Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Future Internet 2024 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Future Internet from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. One article will receive the award. The paper will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the Award Committee led by the Associate Editor, Prof. Dr. Claude Chaudet.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Future Internet from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

The Prize:
– CHF 500;
– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in Future Internet in 2024 after peer review;
– A certificate.

The winner will be announced on the journal website on 31 March 2024.

Kind regards,
Future Internet Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Future Internet 2023 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 in Future Internet were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, one winner was selected.

Privacy Preserving Machine Learning with Homomorphic Encryption and Federated Learning
By Haokun Fang and Quan Qian
Future Internet 2021, 13(4), 94; doi:10.3390/fi13040094

The winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Future Internet in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winner of the Future Internet 2023 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Future Internet.

Kind regards,
Future Internet Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Future Internet 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Future Internet Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Future Internet. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Nirmalya Thakur
Department of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Research Interests: human–computer interaction; big data; artificial intelligence; machine learning; internet of things; pattern recognition and natural language processing

Dr. Yustus Eko Oktian
Blockchain Platform Research Center, Pusan National University, Republic of Korea
Research Interests: IoT; blockchain; software-defined networking; network security

Dr. Douglas O’Shaughnessy
Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec City J3X 1P7, QC, Canada
Research Interests: DSP; speech embedding; speech processing; deep learning; speech recognition; speaker recognition

The Prize for Each Winner:
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Future Internet in 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Future Internet Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Future Internet 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 in Future Internet were considered for this award. After thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, as well as their citations and downloads, the winning paper, which was nominated by the Section Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Symeon Papavassiliou, has been selected.

Paper Title: An Updated Survey of Efficient Hardware Architectures for Accelerating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
By Maurizio Capra, Beatrice Bussolino, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique, Guido Masera and Maurizio Martina
Volume 12, Issue 7, doi:10.3390/fi12070113

The winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and the chance to publish a paper free of charge in Future Internet in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winner on this accomplishment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the exceptional paper above for their contributions to Future Internet, and the Award Committee for voting and for their assistance with this award.

Section Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Symeon Papavassiliou, Future Internet

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the winners of the Future Internet 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Future Internet Editorial Board and Editorial Team gratefully acknowledge reviewers for the time and energy they dedicated to checking the manuscripts submitted to Future Internet. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround period in 2021 was maintained. In recognition of their outstanding work, the award has been granted to the following reviewers:

Dr. Pedro Pablo Garrido Abenza
Affiliation: Department of Computers Engineering, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
Research Interests: video coding; wireless networks; vehicular networks; sensor networks; autonomous vehicle; education; Programming Languages; Reconfigurable Computing

Dr. Roberto Saia
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, Italy
Research Interests: data mining; machine learning; anomaly detection; recommender systems; security

Dr. Marek Bolanowski
Affiliation: Department of Complex Systems, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
Research Interests: design and maintenance of computer systems and networks; automation of the IT systems management process; anomaly detection; Industry 4.0; Internet of Everything; cybersecurity; modeling of complex communication systems; SDN networks; IT project management; PoC systems

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Symeon Papavassiliou
Section Editor-in-Chief, Future Internet

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Future Internet, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Future Internet 2021 Best Paper Award.

The award has been granted to one research article:

Paper Title: A review of Machine Learning and IoT in Smart Transportation
Fotios Zantalis, Grigorios Koulouras, Sotiris Karabetsos, and Dionisis Kandris Volume 11, Issue 4, doi: 10.3390/fi11040094

The corresponding author will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Future Internet in 2021. On behalf of the Assessment Committee, I would like to congratulate the winner on their accomplishment. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional paper for their contributions to Future Internet and thank the Award Committee for voting for and helping with the award.

Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Dino Giuli,
Future Internet

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Future Internet 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Awards. The Future Internet Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Future Internet. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Marios Anagnostopoulos
Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Gjøvik, Norway
Research Interests: DNS security; botnets; denial of service attacks (DoS); IoT security and privacy; ICT security and privacy; mobile and wireless communication systems security and privacy; blockchain for security and privacy 

Dr. Michele Mastroianni
Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Universita degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy
Research Interests: security and privacy; computer modeling and simulation; information systems; computer networks 

Dr. Marek Bolanowski
Department of Complex Systems, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszów, Poland
Research Interests: design and maintenance of computer systems and networks; automation of the IT systems management process; anomaly detection; Industry 4.0; internet of everything; cybersecurity; modeling of complex communication systems; SDN networks; IT project management; PoC systems 

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Dino Giuli
Editor-in-Chief, Future Internet

Dear Colleagues,
As the Editor-in-Chief of Future Internet, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Future Internet Best Paper Awards 2019. The award recipients will each receive a certificate and 500 Swiss francs (CHF). The winners are as follows:

Valentina Gatteschi, Fabrizio Lamberti, Claudio Demartini, Chiara Pranteda and Víctor Santamaría, Italy
Paper: Blockchain and Smart Contracts for Insurance: Is the Technology Mature Enough? (doi.org/10.3390/fi10020020)

Marko Höyhtyä, Olli Apilo and Mika Lasanen, Finland
Paper: Review of Latest Advances in 3GPP Standardization: D2D Communication in 5G Systems and Its Energy Consumption Models (doi.org/10.3390/fi10010003)

This has been an extremely tough decision for the Evaluation Committee, as there were numerous high-quality papers submitted to Future Internet in the past year, and we would like to thank all authors for selecting Future Internet as the forum to publish your work. Please join us in congratulating the winners for their impressive achievement.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Dino Giuli
Department of Information Engineering (DINFO), University of Florence Florence, Italy

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Future Internet, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Future Internet 2019 Travel Award on behalf of the Evaluation Committee:

Dr. Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco is a Post-doctoral researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research is focused on the growing area of multimedia forensics, more specific on the analysis of detecting forgery over images and video files. She is planning to present her work “Pornography Detection in Videos: A review” at the 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, which will be held in Stockholm, Sweden on 17-19 July 2019. The award consists of 400 Swiss Francs towards attending this conference.

Dr. Matteo Zignani is a Post-doctoral researcher at University of Milan. His research is focused on the understanding of the evolution of sociotechnological systems, such as online social networks, distributed online social networks and mobile phone call networks. He is planning to present his work “Mastodon Content Warnings: Inappropriate Contents in a Microblogging Platform” at the 13th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2019), which will be held in Munich, German on 11-14 June 2019. The award consists of 400 Swiss Francs towards attending this conference.

It was a tough decision, given the exceptional quality of applications for the award, and on behalf of the award committee, I wish to thank all applicants and to congratulate Dr. Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco and Dr. Matteo Zignani for their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Dino Giuli,
Editor-in- Chief of Future Internet

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