Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Computers 2024 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Computers from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. One review and one research article will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Paolo Bellavista.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Computers from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

The Prize:
– One review award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Computers in 2024 after peer review;
– One research article award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Computers in 2024 after peer review.
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in April 2024.

Kind regards,
Computers Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Computers 2023 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Computers from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality, significance and number of citations and downloads of the papers, two winners were selected.

One Review:
Automated Machine Learning for Healthcare and Clinical Notes Analysis
By Akram Mustafa and Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi
Computers 2021, 10(2), 24; doi: 10.3390/computers10020024

One Article:
Gamification as a Strategy to Increase Motivation and Engagement in Higher Education Chemistry Students
By Guillermo M. Chans and May Portuguez Castro
Computers 2021, 10(10), 132; doi: 10.3390/computers10100132

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Computers in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Computers 2023 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Computers.

Kind regards,
Computers Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Computers 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Paolo Bellavista, have been selected.

One review:
Recommendations for Integrating a P300-Based Brain–Computer Interface in Virtual Reality Environments for Gaming: An Update
by Grégoire Cattan, Anton Andreev and Etienne Visinoni
Computers 2020, 9(4), 92; doi:10.3390/computers9040092

One research article:
Improving Internet of Things (IoT) Security with Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
by Abdullah Al Hayajneh, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan and Ian McAndrew
Computers 2020, 9(1), 8; doi:10.3390/computers9010008

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Computers in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Computers and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Paolo Bellavista, Computers

Dear colleagues,

Our journal is pleased to announce the winner of the Computers 2021 Travel Award. The evaluation committee was very impressed with the high quality of presented work, and after careful consideration, the Travel Award has been granted to one winner: Umberto Michieli from University of Padova.

Mr. Umberto Michieli is a Computer Vision and Deep Learning enthusiast, and his research goal is to contribute to the continual adaptation process of AI into everyday life. In particular, his interests include continual learning and unsupervised domain adaptation applied to semantic segmentation. The former is a recent research field being explored with output-level and latent representation-level techniques. The latter is more consolidated in the literature, and his work is aimed at enriching neural network capabilities using self-training strategies based on generated pseudo-labels. Mr. Umberto Michieli would like to attend International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021, Montreal, Canada, 11–17 October 2021. The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to attend this conference.

We would like to thank all of the applicants for submitting details of what was a diverse and fascinating range of research topics. We also would like to thank the members of the evaluation committee for their comprehensive evaluation of the candidates. Finally, I wish to congratulate the winner on his accomplishments.

Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Paolo Bellavista,
Editor-in-Chief

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the 2019 Computers Best Paper Award. The winners were selected by a selection committee comprising Computers Editorial Board Members and finally approved by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Paolo Bellavista. The following top-voted research article and top-voted review are the winners of the 2019 Computers Best Paper Award.

Article:

BlendCAC: A Smart Contract Enabled Decentralized Capability-Based Access Control Mechanism for the IoT
Ronghua Xu, Yu Chen, Erik Blasch and Genshe Chen
Computers 2018, 7(3), 39; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers7030039

Review:

Mobile Educational Augmented Reality Games: A Systematic Literature Review and Two Case Studies
Teemu H. Laine
Computers 2018, 7(1), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers7010019

We wish to congratulate the authors and thank them for having chosen Computers to publish their work.

In recognition of their accomplishments, the authors of the top-voted article will receive a cash award of 500 CHF; for the review, the author will receive an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Computers, subject to the standard peer review procedure.

Kind regards,
Computers Editorial Office

Dear Colleague,

As Editor-in-Chief of Computers, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Computers Travel Award on behalf of the Travel Award Evaluation Committee.

The winner is Emilio Cruciani, Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, whose primary research activity is on the analysis of dynamical processes of networks and on the design of scalable algorithms for large datasets. He is planning to orally present his work "Scalable Approaches for Test Suite Reduction" at the prestigious 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (25-31 May 2019, Montréal, QC, Canada). The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to attend this conference.

The Travel Award winner selection was a difficult process as we received many high-quality applications for the award and we thank all applicants for their valuable submissions. Let me take the opportunity to thank also the Travel Award Evaluation Committee, which worked promptly and rigorously to determine the winner. We wish to congratulate Mr. Emilio Cruciani for his accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Paolo Bellavista
Editor-in-Chief

Computers (ISSN 2073-431X) is an international scientific peer-reviewed open access journal of computer science, including computer and network architecture and computer–human interaction as its main foci, published quarterly online by MDPI with a median publication time of 40 days from submission to publication in 2018. It is now Indexed in the Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI - Web of Science), Inspec (IET), and DBLP.

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