Dear Colleagues,

In today's data-rich landscape, the demand for efficient artificial intelligence (AI) models, tools, and applications for data mining and machine learning is more pronounced than ever. The proliferation of social and semantic networks has generated a wealth of valuable information, presenting both opportunities and challenges. Researchers grapple with novel approaches to address emerging research questions, particularly in the realms of social information processing and semantic applications. The proposed Special Issue and the SMAP workshop series revolve around two central themes: first, the extraction, processing, and analysis of data, information, and knowledge using AI techniques; and second, the application of these results to construct effective models and tools. Ultimately, this interdisciplinary endeavor aims to foster diverse behaviors associated with AI activities, bridging the gap between social and semantic impact. Computer scientists are encouraged to contribute innovative AI solutions to tackle the inherent challenges posed by dynamic and semantically heterogeneous computational data. The call for relevant research manuscripts is open to all interested parties.

The content of the proposed Special Issue and the goals of the SMAP workshop series are organized around two main themes. The first theme focuses on efficiently extracting, processing, manipulating and analysing data, information and knowledge with the utilization of artificial intelligence in the process, while the second theme focuses on using the above results to effectively build models, tools and applications. The ultimate goal, of course, is to promote a variety of machine and/or human behaviours associated with related artificial intelligence activities.

In addition to the Open Call, selected papers that will be presented during SMAP 2024 will be invited to be submitted as extended versions to this Special Issue. In this case, the workshop paper should be cited and noted on the first page of the submitted paper; authors are asked to disclose that it is a workshop paper in their Cover Letter and include a statement on what has been changed compared to the original workshop paper. Each submission to this journal Special Issue should contain at least 50% new material, e.g., in the form of technical extensions, more in-depth evaluations, or additional use cases.

All submitted papers will undergo standard peer-review procedures. Accepted papers will be published in open access format in Computers and available on the Special Issue’s website.

Dr. Yorghos Voutos
Dr. Akrivi Krouska
Dr. Christos Troussas
Dr. Phivos Mylonas
Prof. Dr. Cleo Sgouropoulou
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Computers is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• artificial intelligence (AI)
• social network
• semantic network