Heterogeneous Crowdsourced Data Analytics

Submission Deadline: 16 January 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Heterogeneous Crowdsourced Data Analytics.

Advances in computing, communications, storage, and sensing technologies have enabled to digitalize and record citizens’ traces while interacting with cyber-physical spaces. We have entered an era where such data are becoming increasingly big and easily available. These data are heterogeneous, contributed by the crowd of people, coming from different sources and with diverse formats. Broadly, such data are generated mainly from three sources: Internet and Web applications, sensor networks, and mobile/wearable devices. The scale and richness of the multimodal, mixed data sources present us an opportunity to compile the data into a comprehensive picture of individuals’ daily life facets, transform our understanding of our lives, organizations and societies, and enable completely innovative urban services, including public people and freight transportation, public safety, city resource management, environment monitoring, and social interaction assistance. However, raw data is heterogeneous, redundant, fragmented, and quality-variant, which prevents their direct use for analysis, management, forecasting and planning. Consequently, emerging data analytics targeted to their sessions, including data co-mining, data fusion, data selection, need to be studied and applied more thoroughly.

This Special Section in IEEE Access invites authors from academia and industry to submit their original research as well as review articles to present state-of-the-art progress on latest developments or future goals in this field. In line with applying novel data analytics for smart cities, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Human mobility behaviors understanding, modeling, predication and supporting applications
  • Advanced data co-mining and fusion techniques, and supporting applications
  • Advanced data integration, management, retrieval, and visualization techniques
  • Advanced data sharing techniques while preventing user privacy
  • Participant and data selection in Mobile Crowdsensing
  • Security and privacy issues and possible solutions in data collection, transmission, and aggregation
  • Urban infrastructure management, optimization, designing, and planning
  • Flawed urban planning problem identification and possible solutions
  • Advanced and context-aware route planning, such as customization of driving/travel route recommendation
  • Innovative urban services and applications

 

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Associate Editor: Zhangbing Zhou, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China, & TELECOM SudParis, France

Guest Editors:
1. Chao Chen, Chongqing University, China
2. Jean-Claude Thill, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
3. Mahmoud Barhamgi, Claude Bernard Lyon I University, France

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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Recent Advances in Full-Duplex Radios and Networks

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Recent Advances in Full-Duplex Radios and Networks.

With the explosive growth of wireless communications, frequency resources become more and more scarce, considering the dramatically increasing demands for higher communication rates. However, by examining the existed duplex modes, e.g., time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD), it is observed that more than half of the resources are wasted due to the “half-duplex” constraints, as well as the uses of guard zones in the time or frequency domain to avoid interference from neighbor time slots or frequency bands. Therefore, efficient utilization of the expensive frequency resources to provide high spectrum-efficient communications becomes one of the most important challenges in the design of the next generation wireless communication systems.

In academia, it has long been known that full-duplex (FD) allows radios to simultaneously transmit and receive simultaneously and frequency, can potentially double the spectrum efficiency of single-link wireless communications. Unfortunately, severe self-interference (SI) from the transmitter to the local receiver at the same radio is the key obstacle for the implementations of FD radios. Adopting FD radios will also introduce extra inter- and intra-cell interferences to the multi-cell cellular networks. Therefore suppressing the undesired SI at the FD radios and manage the intricate interferences in the newly mixed-duplex networks is the most critical challenge for the implementation of FD techniques.

This Special Section in IEEE Access invites researchers who are working on research challenges to SI cancellation for FD radios, designs and optimizations for various FD communication protocols, and implementations of FD radios and networks. This Special Section will mainly focus on, but is not limited to, the following topics:

  • Propagation-domain SI suppression
  • Analog-circuit-domain SI cancellation techniques
  • Digital-domain SI cancellation techniques
  • Information theoretical fundamental of FD wireless communications
  • Precoding design for FD multiple-antenna systems
  • FD relaying strategies
  • Physical layer network security in the FD communications
  • Energy efficient design of FD communications
  • Spectrum sharing and aggregation with FD radios
  • FD wireless-powered communications
  • Throughput analysis for FD cellular networks
  • Throughput analysis for FD ad hoc networks
  • FD MAC layer protocol design and analysis
  • Routing protocol for FD networks
  • Flexible duplex schemes
  • Demo and experimental results for FD systems

 

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Associate Editor: Chuan Huang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Guest Editors:
1. Lingjia Liu, University of Kansas, USA
2. Bin Xia, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
3. Chin Keong Ho, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore
4. Jingon Joung, Chung-Ang University, Korea

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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The Internet of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, and Applications (Part I)

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of The Internet of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, and Applications.

Energy crisis and carbon emission have become two critical concerns universally. As a very promising solution, the concept of Internet of Energy has appeared to tackle these challenges. The Internet of Energy is a new power generation paradigm by developing a revolutionary vision of smart grids into the Internet. The communication infrastructure is an essential component for implementing the Internet of Energy. A scalable and robust communication infrastructure is crucial in both operating and maintaining smart energy systems. The wide-scale implementation and development of Internet of Energy into industrial applications should take into account the following challenges:

  • Integrating highly scalable and distributed alternative energy generating sources with other available power grid systems: to promote a green-energy-based industry and society and realize the optimization of energy utilization, the efficient gathering, transportation, storage and integrating these into the existing power grid are faced with great challenges.
  • Advanced metering, monitoring and controlling systems: since the observability, controllability and predictability are three critical aspects in the Internet of Energy, real-time monitoring and controlling are faced with great challenges in order to collect precise energy consumption data, give deep analysis and provide rich users information. In this way, users can adjust their energy consumption intelligently with optimization goals.
  • Cyber Security and Privacy-aware data management for Internet of Energy: Among many applications in Internet of Energy, energy consumption data could be linked and mined to gain useful insights for optimization of energy utilization. At the same time, privacy and security concerns can prevent the information disclosure, energy wastage and disaster. Further safeguards are needed to build trust in the data, which is instrumental for making critical decisions for the development of Internet of Energy.

Till now, limited research efforts have been done and a limited number of papers have been published on the integration and interaction between Internet of Energy and advanced technologies, towards new applications and security issues.

In this Special Section in IEEE Access, we would like to invite researchers who are working on related research issues to contribute high quality papers to further advance people’s understanding of the relationship among Internet of Energy, target applications and advanced technologies. We welcome both original practical work and review papers.

 

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Associate Editor: Kun Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P. R. China

Guest Editors:
1. Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory & University of Oslo, Norway
2. Song Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan
3. Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
4. Rose Qingyang Hu, Utah State University, USA
5. Lei He, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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Energy Harvesting and Scavenging: Technologies, Algorithms, and Communication Protocols

Submission Deadline: 30 December 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Energy Harvesting and Scavenging: Technologies, Algorithms, and Communication Protocols.

The operation of modern electronic communication devices rely on constant energy sources such as DC power obtained from AC sources via AC to DC conversion or small chargeable/replaceable batteries. However, in some cases, providing a constant energy source is not feasible. Due to the advancement in technology, energy harvesting technologies can be exploited to power-up the modern day electronic communication devices. These energy harvesting technologies rely on energy sources naturally present in the environment, such as solar energy, wind energy, and heat energy. Moreover, energy can also be acquired from the human body from movement of different parts of the body such as walking, heartbeat, movement of arms, just to name a few. All these energy harvesting technologies and techniques may satisfy the need of energy for low power communication devices and may enable the charging of electronic mobile devices anywhere and at any time.

In this Special Section in IEEE Access, we focus on the most recent advances in the interdisciplinary research areas encompassing the Energy Harvesting domain. This Special Section will bring together researchers from diverse fields and specializations, such as communications engineering, computer science, electrical and electronics engineering, bio-medical engineering, education sector, mathematics and specialists in the areas related to energy harvesting technologies. In this Special Section, we invite researchers from academia, industry, and governmental organizations to discuss challenging ideas, novel research contributions, demonstration results, and standardization efforts on the energy harvesting and related areas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Battery Recharging Techniques
  • Harvesting Technologies (Solar Cells, Peizoelectric, Electrostatic, Bio Fuel Cell)
  • Analysis of Energy Sources (walking, body heat, heart beat etc) in Body Area Networks
  • Solar Energy based Battery Recharging
  • Bio Chemical Energy Harvesting Sources
  • Bio Mechanical Energy Harvesting Sources
  • Ambient Energy Harvesting Sources
  • Wind Energy based Battery Recharging
  • Head Energy based Battery Recharging
  • Wireless Power Transfer
  • Inductive Coupling Methods of Energy Harvesting
  • Magnetic Resonance based Methods of Energy Harvesting
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Body Area Networks
  • Energy Harvesting in Cellular Networks
  • Energy Harvesting in Cognitive Cellular Systems
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Standardization Activities for Energy Harvesting in Communication Networks
  • Spectrum Related Issues for Energy Harnessing
  • Security and Privacy Issues of Energy Harvesting
  • Algorithms and Protocols for Energy Harvesting

 

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Associate Editor: Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

Guest Editors:
1. Ayaz Ahmad, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
2. Abderrezak Rachedi, University Paris Est, France
3. Soumaya Cherkaoui, Professor at Sherbrooke University, Canada
4. Kok-Lim Alvin Yau, Sunway University, Malaysia

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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Analysis and Synthesis of Large-scale Systems

Submission Deadline: 30 November 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Analysis and Synthesis of Large-scale Systems.

The last few decades have witnessed the rapid growth of research and development on large-scale systems (LSSs) due to the increasing complexity and the growing demand of modern engineering systems. The LSSs can normally be viewed as interconnections of multiple subsystems. Many practical systems can be described by the LSSs such as power systems, multi-robot systems, communication networks, transportation networks, and supply chains. In such a large-scale system, the centralized control framework may become impossible for its implementation. The decentralized and distributed controls have emerged as the attractive control methodologies to handle the scale and interactions of large-scale complex systems. However, the interactions among different subsystems introduce many challenges in the analysis and synthesis of such systems. Therefore, it is of significance to address several fundamental problems regarding real-time analysis, estimation and control of these systems.

The primary objective of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to provide up-to-date discussions on technical trends and advanced methodologies in system analysis and control design of large-scale systems. Of particular interest the papers in this Special Section are devoted to the development of advanced communication technology used in LSSs, decentralized/distributed state estimation and control of LSSs, and their applications in industrial process systems. The contributions to this Special Section are expected to provide the latest results in advanced analysis, optimization, control and filtering and real applications for large-scale dynamical systems. Topics to be covered in this special issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Communication resource optimization in LSSs
  • New control algorithms for LSSs
  • Decentralized/distributed state estimation of LSSs
  • Decentralized/distributed control of LSSs
  • Scheduling and control co-design of LSSs
  • Cooperation control of networked LSSs and its industrial applications

 

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Associate Editor: Hamid Reza Karimi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Guest Editors:
1. Dan Zhang, Zhejiang University of Technology, People’s Republic of China
2. Hui Zhang, Shanghai Maritime University, People’s Republic of China
3. Fuwen Yang, Griffith University, Australia

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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Socially Enabled Networking and Computing

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Socially Enabled Networking and Computing.

In recent years, mobile social networks, i.e. the networks of individuals with similar interests connected to each other through their mobile devices, is emerging as a source of information to achieve high efficiency communication and networking with better performance on key metrics such as lower delay, better coverage and higher data rate. The reason is that mobile devices are now powerful enough to form cooperative groups, assisting each other by sharing communication and computation resources. In such a scenario, critical technical problems should be solved to realize the potential benefits, i.e., how to efficiently utilize the computing and communication capabilities among these smart devices and how to facilitate mobile computing for human-computer interaction by which a computer is expected to be mobile in the network during normal usage? In addition to these technical challenges, another major problem is how to understand human behaviors and further utilize them in the mobile social networks to facilitate the benefits of considering human’s social relations and behaviors in mobile computing, communication and networking.

The focus of this Special Section in IEEE Access is the emerging topics of mobile social networks and corresponding applications with emphasis on networking and computing. We solicit and publish original research papers on the models, algorithms, technologies, and methodologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Modelling of social behaviors and interactions toward efficient networking and/or computing
  • Economy for social-aware networking and computing
  • Socially enabled resource allocation in wireless networks
  • Game theoretic formulation for networking and/or computing of interacting entities
  • Socially-enhanced wireless networking technologies such as device-to-device (D2D) communications, Internet of Things (IoT), vehicular networks, LTE-U, and network virtualization
  • Socially enabled mobile computing frameworks, algorithms and experiments
  • Mobile cloud computing assisted by socially enabled techniques, such as offloading and caching
  • Social-aware content sharing and distributed storage in mobile communications
  • Privacy, trust and security for socially enabled networking and computing
  • Mobile social networking systems and prototypes

 

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Associate Editor: Li Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Guest Editors:
1. Giuseppe Araniti, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy
2. Yong Li, Tsinghua University, China
3. Tommy Svensson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
4. Zhu Han, University of Houston, USA

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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Emotion-aware Mobile Computing

Submission Deadline: 30 November 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Emotion-aware Mobile Computing.

With the rapid development of smart phones and wireless technology, mobile services and applications in the world are growing rapidly. The advanced mobile computing and communications greatly enhance the user’s experience by the notion of “carrying small while enjoying large”, which have brought a huge impact to all aspects of people’s lifestyles in terms of work, social, and economy. Despite the advanced techniques that have extensively improved user’s quality of experience (QoE), it is not adequate to provide affective services without efficient mechanisms of emotion-aware mobile computing, which includes various unique aspects, e.g., mobile data sensing and transmissions; sentiment analysis and emotion recognition; affective interaction. Under the new service paradigm, novel mobile services and innovative applications need to be extensively investigated to gain the great potentials brought by emotion-aware mobile computing.

The progress in this area will be made by applying and extending well-founded formal models and techniques from multiple domains of computer science, such as affective computing, mobile computing, human-computer interactions, etc. Therefore, this special issue aims to theme innovative research achievements in the field of related techniques, applications, services, architectures and systems for emotion-aware mobile computing.

This Special Section in IEEE Access will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to emotion-aware mobile computing. To meet the requirements of emotion-aware mobile computing, more comprehensive data sensing, more efficient data transmission, more effective data mining, affective computing and machine learning, more humanized interaction, new concepts and design approaches are in great need. This Special Section will discuss how to improve mobile user’s QoE through emotion-aware mobile computing.

In this Special Section, we are particularly interested in high quality contributions and innovations in the interdisciplinary area of mobile computing technologies, systems, and services. We are especially interested in emotion-aware mobile computing and innovative applications but not limited to the topics of interest listed below:

  • Pervasive and Mobile Interactive Services
  • Wearable Computing, Mobile Cloud Computing for Emotion-aware Service
  • Human-centric Emotion Recognition based on Mobile Big Data
  • Multimodal Mobile Data Fusion for Emotion Recognition
  • Pervasive Emotion Recognition and Regulation Environments
  • Context-aware, Emotion-aware, Location-based and Other Novel Mobile Services
  • Innovative Applications of Emotion-aware Mobile Computing
  • Tools and System Design Issues for Developing Affective and Proactive Interfaces
  • Emotion in Robot and Virtual Agent Cognition and Action
  • Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Conversational Agents

 

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Associate Editor: Yin Zhang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China

Guest Editors:
1. Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
2. Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
3. Wei Wang, San Diego State University, USA

 

IEEE Access Editor in Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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Healthcare Big Data

Submission Deadline: 1 October 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Healthcare Big Data.

Healthcare data is rapidly growing with the large volume and multi-dimensional data generation from cyber, physical, and social space. Heterogeneous healthcare data in various forms, such as images, text, video, raw sensor data, etc., are required to be effectively stored, processed, queried, indexed and analyzed. These datasets differ widely in their volume, variety, velocity and value, including patient-oriented data such as electronic medical records (EMR), public-oriented data such as public health data, and knowledge-oriented data such as drug-to-drug, drug-to-disease, disease to disease interaction registries. The healthcare big data brings great challenges while also playing an important role in healthcare transformation. The traditional techniques do not compromise end-users’ Quality of Service (QoS) in terms of data availability, data response delay, etc. It is vital to develop wireless big data communication systems, machine learning techniques and software tools for supporting fast data query, data analytics, and data visualization which can provide high Quality of Experience (QoE) for users.

The progress in this area can be made by applying and extending well-founded formal models and techniques from multiple domains of computer science, such as cloud computing, data mining, machine learning, etc. Unfortunately, current healthcare information systems still lack the successful implementation of big data solutions. This Special Section aims to theme innovative research achievements in the field of big data related techniques and applications for healthcare.

This Special Section in IEEE Access will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to healthcare big data. To meet the requirements of healthcare big data, more comprehensive reporting, more efficient monitoring, more effective and professional domain data mining, more advanced medical evaluation, simulation and prediction, new concepts and design approaches are in great need. The big-data revolution is in its early days, and most of the potential for value creation is still unclaimed. But for big-data initiatives to succeed, the healthcare system must undergo some fundamental changes. This Special Section will discuss the analytical capabilities that will be required to capture big data’s full potential, ranging from reporting and monitoring activities that are already occurring to predictive modeling and simulation techniques that have not yet been used at scale and aims to present the latest advances of the fundamental technologies and market trends that will impact the development of healthcare big data.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

  • Data Models and Architectures for healthcare
  • Healthcare Data Integration and Information Fusion
  • Benchmarking of big data infrastructure in healthcare
  • Novel algorithms and applications dealing with healthcare data
  • Data science and modeling for health analytics
  • Advances in storage models for healthcare data variety
  • Detection and diagnosis assisted by big data
  • Visualization tools and systems for healthcare applications
  • QoS optimization techniques for big data healthcare applications
  • Healthcare big data applications via 5G tactile internet
  • Techniques for preserving security and privacy of healthcare information

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Associate Editor: Min Chen, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China

Guest Editors:
1. Haiyang Wang, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
2. Iztok Humar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
3. Yin Zhang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China
4. Jiafu Wan, South China University of Technology, China

 

IEEE Access Editor in Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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Innovations in Electrical and Computer Engineering Education

Submission Deadline: 30 October 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Innovations in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Education.

The past two decades have seen significant advances in learning-related technologies, with the attendant recognition (and expectation) of their impact on the higher education system. Many new teaching methods can now be employed and their efficacy and scalability studied. In parallel, the demand for ECE education continues to grow world-wide, as an increasing world population seeks educational opportunities. There is now a growing acknowledgement that technical education must be complemented with skills for professional success such as design, leadership, communication, understanding historical and contemporary social contexts, lifelong learning, creativity, entrepreneurship, and teamwork. It is also widely accepted that solving today’s major challenges requires a multidisciplinary approach. The time is ripe for large-scale experimentation and adoption of possibly revolutionary changes in ECE education.

The purpose of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to present the latest advances in ECE Education, in the context of the above observations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • New curricula
  • New teaching methodologies
  • New instructional technologies
  • New delivery modes, including distance-learning
  • Large-scale personalized education

Submissions will be evaluated on the ongoing and future impact on ECE education. We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

Associate Editor: Zhihua Qu, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

Guest Editors:
1. Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
2. Bonnie Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3. Marwan Simaan, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

 

IEEE Access Editor in Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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Recent Advances on Modelling, Optimization and Signal Processing Methods in Vehicle Dynamics and Crash-worthiness

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Recent Advances on Modelling, Optimization and Signal Processing Methods in Vehicle Dynamics and Crash-worthiness.

Due to the large growth in transport industries, the importance of interactions between vehicle technology and human from the safety aspect plays an important role in the new developments of complex vehicle systems. Therefore, from academia and industrial point of views, more attention has been paid on complex vehicle correlative technologies with fully consideration of issues like safety, robust performance, impact analysis, optimization, automation, motion control, etc. All aforementioned issues provide a basis for the design and operation of practical vehicle systems in order to achieve desired complex tasks.

The primary objective of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange their latest achievements and to identify critical issues and challenges for future investigation on mathematical-based or computer-aided modelling, optimization and signal processing techniques in vehicle dynamics and crash-worthiness. Based on this focus the special issue would be of interest for readers in terms of having a good summary over the field of vehicle dynamics and crash-worthiness in this special section.

The articles to be published in this Special Section in IEEE Access are expected to provide the latest results in advanced modelling, optimization, signal processing, control approaches and software developments for vehicle dynamics analysis at various vehicle crash scenarios, for instance vehicle to vehicle or vehicle to rigid barriers, to enhance safety in road transportations. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following research areas:

  • Mathematical modelling of vehicle crash dynamics
  • Data-based modelling for vehicle crash
  • Optimization of vehicle crash models based on sensor data
  • Signal processing advances related to vehicle crash dynamics
  • Computer-aided analysis for safety and crash assessments
  • Structural response analysis in crash mode
  • Intelligent solutions for vehicle crash
  • New developments in vehicle crash test apparatuses
  • Recent developments on impact analysis for vehicle systems
  • Advanced control and driving assistance system assessment

 

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Associate Editor: Hamid Reza Karimi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Guest Editors:
1. Dario Vangi, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
2. Hermann Steffan, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria
3. Junmin Wang, The Ohio State University, USA
4. Kalyana Veluvolu, Kyungpook National University, South Korea

 

IEEE Access Editor in Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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