Special Issues
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience publishes Special Issues on important areas relevant to the Aims and Scope of the journal. We are always looking for a new Special Issue, complete and submit the Special Issue Proposal Form online at Special Issues.
The CCPE Editorial team will review your proposal and will let you know in due course if you have been successful. The whole review process may take several weeks, and prospective guest editors may be contacted to discuss potential revisions to strengthen the proposal during that process.
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Published Special Issues
Below is a list of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience's special issues on a variety of cutting-edge and emerging research areas.
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2022
Special Issue: Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High‐Performance Computing Systems (PMBS2020). International Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA 2021). Recent advances in quantum computing and quantum neural networks
Special Issue: Security and Privacy in Social Data Mining (SPSDM2019). Trust Management in Internet of Things (TMSEIoT2019)
Special Issue: Recent Advance in Security and Privacy for Smart Society (RASPSS19). Workflows in support of large‐scale science (WORKS19). Advances on innovative issues in intelligent systems and applications (INISTA2020). Algorithmic and software development advances for next‐generation heterogeneous platforms (HCW2020)
Special Issue: 6th High Performance Computing Conference (BASARIM 2020). IOTITBDE2019
Special Issue: HPML2019. ICDS19. ICSSC19
Special Issue: Distributed Computing for Smart Networks: Recent Advances and Future Trends (DiCES‐N2019). AMMCS19. Security and Privacy in IoT Communication (IOTSEC19). SKG2019
Special Issue: Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing and Its Applications (PDCAT2019). Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores (PMAM2019‐2020)
2021
Special Issue: Convergence of cloud, Internet of Things, and big data: New platforms and applications (FiCloud2019). Transformative computing in security, big data analysis, and cloud computing applications (Transformative2020)
Special Issue: Applied Computational Intelligence (ACI 2019). Cognitive Computing for Robotic Vision (ISAIR2019)
Special Issue: Human-oriented solutions for intelligent analysis, multimedia and communication systems
Special Issue: Parallel Programming Models in HP Cloud (ParaMo2019). Computer architecture and high-performance computing (WSCAD2019). Secure Mobile Cloud Computing (IWoSeMC2020)
Special Issue: 13th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS2018). Cognitive Computing for Intelligence Web Systems (ISAIR2018)
Special Issue: RBchain2018. SORT2018. HUCAA2018. CompSimFP2018. EXAMPI'18
Special Issue: Recent Advances in Pattern Recognition and Machine Vision (PRMV2018). Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networking (CANDAR2018)
Special Issue: 2018 International Conference on Cloud Edge Computing, big data and Blockchain (ICCBB2018). Knowledge Engineering in concurrent and Intelligent Applications (KEIA2018). Distributed Large Scale Applications and Environments (LSDVE2018). Trends and Advances in Collaboration Technologies and Systems (TA_CTS)
Special Issue: Cloud‐Edge Computing and Communications (CECC2018). Distributed and Concurrent Algorithms for Cyber-Physical System (DCCPS2018)
Special Issue: Real‐time Behavioral Monitoring in IoT Applications using Big Data Analytics (IIMSS2018). High‐end Heterogeneous Architectures, Methodologies, and Algorithms (HHAMA20)
Special Issue: Towards the Internet of Things of the Year 2020: Applications and Future Trends (TIOT2018). High-Performance Computing for Autonomous Cloud (ICETIETR2018). Artificial Intelligent Techniques for IoT services in Big Data and Cloud Computing (ICASISET2018)
Special Issue: Smart Media & Application (SMA2018), Special Issue on Context‐Aware Computing: Theory and Applications (ICCASA2018), Special Issue on Accelerator Virtualization (ACCVI2018), The International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS2018)
Special Issue: Future Perspectives on Decentralized Applications (FPDAPP18). Towards Understanding and Harnessing the Potential of Africa in Digitalization (DigAfrica2019)
2020
Special Issue: Special Issue on Applications and Techniques in Cyber Intelligence 2019 (ATCI2019). Special Issue on Emerging intelligent big data analytics for cloud and edge computing (CBD2019)
Special Issue: Deep Learning / Parallel Computing and Biological Sequences / Medical Image Processing
Special Issue: Special Issue on high performance computing for computational science (VECPAR’18) Special Issue of the Cray User Group (CUG 2019)
Special Issue: Special Issue on Novel Data Mining Paradigms based on Soft Computing and Machine Learning in the current and upcoming Information Society Revolution (RACS2018). Special Issue on Advanced approaches for information processing in multimedia, decision making and security systems (AdvInfoProc2019)
Special Issue: Special Issue on Computational Intelligence Techniques for Industrial and Medical Applications (CITIMA2018). Special Issue on Cloud Computing, IoT, and Big Data: Technologies and Applications (CloudTech17)
Special Issue: Special Issue on SDN-based Wireless Network Virtualization (SDNWNV2018). Special Issue of the Workshop on Data-Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud2017)
Special Issue: New Trends in Adaptive Smart Systems, Services, and Architectures (WETICE/AROSA2017). The Twenty Seventh International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW2018) and the Sixteenth International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing in Heterogeneous Platforms (HeteroPar2018)
Special Issue: Innovations for Community Services & Innovative Network Systems and Applications 2018 (I4CS-iNetSApp2018). Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for the Internet of Things (ISIT2017)
Special Issue: Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems (BLKchn2018)
Special Issue: Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP2017-2018)
Special Issue: Cognitive and innovative computation paradigms for big data and cloud computing applications (CogInnov 2018)
Special Issue: Applications and Techniques in Cyber Intelligence (ATIC 2018)
Special Issue: Advances in Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms
Special Issue: Graph Computing (GRAPH 2017) and Special Issue of the Workshop on Exascale MPI (EXAMPI 2017)
Special Issue: Convergence of Deep Machine Learning and Parallel Computing Environment for Bio-Engineering Applications (DLPPBioeng2018) and Special Issue on Emerging Challenges and Frontiers in Cloud Computing (ECFC 2016)
2019
Special Issue: The 8th International Conference of Applications and Techniques for Information Security (ATIS 2017), Special Issue on the 2017 Edition of the Workshop on Performance Evaluation of communications in Distributed Systems and Web Based Service Architectures (PEDISWESA 2017) and Special Issue on Cloud Computing Based Big Data Processing and Intelligent Analytics (CBD201)
Special Issue: International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education (ITME2016), Special Issue of Green Cloud Computing: Methodology and Practice (GreenCloud2017) an Special Issue of Trustcome 2017: Recent Advances on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2017)
Special Issue: World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST2017) and Special Issue on Security and Privacy Issues in Fog Computing (SecFog2017)
Special Issue: "Security, Privacy and Social Networks" (ISPEC/SocialSec2017), Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT2016) and Special Issue on Processors, Interconnects, Storage and Caches for Exascale Systems (PISCES2017)
Special Issue: Algorithmic Advances in Parallel Architectures and Energy Efficient Computing (PPAM2017) and Recent Advances in Machine Learning for Cyber-security (MLSec2018)
Special Issue: New Advances in High Performance Computing Systems (WSCAD2016) and Special Issue of the Workshop on High Performance Computing Systems (WSCAD2017)
Combined Special Issues on Cray User Group conference (CUG2018) and Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC17)
Special Issue: Recent Research Challenges in Intelligent Techniques, Big Data and Internet of Things (ITBDIOT2018)
Special Issue: Advanced Algorithms for IoT Cloud Computing and Cyber-Enabled Applications (ICAMMAET-ICTPACT2018)
Special Issue: Cyber Security and Privacy of IoT-enabled Infrastructures in Smart Grid, Smart vehicle, Smart cloud and Smart home (CSPIoT 2018)
Special Issue: Multi-modal Information Learning and Analytics on Cross-Media Big Data (MILACBD2018)
Special Issue: Recent advances in cloud data centers toward fog data centers
Special Issue: Power-Aware Computing (PACO2017)
Special Issue: High-level parallel programming in a heterogeneous world (HLPP 2017)
Special Issue: Semantics, knowledge and grids at the age of big data and AI (SKG2016)
Combined Special Issues on Trends in high-performance interconnection networks in the exascale and big-data era (HiPINEB 2017) and Advances in cloud and big data computing (ACBDC 2016)
2018
Special Issue: Data fusion in the internet of data (DaIoD2017)
Combined Special issues on the CCGrid‐Life workshop 2017 and Cloud computing and big data: Technologies and applications (CloudTech 2016)
Special Issue: Emerging trends in high performance computing and simulation (HPCS2016)
Special Issue: High performance computing in modeling and simulation
Special Issue: Social network security and privacy (SocialSec 2016)
Special Issue: Intelligent approaches for security technologies (IAST 2017)
Special Issue: Bio‐inspired and cognitive approaches in cryptography and security applications (BioCog2017)
Combined Special issues on Advanced techniques for cloud data storage and collaborative systems (INCoS2016) and the Cray User Group (CUG 2017)
2017
Combined Special issues on the Algorithms and applications towards the convergence of high‐end data‐intensive and computing systems (HEDICS2016), the Selected papers from the 15th international symposium on parallel and distributed computing (ISPDC16) and the Selected technologies and applications in smart city computing (STASC2017)
Combined Special issues on Applications and techniques in information and network security (CSTA2015) and International conference on innovative network systems and applications held under the federated conference on computer science and information systems (FedCSis‐INetSApp2015)
Combined Special issues on the 12th International workshop on Java technologies for real‐time and embedded systems (JTRES2014) and Computer architecture and high performance computing (WSCAD2015)
Combined Special issues on New advances in securing cyberspace and curbing crowdturfing and Applications in heterogeneous parallel and distributed environment
Combined Special issues on High performance and security in cloud computing (CloudCom‐Asia2016) and New trends and innovative methods in cloud computing and big data (CBD‐BDCloud2016)
Combined Special issues on Advanced stencil‐code engineering and Parallel and distributed computing with its applications
Combined Special issues on New advances in future network technologies and Networked system security and efficiency
Combined Special Issues on Euro‐Par 2016 and the Workshop on the seventh international workshop on programming models and applications for multicores and manycores (PMAM 2016)
Special Issue: Big data security and intelligent data in clouds (BDS‐IDC 2016)
Combined Special Issues on Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA): International clouds for data science (PRAGMAICDS15) and Trends in high‐performance interconnection networks in the exascale and big‐data era (HiPINEB2016)
Combined Special Issues on Cloud computing and big data: Technologies and applications (CloudTech 2015) and Cultural Heritage on Internet of Things (IoT) systems: Trends and challenges (IoTCH 2016)
Combined Special Issues on Multi and many‐core computing for parallel metaheuristics (McM 2015) and Algorithmic advances for parallel architectures (PPAM 2015)
Combined Special Issues on Security and privacy in social networks (NSS2015) and 18th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE2015)
Combined Special Issues on Java Technologies for Real‐Time and Embedded Systems (JTRES2013) and Recent advances in big data analysis and application (CBD2015)
Special Issue: The Internet of People (IoP 2015)
Combined Special Issues on The 14th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2015) and Report on the first workshop on negative and null results in eScience (ERROR 2015)
2016
Special Issue: Embedded multicore computing and applications (EMCA 2014)
Combined Special issues on Big data analytics and knowledge discovery (DaWak 2014) and Big data-related technologies and applications (BDTA 2015)
Combined Special issues on SORT 2014 and Social network analysis and its application 2015
Combined special issues on New advances in large-scale distributed simulation and real-time applications and Euro-Par 2015
Combined Special issues on Distributed computing track at SYNASC 2014 and Big data and smart computing: methodology and practice
Combined special issues on cloud computing for mobile environments mobilecloud and security privacy in big data (SPBD 2014)
Combined Special issues on Heterogeneous cluster architectures and applications (HUCAASI 2015) and Parallel and distributed computing for Big Data applications (WPBA 2014)
Combined Special issues on GCE15 Special Issue Conference Publications and New advances in High Performance Computing and simulation: parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications (HPCS 2013)
Combined Special issues on Workshop on high performance data intensive computing, Wireless and mobile network performance evaluation and Securing cyberspace
Combined Special issues on Cloud computing for data-driven science and engineering (ScienceCloud 2012), Recent advances in security and privacy in large-scale networks (LSNS 2014) and Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2014)
Combined Special issues on Security and reliability in big data (TrustCom 2013), HeteroPar 2014, APCIE 2014, and TASUS 2014 Special Issue and Workshop on high-performance computational finance (WHPCF14)
Combined Special issues on Performance and power for highly parallel systems (PPHPS), Advances in modelling and simulation for big-data applications (AMSBA) and Programming models and applications for multicores and manycores (PMAM)
2015
Combined Special issues on Parallelism-based technologies in bioinformatics and biomedicine: a view from diverse perspectives (PBio 2014), Recent research advances in cloud computing and big data (CBD 2014 and ICACON 2014) and Big data cloud and the frontier of computer science and technology (MCCSDN 2015)
Combined Special Issues on Euro-Par 2014, Recent advances in parallel computing and distributed network (U-Science 2014) and Science gateway workshops (SGW 2014)
Combined Special Issues on Trust and security in wireless sensor networks and Semantics, knowledge and grids (SKG 2013)
Combined Special Issues on High-performance computing: to boldly go where no human has gone before (HPCS 2012) and Advances in parallel and distributed computing and communications (HPCC 2012)
Special Issue: Frontier technologies of trust computing and network security (TrustCom 2012)
Special Issue: Contemporary computer supported collaboration: systems, technologies, algorithms, and applications (CTS 2013)
Special Issue: Availability, resilience, and fault tolerance of internet and distributed computing systems (IDCS 2013)
Combined Special Issues on High-performance computing and simulation (HPCS 2011) and Resource orchestration for cloud computing (SIRCC 2012)
Combined Special Issues on The Internet of Things: shaping the new Internet space and Advances on cloud services and cloud computing
Combined Special Issues on International conference on enabling technologies: Infrastructure for collaborative enterprises (WETICE) and Parallel computing on graphics processing units and heterogeneous platforms
Combined Special Issues on Intelligent e-Services and PPAM 2013
Special Issue: Science Gateway Workshops 2013 (SGW 2013)
2014
Combined Special issues on Exploiting silicon photonics for energy-efficient heterogeneous parallel architectures and Energy Efficiency in Large-Scale Distributed Systems 2013
Combined Special issues on Euro-Par 2013 and Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems (JTRES 2012)
Special Issue: XSEDE13
Special Issue: International Conference on Performance Engineering 2013 (ICPE 2013)
Special Issue: COMPBIO 2013
Special Issue: Computational finance (CoF09)
Special Issue: Security of new generation computing systems (NSS 2012)
Special Issue: Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences Workshop (ECMLS 2012) and Multicore Cache Hierarchies: Design And Programmability Issues (MCH 2012)
Special Issue: InCoS 2012
Special Issue: Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences Workshop and SICSA Multicore Challenge
2013
Special Issue: 2011 International Conference on cloud and green computing (CGC2011)
Special Issue: Euro-Par 2012
Combined Special Issues on Java technologies for real-time and embedded systems (JTRES2011) and Data management for eScience in Brazil (eScience/WCGA 2011)
Special Issue: Advances in parallel, distributed, embedded and ubiquitous systems (ICA3PP 2011)
Special Issue: Second international workshop on workflow management in service and cloud computing (WMSC2010)
Combined Special Issues on Cloud scalability: building the Millennium Falcon and Scalable optimization in grid, cloud, and intelligent network computing
Special Issue: High performance computing and simulation: architectures, systems, algorithms, technologies, services, and applications
Special Issue: Advances in Networking Technologies for Wireless Internet
Combined Special Issues on Parallel Architectures and Bioinspired Algorithms and GPU Computing and Exploitation of Hardware Accelerators
Special Issue: Latest Trends in Computer Architectures and Parallel and Distributed Technologies
Special Issue: Evaluation of communications in distributed systems
Combined Special Issues on eScience 2010 and Euro-Par 2011
Special Issue: New Technologies of Distributed Systems
Combined Special Issue of MapReduce and its Applications & Advanced topics on wireless sensor networks
2011
Special Issue 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management (ICWM2009)
JTRES 2009
Special Issue: Semantics, Knowledge and Grids
GPU Computing
Special Issue on Computational Science and its Applications ICCSA 2009
IWPLS 2009
Special Issue: Euro-Par 2009
2010
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience from the Microsoft eScience Workshop
International Supercomputing Conference
Economic Models and Algorithms for Grid Systems
Advanced Topics on Scalable Computing
Proceedings of the 6th ACES Symposium, May 11-16, 2008, Cairns, Australia
Grid Computing, High Performance and Distributed Application
Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web-Based Service Architectures
Communicating Process Architectures (CPA) 2007
Scalable Tools for High-End Computing
Advances in High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2008)
Advanced Scheduling Strategies and Grid Programming
2009
Exploring the Frontiers of Computing Science and Technology: Adapting Emerging Multi-and-Many-Core Processors
Special Issue: 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe2008)
Euro-Par 2008
Special Issue: Advanced Strategies in Grid Environments
Special Issue: Distributed Simulation, Virtual Environments and Real-time Applications
Multi-core Supported Network and System Security
A Special Issue from the Open Grid Forum
Euro-Par 2007
Web 2.0, Semantics, Knowledge and Grid
The Best of CCGrid'2007: A Snapshot of an 'Adolescent' Area
Compilers for Parallel Computers 2007 Workshop (CPC 2007)
2008
Selection of Best Papers of the VLDB Data Management in Grids Workshop (VLDB DMG 2007)
2nd International Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe2007)
Grids and Geospatial Information Systems
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006
Middleware for Grid Computing: Future Trends (MGC2006)
Second International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG2006)
Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HoTP2P2006)
The First Provenance Challenge
First International Workshop on Workflow Systems in Grid Environments (WSGE2006)
Selected Papers from the 2005 U.K. e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2005)
Recent Advances in Peer-to-Peer Systems and Security (P2P 2006)
2007
Current Trends in Compilers for Parallel Computers (CPC2006)
Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar2005)
Selection of Best Papers of the VLDB Data Management in Grids Workshop (VLDB DMG 2006)
Progress of the Knowledge Grid (SKG2005)
Middleware for Grid Computing: A 'Possible Future'
Workshop on Grid Computing Portals (GCE 2005)
European-American Working Group on Automatic Performance Analysis (APART)
Second International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next-generation GRID (ETNGRID 2005)
Performance Analysis and Enhancements of Wireless Networks
Autonomous Grid Computing
Science Gateways - Common Community Interfaces to Grid Resources
Compoment and Framework Technology in High-Performance and Scientific Computing
Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing and Debugging (PADTAD)
Selected Papers from the 2004 U.K. e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2004)
2006
Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC2004)
Adaptive Grid Middleware
10th International Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers (CPC 2003)
Workflow in Grid Systems
First International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next-generation GRID (ETNGRID 2004)
Middleware for Grid Computing
Coordination Models and Systems
Computational Frameworks
2005
Third IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB 2004)
Foundations of Middleware Technologies
High-Performance Computing in Geosciences
The High Performance Architectural Challenge: Mass Market versus Proprietary Compoments?
2002 ACM Java Grande-ISCOPE Conference Part II
2002 ACM Java Grande-ISCOPE Conference Part I
Grid Performance
2004
Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
Systems Performance Evaluation
Computer Security
High Performance Computational Biology
Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs
Middleware for Grid Computing
Compilers for Parallel Computers
2003
Euro-Par 2002
Euro-Par 2001
Cluster 2001
ACM 2001 Java Grande-ISCOPE (JGI2001) Conference
2002
Grid Computing Environments
High Performance Fortran
APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation
Software architectures for scientific applications
Euro-Par 2000
2001
Formal Techniques for Java Programs
Object-Oriented Databases
ACM 2000 Java Grande Conference
Distributed Objects and Applications '99
High performance agent systems
2000
European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming 1999
EWOMP'99 - First European Workshop on OpenMP
Message passing interface-based parallel programming with Java
ACM 1999 Java Grande Conference (Part 3)
ACM 1999 Java Grande Conference (Part 2)
ACM 1999 Java Grande Conference (Part 1)
Solving irregularly structured problems
1999
Aspects of Seamless Computing
Portable Software Tools for Parallel Architectures
Applications of Distributed Computing Environment
1998
Applications of Distributed Computing Environment
1997
Java for computational science and engineering - simulation and modeling II
