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Dr. William Liu is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE), School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences (SECMS) at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. He holds Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering, both obtained at the University of Canterbury (UC), New Zealand, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He worked as a network planner and designer in Beijing Telecom in China for 5 years before moving to New Zealand in 2002. He has co-authored more than 100 papers published in international journals and conferences, and he participates in the Program Committees of several premier IEEE conferences, including INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, ICC, GreenCom, CloudNet, DRCN, RNDM and ATNAC. He is the Founding and current Chair of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) New Zealand North Chapter. He is the current Chair of IEEE New Zealand North Section Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT). He has been a Senior member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC) since 2011 and a Senior member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD) since 2015. He is a member of the New Zealand Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Tertiary Education Centre (STEM-TEC).

The following is a short Q&A with Dr. William Liu:

1. We have always been committed to publishing high-quality articles that are included in SCIE. As an Editorial Board Member of the journal Future Internet, what do you consider the criteria for manuscript screening to be? What aspects of articles do you like most?

The criteria include that the topic/ idea is novel, solid experiments and analysis, and the verification of formulas. Of course, in cases where there is a novel idea and perfect experimental analysis, we cannot have both, so the idea is novel and the requirements for the experiment can be appropriately reduced. I do not care about author groups. The editorial department needs to control the authorship in the manuscript. It is important to avoid including scholars from well-known institutions or well-known scholars who did not contribute to the article in the authorship.

2. The Editorial Office has recently made plans to increase our journal citations and we would like to take the journal to the next level by publishing more high-quality papers. Would you recommend your colleagues to contribute to Future Internet? Would you like to participate in some journal construction work for Future Internet (e.g., decision-making, webinars, reviewing)?

I like the name of the journal Future Internet very much, and it is also very attractive that Future Internet ranks 92 out of 352 (Q2) in “Computer Networks and Communications”. I am very willing to recommend my colleagues to contribute to Future Internet, and participate in the construction of the journal, such as participating in conferences, reviewing manuscripts, promoting Future Internet on the webinars I take part in, sending calls for papers on the mailing lists and participating in the webinars held by our journal to discuss the hot topics of Climate Extremes, Climate Crisis, ICT, smart grid, energy network, coordinated communication and networking.

Peer review constitutes an essential part of the publication process, ensuring that Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903) maintains its high standards for the quality of its published papers. We are looking to recruit expert reviewers to help uphold the quality and efficiency of Future Internet. More information about the role is available at: https://www.mdpi.com/reviewers.

To qualify as a reviewer, applicants must have published around eight papers related to remote sensing in the last 5 years and hold a Ph.D. degree.

We will extend the following benefits to reviewers:

• Receiving a discount voucher code based on the review quality;
• Inclusion in the journal’s annual acknowledgment of reviewers; more details can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/2/53;
• Consideration for the journal’s Outstanding Reviewer Award; details can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/awards;
• Invitation to join the Reviewer Board; see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/submission_reviewers for more information.

To apply, please visit the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/journals/review.

MDPI will be attending the Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2022) in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, which will take place from 17 to 21 October 2022. The CCS is the largest and most important annual meeting of the international complex systems community. It comes under the auspices of the Complex Systems Society. This edition, organized by IFISC, takes place after previous events held in Lyon, Singapore, Thessaloniki, and Cancun.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Entropy;
• Fractal and Fractional;
• Symmetry;
• Mathematics;
• Dynamics;
• Algorithms;
• Systems;
• Informatics;
• MAKE;
• Information;
• Future Internet;
• Applied System Innovation;
• Data.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://www.ccs2022.org/.

“Phishing Attacks Survey: Types, Vectors, and Technical Approaches”
by Rana Alabdan
Future Internet 2020, 12(10), 168; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12100168
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/10/168

“An Updated Survey of Efficient Hardware Architectures for Accelerating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks”
by Maurizio Capra et al.
Future Internet 2020, 12(7), 113; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12070113
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/7/113

“Long-Range Wireless Radio Technologies: A Survey”
by Brandon Foubert et al.
Future Internet 2020, 12(1), 13; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12010013
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/1/13

“Software Defined Networking Flow Table Management of OpenFlow Switches Performance and Security Challenges: A Survey”
by Babangida Isyaku et al.
Future Internet 2020, 12(9), 147; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12090147
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/9/147

“Know Your Customer (KYC) Implementation with Smart Contracts on a Privacy-Oriented Decentralized Architecture”
by Nikolaos Kapsoulis et al.
Future Internet 2020, 12(2), 41; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12020041
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/2/41

“An Organized Repository of Ethereum Smart Contracts’ Source Codes and Metrics”
by Giuseppe Antonio Pierro et al.
Future Internet 2020, 12(11), 197; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12110197
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/11/197

“Modeling and Simulation Tools for Fog Computing—A Comprehensive Survey from a Cost Perspective”
by Spiridoula V. Margariti et al.
Future Internet 2020, 12(5), 89; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12050089
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/5/89

“Role of Artificial Intelligence in Shaping Consumer Demand in E-Commerce”
by Laith T. Khrais
Future Internet 2020, 12(12), 226; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12120226
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/12/226

“Improving Transaction Speed and Scalability of Blockchain Systems via Parallel Proof of Work”
by Shihab Shahriar Hazari et al.
Future Internet 2020, 12(8), 125; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12080125
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/8/125

“Well-Being and Social Media: A Systematic Review of Bergen Addiction Scales”
by Mirko Duradoni et al.
Future Internet 2020, 12(2), 24; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12020024
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/2/24

“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