Chief Guest Editor

Dr. Cheryl Ann Alexander
Kaplan University, USA
Technology & Healthcare Solutions, Inc., USA
Email: tech.health.sol@gmail.com

Guest Editor

Dr. Lidong Wang
Mississippi State University, USA
Email: lidong@iser.msstate.edu

Information technology (IT) is always progressing quickly, especially disruptive innovation in IT which plays an increasingly key role in the revolution of IT and related areas. New methods and technologies with computational intelligence like Big Data and Big Data analytics are making IT continuously act as the leading force in supporting various disciplines and research areas, industry, and healthcare. This is facilitating technological innovation (e.g. 3D printing), revolution in numerous industries (e.g. Industry 4.0 for manufacturing), and economic development. The objective of this special issue is to publish papers of challenges, advances and trends in information technology and computational intelligence.

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• • Big Data analytics
• • Cyber security
• • Visualization of big data
• • Deep learning in big data
• • Big data and cloud computing
• • Cyber-physical systems
• • Internet of things (IoT)
• • Radio frequency identification (RFID)
• • Hierarchical and deep learning
• • High performance computing
• • Forensics security
• • Privacy and cyber protection
• • Biometrics and identity management
• • Reinforcement learning
• • Stream data and real-time processing
• • Stream data mining
• • Feature selection and extraction for stream data
• • Dimension reduction in high-dimensional stream data
• • Complex robotic control
• • Automated control systems
• • Digital image processing
• • 3D visual communication in virtual collaboration
• • Distributed network
• • Programmable logic control
• • Computer graphics and visualization