Special Issues

Selected conference articles will be invited to be submitted to the following Special Issues for extended versions of the accepted conference papers within the scope of the Research.

1. Special Issue on Distributed and Collaborative Learning Empowered Edge Intelligence in Smart City in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
   Guest Editors:
   Prof. Xiaokang Zhou - Shiga University (Japan), Prof. Vincenzo Piuri - University of Milan (Italy), Prof. Henry Leung - University of Calgary (Canada)
2. Special Issue on Dark side of the Socio-Cyber World: Media Manipulation, Fake News, and Misinformation in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
   Guest Editors:
   Dr. Gwanggil Jeon (Corresponding Editor) - Incheon National University (South Korea), Dr. Xiaochun Cheng - Middlesex University London (UK), Dr. Abdellah Chehri - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (Canada), Prof. Giancarlo Fortino - University of Calabria (Italy), Dr. Marcelo Albertini - University of Uberlandia (Brazil), Dr. Shiping Wen - University of Sydney Technology (Australia)
3. Special Issue on Physics-Informed Machine Learning in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
   Guest Editors:
   Francesco Piccialli – University of Naples Federico II (Italy), Maizar Raissi - University of Colorado Boulder (USA), Felipe A.C. Viana – University of Central Florida (USA), Giancarlo Fortino – University of Calabria (Italy), Huimin LU - Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan), Amir Hussain - School of Computing - Edinburgh Napier University (Scotland)
4. Special Issue on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for Beyond 5G Systems in ACM Transactions on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice
   Guest Editors:
   Prof. Andrei Gurtov - Linkoping University (Sweden), Prof. Giancarlo Fortino - University of Calabria (Italy), Prof. Salil Kanhere - University of New South Wales (Australia), Asst. Prof. Madhusanka Liyanage - University College Dublin (Ireland)
5. Special Issue on Distributed Learning and Blockchain Enabled Infrastructures for Next Generation of Big Data Driven Cyber-Physical Systems in Journal of Systems Architecture
   Guest Editors:
   Prof. Xiaokang Zhou (Managing Guest Editor) - Shiga University (Japan), Prof. Giancarlo Fortino - University of Calabria (Italy), Prof. Alireza Jolfaei - Flinders University (Australia), Prof. Lianyong Qi - Qufu Normal University (China), Prof. Mohammad Hammoudeh - Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
6. Special Issue on Smart Blockchain for IoT Trust, Security and Privacy in IEEE IoT Journal
   Guest Editors:
   Prof. Xiaokang Zhou (Managing Guest Editor) - Shiga University (Japan), Prof. Zheng Yan - Xidian University (China) and Aalto University (Finland), Prof. Yan Zhang - University of Oslo (Norway), Stephen Yau - Arizona State University (USA)
7. Special Issue on Digital Twins for Complex Systems in Big Data and Cognitive Computing
   Guest Editors:
   Dr. Fabrizio Fornari – University of Camerino (Italy), Prof. Pedro Valderas - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
8. Special Issue on Distributed Learning and Blockchain Enabled Infrastructures for Next Generation of Big Data Driven Cyber-Physical Systems in Journal of Systems Architecture
   Guest Editors:
   Prof. Xiaokang Zhou (Managing Guest Editor) - Shiga University (Japan), Prof. Giancarlo Fortino - University of Calabria (Italy), Prof. Carson Leung - University of Manitoba (Canada), Prof. Mohammad Hammoudeh - King Fahd University of Petroleum & Mineral

The listed SI are "open" special issues, the authors will be anyway welcome to submit their papers.