Special Issues

Open for Submissions

Frontier Advancement in 10 Fundamental Scientific Questions on Intelligent Computing

This special issue focuses on the subject of the 10 fundamental scientific questions on intelligent computing and aims to bring together and disseminate the latest advances in the solutions to these challenging problems, include discoveries, theories, software, hardware, and algorithms.
Submission deadline: July 15, 2023

Affective Computing

This special issue focuses on the subject of Affective Computing and aims to bring together and disseminate the latest advances in the design and optimization of affective computing systems using modern deep and general machine learning tools and techniques.
Submission deadline: July 20, 2023

Quantum Chips for Quantum Information Science and Technologies

This special issue aims to establish a collective forum for the dissemination of recent high-quality research advances in the field of quantum chips and quantum technologies in different physics systems. In particular, the material, manufacturing, architecture, and control of various quantum chips. It also calls for techniques and solutions that could be transformed between semiconductor, superconducting, photonic, phononic, and atomic chips for future advanced quantum hardware and technologies.
Submission deadline: August 15, 2023

Published Special Issues

Intelligent Communications

This special issue aims to bring together the latest advances in the design and optimization of communication systems using modern ML tools and techniques.

Quantum Computation & Simulation

This special issue focuses on Quantum Computation & Simulation with overlaps in machine learning or optimization.

Graph Computing

Techniques for graph computing, including software and hardware solutions.

Cognitive Capacities for Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Techniques and solutions that could be implemented or adapted to distributed computing continuum systems to provide cognitive capacity.

Computational Imaging

Techniques and solutions that could be implemented or adapted to distributed computing continuum systems to provide cognitive capacity.

Deep Learning for Cross-Media Analysis and Knowledge Discovery

Cross-media analysis research that focuses on utilizing data with different modalities from multiple sources simultaneously and synergistically to discover knowledge and understand the world.

Knowledge-Graph-Enabled Domain-Specific Commonsense Reasoning and Decision-Making

Research leveraging knowledge graphs to help accomplish more knowledgeable tasks in different domains.

Photonic Computing

Analog computation paradigms aimed at providing lower latency, higher bandwidth, massive parallelism, lower power consumption and reconfigurability.

Low-Entropy Cloud Computing

The articles in this special issue present advances in low-entropy cloud computing, a new systems concept which addresses high-entropy and stranding problems. They show that low-entropy cloud computing techniques can simultaneously enhance user experience and resource utilization.

Special Issue Process

Please see the journal's peer review process page for more information on how special issue submissions are handled.