Data Governance and Privacy Protection on the Internet of Everything

Topic Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Everything connects people, devices, data, services, and decision-making systems, thus becoming an important part of different applications such as smart cities, healthcare, transportation, public safety, smart homes, energy systems, and industrial services. These systems collect and share large amounts of data every day, including personal, sensitive, or location-based information. If it is not properly managed, it can create privacy, security, ethical, and trust-related problems.

This Topic focuses on data governance and privacy protection in Internet of Everything systems. It welcomes research on secure data collection, data sharing, consent management, access control, data ownership, privacy-preserving machine learning, federated learning, blockchain-based governance, anonymization, differential privacy, edge/fog/cloud security, and responsible AI-enabled data use. It also seeks review papers, practical frameworks, policy studies, and real-world case studies.

The goal of this topic is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on trustworthy, secure, and privacy-aware Internet of Everything systems.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Data governance models for Internet of Everything systems;
2. Privacy-preserving data collection and sharing;
3. Secure data management in smart cities and connected environments;
4. Consent management, data ownership, and user control;
5. Access control and identity management for connected systems;
6. Federated learning and privacy-preserving machine learning;
7. Blockchain-based data governance and secure data sharing;
8. Differential privacy, anonymization, and data minimization;
9. Edge, fog, and cloud security for Internet of Everything applications;
10. Responsible AI, transparency, and trust in data-driven

Dr. Muhammad Adil
Dr. Mian Ahmad Jan
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Computers computers	5.2	9.1	2012	15.4 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Future Internet futureinternet	4.6	10.0	2009	15 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Information information	4.3	8.2	2010	18.7 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Sustainability sustainability	4.1	8.9	2009	16.9 Days	CHF 2400	Submit

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