Intelligent Systems and Secure Networks for Future Internet: AI, IoT, Blockchain and Beyond
A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Future Internet is increasingly evolving toward a smart, adaptive, and hyperconnected ecosystem that encompasses numerous autonomous agents, distributed infrastructures, and heterogeneous services. Intelligent Systems in synergy with Multiscale Secure Networks facilitate reliable communication, resilient architectures, and secure decision support for seamless collaboration across devices, platforms, and applications.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous agents are increasingly becoming critical enablers for security automation, privacy-preserving computation, and dynamic trust management; on the other hand, emerging paradigms such as IoT, blockchain, and decision support systems are redefining the way that data is processed, validated, and shared. Multi-scale mechanisms from device-level security measures to network-wide orchestration will play a fundamental role for the scalability and adaptability of the Security for the Future Network.
This Special Issue invites papers on intelligent solutions, secure architectures, advanced cryptographic solutions (including lightweight, quantum-inspired and post-quantum), blockchain interoperability, AI-based Applications and security frameworks, agent-based trust models, privacy-by-design analytics, and decision support systems for critical infrastructures and high-level applications in terms of Future Internet and next generation vision. Submissions containing original research articles and review works on the theoretical and practical aspects of secure and intelligent digital ecosystems, are sought, with the purpose of pushing the frontiers of research in this area.
Dr. Gerardo Iovane
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- intelligent systems and agents
- multiscale secure networks
- Internet of Things (IoT) security
- blockchain and distributed ledgers
- quantum inspired, post-quantum and lightweight cryptography
- AI-driven methods, technologies and applications
- decision support systems (DSS)
- future internet solutions
- new generation and scalable applications
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