Future Internet

Intelligent Agents and Their Application

edited by

Stanimir Stoyanov

,

Asya Stoyanova Doycheva

and

Veneta Tabakova-Komsalova

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 14 articles | Viewed by 30494 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent agents; multi-agent systems; agent-oriented architectures; agent-oriented technologies; Large Language Models (LLMs) and Small Language Models (SLMs); Chain of Thought (CoT); big data; knowledge-based systems; ontologies; symbolic, sub-symbolic, and integrated artificial intelligence

Distributed Machine Learning and Federated Edge Computing for IoT

edited by

Demetris Trihinas

and

Alexandros Karakasidis

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 11 articles | Viewed by 29729 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; federated learning; split learning; internet of things; edge computing; energy-aware machine learning; distributed artificial intelligence; data privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Advances and Perspectives in Human-Computer Interaction—2nd Edition

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16563 | Submission Open

Keywords: HCI; user experience; user-centered design; multimodal interfaces; interaction technologies; usability; virtual reality; augmented reality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Cloud/Edge Computing for Next-Generation Networks: Architecture and Applications

edited by Lav Gupta

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9279 | Submission Open

Keywords: cloud computing; edge computing; 5G/6G networks; cloud-edge applications; cloud-edge systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Security and Privacy Issues in the Internet of Cloud—2nd Edition

edited by

Christos Kalloniatis

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6525 | Submission Open

Keywords: security challenges for IoC; privacy challenges for IoC; IoC and edge computing challenges; ethical issues with IoC; security and privacy requirements of IoC; security solutions and PETs in IoC

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Information Communication Technologies and Social Media

edited by Jinpeng Chen,

Ruifan Li

and Kaimin Wei

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 27115 | Submission Open

Keywords: social media impact; data privacy and security; digital communication; misinformation and media literacy; digital inclusion; cyberbullying and online safety; user behavior analytics; social media algorithms; ethical considerations in ICT; digital addiction effects

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Anomaly and Intrusion Detection in Networks

edited by Eszter Kail,

Anna Bánáti

and Miklós Kozlovszky

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7634 | Submission Open

Keywords: anomaly detection; intrusion detection; machine learning; legacy networks; XAI; IoT; IIoT; honeypots

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

IoT Networks Security

edited by

Fatima Salahdine

and

Naima Kaabouch

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3086 | Submission Open

Keywords: internet of things; cyber-security; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Cloud Computing and Cloud Service Orchestration

edited by

Efthimia Mavridou

and

Eleni Vrochidou

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2069 | Submission Open

Keywords: cloud computing; cloud service orchestration; AI-driven orchestration; intent-based management; resource provisioning; distributed monitoring; container orchestration; edge computing; serverless computing; microservices orchestration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)

Intelligent Computational Methods for Urban Traffic Management and Control

edited by

Yordanka Boneva

,

Alexander Gegov

and

Boriana Vatchova

submission deadline 16 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1992 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban traffic; traffic management; traffic control; intelligent transport systems; traffic optimization; traffic simulation; machine learning; reinforcement learning; urban mobility

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Parallel Computing and Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Veronica Gil-Costa

and

Alonso Inostrosa Psijas

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 538 | Submission Open

Keywords: parallel computing; artificial intelligence; high-performance computing (HPC); scalable algorithms; heterogeneous architectures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)

Advances in Security, Trust, and Privacy in Cloud–Edge–Terminal Collaborative Networks

edited by

Weidong Fang

,

Chunsheng Zhu

and Yepeng Ni

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 369 | Submission Open

Keywords: distributed cloud–edge environments; privacy and security Mechanisms; distributed AI and defense

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Large Language Models and Network Intelligence

edited by

Rongfei Zeng

and Zhaoyun Ding

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 367 | Submission Open

Keywords: LLM; networks; edge; intelligence; IOTs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Smart Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Algorithms

edited by Fengyu Wang and Jincheng Dai

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6154 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence algorithms; multi-modal artificial intelligence; artificial intelligence empowered systems; artificial intelligence empowered evaluation; robotics algorithms; novel applications of artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Novel Approaches and Techniques for Privacy in Internet Communications

edited by

Antonio Ruiz Martínez

and

Simeon Okechukwu Ajakwe

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4447 | Submission Open

Keywords: anonymous communications networks; anonymous protocols; anonymous communication applications/services; tracking and advertising; surveillance; censorship resistance; anti-fingerprinting techniques; privacy technologies; artificial intelligence and privacy; privacy frameworks; user privacy; privacy by design; Internet of Things privacy; traffic analysis; web privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Blockchain-Empowered Internet of Agents for Trusted and Autonomous Networked Systems

edited by Shujie Yang,

Xiaohai Dai

,

Zhuo Chen

, Qinnan Zhang and

Junqin Huang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2322 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI agents; LLM-driven autonomous systems; blockchain-enabled trust; verifiable agent behavior; decentralized knowledge and coordination; BFT consensus and agent optimization; federated and edge intelligence; token incentive mechanisms; secure multi-agent collaboration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Recent Advances in Security for Internet of Things

edited by

Said El Kafhali

, Youssef Saadi and

Ahmed Bentajer

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 570 | Submission Open

Keywords: secure edge and fog computing; threat detection and anomaly analysis; privacy-preserving techniques; vulnerability assessment and attack modeling; AI/ML-based security solutions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Internet of Things Technology and Service Computing

edited by Yang Zhang and

Michael Sheng

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9336 | Submission Open

Keywords: LLM-driven IoT service; multimodal models enhanced IoT service; AI-based IoT service reasoning; generative AI as a IoT service; IoT security and privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Intelligent Software Engineering: Synergy Between AI and Software Engineering

edited by

Yunwei Dong

,

Guanjun Liu

and Xiaomin Wei

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 8027 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; software engineering; large language models (LLMs); software repair; program synthesis; machine learning; automated testing; software analytics; intelligent systems; AI4SE; SE4AI; human–AI collaboration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust in Intelligent Networked Systems

edited by

Linghui Li

and Ruigang Liang

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1760 | Submission Open

Keywords: cybersecurity; data privacy; zero trust; artificial intelligence security; blockchain security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Accessible Knowledge-Enhanced Web Intelligence: Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs, and Natural Language Interfaces

edited by

Alia Abdelmoty

, Usashi Chatterjee and

Michael Sheng

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 536 | Submission Open

Keywords: semantic web; ontologies; knowledge graphs; natural language interfaces; question answering; web intelligence; semantic search; knowledge representation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Autonomous Vehicles, Immersive Realities and Intelligent IoT

edited by

Yao-Liang Chung

and

Dah-Jing Jwo

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 460 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous vehicles; immersive realities (AR/VR/MR); intelligent IoT; V2X communication; edge/fog computing; 5G/6G; digital twins; task offloading; resource autoscaling; service migration; AI-driven orchestration; cybersecurity and resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare: Technologies, Applications, Challenges

edited by

Daniela Gîfu

and Kevin Bretonnel Cohen

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 14207 | Submission Open

Keywords: interactive health technologies; natural language processing and text mining in healthcare; biomedical data analytics; big data in healthcare; visual analytics and decision-support systems; security and privacy in healthcare data; evaluation and validation of AI methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Intelligent Telecommunications Mobile Networks

edited by

Emanuele De Santis

and Francesco Delli Priscoli

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11839 | Submission Open

Keywords: B5G/6G communication systems; intelligent systems in telecommunication networks; sematic communication in mobile networks; intelligent caching and offloading; terrestrial/non-terrestrial networks convergence; AI-driven network management; machine learning in telecommunications; edge computing in mobile networks; adaptive spectrum sharing; 5G/6G network optimization; intelligent resource allocation; IoT integration in mobile networks; network slicing; cognitive radio networks; autonomous network operations; dynamic network topology; ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC); energy-efficient mobile networks; network function virtualization (NFV); self-organizing networks (SONs)

Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems

edited by

Yuyan Pan

, Xin Wu and

Fangtong Jiao

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1012 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent transportation systems (ITSs); highway and tunnel traffic applications; connected and automated vehicles (CAVs); transit optimization; digital twin and edge computing; AI-driven traffic prediction; cooperative vehicle–infrastructure systems; sustainable and smart mobility; multimodal transportation integration; next-generation traffic management; autonomous transportation systems; digital transportation and big data; traffic safety; urban air mobility operations; on-demand transit

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

New Trends for Blockchain Technologies

edited by

Marios Touloupou

, Evgenia Kapassa and

Marinos Themistocleous

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3577 | Submission Open

Keywords: blockchain technologies; distributed ledger technologies; smart contracts; decentralized applications; information systems; data-driven decision making; digital platforms; cloud computing; edge computing; Internet of Things (IoT); interoperability; blockchain scalability; privacy and security; trust and transparency; blockchain-enabled services; artificial intelligence integration; decentralized autonomous organization (DAOs)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Privacy-Preserving and Secure Federated Learning for IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems

edited by

Zhe Sun

and Yuanyuan He

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2037 | Submission Open

Keywords: federated learning; Internet of Things; cyber–physical systems; privacy-preserving machine learning; security and privacy; edge and fog computing; distributed artificial intelligence; differential privacy; secure aggregation; adversarial robustness; trustworthy AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Machine Learning Techniques for Computer Vision—2nd Edition

edited by Yonggang Lu and

Ivan Serina

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1928 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; computer vision; mobile devices; human–computer interaction; deep learning; image processing; video processing; few-shot learning; transfer learning; interpretability; image classification; object detection; semantic segmentation; action recognition; anomaly detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Collaborative Intelligence for Connected Agents

edited by

Guiyang Luo

, Kaige Qu and Hui Zhang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1648 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-agent systems; collaborative perception; multi-agent decision-making; collaborative localization; collaborative navigation; collaborative intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Federated Neural Networks: Design and Deployment

edited by

Amir Anees

and Gnana K. Bharathy

submission deadline 1 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 800 | Submission Open

Keywords: federated learning; federated neural networks; privacy-preserving machine learning; distributed deep learning; non-IID data and data heterogeneity; communication-efficient learning; secure and robust federated systems; model deployment and scalability; healthcare and industrial applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Wireless Communications and IoT Convergence

edited by

Amiya Nayak

,

Jose I. Moreno Novella

and Zhirun Hu

submission deadline 1 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 326 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things; wireless sensor networks; low-power wide-area networks; edge computing; smart devices; security and privacy; machine-to-machine communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

The Future Internet of Medical Things, 3rd Edition

edited by

Matthew Pediaditis

submission deadline 10 Nov 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11094 | Submission Open

Keywords: IoMT; smart health; e-health

Edge and Fog Computing for the Internet of Things, 2nd Edition

edited by

Alessandro Pozzebon

and

Giacomo Peruzzi

submission deadline 10 Nov 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6181 | Submission Open

Keywords: embedded systems; Internet of Things (IoT); artificial intelligence (AI); LoRaWAN; IoT cellular networks; fog computing; edge computing; distributed computing; data transmission protocols; smart cities; smart industries; smart healthcare; embedded machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

6G-Enabled Telepresence and Metaverse Communications: From Vision to Reality

edited by

Abdelhamied Ashraf Ateya

,

Mohammed El-Affendi

and

Ammar Muthanna

submission deadline 10 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 430 | Submission Open

Keywords: 5G/6G; telepresence communications; metaverse; real-time holographic communication; tactile Internet; digital twins; edge intelligence; networked extended reality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)

IoT–IoV Convergence, Smart Mobility, Connected Infrastructure, and Autonomous Systems

edited by

Xavier Fernando

and

Noha Hassan

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3264 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT); vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication; edge computing; 5G/6G networks; connected infrastructure; intelligent transportation systems (ITSs); vehicle cybersecurity; traffic management; sensor networks; artificial intelligence (AI) for autonomous systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Cybersecurity in the Era of Smart Cities

edited by

Luís Barreto

and

António Amaral

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2604 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart cities cybersecurity; critical infrastructure protection; Internet of Things (IoT) security; cyber–physical systems security; smart mobility and MaaS; privacy-preserving data analytics; intrusion detection and threat intelligence; cyber resilience and risk management; secure urban data platforms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Machine Learning and Computational Methods for Smart Healthcare Applications

edited by

Matjaz Gams

and

Franz Wotawa

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 858 | Submission Open

Keywords: large language models in healthcare; artificial intelligence in medicine; machine learning for smart healthcare; clinical decision support systems; multimodal medical data integration; intelligent healthcare systems; human-in-the-loop medical AI; explainable and trustworthy AI; digital health infrastructure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Advanced Cyber Defense and Intelligent Threat Analytics

edited by

Pietro Liguori

and Raffaele Della Corte

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 334 | Submission Open

Keywords: cyber defense; intelligent threat analytics; intrusion detection and prevention; machine learning for cybersecurity; adversarial and robust AI; threat intelligence; vulnerability analysis and remediation; security analytics for cloud, edge, and IoT; cybersecurity benchmarks and datasets; evaluation and reproducibility in security systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Security of Computer System and Network

edited by Pengfei Qiu and

Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 15259 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer security; computer system security; network security; vulnerability mining; security analysis; software reverse-engineering; secure software; artificial intelligence-assisted security methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

edited by

Edgar Ceh Varela

,

Sarbagya Shakya

and Huiping Cao

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 8507 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; deep learning; natural language processing; intelligent networks; network communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data and Augmented Intelligence)

Intelligent IoT and Wireless Communication

edited by

Suhardi Azliy Junoh

and

Jae-Young Pyun

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5267 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; wireless communication; internet of things; smart cities; indoor positioning systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

eHealth and mHealth—2nd Edition

edited by

Sten Hanke

, Bernhard Neumayer and Stefan Sauermann

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2387 | Submission Open

Keywords: eHealth; mHealth; wearables; telemedicine; interoperability; mobile apps; standards; patient empowerment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)

Machine Learning and Internet of Things in Industry 4.0—2nd Edition

edited by

Marcelo García

and Paulina E. Ayala

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1275 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; Internet of Things (IoT); Industry 4.0; smart manufacturing; predictive maintenance; industrial automation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Task Offloading and Resource Scheduling in Mobile Edge-Cloud Computing

edited by Gaocai Wang and Shuqiang Huang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1151 | Submission Open

Keywords: task offloading; resource scheduling; low latency; energy efficiency; mobile edge-cloud computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Cyber Security in the New “Edge Computing and IoT” World, 2nd Edition

edited by

Xuebin Ren

submission deadline 20 Dec 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 17026 | Submission Open

Keywords: cybersecurity in typical edge and IoT systems, e.g., smart grid and smart transportation; system security in edge and fog computing; security and privacy issues in edge intelligence and the IoT; data security and privacy in edge computing and the IoT; privacy-enhancing technologies in edge computing and the IoT; adversarial attacks in edge computing and the IoT; defending mechanisms in edge computing and the IoT; blockchain and its applications in edge computing and the IoT; trust management in edge computing and the IoT; trustworthy ML algorithms in edge computing and the IoT; advanced privacy-enhanced technologies for edge computing and the IoT; advanced cryptographic techniques for a resource-constrained IoT; large language models (LLMs) for cybersecurity in edge computing and the IoT

(This special issue belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)

IoT Architecture Supported by Digital Twin: Challenges and Solutions

edited by

Duaa Zuhair Al-Hamid

,

Peter Han Joo Chong

and

Pejman A. Karegar

submission deadline 20 Dec 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9471 | Submission Open

Keywords: IoT architectures; digital twin; distributed computing; system intelligence; healthcare application; dynamic networks; quality of virtualisation; network virtualisation; machine learning; real-time testbed

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization

edited by

He Li

,

Yoshifumi Okada

and

Xiaoyi Tao

submission deadline 20 Dec 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3247 | Submission Open

Keywords: software-defined networking (SDN); network function virtualization (NFV); 5G/6G communications; network slicing; virtualized network functions (VNFs); edge-to-cloud integration; control–data plane separation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)

Edge-Cloud Computing and Federated-Split Learning in Internet of Things—Third Edition

edited by

Qiang Duan

and

Zhihui Lu

submission deadline 20 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 462 | Submission Open

Keywords: federated learning; split learning; hybrid federated–split learning; edge-cloud computing; Internet of Things; multimodal large models; large language model (LLM)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Cloud Computing and High Performance Computing (HPC) Advances for Next Generation Internet—2nd Edition

edited by

Jerry Chou

and

Wu-Chun Chung

submission deadline 25 Dec 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 11928 | Submission Open

Keywords: virtualization, container, and microservices; resource management and orchestration; performance benchmarking and modeling; cluster, distributed systems, and data centers; cloud, fog, and edge computing; AI, machine learning, and big data processing; serverless and function as a service

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)

Key Enabling Technologies for Beyond 5G Networks—2nd Edition

edited by

Dania Marabissi

and

Lorenzo Mucchi

submission deadline 25 Dec 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4303 | Submission Open

Keywords: THz and visible light communications; intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS); cognitive and dynamic spectrum access; machine learning and artificial intelligence for wireless communications systems; energy-efficient wireless communications and networking; network softwarization and virtualization; network security; physical layer security; zero-touch networks; massive IoT communication; quantum communication and cryptography; joint communication and sensing; massive MIMO; advanced wearable technologies and body area networks; edge computing; 3D networking

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

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