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Flexible and Printed Electronic Sensors for IoT Applications

edited by

Joseph Andrews

and

Sharmistha Bhadra

submission deadline 15 May 2021

Keywords: Electronic Sensors; Flexible Electronics; Internet of Things; Printed Electronics; Sensing; Wearable

Applications of Terahertz Wave

edited by

Jean-Paul Guillet

submission deadline 15 May 2021 | 2 articles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)

New Challenges in Biomedical Signal Processing: Computational Theory and Applications

edited by

Alessandro Mengarelli

and Federica Verdini

submission deadline 15 May 2021 | 1 articles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Bioelectronics)

Distributed Artificial Intelligence in Logistics, Supply Chains, Transportation, and Transport Systems

edited by

Lawrence E. Henesey

submission deadline 15 May 2021

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Agent Based or Multi Agent Based Systems; machine learning; genetic algorithms; knowledge representation; natural language processing; planning and social intelligence; transportation systems, transport; logistics, supply chains; e-commerce; physical distribution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)

Toward a New Era of Radio Access Technologies for 5G and Beyond

edited by Soo Young Shin

submission deadline 15 May 2021 | 2 articles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)

Security and Privacy for Data Decentralized Marketplaces

edited by Miguel Soriano and Javier Lopez

submission deadline 15 May 2021

(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)

MIMO for Next Generation Wireless Systems

edited by Paulo Montezuma

submission deadline 15 May 2021 | 1 articles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)

Autonomous Navigation Systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

edited by

Rodrigo Munguı́a

and

Antoni Grau

submission deadline 15 May 2021 | 8 articles

Keywords: Unmanned aerial vehicles; Drone; SLAM; Robot navigation; UAV control; Tracking; Visual odometry; Mapping; Sensors and actuators in UAV

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)

Blockchain Technology and Its Applications

edited by Sunghyun Cho

submission deadline 15 May 2021 | 3 articles

Keywords: Efficiency of blockchain; Scalability of blockchain; Security in blockchain; Blockchain platforms; Blockchain technologies for media and content; Blockchain technologies for healthcare applications; Blockchain technologies for public services; Emerging applications combined with blockchain; Other technical issues to combine blockchain with emerging applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)

Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technologies and Artificial Intelligence

edited by Josep Lluis de la Rosa Esteva

submission deadline 20 May 2021

(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)

Reliability Assessment and Modeling of Optical and Semiconductor Devices

edited by Ilgu Yun, Soon Il Jung, Chang Eun Kim and Edward Namkyu Cho

submission deadline 20 May 2021 | 4 articles

Keywords: Reliability assessment; Reliability testing; reliability modeling and simulation; Reliability methodology and prediction; Failure analysis; Optoelectronic semiconductor devices; Electronic semiconductor devices.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Semiconductor Devices)

Energy-Aware and Efficient Computing and Communications

edited by

Jong Kook Kim

,

Joongheon Kim

and Sean (Seok-Chul) Kwon

submission deadline 20 May 2021 | 3 articles

Keywords: Energy-aware computing; Energy-aware communication systems; Power efficient circuit design; Power efficient embedded systems; Green IT; Green IoT; Energy-efficient communication; Green communications; Energy-aware mobile platforms; Energy-aware machine learning and neural networks; Artificial intelligence techniques for energy-aware computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)

Advancement of Fault Detection/Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control with Applications

edited by Zehui Mao,

Xinggang Yan

and

Hamed Badihi

submission deadline 20 May 2021 | 1 articles

Keywords: Fault detectability analysis; Model-based fault detection/diagnosis method and its performance analysis; Fault detection/diagnosis via artificial intelligent method; Fault detection/diagnosis for aircraft/spacecraft control systems, formation and swarm systems, traffic systems, and underwater vehicles, etc.; Fault-tolerant control via adaptive, sliding-mode, fuzzy technique; Fault-tolerant control for uncertain system, stochastic systems, multi-agent systems, etc.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)

Telecommunication Networks

edited by Piotr Zwierzykowski, Erich Leitgeb and Paweł Śniatała

submission deadline 20 May 2021 | 6 articles

Keywords: telecommunication networks; optical networks; industrial networks; mobile and cellular networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)

Human-Robot Collaboration in Manufacturing

edited by

Cecilio Angulo

submission deadline 20 May 2021

Keywords: Human–robot collaboration; Robotics in the fourth industrial revolution; Ergonomics in industrial human–robot collaboration; Safety in industrial human–robot collaboration; Organizational issues related with robot introduction in industry; Improving operator skills in human–robot industrial tasks; Cognitive and social dimension in industrial human–robot collaboration; Metrics in human–robot collaboration; Implementation of human–robot collaboration tasks in manufacturing; Advisors robots for operators in Industry 4.0

(This special issue belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)

Digital Communication and Broadband Technology: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by

Joan-Francesc Fondevila-Gascón

, Josep Rom-Rodríguez and

Marc Polo-López

submission deadline 30 May 2021

Keywords: Digital communication; Broadband; HbbTV; Interactivity; Broadband society; Cloud journalism; Digital marketing; Fiber optics; Cable

(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)

High Accuracy Detection of Mobile Malware Using Machine Learning

edited by

Suleiman Yerima

submission deadline 30 May 2021 | 2 articles

Keywords: Systematic review of the latest machine-learning-based mobile malware research; Novel machine learning techniques applied to mobile malware; Deep-learning-based detection of mobile malware; Novel supervised and unsupervised learning techniques; Classifier fusion and ensemble-learning-based approaches; Novel system architectures for mobile malware detection; Network-based machine-learning-driven detection systems; Edge/fog computing machine-learning-based detection systems; Cloud-based/cloud-assisted large-scale detection systems; Adversarial machine learning techniques; Mitigating long-term performance decline

(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)

Circuits and Systems for Approximate Computing

edited by Sunggu Lee

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 5 articles

Keywords: approximate computing; low power; computer arithmetic; error resilient applications; neural network accelerators

(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)

Superconducting Quantum Circuits for Modern Electronics

edited by Arkady Fedorov

submission deadline 31 May 2021

Keywords: superconducting quantum circuits; quantum limited amplification; qubit; quantum measurement; quantum phase slips

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Electronics)

Convolutional Neural Networks and Vision Applications

edited by D. J. Lee

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 10 articles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS))

Advanced AI Hardware Designs Based on FPGAs

edited by

Joo-Young Kim

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 9 articles

Keywords: DNN inference/training accelerators on FPGAs; Multi-FPGA approaches for scalable ML acceleration; Distributed deep learning architecture on multiple FPGAs; Hardware/Software co-design for energy-efficient ML on FPGA; Narrow-precision and efficient floating-point representation on FPGA for ML applications; Design automation from ML algorithm to FPGAs; Soft DNN processor to cover a wide-range of ML applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS))

Deep Learning for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

edited by

Athanasios Voulodimos

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 10 articles

Keywords: deep learning; computer vision; visual understanding; object detection; tracking; action recognition; pose estimation; semantic segmentation; convolutional neural networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)

Intelligent Control of Mobile Robotics

edited by Angel García-Olaya and

Andrea Orlandini

submission deadline 31 May 2021

Keywords: AI in mobile robotics; Deliberation in mobile robotics; Machine learning for mobile robotics; Intelligent control approaches for mobile robotics; Mixed-initiative planning and adjustable autonomy; Autonomous robot systems; Path and trajectory planning; Mobile multi-robot systems and human-robot teaming; Formal methods for robot planning and control; Social mobile robotics; Behavior transparency and explainability; Real-world robotic applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)

RFID System and Applications

edited by

Nemai Chandra Karmakar

, Santanu Kumar Behera,

Mohamed El-Hadidy

and Jhantu Kumar Saha

submission deadline 31 May 2021

Keywords: Chipless RFID; Chipless RFID sensors; Chipless RFID reader; RFID detection algorithm; Printed electronics for chipless RFID; UWB antennas for chipless RFID; UWB components and systems for chipless RFID; Smart material sensing and chipless RFID; Commerical potnetial of chipless RFID; Emerging applications of chipless; Security in RFID and chipless RFID

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)

Theory and Applications of Fuzzy Systems and Neural Networks

edited by Alexander Gegov and Raheleh Jafari

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 3 articles

Keywords: fuzzy systems; neural networks; intelligent systems; computational intelligence; artificial intelligence; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)

Vehicular Networks and Communications, Volume II

edited by Omprakash Kaiwartya, Zhengguo Sheng, Wei-Chang Yeh and Qian Fu

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 1 articles

Keywords: V2X Communications, V2V, V2R, V2P, V2I, V2S; Routing, Data Dissemination, Data Aggregation, Path Section, Optimization; Medium Access Protocols, Congestion Control, Prioritization Techniques; Green Computing, Energy Consumption, Energy Harvesting, Lifetime Maximixation; Secure Communication, Security Optimization, Distibuted Security; Privacy Preservation, Privacy Loss, Secrate Communication; Video Transmission, Video Encoding/Decoding, Video Compression; Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Cloud Computing, Distributed Computing; Localization, Geographic, GPS outage, GPS free, GPS assisted; Propagation Modelling, Interference, Path Loss Modelling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)

Ambient Assisted Living Technologies

edited by

António Manuel De Jesus Pereira

and Nuno Alexandre Ribeiro Costa

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 2 articles

Keywords: e-Health sensors and/or actuators; e-Health IT components; Wearables, body sensor networks, smart portable devices; Mobile assisted living; Elderly patient monitoring; Activity recognition systems and algorithms; Human–computer interactions and interfaces; Context-aware systems and algorithms; Wireless body sensors and body sensor networks; In-home wireless sensor networks; Software-defined network (SDN); Embedded systems architectures; Routing and control protocols; Localization technologies and techniques; Machine to machine communication; 5g-enabled devices and services

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)

LifeXR: Concepts, Technology and Design for Everyday XR

edited by

Dongsik Jo

, Gerard J. Kim and Jae-in Hwang

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 4 articles

Keywords: New mobile XR/LifeXR platforms; Usability of mobile XR/LifeXR; User experience of mobile XR/LifeXR; Sickness in mobile XR/LifeXR; Interaction design for mobile XR/LifeXR; Interfaces for mobile XR/LifeXR; Tracking for mobile XR/LifeXR; Context awareness for mobile XR/LifeXR; 5G for mobile XR/LifeXR; IoT for mobile XR/LifeXR; Multimode XR and LifeXR; Multitasking LifeXR; LifeXR applications; LifeXR in everyday spaces (vehicle, office, kitchen, living room, restaurant, bed, etc.)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)

Design, Modeling and Control of Power Electronic Converters for/in Renewable Energy Systems

edited by

Emilio Gomez-Lazaro

and

Andres Honrubia-Escribano

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 9 articles

Keywords: power converters; wind power plants; solar PV power plants; variable renewable energy integration; storage technologies; model validation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)

Wearable and Flexible Integrated Sensors

edited by

Gianluca Traversi

and

Patrick Locatelli

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 2 articles

Keywords: flexible sensors; flexible electronics; graphene; textile sensors; smart textiles; flexible strain sensors; printed sensors and electronics; flexible composites; liquid metals; flexible supercapacitors; flexible harvester

(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)

Access Technology in 5G and Mobile Communication Networks

edited by

Wooseong Kim

,

Andreas Kassler

and Enrica Zola

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 6 articles

Keywords: Sub- or above 6 GHz radio access technologies for 5G+; V2X communication using mmWave links; NOMA for 5G and beyond wireless networks; THz communications for 5G+ eMBB; Fog and MEC architecture for 5G access networks; Machine learning aided Fog and MEC operation; (Massive) multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) for a 5G+ access network; SDN-assist admission control in a 5G access network; Multi-connectivity and co-existence in satellite/UAS and a 5G network; Private 5G access network by dynamic spectrum access (DSA); Localization issue in indoor or city cayon

(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)

Robotics Systems and Intelligent Machines for Immediate Deployment in Pandemic Crisis

edited by

Roque Saltaren

submission deadline 31 May 2021

Keywords: intelligent robots; mobile robots; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)

Nitride Semiconductors Revolution: Material, Devices and Applications

edited by

Mauro Mosca

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 4 articles

Keywords: nitride-based light-emitting diodes; nitride-based lasers; nitride-based power devices; nitride-based microwave and RF devices; III-nitride solar cells; solar-blind detectors; III-nitride epitaxy; radar and GaN-based power amplifiers; nitride nanostructures; nitride spintronics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microelectronics and Optoelectronics)

Cyber Security for Internet of Things

edited by Carsten Maple,

Matthew Bradbury

and

Munam Ali Shah

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 8 articles

Keywords: Cyber security; IoT security; Cyber physical systems; Edge security; Forensics in cyber physical systems; Information security; Security engineering; Cyber security risk and analytics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)

Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications

edited by

Konstantin Markov

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 7 articles

Keywords: Speech/music/audio processing; Image/video processing; Multimedia communications and networking; Internet of Things (IoT)-based multimedia systems and applications; Deep learning for multimedia; Multimedia big data analytics; Multimedia processing for health care; Multimedia systems for emerging applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)

Cognitive Big Data: Data Visualization, Interactive Analytics and Human Factors

edited by

Artur Lugmayr

submission deadline 31 May 2021

Keywords: Immersive visualization; Information visualization; Data storytelling; Human cognition and perception; Interactive data analytics; Human factors in visualization; AI/VR/MR/XR; Cognition and perception; Knowledge visualization; Creative and artistic works in data visualization; Communication and presentation of analytics results; Novel interfaces and interaction paradigms; Visual representations and operations techniques; Scientific visualization; Practical case studies; Benchmarks in data visualization; Interactive data mining; Human-in-the loop processing; Cognitive big data; Physical visualization; Tangible & ubiquitous visualization; Visualization of culture; Affective computing and visualization; Social and communication aspects

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)

Applications and Trends on Artificial Intelligence-Based Assistive Technology

edited by

Anton Civit

,

Panagiotis Bamidis

and Julio Abascal

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 1 articles

Keywords: AI-enabled vision assistance for people with visual impairments; Machine learning approaches for dysarthric speech processing; AI based alternative and augmentative communication tools; AI-based tools for people with hearing related disabilities; Personal Assistants for people with cognitive disabilities; AI-based assistive environments; Intelligent mobility aids; Novel applications and case studies in intelligent Assistive Technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)

Design and Theoretical Study of New Antennas

edited by

Chan Hwang See

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 3 articles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)

Open Source Software in Learning Environments

edited by

Manuel Palomo-Duarte

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 5 articles

Keywords: Open source software; Technology-enhanced learning; Open collaboration; Learning technologies; Community-driven software development; Educational research; Smart learning environments; Learning methodologies; Code review; Collaborative learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)

Intelligent Systems and Control

edited by

Jose Luis Calvo-Rolle

, Esteban Jove and José-Luis Casteleiro-Roca

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 2 articles

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Edge computing; Machine learning; Soft computing; Smart learning; Deep learning; Optimization; Process control; IoT

(This special issue belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)

AI and In-Network Caching Driven Technologies for Smart Cities

edited by

Jianhui Lv

, Yuhui Shi, Xingwei Wang,

Hui Cheng

and Qingyi Zhang

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 2 articles

Keywords: AI; in-network caching; smart cities; IoT; edge computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)

Design of Intelligent Intrusion Detection Systems

edited by Constantinos Kolias,

Georgios Kambourakis

and

Weizhi Meng

submission deadline 31 May 2021

Keywords: Scallable Anomaly Detection Methods; Distributed Intrusion Detection; Collaborative Intrusion Detection; Privacy Preserving IDS; Federated Anomaly Detection; Application of Deep Learning for Intrusion Detection; Reinforcement Learning for Intrusion Detection; Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks; Intrusion Detection for Industrial Control Systems; Intrusion Detection in Vehicular Networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)

RF, Microwave and Millimeter Wave Devices and Integrated Systems

edited by

Rodica Ramer

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 4 articles

Keywords: Reconfigurable filters and systems design; Reconfigurable antennas and systems design; Terahertz electronic components; Electromagnetic applications for biomedicine; Novel materials for high-frequency applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)

Selected Papers from 14th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems

edited by

Tadeusz A. Wysocki

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 1 articles

Keywords: Signal Processing; Wireless Networks; 5G; Wireless Communication; Sensor Networks; Multimedia Communication; Communication System Security; Data Security; Information Theory; Communication Theory; Modeling Biological Systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)

Advancing Software Architecture

edited by

Mohamed E. Fayad

, Davide Brugali and David S. Hamu

submission deadline 31 May 2021

Keywords: functional and non-functional requirements of software architecture; ultimate/unification/stability/standards/engines/abstraction/unlimited reusable of software architecture; (self)-adaptable/(self)-configurable/(self)-scalable/(self)-manageable extensible of software architecture; customizable/unlimited applicability/innovative methodology and techniques/model-driven/application and enterprise frameworks of software architecture; artificial intelligence/robotic and smart systems/roles/responsibilities/culture/economic/business/managerial aspects and impacts/critical look at existing/industrial experiences and case studies of software architecture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)

Augmented Reality in IoT

edited by

Byeong-hee Roh

and SJ Kim

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 2 articles

Keywords: AR-assisted IoT/IoT-assisted AR; Integration and synchronization in IoT/AR; Competence, performance, and usability assessment in IoT/AR platforms; Physiological and psychological impacts of IoT/AR systems; Multisensory data analysis in the platforms; Ergonomic approaches of IoT/AR hardware devices; Ergonomic approaches of IoT/AR software interfaces; Case studies/Empirical studies; Applications/Platform design and construction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)

Implantable and Wearable Wireless Medical Devices

edited by

J.-C. Chiao

, Animesh (Aashoo) Tandon and Hung Cao

submission deadline 31 May 2021

Keywords: implant; wearable; wireless; sensor; vital sign; signal transduction; body network; medical device

(This special issue belongs to the Section Bioelectronics)

Recent Advances on Circuits and Systems for Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle

and Walter Leon-Salas

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 2 articles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS))

Microprocessor and Integrated Circuits

edited by Masum Hossain

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 1 articles

Keywords: machine learning; I/O bandwidth; energy efficiency; accelerators; CMOS

(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)

Advances in Low-Frequency Noise Measurements

edited by Carmine Ciofi

submission deadline 31 May 2021 | 4 articles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)

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