reliably benchmark, evaluate, and propose computationally cheap robust optimization algorithms.

It is our great honor to congratulate the Editorial Board Members and Editors in MDPI's journals who have been distinguished as 2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate, according to Web of Science data. We herewith express our gratitude for the immense impact the named researchers continue to make on scientific progress and on our journals' development.

Clarivate's annual list of Highly Cited Researchers^TM identifies the most highly cited scientists for the past decade. Their impactful papers are among the top 1 per cent in the citation distribution of one or more of 22 fields analyzed in the "Essential Science Indicators", distinguishing them as hugely influential among their peers.

The full list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers  can be accessed at the following webpage in the Web of Science^TM https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/.

--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.

Academic editors play a crucial role in leading our journals and ensuring that each article undergoes a robust and timely peer-review. With the launch of Topics this year and addition of Topic Editors to our family of academic editors, we decided it would be a good time to restructure our academic boards, thus providing more clarity and support for each role. MDPI is pleased to announce the launch of a new position—Topical Advisory Panel Member, that will replace the previous position of Topics Board Member. The Topical Advisory Panel will be comprised of early career researchers eager to gain experience in editorial work.

The main responsibility of the new members of the Topical Advisory Panel is to regularly provide support to Guest Editors, Topic Editors, and Section Board Members. The responsibilities of the Topical Advisory Panel are available here: https://www.mdpi.com/editors.

Each year, the members’ performances are evaluated, and outstanding members are promoted to the Editorial Board by the Editor-in-Chief.

To qualify as a Topical Advisory Panel Member, applicants must:

• Have expertise and experience in the field related to the journal;
• Have received a Ph.D. in the last 10 years, approximately;
• Have at least 6-8 published papers in the last 5 years as first author or corresponding author;
• Currently hold an independent research position in academia or a government institute.

If you are interested in this role, please contact the editorial office by email.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Founded in 1996, MDPI was one of the first fully Open Access publisher. Over 25 years MDPI has grown to become the largest Open Access publisher globally, publishing over 160,000 articles across more than 350 journals in 2020. At the core, MDPI was founded in response to a pressing need of fast publication and inclusion. The scholar was set at the centre of the publication process for the first time. Acting as a service provider, rather than a product provider, MDPI exists to help scientists achive their objective to disseminate research results. At MDPI, we believe scientists deserve a better service from the publishing world.

The International Open Access Week (Open Access Week), founded by the SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Alliance and student partners in 2008, has been successfully running for 13 years. As an advocate and pioneer of open access publishing, MDPI actively responds to the call of International Open Access Week. This year’s theme of “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” highlights the Recommendation’s call for equitable participation from all authors and readers.

For the last 25 years, MDPI has been committed to disseminating open research. Here is a video showing MDPI’s Commitment to Equity, Inclusion and Diversity for More than 25 Years.

International Open Access Week is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress in the building of more equitable foundations for opening knowledge—discussions and actions that need to be continued, year in and year out. MDPI has always aimed to provide professional and efficient publishing services to scholars around the world.

Our mission is to make scientific research accessible to everyone; this year, we interview and hold discussions with open science ambassadors on how to build an equal and inclusive environment for open science. Academic editors help us collaborate with more institutions to advocate for open access ideas.

Read our anniversary blog post: "Sharing 'Collective Human Knowledge': The Benefits of Open Access Publication"

Besides this, our scientific community is a key driver of our success and MDPI’s remarkable growth. Despite the pandemic, we have prepared online conferences and workshops to gather scholars from different communities.

The Basel Sustainable Publishing online forum provides an equal opportunity for stakeholders and researchers from multi-cultural environments to exchange ideas and eliminate barriers to participation.

Conference date: 25 October 2021, online
Conference website: https://bspf2021.sciforum.net/
Main topics: MDPI discusses the current dilemma of open access science from various perspectives such as governments, libraries, and publishers, and related measures on how to change the status quo of discrimination from a global perspective.

We aim to support equality, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications. We collaborate with universities and key laboratories and have scholarly communications with researchers, teachers, and students on open access workshops.

• 25 October 2021
  Energies journal and Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• 28 October 2021
  Machines journal and State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University

• 29 October 2021
  Processes journal and Beijing Institute of Technology

• 29 October 2021
  Coatings journal and Wuhan University of Technology

MDPI is committed to providing open access and high-quality publishing services for scholars and promoting rapid dissemination of academic achievements. We hope to promote the practices and policies of open access publishing and diversify the dissemination of academic achievements.

The First International Online Conference on Algorithms (IOCA 2021) | Live Session has recently been launched and will be held on 7 October 2021, at 12:00 CEST.

Speakers: Prof. Alberto Pinto, Dr. Pietro Oliveto, and Prof. Dr. Bruce Watson

Register here to attend for free: https://ioca2021.sciforum.net/#live_session.