Cloud Computing Systems and Intelligent Applications: Advances in Networks and Semantics

Dear Colleagues,

Cloud computing has become the backbone of modern digital infrastructures, enabling scalable computing, storage, and networking resources for diverse applications. The rapid growth of intelligent applications, distributed edge devices, and data-intensive services has created an urgent need for advanced solutions that combine the strengths of cloud systems, intelligent processing, and semantic interoperability.

This Special Issue, “Cloud Computing Systems and Intelligent Applications: Advances in Networks and Semantics,” seeks to gather cutting-edge research that advances both the theoretical and applied dimensions of cloud computing. We welcome contributions addressing next-generation cloud and edge architectures, distributed resource management, networking and programmable data planes, large-scale data analytics, and system-level security and privacy. We are particularly interested in works that leverage semantic technologies and knowledge graphs to enable interoperability, explainability, and policy-aware data usage, as well as intelligent orchestration mechanisms that employ machine learning for optimization, monitoring, and adaptation of cloud resources.

The focus of this Special Issue is to explore how semantic models, intelligent orchestration, and advanced networking can transform cloud computing into a more reliable, sustainable, and context-aware environment for complex applications. The scope covers architectures, platforms, and tools for cloud–edge–IoT integration; data and metadata management; semantic interoperability; network programmability; observability; and lifecycle operations (DevOps/MLOps/AIOps). We encourage both academic research and industry-driven studies, particularly those demonstrating real-world deployment, experimental validation, and measurable trade-offs in terms of scalability, latency, relevance, and privacy.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide a unified venue where researchers and practitioners can exchange knowledge and experience, contributing to the design of intelligent, semantic-driven cloud ecosystems. It aims to enrich the literature with methodological, architectural, and practical insights for building cohesive, policy-aware, and scalable solutions that meet both current and future demands of cloud computing.

We look forward to your contributions.

Dr. Semih Yumuşak
Prof. Dr. Kasim Oztoprak
Dr. Hüseyin Oktay Altun
Dr. Reza Zare Hassanpour
Guest Editors

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