Announcements

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)

2021 was a year of growth for Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903). In 2021, we received 797 submissions, published 313 articles from 1134 international authors, and 681 experts were involved in reviewing articles for Future Internet. Moreover, a total of 15 new Editorial Board Members joined us, and the number of Editorial Board Members increased to 134. So far, there are also 61 Topical Advisory Panel Members and 183 Reviewer Board Members. Future Internet’s articles were cited 2188 times in 2021. Thanks to the commitment and dedication of the editorial staff, the median time between submission and publication was around 34 days.

We believe Future Internet will continue to attract more and more authors from all over the world who appreciate its very efficient peer review and publishing processes.

Most Cited Papers

• “IoT for Smart Cities: Machine Learning Approaches in Smart Healthcare—A Review”
  by Taher M. Ghazal et al.

• “Survey of Localization for Internet of Things Nodes: Approaches, Challenges and Open Issues”
  by Sheetal Ghorpade et al.

• “User Acceptance of Smart Watch for Medical Purposes: An Empirical Study”
  by Rana Saeed Al-Maroof et al.

• “Protection from ‘Fake News’: The Need for Descriptive Factual Labeling for Online Content”
  by Matthew Spradling et al.

• “Networked Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Surveillance and Monitoring: A Survey”
  by Xiaohui Li and Andrey V. Savkin

Collections/Special Issues

Future Internet runs Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics. The aim is to build a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors who are experts in the subject and oversee the editorial process for papers. Papers published in a Special Issue will be collected together on a dedicated page of the journal website.

Hot Special Issues

• “Data Science and Knowledge Discovery”;
• “Education 4.0 in the Transformation of Universities: Educational and Research Applications”;
• “Wireless Internet, Multimedia, and Artificial Intelligence: New Applications and Infrastructures”;
• “Digital and Social Media in the Disinformation Age”.

Open Calls

• Topical Collection “Innovative People-Centered Solutions Applied to Industries, Cities and Societies”
  edited by Dino Giuli and Carlos Filipe Da Silva Portela

• Topical Collection “Featured Reviews of Future Internet Research”
  edited by Dino Giuli

• Topical Collection “Machine Learning Approaches for User Identity”
  edited by Kaushik Roy, Mustafa Atay and Ajita Rattani

• Topical Collection “Information Systems Security”
  edited by Luis Javier Garcia Villalba

You can see the full list of call for papers at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues.

On behalf of the editorial team, we would like to express our gratitude to the Editor-in-Chief of Future Internet, Editorial Board Members, Guest Editors, Topical Advisory Panel Members, and Reviewer Board Members, all of whom have ensured the continued success of the journal through their hard work and diligence.

We believe that Future Internet will continue to contribute to academic exchange and the sharing of knowledge in 2022.

Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903) is currently recruiting Editorial Board Members for the following six Sections:

• “Internet of Things”;
• “Big Data and Augmented Intelligence”;
• “Techno-Social Smart Systems”;
• “Smart System Infrastructure and Applications”;
• “Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing”;
• “Cybersecurity”.

A list of current Editorial Board Members can be viewed at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/editors. If you are interested in applying for this position, or would like to recommend potential candidates, please contact the Future Internet Editorial Office (futureinternet@mdpi.com) for further details.

Future Internet is a scholarly, peer-reviewed, open access journal on Internet technologies and information society, which is published monthly online by MDPI. It is indexed within Scopus, ESCI (Web of Science), Ei Compendex, dblp, Inspec, and many other databases.

Future Internet received an increased CiteScore of 4.10 in the released 2020 CiteScore™ values, published by Elsevier in June 2020. As such, Future Internet ranked 104 out of 334 titles (Q2) in “Computer Networks and Communications”.

The benefits of being an Editorial Board Member include the following:

• Publishing one paper free of charge per year in Future Internet, and being granted potential discounts for additional papers you invite;
• A recognition certificate as an Editorial Board Member of Future Internet;
• Future Internet will offer additional sponsorships for conferences organized by Editorial Board Members.

The Responsibilities of Editorial Board Members include the following:

• Supervising the editorial process, including prescreening submissions and making final decisions on whether to accept or reject papers;
• Contributing your own work and inviting three papers to Future Internet (the Editorial Office will prepare a list of potential authors and the invitation template);
• Editing a Special Issue on a topic related to your research or recommending potential topics and Guest Editors.

If you are interested in becoming an Editorial Board Member of Future Internet, please send your application, including a full academic CV, to the Future Internet Editorial Office (futureinternet@mdpi.com). We look forward to working with you in the future.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Fabrizio Marozzo has joined Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903) as a new Topical Advisory Panel Member.

Dr. Fabrizio Marozzo has worked as an Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering at the DIMES Department, University of Calabria, Italy, since 2019. He also co-founded DtoK Lab S.r.l., an academic spin-off of University of Calabria, in 2014.

His current research focuses on big data analysis, social media analysis, parallel and distributed computing, cloud computing, intelligent systems and programming models.

He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Access journal and the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (IJISTA) and as an Editor of Big Data and Cognitive Computing (MDPI), Algorithms (MDPI), Frontiers in Big Data, Heliyon (Elsevier) and the International Journal of Big Data Intelligence (IJBDI). He has published many scientific papers, including the book Data Analysis in the Cloud.

In July 2018, he obtained the Italian National Academic Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor (Professore Associato) in the field of Information Processing Systems (Sistemi di Elaborazione delle Informazioni – SC 09/H1 – SSD ING-INF/05) and Computer Technology (Informatica – SC 01/B1 – SSD INF/01).

We wish him every success both in his research and in developing the journal.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Carlos Filipe Da Silva Portela and Prof. Dr. Vijayakumar Varadarajan have joined Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903) as Editorial Board Members.

Dr. Carlos Filipe Da Silva Portela was born in Trofa, Portugal, and went to the University of Minho in Guimarães, where he studied information systems and obtained degrees in 2007 (Lic.), 2009 (M.Sc.), and 2013 (Ph.D.). He obtained his Ph.D. in information systems and technologies in 2013. He belongs to the research center ALGORITMI, where he developed his post-doctoral research work on the topic "Pervasive Intelligent Decision Support Systems". His research was started in the INTCare R&D project (Intensive Medicine area), being then extended to education and public administration areas. He already has relevant indexed publications in the following research topics: intelligent decision support systems, intelligent systems, pervasive data, business intelligence, data mining, and knowledge discovery. He has also been co-organizer of several workshops and a reviewer of many indexed journals and conferences on these topics. Currently, he is also an Invited Assistant Professor of the Information Systems Department, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal, where he has been supervising several master students in the abovementioned areas. Dr. Portela founded IOTech—Innovation on Technology, in 2018. Through IOTech, he is transferring and applying scientific knowledge to benefit citizens.

Since becoming a researcher in 2008, he has worked in the medicine field and, more recently, in public administration and higher education. Several relevant results were achieved with his research and participation in projects, the following being the most relevant:

• ioCOVID19—Intelligent decision support platform;
• TechTeach—An innovative method to increase students’ engagement in classrooms;
• ioScience—An offline data science method;
• INTCare—A pervasive intelligent decision support system for intensive care;
• DEM—Deus ex machina.

He also participated in several conferences as a presenter and session chair. Simultaneously, he is a member of scientific and program committees (conferences, books, and journals).

Prof. Dr. Vijayakumar Varadarajan is currently an Adjunct Professor in School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is also a Data Science Advisor for Brite Yellow Pvt Ltd United Kingdom and President and Founder of Global Students Nest. He was a Professor and Associate Dean for the School of Computing Science and Engineering at VIT University, Chennai, India. He has more than 18 years of experience, industrial and institutional. He also served as a Team Leader in industries such as Satyam, Mahindra Satyam, and Tech Mahindra for several years. He has completed a diploma with first class honors. He completed his BE CSE and MBA HRD with first class. He also completed his ME CSE with first rank award. He obtained a Ph.D. from Anna University in 2012. He has published many articles in national and international level journals/conferences/books. He is a reviewer in IEEE Transactions, Inderscience and Springer journals. He has initiated a number of international research collaborations with universities in Europe, Australia, Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, and North and South America. He also initiated joint research collaborations between VIT University and various industries. He is also the Leading Guest Editor for a few journals in Inderscience, Springer, Elsevier, IOS, UM, and IGI Global. He has also organized several international conferences and special sessions in USA, Vietnam, Africa, Malaysia, and India including ARCI, IEEE, ACSAT, ISRC, ISBCC, ICBCC, etc. His research interests include computational areas covering grid computing, cloud computing, computer networks, cyber security, and big data. He received his university-level Best Faculty Award for 2015–2016. He is also a member of several national and international professional bodies including IFSA, EAI, BIS, ISTE, IAENG, CSTA, IEA, etc.

We wish them every success in their new position, and we look forward to their contributions to the journal.