Announcements

“ThermalAttackNet: Are CNNs Making It Easy to Perform Temperature Side-Channel Attack in Mobile Edge Devices?”
by Somdip Dey et al.
Future Internet 2021, 13(6), 146; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13060146
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/6/146

“Experiment Information System Based on an Online Virtual Laboratory”
by Chuanyan Hao et al.
Future Internet 2021, 13(2), 27; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13020027
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/2/27

“Privacy Preserving Machine Learning with Homomorphic Encryption and Federated Learning”
by Haokun Fang et al.
Future Internet 2021, 13(4), 94; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13040094
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/4/94

“A Systematic Review of Cybersecurity Risks in Higher Education”
by Joachim Bjørge Ulven et al.
Future Internet 2021, 13(2), 39; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13020039
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/2/39

“Designing a Network Intrusion Detection System Based on Machine Learning for Software Defined Networks”
by Abdulsalam O. Alzahrani et al.
Future Internet 2021, 13(5), 111; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13050111
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/5/111

“Evaluation of Digital Piracy by Youths”
by Łukasz Tomczyk
Future Internet 2021, 13(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13010011
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/1/11

“Using Machine Learning for Web Page Classification in Search Engine Optimization”
by Goran Matošević et al.
Future Internet 2021, 13(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13010009
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/1/9

“Use of Social Media Data in Disaster Management: A Survey”
by Jedsada Phengsuwan et al.
Future Internet 2021, 13(2), 46; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13020046
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/2/46

“IoT Technologies during and Beyond COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review”
by Mohamed Yousif et al.
Future Internet 2021, 13(5), 105; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13050105
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/5/105

“Survey on Intelligence Edge Computing in 6G: Characteristics, Challenges, Potential Use Cases, and Market Drivers”
by Ahmed Al-Ansi et al.
Future Internet 2021, 13(5), 118; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13050118
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/5/118

We are pleased to announce the launch of a project, entitled Editor's Choice Articles, in Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903). A list of the high-quality and interesting papers that were specifically recommended by our Editorial Board Members can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/editors_choice. We have selected 10 of these papers to display here. The paper list is as follows: 

“IoT for Smart Cities: Machine Learning Approaches in Smart Healthcare—A Review”
by Taher M. Ghazal, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Muhammad Turki Alshurideh, Haitham M. Alzoubi, Munir Ahmad, Syed Shehryar Akbar, Barween Al Kurdi and Iman A. Akour
Future Internet 2021, 13(8), 218; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13080218
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/8/218 

”Designing a Network Intrusion Detection System Based on Machine Learning for Software Defined Networks”
by Abdulsalam O. Alzahrani and Mohammed J. F. Alenazi
Future Internet 2021, 13(5), 111; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13050111
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/5/111 

“A Systematic Review of Cybersecurity Risks in Higher Education”
by Joachim Bjørge Ulven and Gaute Wangen
Future Internet 2021, 13(2), 39; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13020039
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/2/39 

“Characterization of the Teaching Profile within the Framework of Education 4.0”
by María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya, María Isabel Loaiza-Aguirre, Alexandra Zúñiga-Ojeda and May Portuguez-Castro
Future Internet 2021, 13(4), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13040091
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/4/91

“Survey of Localization for Internet of Things Nodes: Approaches, Challenges and Open Issues”
by Sheetal Ghorpade, Marco Zennaro and Bharat Chaudhari
Future Internet 2021, 13(8), 210; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13080210
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/8/210 

“Distributed Ledger Technology Review and Decentralized Applications Development Guidelines”
by Claudia Antal, Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Marcel Antal and Ioan Salomie
Future Internet 2021, 13(3), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13030062
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/3/62

“Research on the Impacts of Generalized Preceding Vehicle Information on Traffic Flow in V2X Environment”
by Xiaoyuan Wang, Junyan Han, Chenglin Bai, Huili Shi, Jinglei Zhang and Gang Wang
Future Internet 2021, 13(4), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13040088
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/4/88 

“Privacy Preserving Machine Learning with Homomorphic Encryption and Federated Learning”
by Haokun Fang and Quan Qian
Future Internet 2021, 13(4), 94; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13040094
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/4/94

“Using Machine Learning for Web Page Classification in Search Engine Optimization”
by Goran Matošević, Jasminka Dobša and Dunja Mladenić
Future Internet 2021, 13(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13010009
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/1/9

MDPI will be attending the 5th China Intelligent Optimization and Scheduling Conference from 12 to 14 August 2022, in Taiyuan, China.

Themed “Intelligent Optimisation for Scheduling”, the conference will focus on big data, artificial intelligence, simulation optimization, intelligent optimization, scheduling optimization, and other directions through conference presentations, group presentations, wall presentations, enterprise application demonstrations, etc., to carry out cutting-edge theories, methods, technologies, and applications, and will invite famous publishers at home and abroad to introduce journal submissions. The conference will select outstanding academic papers, young scientists, outstanding Ph.D. theses, outstanding M.Sc. theses, innovative application practice projects, etc.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Sensors;
• Systems;
• Mathematics;
• Axioms;
• Smart Cities;
• Future Internet;
• Data;
• Algorithms;
• Automation;
• Signals.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have.

We are proud to recognize the winners of MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in the subject area of “Computer Science & Mathematics” for their outstanding presentations and to present them with the prize.

MDPI journals regularly offer travel awards to encourage talented junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in specific fields, which helps to increase their influence.

The winners mentioned below were carefully selected by the journal editors based on an outline of their research and the work to be presented at an academic conference.

We would like to warmly congratulate the winners of Travel Awards for the year 2021 and wish them the greatest success with their future research endeavors.

MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.

Computers:

• Umberto Michieli, University of Padova, Italy

Journal of Imaging:

• Cameron Kaye, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Alexandra Trujillo, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina

Symmetry:

• José María, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
• Naser Ojaroudi Parchin, University of Bradford, UK

In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing papers and demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer-review process.

We are proud to recognize the winners for the year 2021 in the “Computer Science and Mathematics” for their outstanding contributions among extensive competition by presenting them with an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the winners on their achievement.

MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Algorithms:

• Maxim A. Dulebenets, SA Florida A&M University-Florida State University, USA
• Artur Jez, University of Wrocław, Poland
• Dmitry Lukyanenko, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Forecasting:

• Juan Ramón Trapero Arenas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Future Internet:

• Pedro Pablo Garrido Abenza, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
• Roberto Saia, University of Cagliari, Italy
• Marek Bolanowski, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland

Journal of Imaging:

• Jung Sun Yoo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Josemaria Martinezo, University of the Basque Country, Spain

Mathematics:

• Maria Alessandra Ragusa, Università di Catania, Italy; DN University, Russia
• Endre Kovács, University of Miskolc, Hungary
• Roman Vavrek, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
• Giacomo Ascione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
• Giorgio Sonnino, University in the City of Brussels, Belgium

Signals:

• Nina Golyandina, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
• Cataldo Guaragnella, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Symmetry:

• Stefan Groote, University of Tartu, Estonia
• José Antonio Oller, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
• Kazuharu Bamba, Fukushima University, Japan

MDPI’s Young Investigator Awards recognize promising junior researchers, acknowledge their contributions, and enhance communication among scientists. We are proud to present the winners for the year 2021 in the “Computer Science & Mathematics”, who were selected by the journals’ editors.

We warmly congratulate the awarded Young Investigators for their outstanding contributions.

MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Mathematics:

• Marina Murillo Arcila, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Symmetry:

• Tanmoy Paul, University of Burdwan, India

The purpose of our best paper awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.

The editors of each journal carefully selected reviews and research papers through a rigorous judging process based on the criteria such as scientific merit, overall impact, and quality of the presentation of the papers published in the journal.

We are honored to present the winners in the “Computer Science & Mathematics”, who were selected amongst extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications.

MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Axioms:

• A New gH-Difference for Multi-Dimensional Convex Sets and Convex Fuzzy Sets
  By Luciano Stefanini and Barnabas Bede
  Axioms 2019, 8(2), 48; doi:10.3390/axioms8020048

• Initial Value Problem for Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations with ψ-Caputo Derivative via Monotone Iterative Technique
  By Choukri Derbazi, Zidane Baitiche, Mouffak Benchohra and Alberto Cabada
  Axioms 2020, 9(2), 57; doi:10.3390/axioms9020057

Future Internet:

• A review of Machine Learning and IoT in Smart Transportation
  By Fotios Zantalis, Grigorios Koulouras, Sotiris Karabetsos and Dionisis Kandris
  Future Internet 2019, 11(4), 94; doi:10.3390/fi11040094

Signals:

• Recognition of Blinks Activity Patterns during Stress Conditions Using CNN and Markovian Analysis
  By Alexandra I. Korda, Giorgos Giannakakis, Errikos Ventouras, Pantelis A. Asvestas, Nikolaos Smyrnis, Kostas Marias and George K. Matsopoulos
  Signals 2021, 2(1), 55–71; doi:10.3390/signals2010006

• An Educational Guide through the FMP Notebooks for Teaching and Learning Fundamentals of Music Processing
  By Meinard Müller
  Signals 2021, 2(2), 245–285; doi:10.3390/signals2020018

Symmetry:

• Hadronic and Hadron-Like Physics of Dark Matter
  By Vitaly Beylin, Maxim Yu. Khlopov, Vladimir Kuksa and Nikolay Volchanskiy
  Symmetry 2019, 11(4), 587; doi:10.3390/sym11040587

• Role of Asymmetric Autocatalysis in the Elucidation of Origins of Homochirality of Organic Compounds
  By Kenso Soai, Tsuneomi Kawasaki and Arimasa Matsumoto
  Symmetry 2019, 11(5), 694; doi:10.3390/sym11050694

• Convenient Asymmetric Synthesis of Fmoc-(S)-6,6,6-Trifluoro-Norleucine
  By Haibo Mei, Zizhen Yin, Toshio Miwa, Hiroki Moriwaki, Hidenori Abe, Jianlin Han and Vadim A. Soloshonok
  Symmetry 2019, 11(4), 578; doi:10.3390/sym11040578

• CMB Tensions with Low-Redshift H₀ and S₈ Measurements: Impact of a Redshift-Dependent Type-Ia Supernovae Intrinsic Luminosity
  By Matteo Martinelli and Isaac Tutusaus
  Symmetry 2019, 11(8), 986; doi:10.3390/sym11080986

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Paolo Bellavista has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing”. We look forward to his contributions to Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903).

Prof. Dr. Paolo Bellavista is a full professor of distributed and mobile systems at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI), Alma Mater Studiorum—Università di Bologna.

His primary research interests relate to middleware for mobile computing, Internet of Things platforms, efficient integrations of sensors–edge–cloud, edge/fog computing, mobile pervasive applications for Industry 4.0, and smart cities/communities.

In addition to national/EU project participation (he is currently the scientific coordinator of the H2020 IoTwins project—https://www.iotwins.eu/) and publication activities, among the notable services for his community, he is Editor-in-Chief of the MDPI journal Computers (since 2017), Section Editor-in-Chief of MDPI’s Future Internet, and member of the Editorial Boards of IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials (since 2019), ACM Computing Surveys (since 2020), IEEE Transactions on Computers (2011-2015), IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (since 2011), IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (2008-2017), IEEE Communications Magazine (2003-2011), Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (since 2010), Elsevier’s Journal on Network and Computing Applications (since 2015), Springer’s Journal of Network and Systems Management (since 2008), and MDPI’s Sensors (since 2017).

The following is a short Q&A with Prof. Dr. Paolo Bellavista, who shared his vision for the journal with us, as well as his views of the research area and open access publishing:

1. What appealed to you about the journal that made you want to take the role as its Section Editor-in-Chief?
Future Internet is a journal with a very interesting and exciting focus, with growing visibility and relevance in the international community of researchers and practitioners in the field. I was very happy to have the opportunity to contribute to it, also with my new role as "Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing" Section Editor-in-Chief. This new Section represents a technically challenging, intriguing, and extremely active research sub-field these days, with enormous potential in terms of both novel methodologies/models/algorithms/middleware and innovative efficient applications of it.

2. What is your vision for the journal?
This new Section of the journal has the ambition to become an international reference point for researchers working on future Internet aspects of virtualization and cloud continuum. It will be the home for original technical proposals at the methodological/modeling/algorithmic level, for the presentation of novel middleware and infrastructures of solution (with simulation and experimental evidence of successful deployment), and for the discussion of real application cases and associated performance results about efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability, as well as the home for survey/tutorial papers about emerging trends in the field.

3. What does the future of this field of research look like?
Network virtualization and edge/fog computing will be the center of the future Internet world that we are building. This is pushed not only by technical motivations (reduction in costs, softwarization trends, efficiency, sustainability, and scalability, among others), but also by economical and strategic ones, e.g., increased sovereignty on data and distributed cloud continuum infrastructures. Technically supporting these evolutionary lines with high efficiency and quality control is the most relevant technical challenge for the near future of this field of research.

4. What do you think of the development of open access in the publishing field?
Flexibility and variety of opportunities are a must for future publications. In this variegated and multi-publisher scenario, a very relevant role is played by open access, which guarantees maximum democratic access to research results, crucial for open innovation, and not only this. In addition, it is important to highlight that the future Internet is and will be a very relevant research area also in terms of public funding, which by design requires public results of publicly funded research to be maximally accessible to all citizens and interested stakeholders. Additionally, in this perspective, Future Internet can play a relevant role for the community in the field.

We wish Prof. Dr. Paolo Bellavista every success in his new position, and we look forward to his contributions to the journal.

We are pleased to let you know that Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903) has received an increased CiteScore of 5.4 (an increase of 31.7% compared to the last year), published by Elsevier in June 2022. Future Internet now ranks Q2 (92/359) in the “Computer Networks and Communications” category. For full details on the current CiteScore release, please see the journal's source profile.

We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to the authors, editors, and reviewers for their contributions. We are grateful for your excellent work that has helped us to achieve this milestone for Future Internet!

To read more and submit to our journal, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet.

Future Internet Editorial Office

The 2021 citation metrics have been officially released in Scopus!

We are pleased to announce that 182 MDPI journals are included, of which:

● 21 journals received their first CiteScore.
● 85% of journals increased their CiteScore from 2020.
● 155 journals (85%) ranked above average, in at least one category.

The following 65 MDPI journals (36%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category:

Source: 2021 CiteScores™ (Elsevier)