Theme and Scope

Innovative solutions provided by communication technologies have significantly contributed to addressing future challenges in social, environmental, and economic domains. These solutions enhance efficiency, strengthen network usage, and facilitate more informed decision-making. Notably, the Internet of Things (IoT), which integrates machines and other entities into network systems, demands increasingly sophisticated communication. Consequently, dynamic interactions within networks are crucial for connecting intelligent machines. The collaboration of digital twins necessitates sensor data, which are embedded within pervasive cyber-physical systems composed of physical objects. Therefore, the EAI SGIoT 2024 special issue focuses on exploring applications and addressing significant research challenges.

This special issue emphasizes practical and effective approaches that meet societal needs through improved resource utilization, collaboration, competence transfer, status verification, privacy protection, security, and safety. The topics covered, though not limited to, include healthcare, safety, retail, finance, energy, audio-visual, and legal industries. These areas are integral to the future development of intelligent societies and industries.

Topics appropriate for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Industrial IoT services and applications,
• IoT and Fin-tech applications,
• IoT and healthcare applications,
• IoT and fitness applications,
• IoT and commercial management,
• IoT and energy management,
• Big data analysis in the IoT,
• Intellectual property matters regarding recent advances on IoT,
• Security, privacy, and dependability issues,
• Voice, Image and Video Processing in the IoT

Papers submitted to the special issue should contain original materials not published in nor submitted to other journals.

Proposed Submissions

The guest editors expect that this special issue of JIT will attract not only the outstanding results from local researchers but also good quality papers from around the world. Quality of the special issue will be guaranteed. In addition, the guest editors may work with the Editor-in-chief of the journal to invite distinguished researchers in the related areas for position papers. Authors whose selected papers have been accepted and presented at the SGIoT 2024 (http://sgiot.org/) are also invited to submit an extended and revised version of their papers to this special issue. The papers must have at least 70% new material compared to the conference paper.

Instructions for Manuscripts

• Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere.
• The papers must have at least 70% new material compared to the conference paper.
• All submitted papers must conform to the layout and format guidelines of JIT.
• All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed before their acceptance for publication.
• Submissions must be directly sent via email to Leading Guest Editor, Prof. Der-Jiunn Deng: djdeng@cc.ncue.edu.tw

Important Dates

• Full papers due (special-issue submission): January 31, 2025

• Notification of acceptance/rejection/revision: April 30, 2025
• Revised manuscript due: June 30, 2025
• Final manuscript due: July 25, 2025
• Tentative publication date: The 3rd quarter, 2027

Guest Editors

• Chun-Hsien Sung
• Assistance Professor, Department of Financial Law, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
• Email: scotsung@gmail.com

• Der-Jiunn Deng (Leading Guest Editor)
• Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
• Email: djdeng@cc.ncue.edu.tw

• Mohammed Atiquzzaman
• Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, USA
• Email: atiq@ou.edu