Editors

Meet the Editorial team of SN Computer Science
Editors-in-Chief
Umapada Pal, (FIAPR), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Chau Yuen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Advisory Board

Rama Chellappa, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, USA
Anthony Ephremides, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, USA
Carlo Ghezzi, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
Giovanni De Micheli, Institute of Electrical Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland
Yoshihiko Nakamura, Department of Mechano-informatics, University of Tokyo, Japan
Harold Vincent Poor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, USA
Sartaj Sahni, Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
 

Muhammad Naveed, Snap and USC Viterbi School of Engineering, California, USA

Partner Editors
Chetan Arora, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Brojeshwar Bhowmick, TCS Research and Innovation, Kolkata, India
Parag Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
Davide Grossi, Associate professor in Multi-Agent Decision making at the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Groningen, Netherlands
Joaquim B L Filipe, Professor of the School of Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (EST-Setúbal), Portugal
Layth Sliman, Research professor with EFREI, Europe
Aniko Ekart, Associate Dean for Postgraduate Programmes for the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, UK
Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, Theoretical and Experimental Epistemology Laboratory (TEEL), University of Waterloo, Canada
Stuart Rubin, Fellow, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC-Pacific), USA 
Ivor Tsang, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia
Wei Qi Yan, Center for Robotics and Vision (CeRV), Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand

Section Editors
Section I– Al, Machine Learning and Computer Vision
Section Editor – Jun Zhou, School of Information and Communication Technology, Deputy Director, ARC Research Hub for Driving Farming Productivity and Disease Prevention, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia
Section II-Emerging Trends in Sensors, IoT and Smart Systems
Section Editors – Saraju P. Mohanty, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, USA
Himanshu Thapliyal, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Section III– Innovation and Technology in Education
Section Editors – Simon K.S. Cheung, Director of Information Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Reggie Kwan, Provost, The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kam Cheong Li, Director of Research Office, The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Fu Lee Wang, Dean of School of Science and Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Section IV– Innovation in Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers
Section Editors – Laura Ricci, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy
Mohammad Hammoudeh, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Section V– Quantum Computing and Emerging Technologies
Section Editors – Himanshu Thapliyal, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Saraju P. Mohanty, University of North Texas, USA
Section VI– Combinatorial Methods and Models in System Testing
Dimitris Simos, SBA Research & Graz University of Technology, Austria
Franz Wotawa, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Rick Kuhn, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Angelo Gargantini, University of Bergamo, Italy
Raghu Kacker, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Jeff Lei, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Section VII– Dependable Cyber-Physical Systems and Cyber Security
Deepak Puthal, Khalifa University, UAE
Niranjan K Ray, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, India

Associate Editors
Wil van der Aalst, Process and Data Science, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Hojjat Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA
Sonali Agarwal, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India
Alireza Alaei, Southern Cross University, Australia
Fuad T Aleskerov, International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Elisabeth André, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Augsburg, Germany
Giorgio Ausiello,Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Christel Baier, Faculty of Computer Science, The Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Henri E Bal, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Informationssysteme, Germany
Subhadip Basu, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, India 
Saumik Bhattacharya, Dept. of  Electronics and Electrical Communication Engg., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Bernd Becker, Institute of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Luca Benini, Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Johan van Benthem, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Johannes Aldert Bergstra, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Michael Blumenstein, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Ivan Bratko, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Alceu de Souza Britto Jr, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil
 Xuelin Cao, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
Ruichu Cai, Guangdong University of Technology, China  
Cristian S Calude, Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Giuseppe Castagna, Research Institute on the Foundations of Computer Science, Université Paris-Diderot, France
Stefano Ceri, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria,Italy
Hubert Cecotti, Department of Computer Science, College of Science and Mathematics, California State University, Fresno,USA
Chee Seng Chan, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Jayasree Chakraborty, Dept. of Surgery (HPB Services), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Zhicong Chen, Fuzhou University, Fujian, China
Costas Courcoubetis, Center for Smart Systems, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Lili Chen, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Shaowu Cheng, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Peng Cheng, La Trobe University, Australia
Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy and Information Security Research Center, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi
Josep Diaz, Department of Computer Science,Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Debi Prosad Dogra, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
Manfred Droste, Institute of Computer Science,University of Leipzig, Germany
Xishuang Dong, Prairie View A&M University, United States
Jun Du, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Anjan Dutta, University of Exeter, UK
Shiv Ram Dubey, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Chittoor, India
Bowen Du, Beihang University, Beijing, China
Raffaele Giancarlo, University of Palermo, Italy
Thomas Eiter, Institut für Logic and Computation, TU Wien, Austria
Asif Ekbal, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Patna, India
Dieter W Fellner, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, Germany
José Luiz Fiadeiro, University of Dundee, UK
Yaru Fu, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong
Salvador Garcia, University of Granada, Spain
Debasis Ganguly, University of Glasgow, UK
Fausto Giunchiglia, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione, University di Trento, Italy
Ashish Ghosh, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Eric Granger, Department of Systems Engineering, École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, Canada
Jozef Gruska, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Song Guo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Yi-Ke Guo, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
Sunil Gupta, Associate Professor, Deakin University, Australia
Jon Yngve Hardeberg, Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Naveed Ul Hassan, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
Frank van Harmelen, Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sean He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Annika Hinze, Department of Computer Science, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
Laurent Heutte, Laboratoire LITIS, Universités de Rouen Normandie, France 
Donato Impedovo, University of Bari, Italy
Brian Kenji Iwana, Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan
Kazuo Iwama, RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan
Zeeshan Kaleem, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
Xiaoying Liu, Zhejiang University of Technology, Zhejiang, China
Billy Lau Pik Lik, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Kai Li, CISTER Research Centre, Portugal
Bin Li, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Janusz Kacprzyk, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Marek Karpinski, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Germany
Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Byung-Gyu Kim, Intelligent Vision Processing Laboratory(IVPL), Department of IT Engineering, Sookmyung Women’s University, South Korea
Jan Willem Klop, Department of Theoretical Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Leif Kobbelt, Visual Computing Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
S. Srinivas Kumar, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India
Kim Guldstrand Larsen,Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark
Pedro Larrañaga, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Maurizio Lenzerini, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Xuelong Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Yamin Li, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
Alan Wee-Chung Liew, Griffith University, Australia
Jie Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology,School of Computer Science and Technology, China
Rafael Dueire Lins, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil
Giuseppe Longo, CNRS, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
Yue LU, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Ran Liu, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Fucheng, China
Xi Li, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China
B S Manoj, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India
Sushmita Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Pabitra Mitra, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Kleiber Michał, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Miodrag Mihaljević,Matematički Institut SANU, Serbia
Veljko M. Milutinovic, Department of Computer Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade
Boris Mirkin, Faculty of Computer Science, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Ugo Montanari, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy
Onur Mutlu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Snehasis Mukherjee, Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi 
Suyel Namasudra, National Institute of Technology Agartala, India
Atul Negi, School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India
Wolfgang Nejdl, Institut für Verteilte Systeme, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Rocco De Nicola, IMT, Italy
Alex Nicolau, Center for Embedded Computer Systems, University of California, USA 
Jean-Marc Ogier, Laboratoire Informatique, Image et Interaction (L3i), La Rochelle Université, France
Kaoru Ota, Associate Professor, Department of Sciences and Informatics, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Sebastião Pais, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Hervé Panetto, University of Lorraine, France
Sukomal Pal, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India
Goutam Paul, Cryptology and Security Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
João Paulo Papa, São Paulo State University, Brazil 
Mario de Jesús Pérez Jiménez, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Arpan Pal, TCS Research and Innovation, Tata Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India
Dominique Perrin, ESIEE, Paris, France
Tomaž Pisanski, Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko Jadranska, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ioannis Pratikakis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Mukesh Prasad, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Yan Qin, Chongqing University, China
Raghavendra Ramachandra, Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Kaushik Roy, Dept. of Comp. Sc., West Bengal State University, India
Swalpa Kumar Roy, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, India
Partha Pratim Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India 
Wojciech Rytter, University of Warsaw, Poland
Davide Sangiorgi, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy
K.C. Santosh, Department of Computer Science, University of South Dakota (USD), USA
Saket Saurabh, Institute of Mathematical Science, Chennai, India
Constantine Stephanidis, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Roman Słowiński, Institute of Computing Science, Poznań University of Technology, Poland
A.W.M. Smeulders, Faculty of Science, Informatics Institute, The Netherlands
Ljubisa Stankovic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Montenegro
Per Stenström, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Göteborg, Sweden
Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Geng Sun, Jilin University, Changchun, China
Andrzej Tarlecki, University of Warsaw, Poland
Ankit Thakkar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Nirma University, India
John Tucker, Swansea University, UK
Paul Michael Béla Vitányi,Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dongming Wang, Beihang University, Beijing, China and CNRS, France
Zheng Wang, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Shuai Wang, Southeast University, China
Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger,Institut für Statistik und Operations Research, Karl Franzens Universität Graz, Austria
Gerhard Woeginger, RWTH Aachen,The Netherlands
Franz Wotawa, Institute for Software Technology, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Xiaojun Wu, Jiangnan University, China
Wei Qi Yan, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Bo Yang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
Wang Yi, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Hongzhi Yin, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE), The University of Queensland, Australia
Lisu Yu, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
Linlin You, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Franco Zambonelli, Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell'Ingegneria, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Albert Y. Zomaya, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Sydney University, Australia
Jing Zhang, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Hongliang Zhang, Peking University, Beijing, China
Rui Zhu, A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
Hailiang Huang, School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China
Nico Saputro, Head of Center for Network, Intelligence, and Cyber Security, Department of Electrical Engineering, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung, Indonesia
Samet Tonyali, Department of Computer Science, Gumushane University, Turkey
Shujuan Tian, Xiangtan University, China
Fabrizio Marozzo, Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and Systems, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
Pritee Khanna, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Jabalpur, India
George Azzopardi, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Florida International University, United States
Johan Debayle, MINES Saint-Etienne, France

Special Assignment Editors 
Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Assam University, Assam, India
Oleshko Oleg Ivanovich, Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Software, Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Deepak Kumar Sharma, Department of Information Technology, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University For Women, Delhi, India
Ameya Khankar, Department of Information Management, Syracuse University, United States
Parvez Faruki, Head of Department Information Technology, AVPTI, Rajkot, India​​​​​​

Associate Editors of Sections
Emerging Trends in Sensors, IoT and Smart Systems
Ahmed Abdelgawad, Central Michigan University, USA
VS Kanchana Bhaaskaran, VIT Vellore, Chennai, India
Mike Borowczak, University of Wyoming, USA
Peter Corcoran, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Srinivas Katkoori, University of South Florida, USA
Selcuk Kose, University of Rochester, USA
Kamalakanta Mahapatra, NIT Rourkela, India
Fernando Pescador, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Yasuhiro Takahashi, Gifu University, Japan
Theocharis Theocharides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Shingo Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Debajyoti Pal, School of IT, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand
M. Tauhidur Rahman, Florida International University, United States
Amit Joshi, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Usha Mehta, Nirma University, Gujarat, India
Debanjan Das, International Institute of Information Technology, Naya Raipur, India
Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou,  University of New Mexico, United States
Nima Karimian, West Virginia University, United States
Quantum Computing and Emerging Technologies
Yuri Alexeev, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Greg Byrd, North Carolina State University, USA
Ilya Safro, University of Delaware, USA
Shigeru Yamashita, Ritsumeikan University, Japan