
Editorial followup
Special Issues on mainstream scientific journals will be devoted to the conference topics and the best selected papers will be considered for publication, as extended versions, in these journals.
Please note that:
- papers must have been presented in the conference;
- papers should have been carefully revised and extended with at least 30% of new original contribution;
- a paper can be submitted to only one special issue;
- only one submission per special issue is allowed.
Special Issue

IEEE Communications Magazine
Publisher: IEEE Communications Society
ISSN: 0163-6804
Title of the Special Issue: “Human-Driven Edge Computing and Communication“
Indexing: Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition IF=5.125 Q1 ; Scopus Q1

Information Sciences
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0020-0255
Title of the Special Issue: “Innovative Smart Methods for Security: Emerging Trends and Research Challenges”
Indexing: Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition IF=3.364 Q1 ; Scopus Q1

Future Generation Computer Systems
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0167-739X
Title of the Special Issue: “Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs“
Indexing: Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition IF=2.430 Q1 ; Scopus Q1

Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 1084-8045
Title of the Special Issue: “Security in Cloud Computing“
Indexing: Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition IF=2.331 Q1 ; Scopus Q1

Pattern Recognition Letters
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0167-8655
Title of the Special Issue: “Robustness, Security and Regulation Aspects in Current Biometric Systems (RSRA-BS)“
Indexing: Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition IF=1.586 Q2 ; Scopus Q1/Q2

Multimedia Tools and Applications
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 1380-7501
Title of the Special Issue: “Semantic Approaches for Multimedia Retrieval Applications“
Indexing: Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition IF=1.331 Q2 ; Scopus Q1/Q2/Q3

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Publisher: Wiley
ISSN: 1532-0634
Title of the Special Issue: “Security and Privacy Issues in Fog Computing“
Indexing: Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition IF=0.942 Q3 ; Scopus Q2/Q3

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
ISSN: 2168-6750
Title of the Special Issue: “Cyber Security Threats and Defense Advances“
Indexing: Scopus Q2/Q3 and soon will be on ISI

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society
ISSN: 2377-3782
Title of the Special Issue: “Cryptography and Data Security in Sustainable Computing“
Indexing: Soon will be on Scopus and ISI

Journal of Information Security and Applications
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 2214-2126
Title of the Special Issue: “Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust“
Indexing: Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); Scopus Q3