The Journal of Supercomputing - CfP: Control, Communication and Emerging Technologies in Smart Rail Systems
AIMS AND SCOPE
Rail transport systems have achieved significant development in Europe and Asia and are beginning to become popular in many countries. Metropolitan transport will have an increasing importance in the coming years to reduce pollution and congestion in cities. Both metropolitan and high speed railways require the use of advanced signaling and control systems to guarantee and optimize their operation. For these reasons it is necessary to use modern communication and signaling systems for the intelligent control of these railways. In addition, the railway infrastructures use many supplementary systems such as remote control, video surveillance, obstacle detection and operating aids that require the intensive use of information and communication technologies. In all cases the electrical and electronics equipment must have a high quality of service, reliability and availability to fulfill railway requirements. The aim of this special issue is to present a collection of high-quality research papers on recent developments, current research challenges and future directions in the use of control, communications, and emerging technologies to realize smart rail systems that are safer, and more efficient. We are soliciting original contributions that have not been published and are not currently under consideration by any other journals.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Energy efficiency and sustainability of smart rail transportation
- Smart rail system modeling and optimization
- Architectures, algorithms and protocols for data dissemination, processing, and aggregation for smart rail systems
- Networked information processing, decision making, and intelligent control for smart rails
- Smart railway communications and networking
- Wireless technologies for smart rail systems
- Applications and services for smart rail systems
- Security, privacy, and dependability in smart rail systems
- Results from experimental systems, testbeds, and pilot studies for smart rails
- Intelligent transportation, rail traffic modeling, decentralized congestion control in Smart rail systems
The Journal of Supercomputing is committed to publishing research that advances the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This special issue welcomes submissions related to SDG 11, which covers sustainable cities and transportation (https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal11) (this opens in a new tab)
GUEST EDITORS
- Li Zhu, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing China
- Richard Yu, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- Changqing Luo, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA USA
- Jie Feng, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 30, 2024
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Journal of Supercomputing website (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site here (this opens in a new tab) and select “SI - Control, Communication and Emerging Technologies in Smart Rail Systems” when they reach the “Collection” step on the Details tab during the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process.
Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at ITSC 2023 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of ITSC 2023 papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief.