Digital Technologies Research and Applications

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Maria Alessandra Ragusa

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Catania 95124, Italy

Research Interests: mathematics; partial differential equations; potential theory; real analysis; regularity results

Editorial Board Members

Prof. Dr. George A. Tsihrintzis

Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus 18534, Greece

Research Interests: computational intelligence; pattern recognition; artificial intelligence; signal processing; image analysis

Dr. Zahid Akhtar

Department of Network and Computer Security, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY 13502, USA

Research Interests: machine learning; biometrics; cyber security; computer vision; affective computing

Dr. Xudong Huang

Neurochemistry Lab, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), Charlestown, MA 02129, USA

Research Interests: algorithms; alzheimer's disease; artificial intelligence; big data analytics; blockchain; convolutional neural network; deep learning; depression; drug discovery; exposome; machine learning; metal oxide nanoparticles; metals; neurodegeneration

Prof. Dr. Maysam Abbod

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Brunel University London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK

Research Interests: intelligent systems biomedical applications; modelling and control of electrical power quality; stock exchange market modelling; intelligent systems for credit scoring; intelligent hybrid modelling and control of distillation column systems; time series modelling; hybrid modelling techniques (multivariate/time series); developments of advanced process modelling, optimisation and control strategies; data mining and data driven modelling techniques

Dr. Boris de Ruyter

Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6525, The Netherlands

Research Interests: social innovative technology and its development; the intersection of cognitive neurosciences, psychology; artificial intelligence

Prof. Dr. Maki Habib

Robotics, Control and Smart Systems Department (RCSS), School of Science and Engineering, The American University in Cairo (AUC), New Cairo 11835, Egypt

Research Interests: intelligent and autonomous robotics, autonomous vehicles; biomedical and bioinspired robotics; AI and machine learning; flying robotics, nonlinear and intelligent control; human adaptive and friendly mechatronics; robotics and humanitarian demining; distributed teleoperation and collaborative control; industry 4.0, intelligent sensors systems, wireless sensor networks and ambient intelligence; industrial robots and automation

Dr. Shi Yin

College of Economics and Management, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China

Research Interests: energy and environmental assessment; green innovation processes; digital transformation; green manufacturing; environmental sustainability; algorithms, and optimization; healthcare big data; social network data analysis and mining; fuzzy rule based systems; cognitive computational science (including innovative models and paradigms from digital humanities and quantitative and qualitative social sciences); civil engineering innovation for sustainability; green building; green building technology; digital engineering in construction; health issues relating to the natural and built environment; smart buildings; smart cities; sustainable supply chain management

Prof. Dr. Jiyou Jia

Department of Educational Technology, Graduate School of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Research Interests: educational technology; artificial intelligence in education; educational decision support systems; computer-assisted language teaching

Prof. Dr. Gyu Myoung Lee

School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK

Research Interests: Internet Of Things; 5G; trust; data processing and management; intelligence

Dr. Giandomenico Spezzano

Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Rende 87036, Italy

Research Interests: distributed and pervasive intelligent systems; GPU computing; cognitive IOT; fog/edge computing; peer-to-peer computing; cloud computing for cyber-physical systems; autonomic and pervasive workflow; scalable distributed data mining; swarm intelligence; parallel cellular automata; particle swarm optimization

Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Barrile

DICEAM Department of Civil, Energy, Environmental and Material Engineering, Mediterranean University, Reggio Calabria 89124, Italy

Research Interests: GPS; remote sensing; GIS and digital cartography; laser scanner; georadar; photogrammetry; drones (UAV); territorial environmental monitoring and controls; VR/AR/MR app; BIM; HBIM; Cultural Heritage

Dr. Murali Mohan Cheepu

Department of Materials System Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48547, Republic of Korea

Research Interests: welding and joining; additive manufacturing; welding filler materials development; welding process design; automation; digitalization; rapid tooling; machine learning; AI

Dr. Guchong Li

School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China

Research Interests: multi-target tracking; random finite set; information fusion; sensor control; extended/group target tracking

Dr. Keshav D. Singh

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Lethbridge, AB T1J 4B1, Canada

Research Interests: remote sensing; hyperspectral imaging; precision agriculture; phenomics

Dr. Nitin Goyal

Computer Science Engineering, Shri Vishwakarma Skill University, Palwal 121102, India

Research Interests: underwater wireless sensor network; wireless sensor network; mobile AdHoc networks; vehicular AdHoc networks

Dr. Suyel Namasudra

Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Patna, Patna 800005, India

Research Interests: cloud computing; DNA computing; information security

Prof. Dr. Tiejun Cui

College of Safety Science and Engineering, Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin 123000, China

Research Interests: safety system engineering; system reliability; system fault evolution processes

Dr. Hüseyin Kamacı

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Arts, Yozgat Bozok University, Yozgat 66100, Turkey

Research Interests: decision making; soft set theory; game theory; fuzzy set theory; mathematical logic; rough set theory; fuzzy logic

Dr. Mueen Uddin

College of Computing and Information Technology, University of Doha for Science and Technology, Doha 24449, Qatar

Research Interests: cybersecurity & forensics; blockchain; energy-efficient cloud infrastructures; network & information security; information systems engineering

Dr. Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf

Department of Solar, Al-Nahrain Renewable Energy Research Center, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad 64040, Iraq

Research Interests: C++; watermarking; object-oriented programming; ad hoc network; data structures; computer graphics routing protocols; network; computer networks; computer science; telecommunication and computer engineering

Prof. Dr. Gurvinder Singh Virk

1 Endoenergy Systems, UK and India

2 HRG Huzhou International Institute of Research and Innovation, China

Research Interests: control theory; service robotics; control engineering; climbing and walking robots; human-centered design; intelligent systems; use of AI; data analytics; robot safety standardization; robot modularity and inter-operability; social robotics and robot ethics aimed at medical and non-medical applications

Dr. Saurav Mallik

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Aliah University, Newtown, WB-700156, India

Research Interests: data mining; computational biology; bioinformatics; bio-statistics and machine learning

Dr. Zhe Shi

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA

Research Interests: computational science; machine learning

Dr. Jorge Delgado-García

Department of Cartographic, Geodetic and Photogrammetric Engineering, University of Jaén, Jaén 23071, Spain

Research Interests: photogrammetry; remote sensing; treatment of geospatial information; geostatistical data processing

Prof. Dr. Len Gelman

Department of Engineering and Technology, The University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD13DH, UK

Research Interests: vibro-acoustical diagnosis; prognosis analysis; root cause analysis; classical signal processing; time-frequency signal processing; pattern recognition; structural health monitoring; NDT; condition monitoring technologies

Dr. Luigi Costanzo

Department of Engineering, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Aversa 81031, Italy

Research Interests: vibration energy harvesting; photovoltaic systems; maximum power point tracking; power electronics; renewable energy sources

Dr. Mojtaba Ghodsi

School of Energy and Electronic Engineering, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3DJ, UK

Research Interests: magnetostrictive; mechatronics; smart materials and structures; magnetic

Prof. Dr. Yu-Tin Wu

Department of Management Information Systems, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 91201, Taiwan

Research Interests: big data; cloud computing; sensor networks; mobile computing; wireless networks

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Caristi

Department of Economics, University of Messina, Messina 98122, Italy

Research Interests: applied mathematics; optimization theory; variational equations

Dr. Nita Yodo

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58018, USA

Research Interests: systems; resilience; failure recovery; design optimization; critical infrastructures

Dr. Thang Quyet Tran

Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117575, Singapore

Research Interests: 3D printing technology; composites; carbon nanomaterials; material extrusion additive manufacturing; composite fibers; aerogels

Prof. Dr. Haruo Kobayashi

Division of Electronics and Informatics, Gunma University, Kiryu, Gunma 376-8515, Japan

Research Interests: analog/mixed-signal circuit design & test; signal processing algorithms

Prof. Dr. Piotr A. Kowalski

Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow 30-059, Poland

Research Interests: data analysis and mining; artificial intelligence; image processing; metaheuristics

Prof. Dr. Leonardo Pagnotta

Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, Rende 87036, Italy

Research Interests: mechanical properties; material characterization; mechanical testing; mechanical behavior of materials; materials; microstructure; mechanical engineering; fracture mechanics; coating; modal analysis

Dr. Zhibin Lin

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58018, USA

Research Interests: civil infrastructural materials; performance; and diagnosis

Dr. Stefano Laureti

Department of Informatics, Modelling, Electronics and Systems Engineering, University of Calabria, Arcavacata 87036, Italy

Research Interests: pulse-compression (PuC) theory and application; nondestructive testing (NDT) and evaluation (NDE) purposes; coded signals; signal and image processing; acoustic metamaterials

Dr. Krzysztof Zima

Department of Construction Management, Cracow University of Technology, Krakow 31-155, Poland

Research Interests: VR/AR/MR app; BIM; UAV in construction; cost estimation; carbon footprint; fuzzy logic; CBR; artificial intelligence

Prof. Dr. William Holderbaum

1 Mathematics and Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AY, UK

2 School of Science, Engineering & Environment, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK

Research Interests: control theory; modelling; robotics; geometry; energy

Prof. Dr. Mounim A. El Yacoubi

Telecom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau 91120, France

Research Interests: artificial intelligence; data science; machine learning; deep learning; pattern recognition; data science; video, image and signal processing; human activity & gesture recognition; e-health; detection of neurodegenerative diseases; prediction of blood glucose level; detection of heart arrhythmia; smart agriculture; smart manufacturing; human mobility analysis; human robot (computer) interaction; video surveillance; biometrics: gait recognition; handwritten signature and writer authentication; hand vein recognition; machine print and handwriting analysis and recognition

Dr. Antonio Concilio

Department of Adaptive Structures, Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali, Capua 81043, Italy

Research Interests: adaptive structures; smart structures; morphing; structural health monitoring; integrated vehicle health monitoring; vibroacoustic control

Prof. Dr. Adel Razek

Group of Electrical Engineering – Paris (GeePs), CNRS, University of Paris-Saclay and Sorbonne University, GeePs F91190, France

Research Interests: numerical electromagnetics; numerical coupled problems; electromagnetic field exposure; energy conversion and transfer; smart actuators; digital supervision of complexity

Dr. Shuling Hu

Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Research Interests: earthquake engineering; structural dynamics; finite element modeling; nonlinear analysis; mechanics; machine learning